IMeaning
Why the Moon is strongest here
The Moon at rest in the body. Appetite becomes a teacher.
The old astrologers gave the Moon one sign where she is exalted — not her home, but the place where she works best — and it is Taurus. The logic is simple once you feel it: the Moon governs the body's tides, and Taurus is the sign of the body itself, fixed earth, Venus-ruled, unhurried. Emotion here does not flare and does not flood. It settles. You notice you are hungry, tired, warm, held. Feelings arrive as sensations first and as stories only much later, if at all.
This is the Moon of coagulation, the alchemical stage where what has been dissolved is finally fixed into a stable form. The gnostic teaching that the body is the temple stops being a metaphor for these two days: the temple has an appetite and a pulse and a preference for slow mornings, and it votes. Stubbornness under this Moon is usually the body refusing to be rushed by a mind that has not asked its permission.
The transit crosses Al-Thurayya, the Pleiades, one of the most worked mansions in the medieval grimoires, then Al-Dabaran, the red eye of the Bull. Two very different stations inside one sign — binding and breaking — which is a fair description of what a steady body can do for a restless mind.