What YOU need to know about the 2024 Taurus New Moon
Plus, how to work with this lush lunation
Today at 9:22 pm MST, we have the fifth New Moon of 2024, and this New Moon takes place in serene, grounded and stable earth sign Taurus. This is the first non-eclipse New Moon since March, so, it's definitely a lunation worth your attention. If you haven’t heard it through the astrological grapevine (or the farmer’s almanac), New Moons are ideal days to plant seeds for growth. They symbolize new beginnings, initiation, can bring about new opportunities, and just help us to start over. Each New Moon has a specific theme, which varies with each zodiac sign.
Ruled by pleasure-and-value-planet Venus, fixed earth sign Taurus is the embodiment of stability, security, and material comfort. Its steadfast energy reminds you to honor your worth, both materially and emotionally, and to cultivate a sense of self-value that extends beyond mere financial compensation. As the ruler of the second house, Taurus governs your resources, possessions, and sense of self-worth, urging you to recognize the inherent value you bring to the table.
Taurus New Moon Themes
Today’s Taurus New Moon features a potent alignment of the Sun, Moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus. All in the fixed earth sign. All encouraging you to reassess your relationship with worthiness. This celestial configuration serves as a cosmic invitation to acknowledge your intrinsic value and to embrace a mindset of abundance rather than scarcity.
The Moon is exalted—or, extremely happy and productive—in Taurus; it’s astoundingly fertile soil in which to plant seeds of intention, seeds of abundance and opportunity, or just an abundantly fresh fresh start. Taurus, an earth sign, is ALL about the literal physical world and slow, steady development. This sign craves stability, security, and consistency. With the New Moon in Taurus, your focus is on building and nourishing—a goal, an idea, a new path—and believing in the inherent value of your talents and treasure just as they are.
Venus, Jupiter, Uranus are all loosely conjoining this New Moon—which, in plainspeak, means they are closely aligned, as the word conjunct is synonymous with words & phrases like united, combined, and bound in close association. And it’s that last synonym, bound in close association, that best typifies the nature of this New Moon grand conjunction. Themes of value and money (Venus), prosperity and abundance (Jupiter), and change (Uranus) are bound in close association with a new opportunity (as symbolized by the New Moon) in the area of YOUR life ruled by Taurus. (Check out my birth chart form to see where that area of life is.)
This might mean a literal change to your financial situation is happening or has already happened. (Maybe you started, applied for, or were offered a new job, for example.) It might also mean that there’s a change in the works for your worth / value and creative talents, or that you’re on the precipice of a new cycle of growth, change, and abundance. Either way, know this: the 2024 Taurus New Moon is a great day to commit to something, to focus on its stability, and to be really stubborn about your worth, your deservedness. Maybe that “something” is your worth and creative contributions at work or in the world at large. Maybe it’s your relationships, career, or family…
How to Work with the Taurus New Moon
Regardless, it’s important to remember: What Taurus is exceptionally good at is attracting and magnetizing things to it—people, jobs, money, attention, you name it, and Taurus’ fixed nature will help bring those things to the sign. Taurus isn’t necessarily busting their butt to get what they want; rather, the Astro-Bull has a mindset of abundance and entitlement. All fixed signs do; this is what makes them so paramount to the zodiac: they magnetize, organize, build, and sustain. But Taurus is especially skilled at this task because of the sign’s association with Venus, the planet of pleasure and ease. Venus doesn’t want to push too hard or force anything; Venus wants things to unfold with ease and grace. And usually, Venus wants, Venus gets. (It is the planet that rules your attraction, values, and desire.)
So, I think this Taurus New Moon is an opportune day to do as Venus-ruled Taurus does: attract, magnetize, lay the groundwork and build, but also know your worth. Be so stubbornly entitled about your desire(s), that the desire(s) can’t help but want you back. Be so convinced of your worthiness that the job, relationship, client has no choice but to manifest in the real world. Because here’s the thing: Taurus doesn’t do well with abstracts or wishful thinking. No, Taurus likes the literal, tangible, real-world creature comforts—measurable, quantifiable success. Worthiness with weight.
