Your Monthly Horoscope
Astrology Basics:
At the moment you were born, the planets, the moon, the sun, and the star constellations that are the 12 signs of the Zodiac, were all in a specific place (whether it was daylight or night!). The same force (type of gravity) that holds the planets in their orbit around the sun, and which holds all the stars in their specific locations in our galaxy, effects you here on earth. The combined forces from all those bodies in the universe effect each of us on the earth in a very real and significant way. All of those forces also effect each other, depending on the angle at which they meet and depending upon the way that the qualities of each universal body interact with the other, which then effects you in a particular way.
The way these forces are aligned with each other, and their nearness to you at the moment of your birth, determine what your basic personality is like – the framework of who you are, by which everything else you experience after that moment will be measured. These forces determine how you will be inclined to perceive your world and react to your world, in other words they determine the framework of your personality.
You still have absolute free will, given to you by the Creator, so you can be whoever you want to be. Astrology helps you see and understand your basic personality makeup, so that you can use that information to see and experience your hidden talents, see what motivates you in order to use that knowledge to lead you to fulfillment, and see how to overcome whatever weakness or self-doubt you may have.
Horoscope for May 2025
You’ll get a more accurate horoscope if you read your Rising sign, and your Moon sign, as well as your Sun sign. Here’s how
Your Sun sign represents your Self, your way of being in the world. It can represent both the ego (mental) self and the higher Self (soul purpose). It symbolizes your will and sense of vitality. Your Sun sign horoscope will tell you what these areas of your self will encounter this month.
Your Rising sign represents your outer mask, the self you show to others. It symbolizes how you appear to others, how others perceive you, in your true interaction with the world. Your Rising sign horoscope will tell you what to expect in these areas of your self this month.
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). The Moon also indicates the type of partner you will attract, since it represents your emotional self. Your Moon sign horoscope will show you what these areas of your self will encounter this month.
The rather intense month just past again yields to a May month that is more than a little wildly complex, Aries. You have bouncing around overhead – as well as within your psyche – both Saturn and Uranus, with the latter rather better at success, so that surprise events and unexpected revelations continue to be the disorder of the day, with shattering rules and precedents seemingly more likely than keeping them currently applicable. Your creativity is alive and activated, your personal identity shifts weighty and inevitable, while your relationship dynamic is certainly affected also, potentially leading you into a somewhat activist agenda that involves trusted partners. The Scorpio Full Moon of May 12th accentuates the relationship theme, with more issues of self and other being brought to the light of consciousness and reason. There is also a decidedly mystical alignment right from the month’s very start and more so in this mid-month timing. The Last Quarter Moon of May 20th highlights Uranus and its proclivity for brand new perspectives that present a stark contrast to your status quo ante. The conflict rages with no clear winner but tons of choices to fill your head and your heart and to further your process of education, evolution, and transformation.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
May begins downstream from the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which set the tone for the lunation cycle unfolding throughout the month. This New Moon carried a very intense fixed-sign T-square between Mars – your ruling planet – in Leo, Pluto in Aquarius, and the Sun and Moon. This is a forceful configuration likely activating themes around your finances, values, and sense of personal worth. With this potent New Moon taking place in this chart sector of your values, resources, and finances, you are experiencing something of a fresh start in this area, and it might be said, as well, that personal transformation is involved. It could be that what you hold to be true on the inside is being tested in some way, and that your outer actions might need to come into closer alignment with your inner principles and values. While this setup can bring pressure or disruptions, it also offers a potent opportunity to re-evaluate what abundance means to you and to reshape your material life from a place of deeper inner alignment.
Venus has returned to Aries after her retrograde journey, and from the 1st to the 2nd makes a conjunction with Neptune – also freshly arrived in your sign, opening a new ~14-year chapter in your journey of personal self-expression. This convergence activates your identity sector, opening a doorway into authenticity and spiritual embodiment. You may feel more attuned to your creative vision, your intuitive sense of style, or your longing for a more authentic, soulful existence. Venus last met Neptune while still in Pisces – and now they’re meeting again in your sign, suggesting that something important could be ripening within you: perhaps a clearer sense of what you value in yourself and how you wish to connect with others from that place.
On May 4th, Pluto stations retrograde in early Aquarius, spotlighting themes of transformation and psychological depth that particularly affect your social sector. With Pluto’s strong involvement in the recent New Moon, activating this sector of friendships, communities and long-term vision for the future, this month may amplify questions around your unique place in the collective. You may wish to reflect on where you feel true resonance within your communities – and where certain group dynamics no longer reflect your values or aspirations.
Mercury enters Taurus on the 10th, further echoing the emphasis on resources, values, and your financial picture. This could be a productive time to revisit monetary plans, negotiate agreements, or bring more mindfulness to your internal dialogue around security and worth.
The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 12th delivers another wave of intensity and potential surprises or disruptions. Opposite the Sun and Uranus, this lunation highlights the terrain of shared resources, collaborations, and the depths of your psyche. Themes around giving and receiving – especially in material or energetic forms – may surface for deeper examination. There could also be intuitional realizations of great pith and moment that might help to guide you into a greater integration of inner principles and values in combination with outer persona. Inner wounding might one factor in all this, prompting acceptance, curiosity, and investigation; and this could potentially lead to improved understanding of your very depths. This is another moment of profound inner work and metamorphosis, particularly around trust, control, and vulnerability.
On May 20th, the Sun enters Gemini, inviting fresh air into the mix, and shifting the spotlight into your third sector of learning, local environment, and siblings. A mental shift may occur, one that encourages curiosity, sharing ideas, and learning.
Just four days later, on the 24th, Saturn finally enters your sign for the first time in nearly three decades! It joins Neptune there, and the two will travel to within just a quarter of a degree in July and then fade to two degrees in mid-September. This marks a powerful new cycle, one that invites you to bring a more structured approach to your spiritual and personal growth. You may experience some reality checks – moments that feel sobering or even disillusioning – that may ultimately help clarify your deeper sense of self and purpose. You may feel called to bring more definition to your aspirations, and to take concrete steps toward embodying your most inspired self. With Saturn in your sign, there’s a call to claim authority over your path – not through force, but through steady, intentional presence, self-responsibility, and a fierce kind of grace.
Another powerful juncture as the month draws to a close is the Gemini New Moon of May 26th in your third sector of communication and learning. Being conjunct Mercury, the messenger planet having entered Gemini the previous day, and in trine with transformational Pluto, this lunation energizes your mind and encourages deep inquiry. If a subject has been tugging at your awareness, this is a time to follow that thread with focus, devotion, and curiosity. There’s potential here for mental transformation, perhaps through study, writing, dialogue, or simply engaging with what fascinates you most. With Saturn and Neptune forming a sextile to both Mercury and Pluto, your insights could carry a powerful sense of purpose and spiritual resonance. This moment invites you to connect your evolving worldview with your actions and decisions in a tangible way.
Overall this month carries a Plutonian undertone – deep, catalytic, and transformative. But it also brings glimmers of forward momentum, especially as Mercury, Venus, and Mars continue to recover from their retrogrades, which heavily colored the entire first quarter of the year. For you, Aries, there’s real potential to reclaim your vitality, creative drive, and spiritual direction. What emerges now may feel luminous, raw, and more authentically you. The invitation is to move with intention, to honor both depth and clarity, and to follow the trail of what feels meaningful, alive, and worthy of your fire.
This month, Taurus – with the continuation of outer planet activations – is a month of evolving identity fed by the roller coaster astrology of recent months. The recent New Moon in your sign that governs most of May features a grand cross in Fixed signs indicated by the Sun and Moon at 7° in square to Mars at 4° of Leo, also to transformational Pluto at 3° of Aquarius, in close opposition to Mars, and with the new 21st century plant Haumea at 2° of Scorpio, in your opposite sign. This latter planetary archetype brings partners into the picture of your current astrology. These angular placements contribute vocational changes, issues of home and family, and shifts in your very sense of identity. The volatile Scorpio Full Moon of the 12th and the Moon’s Last Quarter of May 20th in the final degree of Aquarius are also quite telling. Saturn in Pisces and Uranus in your sign are greatly activated in their sextile, which speaks of the conflict between rule obeying and rule breaking, of commitment to your path and yet providing innovations to that idea, with a tight triple conjunction from the New Moon of Venus, your ruler, Saturn, for stability, and Neptune for adding a spiritual dimension to your sense of what you currently have going on. If this sounds like a lot, that’s because it is. You will want to be asking yourself which way is up, and where you need to go from here, or where, indeed, to seek escape from all the angst.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
The month of May begins in the wake of the April 27th New Moon in your sign, which sets the tone for a very powerful new cycle centered on self-discovery, embodiment, and living in your authentic truth. This lunation featured a fixed-sign T-square involving Pluto in Aquarius and Mars in Leo, square the Sun and New Moon position in your sign. This configuration indicates a dynamic push-pull between your evolving sense of self, your private emotional world, and the pressures or transformations taking place in your public and professional life. Your ruler, Venus, conjunct both Saturn and Neptune, indicates a push-pull of another kid, between the physical 3D world of the here and now versus the mystical, beyond any trace of the physical. You may find yourself navigating intensity, yet also discovering insight, about how you wish to show up in the world but not of it, tuning in to the deeper values that guide your choices.
Venus, your ruling planet, has returned to Aries and on May 2nd joins Neptune in the mysterious, liminal space of your twelfth sector. Neptune has just begun its ~14-year journey through this Aries, marking a new era for your discovery of your intuitive abilities, and explorations of your subconscious. This ethereal pairing opens up a dreamy portal for spiritual reflection, imagination, and behind-the-scenes creative gestation. You may feel called to pay extra attention to your dreams or intuitive nudges – something subtle yet significant may be surfacing now, as you embark on this new chapter.
