2023.11.22 full moon in taurus
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[00:00:00] I hope you're able to luxuriate and tap into some passionate and maybe a little bit feminine vibes. This coming up Monday, which is the full moon inside cereal Torres happening on. Monday, November 27th at around 4:16 AM Eastern standard time. So sometime over Sunday night into Monday morning, depending on your time zone, where in the world you are anytime on Sunday or Monday would be a great time to do your full moon practice, which this episode is going to serve. You. Creating yoga practices and journal prompts for the upcoming full moon, because that's what a Yogi scope is.
[00:00:39] Your listening to the Yogi scopes podcasts. I'd like to extend you a warm welcome. I'm your host, Rosemary Holbrook. I'm a Vedic sidereal astrologer, and a yoga teacher. So what I do is pair Vedic astrology with yoga as a therapeutic tool. I'm almost through my yoga therapy training. I'm just seeing clients now to get the. Documentation.
[00:01:00] I need to get the official certification and call myself a yoga therapist, but I. Have found Vedic astrology to be a profoundly therapeutic tool in my life. So that's what Yogi scopes is all about is helping you learn to tailor your yoga practice and your spiritual practice, your embodiment practice to. The changing tides of the cosmos and the seasons, you know, according to Ayurveda and Vedic astrology.
[00:01:26] So that's what we're doing here. And this is your Yogi scope for the full moon in Siberia, tourists. So at the end, we'll get to some yoga practices and journal prompts to help you. Embody the energy and work with it. In a positive way in your life. But for just a quick aside, we use this idea of Zodiac, which I guess for some folks is kind of new.
[00:01:50] Um, If you're on the internet, paying attention to astrology, there's a lot of info about there, you know, out there, the Western system of astrology, or if you're in a Western country, what you might just know as astrology. It uses the Trump tropical Zodiac, which is just a little bit different. Um, it's about a sign off most of the time.
[00:02:11] There's occasionally like every once in a while there will be overlap because it's not quite a full sign off, but this idea is Zodiac. Importantly is. Pretty close to astronomically accurate. If you want to know about the nuances of that, I have some resources for you. You can always go in the show notes. Underneath the podcast and find the article that says, what is Vedic astrology.
[00:02:34] It's just linked down there in the show notes and the resources section. Um, and you can read more about that. And there's a separate podcast episode linked in that article, in that blog post. Um, we're actually sat down and talked with a physicist about. The Zodiacs and astrology and how it compares to astronomy.
[00:02:52] And I got to ask all the questions that you might be asking too. So I recommend. Reading that giving it a listen. And so let's dive in. First of all, I want to say that the Yogi scopes planner is released now, and this is a big deal because, so I've created the yogis ghost planner for three years now.
[00:03:11] Um, And it is now a physical book that you can order the past few years. It has been just a PDF. And so I'll get into the full moon stuff in a moment. This is just really exciting. And I know this is probably the greatest resource I make, that everybody tells me is their favorite. It helps them so much.
[00:03:30] And that was before it was a physical book with weekly pages. It was just monthly pages. With the astrological dates. And the themes, like I would just give you a brief synopsis of what the themes of that month would be based on those transits. Um, and along with a section that's just the, all the retrogrades of the year in one place, all the new and full moons of the year and whatnot shots are they're happening in, in one place.
[00:03:55] All the, um, You know, just things you need to know when the eclipses are. Put all in one place and then sprinkled throughout in the monthly pages that you can hang up on your wall if you wanted to. But now this year I designed weekly pages so that you can actually use it as a planner. So that's the difference between. A planner, in my opinion, and a calendar before, it was kind of more of a calendar because there were some planning exercises, some intention setting exercises in there that we work through in our yearly planning event, that kind of goes along with it. Which this year will be on a Sunday, December 10th, but there's a potential. I'm waiting on feedback from the folks in the membership, if they want to push it back because some folks might not have their planner in time for that. Um, so we might push it back tentatively.
[00:04:44] Um, I'll let you know for sure next week. Um, If we push the event back so that you can get your planner, but even if you're not in the membership, Um, you can purchase a planner now to get shipped directly to you. Um, And it has weekly pages. It has. So not only does it have. The every, the journaling exercises in the front and all of the, you know, Important dates kind of compiled for you in one place in the front, but then it also has monthly pages with just a regular calendar where you can like write what you might write in a planner.
