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Your Moon
sign symbolizes your personal self, your feelings, your subconscious.
It represents how you relate to others, how you have nurturing relationships
with others, your intuition, your spiritual self, your sense of security,
and your habits. The Moon symbolizes your feminine, nurturing side (we
all have one).
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Aires Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capric Aquar Pisces Overview
Aires 
(March
20 - April 18) Fire. Ruling
planet Mars. Top
This
is an exuberant period of time for
you Aries. There’s lots of everything
in your world right now, including
big changes. But quantity is not enough
to satisfy you right now; you are concentrating
on values, trying to find the fit that
works, the magic formula that will
incorporate the cogwheels of your life
and of what you love to do into the
greater machinery of the society around
you. As your idealized vision soars
you are also very mindful of the practical
concerns that enable it to become real.
You may be taking a retiring and philosophical
stance on all this, especially after
the 6th when Mercury retrogrades for
the remainder of the month in your
resources sector. It pays to remember
that you are history in the making,
forever ancient and forever golden
youthful.
As the month begins, you are in a soft and gentle mood. With your ruler Mars
in conjunction with Venus, relationship is on your mind. Your values are melding
into a mixture of what you believe to be possible and what you desire to be.
Idealism comes into the picture as you mentally explore what is possible for
you looking forward into the future. You are daring to dream big at this time,
both for yourself and for significant partnerships in your life, even if it
does feel a little scary at times.
During the first full week of the month, following the First Quarter Moon of
Friday, May 1st, you are reinventing yourself in the light of new information
about what in your life concretely works, seeking a solid connection with future
endeavor that matches your highest purpose for yourself and becoming quite
serious about achieving these goals. Your communication is more internal than
external as you mull over your potential and reflect on where you are headed,
this time around, especially with the mid-week retrograde of Mercury in your
communication sector.
This indicates that the rest of the month makes a great time for journaling
and introspection, and for research or following through, but not such a good
period for moving forward with fresh initiatives. These would likely change
direction or even reverse themselves by late June.
The Full Moon of Friday May 8th feels like a release, providing that you can
allow it to flow over you. Transformation is in the cards for you right now.
You are coming into yourself in a new way and by this time it is beginning
to show. Putting yourself out there for social goals that you can really believe
in might either conflict somehow with relationship fulfillment or you might
find a way to harmonize these areas of your life.
The following weekend and the days following, beginning May 16th , coincides
with one peak of the Mercury retrograde energy, when outer world events seem
to go wrong and when the spiritual meaning has perhaps a better chance of coming
through.
The New Moon of Sunday, May 24th, also represents a time of great changes internally
as well as externally, and could be your best chance to alert yourself to the
direction that your life is going in order that you can head that way with
your heart and mind, as well as your unconscious process.
Taurus 
(April
19 - May 19) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This is an entertaining and paradoxical and perhaps confusing period that you
are entering into, Taurus. Your birthday time of the year has arrived and with
it a joyful and socially engaged attitude. In some ways you are fully meeting
your world. And yet in another way you are not so much outer as inner, taking
a mystical vacation from mundane concerns to travel to the hidden recesses
of your mind and heart. It is an idealized and introspective space that you
find yourself in these days, and you do well to acknowledge this simple and
inescapable fact. The confusion comes from trying to live your life as though
it were all on the surface. You benefit by honoring the paradoxical and deeper
side of your life that makes the rest of it possible.
As the month begins, you are riding the wave of energy from the New Moon of
the last weekend of April. The energy from that time carries over into May
and gives you plenty of social pizzazz and also the inclination to explore
your career options from a spiritual perspective. You are full of optimistic
vibrations and more than ready to get started on new ideas with a positive
outlook, but there is also a shadow of hesitation that is very much present
for you as well. You could be asking yourself the question: Can you truly be
all that you can visualize yourself as being? You benefit when, instead of
ducking out, you choose to face your fears directly.
In the days surrounding the First Quarter Moon of May 1st you could encounter
a few bumps in the road of progress. You might find that you have to consciously
choose the high road in any attempted resolution of career concerns and in
your dealings with others. With Mercury so close to retrograde, this is also
a time of reevaluation of your resources, and how you prioritize these resources
in your life. Your finances could also be affected. The rule of thumb is to
expect the unexpected and count on nothing – make no book on any particular
outcome – right through to the middle of June.
The Full Moon in your opposite sign that comes along on Friday, May 8th, lends
focus on bonding with others around you, and as well signals philosophical
departures from Fixed ideas that were formerly holding you back. New partnership
connections will take on a spiritual glow right now since your ruler Venus
currently resides in your sector of inner work and dream imagination. With
respect to career and how you put yourself out there into the world around
you, you are occupying an entirely idealized place. This provides much food
for thought over the remaining weeks of this interesting monthly cycle.
