Balsamic and New Moon

May 14 Monday
The balsamic Aries Moon is motivated by fantasies of adventures that take one out of repressive situations. By being in touch with your desires today, you can discover how to get over any barriers that stand in the way of connecting with what is wanted. Think about what holds you back and how you have courted your present circumstances by eluding certain responsibilities. You can so attune and channel your personal power and drive so that breakthroughs occur. At 6:24 pm, MDT, the Moon goes into a disorienting void of course period for two and a half hours before she enters stable Taurus.

May 15 Tuesday
The Taurus Moon has shed most of her light as do some plants and trees that ooze out their healing oil or resin. She prepares to replenish herself by returning into union with the Sun to be impregnated, to have some part of dark, unawareness fertilized with a spark of light, of consciousness. Explore your inner yearnings. Keep an opened mind about what you want and what you need. Examine how close or far your desires and requirements are from your ideals. Is there a link? Or do you need to strengthen the connections that replenish you?

May 16 Wednesday
The Taurus Moon joins the Sun today at 1:27 pm, MDT. This renewal brings a theme of romantic idealization of someone or something that completes us. Begin to look at how you value attempts to acquire some as-yet-unmaterialized ideal of at-one-ment. Do your efforts portray your individual tastes and preferences that represent a metaphorical poetry in your life? It is the feminine in us that savors sensory delights. Are they part of a lofty, unifying vision? Or are your spiritual sentiments unadorned? Ponder such questions while the Moon is void of course from the time of this new Moon until 8:37 pm.

May 17 Thursday
Thursday’s Gemini Moon supports conversations about your heart’s most cherished ideals and how to access images of them that refresh your soul. There is a need to express, to articulate one’s feelings about deep yearnings. We can learn more about what we highly value from several exchanges with tolerant people of differing views. Notice how speaking something clarifies your ideas in ways different from just thinking about it. It sometimes fine tunes or improves a concept. And other times troubleshoots weak assumptions.

May 18 Friday
The Gemini Moon eases us into gathering information about how we speak about our idealizations of how we are all connected. Do we expound our ideas in a clear and convincing way? Can we co-ordinate our thoughts with our actions in such a way that they exemplify an internal harmony? Can we try on new behaviors to see if we resonate with them so that they can replace what is inconsistent or outmoded with our current beliefs and values? Listen to MoonWise tomorrow on the worldwide web at ksfr.org from 1:00 to 1:30 pm, MDT, for the weekend Moon Minute.

May 19 Saturday
The Cancer Moon is concerned with appearances today and supports gathering resources or people that belong with an emerging awareness of how you connect with an ideal. The Moon enters her crescent phase tonight at 10:08 pm, MDT. It’s time to look hard at old behaviors that are being challenged by new possibilities. Which way are you going to orient yourself? Towards old comfortable, familiar habits or towards confronting them to find a course that works out differences, that joins relationships and ideas into a possibly harmonious union?