Pluto stations retrograde on May 4th in Aquarius, activating your tenth sector of career and public life. This, in addition to Pluto’s prominence in the New Moon, could inspire deeper inquiry into the power dynamics at play in your work, career, or how you are more widely known in the world. This is a time when it may be helpful to allow space for change as you approach your work and ambitions. Notice what in this area of your life feels in alignment, or where you may be due for some adjustment.
On May 10th, Mercury enters your sign, supporting clearer communication, grounded understanding of self, and the articulation of your ideas. You may feel called to speak your truth, make plans, or bring more intention to how you express your identity.
The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 12th illuminates your relationship sector, potentially bringing partnership revelations or shifts. Opposing Uranus in your sign, this lunation could spark unexpected developments, spurring wild urges for freedom, or disruptions that initiate reorienting to dynamics in close connections. There may be an invitation to release old patterns of the way that you relate. With a continuing focus on internal realities, there might also be n occasion for inner wounding to come up, together with an invitation to explore such issues more completely, with the idea of greater acceptance of these somewhat rejected and hurt places within you, and hence greater healing. This may be an important time to be in a deeper listening for what is emerging inside you, and also within your relationships, in a way that might allow both parties to feel into a mutual sense of value, freedom, and shared understanding.
When the Sun enters Gemini on May 20th, the spotlight shifts to your second sector of values, money, and self-worth. This is a supportive time to review your finances, tend to your material security, or clarify what truly matters to you. You may also feel more curious about how your values are evolving and how they shape your everyday choices.
A major energetic shift arrives on May 24th as Saturn enters Aries, joining Neptune in your twelfth sector of dream imagination and unconscious process. The two planets travel close together through the summer fading, though still close, to just over two degrees by mid-September. This potent conjunction initiates a new long-term cycle of spiritual maturation and deep inner work. With Saturn’s sobering presence in this liminal space, you may be asked to bring more structure to your inner life, to commit to your healing, honor your solitude, and trust in the greater energies that shape our world. There’s an invitation to cultivate discipline around the unseen: dreams, rituals, intuition, self-trust. What you build and foster internally can help form the foundation for the next chapter of your outer life. This slow devotion has the potential to build resilience from the inside out, as you tend to your inner world with consistency and compassion.
May wraps with a New Moon in Gemini on May 26th, landing in your second sector and closely tied to Mercury and Pluto. This lunation invites you to plant new seeds related to your values and resources, potentially with a more empowered or transformative mindset. There may be an opportunity to think differently about how you generate stability – emotionally or financially – and to align your actions with your evolving priorities.
Overall, the May month brings a transformational Plutonic intensity, and a rich blend of inner and outer work to your path, as you are called to plant your feet in both the tangible world, and the mysteries beyond our physical plane. You are asked to consider in equal measure your rational understanding and your intuitive knowing, and to clear out the noise and extraneous information that keeps you from sensing the wisdom of your inner compass. For you, Taurus, the path this month may involve some growing pains, and you may benefit from allowing yourself time and patience to dance with the metamorphosis, ultimately anchoring more fully into your own embodied intelligence, filled with resilience, integrity, and your unique brilliance.
This is another in a series of profoundly active months, Gemini, when much of what is going on to illuminate your social sector comes from intuitional sources deep with you. What you create in concert with friends and social groups that you favor, and as you look ahead to your long-term goals, is also what drives you to achieve in terms of understanding. There is passion in your communicative outreach and this furthers a transformation of beliefs and worldview. Collaboration is key in this regard. It might be that you are driven to explore your most cherished principles as candidates for merger with overt values that you espouse, trusting your intuition. There is an activism in your bones that is inspiring and a mystical overtone that enables you to see that not everything comes from the material side of life. The Scorpio Full Moon of the 12th is powerful and brings you a taste of what you might come to feel as life mission. There is still quite a lot that is happening for you on the inside. The Moon’s Last Quarter a week later on the 20th brings surprising events that lead to unexpected enlightenment, reorienting your most cherished notions of where the action really is.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
May opens under the influence of the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which initiated a potent cycle in your twelfth sector of unconscious process and inner work, along with solitude, release, and spiritual renewal. This lunation carried with it an intense fixed-sign T-square involving Pluto in Aquarius opposite Mars in Leo square to the Sun and Moon, which may have stirred deep inner unrest or catalyzed an awakening within your subconscious mind. There may be something gestating just beneath the surface – an invitation to surrender, to trust what cannot yet be seen, and to listen closely to the intuitive signals rising from within. You could find that the answers you’re seeking arrive more easily when you slow down, soften your grip, and tend to the liminal spaces of your life. Transformational Pluto is also greatly highlighted as well in this recent New Moon, and you could find that, starting from the very beginning of the month, your system of beliefs and worldview, or perhaps some travel or educational initiatives, could be going through changes and a process of greater conscious awareness of what is driving you in this area.
On May 1st and 2nd, Venus returns to Aries after her recent retrograde journey and joins numinous Neptune in your eleventh sector of community, dreams, and long-term visions. With Neptune freshly entered into this part of your chart, this moment opens a new chapter, and new possibilities in how you imagine your role within collective spaces. There is potential for soul-nourishing connections and a sense of dissolving old expectations around belonging. You may feel inspired to align your goals with deeper spiritual values – or to seek out friendships and collaborations that spark your creativity and idealism.
Pluto stations retrograde on May 4th in Aquarius, activating your ninth sector of belief systems, philosophy, and higher learning. This turn inward may prompt a reassessment of your worldview and the mental frameworks that shape how you interpret life, especially for the week or so surrounding the station. You might notice themes around power and transformation arise in your relationship to spiritual path and higher learning. There’s an opportunity here to observe what conditioned beliefs you’re ready to send to the proverbial compost bin, creating space for a metamorphosis for your authentic and empowered perspective to take root and blossom.
On May 10th, your ruling planet Mercury enters Taurus and slips into your twelfth sector, emphasizing inner reflection and mental rest. You may find that your thoughts become more inwardly focused, or that communication takes on a more introspective tone. This could be a supportive time for journaling, meditation, and centering your body’s wisdom. You might not have all the answers yet – but trust that you are integrating more than may be apparent on the surface.
The Scorpio Full Moon arrives on May 12th lighting up your sixth sector of daily routines, health, and service. Opposing the Sun in proximity to Uranus in Taurus, or your sector of unconscious process, this lunation could bring unexpected insights or intuitional information that might serve you well. There could be shifts in your approach to wellness or work-life rhythms, and also you issues of higher mind or evolving worldview. Your system of beliefs that is in part unconsciously based could be opening to greater integration of your own cherished principles and sense pf life purpose. You also might become more aware of patterns that no longer support your vitality or feel called to make spontaneous changes that open space for greater freedom and balance in your day-to-day life. There may be revelations about how your body is asking to be supported, or how your habits are either limiting or liberating you.
Your season begins on May 20th as the Sun enters your sign – happy birthday, Gemini! This time brings energy, visibility, and a sense of renewal. With the Sun now moving through your first sector of self and identity, this is your time to shine, express, and redefine your personal narrative. You may feel a sense of clarity return as your solar cycle resets, helping you recognize how far you’ve come, and what fresh intentions are ready to take shape. This can be an affirming turning point, reminding you that adaptability and reinvention is one of your superpowers.
A significant shift transpires on May 24th, when Saturn enters Aries, joining Neptune in your eleventh sector. These two travel within two degrees of each other through mid-September, and begin a long-term process of reimagining your relationship to community and future vision. While Neptune invites dreaminess and dissolution, Saturn calls for structure and commitment. Together, they suggest a period of visionary discipline – where you are asked to slowly build toward your goals and dreams in a way that feels soulful and sustainable. There may be elements of feeling disillusioned by groups or communities you once felt at home in, and a call to re-assess where your efforts are best spent and with whom. This time invites you to ground your ideals into practical, long-term frameworks that center your curiosity, creativity and excitement as valuable assets.
The month concludes with a New Moon in your sign on May 26th, initiating an empowering reset in your first sector. In this lunation we find the Sun and Moon conjunct your ruler Mercury in a trine to Pluto, suggesting deep shifts in how you see yourself, how you speak your truth, and how you step into your own power. You may feel ready to release old versions of your identity and initiate a new way of showing up in the world – one that reflects the wisdom you’ve gathered in recent times and embraces your unique intelligence. There’s a sense that the new you is not entirely new, but rather a fuller embodiment of what’s always been within. There’s an invitation to claim your voice, honor your transformation, and chart a course that aligns with your most authentic self.
On the whole, the May month invites you to weave together endings and beginnings. It’s a month that gently guides you inward before ushering you forward – with clarity, depth, and a renewed sense of self. The most powerful changes may not arrive all at once, but in the quiet moments where your internal inquisitiveness and insights meet your worldly intentions and vision for your life.
