Taurus New Moon: Easy Doing It

Perth: 18th May 12:13pm; Melbourne: 18th May 2:13pm; LA: 17th May 9:13pm

NY: 18th May 12:13am; GMT: 18th May 5:13am

The new moon is a great time to set intentions for the month ahead and make some small changes that can elevate into bigger changes over time. A chance to look at patterns and habits that you might be doing as though you were a robot... but you're not a robot, you're a human, which means you are able to change, grow and evolve.

Taurus' arena is the physical world. We're talking health, wealth, the body itself. It's time to look at what makes you fluid and bright, healthy and alive, and do that more. It's really simple, but often overlooked. The body is your temple and now is the time to pray there and listen to the guidance it gives you.

The tunes this time are just good old fashioned sweet tunes. A mix of downtempo vibes to get you into that chilled out zone where health springs eternal. Go there, recharge, take it into the world and do things well.

Mercury retrograde is upon us coinciding with the new moon. It's always my favourite time with the chance to reflect and turn the cogs of the mind backwards for a while. Sure, there's also the chance of miscommunication and confusion and the trickster changing your plans on your behalf, but wouldn't life be a dull event without all that?

The paradox is alive in this moon: slow down and keep it steady, and speed up and get things done! Sit with it though, it makes sense, and sense is what we need.

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The Luna Tuna

Scorpio Full Moon: The Dark in the Middle of the Tunnel

Perth: 4th May 11:42am; Melbourne: 4th May 1:42pm; LA: 3rd May 8:42pm

NY: 3rd May 11:42pm; GMT: 4th May 4:42am

The archetypal zodiac sign of Scorpio is where we get into the deepest darkest depths of our selves. If we're used to basking in the light, enjoying the good times of the sun soaked festival of life, then Scorpio can be a scary and intimidating place filled with monsters under the bed and malicious creatures of the night. But if we're willing to go there, to those dark tunnels inside of ourselves, the gold we can extract is worth more than anything else you'll find in the Universe.

Scorpio is our connection to the primordial waters, our time in the womb and our time before our own conception. Its realm deals with death and rebirth, the longer cycles and tides of our lives and the forces within us beyond our rational control. As civilised folks we'd sometimes prefer to think of ourselves as the ones in charge, calling the shots on the planet, ruling our domain. Scorpio has a way of often-not-so-gently reminding us that this isn't the case.

We've been trained out of our instincts over the course of our lives, it's part of the 21st century game, and so it is that we now have to train ourselves to again understand reality from the gut, using the neural system that goes beyond just the brain. This training is an unlearning more than a learning, but it's not enough to grab your sword and go searching for dragons, hunting down the shadows and 'overcoming' yourself. No, the process is integration not annihilation: sometimes Ariadne's thread is more powerful than the sword.

There is a flavour to truth and a flavour to untruth, and Scorpio knows the difference between these flavours more than any other sign. Some things you just know, no need for second and third thoughts, you know before the information has had time to reach the mind.

Deeper still, Scorpio is about relating on the level of true intimacy, where untruth is felt most powerfully. In Libra we negotiate contracts with a partner and we look to find a sense of balance and harmony, working with compromise and understanding. In Scorpio we're going below all that and baring witness to the sacred contracts that were already written into our DNA. The romantic notion of a soulmate is nice, but that's also the person who will show you all your patterns, habits, desires, moods and, generally, your shit. The true beauty of alchemy begins when you start turning that base material into gold.

If this all sounds a bit intense, good, you're in the right place for a Scorpio full moon. So press play and cross the River Styx to the underworld. Although there's light at the end of this tunnel, if you are focussed on it you'll miss the beauty in the darkness.

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The Luna Tuna