Aquarius Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2021}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Aquarius Sun and Aquarius Ascendant.
May 2021 Horoscope: Predictions for Aquarius
We’ve divided our monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here.
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| Aquarians born February 10 to 19 |
Overview for this Month: Aquarius (All)
May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
The focus on your personal life, including your family and home affairs, continues in May, dear Aquarius. However, you're transitioning to a more playful, outgoing period as the month advances.
Mercury moves into harmony with your sign on the 3rd, Venus on the 8th, and the Sun on the 20th. These bodies move into your sector of leisure, enjoyment, and heartfelt activities. With these ingresses, you're in a more expressive and playful frame of mind. You might enjoy new hobbies, creative outlets, and love interests or renewed attention to these things. Your ideas go over well, and hobbies and leisure pursuits can be in pleasant focus. Mercury's retrograde on the 29th points to some need to slow down or backtrack in these life areas. You may not always get the words right, but you're bound to find different channels for expressing yourself.
You're coming into better touch with your need to entertain or be entertained and to create and enjoy extra playtime. While these new themes are playful and fun, you often gravitate to people, projects, and pastimes that are tried and true, comforting, and secure. You might pay special attention to the technical pr practical details of your plans or artistic pursuits and the logistics of a romantic relationship. Putting things into order can be rewarding.
It's possible that romance heats up but then reaches a plateau around the 29th with the beginning of Mercury's retrograde. This simply suggests pouring a lot of energy into romantic or creative matters until then, at which point let things be a little without completely withdrawing. Essentially, it's about riding the wash from this point.
With Mars in your solar sixth house all month, you could be determinedly working towards a special health goal. Or, work or daily routines can be lively and sometimes hectic. You can be working tirelessly at times, and you have more pride in the work you do, your body/health, and your ability to handle your daily routines. If you can set your own pace, you'll be better off since it's tough to take instruction now. Aim to stay active, but avoid excesses for better mental and physical health.
May can present some potentially excellent opportunities for projects and endeavors related to home and work. Innovative, inventive, and progressive approaches are in favor. Paying particular attention to your house, job, routine, health, and self-care programs can bring rewards, especially if you're putting a new spin on these things. It's a time for a new attitude or mission to live more confidently and positively. You seem to need to add some color to your routines and imagination to your work. You might be interested in alternative healing methods.
Even with a shifting focus, the New Moon on the 11th brings a blast of fresh-start energy to your domestic world. You are determined and inspired to make improvements, and you can feel a sense of mission regarding your living conditions or support system.
Jupiter leaves your sign on the 13th, although it's temporary. Jupiter will spend May 13-July 28 in your resource sector before returning to finish its transit of your sign. You're now getting a sneak peek of the next Jupiter cycle that brings excellent lessons and benefits revolving around money, earnings, possessions, and your personal talents. It's a superb time for building on existing resources, a business, or a project and enjoying the rewards of your past efforts. While this transit will develop more fully in 2022, you're likely to enjoy elevated confidence in yourself to manifest your desires.
Saturn in your sign begins its yearly retrograde cycle on the 23rd, prompting a period of review. It's best to keep in mind the overall purpose of this Saturn transit--that you are learning to rely on yourself and get your life into order. Returning to a previous project may be particularly rewarding during this cycle and is more likely to be successful than a brand-new one.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it furthers a theme in your life that has you seeing your friendships, connections, and happiness goals in a whole new way. You are awakening to a need for kindred spirits, more involvement with others, and self-expression through creative mediums. This eclipse turns your attention to areas of your life that have become dysfunctional or unsatisfactory. Your feelings for someone or a special project can blossom or reach a turning point. You might have powerful realizations about long-term happiness goals.
There can be some extra drama or exaggeration surrounding this eclipse, so aim to take your time and observe before jumping into action. Ideally, dormant or undiscovered talents awaken!
Even with solid attention to pursuing your joy, Mercury turns retrograde on the 29th, making it necessary to slow down, take stock, and review in-progress endeavors.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Aquarius (Born January 21 to 30) and Aquarius Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Aquarius:
May 2021 Aquarius Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 20th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fourth house. This is a period of recharge, of getting in touch with your innermost feelings, of connecting with your roots, and of spending more time and energy on home and family. Home and family matters capture your attention and are a strong source of pride now. It's a time when worldly matters are not as important to you.
