Moon

Rooted and Rising

Speaker’s Script • 30-Minute Astrology Teaching

Exalted Taurus New Moon • May 16, 2026 • 25°58’ Taurus

Opening: Arriving

( display Venusian items on the altar — point to them once, don’t pass around )

I brought a few things to be here with us as I teach. Things Taurus loves. Things Venus loves. They are not props — they are her witnesses. Let your eyes rest on them as I speak.

Before I begin, I want to name a few things.

A note before we begin. Some of you are deep astrology students. Some of you have never thought about it before tonight. Both are welcome. You do not need to follow every detail. The teaching tonight lives in your body, not your mind. If a word goes by that you don’t know, let it. The medicine is felt, not memorized.

The current astrology is vast. There is so much happening in the sky right now — so many movements, so many stories unfolding. I will be teaching about a lot of it in the coming months. Tonight, I am going to focus on one thing: this new moon, and what she is asking of us. Not because the rest of the sky doesn’t matter — but because tonight is hers, and she has something specific to say.

Here’s the arc of where we are going tonight. I am naming it now so you can hold it loosely as we travel.

We will start with why Venus — the ruler of this sign. Then I will let you feel what Taurus is, in your body. Then I will walk you through the astrology of this moon — what is happening in the sky right now. Then we will talk about what is coming over the next few weeks and months. And we will close with what you can do when the harder parts of this teaching show up in your life.

That is the path. You don’t have to remember it. Just know there is one.

And one more thing. Every one of us has every sign in our chart. All twelve. Each one expressing somewhere in our system, somewhere in our body, somewhere in our life. We are all complete. Some signs are more active, some need more support, but we all hold all parts.

Which means tonight is not just for women with Taurus suns, moons, or rising. Tonight is for all of us. Every one of us has a Taurus part. Every one of us has a place where the moon’s medicine tonight will land. Where our worth is being asked to be felt. Where Venus is asking us to receive.

Why Venus

Before I go further, let me tell you why I keep mentioning Venus.

Every sign has a planet that rules it. Aries is ruled by Mars. Cancer is ruled by the moon. Taurus is ruled by Venus — the goddess of love, beauty, value, pleasure, and worth.

When we honor a sign, we honor her ruler. Tonight, I am going to teach Taurus through the lens of Venus. Through the body. Through the senses. Through what is precious. Because that is the only honest way to teach this sign.

What Taurus feels like

Let me tell you what Taurus feels like, before I tell you what she is doing in the sky tonight.

Taurus is feet in the dirt. Hands in hair. Fingers picking strawberries and feeding the person you love from your own hand.

Taurus is the slow act of eating. Not snacking. Not nourishing-yourself-on-the-go. Eating. Tasting. Letting yourself want more.

Taurus is a long nap on a Saturday afternoon. Cool sheets. Linen. Velvet. The fabric you choose because it feels good on your skin, not because anyone is looking.

Taurus is the first warm bath of autumn. The smell of bread baking. The weight of a body curled against yours. The first cup of coffee while it is still quiet.

Taurus is a garden. Not the idea of a garden — the actual garden. The dirt under your nails. The peony fully open. The bee in the lavender. The vegetable you grew and now you are eating.

Taurus is the body knowing what it wants. The body refusing to be hurried. The body that will not be rushed through pleasure, will not be talked out of rest, will not apologize for taking up space.

Taurus is the lap of the goddess. The place where things ripen. The place where you let yourself be fed.

This is what we are coming home to tonight. Not an idea. A body. Your body. The body the moon is currently living inside.

Venus does not beg

Taurus is an earth sign ruled by Venus — she speaks to the body itself. The weight of you on the ground. The senses through which you receive the world. Venus won’t allow for astrology to be heady, disembodied and droll, looking at numbers and degrees and geometry. We are going to explore this astrology through the lens of Venus. She speaks from the heart and our sensual experiences. The capacity to receive love, beauty, pleasure, bounty. The knowing of what is precious. The refusal to live without what is precious.

EARTH → HEART → THROAT

Taurus is the earth sign — feet rooted, body held by the ground. Taurus is ruled by Venus — the heart wide open to the bounty. And Taurus rules the throat — the neck, the vocal cords, the mouth, the jaw. The whole architecture of speech. How we name what we want. How we speak our worth into the room.

Whatever has been forming quietly in your body — your knowing about your worth, your values, what you want, what you are done with — this moon is asking you to put it into words.

Here is Venus and her voice:

Venus does not beg.

Venus does not fight.

Venus does not chase.

Venus knows her worth.

She is worth the wait.

Earth. Heart. Throat. Body. Bounty. Voice.

The astrology, simply

Some skies pull us apart. This one calls us home.

In a year of heavy astrology, moments like this are not luxury. They are how we steady ourselves. How we anchor in the body. How we remember that we are still held. The moon exalted in Taurus is one of the most steadying skies of the entire year. Tonight, we hold her and let her hold us. Embody what you want to remember. Let me tell you simply what is happening in the sky tonight.

At 3:01 this afternoon, the sun and moon met at almost 26 degrees of Taurus. A new moon. A planting moon. We are gathering inside the opening hours of a new lunar cycle.

