May brings along a continuation of outer-world focused growth, yet also points your awareness towards your inner process and subconscious realms. The month begins still thrumming from the absolutely wild Aries New Moon of April 17th, which featured a densely packed Aries stellium that lit up your career and ambition. With such a variety of influences in this area of your chart, it offered up a potent mix of excitement at new possibilities, yet also some frustration or friction. The beginning of May ripples in with some deep magic as the Scorpio Full Moon arrives on the 1st, illuminating the hidden depths of your creative expression and deep longings. Jupiter continues to bring expansive new presence to your sense of self, although the 2nd through 5th receives a square from Mars that could create some inner tension between where you are and where you want to be. The Taurus New Moon mid-month invites you to root down and reach your branches skyward, mixing your practical know-how with that deeper potency of going after what you truly desire. Allow your genuine excitement to be your compass this month! Venus' entrance into your sign on the 18th ushers in a lovely softness, as you re-orient to your own values, sense of worth, and self-compassion, and a time to replenish and come home to yourself. As the month winds down, subtle power dynamics may come into play, along with inner and outer voices that challenge your self-concept. This invites you to dig deep for self-accountability, claiming more authority over what is truly yours to carry, releasing what is not, and coming into greater recognition of what lies beyond your control. The month closes with a Sagittarius Full Moon on the 31st, offering up fresh perspective and a renewed sense of meaning in your everyday life and work.


The following was written by our guest astrologer, Lauren Hansen. You can find her here.


Previous New Moon in late Aries – April 17th
Throughout the first half of May, the late Aries New Moon continues to activate your tenth sector of career and authority, as well as influencing your eleventh sector of long-term goals and networks. You may be continuing to gain clarity around who around you support your life vision, and what you want to accomplish long-term. You could find yourself focusing on what next steps are important as far as career and profession. Because Chiron, the Wounded Healer, was also prominent is this recent New Moon, and in a close conjunction to Sun, Moon, and Eris, for soul intention, you could perhaps gain in your understanding of the ways that inner wounding might be a factor in holding you back from your vocational aspirations and your fullest sense of your own authenticity. This could ultimately lead you to make different choices based on this newfound clarity!

Full Moon in Scorpio – May 1st
This Scorpio Full Moon highlights your joyous fifth sector of self-expression, creativity, leisure, and pleasure. This lunation serves as a reminder to embrace your unique gifts and maintain your authentic self, especially among friends. While Taurus Season has been pulling your focus towards your long-term objectives, your community, or perhaps humanity at large, this Full Moon can further inspire you to enjoy the present and lean into pleasurable activities! Pluto’s square to Sun and Moon in opposition, intensified by its upcoming station to retrograde motion, can potentially reveal power-plays within your romantic connections or possibly with any children in your life – plus secrets and emotional undercurrents can also come to light. As another possible effect of this Full Moon, you may realize you’re in need of more pleasure, laughter or romance in your life.

Mars Square Jupiter – May 2nd-5th
Mars is strong in Aries, quickly pushing through your tenth sector of career, authority, and public life. As Mars forms a square to Jupiter in your first sector of self, a necessary tension is likely to arise! While you may have to rush a professional project, defend your public image or fight for recognition – you’re definitely on go! Watch out for an inflated ego although do express confidence in these endeavors. This tension can support overblown situations and reactions, potentially leading to burn out or unneeded arguments. In the long run, feeling boldly empowered to take on any reputational or professional issues/challenges will be a positive manifestation.

Mercury Cazimi – May 14th
Only a handful of times per year, Mercury makes its way into the "heart of the Sun," a potent alignment known as a Mercury Cazimi! In this morning timeframe (in the U.S.) Mercury aligns with the Sun in Taurus – which is your uplifted eleventh sector of friendship, long-term objectives, and future vision. Eye-opening conversations with friends can ensue, plus helpful realizations regarding your dreams for the future so that you may come up with new and collaborative ideas! Perhaps you will also gain clarity around who you need to surround yourself with to provide that your goals are better supported.