Use this energy to find ways to improve your family relations and your home environment. During this heart-warming cycle, you would do best to allow yourself to explore your inner needs so that you can nurture yourself and others in a healthy, growth-oriented manner, in preparation for more outgoing times to come.
From May 20th forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively. This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks. You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies. Pleasure and amusement play an important role in your search for freedom of self-expression now. Show off your best colors!
You want others to take notice, and you are more sensitive to whether people appreciate you. More than any time of the year, this is the cycle in which you focus on having fun, enjoying romance, and expressing yourself creatively. Your hobbies, leisure time, moments spent with children, gaming time, and so forth, all come into focus at this time of year.
This is a cycle in which you find joy in expressing who you are--when your "inner child" comes out to play. This is a time when you are more flirtatious than usual, and when you might take a few risks in life--not only gambling with games but with life itself. You might be a bit of a showman at this time. You are likely feeling good in general, and you tend to spread the joy.
Eclipse
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 26th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar eleventh house. Surprises surrounding long-term goals, friendships, and group affiliations may be in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. This could manifest, for example, as a situation that tests a friendship, a culmination or fruition of a casual relationship, you could be called upon to perform a humanitarian gesture, a friend may experience a little crisis and ask for your help, you could suddenly find yourself around many people, perhaps after a period of relative solitude or private time, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until May 8th:
Venus continues to transit your solar fourth house now. Domestic relationships and the home environment tend to be especially harmonious and peaceful during this cycle. You may have a desire to decorate your home with better quality items or more attention to aesthetics. An inner sense of peace and security tends to dominate now, or the desire for peace motivates you now. Your affections are strong but you don't wear your heart on your sleeve just now, preferring quiet moments with loved ones.
From May 9th forward:
Venus warms your solar fifth house. This is an expressive period for the goddess of love! It's natural for you to turn on the charm without even lifting a finger. You are especially attracted to aesthetic forms of recreation. You feel a little more playful now, and love matters tend to be laced with a touch of drama. That shouldn't be a problem--in fact, you kind of like it that way for the time being. More loving and appreciative relationships with your children may also figure now. Your powers of attraction skyrocket during this cycle. Yet, you are not aggressive in your approach to love. Instead, you attract more if you allow yourself to be pursued during this cycle. Creative self-expression of any kind is favored at this time. At this time, you instinctively know how to place yourself in the best light in order to make a good impression on others. Any love affair begun now will be characterized by good cheer, having fun, and a fair share of emotional drama!
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 3rd:
Mercury continues to transit your solar fourth house. Your thoughts tend to revolve around personal matters, especially family, home, and domestic issues. You enjoy, more than usual, discussions and stories about the past and about family.
You are more rational and objective when it comes to your relationships with those close to you, so it is, in fact, a good time to open up discussions with family. There can be increased activities in and around the home during this cycle. You are not as interested in worldly matters and career as you are in your personal life for the time being.
Until May 4th forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mercury is retrograde from May 29th to June 22nd:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications regarding intimate and financial matters, as well as communications with children or romantic partners, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's not a good time to file your taxes or apply for a loan. Instead, take the time to re-think your sources of income and how you spend your cash during this period, but put off finalizing anything for the time being. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now either.
Occurring in your solar fifth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to matters surrounding romance, children, and creativity. Be as non-judgmental as you can with romantic partners and your children, if applicable. Re-thinking the suitability of your romantic relationships is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. There may be the need to revisit old issues with your children or lover, or there could be some communication problems with the same. Arguments with a lover may be blown out of proportion far too easily. Both you and your lover should avoid harping on the words used and try to get to the meaning behind the words instead. Or, a romance may not be moving forward in obvious ways. It might seem like stagnation, but it's actually a period of review and rest. Other possibilities include calls that are not returned, a lover is late for a date, or dates get cancelled. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now. It's probably not the best time to launch a new creative project, but it's a good time for reworking an existing one. Same goes for romance! Things will change after Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with romantic partners, and children; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar sixth house. Energy and initiative for work, health, and other daily activities increase. You are self-motivated when it comes to these matters. If there are disagreements and disputes that erupt on the job now, they may be due to a feeling of stress or impatience, or they could come from your desire to get things done independently. It's best to apply energy productively to completing projects that are unfinished or even to get ahead of yourself. It's a strong period for feeling motivated for starting a new health or fitness routine.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
The focus on your personal life, including your family and home affairs, continues in May, dear Aquarius. However, you're transitioning to a more playful, outgoing period as the month advances.