The Last Quarter Moon of the next weekend, taking place late on Saturday night,
May 16th, stimulates these ideas and gives you enthusiasm for what you are
all about these days as well as a certain degree of angst about achieving it.
The days that follow, into the next week, constitute a thoughtful period.
The New Moon a week later, on Sunday, May 24th makes for a fresh start in evaluating
your sense of security and the resources that you have to work with in achieving
your aims. You are making a stand for yourself at this time, and it is a spiritual
stand.
Gemini 
(May
20 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
This month you are in the world but not of it, Gemini, finding yourself more
internally than outer oriented. You are coming to new means of softer intimacy
with others and even yourself. Your introspective stance is made more noticeable
at the time of the May 6th retrograde of your ruler Mercury in your sign, followed
by its moving backward into your sector of dreams over the next six weeks or
so. As you turn to the unseen world, this period is a good one for meditating
or other spiritual practices, and it is likely too that your dream life will
be richly informative. This is a good time to take stock of where your life
is heading right now, and how your actions ultimately serve your highest purpose.
As the month begins, you are feeling excited by the mundane world that surrounds
you and also, simultaneously, in-dwelling within the structures of your secret
soul. With your ruler Mercury about to turn retrograde in your sign, you are
at the moment both inner and outer in your affect and in your presence, which
is largely a spiritual presence at this time. You are reaching out philosophically
to points of view other than your own, to angel guidance perhaps, and seeking
to explore distant horizons mentally if not physically.
When Mercury turns to retrograde motion on Wednesday, May 6th, you will likely
feel the shift, especially if you were born in May rather than June. The Mercury
retrograde period affects you strongly since Mercury stations in your sign
and in aspect to Pluto. This period lasts until mid-June when you count the
time of the retrograde shadow, and is excellent for journaling and for research
of all kinds, but not so good for making new contacts or even for communication
with existing ones. You can expect mechanical breakdowns and missed connections,
and choose to practice patience and meditation, always a virtue.
With the Full Moon of Friday, May 8th, you are entering in some ways into the
best of both worlds, as long as you can remain open to the possibilities that
surround you. You are changing at the core, and you have to be prepared for
the metamorphosis that is occurring. As the poet says, “you can’t
go back and you can’t stand still.” The locomotive is coming down
the tracks and it will take you with it if you will join the energy or knock
you aside if you won’t. You are seeking a path between the horns of your
dilemma, a leap of faith.
With the Last Quarter Moon of Saturday evening and Sunday morning, May 16th
and 17th, you could be finding it.
The New Moon in your sign that comes along a week later, taking place on Sunday,
May 24th, represents a whole new way of looking at the day. The next couple
of weeks, on into June, may prove climactic in taking a fresh starting point
for your march into personal evolution and for incorporating a spiritual perspective
while doing so.
Cancer 
(June
21 - July 21) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
You are feeling your way into a new phase, Cancer. This involves a sincere
revision of the way in which the unseen world inside your heart interacts with
the rest of your life. You are future-oriented right now, especially over the
first week of May, and definitely taking Spirit to be a necessary component
for your journey of self-discovery. Your wishes are powerful, and you are manifesting
your social connection anew with each one of them. You are also involved up
to your eyebrows in better understanding the your relationship dynamic with
others. The remainder of the month might be seen as a long meditation on all
your possibilities and how they play out in the bigger picture of your life
at large as you gracefully reinvent yourself.
As the month begins, you are riding the wave of transforming energy from the
previous New Moon in your sector of societal involvement. You are feeling the
process of benevolent transformation sweeping through your life; the time has
come to make a change and the only question is how far you dare to go. In your
search for greater meaning and more profound participation, it is of course
best not to totally abandon previous foundations, if that is even possible.
Instead you must be prepared to integrate the best part of what has gone before
as you move forward.
The First Quarter Moon that kicks off the first weekend of the month, on Friday,
May 1st, represents a time of reassessment. You are energized in the direction
of greater and more spiritual involvement with social groups that you favor,
and greater intimacy with those closest to you as well, but there is also a
hesitation to entirely let the barriers down that block you from achievement.
In order to take advantage of the opportunities present to you right now you
must be brave. If you manage to follow your fear and explore it, in order to
see where it might lead you, you could be surprised at the outcome.
With the Full Moon of Friday, May 8th, you may be ready to commit yourself
more fully. No doubt there are difficult changes that you are making at this
time, both with regard to important relationships in your life and within your
own soul. This is a time of the flowering of potential positive impulse and
also a time of realization of the great changes thrust upon you right now.
The Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, taking place late evening and
early morning on Saturday and Sunday, May 16th and 17th, represents another
crux of change, when you might find some degree of tension in your process
that inhibits smooth sailing and also when you are coming to a form of wisdom
surrounding the transformation that you are currently in the midst of.
The New Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, May 24th, and
the days following, represent another reminder of the tides of change that
are sweeping over you and around you at this time.
With Mercury retrograde almost this entire month, this current cycle represents
also an excellent time to take stock and see what you have accomplished thus
far and assess how much distance remains unconquered. It is a long haul from
point A to point B but it is well said that the journey of one thousand miles
begins with a single step.
Leo 
(July
22 - August 21) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
This is your time to shine on the public stage, Leo. Of course you love that,
and yet you are also looking more deeply into the part you play and questioning
how that role connects with your highest sense of purpose for yourself, going
forward. Especially after the 6th, with Mercury retrograde in your career sector
you will no doubt be revising your priorities and remaking professional decisions.
Everything changes again by mid-June, so it pays to hold off on major shifts
until then. All through this monthly period, and accelerating after the 17th,
you will find yourself taking a spiritual factor strongly into account in your
musings for how you might better integrate inner and outer agendas to more
effectively serve yourself and the world around you.
As the month begins, you are making a fresh start on career opportunities.
You are also coming to see partnership with others as a valuable adjunct and
to examine the benefits of enthusiastic or perhaps self-sacrificing partners
for your own way forward. It is also possible with regard to significant partners
in your life that you are examining the hesitation that holds you back from
full participation.
In the days surrounding the First Quarter Moon in your sign, of Friday, May
1st, you are feeling loads of energy for social activation and for thinking
about your future, but with also the pulling back from outer achievement represented
by the impending Mercury retrograde in your sector of hopes and future plans.
The Full Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Friday, May 8th, will
energize you further and present you with the flowering of what you are striving
for during this monthly cycle since the New Moon of last month. This configuration
also signals the time of introspection that the Mercury retrograde period traditionally
brings. This is especially true of this particular retrograde period, for members
of your sign, since the process of imagination and visualization for the future
is the precise location of the retrograde, which then moves backward into your
career sector.
Furthermore, Saturn, planet of limitation, is simultaneously slowing down and
making its station to direct motion in your resources sector. This is therefore
a time for you of great desire and of great holding back, as you closely examine
the potential moving forward and the limits to growth that are equally strongly
expressed in your reactions to the events of your life.
The Last Quarter Moon a week later, taking place in the late evening of Saturday,
May 16th, brings the wisdom of evaluating the failed as well as the successful
results of recent activities, together with a degree of idealization and also
of uncertainty. You might find that you have high hopes at this time and yet
also hesitate to act on them; this form of discretion could indeed become “the
better part of valor.”
The New Moon a week later on, taking place on Sunday, May 24th, gives you fresh
impetus to move forward with your life plans, even though the retrograde period
still applies and the cautions thereof, to not push the river nor to make any
drastic departure from the existing program. With regard to relationships in
your life, you are also still likely doing the dance of desire and holding
back. Great ideals in the arena of partnership participation can border on
great illusion also. The trick is to focus your energy on non-attachment to
any particular outcome, even as you articulate your wishes. Once you put your
agenda out to there, it is wise to let it go, leaving the details and the ultimate
result up to the agency of some other and more universal arbiter of fate.
Virgo 
(August
22 - September 21) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
This is a philosophically active month for you, Virgo, when new insight and
also some revision to your thinking could emerge. You are finding perspective
shifts and novel creativity all the time these days and the only difficulty
is that these different ways to express yourself might supersede your original
style, so that you have to be ready to make some changes there. Everything
evolves; it is a law of nature. After Mercury retrogrades on the 6th you will
likely be mulling over the effects on your life of these seismic alterations
in your affairs. There are definite implications for where you are headed with
your life in general. An idealistic pattern could emerge in your heart of hearts
for what you really want to become when you finally grow up.
As the month begins, you are charging forward, fully at home in the world of
manifestation. You are also full of imagination and the dawning of new perspectives
on your life and times. In the midst of it all, you are seeking to become more
adept at being of true service to the world around you. There is a sense of
heaviness to your journey lately that becomes lighter when you find how best
to put yourself out there for others without it be a sacrifice or a burden.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, May 1st, presents a few bumps in the road
to actually achieving these goals, and brings into the equation a more thoughtful
reliance on Spirit.