[00:05:16] Like, I don't know, you have a vet appointment or like, Uh, a doctor's appointment or, uh, your friend's birthday. I don't know. You can write whatever you want, work stuff. It's a, it's a planner. It's a calendar. And there's still those. Um, astrological dates, all the astrological dates are put in there for you along with some interpretation.
[00:05:34] And then the new edition this year. Is there is the same thing for weekly pages. There is. Um, you can. There's the transits and the themes for each week. And then there's like, it's just a planner that you can use, like as your daily planner. And, um, so if you're in the membership, currently yours is already on the way.
[00:05:54] If you're not in the membership and you want to just get a planner, you can, I will have the link in the show notes. It'll just be Yogi scopes.com/ 2024. That will take you. It'll redirect you to the. Um, print on demand service that I'm using, which is called book patch. So don't be alarmed. It's it's going to redirect you to not a Yogi scopes website.
[00:06:14] It's not spam or anything. I'm using a website called the book patch and you can purchase it to get shipped directly to you. From there. And then also, if you want to hold off a couple of days, like if you're just want to get your hands on it right now, um, you can, but if you want to hold off a couple of days on black Friday, I will beat, which is, is Thanksgiving here in the U S this week?
[00:06:38] I will be. With my family tomorrow, which is Thursday, Thanksgiving here in the U S um, but on black Friday, which is this Friday. November 24th. I will be. Really seeing a bundle deal where the first 10 people that sign up will get. A physical copy of the planner that I will mail to you. And if you give me your birth details, I will fill in your chart and write some stuff down. Um, just some quick notes for you specifically.
[00:07:05] Cause I got a batch of planters mailed to me that I have possession of. And so 10 of them are for this deal, um, where the first 10 people that sign up will get that. In addition to a year. In addition to they'll get, you know, the planner and I'll write a little, some stuff for you in there. And then, um, our yearly planning event and then access to the quarterly solstice and Equinox, um, check-ins that we do. And then also weekly signed by signs emailed to you that I've been.
[00:07:35] So that's the new, um, tier in the membership that I've been talking about. Um, the, you get the black Friday bundle. You will get all of that. And the birth chart basics mini course. So it's a big bundle. And it will go out to folks on my email list this Friday. So make sure you're on my email list. Before Friday, so that you get access to that deal.
[00:07:57] If you want to be one of the first 10 to sign up, to get, um, all that extra support. But if you are not into that extra support, you don't want to come to any live events or, um, get weekly signed by sign and support along the way. Then you can just go to Yogi scopes.com/ 2024. And go ahead and get the planner. Right now.
[00:08:14] So, um, that was a big. Big section for housekeeping announcements, probably bigger than I usually do. Um, so let's dive into the. Full moon. And I just want to say, of course, always before I really can dive into talking about whatever it is I'm talking about, which this time it's the full moon. Um, I like to give some greater astrological context of other things going on.
[00:08:39] And I will say that. Right now is almost Thanksgiving. Here in the U S and we have some indications right now that Thanksgiving is like, It's just a little weird, like, I don't know. I was thinking that. Today, before I recorded this, I am preparing to leave town to visit. Family for Thanksgiving. And I have two small kids.
[00:09:02] So part of preparing to leave town, when you work for home from home and have two small kids is like, Doing all the laundry and whatever. So while I was doing laundry, To prepare to leave town this morning. I was thinking about the fact that. Thanksgiving. It has this like extravagant vibe to it, but I don't know about y'all. Maybe it's just the past few years, but, um, It it's never felt as quite extravagant as like December and the sort of December holidays. Due to me. And I was thinking about astrologically.
[00:09:38] The reason why for that is often in. November Venus will be in, um, Verb Venus is in Virgo right now. Sometimes Venus will have moved on to her own sign of Libra by Thanksgiving, actually, probably most of the time, that's the case. But when Venus is in Virgo, Venus is debilitated in Virgo. And I bring this up because Venus is debilitated right now and will be at the time of the full moon.
[00:10:04] The full moon is happening inside the aerial Taurus, which is ruled by Venus. So this matters. Stick with me here. Um, Venus is. Debilitated in Virgo, which sounds bad. It sounds scary. Um, and I talked about this more on the November outlook episode, too. That's in the Facebook group. Um, Venus is Venus debilitated and Virgo is just, it's less abundant.
