Showing posts with label Taurus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Taurus. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Of Sensual Creation / Natura Sensuale

The Sun later today (23:26 UTC+2) will enter Taurus.
I remember very well last year’s ingress of the Sun in Taurus. 
A year ago whilst the Sun was in the very last seconds of Aries, initiating outwards going fire, I signed my resignation from the corporate world. Loosing all the material security I ever had.
I remember the phrase one of my previous heads said to me whilst I was in front of Milan’s Duomo…You are now a free person.
How apt for the last degree of Aries…I initiated the Fool’s journey.
As the Sun entered Taurus, fixed inwards looking earth energy, the aeroplane took off Milan’s runaway to take me back home.
I remember the Sun filtering through the grey clouds through the aeroplane’s window falling sideways on my face.
I was crying, tears of relief mixed with tears of huge insecurity.
A year after I am still happy with my decision. The tears sometimes are still there, more than anything else for the lack of a secure income especially when one is at the very very beginning of a business.
I do not regret it although my Taurus Moon is trying to grapple with the material insecurity I am living in.
Because at the end of the day, Taurus is about material security. It is all that makes us first animals and then humans. It is the pleasure of having a roof on one’s head, of having more than enough money to pay the bills, buy healthy organic food, buy a nice thing or two, having the time to sip a glass of wine whilst reading a good book and watching sunset and why not make love.
Taurus is all about living life in all of its sensuality. It is the energy of Beltane…when Nature makes love to itself.
Taurus being in a fixed modality can be quite stubborn…why should I leave my well-known road for something new? But when they, at their own time, will familiarise with the new concept they sure know how to make it work to give the best investment. Rocking the boat is not their cup of chai.
But it is through that fixity that Taurus has than energy to make ideas work in this world. It nourishes them, sustains them, invests in them…slowly every single day until one day it grows into something of real value.
Taurus is ruled by Venus, that cool and moist, sweet and enticing, sensual and tactile energy that permeates all of Creation.

May what you have now initiated grow in sensual abundance.



Oggi il Sole entra (23:26 UTC+2) in Toro.
Mi ricordo bene l’entrata del Sole in Toro lo scorso anno. 
Un anno fa quando il Sole era agli sgoccioli del segno dell’Ariete, energia di fuoco verso l’esterno, io mi dimisi dal mio lavoro di allora e con esso tutta la mia sicurezza material che ho mai avuto.
Mi ricordo la frase che mi fu detta da uno dei miei datori di lavoro, quando stavo di fronte al Duomo di Milano: Ora sei una persona libera.
In sintonia con l’energia dell’Ariete ho iniziato il mio viaggio da Folle.
Quando il Sole stava entrando in Toro, l’energia fissa di Terra rivolta verso l’interno, l’aeroplano prese il volo per portarmi a casa.
Mi ricordo il Sole che filtrava dalle nuvole grigie attraverso il finestrino dell’aeroplano illuminando il mio volto pieno di lacrime.
Erano lacrime di sollievo miste con lacrime di grande insicurezza.
Un anno dopo sono ancora felice della decisione che ho fatto, anche se le lacrime della insicurezza ancora ci sono. Più che altro l’insicurezza economica specialmente quando uno sta all’inizi di una propria attività.
Non rimpiango nulla anche se la mia Luna in Toro fa fatica ed essere rilassati quando non si ha un introito economico regolare.
Perché alla fine l’energia del Toro concerne la sicurezza materiale. E’ tutto ciò che ci fa prima animali poi esseri umani. E’ il piacere di avere un tetto sopra la testa, di avere più che abbastanza soldi per pagare le bollette, comprare cibo biologico, di comprasi ogni tanto qualche cosa che aggrada i sensi ed addolcisce la vita, e di avere il tempo di sorseggiare un buon bicchiere di vino, leggere un libro e guardare il tramonto e perché no fare l’amore.
Il Toro è l’energia di godere la vita in tutta la sua sensualità. E’ l’energia di Beltane…quando la Natura fa l’Amore con se stessa.
Toro è nella modalità di energia fissa, per cui può diventare molto ostinato e radicato…perché devo lasciare la strada ben nota per qualche cosa di nuovo che non conosco? Pero poi quando, con i loro ritmi, imparano a conoscere la nuova strada, sapranno eventualmente farla sfruttare al massimo. 
E’ attraverso quella energia ostinata che il Toro ha quella forza di fare funzionare le idee in questo mondo terreno. Li sa nutrire, sostenere, investire in essa, piano piano ogni giorno…finché un giorno diventa un patrimonio. 
Il Toro è governato da Venere, quella energia umida e un pò fredda, dolce e accattivante, sensuale e tattile che permea tutto il Creato.

