Starcodes April 30, 2021 Heather Roan Robbins

Mayday, Beltane, Star Wars Day, and Cinco de Mayo — we celebrate the heart of spring this week. Right now six planets are in grounding earth signs; the Sun, Uranus, Venus, Mercury now growing in fertile Taurus, with Pluto and the Moon in substantial Capricorn as the weekend begins. Plants take root, animals make babies, and our forests come alive. It’s a good time to cultivate our health, encourage the health of our planet, and enjoy having a body.

Taurus usually like things to stay solid and familiar, but right now the Sun conjuncts change-maker Uranus and encourages us to make improvements. Some news or world even can really bring it home that our world is in metamorphosis, or that we are not in Kansas anymore, so to speak. These practical earth signs expect us to follow up our good intentions with concrete action; whether we’re bringing a business back alive or want to protect our delicate ecosystem, nourish a budding new romance or well-worn relationship, let’s not let our intentions fall unwatered on fallow ground. They need that pragmatic nurturing gardener’s touch.

All this earth energy encourages remarkable determined, but it can also breed an amazingly manipulative attitude. Manipulation means to change with our hands, which is wonderful if we’re changing our own environment, building or creating. It becomes difficult when we’re trying to manipulate through…