15/08/25

Today marks the second day of the Moon in Taurus, a phase that naturally intensifies matters of the heart. Taurus energy is sensual, steady, and devoted, and when the Moon lingers here, love, whether romantic, platonic, or self-love—feels richer, fuller, and harder to ignore. This is a perfect day to reflect on how you receive love and how you allow it to expand in your life.

The second day of the Taurus Moon grounds emotions and invites deep reflection. A birth chart reading under this energy can reveal your natural patterns in love, pleasure, and stability, helping you embrace the joy that’s available now rather than waiting for a “better” time. It’s the perfect cosmic mirror to see where you can live more fully in the present.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much time we spend waiting for happiness. We draw invisible timelines in our heads, “I’ll be happier when I get that promotion,” “I’ll enjoy my life once I meet the right person,” “I’ll rest when things slow down.” It’s almost as if we believe joy is something we have to earn, not something that’s available right here, right now.

I used to live by those timelines. Always postponing the good life for “after.” After the next project. After the next milestone. After I’d “earned it.” But in doing so, I was placing my own joy on layaway, never realizing that the only time I could actually claim it was today.

The Taurus Moon feels like a reminder to stop putting conditions on our happiness. Taurus doesn’t rush. It doesn’t say, “I’ll bloom later.” It blooms now, even if the garden isn’t perfect. It teaches us that love and beauty are not rewards for achievement, they’re part of the foundation we can live in every single day.

When I think of the most peaceful moments in my life, they weren’t necessarily the big celebrations or the goals achieved. They were mornings with coffee in the quiet, laughter over something small, an unexpected hug, the way sunlight hit the floor. None of these moments waited for me to be “ready” for them. They just happened—and I either noticed them or I didn’t.

We spend so much energy chasing the “big” happiness that we forget to collect the small ones along the way. And yet, it’s often those small joys that, over time, add up to the life we always dreamed of living.

So today, with the Moon in Taurus amplifying love energy, I’m reminding myself not to wait. To allow happiness to live in my day, not in some distant future. To let love be felt in this breath, this moment, this exact version of myself.

Because the truth is, there’s no perfect time for happiness. There’s only now. And if we don’t claim it today, it slips quietly into the past, taking with it a little piece of the life we could have lived.