Start small. Start sturdy.
Taurus doesn’t rush, but it doesn’t waver either.
The Taurus new moon is the opposite of reinvention culture.
It doesn’t ask you to become someone new, just someone steadier.
This is the moon of building the life you actually want, one small, stubborn decision at a time.
No acceleration. No collapsing.
Just consistency rooted in what feels like truth.
Let’s plant something that can actually take root.
✨ SPELL
This ritual isn’t about belief. It’s about repair.
Capitalism has broken your relationship to time—flattened your rhythms, punished your rest, and convinced you every moment must be productive.
The moon disagrees.
Each new and full moon, I’ll hand you a small ritual. Not to “manifest” or optimize, but to reattune your body to a different pace. One that honors cycles, not calendars.
Pay attention to the moon. It’s not aesthetic—it’s antidote.
Taurus New Moon: The Steadfast Seed
Supplies:
A teaspoon of salt
A glass of water
Your hands
Steps:
Pour the salt into your palm.
Think of one thing you want to grow this month. Something grounded, slow, sustainable.
Close your hand around the salt and say: I choose what holds.
Dissolve the salt in the water.
Drink it mindfully, imagining it settling into your bones.
This is the magic of durable beginnings.
✊ HEX
You don’t need a rundown of the headlines. You’re living them. Whether you’re in the U.S. or just suffering under its ripple effects, the harm is real—and relentless.
This isn’t catharsis. It’s counter-spell.
Each HEX is a ritual of refusal—a channel for holy rage, spiritual disruption, and deliberate, directed dissent.
Here’s who we’re targeting. And what to do about it.
They Were Never Going to Stop at Abortion
Yesterday, the Supreme Court allowed mifepristone to continue to be distributed by mail.
I want to be clear about what that means. And what it doesn't.
This isn’t really a victory. It’s a stay. The case returns to the 5th Circuit, which has already ruled against access once. It will come back to the Supreme Court. And in his dissent yesterday, Justice Clarence Thomas told us exactly what argument they plan to use next time: the Comstock Act. A law written over 150 years ago. They intend to use a law written in 1873 to ban mailing medication in 2026.
He told us. In writing. In a Supreme Court opinion.
So we’re not exactly celebrating today. We are exhaling briefly and then getting back to work.
Because here is what the last fifty years actually look like when you zoom out far enough to see the whole picture:
Evangelicals were not always anti-abortion. This is the part of the story that gets buried.
In 1968, the flagship evangelical magazine Christianity Today convened a conference with the Christian Medical Society to discuss the ethics of abortion. After several days of deliberations, twenty-six evangelical theologians issued a statement acknowledging they could not agree on any one position. The Southern Baptist Convention (the largest Protestant denomination in the United States) passed resolutions in 1971 and again in 1974, after Roe v. Wade, affirming women's right to abortion under certain conditions.
Abortion was considered a Catholic issue by evangelicals well into the late 1970s.
So what changed?
Power changed.
Political activist Paul Weyrich needed a unifying issue to mobilize evangelical voters for the Republican Party. The original organizing issue, the one that actually drove evangelical leaders into politics in the first place, was protecting the tax-exempt status of private segregation academies that were losing their exemptions under desegregation requirements. That was the real first cause. But "we want to keep segregating our schools" was not a viable public rallying cry.
Abortion was more palatable. Abortion was more portable. Abortion could be framed as morality rather than as what it actually was: the consolidation of a political voting bloc that would deliver elections to the Republican Party for the next five decades.
In 1979, the Moral Majority was formed. They backed Ronald Reagan. Reagan won. And from that moment forward, the space within conservative evangelicalism to hold any position on abortion other than "life begins at conception and abortion is murder" essentially disappeared. Not because of theology, but because of political engineering.
They built a movement on manufactured outrage. And then they used that movement to dismantle Roe.
And here is the thing they were always counting on: that we would believe them when they said this was about babies.
It was never about babies.
It was about control. Of bodies. Of reproduction. Of women's capacity to participate fully in public life. Of who gets to decide what happens inside a body that does not belong to them.
And they were never going to stop at abortion.
Justice Thomas told us the next targets in his Dobbs concurrence: Griswold, which established the constitutional right to contraception in 1965. Lawrence, which decriminalized same-sex intimacy in 2003. Obergefell, which established marriage equality in 2015.
He wrote that down. In a Supreme Court opinion. And handed it to us like a to-do list.
Meanwhile, since Roe fell, Republicans in at least 17 states have blocked efforts to protect access to contraception. The Trump administration withheld funding from a Nixon-era program that guaranteed birth control access for low-income people, putting more than 800,000 people at risk of losing access. Project 2025 (the blueprint this administration has followed with striking fidelity) specifically targets contraception coverage, emergency contraception, IUDs, and employer-provided birth control coverage.
"I think the fact that attacking birth control specifically appears in Project 2025 tells us how coordinated this is." — Kimi Chernoby, National Women's Law Center
This is not a slippery slope argument. This is a documented strategy with named architects, written plans, and a fifty-year track record of patient, coordinated execution.
So today we hex the whole architecture.
We hex the political strategists who turned women's bodies into an organizing tool and called it righteousness. We hex the theology manufactured to serve power and sold as conviction. We hex the Comstock Act and every attempt to resurrect 1873 to govern 2026. We hex the 5th Circuit judges who banned mail access to mifepristone and called it medicine. We hex Clarence Thomas's to-do list — overturning Griswold, Lawrence, Obergefell — and every court that might try to execute it. We hex the coordinated, patient, fifty-year strategy to remove bodily autonomy from everyone who is not a wealthy white man. We hex the lie that this was ever about life.
And we bless something true in its place:
We bless every person who has ever accessed mifepristone by mail and made a decision about their own body in their own home on their own terms. We bless the providers who kept working through the chaos of May 1st when access disappeared without warning. We bless the drug companies that raced to the Supreme Court and asked them to stop the harm. We bless the 8 in 10 Americans who support the legal right to abortion (because the majority has always been on the right side of this). We bless the people who have been fighting this fight for fifty years and have not stopped.
And we name clearly what a matriarchal framework has always known:
Bodily autonomy is not a political position. It is the precondition for every other freedom. You cannot participate in democracy, in community, in your own life, if you do not have sovereignty over your own body.
They have always known that. That's why they came for it first.
We know it too. That's why we will not stop.
🔥 On the Long Game
They played a fifty-year strategy. We need to be willing to play one too. Yesterday's stay is one move, not the end. Stay in it.
📞 Action
Call your senators and demand they pass the Right to Contraception Act, which Senate Republicans have already blocked once. The number is 202-224-3121.
Support the National Women's Law Center, Planned Parenthood, and your local abortion fund. Because the legal fight and the access fight are both happening simultaneously and both need resources.
And if you want to understand the full history of how we got here, Kristin Kobes Du Mez's work on evangelicalism and gender politics is essential reading. We might need to add her to the 2027 reading list.
With gentle force,
Keli Lyn Jewel
PS: If you want your next season to feel stable instead of chaotic, Project Recamation is where we practice that.
Retrograde Remix happens inside the community this year, so when Mercury turns, you’ll already have the grounding you need.