Che possa tutto ciò che avete iniziato cominci a crescere in una sensuale abbondanza.

Monday, 14 November 2016

Taurus Full Moon and The King of Coins/ La Luna Piena in Toro e il Re dei Denari

Yesterday, whilst having my daily exercise routine I found this Piacentine card figuring the King of Coins. I placed it in my pocket and kept on walking musing on its significance.
Today whilst meditating, as the Full Moon in Taurus was culminating, I finally understood the meaning for me, but perhaps it is also a more general meaning of this Tauren Full Moon.
Taurus is fixed Earth. It is Gaia that sustains us. It is our senses and how we perceive life through our bodies. It is patience with ourselves and all Creatures of Earth. For growth needs its time.
The Moon and the Sun oppose each other from the 2nd and 8th house respectively in the chart for my location. 
Fixed Earth balancing Fixed Water on the axis of growth. Practical productivity versus emotional sensitivity.
The Taurus Moon is saying to Sun in Scorpio:
I have seen your pain and your fears. I have seen the limits of your comfort zones breaking. I have seen what we can achieve together and intimacy and shared resources is the key. 
I know what lies beyond the veil…and how to delve in human’s worst nightmares.
But all I ask of you is to come back to me, to your body, to your own point of stillness, to the container of your soul.
Because you must first learn to nurture yourself before you are able to share.
Because you must first learn to know your body and your emotions before you can share them with others.
Because you must first master patiently your skills before you can create joint ventures.
You must first remember that you are child of the Earth and the Water of Emotions are the catalyst for your growth.
And with that, the Moon smiles and nods to Pluto, the Lord of Transformation and of the UnderWorld, who is a silent hidden force behind this lunation.



Ieri, durante la mia passeggiata di salute, trovo questa carta Piacentina, con sopra la figura del Re dei Denari. Lo messa in tasca e ho continuato a camminare pesando a cosa mi voleva dire.
Oggi durante la mia meditazione sulla Luna Piena in Toro, ho finalmente capito il messaggio di quella carta, che può essere anche il messaggio general di questa energia Taurina.
Toro è Terra in modalità fissa. E’ Gaia che ci culla. E’ i nostri sensi e come percepiamo la nostra vita attraverso i nostri corpi.
E’ la pazienza con noi stessi e tutte le altre Creature della Terra. Perché la crescita ha bisogno del suo tempo.
La Luna e il Sole si guardano dalla seconda e l’ottava casa rispettivamente dal luogo in cui sto. L’elemento Terra Fissa che bilancia l’elemento Acqua in modalità Fissa sull’asse della crescita Toro-Scorpione. La produttività pratica verso la sensitività emozionale.
La Luna in Toro sta dicendo al Sole in Scorpione:
Ho visto il tuo dolore e le tue paure. Ho visto i limiti della tua sopportazione rompersi. Ho visto cosa possiamo ottenere insieme e l’intimità e le risorse condivisi sono le chiavi d’accesso.
So cosa c’è oltre quel velo…e come immergermi negli incubi più macabri della razza umana.
Ma quello che ti chiedo ora e di tornare da me, al tuo corpo, al tuo punto fermo del tuo essere, al contenitore della tua anima.
Perché prima devi imparare a nutrire te stessa prima di potere condividere.
Perché prima devi imparare a conoscere il tuo corpo e le tue emozioni prima che li puoi condividere con gli altri.
Perché prima devi diventare maestro delle tue doti ed arti prima di creare una società di risorse condivise.
Perché prima devi ricordarti che sei figlio/figlia della Terra e l’Acqua delle Emozioni è il catalizzatore della tua crescita.
E con ciò, la Luna sorride serenamente e inclina il capo vero Plutone, il Signore della Trasformazione e degli Inferi che fa da spalla nascosta a questa lunazione.