New Moon in Taurus – May 16th
The favorable Taurus New Moon forms within your eleventh sector of friendship, community, and future goals – encouraging you to begin anew within this exciting and collaborative department of your life. In an exalted position, this New Moon can inspire you to increase the quality of your friendships and perhaps the quality of your future vision for yourself. You may want to begin putting more energy into stable and harmonious social connections, even searching for a new project to do together – and maybe one that is humanitarian in nature. Venus in Gemini located near your identity sector rules this lunation and the New Moon is applying to Mercury, Gemini’s ruler! Your mental process is invoked, and you may be attempting to satisfy necessary vocational actions or troubling limitations there by thinking your way through them. While mostly grounding, this lunar phase can also feel a bit restless, motivating you to socialize to share your feelings. New intuitional information may come to light, assisting you in starting this new chapter. Another theme here might be a reset regarding your long-term goals and ways in which you connect with your community at large.

Mercury Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 17th
While Mercury transits through one of its home signs, Gemini, and your twelfth sector of spiritual healing, solitude, and unconscious material – you’re likely to experience a phase of heightened curiosity around your own unconscious habits. The urge to retreat and self-analyze would be natural – which can lead to discovering new healing modalities or a revitalized inspiration to lean into spiritual practice. This transit can also reflect a time of happy solitude – taking alone time to be with your thoughts, or even new studies. But! For the first few days of Mercury’s residence in Gemini, Mercury conjuncts Uranus. You might have a spiritual revelation, a new unconscious habit may come online, and you may suddenly shake off and old habit you’ve outgrown!

Mars Enters Taurus and Venus Enters Cancer – May 18th
As Mars enters Taurus and your eleventh sector of networks and long-term objectives, Venus also switches signs – into your own sign of Cancer, hence your first sector of self. During this sextile aspect between them, you’re likely to soften; prioritizing peace, stable friendships and sweet social connections. You may be more popular at this time, but it’s possible to feel the urge to cut out people in your life that you don’t feel safe around, or supported by. These transits can also strike a creative spark around one of your dreams – leading to new creative ideas and projects.

Sun Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 20th
When the Sun enters Gemini, your twelfth sector of self-undoing, self-sacrifice, and inner healing comes further into conscious focus. Solitude may take precedence now, as you're due for a little quiet me-time, possibly for healing or mystical reconnection. The Sun in Gemini can also illuminate your unhelpful unconscious behavior, assisting you in becoming aware of patterns that may need addressing. During the first few days of Gemini Season, as the Sun aligns with Uranus, you could experience revelations around these tendencies, feel inspired to be of service or even have a spiritual breakthrough.

Mars Square Pluto + Sun Trine Pluto – May 23rd-26th
Both the Sun and Mars aspect Pluto in Aquarius over these few days. On one level, your shadows and unconscious behaviors can become profoundly obvious – likely in a helpful way in that you’re willing and able to address these and be honest with yourself. An urge to be authentically intimate with your own inner function and with your partner can feel intense, too! At the same time, you may be challenged to be honest or investigatory when it comes to friendships. Or perhaps your shared resources, or maybe a debt, might need to be addressed before you can take steps toward a long-term objective. There is a lesson here in vulnerability, power and/or truth within these aspects.

Venus Square Saturn – May 27th-29th
As Venus in your sign squares Saturn, setbacks and hurdles stemming from your professional or public life can impact your ability to have a positive outlook, or feel good about yourself. Setting healthy boundaries around work responsibilities can protect your peace, while it could also be time for you to take accountability for your professional actions. Your duty to your career or public reputation may take temporary precedence over ease or pleasure. This tension between the planet of love and the planet of limits and dedication can assist you in committing more deeply to finding a balance between enjoyment and responsibility.

Full Moon in Sagittarius – May 31st
The Sagittarius Full Moon brings an enthusiastic and transformative energy into your sixth sector of workplace, daily labor, and physical health. While the Gemini Sun has been pulling your attention toward your twelfth sector of the unconscious, inner work, solitude, and spiritual retreat – this lunation encourages you to check-in with your more conscious health habits, routines, and how you feel about your work environment. Since this Full Moon has supportive aspects to Pluto and Saturn, while Uranus is additionally highlighted, transformation is in the air and you may be surprised by recognizing the habitual patterns that are outmoded in the face of your current evolutionary level. Anything that is holding you back must eventually be placed, rather than centrally, on the back burner, and now and over then couple of weeks might be a good time to consider that.

