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May 2021 Horoscope: Predictions for Leo
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Overview for this Month: Leo (All)
May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
The month begins with a continued focus on responsibilities and performance, dear Leo. However, a shift in focus comes on rather quickly towards special attention to happiness goals and social life. You can feel inspired to dream big in May, and your loftier goals, dreams, and ideals come into stronger focus. People are catching on to your unique approach.
Your ambitions increase, and you feel more determined than usual to reach your goals, which may be professional, work, or health-related. Quick fixes are not what you're seeking now, as you want to go deep. This can be a time for feeling especially good about your services, leadership, or objectives. Others can be quite intrigued with you and drawn to you naturally. Intuition is strong for what the public needs and for future trends, which helps you make better plans.
With Mars in your privacy sector all month, taking time for rest and recuperation is essential. Mars here can also motivate you to do something about a long-standing problem or burdensome situation. You are inclined to review the past, as well as the sacrifices you are currently making.
You're in great shape for activities behind the scenes, and you may surprise yourself with your inner strength and courage. This is a good time for reflection that can ultimately lead you to redirect yourself in personal and professional areas.
Mercury enters your social sector on the 3rd, Venus does so on the 8th, and the Sun follows suit on the 20th. Your attention and focus shift as May advances, from professional to social pursuits. It can be an inspiring time to connect with others or dream up satisfying plans for the future.
If you need to start fresh with career or performance goals, aim to get your intentions clear around the New Moon on the 11th. This lunation is wonderfully supportive of your professional plans, long-term goals, or life path pursuits. Your reputation can get a nice boost, and responsibilities are easier to meet. You're inspired and determined to start fresh and make improvements. A new plan can unfold now, and it can fill you with high hopes and a sense of purpose.
Jupiter moves into your solar eighth house on the 13th. It's the first of three parts of a cycle that's superb for financial improvements and your intimate life. This transit begins to unfold now and until July 28th, and it will develop further in 2022. Increased benefits can come through others, a partner's income could increase, or you might combine talents with someone to work towards an important goal. Your intimate world is rich and deep, and your connection to someone or a passion project deepens.
As you more fully appreciate the simple things in your established relationships, bonds can strengthen. Others are valuing your friendship or alliance. Showing affection through practical gestures and the sharing of wisdom can be in focus and most welcome.
Saturn's retrograde turn on the 23rd points to a need to remind yourself of the work you need to do to stabilize critical areas of your life, especially your relationships, work, and health. Simplifying rather than taking on additional responsibilities makes the most sense now.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, awakening issues related to romance, creativity, children, or hobbies. You're in an eclipse cycle in which you're seeking your joy, and a mission to improve your life can emerge now as you embrace your feelings, which are larger than life now. It's a good time to recognize your need to celebrate, play, and express yourself. New initiatives should wait, however, particularly with Mercury turning retrograde on the 29th. Watch, too, for overblowing an issue. Aim to wait and see.
There can be opportunities to achieve your goals or improve your life through friends, groups, alliances, and networks. Past friendships can figure more powerfully in your life from the 29th forward.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Leo (Born July 23 to August 2)
AND Leo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Leo:
May 2021 Leo 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 tenth house. Satisfaction and fulfillment during this cycle come from doing your professional best, shining as a responsible and capable person, and contributing to the world in practical ways. You might have a chance to receive acknowledgement or praise for your work or good character now. Landing support from authority figures is easier at this time. Avoid the pitfalls of pride or arrogance standing in your way of success.
From May 20th forward:
The Sun lights your solar eleventh house. The Sun illuminates your sector of friends, groups, and dreams coming true this month. It's a sociable sector of your chart, and that's exactly how you are feeling--happy, light-hearted, cosmopolitan, and social. Group affiliations capture your attention. Connections can be made now and networking pays off, or at least satisfies. Being part of a community or circle of friends and building your social network is important to you at this time.
This is a rather happy, goal-oriented cycle. A lively agenda is promised, you're attracting quite a bit of interest, and your energy for making contact with others is high. A stronger sense of community is with you during this cycle. Relationships take on a fun, if impersonal, tone now. Activities with children (especially others' children) may increase. You are more stimulated by all that is unconventional during this cycle, and your ideas are original and progressive now. This is a time to follow your dreams and ideals, and to plant a seed in the form of a wish for the future.
