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Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

This is another month of getting serious about your opportunities as well as potential challenges, Aries. You are coming into a new form of accommodation to your destiny in this post-birthday time period. Your work in the world begins to blend with your values and more importantly with your highest purpose for yourself as you are coming to understand it. There has been a serious movement on your part lately to find the key that will unlock your future self, and you will surely wind up a little closer as this monthly cycle unfolds. It pays to remember that while easy is fun, what is difficult poses the more interesting questions and gives you the chance to rise above.

As the month begins, you are coming into a new relationship with your own inner universe and by reflection with the outer one that surrounds you as well. Over the past few weeks you have experienced a time of dreaming awareness and closer connection to your unconscious process even as you managed your outer world presence so effectively over the previous monthly cycle. This phase is coming to a close with this current month, and you are definitely more available to the world around you.

The advent of the May 5th New Moon in your resources sector represents a symbolic new beginning. You are planting your seed for future growth, based on your recent excursion through the depths of your soul and back out again, and showing up in the world around you in an entirely different way as a result.

The First Quarter Moon of Sunday, May 11th, could represent some bumpiness in the road of your progress. You are busily engaged at this time in taking otherworldly points of view more firmly into account even as you plot your future course in an entirely practical fashion.

The Full Moon of Monday, May 19th, is another time of potential trial for you, when the day-to-day routine could seem overwhelming, and when you are finding your way towards a new philosophical underpinning for your sense of where you are concretely heading.

When Mercury retrogrades another week later, on the 26th, you will have plenty of food for thought for the process of internal discovery that you are currently engaged in. Of course inner and outer are two sides of the very same coin, but amidst the chaos and confusion of the world at large it is difficult to recognize this simple fact. Your relationship to authority is also changing as you start to come into your own sense of authority, in your own way. You may encounter conflicts with authority or parental figures in your life as a reflection of your inner struggle with ancient patterns that are more than ready to work themselves out.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

This is an era of celebration for you, Taurus, in this your birthday time of the year, and you are mostly just experiencing the joy of the moment. However, even as you relax into familiar feelings and look toward an expansive and creative future, you might also be taking a look behind you at some of the ways that you were controlled or controlling in the past. It could be that old patterns of behavior will arise that have outlived their relevance for you currently, in order that they receive proper recognition and adjustment. Any progress that you make with these issues will really seal the deal for the vibrant future that you have been contemplating.

As the month begins, you are full of life, preparing for the New Moon in your sign that takes place at the end of the first weekend of the month. Joy abounds, at least potentially. This is the dawning of a new and more simplistic set of ideas for future growth, fueled by the realization although life is earnest, it needn't be sorrowful.

The New Moon of Monday morning, May 5th, kick-starts the week and month with loads of positive energy and the capacity to see your world from various perspectives. You may well have been undergoing a shift in your core beliefs in some way, accumulating the benefits of seeming coincidence to see your world more whole and entire. Your mind could be occupied and even somewhat obsessed with the idea of travel or other ways of entertaining a radically different point of view. If so, this month might well provide a new chapter in the unfolding drama.

The First Quarter Moon coming along one week later, on Sunday the 11th, provides a few bumps in the road of your progress. You are very philosophical at this time, intent on discovering what does and does not work for you in the long run.

The Full Moon another week further out, on Monday, May 19th, is a chance to see what you can make of yourself concretely, and to share with others the fruits of your recent labors. You are on a course to take you further along your chosen path, an essentially free and happy movement. You also might feel stuck in this process, as some of what you desire may prove to be unyielding. However this is only an appearance of difficulty, since what you build slowly and with attention paid to the obstacles encountered will also be long-lasting. You are quite serious about where you are going and why, and how to best occupy the center of your stage as you take your creative self-expression to another level. You are building for keeps right now, in this way and at this time of your life.

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

There is nothing superficial about you this month, Gemini, in spite of your reputation. You are bursting into a new self-concept that takes your internal spaces far more seriously along the way to overt achievement. This is a time of change, when you are finding your way through a maze of meanings to the very heart of the story. Your inner world has much to share with the outer. Over the first half of the month, or more, you will struggle to integrate varying visions of what life could become for you, and find ease in your process the more you surrender to just being, without necessarily trying for any specific outcome.