May continues to fan the flames of your relational explorations, Libra, while also emphasizing your spiritual path, vocation, and values. The month arrives in the afterglow of the wild Aries New Moon of April 17th, where an enormous stellium lit up your relationship arena, revealing both the wonderful possibilities and the real-world limitations. May 1st brings a Scorpio Full Moon illuminating the state of your resources, personal and shared, and deepening conversations around values and creativity. Pluto is also prominent in the early month, amplifying the transformation in your expression and desire nature as it slows to its retrograde station on the 6th. Mid-month, the Taurus New Moon on the 16th turns attention inward, prompting a cycle of reflection around your psychological underpinnings and realms of intimacy. Uranus' recent entrance into Gemini has opened a new multi-year era of spiritual exploration, and some electric insights may crackle through around the 17th to 20th as the Sun and Mercury enter Gemini and make their conjunctions to Uranus. Your ruling planet Venus enters Cancer on the 18th, joining Jupiter's expansive presence and amplifying connection to your career and public persona. However, Venus' square to Saturn later in the month signals where greater discipline and responsibility enter the picture. The closing days are colored by potentially tricky tensions and power dynamics, calling upon your considerable gifts for diplomacy and creative problem-solving to find your way to clarity and agency. The month concludes with a Sagittarius Full Moon on the 31st, lifting your voice and enlivening your communication with a touch of inspiration and buoyancy.


The following was written by our guest astrologer, Lauren Hansen. You can find her here.


Previous New Moon in late Aries – April 17th
Throughout the first half of May, the late Aries New Moon from the middle of last month continues to activate your seventh sector of relationships! This also influences your eighth sector of shared resources and intimacy. There was a massive collection of eight planets in Aries so that your relationships, including business partnerships, continue to be full of various activities, including a degree of confusion, also providing at times unexpected information and events. As the May month unfolds, you may be continuing to gain clarity around these dynamics of important relationships. There is energy and illusion, also fantasy, plus a certain sense of stop and go action implicit in this patterning. Taking steps that reflect a renewal within these personal realms can also feel aligned to the mystical!

Full Moon in Scorpio – May 1st
This Scorpio Full Moon highlights your second sector of self-worth, core values, personal income, and possessions. The Full Moon is illuminated by the opposing Taurus Sun in your eighth sector of shared resources, intimacy, sex, and transformation. This lunar phase may bring any values or financial discrepancies to light, such as any outstanding difference between your own principles and what you hear and see all around you; there is also the gap between what you earn and what you owe, or the difference between your personal savings and shared marital or partner assets. You might also find yourself weighing the reliable stability of your relationships and any issues of partnership agreement or the actual level of emotional depth with actual or potential partnerships. Pluto’s square to Sun and Moon, intensified by its upcoming station, can reveal financial or emotional power-plays, while also magnifying your current feelings around whether you have been experiencing enough pleasure and joy in your life! Acknowledging your unmet desires, financial imbalances or intimacy issues (if present) can allow room for more authentic connection to your own self-worth and with regard to a partner.

Mars Square Jupiter – May 2nd-5th
Mars is currently thriving in Aries, one of its home signs, radiating peak strength and assertive energy within your seventh sector of partnership, relating to others and open enemies. As Mars forms a square to Jupiter in your tenth sector of career and public image, a necessary tension is likely to arise. This is also however lucky energy, implying success! While you may feel you have to push, rush, defend or fight others, there is also a good timing for career advancement. On the other hand, you may notice that your currently enhanced career position or public reputation gets in the way of this natural urge to be energetically involved with a partner. Almost paradoxically, you may feel boldly empowered to take on enemies that can impact your public image, or you’re ready to make new business partners for new career ventures. Or perhaps, your current romantic partner or business partner is experiencing an upgrade to their public status. It may be wise to be cautious of overblown professional conflicts, or new long-term business decisions, as Jupiter tends to dramatize situations.

Mercury Cazimi – May 14th
Only a handful of times per year, Mercury makes its way into the "heart of the Sun," a potent alignment known as a Mercury Cazimi! In this case, during morning hours, Mercury is in perfected alignment with the Sun in Taurus – within your eighth sector of psychological shadows, crisis, shared resources and transformation. Helpful insights around your shared finances can take place, psychologically impactful realizations around your shadow self can improve your ability to be authentic, and perhaps you gain some much needed clarity around your relationship with sex or intimacy. You might also find a new way of looking at a crisis you’ve been through – assisting you in finding the deeper meaning and silver linings!

