The astrology of 2025 has been bumpy, to say the least. With wave after wave of retrogrades, planetary shifts, rare alignments like Saturn on the North Node, and a wild eclipse season, the cosmic weather’s been anything but calm.
But with this New Moon in Taurus on April 27th, we’re being offered a much-needed opportunity to re-calibrate and return to community based care.
Taurus energy is all about grounding, sustainability, and values. It invites us to return to what truly matters, to reconnect with who and what supports us physically, emotionally, and spiritually, and to cultivate practices and habits that restore stability.
Because even amidst chaos, we’re still being asked to show up. To care for one another.
To use our unique offerings, our voices, our hands, our hearts, as part of a larger healing network.
So let’s explore the deeper medicine of this New Moon in Taurus.
The Wood Wide Web: Nature’s Blueprint for Community Care
A group of mushrooms that miraculously popped up amongst the oregano (Origanum vulgare) in our garden boxes. I think the soil is happy.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the mycelium network—often lovingly referred to as the “Wood Wide Web,” a term coined by German forest ranger Peter Wohlleben. He used it to describe the beautifully intricate, underground connection between trees and the vast fungal network nestled deep within the soil.
To put it simply: Mycelium are the unseen, root-like structures of mushrooms. These long, threadlike filaments run beneath the forest floor, forming an underground communication system that links entire ecosystems. Through these threads, trees share nutrients, relay distress signals, and support one another.
Through this fungal web, trees can learn, remember, and nurture—even keeping seemingly lifeless stumps alive through shared resources and care. It’s a potent reminder that beneath the surface, connection and cooperation are always happening—even if we can’t see them.
I bring this up because it feels like such a fitting metaphor for this lunation—and for the times we’re living in.
Because here are the facts:
We’re living in a world where it’s somehow acceptable to bomb children, target truth and intellectualism, flirt with fascism, and let billionaires hoard wealth while basic survival needs—food, housing, healthcare—slip further from reach.
This is all, to put it lightly, deeply backwards.
And yet—I feel most empowered when I give and share what I do have: abundance, knowledge, or simply presence. That’s why this Taurus New Moon feels to me like a call to return to the basics of community and care.
All the Planets Are Direct & Bye-Bye Eclipse Season
If 2025 has felt rocky so far—you’re not imagining it.
This year kicked off with Mars retrograde in Leo, which then shifted into Cancer (and personally, my motivation took a serious nose-dive during that time). Then Venus went retrograde from March 1st to April 12th, spinning backwards through Aries and Pisces.
And yes, there’s more. Mercury was then retrograde from March 14th to April 7th.
So if it felt like this year started and everything was:
✦ Stalled
✦ Off-track
✦ Acting like a complete dumpster fire
✦ Or just not functioning the way it should
This is why. We were in a cosmic traffic jam, with a majority of the planets trying to hit the gas hard—in reverse.
To top it off, last month brought the final eclipses along the Aries–Libra axis right in the middle of that retrograde storm, while Neptune made a historic entry into Aries indicating that we’re leaving behind the Neptune-in-Pisces fever dream and stepping into something much more tangible.
Which is why this New Moon in Taurus (April 27th) feels like a much-needed moment of calm where we can recollect ourselves, get back in touch with our “why”, and to regroup/plot for our inevitable success.
Because for the first time in a while, we’re free of both eclipses and retrogrades. All planets are direct right now, giving us a rare window of momentum and forward movement.
It’s like the open road has cleared—and symbolically, that couldn’t be more aligned with the energy of spring. We’re shedding the slower, reflective pace of winter and stepping into a season of action, growth, and fresh starts.
So if a project, idea, or new direction has been tugging at your spirit—now’s the time to go for it. This window of direct planetary motion lasts until May 4th, when Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius. Until then, the vibes are very much: we ride at dawn.