This is an interesting and transformational month, Cancer, when your life is in some degree of flux. Stability is of course a virtue, and yet so is revolution. The pace of change can be difficult, although not mere fact of variation, since the truth of the matter is that life itself is change; or as Bob Dylan was able to express it during the volatile 1960s “everybody not busy being born is busy dying.” Your social sector is the source of much of this, as indicated by the recent Taurus New Moon there, with the Sun and Moon in square with Pluto and with Mars, as well as opposed the new 21st century KBO planet Haumea, representing internal moral commitment. Something is profoundly shifting in this area these days, so that previous goals might be in dire need of an update. Your vocational reality is another area of intensity and metamorphosis, potentially along the lines of incorporating into your outer world persona the inner principles and values to which you are truly committed, on the inside. When the Full Moon in your compatible Water sign of Scorpio arrives, your creativity takes off in new ways, and you also recognize that it is your contribution to the society around you that is some sense really matters. You inner world of dream imagination and unconscious process is also lit up In this rather strong lunation. The Last Quarter Moon of the 20th makes for another potent juncture, when surprises and intuitional information abound, and when you are simultaneously very attuned as well to your outer world persona and career commitments.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
The month begins in the intense ripples of the recent April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which initiated a cycle in your eleventh sector of friendships, community, and long-range aspirations. This lunation formed a potent T-square with Pluto and Mars, activating a dynamic tension that may have thrust you into a process of inquiry and metamorphosis. You may find yourself re-evaluating the groups you’re part of or the vision you’re striving toward. Is your community one that nurtures your deeper values, or are you feeling pulled into patterns that no longer reflect who you’re becoming? There could be a call to lean into your own creativity and expression, and to seek out the spaces where your sense of belonging and authenticity can flourish.
Because Pluto is highlighted this month, right from its very beginning, there are implications for your relationships. You are being encouraged by the universe to dig deep, and to find within yourself your most sincere principles and values, so that you can become more whole in what you offer to the world and to important relationships in your life. In particular, your partnership agreements might be in useful flow, so that as you meditate on any fluctuations there, it is good to stay as open as possible to the potential long-term benefits of such changes.
Venus and Neptune meet in early Aries on May 1st and 2nd, at the very top of your chart – your tenth sector of vocation, reputation, and visibility. With Neptune freshly arrived in this sector, initiating a new ~14-year chapter, you may be entering a period of envisioning and evolution when it comes to your career or public role. Venus brings grace and magnetic charm here, softening your image and drawing others toward your idealism. This is a moment to dream big, and also to stay grounded in what’s real. Boundaries could blur around work expectations or authority figures, so it’s wise to check in with your own truth before overcommitting or idealizing others.
Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius on May 4th, stirring your eighth sector of intimacy, shared resources, and deep psychological transformation. Because of Pluto’s heavy influence in the recent New Moon, the week or so around its station date may call upon themes around trust, vulnerability, and your inner psyche. This transit invites you to do some honest reflection on how you exercise your personal power in your closest bonds, and to reclaim the parts of yourself you may have given away in the name of safety or control. Allowing old patterns to dissolve could take a little time and some careful tending, but the inner alchemy is timely and may be well worth your diligent attention.
Your ruling luminary, the Moon, reaches the fullness of her opposition to the Sun on May 12th in Scorpio – spotlighting your fifth sector of creativity, joy, and self-expression. This lunation opposes Uranus in your social sector, suggesting breakthrough, surprise events, or unexpected revelations related to how you share your heart with others. You might experience an unforeseen surge of passion, a creative epiphany, or a sudden shift in your romantic dynamic. It’s a powerful time to realign with what brings you true pleasure, and to release fears around being seen in your creativity, your intensity, and your brilliance. You might also find yourself reviewing the impact that you make with your creativity on the society that surrounds you.
On May 10th, Mercury dips into Taurus and your eleventh sector, continuing a theme of reflection around your future vision and your place in collective spaces. You may find brainstorming collaborative projects or ideating on your plans and dreams for the future. There might be a spiritual mystery tugging at you on intuitional levels as part of this process. If your mind feels a bit slower or more foggy than usual, trust that this is part of a deeper integration process.
The Sun enters Gemini on May 20th, ushering you into your annual twelfth sector season – a time for retreat, reflection, and spiritual integration before your birthday month begins. You may feel more inwardly focused now, with dreams and intuition speaking louder than logic. This is a liminal period where rest is productive and quiet realizations can spark profound growth. Give yourself permission to step back and tend to your inner world.
On May 24th, in significant astrology news, Saturn enters Aries, joining Neptune there in your tenth sector and beginning a slow, ongoing re-visioning of your career path. With these two energies now co-present at your midheaven and traveling within two degrees of one another until mid-September, you’re being asked to build a long-term structure that supports both your ambition and your soul’s longing. There may be moments of doubt or disillusionment in professional spheres, but also a growing clarity about what you’re here to offer the world, and a re-imagined sense of your self-image and how you want to be known. You’re entering a new chapter where the challenge is to dream boldly and follow through in your actions as an act of devotion to fulfilling your ambitions in ways that are unique, meaningful, and exciting to you.
Finally, the month closes on a deeply spiritual note, as the New Moon in Gemini lands in your twelfth sector on May 26th. This lunation, conjunct Mercury and trine Pluto, invites profound inner dialogue and the quiet emergence of new intentions – ones not fully visible to others, but deeply felt in your soul. You may find yourself letting go of old mental narratives or stepping into a deeper connection with your own intuition and inner voice. Let this New Moon be a sacred pause, a moment to plant seeds in the rich soil of your subconscious, where they can root and grow in their own time.
After a first quarter of 2025 shaped by inner planet retrogrades and the slow work of reorientation, May offers flickers of forward movement – not in a rush, but through subtle shifts in clarity and energy. For you, Cancer, this month may feel like a quiet turning point, where the inner work of the past season begins to ripple outward into your daily rhythms, relationships, and dreams. You’re invited to trust the slow, organic unfolding of your path, to honor the wisdom of your emotions, and to move gently toward what feels nourishing, authentic, and alive. What you begin now may be just the tender first shoots of a larger cycle of growth. May your steps be guided by inner knowing, and may the journey ahead nourish both your roots and your wings.
This is a month, Leo, while pursuing outer world success, of equally dedicating your activities to understanding yourself at depth. The recent Taurus New Moon, from just before the beginning of May, took place in your sector of career and professional life and yet there is a mystical heart that also comes through this powerful lunation of catering to your own deep process. Mars, ruler of Aries and thus your sector of higher mind, is also very active in this recent lunation, residing in the early degrees of your sign, or your first solar house, and exactly opposing Pluto, which indicates that changes in your beliefs and worldview are also an important part of this month’s astrological mandate. Numinous Neptune, newly arrived in Aries so residing now in your higher mind sector, is powerful, conjuncting Venus and Saturn for extra determination and vocational influence. Your innermost values are more completely coming into conscious reckoning and becoming a significant part of your outer world persona in a process of balance and integration of inner and outer considerations. Then, too, Mars opposed Pluto in your relationship sector also speaks to the transformation of your connection with specific partners and of your relationship dynamic in general. It is a heady stew you are navigating in this current cycle that also partakes of a great deal of intuitional information that cannot be ignored. The Scorpio Full Moon on the 12th in your sector of your psychological roots represents a culmination of thi month’s arc of development and brings this point home all the more clearly.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
The month opens in the wake of the potent April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which initiated a new cycle in your tenth sector of vocation, visibility, and worldly calling. This lunation brought the Sun and Moon into the focal point of a tense T-square with Pluto in Aquarius opposed to Mars in your sign, highlighting questions of power, purpose, and your sense of agency. You may find yourself feeling heated and emboldened with Mars activated in your sign and first or identity sector, so that you might possibly be at a turning point in your career or public role. With transformational Pluto a part of this mix, you are likely feeling both pressure and possibility as you clarify what you want to build, and where you’re no longer willing to compromise. If you find yourself struggling with either internal or external conflict, especially regarding being seen or making your impact felt and known in the world, these challenges may serve as catalysts that push you toward greater authenticity and alignment with your evolving contributions. This is also a perhaps overly passionate timing for you, and you benefit by attempting to become as aware as possible for when you might become “triggered” and are in danger of acting out more than makes sense for maintaining dispassionate communications and studied compromise solutions.
On the 1st and the 2nd, Venus and Neptune come together in your ninth sector of higher wisdom, travel, and personal philosophy. With Neptune newly arrived here for a new ~14-year chapter, this meeting marks the beginning of a long, soulful unfolding in how you make meaning in your life. You might feel called toward spiritual study, artistic exploration, or expansive dreaming. Venus adds some softness and receptivity, but also invites you to tune into your core values – especially if you’re navigating educational opportunities, spiritual practices, or visiting places internationally for the purpose of broadening your horizons. Inspiration is strong now, but illusions may also blur the path, so keep a keen eye fixed on your inner compass.
Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius on May 4th, in your seventh sector of relationships, echoing its strong placement in the recent New Moon, and amplifying its influence further. This could bring a shift in your partnerships, where power dynamics or deeper emotional undercurrents begin to surface for review. Pluto’s journey through the area of your chart is a long and layered journey, and this is just one chapter, beginning to transform and reshape how you experience relationships in general, but especially around intimate partnership. This month may open a doorway of insight around connection, trust, and mutual understanding.
Mercury enters Taurus on May 10th, echoing and focalizing your internal reflections on your career path. You may find yourself grounding into a more deliberate mentality finding traction in putting your ideas into practice. Conversations with mentors or collaborators could offer perspective, and you may feel ready to voice a new direction or try on a new attitude around your public role.
The Scorpio Full Moon arrives on May 12th, lighting up your fourth sector of home, family, and your psychological roots. Opposite the Sun in close proximity to Uranus, this lunation may shake up your private world with sudden insights, emotional revelations, or unexpected changes in your living situation. While emphasized Scorpio tends to bring up deep feelings, this Full Moon has also an electric charge that could disrupt old patterns and bring to the surface intuitional realizations or hidden emotions entombed deep within you. Your understanding could also blossom concerning your own long-buried traces of inner wounding, the likely residue of early childhood trauma. It’s a powerful time to be present with all your emotional spheres, and to honor the parts of you that need acceptance, security, and stability.