New Moon in Taurus – May 16th
The favorable Taurus New Moon forms within your mysterious eighth sector of psychological shadows, intimate connections, shared finances, and rebirth – encouraging you to begin anew within this complex department of your life. In the Moon’s exalted sign, this New Moon can inspire you to increase the quality of your intimate relationships or perhaps bring sensual energy back into your sex life. Venus in Gemini rules your sign and this lunation while the New Moon is applying to Mercury, Gemini’s ruler, so this can be a mentally active time. With Mars in exact conjunction with Chiron, sextile Venus, it is also possible for inner wounding to raise its unpleasant and difficult head in this New Moon timing, and over the next thirty days, so that you might consider this factor and try for greater internal acceptance. A mental reset regarding who with or how to share your private/internal self can be a theme, sponsoring greater clarity around your own psychological shadows that may need to be acknowledged.

Mercury Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 17th
While Mercury transits through one of its home signs, Gemini, and your ninth sector of mental expansion, travel and beliefs – you’re likely to experience a phase of general heightened curiosity, but especially your faith and the faith of others. The urge to relate to and understand your own and others’ inner truths is present; finding yourself booking a long journey so you can grow from meeting people from different walks of life is possible. Publishing contracts can get signed, new educational pursuits may begin and your ability to lay successful logistical plans is useful now. But! For the first few days of Mercury’s residence in Gemini, Mercury conjuncts Uranus. Surprising travel trips can come online, old internal beliefs can crumble, and you can have unexpected revelations around what you truly have faith in!

Mars Enters Taurus and Venus Enters Cancer – May 18th
As Mars enters Taurus and your eighth sector of personal evolution, Venus also switches signs – into Cancer and your tenth sector of vocation, authority and public life. These two personal planets are in lovely sextile to each other, assisting you in creating both emotional and material stability. Your professional life may be especially easeful; receiving recognition for your hard work, getting along with bosses, or even being promoted. This support from Venus can assist you in cutting away old debts! Or perhaps, this new level of security allows room for you to be more authentic with yourself or your partner around deep desires.

Sun Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 20th
When the Sun enters Gemini, your ninth sector of worldview, education and beliefs comes further into conscious focus. Educational pursuits and travel may take precedence now, as your curiosity is enhanced and you’re likely in the mood to learn! The Sun can illuminate your worldview, helping you to dive deeper into your beliefs around foreign places and how they impact you. If you’re a writer, this is a great time to publish your work! In fact, within the first few days of Gemini Season, as the Sun aligns with Uranus, an unexpected publishing or educational opportunity may be presented! You could also feel inspired to share a new revelation around your shifting beliefs or have a surprise travel trip become available.

Mars Square Pluto + Sun Trine Pluto – May 23rd-26th
Both the Sun and Mars aspect Pluto over these few days. On one level, your relationship to pleasure can be going through a profoundly positive transformation and your urge to creatively express yourself might be intensified. At the same time, your current debts, or possibly a current crisis, is likely at odds with the ways in which you’d like to experience pleasure and joy. There is a lesson in authenticity, power and/or truth within these aspects. It may be wise to practice vulnerability, especially within intimate relationships, and be willing to accept your shadows. This process can assist you in a useful perspective shift, which allows room for your pleasure-seeking desires to be met!

Venus Square Saturn – May 27th-29th
As Venus squares Saturn, delays or obstacles stemming from your marriage, a business partnership or your ability to relate to others, can impact your public image or professional responsibilities. It’s likely that your commitment to important relationships may take temporary precedence over professional projects at this time. Setting healthy boundaries with both the authorities in your life (could be a boss of yours) and with partners, while also being accountable within a partnership may be what eases this tension.

Full Moon in Sagittarius – May 31st
The Sagittarius Full Moon brings a vibrant and metamorphic energy into your third sector of communicational outreach, mental process, curiosity, and learning. During Gemini Season, you’ve likely been actively working with your ninth or higher mind sector, fascinated by your changing worldview. This lunation encourages you to focus on your emotional realities that show up in conversation. With supportive aspects to the Moon from Pluto and Saturn, there could be additional depth or intimations of transformation in what you are now finding the heart to discuss with friends and trusted allies. There is a way that what you communicate to others at this time can represent a summing up of your entire evolutionary progress over the last half of May.

