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May 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Leo
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Overview for this Month: Leo (All)
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
This month, dear Leo, your focus continues on your career, reputation, status, life direction, and responsibilities to the outside world. The Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter call your attention to your long-range goals and ambitions. While May can be a higher-profile period, you can find beautiful ways to detach and detox.
Until the 14th, there can be some rethinking, redoing, and backtracking on projects, and while sometimes frustrating, it's essential work that helps you make valuable edits. Thinking about life direction and long-term goals in new ways can be fruitful, leading to significant new insights or plans. You can be recycling or reviving old projects and ideas, and while these things haven't yet been fleshed out with all the details, you're in great shape to work your magic on them. If something's left hanging until the 14th, focus on productivity in other areas. Consider that apparent backtracking can lead to the strengthening of things that were once on shaky ground. After the New Moon on the 19th, energy for professional new beginnings or renewed faith in your goals increases. It helps that things are clearer, and you're no longer dealing with information clogs or delays.
May is not only busy for your work but also strong for downtime and your private life. Some matters surrounding your reputation or career can be tricky in the first half of the month, and it's probably best not to encourage any misconceptions with a misplaced comment or premature announcement. Past matters assume immense importance. Mars in your privacy sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward reinforce this theme. There can be ups and downs regarding your goals but also definite improvements–or at least foreseeable ones.
You continue to need extra time to yourself for rest or activities that aid healing and energy replenishment. It's also a time for working on motivation levels as you may be putting a particular venture to rest or wrapping up a project, and you need to reorient yourself.
Until the 7th, networking or enjoyment of friends and pleasurable pastimes is prominent. Interactions with others can be extraordinarily smooth, flowing, and pleasing. From the 7th to 21st, however, you may not be as connected or interactive.
Two shifts on the 20th and 21st bring you out of your shell and far more social: Mars heads into your sign, and the Sun moves into your social sector. Your dynamism is palpable, and you're on fire! There could be a significant friendship in the spotlight, or you can be inspired to pursue a dream goal.
You might need detoxing from pressured goals, and you find more time for sharing, connecting, and community. You're looking forward. At the same time, Venus in your privacy sector suggests the need for time to process your feelings and needs, especially in love. An important note: with Venus in your privacy sector and Mars in your sign from the 20th forward, you can be presenting a harder or more aggressive side to you to the world. People are not inclined to see your gentler traits temporarily.
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th, and it ultimately magnifies flaws with your living conditions or arrangements, personal life, emotional world, home, or family. Finding a better balance between your professional and personal life is an ongoing theme this year, and this lunation furthers things along. This eclipse reminds you that if your responsibilities have overshadowed your personal life to the outside world, it's time to pay them their due attention.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move to the top of your solar chart on the 16th. This transit, lasting for just over a year, is powerful for your longer-term goals, reputation, and career. You can feel some stirring, restlessness, or adventurousness on the career front, and you may receive a reward or recognition. A career opportunity may emerge or your reputation improves many times over this year. You're more visible than usual, making it a good time to show off what you can do.
In the last week of May, there can be significant events surrounding matters of status or career and general life direction. You gravitate toward information, people, or situations that encourage you to grow, rise to a challenge, and elevate your goals.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Leo (Born July 23 to August 2)
AND Leo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Leo:
May 2023 Leo 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 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 21st 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.
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 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
Until May 7th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From May 7th forward:
Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
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 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.
After the 14th, information unclogs and delays lift.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 20th:
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.
From the 20th forward:
You are able to stand your ground and assert yourself more than usual during this transit of Mars through your solar first house. You have energy at your disposal to move your plans forward, and you are more enterprising. You want to leave your mark on the world in some way--however big or small--and you are more able to make an impression than usual. If circumstances are such, you are able to easily fight back. In fact, you may be somewhat combative under this influence, and you may have a short temper.
