ErosScopes – May 2009 Love Horoscopes

Horoscopes for the month ahead, with a focus on love, sex, romance, and style.

Eros was the god of erotic love. The position of the asteroid Eros in our charts points to our passion and erotic turn-ons. Mars shows us the style in which we go after what we want, including the ways in which we express our sexuality. Venus shows us some of the important “trappings” and foreplay that help us get in the mood for sex. The Moon shows our underlying emotional needs that can express themselves as sexual fantasies and needs.

While the positions of these planets and cosmic bodies in our natal charts remain static, their positions are always changing in the cosmos, activating houses and hotspots in our natal charts. The horoscopes presented here are necessarily general, as we are focusing on only the Sun sign or Ascendant, and how these sexual cosmic bodies are currently affecting the natal chart.

Please note: These horoscopes are more accurate for the Ascendant sign, so if you know it, read them for the sign of your Ascendant first, and the sign of your Sun second.

May 2009 ErosScopes

Aries

Your personal stores of energy skyrocket this month. The hemming and hawing you’ve been doing in your love life is pretty much over, although a clear plan of action might not yet be apparent. However, you’re not much into planning ahead these days. It’s all about action now. With your ruler, Mars, in your sign all month, YOU and your needs are taking top priority. With Venus in Aries too, you’re pulling off the whole “me, me” thing with a whole lot of charm. Your confidence in yourself is your most attractive asset right now. Venus rules the partnership sector in your chart, so her position in Aries means you have a partner in your corner as well. He/she might not quite be keeping your quick pace, but is certainly putting effort towards tending to your wishes and needs. Ideally, you’ve learned a lot about your needs from love in March and April, and how to best find the happiness in love that you crave. Bulldozing over a lover’s needs is out; confidence that your needs deserve to be met (within reason) is in. It’s a strong month for attracting what you want, and perhaps who you want, too. Eros enters Pisces on the 8th, and your approach to sexuality becomes a little more sensitive and perhaps spiritual.  Mercury retrograde from the 7-30 suggests the need to choose your words carefully, and also demands a review of your attitude towards money. While the month of May is strong for you overall, the first week can bring its fair share of hiccups. Power plays with a significant other are possible. Some of your more idealistic views on relationships could be challenged, and this theme is likely to repeat itself the 13-15. Best days for love are the 25-27, when you’re filled with hope and confidence.

Taurus

A theme of sacrifice and support, as well as privacy, continues to dominate your love life this month, dear Taurus. Although you are getting a lot of attention from other people in your life (especially family), your love life seems to demand the opposite from you. Venus and Mars are marching forward in your privacy sector all month, stirring up all sorts of emotions, and urging  you to deal with things you’ve been overlooking. Your personal stores of energy are not high this month, and it’s a good idea to make the time for extra rest and relaxation. These days, love might involve some sacrifice. This could be the result of a partner’s needs becoming more pressing, the need to offer support, or, for some, a period of letting go of that which is no longer serving its purpose in your life. You are called upon to be selfless, to serve, and to support. Singles might feel a little lonely this month. All that is hidden and private is more appealing to you these days, and you could find yourself attracted to complicated love relationships or people who seem to be in need. In June, Venus and Mars will enter your sign, offering you plenty of opportunity to go after what you want, and the energy to do it. Reflection is best in May, as you prepare for more energetic times to come. Both your ruler, Venus, as well as the ruler of your partnership sector, don’t form any harmonious major aspects in May; and Mercury, the ruler of your romantic sector, is retrograde from the 7-30. These factors reinforce the need for you to save big plans in your love life for another month (and June looks pretty good in this respect).

Gemini

With both Venus and Mars moving through your eleventh house this month, dear Gemini, your personal charisma runs high with friends and in group settings. The eleventh house rules our dreams, hopes, and ideals in addition to our friendships and group associations. For attached Geminis, Venus and Mars here suggests a more accepting and friendly attitude towards a partner, and towards togetherness in general, at least in theory. The urge to be friends as well as lovers is certainly strong, but implementing changes is not always easy or smooth. Bring a spirit of camaraderie and friendship into your current relationships this month, but keep your expectations realistic. For singles, your best bet for finding someone lies in group settings, or through (perhaps even with) friends. Your easygoing, friendly, and cooperative manner is especially charming right now, so flaunt it! Your ruler, Mercury, is retrograde from the 7-30, and this suggests the need for forethought when communicating. The likelihood of being misunderstood is strong during this period, particularly around the 12, 17, and 20-21. The New Moon occurs in your sign on the 24th, signaling a time of fresh energy and new beginnings. Your best days for love occur on the 25-27, when spirits run high.