With the Full Moon that takes place a week later, on Friday, May 8th, an even
more introspective stance could begin to emerge. Your ruler Mercury is powerfully
placed in your chart at this time and is now retrograde, meaning that you might
do better to reflect on what is happening and the ramifications of events in
your life rather than to attempt to shape them in any way or to actually move
forward in new directions. In the weeks to come, you will likely spend much
time reflecting on career choices that you have made or that are in process
for you now, and coming to philosophical conclusions concerning them.
The Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend, beginning late on May 16th,
is also fairly epic in this way, and tunes you in to the holiness of the ordinary.
Your health is good at this time, although there could be worries about this
area of life, or regarding the service role that you habitually undertake with
others around you. You are in a fundamentally good place with all these questions,
coming at them from a truly spiritual perspective, when you open your eyes
to what is really going on beneath the surface of your personality.
The New Moon of the following weekend, taking place on Sunday, May 24th, will
jump-start your career initiatives, although it will be best to wait until
mid-June to make any radical departure from an existing plan. You are going
through big changes these days, and your self-expression reflects this as you
put yourself forward with your best foot and your most determined voice. But
still there is time to plan and dream. You want to be recognized for what you
are, and yet determining exactly who that person is might take some time.
Libra 
(September
22 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
You are entering a new phase, Libra. This month the stars incline you toward
an unknown destination, and it could be that the reward is found in the journey
itself. There is joy in the discovery and the exploration, but only if you
pack extremely light, leaving all your preconceptions behind as you climb aboard.
Partnership is powerful for you at this time and contributes mightily to the
arc of your own development. Your ongoing process of refining and redefining
your position on life and love continues into the present cycle, especially
with Mercury retrograding through your sector of intimacy and personal evolution.
It’s amazing how life consistently builds upon itself and continues in
a new phrase that is somehow based on the earlier segment but is also entirely
different.
As the month begins, you are reaping the rewards of close partnership in your
life, whatever form that takes, feeling the increase in energy that you get
from allowing others in and also enjoying the stimulation for your own arc
of development. This is a beautiful time, and a delicate one, when you are
perched on the edge of greater self-knowledge and when your worldview is changing
to accommodate an expanded awareness of the full range of your possibilities.
The days immediately surrounding the First Quarter Moon of Friday, May 1st,
could bring some tension to your process of growth as you grapple with issues
of how best to incorporate perspectives other than your own into your psyche
without losing track of your unique point of view in that accommodation.
You are changing mightily over the course of this important year and this month
represents only the most recent flowering. Some of these concerns might come
to a head at the time of the Full Moon of Friday, May 8th, when the outline
of your basic transformation seems fully evident.
Mercury is also retrograde in your sector of higher mind, as of the 6th, enabling
you to be taking a philosophical and introspective stance on everything that
is happening to you. You are blossoming these days and you are also hesitant
about your next steps, asking yourself the implicit question of whether you
can be all that you imagine in your wildest dreams of your future self.
With the Last Quarter Moon of late Saturday night and early Sunday morning,
the 16th and 17th, these issues return in more dramatic form as a series of
perceived incompatible results that give you pause, while simultaneously increasing
your understanding of your situation.
When the Gemini New Moon comes along in the middle of the following weekend,
early on Sunday, May 24th, you are making a fresh start on planning your future
in a way that is consistent with inner guidelines. Limitation is on the one
hand a concrete fact of life that inhibits action while on the other is only
as real as you make it out to be. The true lesson of this period of time for
you is that, with the help of the universe that surrounds you, you are the
final arbiter of your life’s journey so long as you have the wisdom to
set off in the right direction.
Scorpio 
(October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
This is a potent month for you, Scorpio. Your focus is on partnership with
important others in your life, even as you seek to find the bliss of your own
way forward. You are revising your approach in this area, and it spills over
to your entire conceptualization. Expansion and potentially confusion in the
home and family department leave you guessing, but it is all part of your ongoing
investigation of your possibilities. You are taking your intended future quite
seriously these days, and it is tempting to have it all figured out in some
manner or fashion but this is somehow destined not to be the case. You win
when you steer a middle course between knowing where you’re going and
just going anyway, without needing to know.
As the month begins, you are feeling the importance of partners in your life
in a new way. Relationship with others around you is a vital part right now
of your own process of self-recognition. You are communicating your most basic
truth at this time, as well as reaching out to others in order to gain perspective
on your own situation as you explore the very depths of your being. You are
strong on service to the larger collective right now, and investigating how
the cogwheels of your personal involvement fit into the larger picture of society
around you. In the first week of the current month, you are trying out new
ideas, only somewhat conflicted by the apparent contradictions.