Avoid being pushy. Take charge of your life, but don't bulldoze over others in the process! This is an excellent transit for assertiveness and physical vitality. Love affairs may also be stepped up during this period. On the rare occasion when an accident occurs, it is more likely to involve the head or face.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
This month, dear Leo, your focus continues on your career, reputation, status, life direction, and responsibilities to the outside world. The Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter call your attention to your long-range goals and ambitions. While May can be a higher-profile period, you can find beautiful ways to detach and detox.
Until the 14th, there can be some rethinking, redoing, and backtracking on projects, and while sometimes frustrating, it's essential work that helps you make valuable edits. Thinking about life direction and long-term goals in new ways can be fruitful, leading to significant new insights or plans. You can be recycling or reviving old projects and ideas, and while these things haven't yet been fleshed out with all the details, you're in great shape to work your magic on them. If something's left hanging until the 14th, focus on productivity in other areas. Consider that apparent backtracking can lead to the strengthening of things that were once on shaky ground. After the New Moon on the 19th, energy for professional new beginnings or renewed faith in your goals increases. It helps that things are clearer, and you're no longer dealing with information clogs or delays.
May is not only busy for your work but also strong for downtime and your private life. Some matters surrounding your reputation or career can be tricky in the first half of the month, and it's probably best not to encourage any misconceptions with a misplaced comment or premature announcement. Past matters assume immense importance. Mars in your privacy sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward reinforce this theme. There can be ups and downs regarding your goals but also definite improvements–or at least foreseeable ones.
You continue to need extra time to yourself for rest or activities that aid healing and energy replenishment. It's also a time for working on motivation levels as you may be putting a particular venture to rest or wrapping up a project, and you need to reorient yourself.
Until the 7th, networking or enjoyment of friends and pleasurable pastimes is prominent. Interactions with others can be extraordinarily smooth, flowing, and pleasing. From the 7th to 21st, however, you may not be as connected or interactive.
Two shifts on the 20th and 21st bring you out of your shell and far more social: Mars heads into your sign, and the Sun moves into your social sector. Your dynamism is palpable, and you're on fire! There could be a significant friendship in the spotlight, or you can be inspired to pursue a dream goal.
You might need detoxing from pressured goals, and you find more time for sharing, connecting, and community. You're looking forward. At the same time, Venus in your privacy sector suggests the need for time to process your feelings and needs, especially in love. An important note: with Venus in your privacy sector and Mars in your sign from the 20th forward, you can be presenting a harder or more aggressive side to you to the world. People are not inclined to see your gentler traits temporarily.
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th, and it ultimately magnifies flaws with your living conditions or arrangements, personal life, emotional world, home, or family. Finding a better balance between your professional and personal life is an ongoing theme this year, and this lunation furthers things along. This eclipse reminds you that if your responsibilities have overshadowed your personal life to the outside world, it's time to pay them their due attention.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move to the top of your solar chart on the 16th. This transit, lasting for just over a year, is powerful for your longer-term goals, reputation, and career. You can feel some stirring, restlessness, or adventurousness on the career front, and you may receive a reward or recognition. A career opportunity may emerge or your reputation improves many times over this year. You're more visible than usual, making it a good time to show off what you can do.
In the last week of May, there can be significant events surrounding matters of status or career and general life direction. You gravitate toward information, people, or situations that encourage you to grow, rise to a challenge, and elevate your goals.
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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Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also 2023 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2023 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 3 to 12)
AND Leo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Leo:
May 2023 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
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.
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 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 16th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From May 16th forward:
Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
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 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 ninth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding travel or education plans. Delays or complications are very possible in these areas. Go over applications carefully before submitting them and make sure you understand instructions clearly. Expressing your opinions now might come across in entirely the wrong way. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with professors and lawyers as well; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Information unclogs on the 14th.
From May 26th forward:
Mercury transits your solar tenth house. You are likely thinking a lot about your career and business matters, or your career requires more communication than usual during this cycle. You speak with authority during this period, and you are more accountable than usual for what (and how) you communicate. Your ideas may come into public view now.
Use the power of words to influence authority figures. This is an excellent period for developing career and professional plans or strategies. You may be turned to for advice or for your opinion on important matters. Although approachable and ready to communicate, you are less inclined to chat about frivolous matters now.
