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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.
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Aires (March
21 - April 19) Fire. Ruling planet Mars. Top
It's
a powerful time, Aries. You are still quite energized and charged
up with the multifaceted possibilities of your situation, only
now you are able to even more concretely pursue them to their logical
or perhaps their emotional conclusion. Your ideas continue to come
fast and furious, and not all of them can blossom. Sudden left
turns come up out of the blue, and before you know it you're taking
a new byway. Relationship twists and turns are only part of the
story, and have their better than expected endings that are also
beginnings. Tough love has its own rewards, so that you are learning
more than you ever thought you would as you advance, seemingly
haphazardly, toward an unknown outcome.
As the month begins, you are feeling comfortably centered in yourself
and also extremely energized, with powerful feelings of optimism and
positive aspirations partially offset by a strong sense of limitation
that comes to you from the mentoring of more cautious partners. This
latter might seem burdensome but actually provides a useful counter-balance
to desires and impulses that could otherwise take you too far out on
a limb of one kind or another. As it is you might easily jump ahead
with plans that are finally more ready to be actualized than they were
during the previous month of the Mercury retrograde period when the
communication planet was moving backward through your sign, causing
all kinds of mischief and missteps. It might be best to wait even a
while longer, until mid-May, for really launching out with entirely
new ideas. You are currently uniting several disparate areas of your
life in the pursuit of the ultimate expression of your own uniqueness:
self and other, heart and mind, emotional as well as mental intensity.
The New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd – in the early morning
hours of May 3rd on the East Coast – provides a fresh burst of
energy for your dreams and schemes, touching on all these themes and
even amplifying them. Although security-driven, you are experimenting
with new forms at this time, so that the standard means of finding
it through material or financial considerations will no longer entirely
do the trick. You might feel the pinch of lack but also find within
yourself the ability to rise above the material as a means of measuring
self-worth or emotional security. You might also find yourself beginning
to forge a new and long-lasting method of appreciating yourself through
artistic or communicative channels.
With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, you will likely run
into some difficulties within your process of growing awareness and
the initiatives that you have taken up since the beginning of the month.
This is a powerful time of reassessment that is essentially positive
in its nature, although there will undoubtedly be insights gained and
surprising events to be dealt with. You might find that interpersonal
tensions arise but if you practice restraint these can be integrated
into fascinating learning experiences that promote character.
With the Full Moon of Tuesday, May 17th, you are taking a more settled
position and coming into a better integration of the relationship issues
that have been on the front burner for you lately. There might be troubling
images from the past that come up for you now, perhaps with the ultimate
purpose of moving you beyond them. There could represent issues stemming
from early experience that have been hanging on within your psyche
for years now below the level of conscious awareness, and that you
are now finally willing to accept and integrate.
The days leading up to the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th,
constitute a particularly powerful time for you both spiritually and
emotionally. This is a time when you are seeing more clearly both the
aspects of your current situation that simply do not at work for you,
and those that do, as you take the lessons learned from the past three
weeks into your next phase. You are sensing that something in your
life has to radically alter, and you have the courage of your convictions
now to make important and necessary changes. The final full week of
the month you are seeing things differently, perhaps feeling the pressure
of personal evolution as you prepare for greater changes still to come
over the next few months' cycles of becoming.
Taurus (April
20 - May 20) Earth. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This
is a time of full-on intensity that moves you closer to your
spiritual purpose, Taurus. You are reaching for the happy end
of the rainbow and although you might have to half-close your
eyes to see the treasure that awaits you there in terms of
inner goals, you are finally beginning to see how to reach
them. You have spent the previous month mulling over your possibilities,
operating from a largely internal standpoint as you attempt
to discern the real reasons behind what you are currently up
to. Mere financial reward no longer seems to cut it. Now, in
this current cycle, you are reaching for the gold ring down
inside yourself that represents your truest motivation.
As the month begins, you are full of a strange kind of practicality,
both into and out of the physical world. Your enthusiasm is running
rampant now but expressed more internally than externally. You currently
inhabit a paradoxical position whereby you are fully present in the
mundane sphere of events and circumstances, showing up with great gusto,
and yet an important part of yourself remains not only detached but
actually more fully present in some inner world of dream imagination
than in the so-called real one. What remains to be solved is the productive
reason behind such a concentration of your mental and emotional energy
and the implications for your future. There is a way that the unconscious
factors within your psyche determine a larger part of your waking life
than is usually given credit for. Your intuition is powerful these
days and will present you with the insights you seek, so long as you
are able to remain open to these messages, perhaps in the form of dreams
or active daytime imagination.
With the New Moon of Monday evening, May 2nd, the crux of this energy
is reached, although the days before and after are almost equally powerful,
especially in terms of these mysteriously unknown parts of yourself
that are less than fully conscious. You are attempting to solve the
next clue for the riddle of your life's purpose, although you cannot
expect to arrive at the final determination overnight, when you at
least place your leading foot on the stepladder and start to climb,
you might find that you are pleased by the progress created.