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 fifth house. Surprises coming from a romantic partner or child may be part of the picture. Something that has been brewing or "in hiding" comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your house of creativity, romance, pleasure, and children is involved. This could manifest, for example, as a romantic proclamation from a lover, a creative project bearing fruit, a child revealing something significant to you, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until May 8th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From May 9th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 3rd:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
Until May 4th forward:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
Mercury is retrograde from May 29th to June 22nd:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar eleventh house this time, extra care should be used when communicating with friends. You may find that communications with friends or with groups can easily become sticky during this cycle. Group meetings may be postponed or cancelled, and friends may be uncommunicative or giving off mixed signals. On the other hand, old acquaintances may appear during this cycle, or you could be thinking about contacting an old friend. This may be a good time to do so. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with friends and associates during this cycle; or, better yet, take this time to rethink concerns and grievances before talking about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar twelfth house now. While Mars occupies the twelfth house, asserting yourself in a direct and straightforward manner can be difficult. This is largely due to a feeling of not being in touch with what it is you want or desire just for the time being as you reassess your goals and needs.
This lack of direction and self-knowledge should prompt you to look within to learn about your desires. It is likely that you will be much clearer when Mars reaches your first house. For the time being, take some time for rest and give your ego a break.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
The month begins with a continued focus on responsibilities and performance, dear Leo. However, a shift in focus comes on rather quickly towards special attention to happiness goals and social life. You can feel inspired to dream big in May, and your loftier goals, dreams, and ideals come into stronger focus. People are catching on to your unique approach.
Your ambitions increase, and you feel more determined than usual to reach your goals, which may be professional, work, or health-related. Quick fixes are not what you're seeking now, as you want to go deep. This can be a time for feeling especially good about your services, leadership, or objectives. Others can be quite intrigued with you and drawn to you naturally. Intuition is strong for what the public needs and for future trends, which helps you make better plans.
With Mars in your privacy sector all month, taking time for rest and recuperation is essential. Mars here can also motivate you to do something about a long-standing problem or burdensome situation. You are inclined to review the past, as well as the sacrifices you are currently making.
You're in great shape for activities behind the scenes, and you may surprise yourself with your inner strength and courage. This is a good time for reflection that can ultimately lead you to redirect yourself in personal and professional areas.
Mercury enters your social sector on the 3rd, Venus does so on the 8th, and the Sun follows suit on the 20th. Your attention and focus shift as May advances, from professional to social pursuits. It can be an inspiring time to connect with others or dream up satisfying plans for the future.
If you need to start fresh with career or performance goals, aim to get your intentions clear around the New Moon on the 11th. This lunation is wonderfully supportive of your professional plans, long-term goals, or life path pursuits. Your reputation can get a nice boost, and responsibilities are easier to meet. You're inspired and determined to start fresh and make improvements. A new plan can unfold now, and it can fill you with high hopes and a sense of purpose.
Jupiter moves into your solar eighth house on the 13th. It's the first of three parts of a cycle that's superb for financial improvements and your intimate life. This transit begins to unfold now and until July 28th, and it will develop further in 2022. Increased benefits can come through others, a partner's income could increase, or you might combine talents with someone to work towards an important goal. Your intimate world is rich and deep, and your connection to someone or a passion project deepens.
As you more fully appreciate the simple things in your established relationships, bonds can strengthen. Others are valuing your friendship or alliance. Showing affection through practical gestures and the sharing of wisdom can be in focus and most welcome.
Saturn's retrograde turn on the 23rd points to a need to remind yourself of the work you need to do to stabilize critical areas of your life, especially your relationships, work, and health. Simplifying rather than taking on additional responsibilities makes the most sense now.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, awakening issues related to romance, creativity, children, or hobbies. You're in an eclipse cycle in which you're seeking your joy, and a mission to improve your life can emerge now as you embrace your feelings, which are larger than life now. It's a good time to recognize your need to celebrate, play, and express yourself. New initiatives should wait, however, particularly with Mercury turning retrograde on the 29th. Watch, too, for overblowing an issue. Aim to wait and see.
There can be opportunities to achieve your goals or improve your life through friends, groups, alliances, and networks. Past friendships can figure more powerfully in your life from the 29th forward.
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 2021 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2021 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 3 to 12)
AND Leo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Leo:
May 2021 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your career and reputation sector. More than any other time of the year, your focus is drawn to your "place" or standing in the outer world, and your reputation. This is the time when you are more interested in, and focused on, accomplishing something important. Your competency is something that you are especially sensitive to during this cycle.
You want to shine! Your vision is practical right now, and you want to see tangible results for your efforts. More contact with authority figures is likely during this period. Recognition is likely to come your way whether you ask for it or not, and the responsibility that comes right along with it! Do what you feel is right, keeping in mind that you are at your most visible during this period in the year.