As the month begins, you are experiencing within your personality an interesting combination of ingredients. On the one hand, with your ruler Mercury in your sign, you are more outgoing and talkative than ever; but on the other, the May 5th New Moon takes place in your sector of dreams and interior reflection, and you are likely to be more internal than usual with at least one part of your awareness. This kind of dual approach to your life continues all month, since in the last week with the retrograde of Mercury you will also be taken into a more self-reflective stance.

Around the time of the New Moon, the weekend of May 3rd and 4th and the days immediately following, you are likely to be taking stock of where in the world you are heading these days, and also of the important familial relationships that have shaped you to the place that you currently occupy. You are being held back at this time with respect to initiatives that you would prefer to pursue in an unfettered fashion, especially regarding family dynamics and your home life. The pressure in the cooker is mounting, but for a reason, since you are becoming through these trials much closer to the person that you were always intended to be.

The days from the 9th to the 11th and the Full Moon taking place a week later, on the 19th represent other periods of intensity, when your will to be different is very strong and when you are intent on finding your own unique path forward to meet your destiny. Your communicative outreach is emphasized at this time, and allows you to share with others your philosophical departures from consensus reality. You may find that old patterns are brought to the fore at this juncture for the purpose of moving beyond them.

The retrograde of Mercury on the 26th is also likely to be powerful for you, a time when visions for further changes come fast and furious, although you may need to wait a month or so before taking drastic action with any new ideas that come to you during this fertile period.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is a soulful period for you Cancer, when your self-fulfillment and your nurturing of others is coalescing into greater wholeness all around. This is also a great time to vision new possibilities for yourself into being; perhaps the best chance that you will have all year to do so. Your perspective shifts are therefore quite valuable and timely, coming as they do in an era of expansion and morphing of your partnership patterns. You are changing the way that you do relationship, giving up your fears and choosing to breathe in the possibility of self-transcendence through the agency of important partners in your life, but not defined by either their criticism or their approbation.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way toward a new perspective on your life and the belief systems that support it. When the Moon enters your sector of career and professional life on the 2nd, you are feeling ready to explore the world of outer achievement and public commitment from a different standpoint. You are taking your exploration of life quite seriously at this time, intending to make a difference with concrete actions rather than with lofty ideas.

The New Moon of Monday, May 5th, taking place in your sector of wishes and group associations and future plans, gives you a real burst of energy for making something happen in this regard, as well as for visioning new possibilities for yourself going forward. The two weeks following this New Moon represent the best chance that you'll have all year for dreaming large and having those dreams work themselves out in practical fashion, and the first few days of this period are the best. You have a tremendous amount of energy right now for both visualizing the unique possibility for yourself and for manifesting what you want, so that you do well to make the most of this opportunity.

The First Quarter Moon of Sunday, May 11th, and the days immediately preceding it are the crux of the two weeks of the waxing Moon, when you will feel very connected with philosophical changes in worldview and with helpful partners who may assist you in attempting to embody it. This is traditionally a time of tension in your process also, but one that is fertile in illuminating hidden motivations for action especially with regard to intimate partners in your life.

The Full Moon that follows a week later, taking place on Monday, May 19th, will be the tipping point between where you are going and where you have been, as both factors are powerfully configured for you at this time.

As the end of the month approaches and Mercury retrogrades, particularly in the days surrounding the 27th, you will be drawn into a more introspective stance, and are likely to spend time thinking and re-thinking the recent approach you have taken to your future.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

You have a date with destiny this month, Leo, but it's going to take your heart as well as your head to get you there. Day-to-day concerns and issues of service to the greater collective that surrounds you have been on your mind lately as a means to step into your true purpose, transcending your more ordinary thinking. This month you will make further strides along this important path as you rev up business and career decisions in a practical way and yet that also has its subtle and mystical side. Partners are very helpful right now, allowing you to tune into the underground parts of yourself that are less than obvious but nevertheless vitally necessary if you are to see yourself whole and truly understand the task that you are facing.