Cancer

With both Venus and Mars marching through your public/professional sector all month, dear Cancer, personal charisma in your career runs especially high. You can certainly enhance your professional life through socializing, but you might also meet someone special through business functions and events. Intimacy is enhanced this month, particularly around the Full Moon on the 8th, occurring in your romance sector. The ruler of your partnership sector, Saturn, turns direct on the 16th after many months of retrogradation, helping to clear up some confusion about relationships. Eventually, the lines of communication will open between you and a partner, but Mercury’s retrograde from the 5-30 will likely delay this potential until June. You are most attractive this month when you are emphasizing your professional, responsible, managerial, and ambitious side. Love continues to be a practical matter to you this month. Tensions in love are more likely around the 1-2, when a difficult connection between Venus and Pluto pulls up all sorts of emotional “slush”. Pluto rules your romance sector, so this transit is likely to challenge your romantic relationships, or perception of them.

Leo

Expressing your fun-loving, adventurous side comes naturally this month, dear Leo, and can certainly win you some positive feedback. Both Venus and Mars are moving through fellow fire sign, Aries, all month–an energy that you easily understand and enjoy. Expressions of love are spirited and direct, which suits you especially well. Confidence in your attractiveness runs high. Your sense of humor and willingness to explore and have fun are your biggest assets in May. It will be important for you to break the routine in your personal life now. Do something you haven’t done before, and you’re more likely to attract who and what you want. For singles, people who you don’t normally consider your “type” seem to be appealing. You’re looking for new and different experiences and have a taste for the exotic. Sharing your philosophical interests with a romantic partner is especially tempting and potentially very satisfying. Sexuality is deeper, richer, and more intimate after the 8th. Better days for love this month occur on the 25-27. It’s a good time for doing something completely out of the ordinary with a partner.

Virgo

With Venus and Mars moving through your intimacy sector the entire month of May, dear Virgo, offering you a chance to discover some of your innermost desires from love. You are attracted to all that is buried, hidden, and possibly taboo this month. Venus and Mars here can stimulate your own deeply buried emotions, particularly regarding sharing yourself intimately with a partner. Feelings of jealousy and possessiveness are likely to emerge, and instead of ignoring or fearing them, you might decide to embrace these emotions in order to understand yourself better. This is not to say that you should let them loose. Rather, you can explore these feelings and how they affect your life, keeping in mind that they are rooted in fear–of loss, of betrayal, and of lack of control. This month, superficial workings in a relationship are not going to satisfy you. You are looking for depth, intimacy, and transformative experiences in your love life. Issues of sharing, which can include joint finances, are stimulated. May is a strong month for invigorating your intimate life and exploring more primal urges. However, with your ruler, Mercury, retrograde from the 7-30, you could find that the words you choose to express yourself are misinterpreted, and especially so when Mercury squares Neptune and Chiron on the 20th, so extra care and deliberation with your communications is a good idea. While most people in your life could find you a little aloof or distant, an intimate partner is likely to know where your heart is. It’s a very strong period for spicing things up in the bedroom, largely because you have the confidence to assert your own needs, whether it’s stating what you want, or simply taking it!

Libra

A partnership is particularly spirited and lively this month, dear Libra.  This might be due to a partner’s increased confidence or because a significant other is more assertive and direct. Either way, love is exciting, dynamic, and totally on your brain in May. This month is a close to idyllic time for enhancing or attracting a romantic relationship, although it’s not going to be an easy road. Some fireworks are likely, and actually quite stimulating–even eye-opening. There is a need to put your own personal agenda aside for the time being. Others are taking priority right now. Those of you who are single may very well meet someone who completely intrigues you. You are seeking out intensity, and you’re especially charmed by people who are direct, forthright, and assertive. This month, your powers of attraction lie in your ability to cooperate, listen, and negotiate–things you do best quite naturally! On a romantic level, the potential to be starry-eyed is great. However, you should watch for keeping your expectations reasonable, or you’re liable to gloss over facts, particularly mid-month. The first five days of the month can be challenging, but rewarding. Watch out for a suspicious attitude that gets you nowhere. Adjustments are necessary around the 20th, when awkward energy between you and a lover necessitate changes in attitudes.

Scorpio

Your best opportunities to attract romance into your life occur through work connections this month, dear Scorpio. Some of you will find that an office flirtation or romance is heating up. The 1-2 is perhaps the most challenging period of the month for close partnerships, when it’s very hard to see eye-to-eye with a partner. You’re likely to feel unappreciated or slighted. The Full Moon on the 8th can bring surprising revelations. It occurs in your sign, making it a time of self-discovery. Something comes to light that has brewing under the surface, and you could even find yourself making proclamations that not only surprise others, they even amaze you. On the same day, Eros, the god of erotic love, begins its transit through your romance sector, and your erotic impulses are strong. The second half of the month can be on the tricky side. Negotiations or conversations with a partner that took place in April may be revisited, perhaps with some frustration. While the month is potentially quite rewarding, you’re likely going to be making quite a few adjustments in order to bring harmony to your love life. The ball doesn’t seem to be in your court just now, but you’re certainly learning a lot about what makes others tick. Get your paper work done, rest up, and organize your life as you get set for a month of interesting changes in your love life.