[00:10:28] So if this year isn't quite feeling like you can tap into that sense of abundance and gratitude just yet. I think this full moon will help, um, bring that because right after the full moon on November 29th is when Venus does move on to her own sign of Libra. Which will just feel a lot more abundant. Um, a lot less. Venus and Virgo is Venus has a lot to do with abundance.
[00:10:52] And so it can be challenging for relationships to be on the lookout for that. Um, if you're spending time with your family, And this week, I recognize a lot of you are non us, but many of you are so, um,
[00:11:05] Venus. Debilitated is just more of a paring back because Virgo is a very, um,
[00:11:13] Uh, minimalist sign. So. It's about paring back, which when we look at the wheel of the year, which this is also on my mind, because I just spent the last week creating the planner for next year. So I was in a very like big picture mode looking at what's happening. Um, I was like zooming in and zooming out. Just getting all in the weeds and interpreting what next year is going to be like.
[00:11:35] And you can go ahead and get your hands on that in the planner, if you want to. Um, But Venus is exalted in Pisces and Venus moves through Pisces in the spring, largely like March or April. Um, And Venus will be moving through Pisces, the sign of exaltation during eclipse season next year, because Rockies and Pisces.
[00:11:55] So that'll be interesting. Um, and more on that later. And then when Venus news through Virgo here in the Northern hemisphere, it's like fall, it's heading into winter. So if you think about it in that sense, in that context, It's just, it's not a bad thing. To be paring back to be not inviting new abundance. Um, it's just part of it. Which is also kind of the vibe of a full moon.
[00:12:20] A full moon is a time to release, not really a time to, um,
[00:12:27] Colin a bunch of new things. If that makes sense, it's more a time to bring projects or endeavors sort of full circle. And or release. If you can't bring it full circle, then maybe you release something that wasn't as aligned. If that makes sense. So that's sort of going on with this full moon. And it just tracks Thanksgiving here in the us, which is interesting, but, um, the full moon. Being ruled by Venus. Venus being debilitated until two days after. The full moon is just. It's more of a time to shed. Um, layers to get more into what is truly aligned, if that makes sense.
[00:13:09] So that's why I don't want you to think that it's a bad thing. That it's it's more like this is a period of shedding. To make space for things that are more truly aligned in intentional for you. That's just the sort of cycle that we're in for those few reasons. Like Venus being in Virgo time for paring down. And this being a full moon and a Venus ruled sign.
[00:13:33] And then the other astrological thing happening that I wanted to point out as it relates to this full moon, is that. Mara's will be very closely conjoined the sun in Scorpio at the time of the full moon. So that brings like, It just adds to the passion. So I don't want to, um, I always try to be like the positive one and not scare you.
[00:13:57] Right. 'cause I feel like sometimes. Astrology can be scary. Um, or it has had this like for boating vibe to it. And so it just amps up the passion. So I would just like, watch your conversations at the dinner table if you're, uh, if you are, I don't know, maybe you have a family like mine and a heated conversation is like fun for us. You know what I mean?
[00:14:17] Like, and it doesn't make us love each other any less. Um, but if there is something like that going on. Watch out for like explosiveness. In your relationships for the days leading up to the full moon. Knowing that that might include Thanksgiving. Right. And so I'll quit harping on about that because I know a lot of y'all are not in the us, but probably equally many, if not more of you are. Um, And so. Mars being close to the sun. At the time of the full moon.
[00:14:48] I don't think it's a bad thing because.
[00:14:53] Mars rules, Scorpio, which is where the sun is. So this full moon is sort of happening on the tourist Scorpio axis. So just all of these energies sort of playing in together with what's going on in Taurus and Scorpio and with the ruler of, um, Scorpio or sorry, ruler of tourists where the full moon is happening, being debilitated right now, all of that sort of plays in and factors into mean that this is a time to shed and get. Down to the root of like, what is your truth?
[00:15:26] What are your values so that you can show up after this full moon, especially as soon as Venus moves on into Libra, her own sign. Um, you can start to create that harmony and resonance in your life and invite in more. Abundance in relationships and in life, just knowing that you have done. So in a way that is you've gotten to the root you've tapped into your emotions, you've tapped into your passion. Right.
