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May 2022 Horoscope: Predictions for Leo
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Overview for this Month: Leo (All)
May 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
May begins shortly after a Solar Eclipse at the top of your solar chart, dear Leo, pointing to a fresh start with your career, social standing, reputation, responsibilities, or performance. You're more ambitious and focused, ready to apply yourself. As the month progresses, your sense of adventure builds. The need to feed your spirit and engage your mind strengthens.
With the Sun at the top of your solar chart until the 20th, you give extra attention to your career, long-term goals, rules, responsibilities, and performance. It can also be a time of greater visibility--people seem to hold you a little more accountable for your actions (or lack of action). It can be a time to show off what you can do or remind yourself of long-term plans.
A Jupiter-Pluto aspect helps you connect with and embrace your ambitions, and as you do, you enjoy increased influence and support. This transit can benefit your intimate life, work, health, habits, routines, or shared finances. You receive cosmic support for making empowering changes and choices about your attachments and dependencies, your work or chores, your efforts to maintain and improve health, and your daily routines and habits. Making a positive lifestyle change seems to come quite naturally now!
You're in stellar shape for getting work done, taking charge, and developing new ideas or methods. Showing a spirit for advancement and excitement about the future can be infectious, leading to more opportunities. You might deal with a matter that has your reputation going through changes. You can be exceptionally resourceful, and you have a real desire to come out ahead, triumph, or accomplish something special.
Your intimate life can be lively, and combining your resources or talents with someone can be beneficial for reaching a goal. But while Venus, Jupiter, and Mars begin the month in your intimacy sector, they head into your spirit sector on the 2nd, 10th, and 24th, respectively. As a result, you crave more space and freedom as the month progresses. These influences can boost your spirits and bring more spontaneity into your love life, communications, and everyday experiences. It can also be a super time for promotional or marketing efforts.
On the 10th, Jupiter begins its transit of your solar ninth house. This fortunate transit arrives in two parts, the first of which lasts from May 10-October 28. It encourages you to explore and expand your interests. It's an excellent influence on courses, studies, extracurricular activities, and interests. You're also more easygoing in your day-to-day life, as you find it easier to rise above minor problems and put things into perspective during this cycle.
With Mercury retrograde from the 10th forward (until June 3rd), you may need to return to an old project or redo and refine something you thought was complete. However, this apparent backtracking can lead to significant refinements and strengthening of key areas of your life. Waiting for information can be part of the picture.
This eclipse season reminds you to balance your attention to home life and outside responsibilities. The Lunar Eclipse on the 16th inspires realizations or epiphanies. Feelings that you've kept at bay or haven't yet acknowledged are impossible to ignore now! Events and revelations clear the path for improvements in your life, particularly related to career, reputation, status, home, and family. Stirring on the home front can remind you to pay more attention to your domestic world. If you've been over-extending yourself, you'll now find ways to get more downtime.
The Sun turns your attention to enjoyment, friends, teamwork, and networking from the 20th forward. Your long-term happiness goals move to the front burner, and you can feel inspired! You can feel quite hopeful about where your life may be heading. If not, this is a time to experiment with new ideas and plans or dream up new visions of more fulfilling activities. You might gain new insight into recent events, decisions, or problems, particularly related to friends and relationships or a significant project or pursuit in your life. Ultimately, this can redirect you, leading to substantial new beginnings.
From the 22nd, it's best to pay more attention to what you're communicating, particularly in public or professional settings. You may be too quick to jump to conclusions, but keep in mind that information is likely incomplete temporarily.
On the 28-29, you can be passionate about your ideas or what you're learning, and this is a time for expanding your horizons or your reach. If life has been feeling a little dull recently, this is the boost or reinvigoration you need.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Leo (Born July 23 to August 2)
AND Leo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Leo:
May 2022 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2022
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 16th:
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, Pleasure
From May 2-27:
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel. You have a taste for the exotic now that can show up in many areas of your life--who you are attracted to, what you buy, the kind of art or entertainment you enjoy, and so forth.