As the month begins, it finds you outer-world oriented, taking your changes to the next level. You desire to serve others in order that you may more fully serve yourself, and also serve the evolutionary motivation to move on with your life in a way that is consistent with your highest intention for yourself going forward. You are finding the fruits of your efforts lately in the successes of your public commitment and in a deep-seated urge for transformational change in the way you pursue them, however that may concretely manifest in your life.

The New Moon of the first full week of the month, taking place on Monday, May 5th, represents a fresh start in career and professional life, a summing up of the past few months when you have been busy getting a better handle on where your life is leading you. You are exploring the how to make yourself more available for this truest and deepest of ideas, namely that you move forward only along the directions that your heart describes.

There is a tide in your affairs right now that is well worth catching rather than choosing to stay stuck in prior conceptions that no longer serve you and remaining to languish in the shallows. The changes that you are in the midst of aren't easy to assimilate, and there are certainly some confusing aspects to your situation, and instability as well. But life is movement and nothing else; if you are not on the road to a different destination than the one you started toward you are missing your chance.

In regard to this important forward momentum, the period of time from May 9th to 11th might prove to be a crucial point in your journey, when there is plenty of energy to move forward, and when your ideas for improving and improvising on your situation come fast and furious. The tension in your process at this time is simply to assess how far and how fast you can take your impulse for radical departure from business as usual.

With the Full Moon a week later, on Monday, May 19th, you are more than ready to put your money on ultimate choice, allowing yourself to find your way through the maze of the world consistently with your own inner guidance, and consistent as well with the working out of Spirit in and through your life.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

You are coming into your power this month, Virgo, but slowly. You are the mighty tortoise that eventually wins the race rather then the superficially faster hare. The difficulties of this era and the trials that they represent must be taken into account if you are to actually cross the finish line. During the first two or three weeks of the month you are gathering information for your process and then and only then are you really ready to let your arrow fly. It's not so much a case of damn the torpedoes but of moving adroitly between them and letting their very energy inspire your process.

As the month begins, you are feeling your way into a new accommodation between yourself and the universe that surrounds you. You have been struggling lately under a personally imposed mandate to excel and achieve, and this month takes you into a higher gear, although not for the purpose of more rapid motion. You are slowing down at this time in order that you might examine in detail every facet of your current modus operandi, with an eye toward improving upon your offering. As you go through the current month you may feel as though on the threshing floor, where you are enjoined to separate the wheat from the chaff as far as your ultimate progress is concerned.

The New Moon that comes along at the end of the first weekend of the month, early on Monday, May 5th, takes you to yet another level, involving belief system changes in your own best interest, and provides encouragement for your journey of discovery. You may find that changes of perspective, either from travel or from educational ventures, are vital for your process at this time as you reinvent yourself yet again.

The First Quarter Moon of May 11th, and the days leading up to it, represent a time of testing and of recalibration, when you are full of ideas and when a few curve balls may be thrown, perhaps by helpful life partners.

This basic instability may straighten out somewhat by the time of the Full Moon of Monday, May 19th, when you will feel perhaps even more pressure to pull yourself through, but when there may be less to question about why you are doing so.

Everything that happens at this time provides creative food for thought as you head into the Mercury retrograde period of the last week of the month, when you will find yourself in a far more self-reflective attitude toward the necessary changes in your creative expression that continue for the remainder of the year.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are in chrysalis form these days, Libra, getting ready to emerge as the new butterfly, and you may find yourself reveling in your process of transformation. You are fully energized by the world at large right now, but in your own style and your own rhythm. Concerns of the home front predominate, and you might even detect old patterns of familial interaction and self-expression yielding to the necessity for change that you are beginning to more fully perceive. Though your waters run deep at this time they come to the surface powerfully when they do. You are engaging the world from the standpoint of your own deep center, and when you do that, and do it well, you are unshakable.