Since Saturn in Pisces is also aligning with this New Moon, there’s a sturdier support base. Saturn reminds us of our limits and responsibilities, but also of our ambitions, goals, and the sacrifices we must make to achieve. In Pisces, Saturn teaches us the importance of getting real about our dreams, and it also emphasizes the importance of boundaries, responsibility, and commitment in our pursuit of those dreams and ideals. This aspect reminds us that while dreams and aspirations are important, they require practical planning and perseverance to manifest in the physical realm. The sextile aspect indicates an opportunity for constructive growth and integration between these energies. It suggests that by applying Saturn's disciplined approach to our pursuits, we can lay a solid foundation for long-term success. This aspect encourages us to take practical steps toward our goals.
If you are a fixed sign Sun or rising sign (so, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio or Aquarius), this New Moon is particularly important for you; it’s key parts of your chart, marking a significant new beginning in your identity and life outlook (Taurus), your career / public-facing life (Leo), your relationships (Scorpio), and your home / family (Aquarius). To get personalized tips & tricks for working with this potent New Moon in YOUR chart, check out my New Moon / Full Moon Birth Chart Reading.
My Take on the Taurus New Moon
This week I committed a Taurus cardinal sin: I’ve pushed myself too hard for too little reward.
Since March, I’ve been volunteering for a college film festival, alongside my boyfriend who works at the school and was the festival director. The event was yesterday and for the seven days leading up to it, we threw ourselves into the whirlwind of preparations, channeling our efforts into every detail. It was a collective endeavor, a testament to teamwork, as we scrambled to finalize decorations, script the show, and nail down the festival schedule. Each task, however mundane, demanded our time and attention, but it was our volunteer efforts that truly brought the event to life.
Amidst the exhaustion and exhilaration of the event itself, I couldn't shake the contrasting reactions between myself and my boyfriend. While we both poured unpaid hours into making the festival a success, our responses to the work differed starkly. For me, the labor of love yielded a sense of fulfillment—a 10-pound bundle of joy in the form of a student film festival. For my boyfriend, it shouldn’t have been a labor of love at all.
Of course, it hasn’t hit me until now—one day after the festival—just why the stark difference in our reactions exists. It’s a gender thing. As a working male who is by-and-large compensated fairly for the work he does, my boyfriend expects to be paid for his efforts, ALL efforts. As a woman, I’m not.
Man vs. Woman at Work
As a woman, conditioned to normalize the undervaluation of my efforts, I realized I had unwittingly internalized a belief that my work should go uncompensated. Throughout my life, I’ve witnessed other women in leadership roles, and had rarely seen their hard work acknowledged with commensurate remuneration. Add to that, as a small business owner, I’m used to giving more of my time and efforts than I get back.
Sacrificing pay for passion is something I’ve done for so long, I’ve just gotten used to it. Maybe it’s because for me, results aren’t wholly measured in dollars and cents; and to my boyfriend they are. Or maybe I’m just an idiot, idk. But as I realized the differences between my boyfriend and I, I also realized how ridiculous it is of me to always put so much effort into projects that don’t fairly or abundantly return on my investment.
So, as the New Moon in Taurus arrives, it’s helping me see that worthiness doesn’t always transcend monetary compensation. As mentioned, Taurus is an earth sign; Taurus likes money, because money is a real, quantifiable merit of effort. To Taurus, you work, you get paid. That’s that. (I should note that while my boyfriend does sound like a Taurus in this here tail, he is not.) With Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus conjoining this lunation, the themes of value, self-extension, and change are bound in close association, signaling a potent opportunity to reassess worthiness on a personal and collective scale.
Through my involvement with this film festival, I’ve realized that I don’t often value my work; or, I have an issue valuing it at “high” rate. I want to give and give and give in hopes that others will see how much I’m giving and give back to me. They don’t. And maybe that’s wholly a woman thing, maybe it’s due to my unique combination of feminine signs in feminine planets (Pisces Moon, Venus in Cancer), or maybe I just wasn’t taught to believe in myself and my efforts enough to say they’re worth more than free labor.
Either way, I’m having a fresh start in this part of my life. And I’m going to set intentions on this new moon, and I’m going to try to avoid approaching the intentions with hesitance or a sense of lack / undeservedness. And I hope you do the same.