From May 28th:
Venus graces your solar tenth house now. During this cycle, you are most charming and well-received on the job. Your responsibility and authority are likeable qualities now, making this a favorable period overall for schmoozing with those in a higher position than you, as well as for negotiations or social activities related to business. Venus is charming, friendly, and affectionate, and her presence in your career and reputation sector brings social opportunities to your career. You are coming across well at work now, and romantic opportunities, or simply more chances to socialize and network, are likely. You are socially ambitious right now, and success may come through your good managerial qualities or some form of artistic talent, or, indirectly through your marriage partner. People who turn your head during this cycle are those who come across as especially competent.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until the 21st:
Mercury continues to journey through your solar eleventh house. This is a time when conversations with friends and various networking activities are much appreciated and offer learning experiences. Your ideas just now are especially progressive and unconventional, as you are questioning the rules you typically live by and entertaining some wild ideas.
Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to last or lead to new projects, but it's a time of dreaming up new possibilities and new possible solutions to problems. You are especially interested in spending time with people who are like-minded. Social interactions are more frequent, light, and fun during this cycle.
Mercury is retrograde from May 10th to June 3rd:
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 tenth and eleventh houses this time, extra care should be exercised when communicating with friends, superiors, and co-workers. You may find that communications with bosses and co-workers, and other professional matters, can be tricky. Strive to be as clear as possible so that you are not misunderstood when dealing with the public. Put off making career decisions as much as possible for the time being. You may be re-thinking things regarding your life path, but it's best to think rather than act for now, as your judgment may be compromised. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with authority figures, children, and intimate partners 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 24th:
Mars continues to energize your solar eighth house. This is a less outwardly assertive or aggressive stage for you as you take the time to process recent events in your life and to develop strategies for going after what you want in the future. You are more observant than active during this cycle, and more strategic and deliberate when you do take action. There may be an increase in sexual appetite now. It's an excellent period for eliminating wasteful activities. Shared finances can come into focus, and you might feel an increased need to take charge of these matters. This could lead to disputes and disagreements if you are not careful or sensitive in your dealings with others.
From May 24th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar ninth house. During this period, you are especially enthusiastic and more bold than usual. Some restlessness and hunger for adventure is experienced now. Essentially, you are looking to expand your activities, and you may find that you have a lot of energy for higher studies, travel, or simply new subjects. Negative potentials include being excessively opinionated or getting easily fired up over differences in points of view, or legal fights.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
May begins shortly after a Solar Eclipse at the top of your solar chart, dear Leo, pointing to a fresh start with your career, social standing, reputation, responsibilities, or performance. You're more ambitious and focused, ready to apply yourself. As the month progresses, your sense of adventure builds. The need to feed your spirit and engage your mind strengthens.
With the Sun at the top of your solar chart until the 20th, you give extra attention to your career, long-term goals, rules, responsibilities, and performance. It can also be a time of greater visibility--people seem to hold you a little more accountable for your actions (or lack of action). It can be a time to show off what you can do or remind yourself of long-term plans.
A Jupiter-Pluto aspect helps you connect with and embrace your ambitions, and as you do, you enjoy increased influence and support. This transit can benefit your intimate life, work, health, habits, routines, or shared finances. You receive cosmic support for making empowering changes and choices about your attachments and dependencies, your work or chores, your efforts to maintain and improve health, and your daily routines and habits. Making a positive lifestyle change seems to come quite naturally now!
You're in stellar shape for getting work done, taking charge, and developing new ideas or methods. Showing a spirit for advancement and excitement about the future can be infectious, leading to more opportunities. You might deal with a matter that has your reputation going through changes. You can be exceptionally resourceful, and you have a real desire to come out ahead, triumph, or accomplish something special.
Your intimate life can be lively, and combining your resources or talents with someone can be beneficial for reaching a goal. But while Venus, Jupiter, and Mars begin the month in your intimacy sector, they head into your spirit sector on the 2nd, 10th, and 24th, respectively. As a result, you crave more space and freedom as the month progresses. These influences can boost your spirits and bring more spontaneity into your love life, communications, and everyday experiences. It can also be a super time for promotional or marketing efforts.
