Full Moon in Taurus: Dropping Your Seeds
The Taurus full moon, on the heels of Samhain, helps anchor us in the season of dying and shedding. All year, you have navigated the seasons, opening yourself to new experiences, ways of being, and perhaps unexpected lessons or hardships that have come to pass over the previous year.
Taurus, a fixed earth sign, invites you to pause, be with your body, and notice what's ready to drop from your being. The flowers and trees in the land have been in preparation all year, waiting for this season to drop their seeds. What seeds of wisdom are dropping within you? What wisdom is ready to be handed over to the womb of the earth for incubation?
Each plant, attuned with the wisdom of the earth, feeling in their being when it's the right time to drop. Now too, it is time to feel into the landscape of your body. What is the landscape like, and how does it feel? Are there seeds within you that are ready to drop?
Keep reading for a gentle way to tune into this Taurus full moon and the season.
Full Moon in Taurus Themes
Taurus energy is associated with the bull. While this symbol is often linked to stubbornness, the bull has much more to offer. The bull is stable, sturdy, and calculated in its movement. The bull understands the importance of the pause and is not afraid to spend time firmly rooted on the earth before taking action.
The themes of slowness, sturdiness, and patience are potent medicine as you navigate shifting into the darker half of the year.
Themes: patience, slowness, grounding, sensuality, the body, being with what's arising, the landscape of the body, being present with the earth
Corresponding element: Earth and Water
Corresponding planet: Venus and Earth
Modality: Fixed
Ritual Support for the Taurus Full Moon
This full moon wants to illuminate the wisdom of your body and its ability to sense and feel what seeds of wisdom are dropping from you this season.
For this ritual, I'll guide you to connect with your inner landscape to feel into the lessons you've navigated over the last three seasons, and to notice if there are seeds of wisdom ready to leave you.
The best time for this ritual is on the day of or 2 days after the full moon, on the waning side.
You'll need:
20-60 minutes to be with your body
A journal or note-taking place and something to write with
Optional: a candle, any stones or plants that feel supportive, a tarot or oracle card deck, and access to outside space
Prepare your space in a way that honors your practice and feels good to you. This could include physically and energetically cleansing your space, lighting a candle, selecting some music, calling on guides or ancestors, casting a circle, and setting out any supportive items nearby.
When your space is ready, sitting or standing, begin to notice your breath and stay with it for a few minutes. When you feel settled in, start to imagine traveling inward to your body.
As you move inward toward your body, imagine it as a landscape. Let this fill in within your mind's eye intuitively. If visualizing is hard for you, imagine what your inner landscape feels or sounds like. Stay with this for several breaths as it unfolds.
As your inner landscape fills in, ask aloud or in your mind, "What seeds have been prepared over the last few seasons?" Notice where you're taken in your inner landscape, what the seeds look like, perhaps what plant they're from or what you feel they're associated with, and be with these seeds.
Spend some time moving your body, dancing, and/or singing to honor all of the experiences you have navigated this year to create these seeds.
Trusting the wisdom of your body and the seeds, ask whether there's anything you can do to assist them. Perhaps they want to be planted within your inner landscape, or maybe they want to leave your body to be planted in your environment.
When you feel ready, begin to move out of your inner landscape the way you came into it, thank your body, the moon, and any guides or ancestors you called upon, and gently return to your space.
If you have access to an outdoor space, consider taking a moment to place your hands or feet on the earth to honor the connection between your inner landscape and the outer world.
Consider having some food and drink to ground yourself, and write down anything from your experience, or draw some cards to anchor it.
Prompts for the Taurus Full Moon
Work with the following questions as journal prompts or as guidance for tarot or oracle card pulls.
What does my inner landscape look like, sound like, and feel like right now?
What stands out to me the most in my inner landscape?
What parallels do I see between my inner landscape and the outer landscape?
What experiences over the last three seasons impacted me the most?
What wisdom does my body now carry from experiences over the last three seasons?
Does the wisdom my body carries, the seeds I've created, want to remain planted in my inner landscape or be planted somewhere outside of me?
What potential do these inner seeds hold?
May the wisdom of the land and your body lead you into the dark of the year with the sturdiness and strength of a bull. So it is. Blessed Taurus full moon.
