What the empty place has been holding
It usually comes in the in-between moments. The car in the driveway, engine off, and you’re not ready to go in yet. Sunday afternoon, when the chores are done and nobody needs anything. Everything is fine. And there it is, a hollow feeling in the middle of you, with no reason you can point to.
“Why do I feel so empty inside, even when nothing is wrong?” You added “even when nothing is wrong,” as if you needed permission to feel it. As if empty only counts when something has gone wrong.
The Moon was in Taurus when you were born. A Taurus Moon feels things through the body and needs steady, simple things: a warm kitchen, a voice that asks how you are, time that isn’t rushed. When life fills up with doing and runs short on those small things, a Taurus Moon doesn’t complain. It goes quiet. And quiet, after long enough, can start to feel like emptiness.
You were born with the Sun in Pisces, so you pick up on what the people around you feel, often before they do. For years you’ve been taking in other people’s moods and setting your own aside to make room. Your mind says: “I shouldn’t feel this way. I have nothing to complain about.” So the feelings you set aside never get their turn.
Could the emptiness be less of a hole and more of a waiting room? A place where everything you didn’t have time to feel has been sitting, quietly, for a long time. It may feel empty only because no one has sat down with what’s in there.
If you want, close your eyes for a moment and let your hands rest palms down. Let your body be open. Notice where the empty feeling is, maybe the chest, maybe the stomach, and feel it from the inside, with attention. You don’t need to fill it or explain it. If you want to stop, you stop.
There’s nothing wrong with you for feeling empty when life looks fine. Something in you has been patient for a long time. It may simply be asking to be noticed.