With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, you are feeling into
the inherent conflicts and discerning where further course adjustments
are required. Even more than before, what is most real and present
for you right now is your deep unconscious process and the unseen world
that underlies and determines the surface one. You find a deep joy
in working within the seeming confines of your dream imagination, while
in the mundane world of surface events, not so much. Your only real
conflict might be with consensus thinking, which encourages you to
ignore the evidence of your inner senses in favor of a more superficial
logic.
With the week of Monday, May 16th, and the days following, including
the special time period following the Full Moon of Tuesday, May 17th,
you might be more comfortable with the necessary integration. Although
operating more fully than ever in the real world of events and personality,
you are also accepting the unseen as at least as potent a factor, at
least in terms of functioning as a determining factor in what you say
and do. You are beginning to also be more consciously aware of the
fundamental idealism that underlies your take on where you would like
to be heading. You might also tune in, like it or not, to the influence
of others on your own thought process, a process which however does – perhaps
almost paradoxically – remain even more uniquely your own. The
last two weeks of the month is likely to be spent in working out the
implications of this powerful first half.
In particular, the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, is rich
in realizations and in commitment to a pathway forward that more fully
acknowledges the influence of Spirit on charting your future life direction.
Gemini (May
21 - June 20) Air. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
You
are ready to let fly your arrow, Gemini, although you must be aware
also that it could outstrip its intended target by miles and lead
you into unexpected results. Of course, these might indeed prove
better than what you originally had in mind. The mystical side
of life calls to you quite strongly right now and lends a mysterious
and internally fulfilling subtext to everything that you say and
do. You are on a fortunate path to perceived excellence that transcends
ordinary thinking and goals, moving you toward an essentially artistic
set of agendas and pursuits. You are in some ways held back by
caution, but this has the benefit of allowing your wine to more
fully mature before you uncork the bottle and plunge ahead.
As the month begins, you are more completely recognizing the extent
that you are on an essentially spiritual journey, with correspondences
to the physical world but by no means thereby determined. It seems
more and more evident that this surface existence is only a small part
of what you have going on, in spite of appearances to the contrary,
and that simple logic only tells a small part of the story of what
life actually consists of, in spite of your natural predilection for
that mode of investigation. You are occupying your body with only a
halfway presence in the mundane world right now, with much of your
persona caught up in dream worlds of your own devising. This can be
good as long as you recognize it for what it really is, intimations
of a wider universe than is revealed in the visible world. Of course
you continue to function in real time as well. It is fine to mix these
states but it helps when you can be clear in your own mind about what
is really happening.
The New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd, brings fresh energy to
all these operative layers of your being. You are very idealistic at
this time, and with perhaps a tendency to deceive yourself regarding
what is going on around you. You could for example put significant
others in your life "on a pedestal," or in the reverse idealization,
think them up to less good than they actually turn out to be, so that
it is best to reserve judgment whenever possible and seek corroboration
to all thoughts. The thoughts of the little mind can be so misleading,
while the concepts of the Higher Self are always on key – the
trick is to catch the difference. One idea is to actually ask yourself
who you would be without this particular thought; a test that can be
revealing of the deeper truth that is inherent in your situation.
The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, might be a time that serves
to clarify things by the negative implications of what they are not.
Tensions could arise at this juncture, when you are caught between
dream time and the exigencies of the so-called real world. You are
conceptually casting your rod out in the stream of the future to see
what you can catch, and the results might pleasantly surprise you.
Powerful ideas are coming your way constantly these days and some of
them resonate with the internal goals that are currently driving you.
These could include transcending patterns of behavior that have held
you back in the past. You are after more complete and heartfelt connection
with others while not giving up too much of yourself in the process.
The Full Moon of Tuesday, May 17th, represents a plateau of change;
a time and place where you can look out over the prairie landscape
that you have traversed to reach this relatively calm perspective.
You are still very much engaged with your inner reality but you are
also preparing to come more fully into the mundane world of schedules
and events, although bearing the fruits of your sojourn in that ideal
other-worldly plane of existence where you have been largely dwelling.
The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday the 24th serves as a reminder of this
unseen world even as you step more fully into this one, and of the
painful nature of modern man's separation from it. It is also at this
point that you are likely to reflect on how much further you have to
go to get where you truly want to be, those heights that you have yet
to climb.
Cancer (June
21 - July 22) Water. Ruling planet is the Moon. Top
This
is the first month of the
rest of your life, Cancer.
You are in the midst of
a big push forward and
yet also holding yourself
firmly in place so as not
to float away. Part of
you wants to stay rooted
in the past, and in the
safe haven of your home
base, while another and
larger part of yourself
yearns to go sailing out
on the high seas of the
adventure that calls to
you. Deciding your course
might turn out to be difficult,
if not impossible, and
there are also unintended
consequences that could
complicate your plans.
