Taurus New Moon 2025

Sunday 27 April 2025 – New Moon in Taurus 20:31 BST
Wednesday 30 April 2025 – Venus enters Aries
Friday 2 May 2025 – Venus conjunct Neptune
Sunday 4 May 2025 – Pluto Retrograde
Monday 5 May 2025 – Mercury sextile Jupiter
Tuesday 6 May 2025 – Venus sextile Pluto
Saturday 10 May 2025 – Mercury enters Taurus
Monday 12 May 2025 – Full Moon in Scorpio 17:56 BST

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The New Moon occurs in Taurus on 27 April 2025 at bringing a more understated, but no less crucial, moment of navigation. After the intensity of recent months, there is a sense here of the ground asking us to return—if not to stillness, then at least to a deeper deliberation.

Taurus is the sign of the fertile Earth, the slow and patient builder, and this lunation invites us to consider what it truly means to lay foundations in a world that feels increasingly unsteady.

Ordinarily, a Taurus New Moon would simply signal a time for consolidation: reconnecting with the body, the senses, the tangible aspects of life that remind us of our natural belonging. Yet this one forms part of a larger, more pressured dynamic involving the Sun-Moon conjunction in a square to Pluto, while Mars in Leo opposes Pluto directly, together forming a tight and uncompromising T-square configuration.

Underneath the invitation to root and stabilise, there is an unmistakable tension: a battle between individual will and collective force, between personal sovereignty and the escalating push towards systemic transformation.

Pluto’s presence in Aquarius has already begun to rewire the deeper structures of society, often beneath our immediate awareness. Technology, group identity, and systems of control are shifting shape rapidly, and not always in ways that honour the dignity of the individual.

Meanwhile, Mars freshly in Leo brings a flare of personal pride, expression, and the need to assert one’s identity against the facelessness of mass currents. We can feel nameless, unseen, even annihilated in the face of such energies. Like what we stand for means nothing, has no bearing on events, or on others.

Take heart if you feel this. It means your essence is alive and intact, carrying a frequency that cannot be replicated, and is needed more than ever in these changing times. Patience is required.

The tension between these forces is palpable. In some ways, this Taurus New Moon highlights the ancient battle between rootedness and revolution, embodiment and abstraction, sovereignty and absorption.

In other words, it is the struggle between staying connected to the real, living body of the Earth, and being swept into abstract systems or ‘isms’ that promise progress but often hollow out our sense of place. It is the pressure to remain whole in a world that increasingly demands our fragmentation.

Taurus energy at its core is not about resistance for the sake of it. It is about discernment: recognising what is worthy of preservation, and where new life must be seeded with care. In a time when rapid change is often mistaken for progress or indeed the complete polar opposite, this lunation reminds us that not all movement is evolution or devolution.

Sometimes the greatest act of resilience is the willingness to slow down, to consolidate, to make careful decisions about where and how we engage with the forces around us. This is not about hiding from change, but about anchoring within it, while it’s happening.

There is also a strong theme here around resourcefulness. Taurus is traditionally associated with material stability—what we own, what we cultivate, what we value. In the face of growing scarcity narratives, rising costs, and systemic volatility, this New Moon urges a sober reckoning with how we relate to physical resources, but also to inner ones.

Our energy, attention and creativity are also our resources. What we conserve and preserve now, both materially and spiritually, may prove vital as the larger collective shifts continue to unfold. This is what we are being asked to contemplate.

Saturn’s ongoing conjunction to the North Node in Pisces casts a shadow across the wider collective, pressing themes of karmic debt, emotional resilience, and spiritual accountability into sharper focus. There is a growing sense that we are being asked to mature not only individually, but collectively—to take greater responsibility for how we participate in the structures of life, rather than outsourcing authority to unseen or unexamined systems.

In the context of Taurus, this is about recognising where we have abandoned our own gardens for the illusion of more appealing pastures elsewhere. Chasing new opportunities might bring hope and a quick high, but it’s check if it’s grounded in expectations, or at the expense of neglecting the work that sustains us. Investing energy into externals that promise security but leave us more dependent and disconnected is never a good thing.

Venus, the ruler of this New Moon, remains exalted in Pisces, still close to Saturn. Her usual ease and flow are tempered by the weight of responsibility. Affection, pleasure, even beauty itself are under review: now we are being urged to choose what is truly sustainable over what is fleeting.

Connections that endure this period may be those fortified by substance rather than convenience, by mutual effort rather than fantasy. With Uranus also quietly aspecting this Venus–Saturn–Node alignment, there is space for unexpected openings—new ways of relating, new values emerging—but they will favour those willing to stay grounded, to evolve without losing or giving themselves away.

The Mars–Pluto opposition at the centre of this lunation can also bring strong impulses toward confrontation or assertion of power. It may stir ancient survival patterns—rage, rebellion, reactivity. Yet sovereignty in this context means not meeting force with force, rather meeting this expression with awareness, love and trust.

True sovereignty, especially under Taurus, means knowing where your energy is best invested, and where withdrawal or redirection might serve you more deeply. Always test, see where energy wants to flow, drop into trusting the rivers of life. We have a choice between getting entangled in surface dramas, other people’s inner, unhealed wounding or tending to the slower, more enduring work of building our future from within.

At a collective level, the battle between personal will (Mars in Leo) and systemic control (Pluto in Aquarius) may become more visible over the coming weeks. We are likely to see struggles around individual rights, creative expression, ownership of resources, and the pressures of technological collectivism.

But at a personal level, the invitation is more subtle: to ask where you are still seeking external validation, where you are caught in reaction rather than creation, and where you can reclaim your own authority over your time, your attention and life.

This Taurus New Moon, despite the pressures around it, is ultimately an opportunity for grounded realignment. It reminds us that we do not have to match the speed or the intensity of external events. We can choose to move at the speed of the body, the soil, the seasons. We can choose to nourish what is truly real, what holds trust, rather than chase what is sensational and seemingly urgent.

We can choose to remain present, observing, discerning, and quietly powerful in a world that often rewards spectacle illusions over substance.

There is a kind of quiet magic available now for those who turn toward it. It lives in small acts of stewardship: repairing something rather than replacing it (my personal favourite thing) reusing what still holds value, tending to relationships that matter rather than seeking constant novelty. It abides in the recognition that sustainability is far more than an environmental concern: it is a personal, energetic one, alive in the understanding that sovereignty is not about hardening against change, but going deeper, rooting so we bend without breaking.

As for many fellow Taureans, the benefits may not be immediately visible. Seeds planted now will take time to germinate. Things formed now will provide a stability that can be trusted, where true change—lasting change—begins to take root.

In the larger arc of this year’s transits, this New Moon serves as a grounding point amid the storm. Even as Mars and Pluto clash, even as external and internal structures shake and spin, there remains the possibility of a deeper, more embodied revolution—one that does not depend on fighting but on remembering.

Remembering what it is to live in a body. Remembering what it is to care for something lasting. Remembering what it is to belong to life itself.

Plant carefully, choose wisely and build slowly. The future is not just shaped by the forces that carousel across the headlines, yes they have a part at one level, but far more by the unseen levels. Those who remain true to what is living, weaving the new world through every steady, sovereign act, will endure these times.