Aires   Taurus   Gemini   Cancer   Leo   Virgo   Libra   Scorpio   Sagitt   Capric   Aquar   Pisces   Overview

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.