Be that as it may, your
choices are still extremely
powerful at this juncture,
and whatever you decide
will prove to be an important
springboard for future
development.
As the month begins, you are feeling extremely energized regarding
your work in the world and in particular where you might be heading
with it. Career options and your success on the public stage are very
much on your mind these days, and, perhaps even more to the point,
the spiritual underpinnings of career and professional life. You are
beginning to strongly suspect that mere logic alone will not fully
explain how to locate yourself within the arc of development that represents
your journey to the point that you have now reached. It is not so much
about achievement but about recognition of the spiritual factors that
have coincided to allow you to step into this time, this place.
The Taurus New Moon takes place late in the evening of Monday, May
2nd, and serves to bring much greater energy to your process. The week
that follows is the best chance that you will have all year to visualize
your goals for the future within the pressure-cooker of transformation
that is in some ways being thrust upon you. Yet, in another way of
looking at the changes that you are in the midst of, your current situation
is exactly what your higher Self has ordered up for you at this time.
It is vital that you choose your steps wisely, because you are at an
important crossroads over the course of this particular monthly cycle.
When the Moon enters your sign on the evening of Friday, May 6th, it
might serve to solidify you in your process. This is an important moment
for you when you are more comfortable in your own body and at the level
of personality while simultaneously feeling your way into greater reliance
on Spirit to guide you through the maelstrom of the outer world. Your
process now represents an interesting amalgam of inner guidance and
outer manifestation, each one feeding on the other in an endless spiral
dance. It helps to simply acknowledge the partially unknowable nature
of reality and relax into the dance.
With the First Quarter Moon a few days later, on Tuesday, the 10th,
you are tuning in to both the glories and the draw-backs of the process
that you have connected up with for yourself at this time. This can
be a time of relative tension, when the world and others are too much
with you. You are very aware of the power of the outer world to impinge
upon you and you in turn on it, but you remain anchored as well within
your own inner universe. At this juncture you are also seeing where
you can forge ahead more fully with important plans and where you need
to hold back.
The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, May 17th, serves
as a time of fulfillment and a place of calm amidst the storm. You
are seeking to integrate the various energies swirling around you both
outside of and within your psyche, and as well the various projects
that have gotten you so fired up lately, and largely succeeding.
Then with the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday the 24th you are mulling
over the changes still coming down. Relationship with significant others
in your life is a big piece of the action for you right now. This is
a time when you both have the opportunity to see more clearly into
the process that you are engaged in – a creative and also a radically
transforming process – and yet also must guard against over-idealization
and self-deception. Your ideals run high at this time, and you are
extremely inspired by the prospect of major change in your life as
well as intimidated by this prospect. It helps to recognize that you
are not just one person but many, and that you are in any case the
arms of a benevolent universe which will take you exactly where you
need to go. If it turns out to be a different place than you originally
envisioned with all your careful planning, so be it, even though your
very planning is an important part of your overall process of growth.
Leo (July
23 - August 22) Fire. Ruling planet is the Sun. Top
This is a month of contrast and of strong initiative, Leo. You are
reaching for the stars while still remaining grounded in concrete reality,
or at least partly so. There is idealism present in your evolving situation
now, and also a tendency for illusion or fantasy that could prove troubling
if you are not willing to take everything slowly and to look carefully
before you take each step. You are seeing the world in a qualitatively
novel way and this new set of insights informs everything that you
think and do. You find yourself once more in the midst of a powerful
set of changes – crossing an enormous ocean of belief to a farther
shore – and it will leave you feeling quite different on the
other side than when you started.
As the month begins, you are feeling expansive. Your real-world presence
is becoming more active, just as at the very same time your recognition
of your inner world is also growing. Your very beliefs and outer world
perspectives are in serious flux at this time, changing in response
to information that has been accumulating lately as well as to the
intuitional clues that arise from the depths of your being. It is possible
that you are moving in the direction of greater acceptance of the unknown
and the unseen as a fundamental and also an ordinary part of life on
this planet of amazing beauty and also contrast.
The Taurus New Moon takes place in the late evening of Monday, May
2nd, or early morning May 3rd if you are on the East Coast, and it
rings fresh energy to your various enterprises. This is a time when
you are very motivated to be very present in the in the outer world
of physical manifestation, and yet also responding to a more internal
call as well that speaks to you of inner experience. Your communication
at this time is serious and to the point, so that it is an excellent
time for you to write or to journal regarding your experience. You
are a spiritual warrior for an expanded and more mystical point of
view, espousing the cause of greater latitude for other-dimensional
perspectives almost to the point of combat. As far as others around
you are concerned, it might be well to balance your evangelical ardor
with a healthy dose of live and let live. There is a way that you are
very sensitive to others at a feeling level but intellectually perhaps
not so much.