On May 20th, the Sun shifts from Taurus to Gemini, shifting the spotlight to your eleventh sector of community, friendship, and long-term vision for your future self. This shift invites a more outward-facing energy and encourages you to reconnect with your communal networks. Ideas might be able to flow more freely, and collaborations could spark exciting possibilities. It’s a good time to remember that you don’t have to do it all alone. Your light can shine even brighter when reflected through shared purpose and connection.
On May 24th, you have a major shift occurring with Saturn entering Aries, your ninth sector of higher mind and travel or educational goals, joining spiritual and other-worldly Neptune there. These two outer planets will travel together within two degrees of each other until mid-September, growing as close as ¼ degree in mid-July, thus marking a time that may drastically reshape your beliefs and worldview. This pairing invites you to root your compassion and inspiration in tangible practices and experiences, and to explore not just what you believe, but what you’re willing to commit to. You might encounter over this period tests of faith, or moments where your optimism meets the harsh light of reality, but this is also an important blending, where meaningful growth can occur. You’re being asked to pour your dedication and devotion into that which enlivens your spiritual calling and builds resilience to be present in the practicality of the here and now.
On May 26th, the Gemini New Moon lands in your eleventh sector of community and vision, offering a fresh beginning in the realms of collective belonging and future goals. With Mercury conjunct this lunation and Pluto in a flowing trine, this is a potent moment to seed intentions around community, activism, and shared dreams. What are you working toward, not just for yourself, but for the world you want to help shape? What form of intelligence and contribution do only you carry as a unique being on this planet? Listen closely to the subtle promptings of your intuition. Your inner fire and passion may contain important messages about where to go next, and who to walk with on the journey.
After a first quarter of the year shaped by all inner planet retrogrades and a lot of internal, slow reorganization, this May month might begin to stir a sense of forward momentum – not all at once, but in flickers of clarity and renewed energy. There’s a feeling of something taking root, not only in your outer world, but within your heart, your vision, your sense of direction. Perhaps this month offers an invitation to move in alignment with your inner truth, to follow the gentle pull toward what feels life-giving and soul-affirming. What emerges now might not be the final form, but rather the first golden glimmers of a longer unfolding. May your steps be guided by warmth, courage, and trust in your own becoming, and may the path ahead be one where your light is welcomed, witnessed, and wholly your own.
This is another rather high-intensity month, Virgo. There are spiritual mechanisms involved that can make things to go better when you can accept the loss of total control and allow the universe to have its way. Depth exploration of your own inner world is on the table of significant factors, plus mutual understanding, as well as showing up for important others. Habitual patterns that have outlived their usefulness to you might need to be altered or eliminated. Your fierce internal values will have something to contribute also, and you might find yourself in a mode of balancing inner with outer, integrating your various parts. Intuitional information that defies pure logic on its own becomes ever more available and insistent as the month continues to unfold. Key junctures include the Scorpio Full Moon of the 12th, when communication is key; this is when you do well to articulate what’s truly on your mind, and in your heart, and when success blossoms in unexpected ways. The Moon’s Last Quarter on the 20th represents another powerful timing, when partnership breakthrough is possible along with career advancements, although perhaps each in their own separate way; it could also be said that more fully comprehended partnership agreements is the key to both.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
The month opens under the continuing influence of the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which initiated a new cycle in your ninth house of philosophy, exploration, and expansion. This lunation was marked by an intense fixed-sign T-square involving Pluto in Aquarius opposite Mars in Leo, both square to the New Moon position of Sun and Moon – activating deeper questions around how your beliefs shape your reality. You may find yourself navigating a transformation in your worldview or being called to release inherited ideas that no longer reflect your evolving truth. Whether through travel, educational self-study, or spiritual seeking, this is a time to tune in to what feels meaningful, and to listen for the call of growth that pushes your edges, and follow what brings you more into your embodied, somatic awareness. The rebellious planetary archetype of Uranus, planet of instinctual surprises and unexpected enlightenment, is elevated and highlighted in this New Moon and therefore affecting both philosophical understanding and career choices, which could therefore include a few curve balls over the course of this May month. You can make the best of this by entertaining intuitional information as potentially valid, and by staying as open as you can to the unexpected development. Perhaps you are meant to go with it; perhaps not. And yet the trick, perhaps, is not to pre-judge.
On May 2nd, Venus and Neptune meet in Aries in your eighth house of intimacy and shared resources, suggesting a profound and dreamy exploration of your inner landscape. Neptune’s recent entrance here signals the beginning of a ~14-year journey – one where emotional transparency, energetic awareness, and spiritual connection may become central themes in your closest bonds. This conjunction could bring softness and allure, but also the need to navigate boundaries with extra care. It’s a beautiful time to invite healing into spaces where you’ve felt guarded, or to seek out environments of trust and safety where you may allow yourself to be witnessed in your most tender layers.
Your ruling planet, Mercury, enters your ninth sector, Taurus, on May 10th, reinforcing themes of philosophical study, reflection, and spirituality. This time may ground your interest into a path of research or a project that’s been gestating, and you could feel called to seek out teachers or schools of thought that can provide guidance or fresh insight. This is less about rushing toward answers and more about opening to the slow unfolding of wisdom that reveals itself when you allow yourself space and time to ripen into understanding and embodiment at your own pace.
The Scorpio Full Moon on May 12th illuminates your third sector of communication, learning, and local setting. Mercury is square Pluto in Aquarius which brings a distinct sense of transformational intensity to your scene. There could be changes that you did not expect, or not understand to be crucial that prove to nevertheless have consequence and need handling. Change is hard to ignore, and will eventually prevail, so that it pays to remember that this is a normal process of interacting with life; that life itself is change. With the Moon opposing the Sun in close proximity to Uranus, this lunation may bring unexpected messages or a sudden breakthrough in how you understand yourself and the world around you. Perhaps a new and unexpected truth comes into focus, or an illuminating conversation clears the air. You may be learning to speak from the heart with greater courage – or to untangle yourself from thought patterns that keep you looping in anxiety or self-doubt. This significant juncture could be an opportune time to bring an extra dose of intentionality to your thought patterns and examine the ways in which your pre-existing beliefs and biases shape your reality.
On May 20th, the Sun moves into Gemini, highlighting your tenth sector of career and public roles. This shift brings visibility and momentum, as well as a sense of renewed purpose in the work you offer to the world. Your contributions may be more noticed now, and you might be asked to step into greater leadership or take a fresh approach to your long-term goals.
A major astrological shift arrives on May 24th, when Saturn enters Aries, joining Neptune in your eighth sector and beginning a slow alchemical process. This pairing, which travels within two degrees of one another through mid-September, asks you to get more intentional about the emotional and energetic investments you make. Saturn brings structure, boundaries, and responsibility, while Neptune brings dreams, mystery, and surrender. Together, they offer a longer-term opportunity to anchor your desires for deep, transformative connection into something sustainable, soulful, and True.
on May 26th, the New Moon in Gemini activates your tenth or career sector, forming a conjunction with Mercury and a trine to Pluto. This lunation invites you to plant seeds for a renewed relationship to your work, your visibility, and your long-term path. You may yearn for a deeper clarity about what you’re here to contribute, or a greater sense that your voice and ideas carry unique power. Let this be a time to reimagine your professional life in a way that honors both your natural gifts and your evolving sense of purpose.
After a first quarter of the year shaped by the retrogrades of all the inner planets, Mercury, which is your ruler, Venus, and Mars, you may have grown well acquainted with pauses, revisions, and the art of waiting. Now, as these planets retrace their paths forward, and the pace begins to pick back up, this May month brings to you the quiet sense of forward and consequential motion. What’s unfolding can still be tender and new, but there’s clarity beginning to surface in your thoughts, your routines, and your sense of direction. This month offers an invitation to integrate what you’ve learned, to listen closely to the intelligence of your body and intuition, and to align your outer actions with your inner truth. May your path ahead be paced with intention, grounded in discernment, and guided by the steady flame of your own quiet knowing.
This is another somewhat dicey month for you, Libra, with outer planet overtones that spell transformation and greater other-dimensional understanding including the recognition that the 3D world of the senses in no way represents All that Is! This tracks to the potent Taurus New Moon of a few days before the advent of May which featured Venus, your ruler, in close conjunction with Neptune, on one side, and with the Lunar North Node and Saturn on the other. This is a heady and heartfelt stew that implies dedication to forming a better understanding of these mysterious trans-personal realms as relates to your day-to-day experience. The New Moon, which governs almost all of May, also featured Mars opposed to Pluto, with implications for key relationships to shift according to the exigencies of your current developmental arc. There is also dramatic change that is lurking in your creative self-expression and related activities in terms of projects and fun plans along with any children that you might have in your life. All these areas are subject to a process of greater inclusion in your evolving choices of your innermost principles and values to which you are committed. The Scorpio Full Moon of the 12th potentially serves as a culmination to all these shifts and brings up issues of self and other and active participation in civic matters also. With the Last Quarter Moon of the 20th, there could be surprises as well as unexpected enlightenment, factors that have been building since mid-month and can be to your great advantage the more you can remain open to their message.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
The month opens downstream of the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which initiates a new cycle in your eighth sector of intimacy, shared resources, and psychological transformation. This lunation formed a tense T-square with Pluto in Aquarius and Mars in Leo both in square the Sun and Moon position, bringing a charge to your vulnerable spaces and urging you toward deeper authenticity and inner reflection. Themes around trust, emotional interwinding, and energetic reciprocity may arise, prompting reflection on where in relationship you give too much, or hold back, out of fear. Something in you may be called to shed old emotional armor and step into a more empowered experience of creativity and connection, both with others and within yourself. The New Moon also featured a stellium in Aries, your opposite sign, and your partnership sector, including your ruler, Venus, perched n its edge at 28° Pisces in conjunction with Saturn. This could therefore be an important month for you in terms of partnering, with life lessons to the taking and interesting novel revelations on the horizon as May continues to unfold.
