Aquarius Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Aquarius Sun and Aquarius Ascendant.
May 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Aquarius
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Overview for this Month: Aquarius (All)
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
Much energy centers around the home or with family this month, dear Aquarius, and surrounding yourself with familiar people and situations comes naturally. You require some anchoring and centering! Your personal world is in focus in May, with plenty of opportunities to express and enjoy yourself. With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you'll deal with minor problems and delays, which can undoubtedly slow you down, but pacing yourself should be relatively straightforward.
Further, Pluto turns retrograde on the 1st of the month, and with Pluto in your sign, this move signals the need to go within. You might decide to avoid taking on new extracurricular projects and focus on getting settled, centered, and grounded.
There can be some important renovations and improvements in your domestic world this month. There may be some backtracking over old problems and conversations and perhaps some paperwork to manage. However, even if old problems re-emerge and blow up now, they will likely blow over in the second half of May. Some delays can be blessings in disguise, allowing you to redo and refine or reconsider things. Keep in mind that any backtracking you need to do in the first half of May will contribute significantly to the strength of plans and future ventures-ultimately, it's not lost time!
The Lunar Eclipse on the 5th serves as another cosmic push towards finding a better balance between your home and working life or professional and personal life. Aim to acknowledge new feelings that come to the surface but sit with them before taking action.
You're paying more attention to personal matters, domestic affairs, and loved ones this month, and your work and health routines are important to you, but key influences suggest you're also interactive and expressive. Until the 7th, Venus is in your sector of joy, recreation, and love, and the Sun enters this area of your solar chart on the 21st. Just a day before this move of the Sun, Mars heads into your partnership sector, pointing to a more animated time for close relationships. You are looking especially good these days and feeling it, too!
Your powers of attraction run high. Excellent energy is with you for creative endeavors, romance, or enjoying special hobbies, pleasures, or pastimes. You're magnetizing good things, people, attention, and situations into your life.
Mercury's retrograde lifts on the 14th, unclogging information and contributing to the sense that you're moving forward. Problem areas are clearing up, and the New Moon on the 19th helps push your plans forward.
Mars energizes your work and health sector until the 20th, and Venus is a guest there from the 7th, motivating you to get on top of your daily routines. You're pouring energy into organizing your space, pursuing fitness or other health methods, and providing services or doing your work/chores.
From the second week of the month, you're striving for more harmony in your daily life, including your work or routines and health pursuits. You can take pleasure in producing, serving, and managing your daily affairs. You feel more accomplished through cooperation and sharing. Or, you might make pleasant contacts through the pursuit of your work, health, or daily goals.
The Sun moves into a position of harmony with your sign on the 21st, encouraging you to express yourself. A satisfying creative project or pastime can help you release stress and tension. A romantic attraction may motivate you. You're interested in growing and improving your creative pursuits and connections.
Jupiter makes a big move as it changes signs this month, and this new cycle brings satisfying improvements to your home life. It also stirs more interest in, and enjoyment of, your domestic life in the year ahead. Until May 2024, you're in a terrific position to repair and enhance family relationships, move or renovate, and increase your feelings of safety and comfort. You'll also build your emotional base. The year ahead is fabulous for the beginnings of a new long-term project that has the potential to serve you for years to come and for putting down roots.
While conflicts between domestic demands/needs and personal goals/needs can emerge, it's ultimately a most beneficial period for establishing yourself. A central theme in your life is developing your sense of security, attachments to family, and home life. You have an open mind and an open heart so that new information can expand your perspective, especially in the last week of May. You have more faith in your emotional life and the ability to grow through your experiences. Fortunate connections or opportunities emerge for improving your domestic life or living conditions and arrangements.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Aquarius (Born January 21 to 30) and Aquarius Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Aquarius:
May 2023 Aquarius Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
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 21st 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.
Eclipses
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 5th:
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, Pleasure
Until May 7th:
Venus continues to transit your solar fifth house. Your popularity is on an upward trend during this cycle as others find you especially attractive and friendly. You may have the desire to dress well and in good taste. There is strength in your feelings of love and the power of attraction, which may open the door to new romantic relationships. Yet, you are not aggressive in your approach to love. Instead, you attract more if you allow yourself to be pursued during this cycle. Conditions are highlighted in connection with young people, and quite possibly a female child--a stronger bond could be formed during this period. You are feeling inspired creatively and romantically and you express your loving feelings quite openly now. Creative self-expression of any kind is favored at this time. You will also thoroughly enjoy artistic, musical, or cultural events and activities, especially in the company of a loved one. 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!