You tend to think about your position or standing on a professional level more frequently during this cycle. You are likely doing some multi-tasking regarding career and business matters. Negative use of this influence would be to worry unnecessarily about your reputation and responsibilities.
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 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
This month, dear Leo, your focus continues on your career, reputation, status, life direction, and responsibilities to the outside world. The Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter call your attention to your long-range goals and ambitions. While May can be a higher-profile period, you can find beautiful ways to detach and detox.
Until the 14th, there can be some rethinking, redoing, and backtracking on projects, and while sometimes frustrating, it's essential work that helps you make valuable edits. Thinking about life direction and long-term goals in new ways can be fruitful, leading to significant new insights or plans. You can be recycling or reviving old projects and ideas, and while these things haven't yet been fleshed out with all the details, you're in great shape to work your magic on them. If something's left hanging until the 14th, focus on productivity in other areas. Consider that apparent backtracking can lead to the strengthening of things that were once on shaky ground. After the New Moon on the 19th, energy for professional new beginnings or renewed faith in your goals increases. It helps that things are clearer, and you're no longer dealing with information clogs or delays.
May is not only busy for your work but also strong for downtime and your private life. Some matters surrounding your reputation or career can be tricky in the first half of the month, and it's probably best not to encourage any misconceptions with a misplaced comment or premature announcement. Past matters assume immense importance. Mars in your privacy sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward reinforce this theme. There can be ups and downs regarding your goals but also definite improvements–or at least foreseeable ones.
You continue to need extra time to yourself for rest or activities that aid healing and energy replenishment. It's also a time for working on motivation levels as you may be putting a particular venture to rest or wrapping up a project, and you need to reorient yourself.
Until the 7th, networking or enjoyment of friends and pleasurable pastimes is prominent. Interactions with others can be extraordinarily smooth, flowing, and pleasing. From the 7th to 21st, however, you may not be as connected or interactive.
Two shifts on the 20th and 21st bring you out of your shell and far more social: Mars heads into your sign, and the Sun moves into your social sector. Your dynamism is palpable, and you're on fire! There could be a significant friendship in the spotlight, or you can be inspired to pursue a dream goal.
You might need detoxing from pressured goals, and you find more time for sharing, connecting, and community. You're looking forward. At the same time, Venus in your privacy sector suggests the need for time to process your feelings and needs, especially in love. An important note: with Venus in your privacy sector and Mars in your sign from the 20th forward, you can be presenting a harder or more aggressive side to you to the world. People are not inclined to see your gentler traits temporarily.
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th, and it ultimately magnifies flaws with your living conditions or arrangements, personal life, emotional world, home, or family. Finding a better balance between your professional and personal life is an ongoing theme this year, and this lunation furthers things along. This eclipse reminds you that if your responsibilities have overshadowed your personal life to the outside world, it's time to pay them their due attention.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move to the top of your solar chart on the 16th. This transit, lasting for just over a year, is powerful for your longer-term goals, reputation, and career. You can feel some stirring, restlessness, or adventurousness on the career front, and you may receive a reward or recognition. A career opportunity may emerge or your reputation improves many times over this year. You're more visible than usual, making it a good time to show off what you can do.
In the last week of May, there can be significant events surrounding matters of status or career and general life direction. You gravitate toward information, people, or situations that encourage you to grow, rise to a challenge, and elevate your goals.
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 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2023 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 13 to 22)
AND Leo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Leo:
May 2023 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 11th:
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.
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 third house. Surprises surrounding your siblings, neighbors, or classmates 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 communications is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination of a writing project, an event involving a sibling that grabs your complete attention, a sudden opportunity for an adventure or trip, a flurry of activity in your immediate environment or neighborhood that demands attention, a letter or other communication that holds a big surprise, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 26th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eleventh house. This is a strong time for putting your ego aside and lowering your defenses and simply enjoying people. It's a good time for networking and settling disputes if there are differences to iron out with friends. Cooperation comes easily, and warm friendships can be made during this cycle. Personal freedom is especially important to you right now, and you won't enjoy any associations that limit you. It can also be a good time for earnings from business.