On the 10th, Jupiter begins its transit of your solar ninth house. This fortunate transit arrives in two parts, the first of which lasts from May 10-October 28. It encourages you to explore and expand your interests. It's an excellent influence on courses, studies, extracurricular activities, and interests. You're also more easygoing in your day-to-day life, as you find it easier to rise above minor problems and put things into perspective during this cycle.
With Mercury retrograde from the 10th forward (until June 3rd), you may need to return to an old project or redo and refine something you thought was complete. However, this apparent backtracking can lead to significant refinements and strengthening of key areas of your life. Waiting for information can be part of the picture.
This eclipse season reminds you to balance your attention to home life and outside responsibilities. The Lunar Eclipse on the 16th inspires realizations or epiphanies. Feelings that you've kept at bay or haven't yet acknowledged are impossible to ignore now! Events and revelations clear the path for improvements in your life, particularly related to career, reputation, status, home, and family. Stirring on the home front can remind you to pay more attention to your domestic world. If you've been over-extending yourself, you'll now find ways to get more downtime.
The Sun turns your attention to enjoyment, friends, teamwork, and networking from the 20th forward. Your long-term happiness goals move to the front burner, and you can feel inspired! You can feel quite hopeful about where your life may be heading. If not, this is a time to experiment with new ideas and plans or dream up new visions of more fulfilling activities. You might gain new insight into recent events, decisions, or problems, particularly related to friends and relationships or a significant project or pursuit in your life. Ultimately, this can redirect you, leading to substantial new beginnings.
From the 22nd, it's best to pay more attention to what you're communicating, particularly in public or professional settings. You may be too quick to jump to conclusions, but keep in mind that information is likely incomplete temporarily.
On the 28-29, you can be passionate about your ideas or what you're learning, and this is a time for expanding your horizons or your reach. If life has been feeling a little dull recently, this is the boost or reinvigoration you need.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
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See also 2022 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2022 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 3 to 12)
AND Leo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Leo:
May 2022 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2022
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 16th:
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 11th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eighth house during this period. You are attracted to the deeper elements of relationships and social interactions now, rather than what you meet on the surface. Mysteries fascinate you and you could be looking for others' motives for doing and saying what they do. It's a good time to feel supported by others, whether it's financially or emotionally. It's also a strong cycle for discovering your own hidden talents as well as fascinating things about a partner.
From May 11th forward:
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel. You have a taste for the exotic now that can show up in many areas of your life--who you are attracted to, what you buy, the kind of art or entertainment you enjoy, and so forth.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from May 10th to June 3rd:
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 tenth house this time, extra care should be exercised when communicating with the public, superiors, and co-workers. You may find that communications with bosses and co-workers, and concerning professional matters in general, can be tricky during this cycle. Strive to be as clear as possible so that you are not misunderstood when dealing with the public. Put off making definite career decisions as much as possible for the time being. You may be re-thinking matters regarding your life path, which is a good idea, but it's best to think rather than act for now, as your judgment may be compromised. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with authority figures 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
This month:
Mars continues to energize your solar eighth house. This is a less outwardly assertive or aggressive stage for you as you take the time to process recent events in your life and to develop strategies for going after what you want in the future. You are more observant than active during this cycle, and more strategic and deliberate when you do take action. There may be an increase in sexual appetite now. It's an excellent period for eliminating wasteful activities. Shared finances can come into focus, and you might feel an increased need to take charge of these matters. This could lead to disputes and disagreements if you are not careful or sensitive in your dealings with others.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
May begins shortly after a Solar Eclipse at the top of your solar chart, dear Leo, pointing to a fresh start with your career, social standing, reputation, responsibilities, or performance. You're more ambitious and focused, ready to apply yourself. As the month progresses, your sense of adventure builds. The need to feed your spirit and engage your mind strengthens.
