Make a Wish with May’s Potent New Moon in Rohini
It’s time to make a wish with the most powerful New Moon of the Year on the 26th-27th in Taurus
When: 27th of May at 3:02pm (NZ), 1:02pm (AEST), 12:32pm (ACST), 11:02am (AWST/CST), 8:32am (IST), 5:02am (CEST), 4:02am (BST) and the 26th of May at 11:02pm (EDT), 9:02pm (MDT) + 8:02pm (PDT)
WELCOME TO THE MOST POTENT NEW MOON OF 2025
The Moon is at its strongest in Taurus and at home in the lunar mansion Rohini (which represents the eyes of the Taurus Constellation), making an incredibly potent portal for laying intentions on the 26th-27th of May. What is beautiful about a Taurus New Moon is that it allows us to ground our emotions, to find a sense of practicality in our feelings and to even honour them by giving them purchase in the material realm.
Taurus Constellation - Rohini Nakhstra is the Right Eye of Taurus.
This can feel particular comforting if you have Taurus, Capricorn or Virgo placements (in Sidereal Astrology); and a little confronting for those with Scorpio, Aquarius or Leo placements.
This is a New Moon asking you ‘what’s stopping you fully enjoying life?’ You can find - as you’re called to relax, indulge and enjoy the material realm with this energy - all the reasons why this is difficult are presented as stories by the mind. All of which are there for you to question, in order to reconnect with your inner joy. So pay attention to where you feel guilty because you’re not being productive enough, where you feel apprehensive that something romantic won’t work out or where you worry you don’t have enough – money, love, possession, power etc.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR…
Rohini is a known as the ‘Star of Ascent’ and also called Aldebaran (in Persian Astrology one of the Royal Stars associated with Archangel Michael). This part of Taurus gifts us with the power to grow, to give and to cultivate. It is also the lunar mansion where the Moon is strongest, and as this is a New Moon we are in a place where the universe is calling for us to lay intentions with it.
As this is such a potent New Moon there is also a call to be discerning with the seeds you lay particularly if they are coming from a place of needing more or wanting to accumulate something outside of you. As you just might get what you wish for over this coming 6 months (to the Full Moon on the 4-5th December) including the karma that comes with it. It’s important to remember that the ego wants, but it can’t see why or even the results of that action. It is fuelled by desire, which keeps this incarnation + rebirth in play. Added to that it is never satiated. So as you go to lay your intentions this New Moon, consider how you might want to loosen your bonds to the material realm so that you can enjoy it fully without being so attached to it.
PS. If you need help with this. Join the Ritual + Reading to work with the guided meditation practice to co-create these intentions with the Moon. Details here.
THERE CAN ALSO BE A DEEP CALL TO CREATE…
Taurus is the ruler of the Material Realm and how the divine’s creative energy manifests in this world. Added to that its greatest lesson is for us to learn that we are channels for this universal creative intelligence – not the ones that create (at least at an ego level). So instead of seeing that ‘I’ created something – be that art, dance, furniture, clothes etc – it calls for us to realise that we were simply open to receiving this energy from the divine. One of the big lessons of Rohini Lunar Mansion (which sits within Taurus) is the art of creating without attachment to it.
So, one of the things to be really aware of over the coming 6 months that this Lunar energy is at play is see where you have ‘fallen in love’ with what you have created and in the process become wrapped up in your happiness with this external object. Attachment always leads to heartbreak, and it’s always a sign we are placing the hopes of a future in the present. You can find that the coming 6 months call for you to loosen your grips on trying to control the universal creative energy that runs through you – by letting go of expectations of how something is meant to look, surrendering the outcome to something bigger than you and simply enjoy the act of creation (in process). Remember that this New Moon is Rohini is about Moksha (self-realisation) but in a tantric way that will take you into your attachments to move beyond them.
MARKS A PERIOD OF TRANSITION
What is so beautiful about this Moon is that is exalted in Taurus, and the ruler of Taurus (Venus) is in its exaltation too (in Pisces and in the final Lunar Mansion). As such we are in the grips of some strong cosmic energy that is calling for us to understanding the spiritual underpinnings to the material realm – in such a way that it can help pull us out of a cycle we have been trapped within (by our desires). Very often Taurus is accused of being too superficial or only concerned with worldly things. With its ruler sitting in the depths of the intuitive Pisces this is not the case with this New Moon. It is asking for you to zoom out and even see what desire you are in the process of exhausting so that you can move onto a new cycle.
So, something to consider when you are laying intentions is that it’s not just about asking for what you want, but it can also be asking to move beyond the desire of something you thought you needed. This can be the perfect Moon to ask to be release from the grips + traps of want. You can find that you’re reminded that having a lot in the material world doesn’t guarantee happiness or even peace of mind. Perhaps true wealth isn’t outside of you but rather found in simply being happy with what you have.
Learn more about the asteroid astrology (Parvati is conjunct this New Moon), as well as how it is playing out in your chart with the Taurus New Moon Ritual + Reading. Details here.
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