Mercury moves into harmony with your sign on the 3rd, Venus on the 8th, and the Sun on the 20th. These bodies move into your sector of leisure, enjoyment, and heartfelt activities. With these ingresses, you're in a more expressive and playful frame of mind. You might enjoy new hobbies, creative outlets, and love interests or renewed attention to these things. Your ideas go over well, and hobbies and leisure pursuits can be in pleasant focus. Mercury's retrograde on the 29th points to some need to slow down or backtrack in these life areas. You may not always get the words right, but you're bound to find different channels for expressing yourself.
You're coming into better touch with your need to entertain or be entertained and to create and enjoy extra playtime. While these new themes are playful and fun, you often gravitate to people, projects, and pastimes that are tried and true, comforting, and secure. You might pay special attention to the technical pr practical details of your plans or artistic pursuits and the logistics of a romantic relationship. Putting things into order can be rewarding.
It's possible that romance heats up but then reaches a plateau around the 29th with the beginning of Mercury's retrograde. This simply suggests pouring a lot of energy into romantic or creative matters until then, at which point let things be a little without completely withdrawing. Essentially, it's about riding the wash from this point.
With Mars in your solar sixth house all month, you could be determinedly working towards a special health goal. Or, work or daily routines can be lively and sometimes hectic. You can be working tirelessly at times, and you have more pride in the work you do, your body/health, and your ability to handle your daily routines. If you can set your own pace, you'll be better off since it's tough to take instruction now. Aim to stay active, but avoid excesses for better mental and physical health.
May can present some potentially excellent opportunities for projects and endeavors related to home and work. Innovative, inventive, and progressive approaches are in favor. Paying particular attention to your house, job, routine, health, and self-care programs can bring rewards, especially if you're putting a new spin on these things. It's a time for a new attitude or mission to live more confidently and positively. You seem to need to add some color to your routines and imagination to your work. You might be interested in alternative healing methods.
Even with a shifting focus, the New Moon on the 11th brings a blast of fresh-start energy to your domestic world. You are determined and inspired to make improvements, and you can feel a sense of mission regarding your living conditions or support system.
Jupiter leaves your sign on the 13th, although it's temporary. Jupiter will spend May 13-July 28 in your resource sector before returning to finish its transit of your sign. You're now getting a sneak peek of the next Jupiter cycle that brings excellent lessons and benefits revolving around money, earnings, possessions, and your personal talents. It's a superb time for building on existing resources, a business, or a project and enjoying the rewards of your past efforts. While this transit will develop more fully in 2022, you're likely to enjoy elevated confidence in yourself to manifest your desires.
Saturn in your sign begins its yearly retrograde cycle on the 23rd, prompting a period of review. It's best to keep in mind the overall purpose of this Saturn transit--that you are learning to rely on yourself and get your life into order. Returning to a previous project may be particularly rewarding during this cycle and is more likely to be successful than a brand-new one.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it furthers a theme in your life that has you seeing your friendships, connections, and happiness goals in a whole new way. You are awakening to a need for kindred spirits, more involvement with others, and self-expression through creative mediums. This eclipse turns your attention to areas of your life that have become dysfunctional or unsatisfactory. Your feelings for someone or a special project can blossom or reach a turning point. You might have powerful realizations about long-term happiness goals.
There can be some extra drama or exaggeration surrounding this eclipse, so aim to take your time and observe before jumping into action. Ideally, dormant or undiscovered talents awaken!
Even with solid attention to pursuing your joy, Mercury turns retrograde on the 29th, making it necessary to slow down, take stock, and review in-progress endeavors.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aquarius in 2021.
See also: Aquarius 2021 Yearly Horoscope.
Aquarius (Born January 31 to February 9) AND Aquarius Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Aquarius:
May 2021 Aquarius Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
With the Sun spotlighting your house of family and home, these areas are your instinctive focus during this period. Your family, home, property concerns, roots, and heritage come into focus and become a source of pride. You are likely quite preoccupied with feelings of security and your inner experiences. This is a time when you send down roots and seek a feeling of belonging. You could be thrust into a position of leadership on the home front.
Ego confrontations with family members are possible now, but the best way to handle this energy is to do your best to strengthen your relationship with your family and your home base. This is a time to do what you can to build trust in your family life and a strong foundation within yourself so that regardless of what you meet in the outside world over the next months, you have a secure place to return to. Besides spending more time tending to domestic affairs, the focus can be on cultivating and nourishing the inner foundations that support you and your growth. This is a time to collect yourself--to fill your well, so to speak.