From May 7th forward:
Venus graces your solar sixth house now. Establishing a happy and harmonious work environment through friendly relations with co-workers or tidying up your work area comes into focus now. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment. You are generally well liked and respected socially on the job right now. Some laziness is possible now, as you tend to associate pleasure with work! Perhaps you are socializing more than usual on the job. You have good team spirit during this cycle, and you are more tactful and obliging with your co-workers. You are less inclined to fall in love for the sake of love itself during this cycle. Your tendency is to consider whether it is clever to do so! You're most successful doing tasks that involve cooperation and team harmony. You could find that your talents or skills are especially appreciated. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
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 fourth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to family relations, real estate matters, and domestic issues. Be as non-judgmental as you can with family members. It may be challenging to keep a healthy perspective regarding deeply personal matters and family. Family members may be on edge, or appear to be. Home repairs may not turn out as expected. Try to put off major decision- making with regards to home improvement, moving, and family matters for the time being. New initiatives surrounding home and property are best left for a better time, but reworking and reorganizing your home can be especially fruitful now.
After the 14th, information unclogs and delays lift.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 20th:
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.
From the 20th forward:
Mars energizes and animates your solar seventh house. Partnerships may suffer from ego conflicts, or opposition from others may be challenging. Use the extra energy that Mars brings to this sector of your chart to work cooperatively on relationship problems. You may even find that you seem to need someone's help in order to do what you want to do during this cycle. Relationships are vivacious and dynamic during this period. When a difference arises, you are quick to settle it, and have little patience for sweeping matters under the rug. Your close personal relationships are lively during this cycle--full of conflicts and resolutions or reconciliations.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
Much energy centers around the home or with family this month, dear Aquarius, and surrounding yourself with familiar people and situations comes naturally. You require some anchoring and centering! Your personal world is in focus in May, with plenty of opportunities to express and enjoy yourself. With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you'll deal with minor problems and delays, which can undoubtedly slow you down, but pacing yourself should be relatively straightforward.
Further, Pluto turns retrograde on the 1st of the month, and with Pluto in your sign, this move signals the need to go within. You might decide to avoid taking on new extracurricular projects and focus on getting settled, centered, and grounded.
There can be some important renovations and improvements in your domestic world this month. There may be some backtracking over old problems and conversations and perhaps some paperwork to manage. However, even if old problems re-emerge and blow up now, they will likely blow over in the second half of May. Some delays can be blessings in disguise, allowing you to redo and refine or reconsider things. Keep in mind that any backtracking you need to do in the first half of May will contribute significantly to the strength of plans and future ventures-ultimately, it's not lost time!
The Lunar Eclipse on the 5th serves as another cosmic push towards finding a better balance between your home and working life or professional and personal life. Aim to acknowledge new feelings that come to the surface but sit with them before taking action.
You're paying more attention to personal matters, domestic affairs, and loved ones this month, and your work and health routines are important to you, but key influences suggest you're also interactive and expressive. Until the 7th, Venus is in your sector of joy, recreation, and love, and the Sun enters this area of your solar chart on the 21st. Just a day before this move of the Sun, Mars heads into your partnership sector, pointing to a more animated time for close relationships. You are looking especially good these days and feeling it, too!
Your powers of attraction run high. Excellent energy is with you for creative endeavors, romance, or enjoying special hobbies, pleasures, or pastimes. You're magnetizing good things, people, attention, and situations into your life.
Mercury's retrograde lifts on the 14th, unclogging information and contributing to the sense that you're moving forward. Problem areas are clearing up, and the New Moon on the 19th helps push your plans forward.
Mars energizes your work and health sector until the 20th, and Venus is a guest there from the 7th, motivating you to get on top of your daily routines. You're pouring energy into organizing your space, pursuing fitness or other health methods, and providing services or doing your work/chores.
From the second week of the month, you're striving for more harmony in your daily life, including your work or routines and health pursuits. You can take pleasure in producing, serving, and managing your daily affairs. You feel more accomplished through cooperation and sharing. Or, you might make pleasant contacts through the pursuit of your work, health, or daily goals.
The Sun moves into a position of harmony with your sign on the 21st, encouraging you to express yourself. A satisfying creative project or pastime can help you release stress and tension. A romantic attraction may motivate you. You're interested in growing and improving your creative pursuits and connections.
