New Moon In Taurus – Get Real

On April 27th, 2025, we have a New Moon at 7° Taurus.

Taurus New Moons reconnect us to the Taurus archetype – what’s stable, what endures, what’s real.

If you’ve observed nature, there’s a certain unapologetic quality about it. Nature simply is. Trees are majestic in their stability. Flowers bloom naturally, without self-doubt or hesitation.

There’s a sense of ‘things are exactly how they should be’. No second-guessing, no overthinking – just presence, rhythm, and quiet assurance.

That’s Taurus: the part of us that’s natural, grounded, pragmatic, and rooted in common sense.

Taurus is the real thing.

However, just like Persephone was suddenly abducted by Pluto from her peaceful garden while picking a narcissus flower – our own sense of stability can be abruptly shaken by the intense Mars-Pluto opposition tightly squaring this New Moon.

At the New Moon in Taurus, the very foundations of our life will be tested.

The question this lunation is asking – and answering – is:

“Are these foundations a real, authentic expression of who you truly are?”

Because if not, something needs to change.

Something you’ve been resisting – perhaps because it felt safe, or because it was too uncomfortable to question – now demands your full attention.

Chances are, given the buildup of Mars-Pluto tension in recent months, a part of you already knows what isn’t sustainable. This time, something needs to change.

New Moon In Taurus – The Aspects

We cannot talk about the New Moon in Taurus without talking about the infamous Mars-Pluto opposition.

The fact that the ‘final blow’ of Mars opposite Pluto (we’ve been experiencing this tension building for months now) coincides with a New Moon – a new beginning – is very telling.

Whenever a transit lasts longer than its normal cycle – this happens when one or both of the planets involved are retrograde – we know it’s important. We also know that the work that needs to be done is not easy. It will create resistance.

Think about it. If it were easy, we would have had our regular Mars-Pluto transit for 2–3 days. Thank you Mars, goodbye Mars, thank you Pluto, goodbye Pluto.

But no. This time around, we are digging into something that is deeply embedded in our being, woven into the fabric of our identity. Something so entwined with our values that we don’t even think to question it. Something we resist by default, as if it were a natural law.

And when we face THAT kind of resistance – that kind of soul-level work – the transit lingers. We get a second blow. Then a third.

With this Mars-Pluto opposition, we’ve gone deep – and touched something intimately tied to our identity and place in the world.

Mars is our will – what we want, what matters to us, what feels like a direct expression of our individuality. It’s something that needs to emerge and be expressed. That’s why Mars is also associated with anger – because we get angry when we don’t get our way.

Pluto is the higher octave of Mars. If Mars is our personal will, Pluto is the collective will – the sum of all individual wills out there, woven into the larger unfolding of reality.

If Mars is what we want to happen, Pluto is what actually happens.

All good when the two align, right? You want your favorite sports team to win (Mars) – and they do (Pluto).

But what if they don’t? What if things don’t go as planned? What if the world is uncooperative – at least as seen from our individual Mars lens – and there’s nothing we can do about it?

THIS is the ultimate Pluto test. Do we accept reality, or do we resist it?

When Mars is opposite Pluto, these two forces are at odds. Chances are, we’re in resistance mode. There’s something we’re struggling to accept – and instead of facing it, we deny it, fight it, go in circles about it, or project blame onto others.

So ask yourself: “What is it that I keep fighting, even though deep down I know it’s here to stay?”

And more importantly: “What’s the deeper reason I’ve been resisting it?”

New Moon In Taurus – Pluto’s Plot Twist

When we have tense Pluto transits, we often feel that the whole world is against us.

We push, we fight – and the world pushes back harder. The external environment feels controlling, oppressive; power imbalances feel heightened and inescapable.

Pluto becomes the bad guy.

But is he, really?

Remember, Pluto is the result of all the inner workings of individuals – all the drives, desires, and fears that, together, create a collective force. Pluto is that mass effect.