May reconnects you with purpose and creative aliveness, Capricorn, as the month weaves together themes of joy, partnership, and the gradual restructuring of your inner foundations. The month opens in the afterglow of the Aries New Moon of April 17th, which contained an enormous stellium igniting fresh energy in your home life and innermost roots, a process that may have stirred both excitement and friction in equal measure. The Scorpio Full Moon on the 1st illuminates your sphere of friendships, community, and long-term aspirations, offering a clarification around who and what is truly aligned with your path forward. Pluto's presence may be keenly felt in this early stretch as it slows to its retrograde station on the 6th, deepening the ongoing metamorphosis of your resources and core values. Mars squares Jupiter in the early weeks, amplifying both ambition and restlessness in the tension between your home foundations and your partnership sphere. The Taurus New Moon mid-month initiates a new cycle of self-expression, pleasure, and the courage to pursue what genuinely delights you. As Mercury and then the Sun enter Gemini and conjunct Uranus in the mid-to-late month, unexpected developments and flashes of insight animate your work life and daily rhythms, where a longer era of reinvention is now unfolding. Venus enters Cancer on the 18th, joining Jupiter there and bringing a warm expansiveness to your relational world. However, Venus' square to your ruling planet Saturn late in the month asks you to reflect on your sense of responsibility, especially in the context of family and partnership. The month closes with a Sagittarius Full Moon on the 31st, casting its glow into your subconscious dream realms and inviting your loving presence into the depths of your inner world.


The following was written by our guest astrologer, Lauren Hansen. You can find her here.


Previous New Moon in Aries – April 17th
Throughout the first half of May, the late Aries New Moon from the middle of the previous month continues to activate your fourth sector of emotional foundations, home and family, affecting as well your fifth sector of creative expression, children and pleasure. With Saturn, your ruler, semi-square Venus in this recent New Moon, you may be continuing to gain clarity around what you want to create, or what new expression you’d like to put out there. With Saturn also conjunct Mars – the ruler of Aries and your fourth sector – home and family, including family of origin, looms large in your thoughts and in your list of current personal values. It also might be wise to make different homey, creative, or romantic choices based on this newfound clarity!

Full Moon in Scorpio – May 1st
This Scorpio Full Moon highlights your eleventh sector of long-term objectives, friendship, networks, and personal vision. This lunation serves as a reminder to be a part of something larger than yourself and to remember to tend to your friendships and your dreams. While Taurus Season has been pulling your focus towards pleasurable activities, romance and creative expression – this Full Moon can inspire you to revisit your big goals and your membership within humanity at large! The synergy between these different sides of life, along the fifth and eleventh house axis, both equally in play as this Full Moon inspiration culminates. You are also enjoined to remember that it is your own internal moral compass that is your ultimate guide, contributing to what makes the collective vision possible. It’s time to make sure that you’re balancing holding a vision for the future, with your present actions. Pluto’s square, intensified by its upcoming station, can reveal power-plays within your social and personal networks, along with secrets and undercurrents of emotion. The social connections that bring you more stress than joy will be obvious – and you may feel particularly strong about affirming your self-worth as you assess these and other friendships.

Mars Square Jupiter – May 2nd-5th
Mars is strong in Aries, quickly pushing through your fourth sector of home, family and domestic life. As Mars forms a square to Jupiter in your seventh sector of partnership and relationships with others, a necessary tension is likely to arise! You may have to rush a home project, defend your family or have a dispute with your domestic partner. Watch out for an inflated ego, rushing to conclusions or making a big deal out of something that can be easily resolved. This tension can also coincide with the need to move through something quickly with your family, due to something quite positive and expansive occurring with your partner or within your partnership!

Mercury Cazimi – May 14th
Only a handful of times per year, Mercury makes its way into the "heart of the Sun," a potent alignment known as a Mercury Cazimi. In the case of this morning, Mercury is perfecting its alignment with the Sun in Taurus, within your fifth sector of pleasure, fun, creation, and self-expression! You could have a beautiful creative breakthrough, or a powerfully eye-opening conversation with a romantic partner. Perhaps you gain clarity about the topic of children, or your relationship with your child/children becomes understandable. It may be wise to pay special attention to any new ideas or revelations during this uniquely mind-clearing day.

