Episode 149: Taurus New Moon 2026: Uncolonize Your Worthiness

The Taurus New Moon on May 16, 2026 at 25° Taurus is asking us to embody our worthiness, our value, and the relaxed receptivity that real prosperity requires. In this New Moon ritual episode, I open up about the bumpy recovery I’ve been navigating, the way my sense of self-worth tanked when I couldn’t produce in the way my ambitious self wanted, and the radical acceptance medicine I needed to remember.

Taurus is the power to create, and Taurus invites us to embody our worthiness and value.

Taurus is traditionally a sign associated with money, abundance, and value, because of its relationship to one’s physical needs. So this Taurus New Moon, of course, I want you to think about value and abundance — but I also want you to think about the mindset required to receive.
Because if you’re not in that place of abundance thinking, there’s not going to be any amount of money that will make you feel peaceful and prosperous.

Inside this Taurus New Moon episode

• The full astrology of the May 16, 2026 Taurus New Moon at 25° Taurus, conjunct Mercury, with Venus in Gemini
• How to set Taurus New Moon intentions that actually land
• Abundance mindset vs scarcity mindset — and how to tell which one is driving you
• The Trance of Unworthiness as Tara Brach teaches it, and how capitalism and colonial mentality keep us stuck
• A house-by-house Taurus New Moon breakdown with reflection prompts for all 12 houses of your natal chart
• A special segment with Jackie McDonald on EFT tapping, body-first practice, and certainty as the antidote to scarcity
• Why Taurus rules the throat — and what your voice has to do with your wealth
• New Moon affirmations and a practice for speaking your intentions out loud

The Astrology of the Taurus New Moon 2026

This Taurus New Moon happens at 25 degrees of Taurus — almost 26 degrees, but 25 degrees of Taurus — on Saturday, May 16, at 1:01 pm Pacific / 4:01 pm Eastern.
When we think about this Taurus New Moon energy, it’s all of the abundance, all of this embodied spaciousness — so that we can receive, so that we can thrive, so that in our changemaking and our leadership, we can build something on our own time, for the long term, sustainably, without burning out.

Here’s what’s in the chart:

• Taurus New Moon at 25° — conjunct Mercury. Mercury is our mindset, but Mercury in Taurus is also body intelligence. What is your body literally telling you about your state of being?
• Venus, the ruler of Taurus, in Gemini — so we have Mercury, we have Venus, we have Gemini all tied in with this Taurus energy, which is all about our mindset.

If our mindset isn’t allowing us to feel — if it’s creating filters of how we’re experiencing the world — well, how can we shift our mindset from scarcity to abundance?

Remember that fire inspires us, then the fire drops down into our intellect, into our logic — but our logic has filters based on our experiences, based on the inherited stories we grew up with, based on the internal dialogues and narratives that might not even be our own.

In fact, a lot of the narratives are not our own.

Abundance Mindset vs Scarcity Mindset

Scarcity mindset is oftentimes a lie — a brainwash from the stories we receive from our family, from society, from culture.

Scarcity mindset says:

• There will never be enough.
• Hoard. Be stingy. I can’t get enough, I can’t get enough — like the Hungry Ghost.
• We have to compete. There can be only one winner.
• Deflect compliments. (That’s absolutely scarcity thinking, because we can’t receive the good news.)
• Times are tough. Times are so hard.
• Be afraid of being replaced.
• Hoard your knowledge. Refuse to share your wisdom. Be suspicious of others.
• Think small. Avoid risks. Fear change.

Abundance mindset says:

• There will always be more. I’m always supported. I have more than enough. Money is always coming my way.
• The certainty that I will always be okay.
• When we collaborate, when we work together, when we are generous AND reciprocal — giving and receiving — everyone thrives.
• The best is yet to come. The best is now coming my way.
• Freely offer help. Build trust and rapport. Welcome other people’s ideas.
• Growth and expansion are your birthright. Embrace change. Think big. Take big risks. Be the agent of change in your life.

