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?
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.
Full Moon in Capricorn: Owning the Power of Your Shadows
While some may view shadow work (the intentional practice of noticing and tending to your unconscious, unhelpful habits, and repressed emotions) as something negative, it holds great power. When you know your shadows well and are aware of how they present, it enables you to move through the world with self-aware, grounded strength.
As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn signifies a time of deeply rooted action. Capricorn energy paired with a full moon, brings an opportunity to recognize and tend to your shadows and release unhelpful habits around how you relate to them, enabling you to move through the world with an understanding of how your unconscious realms affect your waking life.
The summer solstice initiates movement towards the darker half of the year. Even though it may be in the heat of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the Capricorn full moon brings an essence of the dark of winter to remind you of the power of your shadows.
While some may view shadow work (the intentional practice of noticing and tending to your unconscious, unhelpful habits, and repressed emotions) as something negative, it holds great power. When you know your shadows well and are aware of how they present, it enables you to move through the world with self-aware, grounded strength.
As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn signifies a time of deeply rooted action. Capricorn energy paired with a full moon, brings an opportunity to recognize and tend to your shadows and release unhelpful habits around how you relate to them, enabling you to move through the world with an understanding of how your unconscious realms affect your waking life.
The Capricorn full moon encourages you to own the full spectrum of your humanity, even the parts of yourself you might prefer to diminish or disown. Your unconscious realms are endless. There will always be something ready to surface. Each time something new surfaces, you have the opportunity to either avoid it or welcome it into your being and create a more rooted and empowered foundation.
For this full moon ritual support, you’ll be guided to become aware of something in your unconscious that’s ready to be witnessed, own it fully, and identify anything that needs to be released around your relationship to this part of yourself.
Full Moon in Capricorn Themes
Themes: Shadow work, unconscious realms, tending to your foundation, power, owning your imperfections and learning from them
Planetary correspondence: Saturn
Element correspondence: Earth
Corresponding tarot cards: The Devil and the Knight of Pentacles
Modality: Cardinal
Quote: “Before you can slip off the chains you must become conscious of them.” - Rachel Pollack, on The Devil card from Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom
Ritual Support for the Capricorn Full Moon
For this ritual support, you'll be guided to bring to light something from your unconscious realms that desires witnessing.You'll be invited to work with the Devil card from the tarot. You don't need the card to explore this moon. Look up images of it if you don't have it handy.
As always, change and modify this ritual suggestion to make it work for you. It is ideal to work this ritual over 2-3 days. Be intuitive with it and notice when you feel pulled to move to different steps.
You'll need:
Something to write with
The devil card from the tarot (any deck) or images of it to look at
Optional: An outside space to bury paper, books or readings about the tarot and any additional items that make you feel supported, like candles, crystals, herbs, etc.
To begin this ritual, spend time with the devil card from the tarot. Notice what you like about it and what you don't. If anything makes you feel uncomfortable about the card, what stands out to you?
Take a moment to journal about your feelings regarding this card.
Over the next 24hrs, revisit this card. Consider placing it near your bed or under your pillow around the time of the full moon, meditating on it, or reading about the card from tarot authors you enjoy.
Notice what comes up for you as you spend time with this card and what it represents to you.
Journal about anything that's coming up for you on your own or with the prompts provided below.
Identify one theme that is arising for you this lunation as you sit with this card and what it represents to you.
Once you've identified a theme that wants witnessing, create space to be in ritual with this theme.
Allow yourself 15-60 minutes to engage with this theme in a way that feels good to you, such as journaling, moving your body, dancing, making art, or expressing your emotions. Open your ritual space in a way that aligns with your practice.
As you sit with what's arising, ask what this part of yourself wants you to know and how it could be more fully incorporated into your waking life.
Ask if there's anything about this part of yourself that needs to be shed or released.
Bring this ritual to a close in a way that feels good to you. Consider journaling again about this experience.
If you feel guided to release something about this theme or the experience, find time to write down what you'd like to release and bury it on the waning side of the moon.
Prompts for the Capricorn Full Moon
Use these prompts as a way to reflect on this full moon. They can be used as journaling prompts or as questions for tarot or oracle cards.
What emotion(s) do you avoid feeling? (keep in mind this could be positive feelings)
What does this avoidance stem from?
How could spending more intentional time with these emotions empower you?
What is a habit you would like to change?
What might this habit have to teach you?
Identify a person, place, or activity that you avoid because it makes you feel uncomfortable.
What could be at the root of this discomfort?
How would it change your life to be more comfortable with the person, place, or activity you identified?
May this full moon inspire you to be with the neglected and wounded parts of yourself that desire witnessing so that you may incorporate or release what's ready to go and walk with more rootedness and power.