Taurus Season Reflection
Something Solid
I thought writing this month’s reflection would be easy. At the start of the season I could already feel what it was revealing to me. But now, I’m tangled up in my mind. Writing about Taurus in the season of Gemini is proving to be difficult; for they are so different. Taurus is sensory and simple, where as Gemini is a labyrinth of thoughts and ideas.
How do I translate something that was felt into words? It was such a visceral and personal season for me. Soft and subtle in its teachings. To write about it feels self-indulgent. Retelling the moments I experienced isn’t quite transferable. So all I can do is lean into this season’s reflection being less about what Taurus season was like on a collective level, and more on how I feel freshly grounded thanks to a season like this. A glimpse into my living process with astrology.
Taurus season started Sunday April 19th 2026 at 6:39 pm pst and ended Wednesday May 20th 2026 at 5:36 pm pst.
This season I spent a lot of time in nature out of service. I like to see it as being held and embedded by the rivers and trees. The first orientations that showed up started with understanding the importance of proving myself to myself. But what does that even mean?
It’s an ideology that comes from the second house in astrology. The house of self-worth and value. It represents a symbolic place where we must prove ourselves to none other than ourself. It is the house Taurus belongs to, a house of tools and resources, where our foundation of self is built. Taurus teaches us how to trust our instincts, leaning into what our bodies know before our minds can comprehend.
In Aries season I was hit with the realization of neglecting part of my own authenticity and action, so naturally Taurus got to work in revealing to me how not to do that anymore. What I started to touch upon is the notion that building self-trust is an architectural process. Trusting your instincts is hard and it only gets stronger when you work on creating a sense of safety in yourself first. As cliche as it is, keeping your promises to yourself is how we build that trust muscle.
Completing the things we said we were going to start means we are living up to our own expectations. Taurus is that part of us that needs a sense of security and safety to feel alive. At its highest expression Taurus wants us to move away from external validation or manufactured needs and toward a grounded sense of self-trust and reliance. Because if we don’t, we start to become stuck. That is the shadow of Taurus, unable to move forward, becoming too sedentary in our life. Too stuck in our ways or attached to materialism because we’ve lost value and security within ourself.
At the beginning of the season, I started to create this foundation where I was holding myself accountable. I was checking big to-do’s and small to-do’s off my list. Even just publishing last month’s article was part of my Taurus season growth spurt.
A true illumination of safety embodiment was when a girlfriend and I went on a pilgrimage to the largest tree in Canada. Multiple times on this journey I felt nervous I wouldn’t be able to manage if something were to go wrong. If we got stuck, we had no way of calling for help since we were way out of service. If we saw a cougar, we couldn’t defend ourselves. This trip had me deep in an internal confrontation with my own vulnerability as a woman, as a human. In the end, we made it to the tree and the confronting journey was so worth it! We made it even when our fears tried to stop us. This helped me add more of an understanding to my foundation of self. I realized different circumstances require an array of self assurance in regard to a true felt sense of safety. Assurance I still need to build up within. That trip showed me that when I feel out of my depths, I need to either redirect myself or lean into trust, and at times both are necessary.
And so little by little, I’m starting to feel a sense of appreciation for what I can accomplish. Something solid is forming. This structure in myself that I’ve always struggled with can be nurtured. Instead of completing things for the sake of productivity, I am establishing myself as someone I can rely on. I’m becoming aware of stories that I’ve built up in my head that never really mattered or weren’t even true to begin with.
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After this dive into a pool of self-trust and self-assurance was the soft opening in the realm of grief. I discovered that keeping mundane promises to myself created an internal stability necessary to endure deep emotional release.
In the last few days of the season, my boyfriend and I were on a camping trip scout mission for new secret spots. During our exploration, we drove up a hill to this opening in the trees where we could see the lake we were just at below. Everything felt whole. The music was just right, the scenery looked as if it had never been touched. I started crying without even knowing what hit me, gratitude and grief occupying the same moment. Later, on our way out, we past the view of the lake again, the same unknowing tears showed up on my face. My boyfriend, not one for mystical language, simply said to me “it’s a portal babe.” The word was so right, it was a portal and it opened up one in me too.
This moment showed me that the grief stuck in my body for years is starting to release with more flow, not because I found a place to put it or by forcing it out, but because I have a new foundation of trusting myself enough to let it go. I’ve been taught that Taurus as an archetype, strives to attain inner peace. And now I can I honestly say it is something we cannot find but need to build within. This season I built mine out of self-accountability, a new sense of self-trust and through the resources I’ve been quietly collecting for some time now. It is something that will continue to be crafted within me, this new state of being. I’m curious to see how it flows through the rest of the seasons, as we are still just at the beginning.
The growth I experienced during this season was brought to me through my time spent in nature. Something so fitting for Taurus season! The residue of Taurus has settled in my body and hopefully a residue of it has settled within you too. This time I don’t want to end this reflection with question. I find it unnecessary being that we are currently in such a mentally overwhelming season. So instead I leave you with a prescription to go outside without any distraction, to just sit or lay for a moment watching the trees, sky or a body of water. To breath in fresh air. To feel the sun on your skin. To let nature sow its seeds within you too.