Capricorn Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Capricorn Sun and Capricorn Ascendant.
May 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Capricorn
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Overview for this Month: Capricorn (All)
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:
Self-expression through hobbies, recreation, love, and leisure are in focus this month, dear Capricorn. You're more inclined to share your affection, joy, and experiences. You also gravitate to playful and celebratory activities. Even with some related delays, it's an excellent time to enjoy yourself. With a strong focus on your joy sector, it can be a playful period–you're discovering your needs for pleasure, entertainment, and positive feedback. Your self-discovery process can be remarkable in May.
You can feel in limbo or behind on some level with Mercury retrograde until the 14th, perhaps as you are waiting for news or need to do some backtracking. More clarity is likely in the second half of May, but this time is excellent for looking at things in new ways, editing, revising, and reviewing. You might find ways to reconnect with those activities that nourish your spirit and encourage expressing yourself more freely. Projects might be on hold until you finish up some important details. Romantic relationships can be complicated, or you might focus on a past connection. Those projects or associations holding you back from expressing your authentic, creative self may be scrutinized.
Strive to avoid short-sighted decision-making, even if ups and downs are frustrating. Be sure that what you're expressing is understood as you intended it because it's all too easy to get our wires crossed. It's an excellent time to revisit old creative projects or ideas you didn't have time to pursue or complete. However, with an eclipse on the 5th and Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you don't have all the information you need to make the bigger decisions.
The month's Lunar Eclipse 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 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 on the 5th, so take your time and observe before jumping into action.
At the same time, you're in an excellent place to enjoy your tasks, work, chores, and health pursuits with Venus in your work and health sector until the 7th and the Sun moving in this area of your solar chart from the 21st. Opportunities can emerge through your special attention to your obligations. Good humor helps you heal and more thoroughly enjoy the work you do or your chores. There can be opportunities to improve or enjoy daily affairs and happily attend to your health and wellness. You more fully enjoy getting things done, working, helping, guiding, assisting, or being of service. Gaining cooperation to complete chores can be easier than usual.
With Mars in your opposite sign until the 20th, buried frustrations in your relationships can surface. More activity, dynamism, or competitiveness is likely in a partnership. You're likely to find others energizing or irritating! It's a great time for clearing the air or taking charge of problem areas if you are okay with some liveliness! Venus moves into this sector on the 7th, helping you smooth things over with others.
Work and routine assume more importance from the 21st onward. Applying yourself to your work comes more naturally, especially with new and improved ways of doing things that motivate you.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter beginning its transit of your sector of recreation, romance, and creative expression. This powerful booster transit will last until May 2024, and it's bound to bring exciting opportunities to enjoy and express yourself. You're more outgoing, expressive, and sometimes even happy-go-lucky during this period.
In the year ahead, Jupiter forms a beautiful trine to your sign from your love, romance, pleasure, children, creativity, and speculation sector. Matters of the heart can be magical during this transit. Your sense of drama expands now. This transit highlights your natural charm and encourages confident self-expression.
While you have a growing desire to break free and try new things and ways of expressing yourself, you should watch for excessive attachments to methods and things that make you feel secure if they're hindering this process. Dealing with fears and ties seems necessary.
The last week of the month is particularly favorable for making connections, branching out, and reaching out. You're expanding your personal horizons through recreation, creative endeavors, or romantic relationships. Finding ways to let off steam and detox is beneficial.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Capricorn (Born December 22 to December 31) and Capricorn Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Capricorn:
May 2023 Capricorn 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 fifth house. This is a time when pleasure-seeking and creative activities come into focus and grab much of your attention. You are particularly personally charming in a spontaneous, natural way during this solar cycle. This is the time of year when you are ready to perform and to express yourself creatively.
This is a very playful cycle, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally. It's a good time for recreation, romance, connecting with children, and enjoying and performing the arts. Your ego is tied up in your children, romantic relationships, and creative output now, so that you can be especially proud of these people and things. You can also be over-sensitive about these matters if you feel you are not getting enough appreciation.
From May 21st forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar sixth house. During this cycle, you take more pride in the work you do and in your health routines than any other time of the year. You are sorting through the experiences of the last several months, separating the worthwhile from the worthless. This is a good time to build your skills, to get organized, and to attend to your health and wellbeing. It's a great time to make improvements to your regular routines. Your self-esteem and your ego are tied up in the work you do and in the services you give. Details are more important to you now.
It's time to bring order to your life by focusing on the little things that make up the whole. This cycle presents an opportunity to get rid of what doesn't work in your life, while also discovering what does. You could seek distinction and strive towards perfection in your work. Efficiency should be your goal now. Your physical health, as well as the relationship between your body and your mind, are in focus.