Eclipse
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 26th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar tenth house. Surprises surrounding career and reputation matters may be in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. This could manifest, for example, as a career change or challenge that you didn't expect, a surprise revelation from a coworker or boss, a new promotion or career direction dropped into your lap, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 17th:
Venus continues to transit your solar fourth house now. Domestic relationships and the home environment tend to be especially harmonious and peaceful during this cycle. You may have a desire to decorate your home with better quality items or more attention to aesthetics. An inner sense of peace and security tends to dominate now, or the desire for peace motivates you now. Your affections are strong but you don't wear your heart on your sleeve just now, preferring quiet moments with loved ones.
From May 18th forward:
Venus warms your solar fifth house. This is an expressive period for the goddess of love! It's natural for you to turn on the charm without even lifting a finger. You are especially attracted to aesthetic forms of recreation. You feel a little more playful now, and love matters tend to be laced with a touch of drama. That shouldn't be a problem--in fact, you kind of like it that way for the time being. More loving and appreciative relationships with your children may also figure now. Your powers of attraction skyrocket during this cycle. Yet, you are not aggressive in your approach to love. Instead, you attract more if you allow yourself to be pursued during this cycle. Creative self-expression of any kind is favored at this time. At this time, you instinctively know how to place yourself in the best light in order to make a good impression on others. Any love affair begun now will be characterized by good cheer, having fun, and a fair share of emotional drama!
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 9th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar fourth house. Your thoughts tend to revolve around personal matters, especially family, home, and domestic issues. You enjoy, more than usual, discussions and stories about the past and about family.
You are more rational and objective when it comes to your relationships with those close to you, so it is, in fact, a good time to open up discussions with family. There can be increased activities in and around the home during this cycle. You are not as interested in worldly matters and career as you are in your personal life for the time being.
From May 10th forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mercury is retrograde from May 29th to June 22nd:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications regarding intimate and financial matters, as well as communications with children or romantic partners, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's not a good time to file your taxes or apply for a loan. Instead, take the time to re-think your sources of income and how you spend your cash during this period, but put off finalizing anything for the time being. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now either.
Occurring in your solar fifth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to matters surrounding romance, children, and creativity. Be as non-judgmental as you can with romantic partners and your children, if applicable. Re-thinking the suitability of your romantic relationships is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. There may be the need to revisit old issues with your children or lover, or there could be some communication problems with the same. Arguments with a lover may be blown out of proportion far too easily. Both you and your lover should avoid harping on the words used and try to get to the meaning behind the words instead. Or, a romance may not be moving forward in obvious ways. It might seem like stagnation, but it's actually a period of review and rest. Other possibilities include calls that are not returned, a lover is late for a date, or dates get cancelled. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now. It's probably not the best time to launch a new creative project, but it's a good time for reworking an existing one. Same goes for romance! Things will change after Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with romantic partners, and children; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until May 9th:
Mars continues to energize your solar fifth house. This brings increased energy and enthusiasm to romance, child-rearing, and creative or recreational endeavors. It can also bring some strife to these areas of your world in some cases. For the most part, however, a romance could pick up pace, you are self-motivated and inspired on creative and expressive levels, and your self-confidence is well-received by others during this cycle. You are more willing to take little risks and you are competitive in a mostly friendly way. In your enthusiasm to take the lead, try to be sensitive to and respectful of others' needs.
From May 10th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar sixth house. You have more energy for work and your daily routines tend to speed up during this transit. Perhaps you have a larger workload than usual. It's a great time to take charge of your health. You have much energy at your disposal to pick up (or step up) a health and physical activity program. It might be hard for you to work with others in a harmonious manner during this transit, and disputes with co-workers are possible. If you are feeling especially angry, frustrated, or restless, it would be wise to find little projects and things to do so that you can channel excess energy constructively. If health is affected, fevers or infections are more likely.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
The focus on your personal life, including your family and home affairs, continues in May, dear Aquarius. However, you're transitioning to a more playful, outgoing period as the month advances.
