Thursday 6 February

Moon in Taurus

Todays lunar energy is very different to that of the last few days.

Where Aries is about initiating, Taurus is more interested in solidifying.

Under the Taurus Moon, we take the efforts of the last few days and we give them structure and form…well, that’s the theory.

Supportive links today to Jupiter, the Sun and Venus provide a background of stability- the perfect environment within which to do the one step at a time, one brick at a time sort of foundation building.

Today, though, the Moon has reached her first quarter phase. The intentions you made last week at the New Moon- remember the mini goals you set? Well, they’ll be tested over the next couple of days.

What seemed, in the excitement and promise of the new, as supremely do-able, might now appear to be too hard.

Sure you can let it go- just don’t come complaining to me at the next New Moon how nothing ever works out- or you can do the head down, bum up thing.

You can also do something that’s a compromise of the two…you can do a little tweaking.

When we start a project, quite often we have a draft budget, an idea of what the outcome should be looking like…then we begin to gather our information. As we know more about where we’re going and what we have to do to get there, we can fill in the gaps.

Your Moon intentions are no different.

You start in the dark with an idea of what your outcome will look like. Along the way, as the light comes in, you see more of the road ahead. It might be smooth, it might need grading, it might be full of obstacles, there could be a dirty great mountain in the middle. As you know more about it, you adapt your route or go another way.

Every half decent project manager knows that scope, milestones, cost and those “critical to quality” tasks we specify in formal project documents, are subject to change as information becomes known. Your goals are no different.

At this stage in the lunar cycle, there’s enough light on the road for you to see those obstacles. It’s completely up to you whether you doggedly keep going on the same path, find another way around, or turn back.

Either way, it’s your call.