At the time of the Full Moon in your sign that comes along on Friday, May 8th,
you are feeling both energized and also somewhat anxious. The future beckons
but it is difficult to know exactly how to proceed or what actions on your
part will concretely pan out in the long run. These last few weeks may have
been confusing, because you are attempting to integrate new material into your
thought process involving partnership, and your dynamics with family members
as well, that takes into account a viewpoint that is essentially beyond the
physical.
The secret is to do the best you can and put your agenda out there as clearly
as you can state it, and then to let go of your attachment to it and allow
the universe to actualize according to a greater plan. This takes faith, and
constant practice, but repays sustained effort. With Mercury retrograde at
this time also, there are some things that it is not profitable to decide this
month but it is best to wait on.
The Last Quarter Moon of late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, the
16th and 17th, represents another moment of tension in your progress, a time
when you could be balancing issues of self and other as you further explore
important tribal connections to family and home, and to the roots of your being.
The Gemini New Moon of Sunday, May 24th, that begins the next cycle is also
powerful for you in regard to including others into your own process of growth.
This last week of the May, following the New Moon, is a time of increasing
awareness of how everything in your life is interconnected. It is a time of
adjustment as well, and of introspection, with Mercury still retrograde in
your relationship sector. There is an edge to your energy with others these
days that cuts both ways, partially severing what no longer serves you but
also opening up your awareness to what ultimately does.
Sagittarius 
(Nov
22 - Dec 20) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
You are in the midst of another month of graceful epiphany, Sagittarius, accompanied
by the hard work of taking your realizations to the next level of actualizing
them. This entire year is a profound time in many ways for you. As your values
shift and the way you manage your resources morphs in tandem, you benefit by
communicating your deepest intention to others around you. Partnership is powerful
as the month unfolds, and revising your approach in that area leads to interesting
reconceptualizing of your path forward. Service to the local community and
to humanity at large becomes your mantra for this cycle as you explore the
interface between Spirit and ordinary life. What begins to dawn on you is – contrary
to the consensus viewpoint – their essential oneness.
As the month begins, you are feeling yourself reborn, especially with regard
to your creativity and for how you see yourself plugging in to society around
you and enacting your own unique destiny for this lifetime. You have been working
hard at achieving your aims for lo, these many weeks now, and perhaps the time
has come to step back and consider where you are going and why. This is the
season of your ascendancy but everything has to take time to breathe and to
balance. The retrograde of Mercury through your partnership sector ensures
that you will be subject to reflection on exactly where that area of your life
is leading you.
The opening week of May, leading up to the Full Moon, is a time of gathering
energy when you are exploring what does and doesn’t work for you right
now, and the tension between these viewpoints. This is also a time when Mercury
is simultaneously slowing to a standstill, meaning that your forward momentum
is many areas of your life could also become slowed and introspective.
The Full Moon that takes place on Friday, May 8th, is an important crux of
time when you are cautiously optimistic about the future while preparing for
the changes that you sense coming. Since Mercury is moving backwards since
the 6th, it is also a good time to reflect on things and perhaps even to journal
or discuss your situation. Your communication with others is excited, mystical
and wise at this time, and also reveals the places where you might feel slightly
hesitant about truly stepping up to the plate with what you believe and fully
unlocking your tremendous potential.
The Last Quarter Moon of the following weekend is another occasion for getting
your ideas out, in one form or another, and exploring your dark as well as
your light places.
The New Moon in your opposite sign takes place one week later, on Sunday, May
24th, and represents a fresh start with partnership and with your own sense
of purpose and security. You are very involved with significant others in your
life at this time, and with taking a closer look at your relationship dynamic
and how it lines up with your own way forward. When you closely examine the
significance of others in your life and their contributions to the arc of your
own development it makes a crystal-like alignment with the other quickening
parts of yourself to form a graceful whole.
Capricorn 
(Dec
21 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
Times are tough in some ways for you these days, Capricorn, but you can counter
the weight of necessity by amping up your own creative juices. Some kind of
attitude adjustment is likely. A maelstrom of changing perspectives and philosophical
musings still allows you to benefit from letting the simple pleasures guide
you for a while. Romance and play are more readily available to you now than
usual and constitute important ways that you can let your own light shine through.
As you manage to keep alert to your possibilities you continue your process
of throwing off the influence of received conditioning and automatic thinking.
Surprising information serves to remind you that the steady base beneath you
is moving and that you must remain flexible to keep your footing on the rolling
deck.
As the month begins, you are feeling into the secret roots of your being, allowing
the realization to sink in that this area of your life is an important although
largely hidden part of your life’s journey. The way that you operate
mentally right now is based on an eclectic mix of information and intuition,
which serves you well in this powerful year of transformation. In the light
of these more mystical leanings, your focus for this monthly cycle is your
self-expression, which is varied and vast and reflective of the giant changes
that you have been engaged in all year long.
