Artwork by Joushua Mays
For pleasures sake cries Taurus. Rich silken gowns drape her curves as she lies in ecstasy, savoring morsels of chocolate in between bites of figs and red wine. Her lips are full as her breasts. She is woman, born of Venus. And she relishes, bursts and endures, endures, endures.
Ruled by Venus in Aries, this Taurean New Moon with the Goddess at the bendings of the nodes, in a square-off of will and grace, or perhaps a perfect alchemization of the two. Well and isn’t that just like the feminine. Marked at the point where the Moon ascends into the above of the Terra-Solar plane, the Goddess is courageously emerging from the Below, bringing new medicine from her recent journey.
The stories of initiation always speak of the break through moments, where after so much fighting and struggle and strife the heroine suddenly realizes that she has gained something supremely Divine. Some piece of her eternal soul has been activated. It cannot ever be taken away, and yet it was previously un-realized.
It is here that we begin to see with the eyes of the soul. We reel with an ecstasy of the divine in our senses. The gold shining in our veins lit by ever single ancestors and element that has ever contributed to the creation of us.
This is a special New Moon for me, as I have a moon in Taurus. Every year this moon is supremely powerful for intentions we wish to manifest. The Goddess has a choice- or perhaps with Aries a quest. She now gets to choose how to use her creative power- for good or not-good. The choice is hers, is ours. How do you wish to love? To make love? To swim in the ocean of your ecstasy. To bask in the beauty of another? Of the sunlight shimmering through the trees? The scent of the pines. Of the sweet taste of a ripe, succulent fruit.
In Honor of Venus
Oh beautiful blood
Drip from my veins
From my lips
To meet Earth
From whence she came
Golden in my cells
I will not restrain
My DNA is shining
Light spiraling
Of every ancestor of time
Release the clots
That block the mind
The Soul’s eyes are opening
Divine fruit ripening
Deep in the jungle
Lies a garden
Of everlasting Life
Taste the fruit
Receive true sight
The body swells and bleeds
I expand
I receive
I have the strength to hold it
And to release
This is what I am
Soul and Spirit
Fire and wind
Earth that is Peace
Water feet
Inside the womb water is Life
Fire in the eyes give sight
Wind upon my breast empower flight
To the Earth of my flesh
And so it is
See now the elements
Of Nature’s found
Creation manifest
Creative principle translation
Through which I am Spirit and also flesh
-By Zoey Wind
Blessings of Laughter and Light
ZW