Venus move forward, enters Aries, and meets Neptune on May 1st and 2ndfurther activating your seventh sector of one-on-one relationships. This pairing can feel like a romantic or dreamy fog – filled with longing, beauty, and sometimes confusion. With Neptune beginning a ~14-year passage through this part of your chart, your understanding of love and union is entering a profound evolution. Venus adds sweetness and desire and may draw you into tender connections or idealistic visions of existing or future partners. Let this be a moment of inspiration, but also one to stay tethered to your truth. Idealizing others can be intoxicating, and yet clarity may come more readily when you remember to check in with your own emotional center, and take things slow.
On May 4th, Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius in your fifth sector of joy, self-expression, and creativity. This continues the influence of the New Moon’s T-square, especially for the week or so around this date, and invites you inward to explore how power, passion, and authenticity show up in your creative life and romantic world. Are there ways you’ve dimmed your light to be more palatable? Pluto may unearth deeper drives that have been waiting beneath the surface. This transit supports shedding outdated versions of self-expression and reclaiming the raw, radiant energy that fuels your inner fire.
Mercury re-enters Taurus on May 10th, continuing a storyline in your eighth sector around shared resources and psychological depth. You may find yourself engaging in conversations about finances, inheritance, emotional boundaries, or energetic investment in key relationships. There could be insights that emerge slowly, especially as Mercury helps bring deliberate reflection to this area of life. This is a time for thoughtful integration and honest communication about what you need—and what you’re no longer willing to carry.
The Scorpio Full Moon lands on May 12th in your second sector of personal resources, values, self-worth, and embodiment. Opposite the Sun in close proximity with Uranus, this lunation may bring sudden shifts in your financial landscape or revelations around how you value yourself. It is also possible that inner wounding in the context of relationship might arise and come to greater consciousness for potentially positive outcomes and eventual healing. These issues reflect on hurt places within you that have long been walled away and isolated, so that more and more loving attention and acceptance is one major key. Emotional tides may rise in other ways as well, especially if you’ve been holding tension around security or sustainability. This potent lunation is a powerful moment to reconnect with your inherent worth and to let go of beliefs or patterns that have undermined your confidence.
On May 20th, the Sun shifts into Gemini and your ninth sector, expanding your perspective and inviting a renewed curiosity. This is a season of learning, travel, and philosophical exploration, and a time when your mind may feel lit up with new possibilities. Questions about your beliefs and worldview could take center stage, and you may be drawn toward studies or experiences that widen your lens on life. Let yourself follow what inspires you; your intellect and intuition are both active and alive now.
Then, on May 24th, we have a major astrological shift arriving, as Saturn enters Aries, joining Neptune in your seventh sector and beginning a new, long-term restructuring of how you approach relationships. These two will travel within two degrees of each other until mid-September. Saturn brings focus and accountability, while Neptune invites vision and soul connection. Together, they challenge you to bring your dreams of authentic partnership into tangible form. Over the coming months, you may begin to redefine what commitment means to you, what you’re building in partnership, and what you need in order to feel truly met.
The month concludes with the New Moon in Gemini on May 26th, in your ninth sector of wisdom and higher vision. Conjunct Mercury and trine Pluto, this lunation supports planting seeds that align with your truth and growth. Whether it’s embarking on a new course of study, planning a trip, or recommitting to a spiritual practice, this is a time to reconnect with your guiding light. What larger story are you choosing to be a part of? Let this be a moment of renewal – an open sky where your ideas can stretch their wings and begin to soar.
After a first quarter of 2025 that was heavily shaped by the slow, inward pull of Mercury, Venus, and Mars all moving retrograde at various points, May offers a sense of subtle forward motion – like the first breeze after a long stillness. It may not arrive all at once, but in moments of clarity, connection, or creative spark that remind you of your own aliveness. Perhaps this month opens the door to a new rhythm in your relationships, a renewed sense of purpose in your learning, or a soft reawakening of trust in life’s unfolding. May you move through this time with grace and curiosity, open to the beauty of becoming, and held by the truth that your innate presence, just as it is, is a precious tendril woven into the greater tapestry of life.
This is another in a series of rather intense months, based this time on a very powerful Taurus New Moon from the end of April that preceded by a few days the start of the current month. This featured a grand cross of outer and personal planets that included Mars, your ruler, opposed to Pluto in your home and family sector and squared by the Sun and Moon. The Taurus sign corresponds to your partnership sector, so that you can expect something of a fresh start in this area from the very beginning of May. There might be a way that organic developments in this area will reflect back upon your own spiritual and intellectual progress. Meanwhile, your sense of what matters for vocational decisions is also mightily changing over this monthly cycle, in concert with developments in these other major areas. With the Full Moon in your sign of the 12th you are reaching for a culmination of your arc of personal development that includes, in particular, greater conscious understanding of partners, home, and family, to include your family of origin. It might be that elements of inner wounding that have been hidden below the surface of your mind come further into the light of your awareness – affecting your relationship dynamic and as well its roots in deep unconscious layers. When these incipient adjustments and challenges are faced with courage rather than avoidant behavior, great change is possible in your own self-interest as this climactic month continues to evolve.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
May begins in the charged aftermath of the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, activating your seventh sector of partnerships, contracts, and significant others. This lunation formed a potent T-square with Pluto in Aquarius and Mars in Leo – your traditional and modern rulers – opposite each other and in tense square to the Sun and Moon degree. Because Mars is highlighted in the May month in your vocational sector, this is one focus of the ongoing transformation symbolized by the active presence of Pluto. Your public statement might be arriving at a better integration with cherished principles and values, and with all that you hold inside. You also might find yourself confronting pivotal dynamics with regard to your closest relationships or grappling with how power and projection play out in your one-on-one bonds. How do you orient yourself to power-struggles and security in relationships? Whether through deepening intimacy, or navigating conflict, (or both!) your close relationships may be reflecting important truths to you, catalyzing a process of deep internal change. You’re being invited to grow into new ways of co-creating relational environments that support authenticity, depth, and mutual understanding.
On May 1st and 2nd, Venus conjoins Neptune in Aries, in your sixth sector of work, health, and daily rhythm. With Neptune newly beginning a ~14-year cycle there, you’re entering a long arc of dissolving rigidity and inviting more intuition, imagination, or soulful purpose into the rhythms that shape your days. Venus’s presence may soften this transition, bringing small pleasures, creative flow, or even dreamy longings into the mundane. Perhaps you’re being encouraged to approach your routines with more grace, or to let go of harsh self-talk in favor of gentler forms of care. There may be moments of confusion, too – especially if boundaries blur or reality feels hard to grasp – but anchoring in self-love and quiet compassion can help you navigate the tides. This time is an invitation to allow your body, your breath, and your daily choices become a place where tenderness meets intention.
Pluto, your modern ruler, stations retrograde on May 4th in Aquarius, turning its deep, transformative current inward through your fourth sector of home, roots, and emotional foundation. Since Pluto played such a powerful role in the recent New Moon, the week or so around the retrograde station may feel especially poignant, stirring subtle shifts in the architecture of your sense of safety and belonging. You might find yourself revisiting themes of control, protection, or identity shaped by early experiences or ancestral patterns. Perhaps there’s something within you that’s ready to be reinvented – not by demolishing the foundation, but through subtle adjustments in your choices, deeper awareness of your inner child, and a reclamation of agency. You’re encouraged to move gently through this inner terrain, honoring both the tenderness and the power that together live in your emotional core.
Meanwhile, Mars, your traditional ruler, continues charging through Leo and your tenth sector of career and visibility. There’s momentum here, perhaps a heightened desire to be recognized or to make bold moves toward your ambitions. And yet, there may also be moments where pressure builds, or old patterns of performance arise. Notice where you’re pushing, and where you’re allowing. This transit invites courage, yes, but also authenticity. Trust that you can move with strength and sensitivity as you shape what’s next.
Mercury enters Taurus on May 10th, echoing the themes of the New Moon and continuing the conversation around collaboration and commitment. There may be a continuation of navigating relational dynamics, or the slow unfolding of clarity around what you truly want from your partnerships. Mercury’s grounded, steady pace in Taurus invites you to speak clearly, listen deeply, and trust that lasting changes often come from incremental shifts.
The powerful Full Moon in your sign taking place on May 12th brings culmination to your first sector of identity and self-expression. Opposite the Sun in close proximity to Trickster Uranus, this lunation may bring sudden clarity or unexpected emotional release. You could experience a breakthrough around ideas of who you are becoming, or surprising revelations that alter how you present yourself to the world. Partners are part of your personal evolution in this timing and could be helpful in providing one more mirror for what is going on within your depths. They likely have insights to share if you can encourage them to do so. Your habitual patterns might be slowly changing so that in time you will look back on what might feel like a significant shift deep within your psyche. Emotions could run high, and the intensity can be used as fuel for your transformation. This is your moment to stand fully in your truth, even if it ruffles some feathers, perhaps your own.
On May 20th, the Sun enters Gemini and your eighth sector of intimacy, inner psyche, and shared resources, bringing light and curiosity to a part of your life that may often feel obscured. This is a time for honest conversations about trust, vulnerability, and what lies beneath the surface in your core relational dynamics. The invitation is to explore, share with others, and be in a willingness to lay eyes on your own blind spots.
May 24th brings a significant energetic shift, as Saturn enters Aries and joins Neptune in your sixth sector, where they will travel in close proximity, through mid-September, peaking in July. This long-term transit initiates a restructuring of how you engage your daily work, health, and habits. With Saturn’s realism paired with Neptune’s dreaminess, you’re being asked to weave vision into structure. There may be moments of disillusionment, but also the potential to align your service and discipline with your deeper calling. What you build now may have lasting significance – whether it’s a new healing practice, a sustainable workflow, or a more compassionate way of showing up for yourself and others.
