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This week welcomes slowing down our minds and reconnecting with our bodies as Mercury enters Taurus and the Full Moon enters Libra.

Mercury enters Taurus

Mercury is a transitory planet that represents the mind, communication, intelligence and learning. As a rule, he does not waste time on a certain sign, imitating the speed and movement of our mind from one thought to another.

Being in the earth sign of Taurus, Mercury will begin to slow down. Mercury will enter Taurus on April 3rd before beginning its second retrograde of the year from April 21st to May 15th. He will stay in Taurus until June 11.

Taurus is methodical, purposeful, patient and enduring. He is productive and stable, faithful to his vision and in no hurry. It reminds us to recognize the beauty of the journey and asks us to enjoy every step along the way as much as our arrival at our destination.

When Mercury meets Taurus, we get time, space and a slower pace. We are encouraged to challenge our tendency to overwhelm information by moving too quickly. Instead, we are asked to dwell on what we can think about, study, or communicate.

It means being with our thoughts piece by piece, spending time with them and allowing them to sink into our bodies where they can be experienced. Under the influence of Taurus, it’s not just about the words you share or receive, or the information you learn. It’s also about how they make us feel, what feelings they bring to life in our bodies, and how we can patiently integrate them into our reality.

After the accelerated pace of Mercury in Aries for the past few weeks, this will be a great opportunity to take many of the ideas that arose in March and begin to ground them through practical planning and application.

Full moon in Libra

Full Moons are moments in the lunar cycle when something is at its peak, when the expression of energy is at its fullest, so that we can clearly see it and be with it. Just as the light of the full moon at night cannot be ignored, so too cannot be ignored all that it illuminates within us.

This week there is a full moon in Libra. The air sign represented by Libra reminds us that we cannot achieve balance if there are spaces within us that we cannot touch, observe, acknowledge, care for or accept. Like the full moon, all of us will be revealed tonight—the parts we accept, the parts we accept, and the parts we are still learning to accept.

Libra connects us to each other. It is love, partnership, cooperation and companionship. During this Full Moon, love is the medicine that softens our armor, inviting us to overcome any pains that lurk beneath the surface.

Relationships hold the keys to our healing. Sometimes it is only within another that we find the words we are willing to hear, the softness we are willing to accept, and the perspective we are willing to accept and which allows us to open up. And sometimes only by offering love to others do we gain access to it ourselves.

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Your invitation

As we allow the insights of this week’s astrological transits to settle within us, we are asked to listen for themes of slowing down, returning to the body, seeing love as medicine, and healing in partnership.

We are gifted with an invitation to ground our ideas, inspirations, and desires in a journey that not only allows us to create and manifest these realities, but to enjoy every step of the process.

We are handed the scales to cultivate balance in our lives. As Taurus invites us to enjoy the process of building as much as the end result, Libra reminds us that a balanced life requires the integration of action and rest, giving and receiving, work and play, integration and application.

We are invited to soften. Both Taurus and Libra are ruled by Venus, our planet of love, beauty, receptivity, art, harmony and beauty. How can you bring these energies into your day? How can you let them support your dreams? And how can you make them your most healing allies?

Learn more about how astrology affects your life, including astrological events, moon cycles, your Sun and Moon and rising signs, how journaling can help you connect with current influences, and more with Jordan Marie at Girl and her Moon .

About our contributor

Jordan Marie is the founder of Girl and Her Moon, a platform and community that explores the soul through the lens of astrology, tarot, and energy healing. She is an author, intuitive astrologer, energy and soul guide, and host of Girl and Her Moon, The Podcast. She is inspired daily to be a mirror for you to see all that you really are, you in all your infinite abilities, in full expansion, in infinite possibilities and love.