New Moon in Taurus – May 16th
The favorable Taurus New Moon forms and encourages a fresh start within your fifth sector of creativity, “Good Fortune,” self-expression, and romance. With a conjunction from Sun and Moon to mentally focused and consciously aware Mercury, your instinct may be to share with a romantic partner or any children in your life about the new chapter you see yourself beginning. You are thus made able to articulate how you feel about what feels missing or unfulfilled now. Taurus is a sign of stability, security and sensuality, so you may be checking in with whether your relationships provide those beautiful things. Expressing yourself authentically and beginning a new creative project that feels grounding and high quality may be on the docket! What might also be calling you, as signaled by Chiron, the Wounded Healer looming, is the presence of inner wounding that might be subtly sabotaging family life or reflections of your core psyche unless and until they can be answered in terms of greater self-investigation, recognition, and acceptance. This New Moon could also mark the beginning of you making more time for leisure or discovering new forms of fun and romance.

Mercury Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 17th
While Mercury transits through one of its home signs, Gemini, and your sixth sector of work, daily tasks and health – you’re likely to become more curious about your physical wellbeing and unexplored routines (which could assist you in forming better health habits). You could also find yourself very busy with work projects or coworkers; having to communicate and exchange information frequently. This may be when work and daily life feels a little scattered, but you can use this energy to quickly organize, sort and increase efficiency. And, for the first few days of Mercury’s residence in Gemini, Mercury conjuncts Uranus! New information and internal realizations regarding your workplace, work relationships, daily “must-dos,” and health can occur – ultimately encouraging you to embrace your authenticity and more freedom.

Mars Enters Taurus and Venus Enters Cancer – May 18th
As Mars enters Taurus and your fifth sector of creative expression, pleasure, sex and children, Venus also switches signs – into Cancer, and your seventh sector of partnership! During this lovely sextile aspect, you’re likely to be in the mood for leisure with your partner, or you might even want to create something with them – activities that warm your heart and bring you closer together in an easy or uplifting way. Prioritizing peace and good times can be a soothing theme to this transit, but you might also have a very individual urge to self-express – which can facilitate more spice and sweetness within partnership. These transits can also assist you in truly enjoying the present moment and bonding with others.

Sun Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 20th
When the Sun enters Gemini, your sixth sector of service, work, daily routines and health comes further into conscious focus. Work projects or physical healing practices may take precedence now. The Sun can illuminate your current health habits, work ethic and work dynamics, assisting you in becoming more aware of any patterns or relationships that need addressing. During the first few days of Gemini Season, as the Sun aligns with Uranus, you could experience revelations around these habits, feel inspired to change your job, or even have a health breakthrough.

Mars Square Pluto + Sun Trine Pluto – May 23rd-26th
The heightened level of awareness you’re experiencing within your sixth sector of workplace, wellness and service perfectly supports the transformation and personal progress you’d like to make within your second sector of self-worth, income and personal resources. An opportunity to make more money from the work you put in may present itself. Or you could learn that your income can greatly assist you in making new commitments to your health. Simultaneously, your romantic life or your relationship to your children can feel challenged and intense. This may be a moment when you question how you express your self-worth within these relationships. Being true to what you value, and focusing on valuing yourself would be a helpful way to utilize this transit.

Venus Square Saturn – May 27th-29th
As Venus squares Saturn, roadblocks and complications stemming from your domestic and private life can impact your ability to have ease within your partnerships, or even when it comes to interacting with others in general. Setting healthy boundaries with family members can protect your peace, while it also may be necessary that you take some accountability within these relationships. While you may want to get along with everyone, duty to family can get in the way somehow and take temporary precedence over pleasurable socializing. This tension between the planet of love and the planet of dedication can assist you in committing more deeply to finding a balance between family and your partner, or maybe the balance between enjoying the company of others, versus fulfilling domestic responsibilities.

Full Moon in Sagittarius – May 31st
This growth-oriented Full Moon in Sagittarius forms within a hidden sector of your chart – your twelfth of unconscious process, inner work, and retreat. This lunation can nudge you to withdraw your energy from the outside world and surrender to solitude. Since the Gemini Sun has been directing your attention toward the opposing sector, your sixth of workplace, routines, and day-to-day habitual behavior – you could be especially busy with all that these days, so retreating and resting might be just what you need. By taking a step back, you can re-calibrate, and possibly shed self-sabotaging habits you’ve been unaware of. With aspects to Pluto and Saturn, while a highlighted presence of Uranus opposes, this Full Moon supports mature self-awareness while providing transformative insights that could help you move toward better understanding of yourself at all levels of your psyche!

