This Full Moon at 13° Taurus is rare and alchemically refined. The lunar cycle began with the New Moon in Libra, a cardinal Air sign, but it does not close upon the usual 1–7 axis (Ascendant–Descendant) but upon the 7–2 axis, that of relationships and shared values. This inversion occurs because of the double New Moon in Virgo during the preceding months, which shifted the rhythm of lunations and made this one profoundly Venusian in tone.
I. Technical
The Moon stands in exaltation and assumes the throne of nocturnal queen of Earth by triplicity. As a matter of fact, she is now the only representative of Earth right now in a sky otherwise flooded with Water. Its ruler, Venus at 29° Libra, governs the birth and zenith of this lunation. She occupies today the anaretic degree, one breath away from her Scorpionic exile, approaching her Morning Setting on November 26. The Full Moon becomes, quite literally, the last mirror of Venus within her Libra palace.
There is no Pythagorean aspect between Taurus and Libra (a 150° relationship), meaning that, even though the ruler is powerful, she does not see the Moon, as she governs her unseen, from behind a veil. The Thirteenth degree of Taurus lies within the Egyptian bound of Mercury, giving the lunation a sub-influence of intellect and discourse. Mercury himself is now in Sagittarius, a mutable Fire sign, spreading himself across the Domus Dei (the House of God). This lends the Full Moon a paradoxical hue: the Earth contains a mental hue, as pleasure starts to reason.
Meanwhile, upon the watery horizon, Jupiter in Cancer prepares to turn retrograde on November 11, with the silver light of the moon being reflected upon a tin that is about to move backwards into gestation.
II. Symbolic
This is a Venusian-Lunar Full Moon, perhaps the most sensorial of the year. The Moon, symbol of the psyche and the act of feeling, shines within Taurus, a fixed and masculine sign that incarnates matter as temple. But her reflection belongs to a Venus in crisis, the nocturnal queen of equilibrium who now removes her Libra robes to enter the erotic-thanatic waters of Scorpio.
The result is a Full Moon of amorous separation: the Mother (Moon) watches the Daughter (Venus) depart from the garden, aware that she must descend into the realm of passions. The Mercurial bound introduces irony and intellect into this sensuality, as if the is mind observing an emotional body, the word trying to translate pure instinct. And Mercury, diffused through Sagittarian fire, blows upon the silver surface, producing multiple reflections, almost philosophical in tone.
III. Operative
In practical human terms, this lunation demands grounding. It calls for conscious embodiment within a sky almost entirely volatilised into thought and feeling. The Moon is the only Earth available righth now; everything felt must pass through the body: touching, cooking, sleeping, smelling, sweating, singing.
Beyond the physical, this is an excellent Full Moon for sensory clarification of the lunar channel, a moment to purify perception so that emotion may once again become medium rather than noise. In the Tree of Life, Yesod acts as the filter through which all impressions pass before reaching Malkuth. Under this exalted Moon in Taurus, ruled by Venus at her most precarious balance, the work of Tikkun Yesod becomes potent: refining instinct, tempering desire, and allowing the lunar mirror to transmit rather than distort.
This period favours meditations and bodily practices that honour the senses as sacred instruments, such as slow breathing, tactile prayer, music that settles into rhythm, anything that allows Yesod to shine without allowing the shadow of Netzach to disturb it.
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