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 fourth house. Surprises surrounding your home, family, and domestic life are 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. Your sector of house and home, property, family, parents, and foundations is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination of a project on the home, an event involving a family member or parent that grabs your complete attention, a flurry of activity in your home that demands attention, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 17th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From May 18th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 9th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From May 10th forward:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
Mercury is retrograde from May 29th to June 22nd:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar eleventh house this time, extra care should be used when communicating with friends. You may find that communications with friends or with groups can easily become sticky during this cycle. Group meetings may be postponed or cancelled, and friends may be uncommunicative or giving off mixed signals. On the other hand, old acquaintances may appear during this cycle, or you could be thinking about contacting an old friend. This may be a good time to do so. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with friends and associates during this cycle; or, better yet, take this time to rethink concerns and grievances before talking about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until May 9th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From May 10th forward:
With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing!
It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself.
Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
The month begins with a continued focus on responsibilities and performance, dear Leo. However, a shift in focus comes on rather quickly towards special attention to happiness goals and social life. You can feel inspired to dream big in May, and your loftier goals, dreams, and ideals come into stronger focus. People are catching on to your unique approach.
Your ambitions increase, and you feel more determined than usual to reach your goals, which may be professional, work, or health-related. Quick fixes are not what you're seeking now, as you want to go deep. This can be a time for feeling especially good about your services, leadership, or objectives. Others can be quite intrigued with you and drawn to you naturally. Intuition is strong for what the public needs and for future trends, which helps you make better plans.
With Mars in your privacy sector all month, taking time for rest and recuperation is essential. Mars here can also motivate you to do something about a long-standing problem or burdensome situation. You are inclined to review the past, as well as the sacrifices you are currently making.
You're in great shape for activities behind the scenes, and you may surprise yourself with your inner strength and courage. This is a good time for reflection that can ultimately lead you to redirect yourself in personal and professional areas.
Mercury enters your social sector on the 3rd, Venus does so on the 8th, and the Sun follows suit on the 20th. Your attention and focus shift as May advances, from professional to social pursuits. It can be an inspiring time to connect with others or dream up satisfying plans for the future.
If you need to start fresh with career or performance goals, aim to get your intentions clear around the New Moon on the 11th. This lunation is wonderfully supportive of your professional plans, long-term goals, or life path pursuits. Your reputation can get a nice boost, and responsibilities are easier to meet. You're inspired and determined to start fresh and make improvements. A new plan can unfold now, and it can fill you with high hopes and a sense of purpose.
Jupiter moves into your solar eighth house on the 13th. It's the first of three parts of a cycle that's superb for financial improvements and your intimate life. This transit begins to unfold now and until July 28th, and it will develop further in 2022. Increased benefits can come through others, a partner's income could increase, or you might combine talents with someone to work towards an important goal. Your intimate world is rich and deep, and your connection to someone or a passion project deepens.
As you more fully appreciate the simple things in your established relationships, bonds can strengthen. Others are valuing your friendship or alliance. Showing affection through practical gestures and the sharing of wisdom can be in focus and most welcome.
Saturn's retrograde turn on the 23rd points to a need to remind yourself of the work you need to do to stabilize critical areas of your life, especially your relationships, work, and health. Simplifying rather than taking on additional responsibilities makes the most sense now.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, awakening issues related to romance, creativity, children, or hobbies. You're in an eclipse cycle in which you're seeking your joy, and a mission to improve your life can emerge now as you embrace your feelings, which are larger than life now. It's a good time to recognize your need to celebrate, play, and express yourself. New initiatives should wait, however, particularly with Mercury turning retrograde on the 29th. Watch, too, for overblowing an issue. Aim to wait and see.
There can be opportunities to achieve your goals or improve your life through friends, groups, alliances, and networks. Past friendships can figure more powerfully in your life from the 29th forward.
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 2021 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2021 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 13 to 22)
AND Leo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Leo:
May 2021 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2021
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 10th:
The Sun continues to shine its light on your solar ninth house now. This is a cycle in which you seek to expand your experiences and awareness, whether through philosophical thinking, higher education, travel, or simply activities that take you away from your everyday routines. You may feel a little restless if you don't find ways to explore.
It's an excellent period for looking at your life from a different perspective--a broader one--whether you initiate this process or you make contact with others who stimulate you to think about your circumstances differently. Your energy is strong, open, and friendly right now, you come across well to others, and you are a little bolder and adventurous than usual.
From May 11th forward:
The Sun illuminates your career and reputation sector. More than any other time of the year, your focus is drawn to your "place" or standing in the outer world, and your reputation. This is the time when you are more interested in, and focused on, accomplishing something important. Your competency is something that you are especially sensitive to during this cycle.
You want to shine! Your vision is practical right now, and you want to see tangible results for your efforts. More contact with authority figures is likely during this period. Recognition is likely to come your way whether you ask for it or not, and the responsibility that comes right along with it! Do what you feel is right, keeping in mind that you are at your most visible during this period in the year.