With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, you are running up
against some of the inherent conflicts in your position and the limits
to what you are trying to express through outer priorities. It might
be that you have to take a more individual and also internal stance
to see your way through.
The Full Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, May 17th,
could serve as a moment of relative fulfillment and a balance point
between inner and outer manifestation. This is a time when you are
super aware of your familial requirements and inner emotional security
needs as part and parcel of being a part of this physical world and
a cog in its machinery. You are very tuned in at this time to the paradoxical
notion of progress in the outer world as dependent on spiritual connection
with others around you, and also feeling the pain of the separation
that this union cannot be complete.
With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, these feelings might
intensify. This lunar phase traditionally signals a time of reassessment,
when you must take what you have gathered from the preceding three
weeks of the cycle and roll it up into a seed ball of fundamental knowledge
to carry forward. For you, this time, it is a bitter-sweet combination
of present, past and future that you are contemplating. You are more
energized than ever for your current outer world commitments, while
remaining constrained by a feeling for the limitations that have been
revealed by a more conscious and insightful review of everything that
has come before. Your trust must be placed where also your best information
is based – on a vibrant sense of intuition that opens you to
the heart wisdom of your own soul center.
Virgo (August
23 - September 22) Earth. Ruling planet Mercury. Top
Welcome one more time to the roller coaster, Virgo. You are entering
yet another entirely different phase with everything that you do, based
on changing perspectives within your conceptual framework. These perhaps
in part stem from exploring new horizons and also perhaps from significant
relationships in your life, which currently represent something of
an idealized view and a moving target. There is a jumping off point
that you reach and then reach again, and although you are so tempted
to hold back you must in one form or another take the leap that is
offered. All this might lead you to an overwhelming tsunami of questioning
that will only really hit you during the last full week of the month.
As the month begins, you are in recovery mode from the previous month
of the retrograde of your ruler Mercury through your sector of intimate
connection with others and of your own personal evolution. This has
been a time of review and of revisioning your purpose. You are in the
midst of a very important transition time for your entire life, although
the full impact of what is currently in process for you will not become
clear until many days have passed and you are able to look back with
the perspective of time. It might seem as though you are the plaything
of the gods right now but you might find out by the end of this lengthy
period that the have been acting in your own best interest, all along.
The New Moon at the end of the second day of the month, taking place
in the late evening and night of Monday, May 2nd, gives you fresh energy
for your journey toward wholeness. It might feel like a mysterious
and philosophically mystical moment, when everything is not as it seems,
especially in the realm of interpersonal relationship. Partners can
be deceptive, or appear to be, or you can become confused and trip
over your own concepts and over-idealizations of them. Meanwhile, it
is important not to lose sight of the fact that it is you who are changing
without linkage to the alteration of the world around you. Like two
trains side by side at the station, it can be difficult to tell which
one is the actual mover, but in this case you can refer back to your
own process as primary. As the result of recent experiments and experiences,
you are seeing the world through different eyes. It is not only the
world that has changed and grown. This departure from your prior consciousness
gives you a platform on which to stand and a lever to move the world
around you a little closer to your heart's true desire. Your task now
is to determine exactly what that is.
The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, and the days that follow
might reveal further pieces of the puzzle, perhaps partially by showing
you what it is not. This is a time of great expansion of a sense of
possibility, and in refining your mission statement. It is also a time
of relative tension in your process, when there could be conflicts
between your socially available personality and the deeper layers of
your psyche.
The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, May 17th, represents
a time of fulfillment in this regard, and fosters a sense of unity
within, a greater acceptance of both the passionate surface and the
still depths of life. You are coming into greater conscious awareness
of the mystical universe that surrounds and supports the other, more
obvious one; and also allowing this unseen world to be taken into account
as the one vitally important factor. You are also now recognizing the
extent of the massive transformation that you are finding yourself
in the midst of, and the illusions that must be shed along the way
as well as the pain of parting from what you are leaving behind.
The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, is a very important time
of summing up what you have gleaned from your current situation and
the arc of your difficult progress thus far. You are connected now
more than ever to a magical sense of oneness with everyone and everything
around you, and committed to seeing yourself through. All that shines
for you now is not the false glitter of financial reward or of outer
achievement, but the true gold of inner worth and soul development.
Libra (September
23 - October 22) Air. Ruling planet Venus. Top
This month is a strong one for you, Libra. There have been surprises,
and there might be even more coming your way, especially relationship-wise.
Changes like these go better when they are not resisted, although they
provide you with much food for thought and perhaps even a few more
wrinkles in the fabric of your ongoing personal evolution. If you resist
what comes up for you at this time you will suffer, that's just the
way of change. But you sail through if you allow things to unfold without
trying to steer the unknowable outcome. Throughout these relative trials,
you are keeping what the British call a "stiff upper lip;" this
serves you well and keeps you on a steadier course than you might otherwise
adopt, but everything is best in moderation, even restraint.