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 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 7th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From May 7th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
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 travels, legal matters, or opinions, as well as communications on the job and with co-workers, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's best not to sign on the dotted line for the time being, especially when it comes to making travel plans or any legal contracts. There could be irritating mess-ups on the job. You might be inclined to miss important details in your paperwork, or might experience frustrating delays that result from co-workers' errors. Travel plans may go awry, or you may have a change of heart.
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.
After the 14th, information unclogs and delays lift.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 20th:
Mars continues to move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
From the 20th forward:
Mars energizes your solar eighth house now. Sexuality and intimacy are stimulated under this transit. Negative expression of this energy is the tendency towards ego conflicts concerning jointly held property or money. Conflicts with partners over values or possessions are possible. Occasionally, this transit could bring a crisis or ending of some kind. Something you hear about now might disturb or touch you deeply. You are likely to be more strategic in your actions during this period, as you become aware of the subtleties of human interaction. This is a time when your best course of action is to recognize that you need, or rely on, others for support.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:
Self-expression through hobbies, recreation, love, and leisure are in focus this month, dear Capricorn. You're more inclined to share your affection, joy, and experiences. You also gravitate to playful and celebratory activities. Even with some related delays, it's an excellent time to enjoy yourself. With a strong focus on your joy sector, it can be a playful period–you're discovering your needs for pleasure, entertainment, and positive feedback. Your self-discovery process can be remarkable in May.
You can feel in limbo or behind on some level with Mercury retrograde until the 14th, perhaps as you are waiting for news or need to do some backtracking. More clarity is likely in the second half of May, but this time is excellent for looking at things in new ways, editing, revising, and reviewing. You might find ways to reconnect with those activities that nourish your spirit and encourage expressing yourself more freely. Projects might be on hold until you finish up some important details. Romantic relationships can be complicated, or you might focus on a past connection. Those projects or associations holding you back from expressing your authentic, creative self may be scrutinized.
Strive to avoid short-sighted decision-making, even if ups and downs are frustrating. Be sure that what you're expressing is understood as you intended it because it's all too easy to get our wires crossed. It's an excellent time to revisit old creative projects or ideas you didn't have time to pursue or complete. However, with an eclipse on the 5th and Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you don't have all the information you need to make the bigger decisions.
The month's Lunar Eclipse 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 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 on the 5th, so take your time and observe before jumping into action.
At the same time, you're in an excellent place to enjoy your tasks, work, chores, and health pursuits with Venus in your work and health sector until the 7th and the Sun moving in this area of your solar chart from the 21st. Opportunities can emerge through your special attention to your obligations. Good humor helps you heal and more thoroughly enjoy the work you do or your chores. There can be opportunities to improve or enjoy daily affairs and happily attend to your health and wellness. You more fully enjoy getting things done, working, helping, guiding, assisting, or being of service. Gaining cooperation to complete chores can be easier than usual.
With Mars in your opposite sign until the 20th, buried frustrations in your relationships can surface. More activity, dynamism, or competitiveness is likely in a partnership. You're likely to find others energizing or irritating! It's a great time for clearing the air or taking charge of problem areas if you are okay with some liveliness! Venus moves into this sector on the 7th, helping you smooth things over with others.
Work and routine assume more importance from the 21st onward. Applying yourself to your work comes more naturally, especially with new and improved ways of doing things that motivate you.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter beginning its transit of your sector of recreation, romance, and creative expression. This powerful booster transit will last until May 2024, and it's bound to bring exciting opportunities to enjoy and express yourself. You're more outgoing, expressive, and sometimes even happy-go-lucky during this period.
In the year ahead, Jupiter forms a beautiful trine to your sign from your love, romance, pleasure, children, creativity, and speculation sector. Matters of the heart can be magical during this transit. Your sense of drama expands now. This transit highlights your natural charm and encourages confident self-expression.
While you have a growing desire to break free and try new things and ways of expressing yourself, you should watch for excessive attachments to methods and things that make you feel secure if they're hindering this process. Dealing with fears and ties seems necessary.
The last week of the month is particularly favorable for making connections, branching out, and reaching out. You're expanding your personal horizons through recreation, creative endeavors, or romantic relationships. Finding ways to let off steam and detox is beneficial.
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.
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also 2023 Capricorn Preview Horoscope and 2023 Capricorn Yearly Horoscope.