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 fourth house. Surprises surrounding your home, family, and domestic life are 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. Your sector of house and home, property, family, parents, and foundations is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination of a project on the home, an event involving a family member or parent that grabs your complete attention, a flurry of activity in your home that demands attention, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until May 25th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From May 25th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until May 18th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar tenth house. Career matters are busy at this time, and there can be plenty of thoughts and/or conversations about your profession, your reputation, or your social standing during this cycle. It's a good time to analyze your work tasks and to streamline them or improve your skills. There may be increased contact with the public now, or you might experience an increased need to be heard and acknowledged for your intelligence, skills, capabilities, and ideas.
From May 19th forward:
Mercury is transiting your solar eleventh house. Your mind is bright, alert, and active during this cycle, and you have the ability to come up with unusual and inventive ideas. Sharing your thoughts with others is a prime interest. Others tend to particularly enjoy your conversations during this transit--you are willing to listen as well as add your own thoughts.
As well, your ability to grasp unusual subject matter and to intuitively understand what others are trying to say win you some brownie points! You could also do a lot of thinking and musing about your own happiness and long-term goals.
Mercury is retrograde from May 29th to June 22nd:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar eleventh house this time, extra care should be used when communicating with friends. You may find that communications with friends or with groups can easily become sticky during this cycle. Group meetings may be postponed or cancelled, and friends may be uncommunicative or giving off mixed signals. On the other hand, old acquaintances may appear during this cycle, or you could be thinking about contacting an old friend. This may be a good time to do so. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with friends and associates during this cycle; or, better yet, take this time to rethink concerns and grievances before talking about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until May 25th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From May 26th forward: With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing! It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself. Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2021 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
The month begins with a continued focus on responsibilities and performance, dear Leo. However, a shift in focus comes on rather quickly towards special attention to happiness goals and social life. You can feel inspired to dream big in May, and your loftier goals, dreams, and ideals come into stronger focus. People are catching on to your unique approach.
Your ambitions increase, and you feel more determined than usual to reach your goals, which may be professional, work, or health-related. Quick fixes are not what you're seeking now, as you want to go deep. This can be a time for feeling especially good about your services, leadership, or objectives. Others can be quite intrigued with you and drawn to you naturally. Intuition is strong for what the public needs and for future trends, which helps you make better plans.
With Mars in your privacy sector all month, taking time for rest and recuperation is essential. Mars here can also motivate you to do something about a long-standing problem or burdensome situation. You are inclined to review the past, as well as the sacrifices you are currently making.
You're in great shape for activities behind the scenes, and you may surprise yourself with your inner strength and courage. This is a good time for reflection that can ultimately lead you to redirect yourself in personal and professional areas.
Mercury enters your social sector on the 3rd, Venus does so on the 8th, and the Sun follows suit on the 20th. Your attention and focus shift as May advances, from professional to social pursuits. It can be an inspiring time to connect with others or dream up satisfying plans for the future.
If you need to start fresh with career or performance goals, aim to get your intentions clear around the New Moon on the 11th. This lunation is wonderfully supportive of your professional plans, long-term goals, or life path pursuits. Your reputation can get a nice boost, and responsibilities are easier to meet. You're inspired and determined to start fresh and make improvements. A new plan can unfold now, and it can fill you with high hopes and a sense of purpose.
Jupiter moves into your solar eighth house on the 13th. It's the first of three parts of a cycle that's superb for financial improvements and your intimate life. This transit begins to unfold now and until July 28th, and it will develop further in 2022. Increased benefits can come through others, a partner's income could increase, or you might combine talents with someone to work towards an important goal. Your intimate world is rich and deep, and your connection to someone or a passion project deepens.
As you more fully appreciate the simple things in your established relationships, bonds can strengthen. Others are valuing your friendship or alliance. Showing affection through practical gestures and the sharing of wisdom can be in focus and most welcome.
Saturn's retrograde turn on the 23rd points to a need to remind yourself of the work you need to do to stabilize critical areas of your life, especially your relationships, work, and health. Simplifying rather than taking on additional responsibilities makes the most sense now.
The Full Moon on the 26th is a Lunar Eclipse, awakening issues related to romance, creativity, children, or hobbies. You're in an eclipse cycle in which you're seeking your joy, and a mission to improve your life can emerge now as you embrace your feelings, which are larger than life now. It's a good time to recognize your need to celebrate, play, and express yourself. New initiatives should wait, however, particularly with Mercury turning retrograde on the 29th. Watch, too, for overblowing an issue. Aim to wait and see.
There can be opportunities to achieve your goals or improve your life through friends, groups, alliances, and networks. Past friendships can figure more powerfully in your life from the 29th forward.
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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 decanate regardless of your birthdate.
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