First — the moon is exalted in Taurus. In astrology, exaltation is the sign where a planet is at its most graceful, its most fluent, its most able to do what it came to do. The moon is how we receive. Taurus is the body. This is the moon coming home to the body. There is no better moon all year for self-love work.

Second — in each new moon phase, we look at the sign the moon is in but also consider the conversations and relationships unfolding around that moon.

Mercury sits in Taurus right alongside the moon and sun. Mercury is voice and words. The moon and sun are being kissed by Mercury. This is not a silent new moon. It wants to be spoken.

Additionally, Mercury was cazimi two days ago. Cazimi is when a planet sits in the heart of the sun — the most powerful and clarified moment in that planet’s cycle. Mercury was in the heart of the sun on May 14, getting illuminated in Venus’s home. That illuminated Mercury is right alongside this new moon. Imagine Mercury, influenced by Venus and speaking in her voice over the next six months.

This is not a simple moon

I want to name something before I go further. I have been calling this a beautiful moon, and it is. The moon is exalted here. Venus rules her. The Mercury cazimi two days ago is real medicine.

And — this is not a simple moon. The fixed star Algol — Medusa’s star — sits at 26 degrees of Taurus, less than a degree from our new moon point. Algol is the star of severed feminine power. Of voices that were silenced and are no longer willing to be silent. The Sun aligns with Algol every year from May 15 to 19 — and tonight, this new moon is in that exact alignment.

This is not just a sweet self-love moon. This is a moon asking us to reckon with what has been silenced in us. What is rising up and refusing to stay quiet.

Pluto turned retrograde ten days ago — pulling everything underground for review. The Scorpio full moon at the beginning of this month surfaced what was buried. When this Taurus moon arrives, she is not arriving into an easy field. She is arriving as steadiness after upheaval. As ground after depth-work.

Where the moon is right now

Here’s where the moon actually is, in case you’re curious. The moon is still in late Taurus right now, in the very last hours of her time in this sign. Tonight, she will move into Gemini. And later tonight, she will meet Uranus — the planet of sudden change and awakening — at the very first degree of Gemini.

Here is the beautiful thing. In astrology, a lunar cycle is named for where it begins, not where the moon currently is.The seed was planted in Taurus this afternoon. Even though the moon is about to move on, we are still inside her medicine. We are still planting in her body.

And the moon is about to go scouting ahead — meeting Uranus tonight, electrifying what was just seeded in slow Taurus earth. Which means even though this moon began in slow, deliberate Taurus, the seeds you plant tonight may grow faster than Taurus would normally allow. Faster than feels safe. Faster than feels deliberate.

That can frighten a Taurus moon. But the moon, in her exaltation, can hold this. She is graceful enough to receive fast change without being knocked off the earth. Her feet stay rooted. Her heart stays open. Her throat stays clear. If between now and October things move quickly, trust it. The earth still holds you. Even at speed.

Three questions to carry

There are three questions on the handout for you to carry with you. Sit with them this week, however you like.

Hold them and remember: when Venus speaks, she speaks from already being whole.

From already knowing what she is worth. She names her desire, her needs, her wants, her expectations — clearly, calmly, without apology. Because she is not afraid of being too much. And she is not afraid of waiting for what is hers. She is worth the wait. She waits. And she speaks. And what is hers, comes.

Taurus is about to be populated

Right now, much of the outer-planet astrology is in active signs — fire and air. Saturn and Neptune in Aries. Uranus in Gemini. Pluto in Aquarius. Push and spark and outward movement. A lot of forward force in the sky.

Taurus is a receptive sign. Earth. The body. The slow ripening. And the sign we are seeding tonight is about to be populated.

Two days from now, on May 18, Mars walks into Taurus. The planet of action and embodied will. The seeds you plant tonight will not sit untouched — Mars walks in two days later to give them legs.

And five weeks from now, on June 19, just before solstice, Chiron — the wounded healer — enters Taurus for the first time in roughly 50 years.

In case you don’t know — Chiron is a small celestial body that orbits between Saturn and Uranus. Astrologers work with him as the wounded healer. He shows us where we have been wounded, where the old voices live that say you are too much, you are not enough, you don’t deserve this, you should not want what you want.

Chiron in Taurus will probe those wounds. He will press on the place where you have been told your needs are a burden. Where your hunger is a problem. Where your desire to rest, to be fed, to take up space is somehow shameful.

And the medicine — when Chiron jabs at the too-much, not-enough — is to remember everything I told you Taurus is.You are worth the wait. You are worth taking the bite. You can slip into the comfy clothes. You can take the nap.

You can be a sensory symphony.

Taurus territory is the body. The senses. Self-worth. Pleasure. What is precious. The earth herself. And the medicine — when wounds show up under Chiron — is always the planet that rules the sign. Venus.

I am going to be deep in a Chiron training this summer, and I will come back with more. Tonight is just the beginning.

The vial

Closing

You are rooted. Your heart can open. Your throat will know the words.

At the end of the night, you can pick up a vial.

Inside is a pinch of salt, chips of rose quartz and moonstone, lavender from my garden, dried hibiscus and rose petals — all from the earth. Between tonight and October 25, add something tiny. A petal, a pinch of herbs, a small stone. Every time you choose yourself. By the Hunter’s Moon in October, your vial will be full of what you have called into being. At that time, you can offer the bounty back to the earth.

The handout has the rest.