[00:15:51] So that's kind of the vibe at the full moon too. Uh, shed and release so that you can come out of it more aligned if you will. Um, so let's talk about. The knock shot. where this full moon is happening, because it's a fun one. The knock shots are where the full moon is happening is Rahini. And so this would be a good time.
[00:16:13] I usually point out. That notches. Our lunar mansions, right. They are just more specific than signs. So if this is your first time hearing of Operas, this will be helpful if it's not, it might also be helpful to revisit given that Rahini where this full moon is happening is. Some might consider it the best knock shot tra. Um, and this factors into the mythology of nachos, which I'll tell you about in a moment, but not shutters or lunar mansions. They, the moon moves through a Nakata about once a day.
[00:16:47] Okay. So the moon changes signs about a three to two and a half days. The moon will move through a lunar mansion about once a day. So. The, in the mythology next Yatra. Has matter more for the moon, we will sometimes interpret other planets and how they're moving through narcotic. to get an extra layer of depth, but I always encourage people not to get too in the weeds there. Um, for a lot of the other planets, except for the very, very slow moving ones. Just sticking to the signs is fine, but knock Shasha is, if you think about it, There are 12 signs. And the way astrology works is the signs go.
[00:17:24] Everything is from our perspective on earth. So the degrees we're talking about are the 360 degrees around the earth and how the planets and signs move around the earth. Okay. And if there are 12 signs and we're dividing a pie. Uh, circle the 360 degree circle around the earth into 12 slices. We're going to have bigger slices, right.
[00:17:47] And if we're dividing it into 27, which is how many notches there are, we're going to have smaller slices. So that's why next shoppers are just a little bit more specific. And that's the sort of math, I guess, or visualization behind why the move doesn't moon does move faster. Through them. Okay. And so there, I suspect that this astronomy of it. Is when people were sitting around passing down Vedic astrology, they were like, oh, the moon's passing that star or that section of stars today.
[00:18:20] And so that's how they kind of evolved. Whereas the sign and the moon will stay there longer. Um, and so knock shockers are just like sections of signs, kind of, if you will. And this one. There the mythology is that they're all wives of Chandra. And if you want to read more about it, I have an article about that too. On my website, it's also linked in the show notes, like water Ciadra's or something and how to use them. But Rahini was the first. Wife of Chandra of the moon.
[00:18:52] And so. It's also the moon's XL station point and the moon stays here a little bit longer than the other knock. because the mythology goes that it was Chandra's first wife. So he loves her. Rahini a little bit more than the rest of the wives, which is like, kind of funny. To me from, Hey, I don't know.
[00:19:15] That's just whatever. Aye. The whole multiple wives think. Um, anyway, it's, that's the mythology. Um, So. Rahini is the moon's XL station point. That's the mythology behind it. But if you think about it, Tourists being ruled by Venus. Um, And this knocks Shasha being ruled by the moon. It just factors into bring a very feminine. Energy to this full moon.
[00:19:48] And so that's what, um, I encourage you to think of this in the. Less gendered versions when I that's why I'm like the multiple wives thing. It's just like weird to me. Like, I feel like we're. Beyond that just like one man having. A bunch of wives who are like subservient to him anyway, um, for, in the patriarchy while we're at it.
[00:20:07] Um, So, if you can think, get, get kind of beyond gender, uh, or beyond sex is what I mean, thinking about the feminine as a, an expression, right? So. What are some non, I guess, Or you're just like expressions of feminine D are those things of luxury and abundance and, um, receptivity, right? Like the moon. Doesn't. Put out anything the moon just reflects, just receive the light of the sun and reflects.
[00:20:39] And so that archetype. Is high right now. Can you receive and reflect right. Um, and so the translation of Rahini means reddish one or sometimes might be seen as growing one. And so this just adds to the passion and abundance vibe here with this. Full moon. And so also. That's why I brought up the Mars in Scorpio thing. That's adding to the sort of a reddish vibe, if you will. It's just amping up passion.
[00:21:10] So that's what I, I'm hoping you like. Feel and take that as is, um, that Mars being there is just amping up the passion. And hopefully you can harness that in a positive way, harness that. Um, Passion more towards abundance and, um, And creating warmth rather than. Um, Firing us in a bad way. If that makes sense. And so the symbol for this knock shot tra is a chariot or an oxcart.