Jupiter makes a big move as it changes signs this month, and this new cycle brings satisfying improvements to your home life. It also stirs more interest in, and enjoyment of, your domestic life in the year ahead. Until May 2024, you're in a terrific position to repair and enhance family relationships, move or renovate, and increase your feelings of safety and comfort. You'll also build your emotional base. The year ahead is fabulous for the beginnings of a new long-term project that has the potential to serve you for years to come and for putting down roots.
While conflicts between domestic demands/needs and personal goals/needs can emerge, it's ultimately a most beneficial period for establishing yourself. A central theme in your life is developing your sense of security, attachments to family, and home life. You have an open mind and an open heart so that new information can expand your perspective, especially in the last week of May. You have more faith in your emotional life and the ability to grow through your experiences. Fortunate connections or opportunities emerge for improving your domestic life or living conditions and arrangements.
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
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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 2023.
See also: Aquarius 2023 Yearly Horoscope.
Aquarius (Born January 31 to February 9) AND Aquarius Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Aquarius:
May 2023 Aquarius Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
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.
Eclipses
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 5th:
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 16th:
Venus continues to transit your solar fifth house. Your popularity is on an upward trend during this cycle as others find you especially attractive and friendly. You may have the desire to dress well and in good taste. There is strength in your feelings of love and the power of attraction, which may open the door to new romantic relationships. Yet, you are not aggressive in your approach to love. Instead, you attract more if you allow yourself to be pursued during this cycle. Conditions are highlighted in connection with young people, and quite possibly a female child--a stronger bond could be formed during this period. You are feeling inspired creatively and romantically and you express your loving feelings quite openly now. Creative self-expression of any kind is favored at this time. You will also thoroughly enjoy artistic, musical, or cultural events and activities, especially in the company of a loved one. 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!
From May 16th forward:
Venus graces your solar sixth house now. Establishing a happy and harmonious work environment through friendly relations with co-workers or tidying up your work area comes into focus now. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment. You are generally well liked and respected socially on the job right now. Some laziness is possible now, as you tend to associate pleasure with work! Perhaps you are socializing more than usual on the job. You have good team spirit during this cycle, and you are more tactful and obliging with your co-workers. You are less inclined to fall in love for the sake of love itself during this cycle. Your tendency is to consider whether it is clever to do so! You're most successful doing tasks that involve cooperation and team harmony. You could find that your talents or skills are especially appreciated. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
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 third house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to composing letters, emails, making phone calls, and with communications in general. There may be the need to revisit old, nagging issues with siblings or neighbors, errands could go wrong, you might have trouble getting from point A to point B (example, transportation problems), emails or letters get lost, and so forth. Idle chit- chatting during this period may have repercussions! People might be misunderstanding your words. You may be forgetful during this cycle, and it makes sense to allow yourself extra time to get to appointments, if they are not cancelled in the first place! It would also be wise to double-check your work and communications before sending them off.
Information unclogs on the 14th.
From May 26th forward:
Mercury moves through your solar fourth house. This is a time during which you can enjoy increased powers of concentration. You may require solitude in order to get mental work done during this cycle. Your memory is more retentive than usual, and your thoughts often turn to personal matters, family, and loved ones. You might particularly enjoy discussions about your early life, the past, or family matters during this cycle. In fact, it's a great time to open up conversations with loved ones, as you are more rational when it comes to personal matters now.
Your mind often wanders to domestic concerns, and issues surrounding your home, family, and personal past. On the other hand, this transit sometimes indicates an especially busy, and perhaps hectic, period on the domestic scene. For example, you might take home work or find that people drop by your home often during this cycle.
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 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
Much energy centers around the home or with family this month, dear Aquarius, and surrounding yourself with familiar people and situations comes naturally. You require some anchoring and centering! Your personal world is in focus in May, with plenty of opportunities to express and enjoy yourself. With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you'll deal with minor problems and delays, which can undoubtedly slow you down, but pacing yourself should be relatively straightforward.
Further, Pluto turns retrograde on the 1st of the month, and with Pluto in your sign, this move signals the need to go within. You might decide to avoid taking on new extracurricular projects and focus on getting settled, centered, and grounded.