As the month begins, you are looking to the future, while being very aware of the past. Partnership considerations are very much on your mind as well, for this entire monthly cycle. You are other-oriented these days, and of course the challenge is to integrate these feelings rather than allow them to take you out of your center.

The New Moon that comes along at the end of the first weekend of the month, taking place on early on Monday, May 5th, is a powerful one for you, and serves to remind you of the transformational road that you have been traveling lately. You are changing at the core of your being, and profoundly, so that you will hardly recognize yourself when the year or even this current month has elapsed. Home and family considerations play a large part in the changes that you are going through, as does personal intimacy in your life. You are inordinately sensitive to the energy of close companions at this time, and seeking to find your own way through the mine fields of intention that surrounds you.

With the First Quarter Moon of Sunday May 11th, you may find that you are particularly vulnerable. You are called to concepts of service to others at this time, and also to extending yourself for family and friends in a way that may threaten to compromise your own needs, or perhaps bring up old patterns of behavior that you are more than ready to discard. You can steady your ship by keeping your eye firmly on the prize of collective empowerment for you and everyone else around you. Playing the blame game only gets you so far after all, while the game of everybody wins will allow you to enter into a positive feedback loop that increases rather than decreases your energy.

The Full Moon of Monday, May 19th is a time of taking stock, and of sorting through the rubbish pile of the past for whatever is worth keeping.

With the Mercury retrograde in the last week of the month, beginning on May 26th, you are entering into a period of philosophical reflection that will last through the next month and on into July, and this too supports your mulling over past events for the purpose of retaining only what is ultimately worth-while for your present set of circumstances. You may be tempted to hold onto more of your personal history than is healthy but that too is part of your process and recognizing your tendencies in this area is already half or three quarters of the battle.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

This is a powerful month for you Scorpio, in the midst of a powerful year. Partnership is a focal point right now and it leads you to considerations of family dynamics and also the way that you communicate, along the road to a better understanding of your mission statement and in what way you can most effectively plug yourself into the social order that surrounds you. Rather than being ground up by the gears and levers of the greater collective you are scheming your way to graduating from a mere cog in the machine to a fundamental factor in your world. It's not a secret because you've known it all along at some level, but you can move mountains when you decide to align yourself with the forces of Spirit and make that tiny but significant turn to the inside.

As the month begins, you are preparing for outer world activity by a practice of evaluation and self-definition. You have been reworking your basic beliefs to come into greater alignment with your spiritual core, and making rather sudden progress at times in this regard. This month you are stepping out in some important ways, taking your accumulated changes over the top of your enclosing garden wall and bringing yourself to the point where you can be more fully present for relationship with others.

With the advent of the May 5th New Moon in your partnership sector you have loads of energy for this process, and for showing up in an entirely new way for others around you. Over the next few days, you are very active in terms of outer concerns, making your career path prosper, but as well you are making powerful magic on the inside.

Especially at the time of the First Quarter Moon taking place on Sunday the 11th, you are feeling the strangely familiar pull of unique adventure, optimistic communicative outreach, and both confusion and high spiritual purpose at your psychological core. You may also feel some conflict with important partners in your life at this time. The purpose of this energy is to move you beyond your present limits of behavior, toward a future that you can barely begin to discern.

With the Full Moon of Monday, May 19th, you will be more ready to fully embrace this idea as concrete reality, with the help of others to witness your process of unpacking this new direction in your life.

During the following month, the period of the Mercury retrograde will be a good time to mull over the potential for change implicit in your current circumstances and the wisdom you have arrived at through your recent choices.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

This is an important month for you, Sagittarius. You are focusing on improving your outer-world style and substance, moving closer in the process to your soul's true purpose. In a joyously healthy development, communication trauma that has arisen from the peer-to-peer interactions of early childhood may be fading into the woodwork to be replaced by more functional patterns of interaction. The remarkable degree of changeability in your life lately represents a mixed blessing. On the one hand your sense of sanctuary including financial security is fluctuating, while on the other, a log-jam may be breaking up that has been preventing meaningful growth, providing you breathing room for even more profound transformation than you have seen thus far.