Mercury moves into harmony with your sign on the 3rd, Venus on the 8th, and the Sun on the 20th. These bodies move into your sector of leisure, enjoyment, and heartfelt activities. With these ingresses, you're in a more expressive and playful frame of mind. You might enjoy new hobbies, creative outlets, and love interests or renewed attention to these things. Your ideas go over well, and hobbies and leisure pursuits can be in pleasant focus. Mercury's retrograde on the 29th points to some need to slow down or backtrack in these life areas. You may not always get the words right, but you're bound to find different channels for expressing yourself.
You're coming into better touch with your need to entertain or be entertained and to create and enjoy extra playtime. While these new themes are playful and fun, you often gravitate to people, projects, and pastimes that are tried and true, comforting, and secure. You might pay special attention to the technical pr practical details of your plans or artistic pursuits and the logistics of a romantic relationship. Putting things into order can be rewarding.
It's possible that romance heats up but then reaches a plateau around the 29th with the beginning of Mercury's retrograde. This simply suggests pouring a lot of energy into romantic or creative matters until then, at which point let things be a little without completely withdrawing. Essentially, it's about riding the wash from this point.
With Mars in your solar sixth house all month, you could be determinedly working towards a special health goal. Or, work or daily routines can be lively and sometimes hectic. You can be working tirelessly at times, and you have more pride in the work you do, your body/health, and your ability to handle your daily routines. If you can set your own pace, you'll be better off since it's tough to take instruction now. Aim to stay active, but avoid excesses for better mental and physical health.
May can present some potentially excellent opportunities for projects and endeavors related to home and work. Innovative, inventive, and progressive approaches are in favor. Paying particular attention to your house, job, routine, health, and self-care programs can bring rewards, especially if you're putting a new spin on these things. It's a time for a new attitude or mission to live more confidently and positively. You seem to need to add some color to your routines and imagination to your work. You might be interested in alternative healing methods.
Even with a shifting focus, the New Moon on the 11th brings a blast of fresh-start energy to your domestic world. You are determined and inspired to make improvements, and you can feel a sense of mission regarding your living conditions or support system.
Jupiter leaves your sign on the 13th, although it's temporary. Jupiter will spend May 13-July 28 in your resource sector before returning to finish its transit of your sign. You're now getting a sneak peek of the next Jupiter cycle that brings excellent lessons and benefits revolving around money, earnings, possessions, and your personal talents. It's a superb time for building on existing resources, a business, or a project and enjoying the rewards of your past efforts. While this transit will develop more fully in 2022, you're likely to enjoy elevated confidence in yourself to manifest your desires.
Saturn in your sign begins its yearly retrograde cycle on the 23rd, prompting a period of review. It's best to keep in mind the overall purpose of this Saturn transit--that you are learning to rely on yourself and get your life into order. Returning to a previous project may be particularly rewarding during this cycle and is more likely to be successful than a brand-new one.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it furthers a theme in your life that has you seeing your friendships, connections, and happiness goals in a whole new way. You are awakening to a need for kindred spirits, more involvement with others, and self-expression through creative mediums. This eclipse turns your attention to areas of your life that have become dysfunctional or unsatisfactory. Your feelings for someone or a special project can blossom or reach a turning point. You might have powerful realizations about long-term happiness goals.
There can be some extra drama or exaggeration surrounding this eclipse, so aim to take your time and observe before jumping into action. Ideally, dormant or undiscovered talents awaken!
Even with solid attention to pursuing your joy, Mercury turns retrograde on the 29th, making it necessary to slow down, take stock, and review in-progress endeavors.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Aquarius in 2021.
See also: Aquarius 2021 Yearly Horoscope.
Aquarius (Born February 10-19) and Aquarius Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Aquarius:
May 2021 Aquarius Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 10th:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar third house--a time of the year in which you are most likely to be a "busy bee". Communications, short trips, errand-running, and general busy-ness feature now. You could have a finger in many pies, so to speak, as your curiosity is piqued by a larger variety of things than usual. Used well, this could be a period in which you come up with solutions to a number of problems. You are more inclined to take pride in your intellectual accomplishments and/or your ability to socialize and make connections.
From May 11th forward:
With the Sun spotlighting your house of family and home, these areas are your instinctive focus during this period. Your family, home, property concerns, roots, and heritage come into focus and become a source of pride. You are likely quite preoccupied with feelings of security and your inner experiences. This is a time when you send down roots and seek a feeling of belonging. You could be thrust into a position of leadership on the home front.