With the advent of the First Quarter Moon of Friday, May 1st, there might be
some moments of tension in your process of self-recognition, but these will
be minor compared to the overall forward movement of this time period. You
are departing from the beaten path in all your endeavors and although this
can be scary it is also necessary for you right now.
With the Full Moon a week later, on Friday, May 8th, you are likely to see
more deeply into your future calling. Mercury is retrograde as of the 6th,
and this period through to the middle of next month is very useful for introspection,
and for journaling about where you are heading in your life these days, but
not so good for leaping ahead with new plans or decisions. Your worldview is
changing along with changing circumstances and it is important to reflect on
where the universe is taking you, and why. There is always a higher spiritual
reason to be found if you search diligently.
The Last Quarter Moon takes place a week later, on Saturday night and Sunday
morning, May 16th and 17th, capping a day when your ruler Saturn also turns
direct in your sector of higher mind. The week that follows, the last week
of the lunar cycle, symbolizes even more strongly a time to reflect on what
is taking place all around you and the metamorphosis that you are going through.
The way that your values and your resources are shifting is both freeing and
somewhat diffuse in action, resisting categorization. This naturally leads
to fear of the unknown, which can change to euphoria in an instant, so that
the best policy is not to be swayed very strongly in either direction.
The New Moon that comes along in the following weekend, taking place on Sunday,
May 24th, will be grounding in its influence, even as it stimulates you mentally
and also reminds you once more, and powerfully, of the changes that are being
thrust upon you. Change may be difficult to relate to but is omnipresent since
life itself is change. The only hardship is in the resistance to change that
is produced by the lower mind. As Shakespeare puts it, “there’s
nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” Wrapping your mind
around this idea and truly embracing it is easier said than done, but definitely
repays the effort.
Aquarius 
(Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
This is a confusing but ultimately illuminating time for you, Aquarius. There
are various modes that you are operating in right now, and one of them is an
informed disillusion with business as usual. Trouble is, that may leave you
at sea for where to go instead, and as this monthly cycle unfolds, you are
looking within yourself for the answers. Home and family concerns dominate
your thinking and may lead to important realizations. You are descending into
your depths in order that you might eventually surmount apparent confusion.
The good news in all this is that the answer is but a gesture away. Your container
is only as limited as your mind may make it, and everything resolves once you
firmly believe in your own power to enlarge the scope of your endeavor.
As the month begins, you are in the process of reviving an important aspect
of domicile and family, perhaps connected with tribe or extended family, perhaps
closer to home and the psychological roots of your being. This is an important
month when you might be able to make great progress in understanding yourself
at deeper levels. Since Mercury is also getting ready to turn retrograde in
your sector of self-expression, this is also a time of reflection and introspection,
when your energy is focused inward, rather than along the lines of direct action.
The days surrounding the First Quarter Moon of Friday, May 1st, are an important
crux of energy when you might run into a few snags along the way to self-realization,
perhaps involving significant partners in your life. You are coming to realize
the value of others in mapping out your own path, but it is important also
to balance and to gain perspective on their contribution.
The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Friday, May 8th, renews this idea
in a way that is both beneficial and partially stressful. You are pulled to
both shared and solitary resource management at this time, and seeking to find
the middle ground in your dealings with others, the mythical Golden Mean. It
may be that specters from the ancient past of childhood trauma arise at this
time to confound your sense of self-worth, although there is also an extremely
good opening right now to heal these issues and move beyond them. When you
are able to accept yourself at all levels, warts and all, you have made great
progress toward integration of all your parts and the concept of being comfortable
in your own skin. You are finding right now a spiritual message in the midst
of hesitation and potential confusion and are only partially stuck.
With the Last Quarter Moon in your sign of the following weekend, which takes
place in the late evening of Saturday, May 16th, you are empowered and energized
to make necessary changes, even though you are in an entirely philosophic mode
regarding any actual activities in support of those changes. Action might have
to wait at least until after Mercury straightens out at the end of the month,
and perhaps for as long as the finale of the Mercury retrograde shadow period
in mid-June.
The New Moon that follows one week further on, taking place in your sector
of self-expression, brings the developments of these past few weeks together
as the springboard for a new phase of creativity and meaningful transformation.