As the month begins, you are feeling the limitations of your outer world situation, and tuning in to deeper realities that help to open up the contrast between success in the eyes of the world and true inner satisfaction. Your resources in general have been on your mind lately. With finances fluctuating right now the natural question arises as to what extent you depend upon material rewards as a definition of self-worth. This is certainly one lesson that these powerful and transformative times will help you to sort out.

You are also likely to be feeling the instability of the moving platform rather than the comfort of stable ground beneath your feet right now in other ways as well. Perhaps family dynamics may be shifting for you in ways that are uncomfortable at times. If so, it pays to keep your mind on the highest good that can come of whatever is going on. There is usually a silver lining if you look for it with your accustomed optimistic attitude.

The New Moon of Monday, May 5th, provides further food for thought, and more in the form of questions rather than answers. You have loads of energy to be off and running right now but there may be confusion in regard to which direction to take. A turn toward the inside can certainly be valuable in these matters. Information from important partners in your life can also be helpful in this way, as you begin to feel the excitement of new ideas and the possibility for perspectives to shift, and mental openings and even breakthroughs to occur.

The First Quarter Moon of a week later, taking place on Sunday, May 11th, is a testing time as well. Your ruler Jupiter retrogrades from May 9th onwards, so that this period may be a more internal one for you, as you attempt to discover solutions or even the right queries to begin with.

The Full Moon of the following week, on Monday, May 19th, emphasizes limitation over freedom of movement, and clarity over confusion, although both factors are in the mix for you right now.
When Mercury retrogrades in the last week of the month you will find yourself driven further toward introspection. At this time you could find that relationship becomes a focus with emphasis on past successes and failures, as history could in part repeat itself or the universe provide new factors for you to fathom.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

Your transformational year continues this month, Capricorn, and the pace of change may become if anything more pronounced. This is definitely a time of shifting values as you reinvent yourself yet again. Practical considerations may restrict your movement until you find the right combination of holding on and letting go. The perspective shift that allows you to embrace your deepest truth is developing in its own natural rhythm and you cannot expect miracles. Nevertheless you can expect your profound process of inner metamorphosis to mature over time, so long as you can get yourself out of your own way and allow the universe to quietly do its work on you.

As the month begins, you are experiencing yet another power surge of transformation. You are in the process of finding out who you are going to be when you grow up, and that feeling of increasing spiritual maturity is coming over you quite rapidly these days. Your work in the world takes you only so far until you come to regard it as an extension of your soul purpose, and soul purpose as an extension of who you are at every part of your being, including closely held interpersonal levels.

The New Moon that comes along on Monday, May 5th, represents a culmination of these ideas. This period is a dramatic time for you when you feel on stage with new concepts ready to burst forth into considered action.

The First Quarter Moon of the following Sunday evening, the 11th, and the days leading up to it, could represent something of a trial for you, when you also may be astounded by the information that you receive. It is important that you remain as open as possible to new ideas at this juncture, for there will be many of them.

With the advent of the Full Moon of Sunday, May 19th, concepts of service to the surrounding collective, and ultimately to yourself, come to the fore. This is another testing time, when the perspectives that have spawned your recent regeneration are brought before the audience of your peers and tested in this wider sphere. You are forging a chain of links to a future that you can really live with, for yourself, and for the society surrounding you as well.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

You are finding new wine in old bottles these days, Aquarius. As the events accumulate and your metamorphosis continues, you are coming to greater awareness of an expanded sense of self that permits and even prefigures the possibility for spiritual transcendence. Your transformation may take many forms, not the least of which is tuning in to the still small voice of angel guides that you have not always chosen to heed. Your self-worth is on the line, and remaining stuck in old patterns of interaction with others may be one way to safeguard it. But your world is changing, and allowing your soul to breathe new wisdom into your more normal set of operating instructions could be another.

As the month begins, you are feeling stuck in your changes. Something is trying to emerge from deep inside your soul, like a newly quickened chick pecking at the enclosing shell, but the shell is hard to pierce and the old order of your existence difficult to yield. Your inner rather than your external presence is required now, and no amount of outer world mastery will suffice.