Wednesday, 4 May 2016

Beltane and Freedom 2016


Beltane 2016 this year happens at the 5th May 2016 at 03:42 CED. 

It is now two weeks that I have left the corporate world. It was 17:25 when the aeroplane hit the runway to take off to leave Milan to Rome and precisely at that time the Sun had just entered Taurus.

Now the Sun is at nearly at 15 degrees Taurus, the mid point of the fixed Earth, Beltane. This is the first Beltane I am celebrating as in my new life.

In these last two weeks people have been repeatedly telling me “Now you are a free person”. The first thing one of my ex-heads, that day just after I signed the resignation was, “Now you are a free person”. And that made me think….Why before I wasn’t?

The day after my area ex-co-workers sent me a message saying….Good Morning to your first day of freedom…. We admire your courage.

I wanted to answer back: that freedom and courage have a price…an unfathomable price…but I did not. I think no one can understand the price each of us pays to be truly who one is. Something I had not the courage until lately.

And with that Uranus came to my mind…

The resignation of my ex-job is the story of my Uranus - Uranus opposition (and some other stuff as well). I had read and studied about the Uranus-Uranus opposition…something I have seen people pass through and take huge decisions in their lives…the so called mid-life crises. I thought I wouldn’t do such a huge transformation in my life…leaving the known for the unknown. I deemed I had not the courage those people had.
I remember saying to my mentor, Helen Tremeer: I can never leave my job when I have nothing secure on the other side….and yet here I am…

Mine started a few days before my 40th birthday, when I fell from my bicycle and broke my rib. From then on my life has started becoming a crescendo for my true identity, of breaking of bars that kept me jailed. (Not that now there aren’t any, but life is a continual evolution and revolution.)

Astrology came into play and it helped me keep sane when all felt hazy and I felt I was going mad…with frustration, pain, worry and rebellion.

Various persons came into my aid. When the student is ready, the master appears. And to my teachers, mentors and friends I would like to say, “THANK YOU”.

So today I want to celebrate and toast to all this odyssey up to now.

Beltane is always special to me, it always brings to fruition changes that have been seeding in my soul for a long time. Perhaps it is because of my Taurus Moon. I do not know. This year it happens with a Balsamic Moon...that sweet spot, that melting pot, between what is now past and the future that has yet to manifest.

So here to Uranus, for breaking the jails of my captivity, for being, as my teacher Ingrid Naiman says, the Messenger of the Spirit into Matter.

To Neptune, that is still making this journey such mystically foggy and making stillness a point of being.

To Pluto, for bringing that pain/s up to the surface, for the long overdue transformation and the acknowledgement of my own personal healing power.

And to my Taurus Moon…for showing me where I have been coming from in these various life-times and for showing so much patience with all the rest of the astrological pack.

By Eric Williams

(The track below is called Sweetness of the Earth by Anugama. It has been one of my most favourite tracks to calm myself down, stop from panicking (or vomiting) and meditate, long before I knew what I was doing was called shamanic journeying. This is also the track I was listening when that aeroplane hit the runway to freedom. The name of the track can’t be more Taurus!)

Blessed Beltane to you and yours!


Blessed Be!