Pisces 
(Feb
19 - March 19) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
Welcome to the land of non-obvious blessings, Pisces. This is an important
time of celebration and mystical revelation and is also not without surprises
for you as you practically sleepwalk through your daily round. The future beckons
you onward, but not in any way that conditioned thoughts can recognize. An
opportunity for growth presents itself to you over and over again throughout
this monthly cycle but you might need an unfocused inner gaze in order to perceive
it. Communication becomes inward-directed and somewhat problematic on one level,
especially after the 6th, but equally it becomes more illuminating from the
standpoint of mystical awareness. There is only the One and there are fortunate
flashes that point you in this direction when you are able to close your eyes
and fully see them.
As the month begins, you are finding your place in a universe that only partially
corresponds to the everyday mundane world of the here and now. There is a secret
communication taking place within you, or perhaps between you and your angel
guides, that you are likely only dimly aware of and that feeds you information
from beyond this physical plane. Yours is a mystical sign, so in some ways
you feel right at home with this energy, while in others it might seem a bit
strange. You are simultaneously pulling back from your involvement with this
unseen world, perhaps afraid that you might disappear. Both these responses
are perfectly natural given the mix of energies swirling around in your psyche
these days as a result of the conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in
your sector of dream imagination.
The First Quarter Moon of Friday, May 1st, represents a moment of tension in
your process, perhaps a time when you find it more appropriate to question
your faith than to yield to it.
With the Full Moon a week later on, taking place on Friday, May 8th, there
is a sense of having come through. This is also the time of the retrograde
of Mercury and you are likely to be strongly affected. It’s best not
to push the river at this time, nor to expect too much of situations that you
are involved with. Instead resolve to gracefully yield. If you can let go of
expectation, you will reap the reward of finding a degree of peace with your
situation.
Everything in your life is still in motion; it’s just that if you can
relax and enjoy the ride. It doesn’t have to be so difficult. You will
find at this time that you are looking more deeply into situations with partners,
and with family. Since this is an introspective period of time it might be
well to journal as a way of getting in touch with yourself on these matters.
The Last Quarter Moon of late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, May
16th and 17th, and the days following, serve to remind you yet again of the
hidden side of life and how it feeds and underlies everything.
The New Moon in your home and family sector that follows a week later, on Sunday,
May 24th, takes you further into the richness of an inner space as an adjunct
and flow that blends seamlessly with the surface part of yourself. You are
in the world at this time but not of it, as you reflect on the mystery and
look inside for the most important answers. Inner and outer are but two sides
of the same coin and reflect each other, so that you are wise not to expect
too much from either direction.
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Overview
of the Planets this month: Top
The
Astrology of May features Venus, Mars, Neptune, Chiron and
Pluto, and Mercury is retrograde most of the month, meaning
this could be a frustrating month as well, with a spate of
missed communications and mechanical breakdowns. These apparent
difficulties could even be magnified, since Mercury aspects
Pluto as it stations, and because the issues of limitation
represented by Saturn are still very active. Pluto in Capricorn
is still very much with us throughout the year, and triggered
by this month’s configurations. This Pluto transit
represents necessary albeit painful restructuring. Saturn
remains singular, on its own side of the Zodiac apart from
all the rest of the planets, and therefore also emphasized.
The lesson here is for all of us to pay careful attention
to everything that happens to us right now with a minimum
of reactivity. If we hold on tight and stay the course we
will eventually see the benefits of our striving.
Mercury stations retrograde on May 6th in the early degrees of Gemini, and
aspects Pluto as it changes direction. The period of the retrograde lasts about
five weeks, counting the time of the “retrograde shadow.” May 15th
to the 17th, when Mercury conjuncts the Sun, represents one highlight of the
retrograde. Mercury turns to direct motion on May 30th, but does not re-enter
Gemini and regain its lost zodiacal longitude until mid-June. There will be
a gradual easing off of the retrograde condition, but it is best not to push
things until then. Also on the 30th, the direct motion will be accompanied
by uncertainty of a different kind, since Mercury also squares Neptune, Chiron
and Jupiter for nearly two weeks at this time. This is likely to be an extremely
powerful Mercury retrograde period due to the aspects made with Pluto and with
Neptune. All in all, this will be a difficult time, but one that is terrific
for introspection and journaling, as we attempt to come to grips with our deeper
issues both individually and collectively.
Neptune is featured in these May skies as well, especially as a participant
in a forming triple conjunction with Jupiter and Chiron. This symbolism is
full of healing potential, and is especially strong from the 17th until around
the time of the Gemini New Moon of May 24th in the middle of Memorial Day weekend.
The configuration is active to the end of the year, staying extremely close
through late summer. As these planets draw nearer to each other in the current
timeframe, we begin to feel the effects in terms of idealistic social values
and also greater awareness of our separation from this ideal or from our spiritual
essence. Ironically, this separation is only an illusion, albeit a powerful
one. Could we but see our world – and ourselves – as whole, our
supposed fall from grace could flip in an instant’s epiphany, which is
something that Eckhart Tolle has famously been promoting in his recent epic
best seller, A New Earth.