Capricorn (Born January 1 to 10) and Capricorn Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Capricorn:
May 2023 Capricorn Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
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 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
Until May 16th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From May 16th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
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 travels, legal matters, or opinions, as well as communications on the job and with co-workers, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's best not to sign on the dotted line for the time being, especially when it comes to making travel plans or any legal contracts. There could be irritating mess-ups on the job. You might be inclined to miss important details in your paperwork, or might experience frustrating delays that result from co-workers' errors. Travel plans may go awry, or you may have a change of heart.
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.
Information unclogs on the 14th.
From May 26th 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.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to move through your solar seventh house. During this period, strife is possible in your close personal relationships, as a significant other is now mirroring some of your own issues with assertiveness and anger. Attracting aggression in others during this cycle is a clue that there are unresolved issues within that need tending. You might actually seek some form of conflict, whether intentionally or not, in order to deal with these issues. There can be competitiveness in your life now. Any troublesome issues that have been dormant in a relationship are likely to surface, and can now be handled straightforwardly.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:
Self-expression through hobbies, recreation, love, and leisure are in focus this month, dear Capricorn. You're more inclined to share your affection, joy, and experiences. You also gravitate to playful and celebratory activities. Even with some related delays, it's an excellent time to enjoy yourself. With a strong focus on your joy sector, it can be a playful period–you're discovering your needs for pleasure, entertainment, and positive feedback. Your self-discovery process can be remarkable in May.
You can feel in limbo or behind on some level with Mercury retrograde until the 14th, perhaps as you are waiting for news or need to do some backtracking. More clarity is likely in the second half of May, but this time is excellent for looking at things in new ways, editing, revising, and reviewing. You might find ways to reconnect with those activities that nourish your spirit and encourage expressing yourself more freely. Projects might be on hold until you finish up some important details. Romantic relationships can be complicated, or you might focus on a past connection. Those projects or associations holding you back from expressing your authentic, creative self may be scrutinized.
Strive to avoid short-sighted decision-making, even if ups and downs are frustrating. Be sure that what you're expressing is understood as you intended it because it's all too easy to get our wires crossed. It's an excellent time to revisit old creative projects or ideas you didn't have time to pursue or complete. However, with an eclipse on the 5th and Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you don't have all the information you need to make the bigger decisions.
The month's Lunar Eclipse 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 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 on the 5th, so take your time and observe before jumping into action.
At the same time, you're in an excellent place to enjoy your tasks, work, chores, and health pursuits with Venus in your work and health sector until the 7th and the Sun moving in this area of your solar chart from the 21st. Opportunities can emerge through your special attention to your obligations. Good humor helps you heal and more thoroughly enjoy the work you do or your chores. There can be opportunities to improve or enjoy daily affairs and happily attend to your health and wellness. You more fully enjoy getting things done, working, helping, guiding, assisting, or being of service. Gaining cooperation to complete chores can be easier than usual.
With Mars in your opposite sign until the 20th, buried frustrations in your relationships can surface. More activity, dynamism, or competitiveness is likely in a partnership. You're likely to find others energizing or irritating! It's a great time for clearing the air or taking charge of problem areas if you are okay with some liveliness! Venus moves into this sector on the 7th, helping you smooth things over with others.
Work and routine assume more importance from the 21st onward. Applying yourself to your work comes more naturally, especially with new and improved ways of doing things that motivate you.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter beginning its transit of your sector of recreation, romance, and creative expression. This powerful booster transit will last until May 2024, and it's bound to bring exciting opportunities to enjoy and express yourself. You're more outgoing, expressive, and sometimes even happy-go-lucky during this period.
In the year ahead, Jupiter forms a beautiful trine to your sign from your love, romance, pleasure, children, creativity, and speculation sector. Matters of the heart can be magical during this transit. Your sense of drama expands now. This transit highlights your natural charm and encourages confident self-expression.
While you have a growing desire to break free and try new things and ways of expressing yourself, you should watch for excessive attachments to methods and things that make you feel secure if they're hindering this process. Dealing with fears and ties seems necessary.
The last week of the month is particularly favorable for making connections, branching out, and reaching out. You're expanding your personal horizons through recreation, creative endeavors, or romantic relationships. Finding ways to let off steam and detox is beneficial.
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 2023 Capricorn Preview Horoscope and the full 2023 Yearly Capricorn Horoscope.
Capricorn (Born January 11 to 20) and Capricorn Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Capricorn:
May 2023 Capricorn Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 11th:
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 11th 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
Until the 26th:
Venus continues to move through your solar sixth house now. This is a time when beautifying and/or bringing harmony to your working environment is a priority to you. You might find more opportunities to socialize with co-workers, perhaps even meeting a new friend through your work or health routines. You are likely to bring more tact and diplomacy to your relations with the people you work with now. You may not be as productive as usual during this period, as the focus is more on social relationships and pleasure than on getting the job done. Improving health and vitality through pleasurable activities such as massage might be in focus now.