[00:21:38] And so oxcarts, we're used to kind of like transport goods to, and fro to market. So, um, really this full moon is. I don't know. I just like. This is the vibe of Thanksgiving and black Friday. If that makes sense. That's why I was bringing up. Like, I was just going to just not say anything about it because I know. Um, not all of y'all are in the U S and so maybe you don't celebrate Thanksgiving and black Friday. But this whole idea of like, Being grateful. And then being also materialistic at the same time, like that's kind of.
[00:22:18] Heeney if that makes sense.
[00:22:20] You know, so everybody's always kind of poking holes in that, um, ideology that we have here in the U S where we spend one day, we're supposed to be like, thankful for everything we have. And then the next day is just this barrage of. Um, buy more shit. Right. And those things seem kind of conflicting, but that's also, I mean, that's the feminine. Receptivity and abundance energy, like the, the more, um, what does that saying?
[00:22:46] I like I tell you, I'm the queen of butchering quotes. Um,
[00:22:51] There's like all these sayings out there that are to the effect of, um, the more grateful you are, the more you feel like you have kind of thing. So that's, that's kind of the vibe. The overall energies of this. Full moon are passionate, feminine, luxurious. Also there is a big vibe around commerce, abundance, and materialism, and that's okay.
[00:23:15] Like. I think that's fine. You know what I mean? There's also a big energy around, um, family. Values because that's tourist as a sign. Kind of has to do with, like, what is your foundation in life and what kind of values did you get from your family? Your family of origin, especially, which is also like wrapped up in Thanksgiving, if that makes sense, you know?
[00:23:37] Um, so your yoga practices for the full moon would be that I hope either on Sunday or Monday or sometime around. Then you get to do something really luxurious. What I would recommend if you want to make it like really a yoga practice is. If you can find a restorative yoga with a soundbath. I know you can even find these things on like YouTube and whatever.
[00:23:58] If you're going to do it at home online wear headphones. So you get that stereo effect, but in person even better, if you can do. Just a restorative yoga with the soundbath is so. Full moon in Taurus vibes. If that makes sense, because. You're kind of luxuriating in the moment and it's also a very grounding practice. And the soundbath is just, if you've never had one, I feel like sound baths are super luxurious personally. Another yoga practice you could do at this full moon is to work face yoga into your routine.
[00:24:31] Um, And then also art therapy. I know that's not really a yoga practice, but I still put it. There, if you can do some kind of thing. That taps into. Personal expression, art like art for the sake of expressing yourself and letting some passion out into a creation rather than art for the sake of like making money.
[00:24:54] Actually, I just saw. An article or something about this that, that, um, Andre 3000 I guess, has been in the news. Lately, because he like put out some, some music that he was like, this is not for y'all like, this is for me. Like I made this not to like cater to the crowds, but. Because it was an expression of like, W that this is why I create that's the vibe of the full moon.
[00:25:17] If you can tap into something like that, if you can tap into. Creating just to create, creating, to express yourself, creating too. Uh, cathartic creation to let out maybe some things that have been brought up by Scorpio season. That would be a really good thing to do on the full moon too. And so your journal prompts for the full moon are one.
[00:25:39] What brings me the greatest sense of comfort and security and how can I invite more of it in my life or alternatively, since it is a full moon, what could you release? That is. Getting in the way of your sense of comfort and security within yourself. And then number two, how can I channel creative energies during this period? And number three, how, or have I been acting in alignment with my values? Or using someone else's roadmap as my north star, especially your family.
[00:26:12] So that could be coming up if you've just been following what has been, um, Set forth in front of you as your family's values. And maybe into adulthood. You've discovered that you might have some different values. Now might be the time to consider what could you release to be more aligned with your personal values? So write down what that might bring up for you.
[00:26:40] And then if you want to grab the planner, go to Yogi scopes.com/ 2024. To be redirected to the link where you can purchase it from the book patches, which is the service that I use for the print on demand. Service or make sure you're on my email list. Sign up for my newsletter. Um, Before Friday morning, bright and early to get the black Friday bundle, which will include, um, a physical copy of the planner for the first 10 people that sign up the birth chart.
[00:27:10] Basics mini course. The yearly planning workshop as well as quarterly check-ins and, um, weekly signed by science sent to you by email. And it will be. Much cheaper than the current membership price. You'll just have to sign up for my email list to see. If you want. So. Please remember to keep your feet on the ground.
[00:27:31] You're heading the stars and stay in the light until next time friends take care.
