Routine Read, April 10 2025

The Moon has entered Taurus, steadying after eclipse tremors and fire-sign fever. She is now in her crescent phase, still early in her growth, but no longer hidden. Taurus brings the body back into focus. It slows the emotional rhythm, not to dull it, but to give it depth. The hunger today isn’t for change—it’s for rootedness. For something that can be touched, tasted, trusted. Emotions take shape through texture, repetition, presence. After days of upheaval, today says: hold still. Let what remains speak softly, and listen.

Overhead, Venus conjoins Neptune in Pisces—a shimmering, dissolving, beautiful blur. This is an aspect of dreams, of romantic yearning, of porous boundaries. It can bring creative vision, emotional communion, or the seduction of illusion. In Pisces, both planets are exalted, but not grounded. It’s easy to fall in love with an idea, a ghost, a glimmer. Paired with the Taurus Moon, this creates a push-pull between what the heart wants to feel and what the body knows is real. Neither is wrong. But neither can replace the other.

The tarot card is the Page of Pentacles, upright. This Page is a student, an initiator of tangible beginnings. It reflects the Moon in Taurus: grounded curiosity, gentle determination, a desire to begin again with care. There’s humility in this card—a willingness to learn without pretending to already know. You may be starting something now that takes root slowly. Or you may simply be learning how to be in your life as it is. This card offers no grand achievement, just the first honest step.

Today’s numerology is 5 (4 + 1 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 14 → 1 + 4 = 5). Five is the number of movement, friction, learning through tension. It adds a little chaos to the steadiness of the day—a reminder that comfort without growth can become stagnation. Venus-Neptune may want to drift, Moon in Taurus may want to stay—but Five nudges you to stretch, just enough to stay alive. Test the soil. Walk a little further. Let beauty be a question, not a destination.

From the Revised Common Lectionary: “I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live.” (John 11:25). This is a verse of paradox: life through death, presence through absence. It pairs with the Page of Pentacles—not in content, but in echo. To begin again, something must have ended. What continues now is not what came before. You are alive inside a pattern that has changed its terms. The question is whether you will live it.

A dream flickers in: you sit in a garden overgrown with herbs. You can’t tell which ones are weeds. The scent is overwhelming. Someone asks what you’re planting. You answer, “memory.” They nod, and hand you a trowel made of glass.

Today moves like a slow exhale. Grounded, fragrant, touched by something unnameable. The Taurus Moon offers embodiment. Venus with Neptune tempts you into beauty that might not last. The Page of Pentacles reminds you: it’s enough to begin. Make something. Plant something. Touch the world and feel it touch back.