New Moons reflect a time where new beginnings are possible, a time when we enter into a new cycle of growth. We can look to the sign that the Sun and Moon fall in for each New Moon to gather insights into what realm of our life this monthly expansion of awareness may inspire.

With the Taurus New Moon, what may be cultivated could be insights into our habits, how sensuality plays—and could play—a role in our life, our resistance to change, and how routines both serve and don't serve us. We may even find ourselves tapping into practical strategies on how to move a situation forward.

One way to gain awareness as to what is opening up for us in each lunar cycle is to turn to our dreams around the time of the New Moon. With dreams as a reflecting pool of the drives, impulses, wisdom, and wonderings of our unconscious mind, we can look to what insights they offer us, those that are not as accessible to our waking conscious mind.

So, during the several nights following the Taurus New Moon (Friday, May 6), as the moon gains in light, do a dream incubation exercise, opening up to the powerful awareness that can spring forth from your dreams.

Before going to sleep, intentionally declare, from a space of curiosity, that you would like your dream to unveil insights into Taurean lessons are available to you during this time. As you do so, also make sure to remind yourself as well that you would like to remember your dreams upon waking, perhaps even preemptively thanking yourself for remembering them when you arise. Have paper and pen, or a tape recorder, by your bedside so that you can readily capture the facets of the dreams—whether a full detailed plot line or even just one simple image, whatever comes forth—when you arise.

Now, if you know your astrology chart, and know where 17 Taurus (the degree of the Sun and Moon during this lunation) falls in it, you may gain even more awareness as to what is coming forth in your dream vision. That's because you can see what realm of your life (whether by the astrology house in which 17 Taurus resides for you or any planet that it may connect to) is being galvanized by this New Moon.

This New Moon dream incubation exercise is something you can do each month, at the advent of the lunar cycle. Yet it's not limited to this lunation: you can do astrologically-inspired dream incubation reflective of other astrological alignments, notably those that you may be experiencing personally.

I'd love to hear your experiences with this exercise, so don't hesitate to write me and share if you'd like.

Happy Dreaming!

{If using astrology as a guide to better understand your dreams is interesting and intriguing to you, I'd invite you to join Sherene Vismaya and I for Dream Life: 40 Days of Astro-Dreamwork Alchemy. During this 40-day program, which you can do from anywhere, we'll weave together dreamwork and astrology, as they provide a synergistic approach to self-discovery: dreams amplify archetypal insights we can gain through the lens of astrology while astrology provides us with a symbolic map that we can use to understand the terrain of our dreams. Dream Life starts May 9. More details, including how to register, can be found here.)

Dreaming the Taurus New Moon