From May 26th forward:
Venus graces your solar seventh house during this period. This is a time for extra attention to a partner or significant other, as well as from that person! You are more inclined to flatter and charm others during this cycle. One-to-one relating appeals to you more than group activities or more casual connections. Smoothing out your close personal relationships is what makes you happy during this cycle. If single, you are more willing than normal to enter into a committed relationship. In general, you are adaptable when it comes to your affections--very willing to compromise, negotiate, and make peace.
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 travels, legal matters, or opinions, as well as communications on the job and with co-workers, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It's best not to sign on the dotted line for the time being, especially when it comes to making travel plans or any legal contracts. There could be irritating mess-ups on the job. You might be inclined to miss important details in your paperwork, or might experience frustrating delays that result from co-workers' errors. Travel plans may go awry, or you may have a change of heart.
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.
Information unclogs from the 14th forward.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
From the 3rd 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 Capricorn:
Self-expression through hobbies, recreation, love, and leisure are in focus this month, dear Capricorn. You're more inclined to share your affection, joy, and experiences. You also gravitate to playful and celebratory activities. Even with some related delays, it's an excellent time to enjoy yourself. With a strong focus on your joy sector, it can be a playful period–you're discovering your needs for pleasure, entertainment, and positive feedback. Your self-discovery process can be remarkable in May.
You can feel in limbo or behind on some level with Mercury retrograde until the 14th, perhaps as you are waiting for news or need to do some backtracking. More clarity is likely in the second half of May, but this time is excellent for looking at things in new ways, editing, revising, and reviewing. You might find ways to reconnect with those activities that nourish your spirit and encourage expressing yourself more freely. Projects might be on hold until you finish up some important details. Romantic relationships can be complicated, or you might focus on a past connection. Those projects or associations holding you back from expressing your authentic, creative self may be scrutinized.
Strive to avoid short-sighted decision-making, even if ups and downs are frustrating. Be sure that what you're expressing is understood as you intended it because it's all too easy to get our wires crossed. It's an excellent time to revisit old creative projects or ideas you didn't have time to pursue or complete. However, with an eclipse on the 5th and Mercury retrograde until the 14th, you don't have all the information you need to make the bigger decisions.
The month's Lunar Eclipse 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 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 on the 5th, so take your time and observe before jumping into action.
At the same time, you're in an excellent place to enjoy your tasks, work, chores, and health pursuits with Venus in your work and health sector until the 7th and the Sun moving in this area of your solar chart from the 21st. Opportunities can emerge through your special attention to your obligations. Good humor helps you heal and more thoroughly enjoy the work you do or your chores. There can be opportunities to improve or enjoy daily affairs and happily attend to your health and wellness. You more fully enjoy getting things done, working, helping, guiding, assisting, or being of service. Gaining cooperation to complete chores can be easier than usual.
With Mars in your opposite sign until the 20th, buried frustrations in your relationships can surface. More activity, dynamism, or competitiveness is likely in a partnership. You're likely to find others energizing or irritating! It's a great time for clearing the air or taking charge of problem areas if you are okay with some liveliness! Venus moves into this sector on the 7th, helping you smooth things over with others.
Work and routine assume more importance from the 21st onward. Applying yourself to your work comes more naturally, especially with new and improved ways of doing things that motivate you.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter beginning its transit of your sector of recreation, romance, and creative expression. This powerful booster transit will last until May 2024, and it's bound to bring exciting opportunities to enjoy and express yourself. You're more outgoing, expressive, and sometimes even happy-go-lucky during this period.
In the year ahead, Jupiter forms a beautiful trine to your sign from your love, romance, pleasure, children, creativity, and speculation sector. Matters of the heart can be magical during this transit. Your sense of drama expands now. This transit highlights your natural charm and encourages confident self-expression.
While you have a growing desire to break free and try new things and ways of expressing yourself, you should watch for excessive attachments to methods and things that make you feel secure if they're hindering this process. Dealing with fears and ties seems necessary.
The last week of the month is particularly favorable for making connections, branching out, and reaching out. You're expanding your personal horizons through recreation, creative endeavors, or romantic relationships. Finding ways to let off steam and detox is beneficial.
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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 second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Highlights section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
The horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. For those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes (classic), simply read the first decan regardless of your birthdate.
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