With the Sun at the top of your solar chart until the 20th, you give extra attention to your career, long-term goals, rules, responsibilities, and performance. It can also be a time of greater visibility--people seem to hold you a little more accountable for your actions (or lack of action). It can be a time to show off what you can do or remind yourself of long-term plans.
A Jupiter-Pluto aspect helps you connect with and embrace your ambitions, and as you do, you enjoy increased influence and support. This transit can benefit your intimate life, work, health, habits, routines, or shared finances. You receive cosmic support for making empowering changes and choices about your attachments and dependencies, your work or chores, your efforts to maintain and improve health, and your daily routines and habits. Making a positive lifestyle change seems to come quite naturally now!
You're in stellar shape for getting work done, taking charge, and developing new ideas or methods. Showing a spirit for advancement and excitement about the future can be infectious, leading to more opportunities. You might deal with a matter that has your reputation going through changes. You can be exceptionally resourceful, and you have a real desire to come out ahead, triumph, or accomplish something special.
Your intimate life can be lively, and combining your resources or talents with someone can be beneficial for reaching a goal. But while Venus, Jupiter, and Mars begin the month in your intimacy sector, they head into your spirit sector on the 2nd, 10th, and 24th, respectively. As a result, you crave more space and freedom as the month progresses. These influences can boost your spirits and bring more spontaneity into your love life, communications, and everyday experiences. It can also be a super time for promotional or marketing efforts.
On the 10th, Jupiter begins its transit of your solar ninth house. This fortunate transit arrives in two parts, the first of which lasts from May 10-October 28. It encourages you to explore and expand your interests. It's an excellent influence on courses, studies, extracurricular activities, and interests. You're also more easygoing in your day-to-day life, as you find it easier to rise above minor problems and put things into perspective during this cycle.
With Mercury retrograde from the 10th forward (until June 3rd), you may need to return to an old project or redo and refine something you thought was complete. However, this apparent backtracking can lead to significant refinements and strengthening of key areas of your life. Waiting for information can be part of the picture.
This eclipse season reminds you to balance your attention to home life and outside responsibilities. The Lunar Eclipse on the 16th inspires realizations or epiphanies. Feelings that you've kept at bay or haven't yet acknowledged are impossible to ignore now! Events and revelations clear the path for improvements in your life, particularly related to career, reputation, status, home, and family. Stirring on the home front can remind you to pay more attention to your domestic world. If you've been over-extending yourself, you'll now find ways to get more downtime.
The Sun turns your attention to enjoyment, friends, teamwork, and networking from the 20th forward. Your long-term happiness goals move to the front burner, and you can feel inspired! You can feel quite hopeful about where your life may be heading. If not, this is a time to experiment with new ideas and plans or dream up new visions of more fulfilling activities. You might gain new insight into recent events, decisions, or problems, particularly related to friends and relationships or a significant project or pursuit in your life. Ultimately, this can redirect you, leading to substantial new beginnings.
From the 22nd, it's best to pay more attention to what you're communicating, particularly in public or professional settings. You may be too quick to jump to conclusions, but keep in mind that information is likely incomplete temporarily.
On the 28-29, you can be passionate about your ideas or what you're learning, and this is a time for expanding your horizons or your reach. If life has been feeling a little dull recently, this is the boost or reinvigoration you need.
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 2022 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2022 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 13 to 22)
AND Leo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Leo:
May 2022 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2022
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 10th 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 16th:
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 19th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eighth house during this period. You are attracted to the deeper elements of relationships and social interactions now, rather than what you meet on the surface. Mysteries fascinate you and you could be looking for others' motives for doing and saying what they do. It's a good time to feel supported by others, whether it's financially or emotionally. It's also a strong cycle for discovering your own hidden talents as well as fascinating things about a partner.