I shared on the episode about one of my favorite Taurus clients — Cecilia Valero of Sex Week Boston, @mermaidforpleasure on Instagram — who had grown her event massively in its second year, with more sponsors, more attendees, more revenue. And as I was celebrating her wins, I could see her getting smaller and smaller — hiding herself, deflecting.

When we traced it back, she recognized that her parents modeled not receiving compliments. Those stories were inherited.

So get curious. Where does your scarcity mindset come from? What stories and narratives need to shift inside you so that you can move into abundance mindset?
If you’re stuck in scarcity, that’s okay. Maybe for this Taurus New Moon, instead of setting a money goal, your intention is the work of moving through scarcity itself — affirmations, “what if,” tapping, whatever your modality is.

Taurus New Moon by House: Reflection Prompts for All 12 Houses

This New Moon falls at 25° Taurus. Find the house in your natal chart where 25° Taurus lives. That house shows where you are being invited to anchor more comfort, value, and worthiness this season.

• 1H: How can I lead and guide with a comforting, luxurious presence that adds value?
• 2H: How can I create steady, values aligned growth that compounds over time?
• 3H: How can I speak and communicate with grounded, embodied, encouraging words?
• 4H: How can I create deep belonging, for myself and for those I serve?
• 5H: What passion project lets me feel pleasure in my body and play at my own pace?
• 6H: What daily practice would build sustainable strength, energy, and earning?
• 7H: How can I partner and collaborate from a place of seen value and shared worth?
• 8H: Where am I being asked to trust my worth and let support come through other resources?
• 9H: How does my purpose extend abundance to others. How do I teach worthiness?
• 10H: How can I deliver tangible value as part of my mission and reputation?
• 11H: How can my community vision build sustainable social impact?
• 12H: How can I relax into my body and ground into spirit, especially when self sabotage shows up?

Special Segment: EFT Tapping for the Taurus New Moon with Jackie McDonald

I brought my friend Jackie McDonald — host of the Wildly Wealthy Woman podcast and a wonderful EFT tapper — into this episode to bring the body-first piece of this Taurus New Moon medicine.

Because the opposite of scarcity is certainty. And certainty doesn’t live in the mind — it lives in the body.

Taurus rules the throat — speak your wealth into existence

This particular Taurus New Moon — with Mercury also in Taurus, and Venus, the ruler of Taurus, in Gemini — has something to do with being able to speak our truth of our wealth.

Taurus rules the neck, the throat, the tops of the shoulders. So part of this New Moon is about getting our bodies into a place of safety first — vagus nerve, nervous system, embodied calm — before we speak our affirmations of value, luxury, and receptivity.

Jackie’s tapping practice for this Taurus New Moon

• Start with the body. How is my body feeling as I enter this New Moon?
• If there’s any tension anywhere, tap and talk to that tension. Release it.
• Then receive the affirmations.

Taurus New Moon Affirmations

• It’s safe for me to slow down.
• Everything I’m doing is working for me.
• Everything is coming to me in divine timing.
• I can relax. I can receive. I’m in certainty. It’s already done.
• Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.

Tapping is just such a beautiful way, because it’s embodied. That’s how we pour it back into ourselves. The theme this month: embodied. Get into the body.

Follow @thejackiemcdonald on Instagram for her New Moon tapping circle — she’ll lead you through the body-first tapping practice for this Taurus New Moon.

Your Taurus New Moon Ritual

Here’s the practice for May 16, 2026:

• Get clear on what you want. Where in your chart is 25° Taurus? Which house? That’s your intention point.
• Journal it out.
• Speak it out loud to the universe. Taurus rules the throat. Use your voice.
• Tap with Jackie McDonald on her Instagram on the New Moon for the body-first embodiment piece.
• Don’t worry about the how. Stay in certainty.

Taurus is asking us to use our voice — to literally ask for what we desire — and the universe listens. So this is a good tapping-and-speaking-it-into-existence time.

The Greatest Gift of Taurus

• The greatest gift of Taurus is not money — although money makes things easier.
• The greatest gift is appreciation, openness to receive, certainty that things will work out, and feeling alive in the body.
• When you and I embody these things, not only are we prosperous and peaceful…
• We are priceless.