“When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.” ― Alanis Morissette

Happy Full Moon in Taurus + Mercury & Venus Retrograde

The Full Moon in Taurus arrives, and she is NOT coming quietly.

Here’s why this one feels extra charged: Mercury and Venus are BOTH retrograde right now. So the past isn’t just visiting this week, babe, it’s moving through the living room. Old wounds, old patterns, and old worries may be showing up in brand new costumes (how seasonally appropriate), and even if the packaging looks different, the feeling is familiar.

I need you to hear this before you spiral: you’re not going backwards.

This moon runs on exposure energy. Whatever’s been hiding gets lit up. Whatever’s been swept under gets pulled out. The cycles we keep repeating finally show us their pattern, because we can’t release what we refuse to look at. If something keeps coming back around, it’s been waiting for you to be ready for the lesson, and THIS version of you is ready.

The Veil Is Thin, Babe

This full moon lands as the Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) climb high into the evening sky, the season our ancestors knew as the time of death and rebirth. The veil between worlds goes thin right as Halloween week begins, and that spooky season feeling is real magic, available to you.

Thin-veil season asks us to honor our dead. The loved ones we miss, yes. AND the other deaths we rarely grieve out loud: the job that ended, the friendship that faded, the vision you once had for your life that quietly expired, the old version of YOU who got you here and can’t go where you’re headed.

Earlier this month I co-hosted a good girl funeral with a room full of women in Missouri, where we buried the people pleaser for good, and I watched what happens when women actually let themselves grieve her. The rebirth comes easier when the death gets honored. Every single time.

Venus Is Running This Show

Taurus belongs to Venus, so her whole curriculum is activated: your relationships, how you give and receive love, your money, and the big one, the relationship you have with yourself. If something’s been brewing in any of those areas, this moon can be the overflow point where it finally demands your attention.

And she brought backup. Juno is softening our committed relationships and showing us where we’re being asked to grow. Eris is handing you your voice back and reminding you that the discord you’re feeling only exists because a greater harmony is possible. Haumea is stirring your creative power, everything you’re here to birth and nourish.

Full moons are climax moments. You might feel emotionally raw this week, and that rawness is a doorway. Vulnerability cracks the heart open, and an open heart is where the transformation gets in.

This Moon Is Also Handing You Power

There’s a bigger story in this sky too. Pluto in Aquarius is squaring both the Moon and the Sun, and Pluto is busy transforming the old systems of power, money, and who gets to be visible. Gatekeepers are losing their grip, babe. You can build a business from a laptop, reach thousands of souls from your living room, and create on your own terms. Nobody in authority has to declare you worthy before you begin. You begin, and the worthiness was yours the whole time.

And the sky is backing your weird this week. Lilith and Mars are joining forces to help you question the beliefs you inherited, trust the truth you’ve lived, and express it out loud without editing yourself for anybody’s comfort. The parts of you that can’t be mass produced are exactly where your value lives. Your magic was never meant to be beige.

How to Work With This Moon

Pause before the big decision. With both retrogrades in play, let things reveal themselves before you make permanent moves. Clarity is coming, babe. You can act from it instead of ahead of it.

Name what’s resurfacing. Journal the pattern that came back around. Sometimes naming it is the whole release, and what you can see loses its grip.

Hold your release ritual. Write down what’s complete, thank it for what it taught you, and burn it safely under this moon. My full release ritual walks you through every step.

Try this Full Moon Release Ritual (and FREE guided meditation) to help you RELEASE stress and worry so you can create calm and peacefulness.

Honor your dead. Light a candle for who and what you’ve lost this year, the people AND the old chapters. Grief and gratitude can share a flame.

Protect your softness. If your heart feels extra open this week, treat it like the sacred thing it is. Rest more, say less yes, and let the feelings move through instead of managing them.

And Keep Your Eye on the Sky, It’s a Whole Week of Magic

On the 28th, Venus faces Chiron and old wounds around worthiness may whisper that choosing yourself is selfish. It never was, babe. Real love has room for your needs too. On the 30th, Mercury squares Mars and hands you the courage (and honestly, the holy irritation) to retire any role you’ve been performing just because other people got comfortable with it. If you buried your good girl with me in spirit, this is the day she stays buried. And on November 4th, Mercury meets the Sun in the underworld of Scorpio for the last time this year, a reset for your whole way of thinking. Researchers at HeartMath have watched the heart respond to information before the brain even catches up, so when downloads come that week, trust the heart first. Dig in the dirt of the old wound, because there’s medicine buried in there with it.

You are exactly where you’re supposed to be, even in the middle of the stirred-up mess. Especially there.

Trust that this energy is working for you so it’s important not to judge, resist, or blame the changes taking place in your life.

Get grounded in your detailed plan and take slow, calculated steps so you don‘t use this powerful transformative energy like a bull in a china shop.(Think: Cool. Calm. Collected)

Allow what doesn’t align to be released.

Transformation can often feel painful to peel back the layers and face your shadows, but you definitely don’t have to do it alone (join us for monthly group coaching inside The Elevated Life Club)

ASK YOURSELF:

1. HAVE I BEEN OVERINDULGENT OR LAZY THIS MONTH?
2. HAVE I BEEN SPENDING TOO MUCH MONEY?
3. HAVE I BEEN STUBBORN, SELFISH, OR JEALOUS?
4. HAVE I BEEN EATING FOR COMFORT?
5. HAVE I BEEN EXERCISING ENOUGH?

Remember that the Taurus energy is also about CASH MONEY. Tune into how you spend and save money and release any abundance blocks you’ve been holding on to in your belief system.

This Full Moon energy is helping us to bring our goals and dreams into reality and manifest abundance. Open your heart to receive and let all the good stuff in.