Sagittarius

With Venus and Mars moving through your romance sector all month, dear Sagittarius, you’re finding it especially easy to attract who and what you want into your life. As well, it’s easy for you to develop big-time crushes that may only be temporary, but that are a whole lot of fun. Your charm is natural and finds an adoring audience. Venus and Mars are in fellow Fire sign, Aries, and the world seems to be speaking a “love language” that you understand–and that understands you. Nevertheless, from the 7-30, your partnership ruler, Mercury, is retrograde. So, while love is exciting this month, it’s also on the complicated side. You might experience “stop and go” affairs or attractions, for example, or advances might not be fulfilled, dates canceled, changes of heart…you get the idea. Basically, it’s a month of up and down energy in the romance department; but if you take things slowly (hard to do right now) and/or not very seriously, you’ll be able to have fun with this quite awesome energy. Problems communicating successfully is really the root of any relationship problem right now, so do your best to make yourself clear and to cut others some slack if they say something that might offend you. Confidence, good humor, and willingness to have fun are your most attractive assets right now. The chance to start fresh in a partnership arrives on the 24th and beyond. For both single and attached Sagittarians, it’s a great time to make a resolution about your attitude towards partnering. The best love days for you occur on the 23-27.

Capricorn

Family and career matters demand a lot of your attention this month, dear Capricorn, but you certainly make time for fun, at least until the 20th. Romance is on your mind, and expressing yourself creatively is a strong motivation now. Mercury’s retrograde from the 7-30 could mean that past conversations with a lover are revisited this month, and perhaps grudgingly so. It’s wise to be clear and straightforward, as misunderstandings are likely. Don’t dig too deeply for the time being, however. Single Capricorns will find romantic opportunities close to home or through the connections of family members in May. Venus and Mars moving through your solar fourth house this month suggests that you’re still in a sort of incubation stage when it comes to your love life–you’re a little tentative about your powers of attraction. Next month, when Venus and Mars move into your expressive fifth house, you’re going to use the confidence you are building now and turn it outwards, so take your time. Right now, Venus and Mars in fiery Aries brings a rather impulsive and abrupt love energy to the world, which doesn’t make you feel very comfortable. This is because you are wary of anything that begins too quickly or moves too fast, believing that things that start slowly have better chance of long-term survival. Again, take your time and follow your instincts. Your ruler, Saturn, turns direct on the 16th, which serves to clear up a few personal matters for you, and also helps to build your confidence, slowly but surely.

Aquarius

It’s easy to make social connections this month, dear Aquarius. Romantic communications figure strongly in May. The way to your heart is through your mind right now, and your conversational skills are superb this month, attracting more than one admirer! Even with Mercury retrograde from the 7-30, which can definitely stir up some misunderstandings, the urge to express your desires is powerful. May is a month in which you are inclined to use charm, flattery, and your sense of humor to make peace with others, to improve relationships, and to attract new friendships. Still, misreading a lover, or confusing a lover with your words, is a strong possibility, so take care. You’re learning that the words you choose to express yourself can be powerful, even aphrodisiac in quality, but you’re also bound to see firsthand that sometimes communications with playful intent are not perceived the same way. Online communications and text messages are especially vulnerable to these types of misunderstandings, so if a very important conversation is necessary with a lover, do it in person!  A partner is not especially in the mood for fun and games until after the 20th, preferring to stick close to home, after which more playful expressions of romance come naturally. The New Moon occurs in your romance sector on the 24th, signaling a fresh start.

Pisces

Both Venus and Mars are occupying the first sign of the zodiac, Aries, all month long, bringing impulsive, direct, straightforward, and fresh energy to our love lives. Aries energy, however, doesn’t really jive with yours. You find it curious and interesting, but it’s not something you are strongly for or against. This means that you’re not going to be benefiting directly from this stimulating energy, but you’re not going to be troubled by it either. These sexy planets move through your solar second house of money, possessions, and self-worth in May. You could be receiving gifts this month, and if you don’t, you’re likely going to buy some for yourself! In love, you are drawing upon the five senses, appreciating the basics, and not especially spiritual just for the time being. Eros enters your sign on the 8th, and will stay in Pisces for a few months. Erotic impulses are strong. You are inclined towards big infatuations, and you’re more interested in being the pursuer than the pursuee under this influence. It’s a strongly sexual month for you overall. The ruler of your partnership sector, Mercury, is retrograde from the 7-30, and this can point to temporary complications in a partnership. A partner might be a little emotionally distant, and it’s best to be there for him/her, but also to offer some space. Pressuring isn’t the best idea during this cycle. People aren’t always choosing the right words for expressing themselves, and it’s important to keep that in mind before taking communications to heart.

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