When we don’t like the results of this “mass effect,” we project our anger and discomfort onto people and situations that appear to symbolize Plutonic power – systems, authorities, or individuals who seem to hold more control than we do.

These people or institutions – who don’t let us get what we want (Mars) – become the “power-hungry,” the “abusers,” the “manipulators.”

But the twist here is that Pluto doesn’t create them – it reveals them.

“The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

Pluto simply exposes the shadow content already alive inside us.

Just like a liar assumes everyone else is lying, the inauthentic sees manipulation everywhere. The power-hungry sees abusers around every corner. And the disempowered believes that everyone else is somehow more powerful.

Pluto, in its harshest transits, shows us where we’re still entangled – where we’ve given away our power, or denied our agency.

And only by confronting those projections can we begin to transform them.

Whenever personal power is not embodied and acted upon in an honest, integrated way, it becomes subdued.

A little bit inauthentic, with every action that is not aligned with our true essence. A little bit delayed, with every little secret we keep. A little bit distorted, whenever we choose to turn a blind eye, reframe, reinterpret, and try to control or manipulate the natural flow of life to suit a version of the truth we find more comfortable at the moment.

Pluto is that knowing that sooner or later, whatever mask, whatever white lie, whatever step we skip to avoid discomfort – is only taking us farther and farther away from our truth, from our true power – and will eventually boomerang back to us.

New Moon In Taurus – Get Real

Pluto reminds us that power doesn’t lie in withholding, diverting, or bending reality, but in expressing, confronting, and being real.

Mars is in Leo. Are we asserting ourselves for the sake of being right, or for the sake of being real? Do we do it for approval – or for authentic alignment? Do we want to be known, or do we want to be seen?

At its highest, Mars in Leo is not about acting from ego, but from the courage to express the truth of oneself.

And courage does not mean blazing into other people’s lives shouting, “THIS is what I want!” – as if our desire was the only one that mattered.

Courage is about the willingness to be real in every fiber of our being – whatever that means. Even if it’s inconvenient. Even if it changes everything.

No more pretense. No more facade. No more baby voice – when you don’t get your way. No more smiling – if you don’t mean it.

Sometimes it means walking away. Sometimes it means silence. Most of the time, it means removing all the programming, layers and layers of conditioning, and acting from a deeper place, beyond space and time.

Mars in Leo might be tempted to wear flashy garments to ‘impress’ Pluto. It might arch its back like a cat – to signal it’s ready to fight.

But Pluto doesn’t care about any of this. Pluto doesn’t care if you come, or if you go.

Stop trying to impress, convince, or persuade Pluto.

Instead, get real.

Pluto is not here to fight you. It’s not here to win over you. It’s not here to crush you.

All these are illusions our own ego creates so it can stay in control.

The enemy you’re fighting does not exist.

Just like the windmills that became enemies in Don Quixote’s projection on his quest to prove his chivalry, Pluto becomes our projection – a backdrop for the unresolved power dynamics within ourselves.

As Kafka said, “The court wants nothing from you – it receives you when you come, and dismisses you when you go.”

The court doesn’t pursue us – we go to it.
It doesn’t ask anything – yet we feel we must explain ourselves.
It doesn’t judge – but we feel judged.

We’re basically seeking something from something that wants nothing from us.

And this one-sided pursuit alters our actions, our motivations – and step by (inauthentic) step, creates a narrative that is no longer rooted in our true self. A fake story that ends up living us, instead of the other way around.

As disorienting as this might feel (since we’re wired to function in a world of hierarchy, and validation) – what if you lived your life as if no one was watching?

What if you moved with the quiet simplicity of nature, where the flower grows, blooms, and fruits – unaffected by applause or silence?

The New Moon in Taurus asks: Can we get on with our lives – not for approval, not for validation, not for verdicts?

Can we step out of the fake story we’ve been performing, and into something that actually feels like us?

The New Moon in Taurus is not here to teach us anything. It’s not here to give us guidance – to offer us a prayer, a ritual, or a promise of transformation. It simply demands us to get real.