Venus, newly direct, remains in conjunction with Mars for this entire month
and squares Pluto from the 1st to the 8th as Mercury retrogrades. Our relationships
will be on our minds for most of this month and we will be looking into our
hidden motivations regarding the way that we relate. Right relationship with
each other – and indeed with ourselves and with our planet – represents
the only way out of our current set of almost inconceivable dilemmas. Perhaps
it’s time we got started.
Current Moon Configurations
May 1st First Quarter Moon
This dynamic configuration reflects the traditional reading as a “crisis
in action,” namely that your progress in the first week after the creative
impulse of the New Moon will hit some snags. The new shoot sticks its head
above ground for the first time, but is very vulnerable at this stage and completely
subject to environmental conditions that may limit it severely. The Taurus
New Moon that we are working off of made a quintile aspect to the forming Jupiter,
Chiron, Neptune triple conjunction, indicating a subtle and optimistic trend
in our thinking. It also signaled the beginning of a weeks-long conjunction
between Mars and Venus. This is an aggressive Venus, newly risen from the underworld
in feisty Aries. Now, in this May timeframe, Venus is square to Pluto, meaning
that we will be taking a closer look at the many forms of relationship in our
lives with the growth-oriented idea of transforming them. Since Mercury is
also newly in Gemini and about to turn retrograde this is a tentative time
with respect to thought forms and communications in general.
May 6th Mercury retrograde
This is the official start to the Mercury retrograde period that was already
edging into being over the previous week or so. This is therefore likely to
be a time of missed communications and mechanical breakdown, as inner contemplation
is favored and outer form slows. Events begun under the retrograde will likely
reverse or change direction in some way after the retrograde period is over.
This retrograde period will be particularly intense since Mercury aspects Pluto
and the Nodal Axis as it stations, and will last approximately five weeks,
counting the period of the retrograde shadow. Mercury turns to direct motion
on May 30th and returns to Gemini on June 13th, regaining its lost Zodiacal
ground by June 15th.
May 8th Full Moon
This Full Moon represents the flowering of our ideas from the time when the
Taurus New Moon took place during the last weekend of April. It occupies the
middle of the opposite sign – Scorpio – and makes a T-square to
Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius, indicating that creative solutions
are possible. They begin with a simple gesture: we have only to turn toward
the light of our higher Selves. There is a sextile to Saturn, plus a powerful
sesquiquadrate and semi-square to Pluto in Capricorn, reminding us that on
the other hand the fullness of our transformation requires slow and steady
hard work to fulfill itself, that there is no free lunch.
May 17th Last Quarter Moon
This is a dynamic configuration since the Moon conjuncts the forming triple
conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune, now within a degree of exact. The
Sun also aspects Pluto in a subtle bi-quintile aspect indicative of harmony.
Saturn stations just one day earlier, on the 16th and is therefore emphasized.
The founding father of modern Western Humanistic astrology, Dane Rudhyar, called
this Last Quarter Moon a “crisis of consciousness,” since with
regard to the energy of the preceding New Moon we are now in a position to
reap the benefits of our experience of what worked out, and what didn’t,
in the form of higher awareness that becomes the seed of our next phase. With
Saturn emphasized and aspecting Venus/Mars, difficulty and limitation are an
important part of this picture, as well as the fundamental optimism that is
another key to our current experience.
May 24th New Moon
This New Moon accompanies the almost exact triple conjunction of Jupiter, Chiron
and Neptune referred to earlier. With Jupiter and Neptune in this picture,
acting on Chiron, we have a tremendous impulse to take the high road in our
dealing with each other, and indeed with ourselves, and to heal the wounds
of the past. When we consider Chiron in action upon Jupiter and Neptune, we
might find that there is a hesitation to move forward with our highest ideals
for ourselves. Whatever we aspire to we can attain, except that the shadow
of our doubt gets in the way. This Gemini New Moon aspects Pluto, reminding
us that along with the graceful impulse toward a future that we can really
live for, the road to our achievement necessarily involves deep transformation.
May 30th First Quarter Moon
This First Quarter Moon once again symbolizes potential bumps in the road to
actualizing our full potential, and represents a period of relative tension
in our process of increasing awareness and growth. Venus is sextile to a stationing
Neptune, while the Sun is quintile to Uranus, bringing the mutual reception
of these two outer planets into sharper relief. Neptune together with Uranus
and Jupiter indicates that the time might be ripe for the seeds of positive
change to be planted.
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2008 AstroGraph
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