On May 26th the Gemini New Moon arrives, offering you a fresh beginning in your eighth sector of intimacy and personal evolution, echoing themes of renewal, depth, and empowerment. With Mercury conjunct this lunation and Pluto in trine, there’s a strong invitation to reset how you relate to power, intimacy, and transformation. This is a sacred time for setting intentions around energetic reciprocity and emotional authenticity.
After a first quarter of the year marked by Mercury, Mars, and Venus all turning inward through retrograde motion, this May month carries the early notes of forward momentum. The pace may be gentle, or not, but something is stirring within your relationships, your sense of identity, and your broader path of transformation. Perhaps this month offers a quiet prayer: May your vulnerability be your strength. May your passion point you toward purpose. May you trust the timing of your own metamorphosis. You are being reshaped in ways that will take time to fully reveal, and there’s no need to rush what’s becoming. May your deep-feeling-nature be a guide, not a burden, as you honor the sacred power of your own unfolding.
Sagittarius Horoscope May 2025
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 - Dec 21) Fire. Ruling Planet Jupiter
This is another fascinating month of changing perceptions and consciousness for you, Sagittarius. Your habitual patterns that are serving you will no doubt remain, while what will disappear are those that survive from their inertia alone and are no longer relevant to your current level of self-awareness. These shifts, also involving on a more fundamental level your beliefs and worldview, can seem dramatic but they need not be if you can manage to accept what the universe has in store for you and decide to just go with the flow. The recent and very potent Taurus New Moon in your sector of day-to-day environment and operations, including health regimens, indicates that this zone, along with your evolving communication process and issues of unconscious process are areas of personal evolution that while potentially confounding will ultimately serve you. Jupiter, your ruler, is additionally featured in your relationship sector, so that partners might be able to assist in your growing understanding of who you realy are at these deeper levels of your psyche. This might be especially so in the timing of the Scorpio Full Moon of the 12th, which brings Jupiter more firmly into the picture of these important astrological indications of growth and change. This is also a time when your unconscious is very active, so that meditation on internal matters or journaling your nighttime dreams would be important. In the Moon’s Last Quarter of the 20th, partnership is once again emphasized, perhaps with unexpected twists of fate or sudden revelations affecting also your awareness of inner wounding that lurks deep within you and could be holding you back from your fullest expression of yourself and your creativity.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
May begins under the intense influence of the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, initiating a new cycle in your sixth sector of health, work, and daily rhythms. This lunation featured a tightly-configured T-square between Sun and Moon with Pluto in your third sector and Mars in your ninth, potentially igniting tensions between your day-to-day behavior and responsibilities, your broader ideals or visions, and your communicative outreach. You may be asking: how does the structure of my daily life support – or undermine – my greater purpose? It’s a clarifying moment, even if charged with tension, where the pressure could spark insight around your habits, mindset, and how your labor aligns with your personal truth. With Mars in your ninth sector of higher mind plus educational or travel initiatives, there’s a fire burning within you related to your search for meaning. Your beliefs, studies, or spiritual practices could be in a state of intense reexamination, pushing you to move beyond what you’ve inherited, conditioned into, or been told. By having the courage to move beyond what you have outgrown, you do important work that will pay rich rewards as you develop and evolve.
On May 1st and 2nd, Venus conjoins Neptune in your fifth sector of creativity, romance, and self-expression. With Neptune now beginning a ~14-year transit here, this marks the start of a slow but meaningful shift in how you relate to pleasure, inspiration, and the act of creating. Venus may bring sweetness and a sense of enchantment, and perhaps a romantic pull, or a desire to express yourself in more poetic or imaginative ways. You might feel drawn to art, music, or spiritual practices that awaken your inner muse. There’s a gentle longing here, a call to soften the boundaries around your heart and allow beauty, love, and creativity to flow through in more fluid and intuitive ways.
On May 4th, Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius, deepening its excavation of your third sector of perception, communication, and learning. Pluto’s slow churn through this part of your chart may be revealing to you the hidden patterns that shape your mental narratives. The week or so surrounding the retrograde, you may feel called to revisit old wounds around communication, learning process, or questions concerning the source of your core assumptions. This isn’t about replacing one belief system with another, rather it’s an invitation to dive beneath the surface to better understand how your voice has been shaped and where your deeper truth lies as you grow and change in your life-path.
Mercury enters Taurus on May 10th, echoing and continuing themes from the New Moon around routines, health, and work-life balance. Conversations around work, wellness, or collaborative processes may flow more easily, especially if you’ve been reconsidering how to manage your energy on a daily basis.
The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 12th illuminates your twelfth sector of inner work, retreat, and the unconscious. Opposite the Sun in close proximity to Trickster Uranus, this lunation could bring a surprising emotional revelation, perhaps surfacing something that’s been hidden or unspoken. Because Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is also in precise aspect to the Sun/Uranus midpoint, a semi-sextile, it is possible that the consciousness of inner wounding, the likely result of undigested early childhood trauma, could arise as part of this significant juncture. If so, what is most needed in this regard is loving attention from your more mature and more self-assured personality. Just the recognition of these walled-away and hurt or perhaps lonely areas within you can work wonders and begin a healing process that could prove life affirming. These realizations might feel jarring at first, but this is a powerful opportunity to tend to your inner world and restore your nervous system. Deep rest, healing, and creative solitude can offer profound clarity – especially if you’ve been moving at a relentless pace.
The Sun enters your opposite sign of Gemini on May 20th, shifting the spotlight to your seventh sector of relationships, collaborations, and chosen partnerships. This initiates one of the most socially active times of year for you, when connections may mirror back important insights about who you are and who you’re becoming. You may notice a desire for more reciprocity or intellectual stimulation in your relationships – or an urge to seek out new connections that foster a feeling of buoyancy and sense of meaning.
On May 24th, a significant shift occurs as Saturn makes his transition into Aries and joins Neptune in your fifth sector of creativity, joy, and romantic expression. These two will travel closely together until mid-September, initiating a unique blend of dream and discipline in your approach to pleasure and creative flow. You’re encouraged to reflect on what makes you come alive – and what it means to be devoted to your joy and unique expression in a real and grounded way. This could be a time of creative maturation, or of redefining love and play on your own terms.
The Gemini New Moon takes place on May 26th and activates your seventh or relationship sector, bringing a fresh start in one-on-one connections. With your ruling planet, Jupiter, also traveling through Gemini, this lunation may invite deep conversations or powerful new partnerships that broaden your perspective – romantic, creative, or collaborative. Mercury is conjunct this New Moon and trine Pluto, so that transformation is still an important component of your world. You might feel drawn to align with others who share your ideals, your curiosity, or your thirst for growth. What’s emerging now may not be fully formed, but it carries seeds of meaningful connection.
After a first quarter of the year shaped by Mercury, Venus, and Mars all moving through their retrograde cycles, this month brings a noticeable shift in pace and directionality – a steady, glowing ember of renewed momentum. You may begin to feel your enthusiasm return, especially as clarity emerges around your purpose, partnerships, and place in the wider story. What if this month doesn’t demand perfection or answers, but simply your presence and your willingness to move with what excites your spirit? May this be a time of inspired motion, of grounded expansion, and of remembering that your vision matters – not only for you, but for acting your part in the co-creation of the collective.
This is another in a series of difficult and yet changeful and impactful months, Capricorn. It is an exciting one for your sign in particular because of the very potent Taurus New Moon from the last days of April, a close conjunction between Saturn, your ruler, in late Pisces, with Venus and the North Lunar Node each a degree away. There is a focus on communicative outreach with others, along with home and family matters which could include issues with your family of origin, all in the context of a fresh start in your creative self-expression so supporting significant projects and what might give you joy, such as romance or any children in your life as well. This month is also an important timing for developments in your vocational sphere, also ruled by Venus, along with the New Moon itself, and in your social sector plus your values and resources. Pretty much everything in your life is in some sort of flux, leading you into your next developmental phase. The Scorpio Full Moon of Monday, May 12th, represents a culmination of sorts when you will be attempting to sort out which of the changes you are currently subject to makes the most sense for you going forward. As you delve deep with for these answers, integration of all your diverse parts, top to bottom, is the key. Your societal contribution that results from your creative output is also another form of answer.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
The month opens in the seismic ripples of the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which initiated a brand new thirty-day cycle in your fifth sector of creativity, joy, and personal expression. This New Moon featured a tense T-square from Pluto in your second sector of resource and values, opposite Mars in your eighth of intimacy and personal evolution, so that there could be complex questions surfacing about value, vulnerability, and where you invest your energy. This lunation may be encouraging you to examine any deeper patterns around control, trust, or emotional self-containment that shape how freely you allow yourself to enjoy life. Uranus is also closely sextile Saturn, your ruler. Perhaps there’s an invitation to release old frameworks that limit your sense of play or connection, and to let your creativity be guided by your body’s wisdom and sense of desire. There may be something here about trusting your own value, allowing yourself to be more fully expressed, and perhaps releasing patterns of over-responsibility that stymy intimacy or your sense of play and enjoyment. What might it feel like to honor your responsibilities without letting them eclipse your capacity for joy, pleasure, or even frivolity?