With the New Moon of Monday, May 5th, you are feeling quite strongly the impulse for transformation, perhaps arriving at your doorstep through the medium of family struggles or other kinds of initiative on the home front, or within the psychological center of your being.

The First Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Sunday, May 11th, is a powerful one for you, and may serve to emphasize the trials you are currently experiencing. It helps to remember that nothing happens without its good and just reason in terms of your personal evolution. Your ideas and your internal guidance are very fertile at this time and represent a counter to real world concerns and requirements. Active partners may also be a great help to you at this time. You will gradually make your way through, over the stepping stones of your varied incidences, but slowly and carefully.

The Full Moon that takes place a week further on, on Monday, May 19th, represents another testing time, when sharing your experience with others illuminates your own path forward, and when you are beginning to discern the outline of where you are heading and what you are trying to achieve. No doubt at all about it, you are on the road to a better and more fulfilled experience, however long and tortuous, and however arduous the inherent trouble you may need to take in negotiating the twists and turns of your journey.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

Communication is the name of your game this month, Pisces, although you may also feel somewhat blocked from entirely sharing yourself in partnership with others at this time. You are currently opening up to new ways of being in the world that reflect your forward thinking viewpoint and your inner values more accurately, and the friendships that you choose these days are therefore a changing landscape for you. You will find yourself more joyfully determined and more seriously playful as you lose the sense of your own limitation that has perhaps prevented you from full participation with the world around you, up to now.

As the month begins, you are feeling the fluctuations of life, the instability and also the joy of change. You have been opening up to the shifting tides of changes more and more, partly of necessity and partly out of a growing sense curiosity for the universe has in store for you. Remaining in a safe enclosure just doesn't have the appeal that it used to have, although there are definitely forces conspiring to keep you there.

The sense of limitation may arise in the form of important partnerships in your life, which may support you in finding the feeling of limitation that is also part of your basic nature at this time. To move on or to stay, and each little decision contributes to the overall feeling tone of these times for you. It's not so simple as to provide only one answer to your questions.

With the advent of the May 5th New Moon, you will find loads of energy for outreach to others around you, which might help you to resolve some part of your dilemma. Others may help you at this time to heal old patterns of more or less unconscious behavior from your past by allowing you to give the issue up to a higher power to resolve. This can be a relief as well as a new sense of responsibility, but one that works itself out in co-creation with the energy of the universe rather than by going it strictly alone.

The week following the New Moon is particularly poignant in this regard, most especially the weekend of the 9th through the 11th. This is a time when you will be drawn to a more internal stance and can look more closely into the relationship between your inner and your outer worlds. There is a tide in your affairs at this time that if you seize it, will bring you to a better understanding of your situation.

The Full Moon a week later on, taking place on Monday, May 19th, emphasizes once again limitations rather than the freedom of your situation, although both are powerfully present for you throughout the entire month. There is a way that important partners conspire to hold you back, and a way in which the container that they provide is helpful in shaping the path you need to take forward, into your future.

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 again features Mars and Venus, Saturn and Pluto, with a touch of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune thrown into the stew for multi-dimensional flavoring. Mercury also retrogrades near the end of the month. Saturn stands still in the sky in its apparent motion on May 2nd and as it does, almost exactly trines Pluto in the first degree of Capricorn. Saturn with Pluto implies that something has to give, in terms of the basic structures of our lives, as we saw during the fall of 2001 when they were opposed across the U.S. Ascendant and Descendant during the event that became known as 9-11. This month, with the trine, we might expect a much more graceful passage. Still in our individual lives and in the progress of the country as a whole we may feel as though caught between a rock and a hard place, as the aftermath of 9-11 and the American response to it continues to unfold.

At the time of the May 5th New Moon, an aspect pattern known as a Yod forms to Mars in Cancer involving both Neptune and Pluto, just as Mars is getting ready to make his transition into Leo on the 9th. This New Moon also strongly aspects Pluto and Chiron, meaning that patterns of behavior that are more or less unconscious will be up for recognition and potentially painful readjustment. It is important to keep our eyes wide open during this time and to pay careful attention to whatever comes up for us.