From May 26th forward:
Venus is spending some time in "hibernation" in your privacy sector. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that your love life is stagnant, but that your affection is expressed behind closed doors. Attraction to secrets and whispers characterize this period, although for some, it can also be a time of endings, relationship concerns, and wistfulness. Personal and social contacts may be secretive, and there can be secret love affairs, or at least very private love feelings and longings. Shyness can lead to some loneliness or romantic frustration. However, this can also be a deliciously private and intimate time.
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 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 ninth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding travel or education plans. Delays or complications are very possible in these areas. Go over applications carefully before submitting them and make sure you understand instructions clearly. Expressing your opinions now might come across in entirely the wrong way. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with professors and lawyers as well; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Information unclogs from the 14th forward.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
From the 3rd 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 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
This month, dear Leo, your focus continues on your career, reputation, status, life direction, and responsibilities to the outside world. The Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter call your attention to your long-range goals and ambitions. While May can be a higher-profile period, you can find beautiful ways to detach and detox.
Until the 14th, there can be some rethinking, redoing, and backtracking on projects, and while sometimes frustrating, it's essential work that helps you make valuable edits. Thinking about life direction and long-term goals in new ways can be fruitful, leading to significant new insights or plans. You can be recycling or reviving old projects and ideas, and while these things haven't yet been fleshed out with all the details, you're in great shape to work your magic on them. If something's left hanging until the 14th, focus on productivity in other areas. Consider that apparent backtracking can lead to the strengthening of things that were once on shaky ground. After the New Moon on the 19th, energy for professional new beginnings or renewed faith in your goals increases. It helps that things are clearer, and you're no longer dealing with information clogs or delays.
May is not only busy for your work but also strong for downtime and your private life. Some matters surrounding your reputation or career can be tricky in the first half of the month, and it's probably best not to encourage any misconceptions with a misplaced comment or premature announcement. Past matters assume immense importance. Mars in your privacy sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward reinforce this theme. There can be ups and downs regarding your goals but also definite improvements–or at least foreseeable ones.
You continue to need extra time to yourself for rest or activities that aid healing and energy replenishment. It's also a time for working on motivation levels as you may be putting a particular venture to rest or wrapping up a project, and you need to reorient yourself.
Until the 7th, networking or enjoyment of friends and pleasurable pastimes is prominent. Interactions with others can be extraordinarily smooth, flowing, and pleasing. From the 7th to 21st, however, you may not be as connected or interactive.
Two shifts on the 20th and 21st bring you out of your shell and far more social: Mars heads into your sign, and the Sun moves into your social sector. Your dynamism is palpable, and you're on fire! There could be a significant friendship in the spotlight, or you can be inspired to pursue a dream goal.
You might need detoxing from pressured goals, and you find more time for sharing, connecting, and community. You're looking forward. At the same time, Venus in your privacy sector suggests the need for time to process your feelings and needs, especially in love. An important note: with Venus in your privacy sector and Mars in your sign from the 20th forward, you can be presenting a harder or more aggressive side to you to the world. People are not inclined to see your gentler traits temporarily.
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th, and it ultimately magnifies flaws with your living conditions or arrangements, personal life, emotional world, home, or family. Finding a better balance between your professional and personal life is an ongoing theme this year, and this lunation furthers things along. This eclipse reminds you that if your responsibilities have overshadowed your personal life to the outside world, it's time to pay them their due attention.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move to the top of your solar chart on the 16th. This transit, lasting for just over a year, is powerful for your longer-term goals, reputation, and career. You can feel some stirring, restlessness, or adventurousness on the career front, and you may receive a reward or recognition. A career opportunity may emerge or your reputation improves many times over this year. You're more visible than usual, making it a good time to show off what you can do.
In the last week of May, there can be significant events surrounding matters of status or career and general life direction. You gravitate toward information, people, or situations that encourage you to grow, rise to a challenge, and elevate your goals.
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About Our Monthly Horoscopes:
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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