on the new moon in taurus and the promise of abundance

with journal prompts

Astrology for Writers is an exclusively reader-supported publication. If you enjoy today’s work, please share it by forwarding this email, sharing on social media, or sharing it on Substack.

Monthly subscriptions are $7, yearly subscriptions are $70, and both include membership to a super-active Discord with like-hearted writers.

---

ICYMI

🎨 Book a mini-reading with me, “Unsticking Your Creative Practice: A Mini Reading to Jumpstart Your 2025.”

✍️ Come show up to the work with other writers this spring! We’ll write together 3 days a week, 2 hours a day, for 6 weeks. Recommit to your project(s)! Registration closes May 5th, our first co-writing session is May 6th.

The New Moon arrives at 7* of Taurus at 3:31pm Eastern on April 27, 2025.

This is a week for planting, for tending the garden of your creativity, for renewing your stores. For devotion; for knowing that everything has a season, and the season of Planting is not the season of Harvest.

The energy of this New Moon brings to mind a poem from Mary Oliver, “Today”:

Today I’m flying low and I’m
not saying a word.
I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little,
the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.
And so forth.

But I’m taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I’m traveling
a terrific distance.

Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.

Stillness. Devotion. Attention.

Taurus itself is the fecund green of spring. Ruled by artist-lover Venus, Taurus and its lunations are often described in terms of abundance. But abundance of what? Taurus is the promise of abundance. It is the promise of long effort made fruitful. It is the promise itself. In the present, Taurus’ abundance is found in the environment that supports the dreaming of more, the flush of new life that encourages Desire.

In 36 Faces, astrologer Austin Coppock calls this first decan (10 degrees) of Taurus “The Plow.” Indoctrinated in capitalism, it’s easy to associate a plow solely with puritanical hard labor. Hard work makes good Christians makes good citizens, etc. etc. But in describing this decan (which holds the moon’s degree of exaltation) as a plow, Coppock also notes that we are not just working toward earthly abundance, but are appreciating the mind, body, and spirit all as fields worthy of attention and devotion.

Letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

Today, think on how you are applying your attention, which is devotion. On how you want to apply your attention. On what is worthy of your devotion — and worthy of the life you are creating.

Journal prompts for the New Moon in Taurus:

• What do you spend the most time doing? What is necessary, and where can you relax your efforts to allow for more ease? What are your “shoulds” and “oughts,” and how do those inform how you prioritize your days? (Or talk to yourself about how you manage your days?)

• What do you want to spend your time doing, especially creatively? How might you plant seeds of inspiration now that you can harvest in a later season? What would that look like? — like taking up drawing again, or singing, or gardening? What ways can you say hello to Creativity that are the soil being tilled rather than the burden of the plow itself?

• Think on how long certain trees or plants take to grow. Pick one of your favorite things to eat, or witness in nature, and investigate its growing cycle. Now, consider how you might apply that patience and understanding of a growth cycle to your own creative projects. What feelings does this invite?

---

Thank you for reading this edition of astrology for writers. If you enjoyed it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber, or sharing on social media or Substack notes!