TAURUS: ANCHORPOINTS INTO EARTHLY TIME

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Hey, how are you? How did you fare with the New Moon? I found it really funny actually, because I put up a post on Instagram, like I, like I always do, and this one, it kind of took off, which I can't say I'm really a fan of going viral. It's an interesting experience, but not something that I'm really. Uh, it's interesting, but I'm not interested in it, if that makes sense. Because it just, while it brought in so many new faces, which is fab, it also brought in lots of very airy themed brashness and people offering their. Opinions, other astrologers offering their opinions on what I'd written, which is really funny. Can't say as an astrologer that I've ever gone to another astrologers, slice of the internet to give my 2 cents. So I thought that was really funny. It just felt like I was given the opportunity to be like, rah, you know? And. Um, well, here's, here's why you're wrong about blah, blah. And, you know, of course I didn't do that, but yeah, I, I, I got to have the experience of brashness. This is coming out at the beginning of Torah season. I'm recording this on the last day of Aries, and I really want to talk about Taurus today. Next week I will talk about Uranus entering Gemini, which is going to be a gigantic transit. It's one of the absolute biggest of recent years. What I wanna discuss is that I adore that this is happening during tourist season and also just that we're in tourist season now. It's definitely one of my old time faves. As I do more laps around the sun, I favor the Earth months. I favor Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn seasons. Really above all the other ones, to be honest. Just in, in terms of like the lived experience of the thing, you know what it's like during Taurus season. So what I'd like to talk about today is time, and that's something that I'm going to be focusing on for myself personally. During tourist season. What I would offer is that there is multiple experiences of time operating simultaneously. And part of the great juice, of tourist season is its earthiness is how it is often associated with the farmer. For example, land, land. This seasonal cyclical time. If we think about the farmer's year, for example, this isn't an anxious experience. It's not linear. It's very grounded. There's always a returning. It's cyclical. It is seasonal. It's circular, it's repeating. There's the planting, the tending, the harvesting. We can't rush the harvest season. We have to methodically go through these processes to get the outcome, which let's say is the harvest. We can't skip any of those. We can't leapfrog. This is an experience of Yeah. O Earth Time. When I moved to where I live now in the mountains, the, which was in July last year, the first thing that I did was, is plant a garden. For the first time, you know, I'd grown flowers and herbs and things before, but I was keen to grow plants, grow vegetables, sorry. And to have that experience and it's been one of the best things that I've ever. Done and to be tethered to or to have this slice of my backyard that's like this anchor point into another experience of time, which is much slower, much more grounded, very practical. We have, I'd say there's about six pumpkins growing and there'll be many, many more. The vines have just taken off. They're kind of taking over the whole space, which is rad. And watching them grow, like the whole, that whole process, I can't really explain it, I don't really have the words, but as, as a very cerebral person who had to learn how to ground and be present in my body, probably later than a lot of other people do, who had to really consciously learn practical intelligence. Even though I'd had a lot of practical experiences, like as an athlete for example, it's really been this experience and also certainly having a child that has made me have to learn these things. So I could easily just live in my brain or even just above my brain, you know, and not really be in my body, but. Growing things in my backyard. This very tour experience has grounded me in a way that not many other things have. And so that's partly what I want to bring into this conversation is like what are the things that you have in your life that give you the experience of time? That is more earthly, more grounded, more real than the fast-paced realities or, or just weirdnesses of let's say internet time, which is a very uranian thing. Also Taurus is an earth sign, and the land that we are all standing or sitting on right now is very ancient, and there's something brilliant about beginning to perceive yourself as a temporary being on a very old planet. There's something that's very humbling about that and there's something that's very stabilizing as well because it's always carrying us. It's always holding us. The other example of time that I would put forth is really like the embodied present time. When you are really in your body, time slows. We've all had those experiences. Pleasure. Slows time sensory experiences pull you into now. This is also the gift of Taurus season. Slowing down feeling where you are Taurus is a lot to do with the, these sensorial experiences of human, you know, touch, taste, scent. That's tor, that's to experience. All of those things are very grounding. All of them bring you into present time and it's like, yeah, it's like the lived experience of being a human. Another layer of Taurus is the artfulness of a daily life, a cultivated daily life that is embedded with, sorry. If you can hear that bird. I think it's a magpie, that is embedded with, all right buddy. Um, that's embedded with these rituals that bring you into the present time, like the morning coffee, the scent that you have going in your house, 24 7. If you're anything like me. It, it's bringing in like the lushness of living, the lived experience, the, the lived experience of getting