As the month begins, you are in the midst of a complexity of relationship
dynamics that enhance the great depth of your own development. It is
as though you were traversing a difficult mountain pass – but
with the promise of a relatively peaceful as well as fruitful valley
awaiting you – and these powerful relationship connections help
you to get across. You are changing these days at the very core of
your being, and with the advent of this climactic spring and summer
even more so. You are in an interesting place right now of looking
to the past as well as the future, and holding back from necessary
changes even as you embrace them.
With the New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd, there is terrific
energy for your process of growth and integration, as well as for the
more cautious and conservative part of yourself that resists change.
Significant partners in your life continue to be very important to
your own success. You are forging a link right now between your own
inner work and the outside perspectives that significant others bring
to the picture. Your slightly cynical skepticism that is part and parcel
of your basic makeup these days serves as a balance point for your
extreme idealism regarding where you desire to place your energies
for the good of all. Both these impulses are very active now, which
can be confusing, so that you succeed best when you make yourself available
to the widest of possible perspectives.
The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, places a few bumps in
your path that might alert you to where you need to make further refinements
in your approach. An essentially joyous point of view and the encouragement
of others in your life help you to see the bigger picture of these
relatively minor setbacks.
With the Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, May 17th,
you are coming into your own, and inhabiting your emerging future self
in a more whole and integrated way. The days following this important
turning point lead you to more fully embrace the changes that are resonating
through others into the very core of your being. You are investigating
closeness with significant partners in you life in a new way now, and
this exploration paradoxically takes you further into your own transformation.
The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, brings you to important
realizations regarding the impact of important others on your own life,
and the way your own process is illuminated thereby. You are looking
back right now as well as forward, summing up the lessons of the previous
three weeks of the cycle. Your changing beliefs over the course of
the month provide vistas that rather than closure, lead to new openings.
Scorpio (October
23 - Nov 21) Water. Ruling planets Mars, Pluto. Top
Sufi rainbows of internal bliss make for a true cause of celebration
this month, Scorpio. You are entering upon a quietly mystical space
that has you also feeling exuberant in service to those around you.
There is extraordinary punch in your personal energy field but is directed
toward daily routine and a sense of duty that could feel like obligation
until you turn it around and see it for what it is, a commitment to
your Higher Self. You find yourself taking a more active role in partnering
with significant others in your life, and in discovering joy in the
smallest of details. There are rational and artistic motivations but
they all translate into the spiritual sense of finally doing what you
came into this life to perform.
As the month begins, you are extremely energized toward discovering
your true purpose for being in this world, for occupying this body
in this place and this time. Everything that you have been engaged
in lately has pointed you to this, even as they equally represented
more mundane concerns. You have one foot firmly planted in the real
world of events and circumstances, with the other resting in heaven's
doorway. You are able to deal with the myriad details of modern living
as you attempt to discover the higher meaning of all your activity.
The New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd, brings fresh energy to
your purpose, and equal measures of confusion and determination to
your evolutionary process. You are also making a fresh start with your
relationship dynamics with others that are also evolving. Significant
partners in your life add much to your own understanding of what you
are currently up to. A spiritual factor is an important part of your
makeup now, and represents a vertical dimension that is orthogonal
to the normal working of the world, and can muddy the waters of ordinary
concerns to the enrichment of a further shore that at the moment only
glimmers in the distance. This can however be confusing to the narrower
concerns of the more limited viewpoint that consensus thinking supports.
The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, brings a degree of tension
to your process and to your interpersonal connections. These could
serve to highlight the places where you differ from where you need
to be heading. This is the time in the lunation cycle when you get
to see what part of your conception stemming from the time of the New
Moon works and what doesn't. Significant others in your life continue
to be an important factor in sorting these things out.
The Full Moon of Tuesday, May 17th, brings a kind of culmination to
one phase of what you are attempting to sort out, and presents further
wrinkles in the relationship story that is unfolding for you over the
course of this monthly cycle. There are old patterns of relating and
also of your own self unfolding that will surface for you now, and
which can be very useful for you to investigate further if you have
the courage to face Self in these areas. Ancient residues of childhood
trauma can be accepted for the purpose of moving part them; while difficult,
this has the effect of ameliorating their continued influence on your
behavior.
With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, these matters could
come to a head. You are both somewhat confused now by what has transpired
over the last few weeks and also perhaps seeing more clearly where
your previous efforts have failed you. You do well at this time to
simply put one foot ahead of the other and let intuition and the beneficence
of the universe guide your steps.
Sagittarius (Nov
22 - Dec 21) Fire. Ruling planet Jupiter. Top
This
is a confusing period of time
for you Sagittarius, and yet
also an extremely rewarding
one if you take the time to
look more closely within. You
are discovering a truly expanded
sense of who you really are,
in concert with your angel
guidance. Everything remains
the same and yet everything
has changed. There is an element
of looking ahead with breathless
anticipation and also one of
slowly feeling into a more
conservative streak that honors
the past and its limitations.
