DAILY ASTROLOGY IN FILM MAY 5-6

MOON VOID OF COURSE until 1:10pm EDT May 5th when MOON enters TAURUS until 10:10pm Friday May 6th. When the Sun and Moon are in the same sign, we have a New Moon. The NEW MOON IN TAURUS is exact on Friday May 6th at 3:29pm EDT. Ruled by Venus, Taurus is a Fixed Earth sign. This reflects an earthy sensuous attitude which moves slowly and deliberately. Its primary drive is to provide security and well-being to those Taurus loves. If Mercury weren't retrograde, I'd advise luxuriating in a new well-deserved cushy purchase! Taurus loves to be comfortable and surrounded by Beauty; Venus also rules money. But since we don't have Mercury's forward-motion support, I'd keep the treats small and maybe luxuriate in the bath with your honey! If you buy something now it's likely it will have to be returned for some reason. A Fixed sign can translate as stubborn so try to keep things as fluid and flexible as possible. But Fixed can also mean grounded. It'd be an EXCELLENT time to work on a building or a craft project that never got completed. Try getting down in the dirt and re-envisioning a garden with a new design. The Taurus New Moon as well - as the whole time Mercury is Retro in Taurus - would be used with great benefit to distinguish between what values are important to you versus what you've inherited from your family and culture. It's also a time to discover how to make your own money instead of relying on or hoping for support from others. This is a big one.

LAST ASPECT OF THE MOON: Moon conjunct Mercury at 10:10pm EDT on Friday May 6th. Emotions and Mind tend to be on the same page now. You can communicate what you feel. Again, because this Mercury is retrograde, choose your words consciously. You may not be understood at first, so the traditional caution for retrograde Mercury - of checking and double checking all forms of communications - holds here. Try saying what you may have held back in the past, or re-open a previous dialogue that didn't reach a satisfying conclusion. Remember this is a GREAT time for going over past conversations to get them right as well as using the New Moon in Taurus to re-work an existing project.
SCENE FOR THE DAY: A Little Chaos, 2014: Director: Alan Rickman. The New Moon in Taurus is reflected by this precious film about two architects building the waterfall garden of Versailles. A new visionary project by a female architect, Mme de Barra, played by the luminescent Kate Winslet broadens the imagination of traditional Master Architect played by Matthias Schoenaerts. They combine their ideas (Mercury) to make a truly Venusian new work of art (New Moon in Taurus) fit for a King. In this scene the Master describes (Mercury) the plan. This is the last of two very special films directed by actor Rickman (the first being The Winter Guest with Emma Thompson) before his sudden recent death. He will be sorely missed.