Monday, 28 April 2014

Me, the Eritrean Lady and the penknife

There was a sad child amongst other children aggressively holding a penknife. The child was threatening to kill herself or others.
It seems I formed part of a special squad and I was called to diffuse the situation and take safely away the knife from the child.
I slowly approached the child that sniggered at my coming, saying that no way I shall take away her knife.
I said calmly, I am not here to take your knife away but I am here to talk with you and teach you how to use that knife.
As we talked the child became an adolescent and all of a sudden she started sobbing heavily on my shoulder. I soothingly said, let it go, you do not need anymore that pain, let it go.
After she stopped crying and she stood back from me, I looked at her. The child had become a beautifully tall, harmoniously looking Eritrean young woman that oozed sensual power with her every single move.
I said softly, my time has come to leave.
She looked at me with those dark brown eyes whispering, how can I ever repay you?
I said: with just a small kiss.
She said, already on the defensive: ah you do not want more?
No! And with a croaking voice continued: I can never ask that of you.
She studied me for a second while I could see her body relaxing, leaning forward and softly touching my lips with intense emotion.
Tears mixed, souls connected and we parted.
She closed the penknife and put it in her pocket.

I put my hat and haversack on, waved goodbye and went in a densely packed forest knowing that she was still watching me leaving as I ventured on a lonely journey.

(This is a dream I just had in the early hours of the 28th April 2014 whilst on holiday in Couiza, Aude, France)


This is a traditional shepherd's penknife of the Aude region, made of green wild oak from the mountains in Céret area, I bought the day before from Esperaza market.

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Happy 51st Birthday G (on a Taurus Moon) !

Happy Birthday my Love,

watching you today celebrating your 51st birthday is something so intimately special...
Since your 50th Birthday a year ago when your Chiron return started with all sorts of disabling hip pains and other maladies I have seen you grow, heal through suffering, through loss, through mutilation, through identity lost and passionately, avidly fought for, to be found again.
You have been an exquisite raw, vivid example of what rebirth is. That it is possibile to do so.
I love the Universe synchronicity: Your 51st birthday is happening with a Taurus Moon, that same energy of steadfastness, belief in life that has accompanied us in your...our journey through breast cancer and mastectomy.
It seems fitting isn't, that your Solar Return is being celebrated with perseverance, with sensuality, with those small, comfortable, sensual things in life that make us feel connected with Mother Earth.
So my Love, what else can I wish you on this special day?
May you be always true to yourself no matter what, at the end of the day your intuition has always been right...just give yourself time to listen to your own drum beat...it will take you on a unique pioneering journey...an inspiration to us all.
Dance to your own music G, it may seem strange at first, others might not understand but at the end of this journey you will have created a spontaneous, exuberant, fearless Youtube film for us all to insightfully ponder on!
Thank you my Love, for being in my life.

I love you.



Ricotta with panna cake kindly made and decorated by La Graniteria Messinese @Lido di Ostia
(The symbols are from a dream G had before she was diagnosed of breast cancer with a caption saying "Follow your dreams")

Thursday, 9 January 2014

Taurus Moon, cancer and her

It all started 4 lunations ago.

In September while the Moon was in Taurus...my partner found out that she had breast cancer.

There started the long journey against Time and against the medical establishment.

Saving what was savable.

Facing my deepest fears, those near....and those coming from a far away past, in deep recesses I had conveniently put apart.

Allopathic doctors proving themselves narrow minded; holistic doctors cowards in-front of the establishment.

Humming in a different tune....believing in an offbeat healing.

Opening up towards society about my lesbian relationship more than my usual comfortable, security level, just because of her.

The Mutilation of a radical right mastectomy.
The suffering, the pain, the loss.

The what if...

The constant terrorism...

The support coming from the unexpected, growing one tweet or like at a time.

The power within...

And at every Taurus Moon something special happened that moved the story in a new direction.
This current Taurus Moon has just brought the greatest news...all investigations are negative...no cancer cells roaming about...

For now we rest and catch our breath.
Savour life...and our love...our companionship.

The story is not finished yet.