There can be some important renovations and improvements in your domestic world this month. There may be some backtracking over old problems and conversations and perhaps some paperwork to manage. However, even if old problems re-emerge and blow up now, they will likely blow over in the second half of May. Some delays can be blessings in disguise, allowing you to redo and refine or reconsider things. Keep in mind that any backtracking you need to do in the first half of May will contribute significantly to the strength of plans and future ventures-ultimately, it's not lost time!
The Lunar Eclipse on the 5th serves as another cosmic push towards finding a better balance between your home and working life or professional and personal life. Aim to acknowledge new feelings that come to the surface but sit with them before taking action.
You're paying more attention to personal matters, domestic affairs, and loved ones this month, and your work and health routines are important to you, but key influences suggest you're also interactive and expressive. Until the 7th, Venus is in your sector of joy, recreation, and love, and the Sun enters this area of your solar chart on the 21st. Just a day before this move of the Sun, Mars heads into your partnership sector, pointing to a more animated time for close relationships. You are looking especially good these days and feeling it, too!
Your powers of attraction run high. Excellent energy is with you for creative endeavors, romance, or enjoying special hobbies, pleasures, or pastimes. You're magnetizing good things, people, attention, and situations into your life.
Mercury's retrograde lifts on the 14th, unclogging information and contributing to the sense that you're moving forward. Problem areas are clearing up, and the New Moon on the 19th helps push your plans forward.
Mars energizes your work and health sector until the 20th, and Venus is a guest there from the 7th, motivating you to get on top of your daily routines. You're pouring energy into organizing your space, pursuing fitness or other health methods, and providing services or doing your work/chores.
From the second week of the month, you're striving for more harmony in your daily life, including your work or routines and health pursuits. You can take pleasure in producing, serving, and managing your daily affairs. You feel more accomplished through cooperation and sharing. Or, you might make pleasant contacts through the pursuit of your work, health, or daily goals.
The Sun moves into a position of harmony with your sign on the 21st, encouraging you to express yourself. A satisfying creative project or pastime can help you release stress and tension. A romantic attraction may motivate you. You're interested in growing and improving your creative pursuits and connections.
Jupiter makes a big move as it changes signs this month, and this new cycle brings satisfying improvements to your home life. It also stirs more interest in, and enjoyment of, your domestic life in the year ahead. Until May 2024, you're in a terrific position to repair and enhance family relationships, move or renovate, and increase your feelings of safety and comfort. You'll also build your emotional base. The year ahead is fabulous for the beginnings of a new long-term project that has the potential to serve you for years to come and for putting down roots.
While conflicts between domestic demands/needs and personal goals/needs can emerge, it's ultimately a most beneficial period for establishing yourself. A central theme in your life is developing your sense of security, attachments to family, and home life. You have an open mind and an open heart so that new information can expand your perspective, especially in the last week of May. You have more faith in your emotional life and the ability to grow through your experiences. Fortunate connections or opportunities emerge for improving your domestic life or living conditions and arrangements.
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 2023.
See also: Aquarius 2023 Yearly Horoscope.
Aquarius (Born February 10-19) and Aquarius Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Aquarius:
May 2023 Aquarius Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 11th:
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.
Eclipses
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 5th:
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 ninth house. Surprises surrounding matters of personal philosophy, faith, travel, and the higher mind 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 circumstance that tests your personal belief system or that requires the need to take a leap of faith, a surprising adventure that takes you beyond your normal routine, a sudden opportunity to travel or for higher learning, the publishing of a project you've been working on, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 26th:
Venus continues to transit your solar fifth house. Your popularity is on an upward trend during this cycle as others find you especially attractive and friendly. You may have the desire to dress well and in good taste. There is strength in your feelings of love and the power of attraction, which may open the door to new romantic relationships. Yet, you are not aggressive in your approach to love. Instead, you attract more if you allow yourself to be pursued during this cycle. Conditions are highlighted in connection with young people, and quite possibly a female child--a stronger bond could be formed during this period. You are feeling inspired creatively and romantically and you express your loving feelings quite openly now. Creative self-expression of any kind is favored at this time. You will also thoroughly enjoy artistic, musical, or cultural events and activities, especially in the company of a loved one. 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!
