spring 2.0
on taurus season, being in our bodies and straight up having a good time
My beautiful friends —
I hope you’re all holding up after last week’s wild pileup in Aries. I heard from a lot of you that it was really kicking your ass, and although our Aries education is far from over, this week we are offered a balm: Taurus season has officially arrived.
We can think about spring as having two distinct energetic parts. The first is that Aries-Mars energy I wrote about last week, that violent, vital part of early spring, where plants force their way up through cold ground, animals give birth. The second is Taurus-Venus. Having broken through the hard earth, plants soak up the sun. Having cut the cord, animals nurse their young. We, in turn, are offered a chance to embrace this slower, softer energy during this stretch with the Sun in Taurus.
I am a Taurus rising, and when I first began to study astrology, learning about the archetype of the Taurus really helped me embrace a part of myself that was never captured by the Leo archetype: the part of me that moves a lot slower, that loves to sleep until noon, that needs soft clothes and fresh sheets and a beautiful meal and a 90 minute massage and a long time to emotionally process. It is that part of me that’s running the show this season, as the astrology invites us to take long, leisurely walks, to sleep in, to cook a gorgeous meal, to sit on the porch with your lover and listen to music and hold hands.
As a fixed sign, Taurus often gets a rap for being bad with change, and yet Taurus season, to me, always reminds me of the grace of change. Spring always comes after winter. Life always comes after death. The flowers return. The mood lightens. Change is a gift.
What I think a lot of people get right about Taurus is that it is deeply sensual, both in the sense of being soft, luxurious, sexy, but also in the sense of being grounded in the physical 3D reality. It is a time when our senses come deeply online, as we move, touch, smell our way through a world reborn, and in that way this season calls us deeply into our bodies.
This is divine timing, as ever. I’ve written and talked a bit about my relationship to my body in recent months, as I’ve felt overwhelmed by the ozempic culture and am at the same time wrestling with settling into movement routines that work for me after a period of change. This is all compounded by the usual seasonal overwhelm thing of coming out of winter into warmer weather, but, lest we forget, our bodies are not blunt weapons for us to force to do our bidding.
Our bodies, Taurus season reminds us, are the very manifestation of our soul into this plane of reality. They are vessels for presence and pleasure and wisdom in both scientific and spiritual ways. There are tens of thousands of neurons in our hearts, and millions in our guts! There is heart tissue in our wombs!! There is a deep, ancient knowingness in our DNA!!! This body is a guide if we take the time to listen to it.
That can, of course, be easier said than done, and this Taurus season, I think it would be beautiful for all of us to do the conscious work of deep, deep embodiment. Body scan meditations have been extremely powerful for me in this regard, as has the exercise of writing a letter to my body and then writing a letter from my body in response. Movement, too, is so powerful for getting into my body, but only when it’s done from a place of love and a desire to cultivate a relationship with my body and not some sort of exercise regimen designed to punish and shrink.
As a Venus-ruled sign, Taurus season is ultimately a love affair, and that’s exactly how I intend to live it, as a love affair with myself, my body, my partner, my friends, my home, my heart, my practice. This is a great privilege, and my intention is to enjoy it. I hope you enjoy it, too.
As ever, I phoned an expert friend this week for advice on how we can embrace this season to its fullest, and my wonderful Taurus friend Sara offered some beautiful guidance on how to do exactly that:
This idea of lingering on the things that feel good really resonated with me. It’s such wonderful, practical advice, and also if we pay attention, it offers us amazing information about how, exactly, we want to live our lives. As Sara added, “Taurus season can be a lifestyle if you want it to be,” and I couldn’t agree more. May we all have a month of beauty and pleasure and presence that helps us build a whole lifetime of it.
XO,
A
let’s live deliciously!!!