It’s early on a Saturday morning as I write this post. I’m sitting up in bed, and outside, it’s raining. In the distance, a Koel bird is calling. It’s a sound I’ve always associated with the coming of summer, although here in southeast Queensland, summer is already well and truly here.

I’ve been trying to write this post for days, but the right words haven’t come. Sure, I can talk about Taurus energy – about sensuality, abundance, pleasure – but it’s just not ringing any bells for me.

I could also discuss contentment, serenity, the realisation of self-resourcing, and the concept of enough, being enough, and having enough. That all fits here, but again, yeah and nah.

Outside, although the radar shows another thunderstorm is on the way, right now the rain has slowed to a drizzle, and a dove is cooing.

In August, Grant called me to the hedge under our kitchen window, putting his finger to his lips to tread quietly. The dove was sitting in a nest in the hedge. When we approached, she flew off, and we saw one small egg. As soon as we left, she was back, but Grant, who had been preparing to trim the hedge, put the equipment away. It could wait a few weeks.

A week later the nest and its small egg were gone.

Then, a week or so ago, I found one of the doves lying in the garden – it looked like it had been attacked, perhaps by a larger bird… there had been a currawong hanging about lately. Finding it made me inordinately sad. This pair has been nesting in our garden for the last few years. Last year, I rescued one of their chicks, which had fallen from its flimsy nest in the lilly pilly hedge in our front yard.

Yesterday, though, I was cooking and spied a rustle in the lilly pilly. Two chicks sat in a flimsy nest at the opposite end of the hedge from where the nest had been in August. The remaining parent, the dove I hear cooing now, was feeding them. They look almost ready to fledge.

Nature is cruel but, at the same time, beautiful.

To this morning’s full moon…

The Taurus-Scorpio axis is about attachment, it’s about resourcing, it’s about accumulation, it’s about letting go and paring back. It’s about contentment, it’s about depth, it’s about the concept of enough. It’s about growth and regrowth, fears and holding on and slowing down. It’s about sex and it’s about sensuality. It’s about texture and intensity. It’s also Venus and Mars.

Full Moons are about realisation, culmination and illumination. It’s a time to tune into your intuition, make important decisions and bring things to a conclusion. As the Moon’s light begins to wane, so too you can let go of things you no longer need.

Where do you need to slow down, stop to smell the roses…pause to even notice the roses? Where are you holding onto fears, habits, things, people that are no longer doing you any good? Is holding on holding you back? What about resourcing? Are you accumulating in order to feel safer and more secure, to guard against fears that actually need facing? Are you guarding these layers to ensure that no one can see the real you?

Wherever 24 Taurus is will be where you need to address these issues and ask yourself these questions. It’s also where you need some grounding, some quiet time, the opportunity to be aware of your body and its relationship to the earth, to understand what “enough” really means.

Connecting with Taurus will help with this. Take pleasure in food, wear soft, natural fabrics, surround yourself with the colours of earth and nature. Slow down, choose to detach from stress and take the time to regroup. It’s okay not to fill every minute with being busy, it’s okay to take pleasure in…life.

With all three generational or outer planets in play, this full moon feels very… macro – hardly surprising with all that is happening in the world. Uranus, conjunct the Moon, heralds unexpected change – but also brings a liveliness to proceedings. Pluto, in a wide-ish trine, is just days away from leaving Capricorn behind and moving into Aquarius for the next twenty years (or thereabouts). I’ll have more to say about this in a day or so, but Pluto is all about core change, powerful change, transformational change. It’s a shifting of the powers.

Finally, Neptune, in a supportive sextile to the Moon and Uranus, offers an opportunity to accept and embrace the unexpected – at least for now.