Venus conjoins Neptune on May 1st and 2nd in your fourth sector of home, family, and emotional grounding, softening the atmosphere and inviting a deeper sense of compassion and spiritual connection into your home environment. Neptune’s recent arrival here marks the beginning of a long, subtle shift in how you experience your private space, safety, and connection to your origins. Venus may offer a moment of sweetness, perhaps through beautifying your space, reconnecting with loved ones, or simply finding peace in stillness and quiet. You’re encouraged to tend to your inner world with gentleness and inviting in grace, allowing your foundations to be infused with imagination, tenderness, and a more spiritual or poetic presence.
On May 4th, Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius, turning its probing gaze inward through your second sector of values, income, and self-worth. Since Pluto figured prominently in the New Moon chart, the week or so around this date may feel particularly potent. You’re invited to reflect on where your relationship with security – both material or emotional – has become entrenched in limited thinking, or perhaps is simply due for an overhaul. This isn’t about discarding any existing structure entirely, but perhaps reclaiming a sense of empowerment and re-centering your unique and evolving values. With Pluto still newly in Aquarius, this is also the beginning of a larger, 20-year reinvention of how you relate to materiality, sustainability, and your finances.
Mercury enters Taurus on May 10th, re-focalizing steady progress in your fifth sector of creative self-expression and joy. Conversations around desire, artistry, or romantic dynamics may be top of mind, and this time may grant a clarity of mind to put the proverbial pen to paper. There’s support for anchoring inspiration into something tangible.
The Scorpio Full Moon arrives on May 12th and highlights your eleventh sector of community, long-term vision, and collective belonging. With Sun-Uranus opposing from your fifth sector of creative self-expression, this lunation may jolt you into realizing how certain social dynamics either support or inhibit your authentic expression. You might also become more aware of the audience for your creativity in the form of your surrounding community and world. In terms of authenticity, there are your cherished inner principles and values which are uniquely your own, and which you yourself are increasingly bringing to the table. At this juncture your internal morals and values might be more readily brought forward as playing an important role. You may also notice unexpected shifts in friendships, group affiliations, or your sense of belonging in a broader context. This is an invitation to re-assess outdated roles or alliances that no longer match your evolving truth, and to seek out re-inventing connections or exploring environments that mirror your current values and interests.
As the Sun moves into Gemini in your sixth sector on May 20th, your focus may shift toward refining the structures of your everyday life – workflows, wellness practices, and the small habits that shape your days. This is a time for allowing your curiosity to lead, and when tending to details can help restore a sense of balance and forward motion. Even simple adjustments in routine might bring a renewed sense of aliveness and clarity.
On May 24th, Saturn, your ruling planet, makes a significant shift as it enters Aries and joins Neptune in your fourth sector of home, family, and emotional roots, where these two planetary archetypes will be within 2° until mid-September, peaking in mid-July. This is a significant moment for you, Capricorn, marking the beginning of a long-term restructuring of your inner foundation. You may begin to feel the tension between what’s dissolving and what must be redefined. This transit may ask: what does security really mean to you now? What parts of your lineage or inner scaffolding are ready to be lovingly rebuilt? You’re encouraged to take your time here. This is a slow emergence, more of a tectonic shift than a sudden overhaul.
The New Moon in Gemini on May 26th lands in your sixth sector of day-to-day environments, offering a fresh start around your work-life rhythms, habits, or physical health. Mercury is closely conjunct to this lunation, supporting practical shifts and communicative clarity. With Pluto forming a trine aspect, this could be a powerful moment to implement meaningful changes in your daily systems, especially those that support autonomy and purpose. It’s a reminder that even the smallest shifts can ripple outward into a big impact.
With the first quarter of the year having carried three major inner planet retrogrades, this month carries a sense of integration and the wheel of forward motion is beginning to gain some momentum. For you, Capricorn, it may feel like things are slowly locking into place – not all at once, but piece by piece. You’re encouraged to work with what’s steady, even as deeper layers continue to shift. This is a time to balance your focused clarity with gentle compassion and ambition with play and pleasure. May your devotion land where it is truly valued; and may your awareness of time’s preciousness guide you to give your energy to what you most want to grow and blossom.
Aquarius Horoscope May 2025
AQUARIUS (Jan 20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling Planets Uranus, Saturn
This is another month, Aquarius, that is very active for you, astrologically. There are quite a few planetary aspects involving your modern ruler, Uranus, and your traditional ruler, Saturn, found in close sextile with each other as the month begins. The recent Taurus New Moon from the end of April governs the May month, and featured a grand cross that included Sun and Moon with transformational Pluto located in your sign opposite energetic Mars, in Leo, along with the new 21st century KBO planet Haumea in your career sector, indicating extremely changeful energy al around. There is the question of identity in the largest possible sense, so that you could be in the midst of solving who and what you really are. Taurus corresponds to your sector of home and family and could also relate to your family of origin. This sector is also connected to past events, and there are implications for fresh understanding of inner wounding, the likely residue of early childhood trauma, as you go through. Mars rules your vocational sector and with Haumea posted there as well, the implications are for your deepest principles and values to emerge as guideposts affecting current career choices. The Scorpio Full Moon of May 12th might also speak to your inner understanding along similar lines and can serve as a culmination of a deep process of reorientation that represents the very heart of this month’s profound developmental and evolutionary process.This as you continue to bring your own unique values to the table of your more conscious awareness.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
As May begins, you’re moving with the potent lunation cycle brought to life by the April 27th New Moon in Taurus. This powerful New Moon landed in your fourth sector of home, psychological roots, and emotional foundation, forming as it did so a dynamic T-square with Mars in Leo opposite Pluto in your own sign of Aquarius. Pluto there is in its earliest stages of the 20+ year journey through your sign and signals a chapter of major change for you! You might be feeling some intensity building inside you – pressure to define who you are, over and above the environments and relationships that have shaped you. These indeed may no longer feel true to who you are becoming. Questions around autonomy, authenticity, agency, and power could surface, especially in relation to ancestral patterns or your private life. With Mars opposed, and in your relationship sector, partners could be helpful here, and it also must be acknowledged that there could also emerge some intimations of a struggle there as well. It might help to remember that this is in this current month a volatile astrological dynamic which will, in time, also pass. It’s possible that certain patterns or roles are due for a major metamorphosis, and this month marks a catalyst – one that may be confronting, yet necessary for your continued growth and evolution.
On May 1st and 2nd, Venus conjoins Neptune in Aries in your third sector of communication, learning, and local environment. With Neptune beginning a new ~14-year cycle here, the way you think, speak, and connect may become more infused with intuition, sensitivity, and dreamlike perception. Venus brings a softening energy, perhaps inspiring you to express yourself more poetically, to seek beauty in your immediate surroundings. This time may also blur boundaries, or leave you feeling some confusion or fogginess, so it may also be wise to keep a discerning eye on the information you are assimilating, and what kind of material you are learning and integrating into your understanding.
Pluto stations retrograde on May 4th, turning your gaze deeply inward. As the planet of transformation retraces its early steps through your first sector of identity and self-hood, you may begin to reflect on what’s been shifting at the core of your experience. This is a long arc, as Pluto will travel through your sign for the next two decades, but during the week or so surrounding its station, you may notice a punctuated dose of change. You might be peeling back layers, excavating old versions of yourself, and beginning to make space for the truer, more empowered self that wants to emerge. There’s no rush, the invitation is to keep a listening ear for your own evolution and unique brilliance to unfurl, and blossom into the truth of who you are.
On May 10th, Mercury enters Taurus and your fourth sector, echoing the New Moon themes. You may feel more clarity now around family dynamics, or plans involving your living situation. This can be a time for grounding conversations and sorting through lingering questions about what stability really means and looks like for you.
The Scorpio Full Moon arrives on May 12th, illuminating your tenth sector of career, visibility, and long-term goals. Opposite the Sun in close proximity to Uranus, your modern planetary ruler, this lunation could bring surprise shifts or sudden realizations around your vocation or public role. You may feel called to change course, release expectations, or make bold choices about how you show up in the world. Your most cherished internal principles and values are also up for you now as possible to better integrate with what you more obviously bring to the table in your public life. There could be some other forms of tension as well at this juncture between private needs and professional demands, and you may find yourself navigating these realms with heightened sensitivity. You benefit when you can roll with the circumstances that arise, even if they disrupt your plans. It’s likely that they will provide new insights or point to a deeper truth that was previously obscured.
The Sun enters Gemini on May 20th, bringing brightness to your fifth sector of creativity, pleasure, and self-expression. This is a time to reconnect with joy, with the things that light you up. You may find yourself inspired to create, play, or open your heart in new ways. With Mercury joining the Gemini New Moon on May 26th, and Pluto forming a flowing trine, this could be a powerful moment to plant seeds around creative collaboration, romantic expression, or finding your unique voice. You are invited to allow curiosity to be your guide, following the light of what excites and delights you, as an act of self love and (re)discovering acts of creativity that feed your life force.
Saturn, your traditional ruler, makes a significant shift into Aries on May 24th and begins to travel closely with Neptune in your third sector through mid-September. This rare pairing offers an invitation to blend idealism with structure, and poetic imagination with your cognition and communication. You may begin a process of re-imagining how you vocalize or speak your truth or commit to new learning paths that nourish both your intellect and spirit. While there may be instances of disillusionment – or even confusion – as your beliefs shift and change, there is an underlying intelligence to this process, and the explorations you pursue under the influence of this transit can reshape your mindset in profound and lasting ways.
After a beginning to the year that was marked by some slow and inward turning transits, including all three inner planet retrogrades, May stirs the air with a sense of forward movement. Not everything may be neatly resolved at once, but there’s energy returning, flickers of clarity, moments of insight, and glimpses of what wants to grow. Perhaps this month offers an invitation to meet your own transformation with curiosity, to take your seat at the center of the change that’s already underway. What might it mean to claim your seat as the architect of your future self? May you take the reins of your authentic guidance, moving with both inspiration and integrity, trusting that you are an active co-creator in yourself, your life – and ultimately the existence – that you envision.
