Woven into the Sacred

Last Quarter in Taurus
July 18, 2025

Today, the moon wanes into its final quarter—its light dimming, its pull turning inward. We enter the subtler stages of letting go, a time of reflection and recalibration. This is not the swift release of urgency, but a grounded unwinding. With the moon in Taurus, we are offered a steadying hand—an invitation to surrender with the trust that what dissolves will return to form, reshaped by insight.

Taurus, an earth sign, reminds us that all that fades also finds its way back to ground. Dissolution does not mean disappearance. It is a necessary part of the cycle, the quiet work of integration. In this phase, we clarify what remains—not by force, but through attuned awareness.

Tantra offers us a framework to understand this moment. From the root tan, meaning “to stretch,” Tantra is the art of weaving—of stretching threads across the loom of consciousness and experience. The warp threads, called tana, run vertically: they are the unchanging strands of awareness, the scaffolding of the cosmos. The weft, or weave, flows horizontally: dynamic, rhythmic, expressive—the pulse of manifestation itself.

Today’s moon is part of that weave. The divine feminine, ever moving, expresses herself in cycles. She ebbs and she flows. The masculine structure beneath—like the steady earth of Taurus—offers a container, a return point. The interplay between these threads is the loom of our embodied life.

In Kashmir Śaivism, there is a concept known as Spanda—the subtle tremor, the sacred pulse that vibrates at the heart of everything. Spanda is not just movement; it is potentiality. It lives in the spaces between: between breath and breath, thought and stillness, self and other. It is the shimmer between warp and weft, the heartbeat of being itself.

Spanda reminds us that even in dissolution, there is rhythm. Even in the pause, there is presence. And with awareness, we can attune to it—not to control it, but to participate in its sacred unfolding.

So as you sit in practice today, let yourself soften into the pause. Notice the shape of what is no longer here. Rest in the in-between spaces and trust the pulse that continues, whether you follow it or not. With awareness, we glimpse the truth: the material world is not separate from the sacred—it is woven into it.