You are in fact both consolidating
the insights that have been
coming at you fast and furious
lately, and simultaneously
launching yourself forward
into the world in an entirely
different way than with previous
growth spurts, so that you
are this time
on more solid ground.
As the month begins, you are very committed to the idea of home and
family and nesting, and yet also terribly confused about what exactly
that might mean in the final analysis for your life as a whole. You
are feeling impulsive lately and yet also somehow reigned in, as though
the dreams that want to be expressed through your intended actions
were almost too much to allow yourself to fully contemplate. You are
sensing a powerful connection between yourself and others around you,
a recognition that your activity has consequences beyond the scope
of your own narrow sense of self. You are taking a warrior stance in
accomplishing what you feel must now be accomplished. This turns out
to have spiritual implications so that your mission goes beyond the
ordinary world of daily events and duties.
The New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd, illuminates these other-worldly
concerns and brings fresh energy to your sense of purpose. This is
a time when you strongly feel that you are put here upon this earth
for some important reason, although it might seem to be a reason that
evades you for the moment. Still, you know in your heart that there
are serious consequences to the choices that you are currently making,
and future implications beyond what you can currently understand.
With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, you are experiencing
a further refinement of your process. You are perhaps at this important
juncture perceiving what does and does not seem to want to work itself
out with what you are attempting. You are in a very interesting emotional
as well as mental place right now, and everything is bound to be a
bit messy and uncertain. If you have the faith to plunge ahead anyway
you will be rewarded, but this faith must also be tempered with an
ounce of caution, or else you might go too far in the direction of
your momentary enthusiasm. A tight rope walk is required whereby you
take care with each of your bold steps forward into a largely unknown
future without abandoning, through fear, the entire enterprise.
The Full Moon a week later, on Tuesday, May 17th, provides some relief,
as you reach the culmination of one stage and the beginning of another.
You are more confirmed than ever in your choices now, and are beginning
to more fully appreciate how they contribute to your sense of mission.
You can see, although only out of the corner of your eye, how you are
growing into the world in a way that contributes directly to it as
well as to yourself as a solitary unit. Partners in your life start
to come into the picture now as well, providing a different perspective
that energizes and enhances your own, and as models for interaction
with the world at large.
With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, you are coming into
a new and more subtle relationship with family and significant partners
and with others around you generally. This last full week of the month
might be a strange and difficult but potentially joyous time, when
you are trying to sort out exactly what is going on with you. You will
not entirely succeed but the universe is on your side and it will come
out all right in the end.
Capricorn (Dec
22 - Jan 19) Earth. Ruling planet Saturn. Top
You are asking the universe what you are currently living for, Capricorn.
The evolutionary pressure of these recent months and even years had
been easing off, but is now intensified, and your feet are once more
being held to the fires of circumstance. Everything is clicking along
but with an undercurrent of massive deep-level change. Home is where
the heart is, but yours is in extreme flux, so that your internal guidance
center and the basis for your psychological security is somewhere up
in the air. Your communication reflects other-worldly priorities as
much as worldly ones. You gain by trusting the information that comes
your way at this time, no matter how far it seems to stray from the
more mundane concerns that are your forte.
As the month begins, you might feel as though there's a lot going on
with both regard to your emotional life and your work in the world.
These two vastly different areas are yet equally emphasized for you
at this time, and of course the key concept, especially over the first
two weeks of this month, is integration of the energies. You are more
naturally versed in the world of outer achievement, but now your truest
lessons come from the internal world of Spirit, home and family ties.
Although frequently less acknowledged, these more internal energies
balance you out and make you the individual that you are. There have
been several curve balls thrown at you lately from this inner direction,
so that the insights are plentiful for those who are prepared to at
least partially receive them. Your inner world is currently packed
with its own brand of strange wisdom, and the only thing that you can
do is to respond. You could begin by making more conscious that which
comes to you through the agency of these undercurrents of bodily rather
than head-oriented wisdom.
The New Moon taking place on the late evening of Monday, May 2nd, brings
fresh energy to this purpose and to your outer world activities as
well. You are now even more obviously in the lap of the gods and must
accommodate yourself to their rhythms rather than strictly to those
of the visible world. The information that comes to you now from your
deep center is fundamentally confusing to that part of yourself that
dwells on the surface of things, for it does not match, and in one
way contradicts that which you can obviously see and touch. It is well
that you pay attention to these inner stirrings. This is not to say
that you neglect the outer circumstances, for these are equally important.
You must feed and clothe yourself and find shelter, and engage in those
practices that ensure that your physical world goes on and that the
lives of others that you touch in your work in the world continue to
be supported. Similarly your ordinary personal ego needs your support
also. And yet, paradoxically, this has almost nothing to do with the
real work that is going on beneath the surface layers of your psyche.