Pisces Horoscope May 2025
PISCES (Feb 19 - Mar 20) Water. Ruling Planets Neptune, Jupiter
This is another very interesting month, Pisces, when what is deep inside you calls to you most clearly. The Taurus New Moon of late April governs the thirty-day lunation cycle that covers most of this current May month, and it must also be noted that this recent New Moon featured Pluto in early Aquarius, which for you represents your sector of dream imagination, unconscious process, and inner work. This inner world is music to your Piscean ears, as you are always very conscious of worlds beyond that which lies within the purview of the five physical senses. The transformation that this phase of Pluto in Aquarius implies is an inner one, and that is where the metamorphosis of this month is leading you. There is an intellectual quality for you now that can take you farther on your evolutionary journey provided that you can stay open to possibilities. The Scorpio Full Moon of Monday, May 12th, represents a culmination of this intellectually adventurous and deep-diving exploration that currently drives you. This juncture represents a timing as well when you might become more conscious of inner wounding, due to the highlighted emphasis in this lunation on Chiron, the Wounded Healer, in his conjunction with Eris for soul intention. The Last Quarter Moon of the 20th – and the subsequent Gemini New Moon of the 26th – are also significant junctures as you grow in understanding and as your root psychology further manifests and takes hold of you.
The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.
May opens in the wake of the April 27th New Moon in Taurus, activating your third sector of communication, thought patterns, and local environment for almost the entirety of the month. This lunation also formed a potent T-square with Pluto in Aquarius and Mars in Leo, stirring intensity in your mental world and daily rhythms. You might be navigating internal pressure to express yourself differently or breaking through old thought loops that no longer reflect your current truth. With transformational effects of Pluto activating your twelfth sector of dream imagination, unconscious process, and inner work, there are shifts as well that are going on below the surface layers of your psyche. These might be subtle and difficult to get a handle on, although quite real. You might gain by paying attention to whatever comes along in synchronistic symbolization, and by trusting your intuition. Your dedication to this inner work is profound and very present for you right now. There could also be friction between your intuitive understanding and your more logical side, and something transforming in your relationship in navigating intangible realms of your dream states and subconscious. Perhaps you’re becoming more attuned to how the narratives you carry shape your lived experience, and this lunation invites a rewrite – one that’s getting updated to be more expressive of the whole of who you are as a being, and who you are becoming as you evolve and grow.
On May 1st and 2nd, Venus conjoins Neptune in Aries, landing in your second sector of resources, values, and self-worth. With Neptune having just left your own sign, and now on a new ~14-year journey, you might feel tender, nostalgic, or dreamy about who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. Venus here brings a softness to your relationship with money and personal resources – but also prompts you to ask what you truly value at a soul level. This moment may offer a glimpse into how your spirituality and creativity can support both inner and material abundance.
Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius on May 4th, echoing its prominent position from the New Moon in your twelfth sector of the unconscious. Pluto through Aquarius is a long arc of inner evolution for you – one that’s asking you to explore the hidden spaces within, to dance with shadow, and embrace the metamorphosis of your inner world. During the week or so surrounding this retrograde station, you may notice an increased awareness of subterranean emotions or buried beliefs. You’re invited to listen to what moves beneath the surface and to bring a gentle air of presence and witnessing to the process of renewal that is unfolding within you.
Mercury enters Taurus on May 10th in your third sector, lending focus to your voice, mindset, and how you engage with information. You may find more clarity and ease in expressing your thoughts or working through lingering questions. This is a good time to have conversations that require a steady presence, or to focus on learning or research.
The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 12th illuminates your ninth sector of higher learning, personal philosophy, and spiritual growth. Opposite the Sun in close proximity to Uranus, this lunation may bring unexpected insights, breakthroughs, or awakenings that challenge your current worldview. You might feel the urge to travel, dive into study, or open your mind to new frameworks of understanding. There is also at this timing a potent examination going on within you of your own inner principles and values, and how these might be able to contribute to your outer world persona and goals. Your social setting is never far from your thoughts right now, and the way that you could enhance your presence by allowing your true attitudes and feelings to express themselves more freely. There’s an electric charge to this Full Moon – an urge to grow beyond the familiar and connect with something beyond in the realms of mystery and depth. Let your intuition lead, allowing the tug of your desire for further exploration to be your guide.
On May 20th, the Sun enters Gemini, highlighting your fourth sector of home, family, and inner foundations. You may feel a pull to anchor down, tending your roots and creating more emotional and physical nourishment in your private life. This is a time for grounding, not necessarily in stillness, but in the delight you may find in care for yourself and your close ones, connection, and listening to what kind of home environment your body and spirit need in order to feel safe and held.
A major shift arrives on May 24th, as Saturn joins Neptune in Aries, where these two planets will travel closely together until mid-September, activating your second sector of finances and values. This rare conjunction may prompt deep reflection around what you truly value, and an invitation to tangible acts of devotion to and commitment to those values. Perhaps there’s a longing to align your income with your purpose, or to invest your time and energy into what you find truly meaningful. This transit is both inspiring, yet also may come with moments of feeling disillusioned with harsh facts of reality. You are encouraged to take practical steps toward building a life that honors both your vision and your needs, opening to the potential of weaving the sacred and the tangible into a new foundation of security and abundance.
Finally, the New Moon in Gemini on May 26th offers a fresh start in your fourth sector. With Mercury tightly conjunct this lunation and Pluto making a trine, this is a fertile time for planting seeds around home, healing, and your most personal aspirations. You may feel a shift in how you relate to family, ancestors, or emotional inheritance, and a chance to name what you want your foundations to feel like now, and write a new story of what home means and feels like for you.
After a first quarter of 2025 shaped by the slow and challenging energy of all the inner planet retrogrades, May begins to stir the energy of forward movement – gentle at first, but steadily building. Perhaps what emerges now isn’t about rushing ahead but rather speaks to moving from a deeper integration of all that’s shifted beneath the surface. Your dreams may be ready to take root, not as fantasies, but as living truths shaped by your courage, care, and quest for clarity. May you walk with your intuition as your guide, your heart as your compass, and your spirit grounded in both softness and strength.
A May Month of Action, Inward Orientation, and Transformation
The astrology of May is coordinated to the recent Taurus New Moon some three days before the month began, from April 27th, so that the resulting thirty-day lunation cycle carries through almost the entire May month. There has been some very intense astrological patterning in recent months, and this month is in some ways even more so. The recent New Moon featured not only Uranus in a tight 1° aspect to Saturn, a sextile, as well as an extremely tight triple conjunction of Venus with the true North Node and Saturn, but also a grand cross in Fixed signs between the Taurus Sun and Moon at 7° of the sign, square to Mars and Pluto in opposition, at 4° and 3° of Leo and Aquarius respectively, and completed by the 2° Scorpio position of the new 21st century KBO planet Haumea. This kind of New Moon has a technical terminology in that we could call this a real doozy. The effect on our individual arc of development and, as well, the zeitgeist, is major, especially considering that Pluto is featured in early Aquarius. The transformational effect is revelatory and life changing. Numinous Neptune, recently entered into Aries for the first time in 165 years, is closely contra-parallel Venus and conjunct as well within 2°, so there is a feeling of foggy mysticism that suffuses the entire May month, in which rational reasoning might flounder. The question of the factual truth of the matter – versus prevailing illusion – is currently another powerful factor of our times and perhaps for our individual lives also.
Other lunations this month are also quite powerful, beginning with the Scorpio Full Moon of Monday, May 12th, and continuing to the Moon’s Last Quarter of the 20th and the Gemini New Moon of the 26th. As far as the Full Moon, there are a few important factors here, not least among them that Mercury, now in Taurus, and at 3°, is exactly square Pluto practically to within the very minute of a degree! This increases, as this culmination dawns, our consciousness around the transformative process in which we are engaged. The Moon at 22° of Scorpio opposite the Taurus Sun – with Uranus close at hand – is the focus of a yod from Chiron, the Wounded Healer, and Jupiter in Gemini. Also, Chiron is conjunct Eris now within ½ degree, and exactly semi-sextile the Sun/Uranus midpoint of 24° of Taurus. It is possible that our own inner wounding might come up, as part of our depth researches at this timing.
The Last Quarter Moon of May 20th is also quite dramatic, with the Moon and Sun in 29° 43’ of their respective signs of Aquarius and Taurus, thus hovering on the very brink of Pisces and Gemini and affecting all four of these signs. Because Uranus has by this time reached 27° degrees of Taurus, the trickster effect is still quite active, as we negotiate the lunar phase that Dane Rudhyar considered to be a “crisis in consciousness” when the shift in awareness brought about by this lunation cycle is in its final stages of completion. The position of Saturn and of Neptune, both quite near the Aries Point and therefore sextile the Sun in this lunation, with a midpoint of 0° Aries, is also significant. Saturn with Neptune in extremely close conjunction will be with us all this summer and fall, indicating what celebrated astrologer Richard Tarnas called increasing polarization, blue states and red states, and “deception unmasked.” It is fairly clear by now that, at least on the US political front, this is no longer really a much of a walk in the park.
Finally, the Gemini New Moon of the 26th also represents something of a volatile moment. Saturn has now actually ingressed into Aries, with Neptune still a couple of degrees away. They will get to within ¼ of a degree by mid-July. Sun, Moon, and Mercury are in trine to Pluto, further intensifying the transformational stew, while Chiron and Eris are perfectly conjunct. Our all too human inner wounding is brought more dramatically into the field of our awareness and might serve to further our evolutionary development into our most authentic version of ourselves that we can muster. Blessed be!
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