Ego confrontations with family members are possible now, but the best way to handle this energy is to do your best to strengthen your relationship with your family and your home base. This is a time to do what you can to build trust in your family life and a strong foundation within yourself so that regardless of what you meet in the outside world over the next months, you have a secure place to return to. Besides spending more time tending to domestic affairs, the focus can be on cultivating and nourishing the inner foundations that support you and your growth. This is a time to collect yourself--to fill your well, so to speak.
Eclipse
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 26th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar tenth house. Surprises surrounding career and reputation matters may be in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. This could manifest, for example, as a career change or challenge that you didn't expect, a surprise revelation from a coworker or boss, a new promotion or career direction dropped into your lap, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until May 25th:
Venus continues to transit your solar fourth house now. Domestic relationships and the home environment tend to be especially harmonious and peaceful during this cycle. You may have a desire to decorate your home with better quality items or more attention to aesthetics. An inner sense of peace and security tends to dominate now, or the desire for peace motivates you now. Your affections are strong but you don't wear your heart on your sleeve just now, preferring quiet moments with loved ones.
From May 25th forward:
Venus warms your solar fifth house. This is an expressive period for the goddess of love! It's natural for you to turn on the charm without even lifting a finger. You are especially attracted to aesthetic forms of recreation. You feel a little more playful now, and love matters tend to be laced with a touch of drama. That shouldn't be a problem--in fact, you kind of like it that way for the time being. More loving and appreciative relationships with your children may also figure now. Your powers of attraction skyrocket during this cycle. Yet, you are not aggressive in your approach to love. Instead, you attract more if you allow yourself to be pursued during this cycle. Creative self-expression of any kind is favored at this time. At this time, you instinctively know how to place yourself in the best light in order to make a good impression on others. Any love affair begun now will be characterized by good cheer, having fun, and a fair share of emotional drama!
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 18th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar fourth house. Your thoughts tend to revolve around personal matters, especially family, home, and domestic issues. You enjoy, more than usual, discussions and stories about the past and about family.
You are more rational and objective when it comes to your relationships with those close to you, so it is, in fact, a good time to open up discussions with family. There can be increased activities in and around the home during this cycle. You are not as interested in worldly matters and career as you are in your personal life for the time being.
From May 19th forward:
Mercury transits your solar fifth house. During this cycle, there is a powerful mental connection with your creative self-expression. You are proud of your ideas, and very good at expressing them to others smoothly now. Your thinking is more creative than usual. You tend to entertain others with your conversation; and your sense of humor (and of mischief!) is especially strong.
Your thoughts turn to children, pleasures, or romance during this expressive cycle. You might enjoy researching speculative ventures now. You especially enjoy games that involve competing with others on a mental level. You have a stronger need than usual for intellectual stimulation. Therefore, your friends and romantic partner are best appreciated now if they are intellectual types. You're more willing to take risks on a mental level now, so take advantage of the increased spontaneity and creativity that comes with this position.
Mercury is retrograde from May 29th to June 22nd:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications regarding intimate and financial matters, as well as communications with children or romantic partners, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's not a good time to file your taxes or apply for a loan. Instead, take the time to re-think your sources of income and how you spend your cash during this period, but put off finalizing anything for the time being. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now either.
Occurring in your solar fifth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to matters surrounding romance, children, and creativity. Be as non-judgmental as you can with romantic partners and your children, if applicable. Re-thinking the suitability of your romantic relationships is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. There may be the need to revisit old issues with your children or lover, or there could be some communication problems with the same. Arguments with a lover may be blown out of proportion far too easily. Both you and your lover should avoid harping on the words used and try to get to the meaning behind the words instead. Or, a romance may not be moving forward in obvious ways. It might seem like stagnation, but it's actually a period of review and rest. Other possibilities include calls that are not returned, a lover is late for a date, or dates get cancelled. Speculation and gambling are not advised right now. It's probably not the best time to launch a new creative project, but it's a good time for reworking an existing one. Same goes for romance! Things will change after Mercury turns direct, so you might decide to try to keep status quo for the time being. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with romantic partners, and children; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until May 25th:
Mars continues to energize your solar fifth house. This brings increased energy and enthusiasm to romance, child-rearing, and creative or recreational endeavors. It can also bring some strife to these areas of your world in some cases. For the most part, however, a romance could pick up pace, you are self-motivated and inspired on creative and expressive levels, and your self-confidence is well-received by others during this cycle. You are more willing to take little risks and you are competitive in a mostly friendly way. In your enthusiasm to take the lead, try to be sensitive to and respectful of others' needs.
