So, as I started to meditate for this New Moon in Taurus I suddenly stopped because the paints and my Leftys were calling to me louder than words and so I listened and this is what emerged.

Now that she's sitting on my altar I can begin my meditation and New Moon Reading and I invite you to come along.

I have no great words of wisdom...I do have clouds after a rain with a blue sky peeking through and several tousle headed birds shaking off the rain that we so desperately need here in not-so-sunny SoCal and rays of light shining through my windows and silence, precious as rain. I have love and laughter and friends and family to share them with and a big, shaggy, black dog to take on long walks. I have tears and sorrow too, for I am human. I have mentors and books and a forest, both elfin and Northern.

Celebrate the Taurus energy of this New Moon by appreciating all that you DO have and all that is yours to protect and care for especially in the Natural World.

We are blessed indeed to be here on Planet Earth, but She needs our help. What part are you playing in this vital task?

I recently started reading "Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark On Our Brains" by neuroscientist, Susan Greenfield (published 2015) and I am finding it overly negative so am not sure I can finish it, but this part really resonated:

The less children play outdoors, the less they learn to cope with the risks and challenges they will go on to face as adults...Sometimes, even quite regularly, you might be bored. But it was that very state of understimulation that impelled you to draw a picture, make up a game, or go outside to play. The point I want to stress is that you were the driver and you would be in control of your own inner world, your own private reality. But now the screen can be the driver...You are now a passive recipient. ~ Susan Greenfield

I do believe the above to be true and I have to question whether this next quotation from Charles de Lint's book "Eyes Like Leaves" will even apply to us anymore if our brains are being re-wired through too many hours of screen time.

(paraphrased to make it female-centric) A wise woman follows her deepest instincts - that is the first lesson of the Birch. ~ Charles de Lint

Be Wise friends, be open and tell your kids stories instead.

Taurus New Moon Altar Suggestions from my Goddess Zodiac Playbook

• Time of Year – Spring turns into summer, May Day, April 20 - May 20

• Quality – Fixed

• Element – Earth

• Planetary Ruler – Venus

• Anatomy – Neck, throat

• Natural Sign of – 2nd House

• Color – Earth colors, green, pink

• Gemstone – Chrysocolla, green emerald, moss agate

• Tarot Card – Hierophant

• Goddesses – Demeter, Flora, Gaia, Hathor, Hera, Nokomis, Olwen, Rhea

Taurus Meditation

I am of the earth, Gaia feeds me, I worship her body as I worship my own.

Taurus Affirmations

• I am practical, sensible and earthy

• I am sensual and loyal

• I am grounded and fulfilled in the arms of Mama Earth

• I am creative and persistent

• I grow deep roots

• I am slowing down and enjoying myself

• I take time to pamper and nurture myself

• I indulge my senses on a regular basis

NEW! Lefty Talisman Paintings to accompany your Creative Soul Reading

NEW! Phone Readings

NEW! Follow along on Instagram

Ongling Events

Classes

*Awaken Your Divine Feminine Soul eClass at Susun Weed's Wise Woman University

Daily Moon Vibes private FB Group

Links

• Creative Soul Readings

• Past Life Readings

• Astrology Reports

• Lefty Talismans

• Goddess Zodiac Playbook by Kathy Crabbe

• Instagram: each day Kathy documents one Lefty a Day (in progress) as part of Riverside Art Museum's "The 52 Project" which equals 365 Days of Leftys - woohoo! This project is open to all and includes an opportunity to submit a proposal for a museum exhibit!

Where's the Moon?

New Moon in Taurus at 9:13 pm PDT, May 17 (Sunday)

About Kathy

Kathy Crabbe is an artist and energy reader living in sunny SoCal with her husband and pet muse, Abby the shaggy black dog in an adobe home they built themselves.