Taurus Medical Astrology: Recognizing Patterns of Indulgence & Restriction
This New Moon in Taurus is a call to action, an invitation to anchor yourself. To come back into a relationship with your body, your environment, your purpose, and your sense of pleasure.
Ruled by Venus, Taurus craves sensory fulfillment: food, music, touch, beauty, softness, and security. But when this energy is out of balance, it often swings between overindulgence and restriction, a compulsive need to either chase or deny pleasure.
As a fixed earth sign, Taurus is super steady yes, but also prone to stagnation on the physical, emotional, and mental levels.
Medical astrologer Judith Hill writes that the Moon in Taurus “distributes energy in a calm, steady manner” (30), but may require stimulation to prevent buildup or blockages. When that energy gets stuck, it can show up as:
✦ Emotional rigidity or clinging to the past
✦ Attachment to routines, habits, or people that no longer serve us
✦ Physical symptoms like neck and throat tension, sinus issues, thyroid issues, or sluggish digestion
In holistic systems like herbalism, we understand that body, mind, and spirit are inseparable. When one part gets stuck, the others often follow. Whether it shows up as strict eating habits, looping thoughts, obsessive behaviors, or unprocessed grief, we may be trying to maintain control at the expense of flow.
At the root of these patterns often lies a disconnect from true satisfaction, a struggle to feel nourished, fulfilled, or safe enough to let go and experience pleasure fully.
This New Moon in Taurus invites you to examine the places in your body, diet—and that includes your mental, emotional, and food-based intake—as well as your immediate environment, where you may be chasing pleasure from a sense of lack, or avoiding it altogether to uphold a rigid ideal of what you think is “healthy” or “good for you.”
It’s also a time to notice patterns of emotional gripping, looping thoughts, or self-critical inner dialogue that may be rising to the surface. These are the areas calling for release, rebalancing, and a return to a more nourishing relationship with yourself.
Mimosa Bark: A Taurus-Aligned Herbal Ally
How cheery is this Mimosa Tree? Don’t you feel happier just looking at how pink and fluffy it is?
Mimosa bark is especially resonant with Taurus imbalances—gently softening what’s been internalized and supporting the heart–throat channel that Taurus so deeply governs. Its energetics make it an ideal ally during times when emotional tension has built up and needs to be released with care.
One plant I’ve been working with to support emotional release and to un-stick stagnant energy is Mimosa bark (Albizia julibrissin).
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, Mimosa or the Persian Silk Tree is used for disturbed Shen, a term describing the sacred connection between the heart and the spirit. It’s often indicated for those who experience:
✦ Irritability + suppressed anger
✦ Depression, grief, and sadness
✦ Nightmares, extreme trauma, or emotional overwhelm
Mimosa has what I call an “un-lodging” quality. It gently brings stuck emotions to the surface so they can be released, especially those buried deep in the chest which works its way up the throat for it to be expressed or released (Taurus’ domain).
David Winston, one of my favorite herbalists, often pairs Mimosa bark with Hawthorn (Crataegus spp.) and Rose (Rosa spp.) for clients navigating long-term grief, heartbreak, PTSD, or trauma. I’ve worked with a similar formulation, and the results have been truly astounding—both in myself and in others who it’s helped to supported.
But what I love most about this herb is its heart-warming effect, like a little light returning to a place that’s been cold for a long time.
The Medicine We Each Carry: A Closing Note
How can I show up with what I already have?
Whether it’s cooking, gardening, sewing, making music, creating art, organizing—or, in my case, making medicine and looking up at the stars, this lunation invites you to embody your values and nourish the world around you.
Because we don’t need more spiritual bypassing. We need people like you, deeply rooted in reality, offering your gifts boldly and generously, in defiance of the fractured systems that benefit from keeping us isolated, exhausted, and afraid.
So this New Moon in Taurus, let’s reconnect. Let’s plant our roots firmly in the ground and weave our collective filaments together through the unique medicine we each carry.
Happy New Moon.
And Till Next Time, Mythical One,
Ayame (あやめ)
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