May pulses with creative potentials and deep undercurrents, Aquarius, as your ways of seeing and being in the world continue to evolve and transform. The month opens still carrying the heat of the Aries New Moon of April 17th, which contained an enormous stellium activating your sphere of communication, ideas, and thought patterns, bringing excitement and momentum alongside potential friction and frustration. As May settles in, the temperature shifts. The Scorpio Full Moon on the 1st brings depth and contemplation, illuminating your career and worldly accomplishments, and inviting a soulful inquiry into those areas. Pluto, in his long transit through your own sign, slows to his retrograde station on the 6th, a moment of particular significance as the profound transformation of your very sense of self deepens and turns inward. Mid-month, the Taurus New Moon initiates a grounding cycle in your home and inner foundations, an opportunity to tend your roots and cultivate nourishment in your domestic sanctuary. Some wildly electric energy crackles in just a few days later, as Mercury and then the Sun enter Gemini and conjunct Uranus, fueling your sphere of creativity, pleasure, and self-expression with sudden flashes of brilliance and liberating surprises. Perhaps something new and genuinely exciting is emerging in how you create and play. Venus joins Jupiter in Cancer mid-month, softening and expanding your daily rhythms and sense of wellbeing, though a square with Saturn later on brings questions of values and responsibility to the fore. The month closes with a Sagittarius Full Moon illuminating your community sphere and long-term aspirations, offering a welcome reminder of the dreams and visions you hold dear, and a kind nudge to reach for support from your network when you need it.


The following was written by our guest astrologer, Lauren Hansen. You can find her here.


Previous New Moon in late Aries – April 17th
Throughout the first half of May, the late Aries New Moon continues to activate your third sector of communication, community, and learning. Since this lunation, you may be continuing to gain greater clarity around your mental abilities and curiosities, sparking interest in new subjects and skills to attain. Also, this third sector prominence could indicate you’ve come to realize how your connection with neighbors or siblings is due for a refreshing shift. There is also to consider in this previous New Moon how the prominence of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, conjunct Eris, Sun, and Moon, continues to affect these first two weeks of the current month, with the basic message of how important it might be for you to consider the impact upon your life of various subtle background inner wounding that might come up unexpectedly to sabotage your evolutionary growth. That is, unless and until you can take some recommended action to sooth the pain of these old issue from the past.

Full Moon in Scorpio – May 1st
This revealing Scorpio Full Moon spotlights the most visible sector of your chart – your tenth sector of vocation, public life, and reputation. This lunation may serve as a reminder to focus on career goals and responsibilities, in spite of how the Sun has been pulling your attention to home and family all Taurus season. If balance is lacking between professional obligations and domestic duties, it may now become more obvious. Intensified by its upcoming station to retrograde motion, Pluto can also inspire any runaway urge for control and power and invite deep seated emotions and desires to rise to the surface to be acknowledged and dealt with. With Pluto basically standing still in the sky these next few days, in your first sector of identity, you may want to consider being honest with yourself about how you need to change, in order to strike a better balance between your evolving sense of self, domestic life, and professional work.

Mars Square Jupiter – May 2nd-5th
With mighty Mars blazing through Aries, you're likely to experience a fast-paced, energizing, and cutting energy – within your third sector of information, communication, and local environment. As Mars forms a square to Jupiter in your sixth sector of work, service, and health – a temporary tension is likely to arise! Irritations and frustrations with those in your local environment could challenge your ability to get your daily tasks done. You could also feel rushed or overwhelmed with commutes or errands; making it hard to enjoy your wellness routines. An exciting work-related opportunity that would help you grow could also become available, but current mental stress could make it difficult to say yes to. Perhaps the best way to work with this transit would be to pace yourself and be wary of the ego-inflating symptom of Jupiter’s influence on Mars.

Mercury Cazimi – May 14th
A few times every year, Mercury lines up perfectly with the Sun for a powerfully mentally clearing and invigorating moment called a Mercury Cazimi. This morning, Mercury is aligning with the Sun in Taurus – within the subterranean sector of your chart, the fourth sector of your inner emotional world, private life, home, and family. A deeply rooted emotional pattern can become an obvious result of your childhood and you’re more capable of seeing your inner self through an observant and logical lens. Which can in turn help you move through old emotions and emotionally rewire. You can also experience revelations and useful reveals about your family, domestic dynamics and living situation.