From May 20th forward:
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel. You have a taste for the exotic now that can show up in many areas of your life--who you are attracted to, what you buy, the kind of art or entertainment you enjoy, and so forth.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Mercury is retrograde from May 10th to June 3rd:
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 tenth house this time, extra care should be exercised when communicating with the public, superiors, and co-workers. You may find that communications with bosses and co-workers, and concerning professional matters in general, can be tricky during this cycle. Strive to be as clear as possible so that you are not misunderstood when dealing with the public. Put off making definite career decisions as much as possible for the time being. You may be re-thinking matters regarding your life path, which is a good idea, but it's best to think rather than act for now, as your judgment may be compromised. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with authority figures 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 the 11th:
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 11th 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 2022 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
May begins shortly after a Solar Eclipse at the top of your solar chart, dear Leo, pointing to a fresh start with your career, social standing, reputation, responsibilities, or performance. You're more ambitious and focused, ready to apply yourself. As the month progresses, your sense of adventure builds. The need to feed your spirit and engage your mind strengthens.
With the Sun at the top of your solar chart until the 20th, you give extra attention to your career, long-term goals, rules, responsibilities, and performance. It can also be a time of greater visibility--people seem to hold you a little more accountable for your actions (or lack of action). It can be a time to show off what you can do or remind yourself of long-term plans.
A Jupiter-Pluto aspect helps you connect with and embrace your ambitions, and as you do, you enjoy increased influence and support. This transit can benefit your intimate life, work, health, habits, routines, or shared finances. You receive cosmic support for making empowering changes and choices about your attachments and dependencies, your work or chores, your efforts to maintain and improve health, and your daily routines and habits. Making a positive lifestyle change seems to come quite naturally now!
You're in stellar shape for getting work done, taking charge, and developing new ideas or methods. Showing a spirit for advancement and excitement about the future can be infectious, leading to more opportunities. You might deal with a matter that has your reputation going through changes. You can be exceptionally resourceful, and you have a real desire to come out ahead, triumph, or accomplish something special.
Your intimate life can be lively, and combining your resources or talents with someone can be beneficial for reaching a goal. But while Venus, Jupiter, and Mars begin the month in your intimacy sector, they head into your spirit sector on the 2nd, 10th, and 24th, respectively. As a result, you crave more space and freedom as the month progresses. These influences can boost your spirits and bring more spontaneity into your love life, communications, and everyday experiences. It can also be a super time for promotional or marketing efforts.
On the 10th, Jupiter begins its transit of your solar ninth house. This fortunate transit arrives in two parts, the first of which lasts from May 10-October 28. It encourages you to explore and expand your interests. It's an excellent influence on courses, studies, extracurricular activities, and interests. You're also more easygoing in your day-to-day life, as you find it easier to rise above minor problems and put things into perspective during this cycle.
With Mercury retrograde from the 10th forward (until June 3rd), you may need to return to an old project or redo and refine something you thought was complete. However, this apparent backtracking can lead to significant refinements and strengthening of key areas of your life. Waiting for information can be part of the picture.
This eclipse season reminds you to balance your attention to home life and outside responsibilities. The Lunar Eclipse on the 16th inspires realizations or epiphanies. Feelings that you've kept at bay or haven't yet acknowledged are impossible to ignore now! Events and revelations clear the path for improvements in your life, particularly related to career, reputation, status, home, and family. Stirring on the home front can remind you to pay more attention to your domestic world. If you've been over-extending yourself, you'll now find ways to get more downtime.
The Sun turns your attention to enjoyment, friends, teamwork, and networking from the 20th forward. Your long-term happiness goals move to the front burner, and you can feel inspired! You can feel quite hopeful about where your life may be heading. If not, this is a time to experiment with new ideas and plans or dream up new visions of more fulfilling activities. You might gain new insight into recent events, decisions, or problems, particularly related to friends and relationships or a significant project or pursuit in your life. Ultimately, this can redirect you, leading to substantial new beginnings.
From the 22nd, it's best to pay more attention to what you're communicating, particularly in public or professional settings. You may be too quick to jump to conclusions, but keep in mind that information is likely incomplete temporarily.
On the 28-29, you can be passionate about your ideas or what you're learning, and this is a time for expanding your horizons or your reach. If life has been feeling a little dull recently, this is the boost or reinvigoration you need.
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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.
For easier reading, the horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. However, for those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes (classic), simply read the first decanate regardless of your birthdate.
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