Saturday's Taurus New Moon arrives conjunct Mercury, the asteroid Ceres, and the fixed star Algol (the Demon's Head) at the exact moment the International Energy Agency is calling the current oil disruption the greatest energy security crisis in recorded history. Their recommendation: work from home. Slow down. Minimize travel.

Sound familiar?

This episode covers the full Ceres and Persephone myth as a map for collective grief, why Thursday's Mercury and Ceres cazimis are an invitation to cut new deals with your own shadow, what Algol and the Morningstar have to do with disrupting hierarchies right now, and why Persephone eating the pomegranate seeds was not a mistake. Plus: the grief curriculum we've been inside since 2020, what oil has to do with ancestral time, and a brief loving return to Blursday, March the fortyteenth of Maprilay.

Keywords: Taurus New Moon 2026, Mercury cazimi May 2026, Ceres astrology, Persephone myth, shadow hunger, pomegranate economy, Algol fixed star, grief and astrology, oil crisis 2026, Strait of Hormuz, IFS and astrology, Eleusinian Mysteries, Mars Chiron Aries, collective grief, energy crisis spiritual meaning

Chapters

00:00 — Opening: the extraction economy and your body 01:12 — Welcome & grounding 02:41 — Astrology of the week ahead 04:01 — What is a cazimi? Burning down to the bone 05:42 — The story of Ceres: innocence, obsession, and the narcissus flower 07:26 — The hole opens: Persephone's descent 15:12 — Mercury arrives: the psychopomp at the wall 17:45 — The pomegranate seeds: she was so hungry 20:37 — What grief generates: agriculture, the Eleusinian Mysteries, the gifts of fallow seasons 23:53 — Why these cazimis, why now: the deals you've cut to live with your pain 26:05 — Algol, Lucifer, and the Morningstar: big disruptions of power 31:50 — Stop being precious 33:36 — Midway: the binding was also the becoming 35:37 — The Descent: Blursday, the IEA, and the grief curriculum since 2020 47:10 — Closing: questions to plant this New Moon

References

Jason Holley — astrologer and depth psychologist, source of the narcissus/narcissism interpretation: jasonholley.net

International Energy Agency, Oil Market Report: iea.org

IEA demand-reduction recommendations: iea.org

Atlantic Council — Webster & I'Anson on oil rationing: atlanticcouncil.org

World Bank Commodity Markets Outlook April 2026: worldbank.org

Washington Post — "It's been six months. Our sense of time is still broken": washingtonpost.com

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler — the five stages of grief: grief.com