Lynda Hill's Sabian Symbols

Breakthroughs, Lightning Strikes and Liberation: April's Taurus New Moon

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos. Eric Mackay

The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most. Anon

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph. Ken Kesey

First thoughts have tremendous energy. The internal censor usually squelches them, so we live in the realm of second and third thoughts, thoughts on thoughts, twice and three times removed from the direct connection of the first fresh flash. Natalie Goldberg

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. Henry David Thoreau

Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person - not only changed, but for the better. Arthur Gordon

The Taurus new Moon occurs on April 21 and it has a very strong electrical charge to it. The Sabian Symbol is Taurus 2: An Electrical Storm Illuminates The Heavens And Forests. From my book 360 Degrees Of Wisdom: 

Truth*Justice*Freedom Vs Arrested Development: April's Libran Full Moon

To accuse others for one’s misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows one’s education is complete. Epictetus

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven. Charles Williams

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave. Ivern Ball

We have only one person to blame, and that’s each other. Barry Beck – New York Ranger, on who started a brawl

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Proverb

No! No! Sentence first-verdict afterwards. Lewis Carroll

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. Barry Farber

Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape. Proverb

I haven’t committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. David Dinkins –Fmr. New York City Mayor

The full Moon in April falls on April 7 in Australia and April 6 in the United States. This full Moon is another doozy - and, as my friend Linda Reid pointed out, the moon is at perigee, which makes it a 'supermoon', a particularly strong and emphatic one, especially around relationships and friendships - and the Symbol for it sounds much more difficult than it often turns out to be - there is plenty of room for hope, as this can be about loosening the grips that are holding you down or where you don't want to be. Have you experienced or noticed how 'held back', frustrating and complicated the energy has been lately? Many are reporting that these are 'extremely interesting times', perhaps it's time to take off the handcuffs and restraints. 

The Symbol is Libra 18: Two Men Placed Under Arrest Give An Accounting For Their Acts Before The Tribunal Of Society. The following is from my book The Sabian Oracle: 360 Degrees Of Wisdom -