The First Quarter Moon that comes along in the second full week of
the month, on Tuesday, May 10th, exacerbates these contradictions,
since this lunar phase is by nature a testing time. You are more aware
than ever of the inherent contradictions, and could be in despair of
finding a useful compromise and a true synthesis, even though it might
be lurking just around the corner. There is an inner joy within your
psyche that can lead you in the right direction when you yield to it.
The Full Moon a week later on, taking place on Tuesday, May 17th, might
allow you a breather, and allow you to assume a more positive stance.
There is no doubt in your mind by this time that Spirit is a huge factor
in what is currently transpiring, and that you will be better off the
more you can let go and let god. The first step might be to acknowledge
that your life is truly in the midst of dramatic changes, that nothing
of the past remains in its original form for you to hold onto. You
could find that you have the assurance now to feel that, in spite of
this, everything will come out all right in the end. The last two weeks
of the month will be spent in mulling over the ideas of these first
seventeen days, reflecting on and even celebrating the changed persona
that is emerging.
It is punctuated by the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday the 24th, when
you might feel particularly strongly the evolutionary flow within you
and the underlying ideals that have brought you to this point, although
there might be confusing information that comes to you at this time
as well that will need to be sorted out. You are looking back at this
time over the experience of this month with and eye to future development
over a powerful summer.
Aquarius (Jan
20 - Feb 18) Air. Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn. Top
It's a curious universe that you find yourself in these days, Aquarius.
There's important development that awaits you this month and it partakes
of revisiting your roots. You are drawn toward the mystical, and to
your psychological grounding. Startling information continues to come
your way and it might be the occasion for a learning experience that
transcends any that you had in school, giving you the chance to complete
the course work for a more unusual diploma than the one that you wound
up with. You are building the foundation for a different type of service
to the world at large, and although in one way nothing is certain any
more, in another that makes for a refreshing change, and a return to
wonder.
As the month begins, you are energized in the area of communication
with your peers, and regarding information received. You might be tempted
to espouse rather adamantly a particular point of view that you feel
passionate about, although it might be better to listen as well as
expound. Your view of your mental environment is changing right before
your eyes, so long as you allow them to remain open enough to perceive
this. Surprising and even startling news is fairly commonplace these
days but there are novel conclusions to be drawn from your current
conundrums.
The New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd, brings loads of fresh
energy to bear on your situation. You are longing for the comfort and
safety of an invaluable home space, a safe harbor to relax within,
and you might partially find it. It is important however not to give
up the search for further insight and greater understanding of your
situation in the attempt to live out of a past sense of security that
may no longer really exist. It could be the illusion of security, financial
or otherwise, that you are chasing. Your idealism is strong right now,
and it can be tempting to ignore the actual results of your investigations,
in favor of ideas that may temporarily sooth you but which have no
staying power over the course of time. This summer's revelations will
represent in some ways a departure from former beliefs, or at least
a radical adjustment.
The First Quarter Moon, of Tuesday, May 10th, might bring some of these
pressures to bear as you find the drawbacks in what you are attempting
over this monthly cycle. There might be interpersonal tensions that
come up for you at this time. Significant partners help to prepare
the way for a new notion of what you are about, perhaps by sniping
at dearly held illusions of yours that only they can discern. It is
said that no one can see the pack that they themselves carry, so that
it might be wise to listen first and shoot down later, instead of the
other way round.
The Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, May 17th, represents
another and more solid occasion for breakthrough. You might be experiencing
this period of time as tough love on the part of the universe, or of
others around you, but it is still love. The universe has its priorities
that might differ from yours at the level of personality and yet still
align with what your Higher Self has in mind.
With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, you could be feeling
older and also wiser than when you began. This is a time for reassessment
and also a time when you are even more greatly tempted to believe what
you are thinking even in the face of strong evidence to the contrary.
It is useful to recognize that without some of your habitual thought
you would not only still be yourself but perhaps enabled to go through
life a little lighter.
Pisces (Feb
19 - March 20) Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter. Top
You are in a good place these days, Pisces, or at least moving in the
right direction. A seed for the future has recently been planted and
the seed has fallen on fertile ground. You are more than ready to break
free from at least a few of the shackles of the past. Something seems
to be holding you back from a total assault of those ramparts, but
it might also be a healthy strategy to "look before you leap" and
be very sure of your ground before you attempt to cross it. You are
collecting yourself and the information you will require before a full-on
exploration of your depths, so all is indeed well. Your way forward
at this time leads you down and through the deeper layers of your psyche
before surfacing.
As the month begins, you are feeling comfortable in yourself at all
levels. Your work in the world is going well, but even more to the
point, you are sensing that it is not your most important product.