Uranus and Jupiter remain closely sextile to each other in this May time frame. In fact, their connection draws closer through the first twenty days of the month. Jupiter retrogrades on the 9th, with only half a degree separating them. The sextile is an open minded aspect between these two optimistic and forward-thinking planetary energies, and provides the possibility for new thoughts and visions to rapidly enter into our collective awareness.

The other outer planet configuration in the mix at this time involves Neptune in the last phase of its opposition to Saturn. The Full Moon of May 19th emphasizes both Saturn and Neptune, archetypal energies that are largely antithetical, representing the mystical ideal versus the practical and concretely here-and-now. This configuration can indicate a loss of faith in social institutions and a focus on Spirit. Their opposition has been active over the last two summers, and this month's last pass may provide a summing up.

The energy for transformation represented by Pluto in Capricorn remains an important and potent presence through this entire time, as Saturn contributes emphasis. The times are hard and they are a'changing, and we must accept what we cannot immediately cure. The good news in all this is that sometimes change is fundamentally needed. We win when we recognize this simple fact of our existence and choose hope over despair, the depth of our process over distraction, and spiritual over superficial reality, aligning ourselves with the numinous possibility inherent in all our striving. We win when we choose life.

Current Moon Configurations

May 5th New Moon
This New Moon takes place on the power point of mid-Taurus, 15 + degrees. Additionally, there is quite a close sesquiquadrate between the New Moon and Pluto, ruler of the polarity point, bringing increased transformational pressure to bear. The Saturn – Pluto trine is very close at this time, and emphasized by this lunation, and also by the Full Moon two weeks later on. Pluto with Saturn represents the difficult experience that structures central to our lives must undergo a radical transformation in order to remain viable.

May 11th First Quarter Moon
This is an unusually dicey First Quarter Moon, coming as it does a few days after the retrograde station of Jupiter on the 9th, and making a close aspect to it. Jupiter is exactly sextile Uranus now, within half a degree, while Chiron occupies their midpoint, indicating that the energy of new ideas is charismatically present for us at this time, and is useful in healing old patterns of dysfunctional behavior wherever these may occur in our individual lives. Particularly the social instabilities that accompany group associations and the group decision process are subject to increased consciousness, renewed understanding, and brilliant and perhaps rather sudden solutions.

May 19th Full Moon
This Full Moon takes place in the last degree of Scorpio, representing the last best chance to make a significant change toward breakthrough with regard to some particular aspect of our situation. The Sabian Symbol for this degree is "A Halloween Jester" which is reminiscent of Uranus, also powerfully constellated at this time, and reveals the possibility for social revelation and dramatization of our path forward as well as the surprising epiphany that may correct the limits of our understanding. This Sabian Symbols contrasts with the Sun in the final degree of Taurus, whose symbol is "A peacock parading on an ancient lawn," reminding us of the accumulated gift of the social traditions that have come before us, and the urge to glory in this as well as in our more material manifestations of accrued greatness. Uranus is exactly sextile to Jupiter at this time and inconjunct the South Node. This Full Moon also significantly forms a T-square to Saturn in early Virgo, bringing his sense of limitation and the frustration of our efforts for rapid movement very firmly into the picture. The slow build-up will work the best at this time.

May 26th Mercury Stations Retrograde
This retrograde exactly squares Uranus and therefore will be even more of a joker card than is usually the case. We can expect communication and mechanical breakdowns as well as breakthroughs in a wild and wooly retrograde period that will last through to the end of June when you take the period of the retrograde shadow into account.

May 27th Last Quarter Moon
This phase traditionally represents the "crisis of consciousness" that follows the preceding three weeks of outward development; a time of gathering and collecting the resulting wisdom as a starting point for the next cycle to unfold. The Sun now occupies the sign of Gemini, where the recent retrograde of Mercury took place also. With Mercury ruling Gemini and therefore the Sun, this end of month period will be far more introspective and reflective than the weeks that preceded it.

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