Today the Taurus Moon offers an opportunity to be still and wonder at the beauty and peace of the natural world. When our heart and soul can take a moment of quiet, it becomes easier to become more open to the natural development of the buds of personal growth that are always ongoing. If you have ever planted something from a seed you know that it seems as though nothing is happening for the longest time, and suddenly there is a plant or a flower that comes seemingly out of nowhere.

I love this piece from Jeff Foster, I’ve linked the source below. This is my meditation today, and I hope you will like it too! 💖

If you are experiencing stress, sorow, physical or emotional pain in your life right now, it doesn’t mean that your life is going wrong, that you are broken and sinful, that you have failed as a human or spiritual being, or that you are far from awakening. You may just be healing in your own original and unexpected way. Sometimes we need to feel worse for a while. Sometimes the old structures, things that we once defined and identified as “me,” need to crumble. Sometimes we need to be brought to our knees before we can stand again. Sometimes illusions need to die. Sometimes our sacred plans and hopes, our schemes and dreams of “how things were going to turn out,” need to burn to ashes on the ruthless yet ultimately compassionate bonfire of the present moment.

As we open up to life and love and healing, as we awaken from our dream of separateness, we meet not just the bliss of existence, but also its pain; not only the ecstasy of life, but its agony too. Awakening doesn’t always feel good or comforting or blissful or “spiritual,” for we are inevitably forced to confront our deepest fears and darkest shadows – those parts of ourselves that we have cut off, denied, repressed, or numbed ourselves to all these years …

But eventually we come to trust the process of no process at all. We learn to see even our deepest sorrow as an intelligent movement of life, not a threat to life. We remember that we are vast enough to hold all of it – the good and the bad, the pain and the pleasure, the light and the dark, the agony and the ecstasy. We are not nearly as limited as we once imagined. We are life itself.

—Jeff Foster, Falling in Love with Where You Are