Quick announcements before we get into the astropersonal!
If you’re coming out of the whirlwind of the last four months, shaken but grounded, and want to get into the astrology of it all: MY BOOKS ARE OPEN FOR MAY. I’ve had the great pleasure of sitting with many of you over the last few months both getting serious and having a lot of FUN. If none of my dates of availability work for you, send me a note with a requested day or time at jaime@jaimewright.net and I’m sure we can work something out :) I am slowly but surely coming out of my own survival mode palooza and I would love to fill up my calendar.
I’m finally finishing up some outside writing obligations and am looking forward to sharing here more regularly. Paid subscribers, I have some special things to share with you in the coming days and weeks. You make this newsletter possible and I love you very much.
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Last spring and summer, I was sick and struggling. So of course I turned to magic to try and get it together. I made a sigil shoal. I bought a jar candle from the botanica to summon love. I browsed the not-updated-since-the-early-00’s herbs and toiletries section of the food co-op, and stocked up on spell candles. I chose candles for the heart, sacral and throat chakra. Green, orange and blue. The sacral chakra (orange) and throat chakra (blue) are said to be linked.
In my spell work, the green and orange candles burned fast and clean, but the blue ones would flame out leaving awkward puddles of wax at the bottom of the jar. It’s funny because I had pneumonia at the time. Of course the blue ones, the throat chakra was compromised. The throat is about authentic expression. It’s the courage to say what you want out loud. My sacral—creative, pleasure, life force— was working overtime. But what about the words? Wanting with no container is futile. Making it real requires saying it.
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Back in January, I hosted 2025: A Strange Year—part ritual, part workshop—a class for clients and friends meant to give shape to the year ahead. If you attended that class, you know that this week’s New Moon in Taurus is a turning point. Mars retrograde is over. Eclipses are over. Venus and Mercury retrograde going over the same degrees are finally over.
When I first came across the chart of this New Moon sometime last summer, I thought “This looks like Green New Deal in brat font.”
Radical. Earthy. A little—or, a lot—cringe. A major break out of a comfort zone that is also slow and steady and hard won.
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As part of the ritual of 2025: A Strange Year, I lit three green or white taper candles for Venus, the heart chakra, willpower, and one knot-shaped blue candle for the throat. The taper candles burned down quickly, much faster than the burn time on the package. But the blue knot candle burned so slowly. Over three sessions of the workshop, barely a dent was made in the wax. That blue candle is still sitting on my coffee table. I let it sit and collect dust during the wild astrology of February, March and April. I’d light it every so often, late on a Friday night while doing tarot pulls. But mostly felt overwhelmed there was so much left to burn and gave it no intention.
Taurus is the sign associated with the throat and the voice.
I woke up this morning and thought, I need to finish burning that knot candle. It’s lit now as I write to you. Maybe when it’s done the words will come.
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The New Moon in Taurus—which was exact at 3:31 pm ET on April 27, 2025—is a groundbreaking ceremony. Like, literally the start of a construction project. An exalted moon in Taurus ruled by an exalted Venus in Pisces conjunct the North Node. This is true delight, an ecstatic dream, an ideal comfort. But Saturn is also with Venus—this task won’t come easy. It requires discipline. There will be delays. But also! With Jupiter at the degree where he stationed retrograde in October, there’s a sense that we’re no longer in the “learning” phase. We’re on a new hope and expansion trajectory.
This New Moon also came one day after the final opposition between Mars and Pluto, an ongoing aspect of extreme stress and worst case scenarios blown out of proportion. With Mars-Pluto—which was exact on November 3, January 3 and April 26—we were pressing the factory reset button over and over again. Often in situations out of our control. This is the earthquake in the conversation pit. The five alarm fire in the sauna. The only choice is to run screaming from the comfort zone. And though circumstances are strange, relief comes on the other side.
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Just before talking about the New Moon in Taurus in 2025: A Strange Year, I presented this line of questioning as a journal prompt to the group:
What’s something you want to do but you keep putting it off because you think that it will take TIME! a month, four months, a year? That thing that is just for you. What do you need to get started?
January, February, March and April of 2025 were for figuring out what that thing even is. The pileup of planets in Pisces opened hearts to big dreams. The Mars-Pluto opposition broke lifelong curses. There’s nowhere left to hide. The project proposal is now submitted.
The first week of May is when you figure out what you need to get started. Now we begin.
Again, if you’d like to explore these last four months through an astro lens or get aligned about what’s to come, you can book a reading for May here.