From May 26th forward:
Venus graces your solar sixth house now. Establishing a happy and harmonious work environment through friendly relations with co-workers or tidying up your work area comes into focus now. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment. You are generally well liked and respected socially on the job right now. Some laziness is possible now, as you tend to associate pleasure with work! Perhaps you are socializing more than usual on the job. You have good team spirit during this cycle, and you are more tactful and obliging with your co-workers. You are less inclined to fall in love for the sake of love itself during this cycle. Your tendency is to consider whether it is clever to do so! You're most successful doing tasks that involve cooperation and team harmony. You could find that your talents or skills are especially appreciated. Romantic and social activities may revolve around your working environment.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
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 third house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to composing letters, emails, making phone calls, and with communications in general. There may be the need to revisit old, nagging issues with siblings or neighbors, errands could go wrong, you might have trouble getting from point A to point B (example, transportation problems), emails or letters get lost, and so forth. Idle chit- chatting during this period may have repercussions! People might be misunderstanding your words. You may be forgetful during this cycle, and it makes sense to allow yourself extra time to get to appointments, if they are not cancelled in the first place! It would also be wise to double-check your work and communications before sending them off.
Information unclogs from the 14th forward.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
From the 3rd 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 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:
Much energy centers around the home or with family this month, dear Aquarius, and surrounding yourself with familiar people and situations comes naturally. You require some anchoring and centering! Your personal world is in focus in May, with plenty of opportunities to express and enjoy yourself. With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you'll deal with minor problems and delays, which can undoubtedly slow you down, but pacing yourself should be relatively straightforward.
Further, Pluto turns retrograde on the 1st of the month, and with Pluto in your sign, this move signals the need to go within. You might decide to avoid taking on new extracurricular projects and focus on getting settled, centered, and grounded.
There can be some important renovations and improvements in your domestic world this month. There may be some backtracking over old problems and conversations and perhaps some paperwork to manage. However, even if old problems re-emerge and blow up now, they will likely blow over in the second half of May. Some delays can be blessings in disguise, allowing you to redo and refine or reconsider things. Keep in mind that any backtracking you need to do in the first half of May will contribute significantly to the strength of plans and future ventures-ultimately, it's not lost time!
The Lunar Eclipse on the 5th serves as another cosmic push towards finding a better balance between your home and working life or professional and personal life. Aim to acknowledge new feelings that come to the surface but sit with them before taking action.
You're paying more attention to personal matters, domestic affairs, and loved ones this month, and your work and health routines are important to you, but key influences suggest you're also interactive and expressive. Until the 7th, Venus is in your sector of joy, recreation, and love, and the Sun enters this area of your solar chart on the 21st. Just a day before this move of the Sun, Mars heads into your partnership sector, pointing to a more animated time for close relationships. You are looking especially good these days and feeling it, too!
Your powers of attraction run high. Excellent energy is with you for creative endeavors, romance, or enjoying special hobbies, pleasures, or pastimes. You're magnetizing good things, people, attention, and situations into your life.
Mercury's retrograde lifts on the 14th, unclogging information and contributing to the sense that you're moving forward. Problem areas are clearing up, and the New Moon on the 19th helps push your plans forward.
Mars energizes your work and health sector until the 20th, and Venus is a guest there from the 7th, motivating you to get on top of your daily routines. You're pouring energy into organizing your space, pursuing fitness or other health methods, and providing services or doing your work/chores.
From the second week of the month, you're striving for more harmony in your daily life, including your work or routines and health pursuits. You can take pleasure in producing, serving, and managing your daily affairs. You feel more accomplished through cooperation and sharing. Or, you might make pleasant contacts through the pursuit of your work, health, or daily goals.
The Sun moves into a position of harmony with your sign on the 21st, encouraging you to express yourself. A satisfying creative project or pastime can help you release stress and tension. A romantic attraction may motivate you. You're interested in growing and improving your creative pursuits and connections.
Jupiter makes a big move as it changes signs this month, and this new cycle brings satisfying improvements to your home life. It also stirs more interest in, and enjoyment of, your domestic life in the year ahead. Until May 2024, you're in a terrific position to repair and enhance family relationships, move or renovate, and increase your feelings of safety and comfort. You'll also build your emotional base. The year ahead is fabulous for the beginnings of a new long-term project that has the potential to serve you for years to come and for putting down roots.
While conflicts between domestic demands/needs and personal goals/needs can emerge, it's ultimately a most beneficial period for establishing yourself. A central theme in your life is developing your sense of security, attachments to family, and home life. You have an open mind and an open heart so that new information can expand your perspective, especially in the last week of May. You have more faith in your emotional life and the ability to grow through your experiences. Fortunate connections or opportunities emerge for improving your domestic life or living conditions and arrangements.
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See also: Aquarius 2023 Yearly Horoscope.
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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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