New Moon in Taurus – May 16th
This favorable Taurus New Moon forms within the fourth sector of your emotional foundations, family, and home – encouraging you to begin anew within this private department of your life. With the Moon in her exalted sign, this New Moon can inspire you to nurture your emotional world and domestic dynamics. You might also want to increase the quality of your home, making it more comfortable and beautiful. Mars and Chiron are exactly conjunct, to the minute, and so very strong. You have a passion to investigate all things concerning internal wounding at this time and for the remainder of t month. Venus in Gemini rules this lunation, and the New Moon is applying to Mercury, Gemini’s ruler! Mental faculties being enhanced might make your solutions easier to sort out and to contemplate. While mostly grounding, this lunation can also feel a bit restless and motivate you to socialize including with your family – possibly discussing any new home planning goals. New information or previously hidden details can also come to light, helping you kick off this latest chapter.

Mercury Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 17th
While Mercury transits through one of its home signs, Gemini, and your fifth sector of self-expression, enjoyment and creativity – you may become busy with creative projects, hobbies and pleasure-seeking activities! You may find more fun in mental activities, sharing your opinion and learning. The urge to find totally new subjects to learn and the inspiration to experience joy in new ways would be natural while the Sun and Uranus align! As Uranus tends to point out what we’ve outgrown, old ways you have been receiving and seeking pleasure can come to an end. Uranus’ electric and surprising energy can also inspire you to create things you never thought you would!

Mars Enters Taurus and Venus Enters Cancer – May 18th
As Mars enters Taurus and the emotional fourth sector of memories, family and home, Venus also switches signs – into Cancer, and your sixth sector of work, daily routines and health. During this sextile aspect, you may feel happily compelled to sink into daily tasks and routines that support your health and work ethic, while cutting out certain domestic chores that no longer serve you or your family well. You could also find that addressing familial issues supports your wellness. Plus, your work life may be particularly enjoyable now because you’re working on something you feel passionate about.

Sun Enters Gemini and Conjuncts Uranus – May 20th
When the Sun enters Gemini, your fifth sector of creative-expression, pleasure, romance and procreation comes further into conscious focus. Unleashing your creative and expressive side may take precedence now, and you could feel more confident in your dating abilities. The Sun can also illuminate the romantic suitors available to you, the joy that is ready to be experienced, the fun that is ready to be had! During the first few days of Gemini Season, as the Sun aligns with Uranus, a new romantic interest could suddenly walk into your life, a new creative idea can come alive and excitingly entertaining opportunities could present themselves!

Mars Square Pluto + Sun Trine Pluto – May 23rd-26th
Both the Sun and Mars aspect Pluto over these few days. On one level, your ability to psychologically self-analyze and be honest with yourself can greatly assist you in expressing yourself more authentically — and this trine could also inspire a transformative creative outburst! You could also be going through a profound transformation that also shed light onto how you feel about your relationship with children or the idea of procreating. At the same time, you may notice that this impactful shift somehow riles up family conflict, domestic issues or even old memories from childhood. Being vulnerable, owning your personal power and being willing to look within during these transits can be very helpful.

Venus Square Saturn – May 27th-29th
As Venus squares Saturn, mental blocks or heavy conversations make it difficult for you to feel physically well and productive. The ease you’d like to experience in the workplace and feel stifled by mentally taxing projects, or even issues with commuting or travel. While you’re in the mood to make your daily tasks and health routines more beneficial, it could be hard to find the time to do this as your extended family or siblings need your attention at this time. This tension between the planet of pleasure and the planet of responsibility can certainly assist you in committing more deeply to your mental health and to social connections and ways of thinking that assist you in being healthier as well as productive.

Full Moon in Sagittarius – May 31st
The Full Moon in Sagittarius forms within your highlighted eleventh sector of friendship, social connection, collaboration, and long-term goals! The Gemini Sun has recently been pulling your attention toward your fifth of personal pleasure, leisure, and self-expression. This lunation highlights the importance of societal contribution, urging you to prioritize collaborative efforts and future visions. It’s also a good time to make sure you’re supporting your intended future with present actions. With aspects to both Pluto and Uranus, this Full Moon can result in unexpected personal transformation that helps you recognize the professional advancement, friendships and dreams you’re ready to support and create.