You are in a natural space of spiritual development, which makes for
a better match to your inner nature than relying for sustenance strictly
on the rewards and recognition of outer achievement. You are in a rather
exciting and excited frame of mind where finances come to you with
hardly trying for them and yet there are fluctuations in where and
how this all happens. Other resources that you need to be at your disposal
come along in strange and wondrous ways, to lend credence to the idea
that the universe provides support for those who are "on the path" to
their soul purpose. Connections with friends and associates are a large
theme this month, as you make some necessary adjustments and course
corrections in this area of your life.
The New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd, provides a burst of energy
that takes some of these concerns and gifts over the top. You are for
the most part allowing things to unfold for you as though the world
was created only for your benefit. That is, unless you get caught in
the undertow of past trauma that can have the effect of holding you
back from what you deserve.
The First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, brings up a few snags
in the road of your progress, although nothing that your essentially
positive attitude cannot solve. There might be exceptions to your relatively
easy flow this month when you think too hard about the past and the
patterns of dysfunctional behavior that stem from the ancient past
but which still have power to affect you in the present moment. It
might be time to put these more definitely behind you; and the first
step is to fully accept yourself in these hurt places, the residue
of childhood trauma. Recognizing and giving love to the hurt child
within you is essential to your progress is seeing your clear to a
more vibrant and alive future path.
With the Full Moon a week later, taking place on Tuesday, May 17th,
you reach a form of culmination and a somewhat smoother place where
you feel more inspired to reach for the positive outcome that is within
your grasp. The final two weeks of the month will be spent in reassessing
where you have been with an eye to what you could eventually become.
The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, is especially significant
in this regard, a time when the universe could lead you into amazing
insights that light your further way forward, to the extent that yo
are willing to remain open to it.
Aires Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagitt Capric Aquar Pisces Overview Top
Overview of the Planets this month: Top
The
Astrology of May focuses still on a potent Aries line-up, this time
with the New Moon in the next sign of Taurus. Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
and Pluto are also still very much highlighted. The start of this month
represents a slightly different emphasis than with the very strong
New Moon at the beginning of April, some thirty days ago, and could
be conceived as a follow-up to that powerful initiatory energy, since
Aries and Taurus are both involved. The emphasis remains on initiative,
represented most significantly by Mars conjunct Jupiter in fiery Aries,
plus Uranus in Aries in aspect to the Sun and Moon.
It is also quite significant that Saturn in Libra, on the opposite side
of the Zodiac from Uranus, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, is getting
to earlier and earlier degrees of that sign, and therefore coming into
closer square with Pluto in early Capricorn. We have this spring and
summer a final run of the contentious Saturn-Pluto square – a configuration
of polarization that astrologer Richard Tarnas has termed "conservative
empowerment." The last gasp of this important configuration is closest
over the next two months, and is definitely significant as can clearly
be seen in the polarization between liberal and conservative forces both
in the area of national politics and across the globe. This dynamic and
tense aspect exhibits an angular distance of only about 4 degrees through
June, widening to a bit more in July and August and fading away after
that.
Meanwhile, in another echo of the revolutionary note that sounded so
resonantly in the sixties, the Uranus-Pluto square becomes closer and
closer over these same summer months, leading up to about 1 degree of
separation in August. Uranus and Pluto separate slightly over the end
of 2011, then make their first exact hit in June of 2012. They are indeed
very close now and a definite factor in the angst and the glorious revolutionary
quality of these difficult days of the spring of 2011. Years ago, astrologers
were led to remark that in these climactic years of the lead-up to the
first exact pass in 2012 there would be people out in the streets in
protest to social and economic conditions, with massive changes in store
long before this decade of the "turbulent teens" is over. This
is a prediction that is already beginning to come true, as can be seen
with the recent mass unrest in Egypt and the rest of the Middle East,
as well as with the public protest over collective bargaining in Madison,
Wisconsin – a protest that is far from over.
The Taurus New Moon that begins the month represents another dynamic
configuration in a series of powerful lunations. Neptune, newly entered
into Pisces and therefore emphasized, is also closely aspected by this
New Moon, meaning that idealism, fantasy and illusion are all strongly
constellated while the dire conditions heralded by the Uranus-Pluto-Saturn
T-square also continue to play themselves out. Deception and manipulation
of the truth to serve political ends is one way that this energy can
manifest, although self-delusion is another, which is one mechanism of
denial. It is up to our intuition – also strong within us right
now – to separate truth from illusion. Mercury is also powerful
over the first half of the month as it regains its Zodiacal longitude,
emerging from its retrograde shadow by the 11th. The stellium in Aries
is active right up to the 15th, two days before the Scorpio Full Moon.
The last half of May is quieter, a time for thoughtful follow-up and
course correction based on the startling information coming our way over
these significant first two weeks.
All in all, this is an extremely dramatic monthly cycle, especially in
its first half, and an important lead-up to the dramatic changes still
to come over the summer.
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