to be alive in your physical body and all the pleasures and sensations that we get to experience as humans on this very, very, very old ancient planet that we're also able to cultivate and, The reason that I'm saying this is because on the 30th of April when Uranus moves into Gemini, it feels like, I mean, I think we're already feeling it, but it just feels like that's such a radical altering of. Perception could be a radical altering of perception, a radical altering of our experience of time. I don't think I'm alone when I say that. I feel like I can just go onto my phone now and I think five minutes has passed and it's been half an hour and I feel completely fried, and my eyes are kind of burning and hot. And rather than it having any sort of. Relaxing, downtime kind of effects on my body. I'm just feeling overstimulated and outside of earthly time, like it's a hyper speed cerebral kind of out of body pace that doesn't feel, let's say, humanly natural or. Yeah, that's the best I can explain it. So that's in about two weeks time or just under a week and a half coming up? Not this weekend, but the weekend afterwards. Here in Australia, it's the SA Saturday, the 2nd of May, we will have a full moon in Scorpio, which is always like a wonderfully strong. Experience and I'll, I'll speak about that a lot next week as well, as well as diving into, let's say, some theories that I have of Uranus moving into Gemini, but for this week and certainly until the 30th, and then absolutely from that point onwards, I'd ask you to consider. What are these dominant experiences of time that you are having throughout the day? Because I mean, we know this time is a relative experience. I went star gazing a couple of weeks ago now, and the teacher or physicist who was running it. Was talking about this idea of, which I find really quite trippy, cosmological. The cosmological principle is what it's called. This idea that the universe has no center. In the sense of there's no central point, at least as far as we currently know in a scientific measurable sense. Obviously there's many more layers or lenses that we could bring to this. There's no relative point that everything is in relationship to, in fact. Everything, every galaxy and all the infinite numbers of solar systems located within each of the infinite, seemingly infinite number of galaxies within this universe are actually moving away from each other. There's a, a seemingly never ending expansion that's taking place. and if there is no center, then every point is equally the center. And something that I've been thinking about since that evening is this idea of us. As humans. You know, there is this sense of a decentralization, you know, how would I explain this? Let's say in the universe, which we're obviously a part of. There is this decentralization, or it's not even decentralized 'cause it hasn't had to decentralize, it just doesn't seem to exist there. A centralization doesn't seem to exist. It's like a different kind of order. And it just feels like we're having a similar experience in our social and inner lives right now in the sense of we're breaking away from outside authorities. There's certainly no singular kind of truth keeper. It's not like we're all getting our information from one place. There's a great decentralization there. Um, and it's like values are being set locally and individually and I think there's something that's liberating, but also quite destabilizing about the experience that we're currently in. I'm here, I'm just thinking. Like without this sort of shared orientation, you can get a fragmentation and I, you know, some of us would argue that the fragmentation is being curated. I might look small, but I have a whole universe inside my mind. And that's the thing, like we're all in terms of our own relationship to Relativity, we're setting that through our perceptions, which are alterable, and. The thing is, while galaxies and solar systems, at least as far as we're able, able to currently perceive them, don't need to collaborate or feel a sense of belonging or even find a sense of shared meaning we as humans do. So it's like how do you build coherence? Without a center, how do you have like unifying principles without hierarchy? Anyway, that's what I've been thinking about and I think this is something that yeah, again, is related to Uranus moving into Gemini where perceptions, experiences of time. It's just getting more and more relative to the individual. Which again, on one hand there's a liberation there, but there's also a destabilizing. So how do we come together? How do we have these collective conversations around what our sort of shared values are as a species and. You know, in terms of like, what do we want, do we want to have all these wars? Do we want our tax money to go in these places? You know, how do we get to have these conversations and remember the power of us in multitudes, as well. I, again, I would really invite you to contemplate your experience of time and how that dips in and dips out throughout the day. Like I said, if I'm outside or if I'm with my immediate family. The experiences grounded and slow and real. And now it's in the, now when I'm on social media, it's above my mind. It's at warp speed. I'm taking in so many different points of view and it's, and it's a very ungrounding kind of experience. And then I might be in my work and reading for somebody, and that feels like. It is outside of time, but in a great time. It's a great time outside of time. It's like there's a real specialness to the, that experience to really dive into somebody's time and space map. Do as you will, I would really encourage you to focus on your body, focus on the earthly experience and these more seasonal, cyclical, real life experiences. These ground, what are these grounding rituals, principles that you have carved within the artful expression of your own daily life? I hope you have a great week.