The New Moon in Fixed Earth, Taurus, conjoined both Hamal and Schedar on the 27th April 2025 at 20:31 BST
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Rising before the sun had yet made her shape known upon the walls, before the birds stirred the silence with their tentative notes, while the hollows of the house still held the breath of night, Eolaisín dressed, brushed her teeth and opened the front door – whereupon stillness of a slumbering world met her. The hush was so complete it seemed the world itself was pausing between thoughts. Carried upon a gentle breeze, the faint scent of damp earth, tinged with the sharpness of nettle and the green breath of moss, curled around her like an old and knowing friend. As she passed beyond the edge of the hedgerow, the stillness that met her was a presence held so wholly that nothing dared disturb it.
The path beneath her bristled with the kindness of loam and leaf-rot, soft and steady, as though recognising her tread. She walked because something had exhaled and she had risen to meet it. No part of her strained toward intent. Above her, a single saffron flame scored its certainty across the black. Not one to follow, nor to be followed. It did not call. It did not guide. It moved untouched by desire, yet filled with presence, a vow remembered by the night itself.
And though her eyes lifted only once, she felt it as something known from the inside out, a tremolo at the nape of her neck. Quiet. Unmistakable.
She reached the rise without haste. Below her, the trees held their breath in the half-light, caught between shadow and shape. The air folded itself about her with a weight of silence, a hush that asked nothing and held everything. From within that stillness a fire now shimmered from the top of her spine as if it had waited until she stopped asking. It neither consumed nor taught. It merely was, as if being was enough.
Eolaisín did not speak or move, eyes unfocused yet aware. Bathed in golden iridescence, something stirred. A deepening, an inward unfolding that reveals itself in the way warmth does when you stand near a fire. Clarity. It didn’t feel like a thought or an idea. It was not even a revelation as such. But awakened in her was a knowing, a conviction within a vision, unhurried in its brightness. It showed her what had always been: that knowledge, when it is true, does not sit upon the tongue, nor arrange itself into cleverness, but settles into the bones with the quiet authority of something that has never needed to explain itself. It just is.
And when the wan light ceded to the siolla, threading gold through the branches, Eolaisín did not move to meet it. She stood where she was, the light meeting the flame within her as kin. In that moment, nothing in her reached forward or looked back. She had not changed. She had simply returned to the place she never left.
Embodied Truth
Art by Frank-Thomas Tindejuv
Some truths arrive softly, settling like evening light upon still water. Moving gently through breath and rest quietly in the marrow, their purpose is merely to be known and to open up your consciousness to an affirmed, conscious life. It is a way of knowing that shares silence in conversation, supports your hands in their motion, and colours the space between thoughts. It is noticed in pauses, in those spaces where words fall away and presence deepens.
Purpose formed in this field carries ease. Complete in its own rhythm, movement flows naturally. Remember embodied presence leads without thought, planning or control. It is a knowing that brings calmness, moving gently, but purposefully, at the centre of experience. There is no edge, only clarity, an inner light that is pervades all that unfolds within its momentum.
Forosnai is a term in Gaelic that means ‘that which illuminates’ and a concept that encapsulates the forthcoming celestial union of Father Heat and Mother Dream in Fixed Earth, otherwise known as Taurus, a sign of the zodiac that has always been associated with the Light of Consciousness, the spiritual light that lies hidden within the material world. (For example, in Akkadia, Taurus was called the Light of the Bull. Aldebaran, one of the brightest stars in the night sky and located in the sidereal constellation, was named ‘The Torch’ by Ptolemy, along with the Pleiades, often referred to as the cradle of consciousness. And if we accept the system of hierarchical rulership in astrology, then Venus, known as Lucifer, the Light Bearer when she is a morning star, holds sway over Taurus).
Conjoining two stars, Hamal and Schedar, the former being the alpha star in constellational Aries and the latter in Cassiopeia, Eolaisín’s[i] experience of the light awakening without hunger or ambition, is the message of those quiet stars infused through this fire/ earth sign.
Art by Tim Webb
Hamal is an elemental force that enflames the crown and opens up the spirit, rather like the flame that arises from the root, known as the chthonic libidinal kundalini energy. A guardian of the sacred source flame, like the red fire of the tulip that emboldens the forest with colour and presence, Hamal opens up an awareness of the necessity of initiatory rites of passage, enbraving the spirit with a surety and confidence of unconditional righteousness. He is a fire-starter whose light is to open up the process of growing consciously via the drawing down of spiritual energies so that vision is enabled. Through Hamal, the fire of the aether speaks not with noise, but with clarity. It moves to restore and in doing so brings forth action so clear you have no need for thought.
Schedar, on the other hand opens up inner sovereignty, quiet strength, and the radiance of self-knowing. She carries the essence of dignified presence, where truth arises from within rather than seeking outer validation. She reflects heart-centred wisdom and the subtle clarity of still awareness.
Together their timbre has been infused into the contemporary meaning of Taurus, without many realising that it is the stars that define the perimeters of the zodiacal essences, as opposed to the hierarchical lords and ladies.
Any planets you have placed in Taurus offer insight into the specific dimension of your Soul that’s here to free itself from the trappings of material desire, opening themselves up to an embodied knowing that needs no recognition to complete whatever is on hand. Renown has no meaning in such a place after all that willowy spectre only confuses the gaze.
New Moon Offering
In the days leading up to the New Moon, as the light thins and the inner tide draws inward, there is a quiet invitation to listen for the subtle stirrings that rise beneath thought. This is a time for stillness, for sensing what wishes to emerge through the body, through breath, through the simple act of being present. It is within this softened space that three seeds may be gently offered to the unseen soil of the months ahead.
You might begin by asking yourself: What quiet knowing is ready to be honoured through a steady return to presence? This is not a call to do, but to remember; to allow something already forming within to take its place in the rhythm of your life.
Then, as awareness settles, let another question emerge: Where is clarity already arising, unforced yet unmistakable—and how might your movement begin to reflect this gentle certainty? The light of this clarity simply rests, and in doing so, offers a way forward that asks for no effort, only attunement.
And finally, offer this: What seed of intention can be placed now, one that honours the quiet union of deep perception and steady devotion, held by your care, not your control? Let it be something felt, rather than formed, something that aligns with the rhythm of Taurus and the slow unfolding of the six solar months ahead.
Remember, there is nothing to push or perfect, only the openness to let these questions settle, and from that settling, to listen for what already wants to grow. May forosnai descend upon and through you and may you embody the wisdom offered from Hamal and Schedar now and always.
Completed on the 13th of April at 11:48 am BST
[i] Drawn from the Gaelic language, Eolaisín can be felt as “a gentle spark of knowing” or “a tender light of insight” stemming from eolas, the Irish word for knowledge, insight, or awareness, softened by the suffix “-ín”, a common affectionate diminutive in Irish, suggesting something small, delicate, or cherished. Little Spirit’s name evokes a soft, intuitive wisdom, one that does not impose or declare, but reveals itself in quiet moments, like morning mist lifting or a subtle pulse of memory returning to the surface. Moreover her name draws your attention towards this inner light, a light that carries the glow of soul-remembrance, a quality hidden beneath the noise of the modern interpretations of the famous Taurean portulent desires