From May 26th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar sixth house. You have more energy for work and your daily routines tend to speed up during this transit. Perhaps you have a larger workload than usual. It's a great time to take charge of your health. You have much energy at your disposal to pick up (or step up) a health and physical activity program. It might be hard for you to work with others in a harmonious manner during this transit, and disputes with co-workers are possible. If you are feeling especially angry, frustrated, or restless, it would be wise to find little projects and things to do so that you can channel excess energy constructively. If health is affected, fevers or infections are more likely.
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May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
The focus on your personal life, including your family and home affairs, continues in May, dear Aquarius. However, you're transitioning to a more playful, outgoing period as the month advances.
Mercury moves into harmony with your sign on the 3rd, Venus on the 8th, and the Sun on the 20th. These bodies move into your sector of leisure, enjoyment, and heartfelt activities. With these ingresses, you're in a more expressive and playful frame of mind. You might enjoy new hobbies, creative outlets, and love interests or renewed attention to these things. Your ideas go over well, and hobbies and leisure pursuits can be in pleasant focus. Mercury's retrograde on the 29th points to some need to slow down or backtrack in these life areas. You may not always get the words right, but you're bound to find different channels for expressing yourself.
You're coming into better touch with your need to entertain or be entertained and to create and enjoy extra playtime. While these new themes are playful and fun, you often gravitate to people, projects, and pastimes that are tried and true, comforting, and secure. You might pay special attention to the technical pr practical details of your plans or artistic pursuits and the logistics of a romantic relationship. Putting things into order can be rewarding.
It's possible that romance heats up but then reaches a plateau around the 29th with the beginning of Mercury's retrograde. This simply suggests pouring a lot of energy into romantic or creative matters until then, at which point let things be a little without completely withdrawing. Essentially, it's about riding the wash from this point.
With Mars in your solar sixth house all month, you could be determinedly working towards a special health goal. Or, work or daily routines can be lively and sometimes hectic. You can be working tirelessly at times, and you have more pride in the work you do, your body/health, and your ability to handle your daily routines. If you can set your own pace, you'll be better off since it's tough to take instruction now. Aim to stay active, but avoid excesses for better mental and physical health.
May can present some potentially excellent opportunities for projects and endeavors related to home and work. Innovative, inventive, and progressive approaches are in favor. Paying particular attention to your house, job, routine, health, and self-care programs can bring rewards, especially if you're putting a new spin on these things. It's a time for a new attitude or mission to live more confidently and positively. You seem to need to add some color to your routines and imagination to your work. You might be interested in alternative healing methods.
Even with a shifting focus, the New Moon on the 11th brings a blast of fresh-start energy to your domestic world. You are determined and inspired to make improvements, and you can feel a sense of mission regarding your living conditions or support system.
Jupiter leaves your sign on the 13th, although it's temporary. Jupiter will spend May 13-July 28 in your resource sector before returning to finish its transit of your sign. You're now getting a sneak peek of the next Jupiter cycle that brings excellent lessons and benefits revolving around money, earnings, possessions, and your personal talents. It's a superb time for building on existing resources, a business, or a project and enjoying the rewards of your past efforts. While this transit will develop more fully in 2022, you're likely to enjoy elevated confidence in yourself to manifest your desires.
Saturn in your sign begins its yearly retrograde cycle on the 23rd, prompting a period of review. It's best to keep in mind the overall purpose of this Saturn transit--that you are learning to rely on yourself and get your life into order. Returning to a previous project may be particularly rewarding during this cycle and is more likely to be successful than a brand-new one.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it furthers a theme in your life that has you seeing your friendships, connections, and happiness goals in a whole new way. You are awakening to a need for kindred spirits, more involvement with others, and self-expression through creative mediums. This eclipse turns your attention to areas of your life that have become dysfunctional or unsatisfactory. Your feelings for someone or a special project can blossom or reach a turning point. You might have powerful realizations about long-term happiness goals.
There can be some extra drama or exaggeration surrounding this eclipse, so aim to take your time and observe before jumping into action. Ideally, dormant or undiscovered talents awaken!
Even with solid attention to pursuing your joy, Mercury turns retrograde on the 29th, making it necessary to slow down, take stock, and review in-progress endeavors.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart. Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month. For example, the Sun might transit the seventh house of your solar chart from July 22 to August 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both July and August’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
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