Libra Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Libra Sun and Libra Ascendant.
May 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Libra
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We divide our 2023 monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates/decans) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here or use Cafe Astrology’s Ascendant Calculator.
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| Libras born September 24 to October 3 | ||||
| Libras born October 4 to 13 | ||||
| Libras born October 14 to 23 |
Overview for this Month: Libra (All)
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
The month's energies are natural for looking within, dear Libra. Finances, mainly shared money and property, loans, and support, deserve special attention. A passion project or special relationship can consume much of your attention. You’re in good shape to get in better touch with your inner power and recognize or build upon support from others. Opportunities to pool your resources with someone can emerge.
However, there can be some matters from the past to settle or some backtracking in these areas—Mercury’s direct motion on the 14th signals a turning point. From the 20th, however, you're coming out of your shell, craving more adventure and clearer about your goals.
But in the first three weeks of May, you can experience a strong need for inner change, transformation, and self-mastery. It’s a time for observing and processing rather than taking new action. Things can be left hanging in a particular relationship or with money or support until mid-month when blocks clear.
Waiting for an answer never feels great, but you have much to keep you busy as you wait. You’re returning to old problems with a different attitude and taking care of unfinished business. New insight into an old relationship or your psyche can be helpful and enlightening. You could be coming to conclusions or gaining clues to a mystery or other investigation.
A new perspective on money matters or a close relationship can steer you on an improved course. Perhaps you recognize you’ve dwelled too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move past it and move on.
The month's Lunar Eclipse furthers progress with money, resources, and sharing matters. Unrest or discontent nudges you to make important changes in earning, spending, and sharing your money, talents, or other resources. While emotions and realizations feel big around the eclipse on the 5th, adopt a wait-and-see approach. It will take time before the information you need to make solid decisions arrives. You’ll be facing feelings and making changes and improvements that ultimately lead to a stronger sense of security, predictability, and safety. Take your time before making any pivotal decisions but aim to examine feelings coming to the surface, however raw they may be.
There's also a strong theme related to career, longer-term goals, ambitions, responsibilities, and reputation running through the month. You have Mars in your career sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward. Life path goals, public life, performance, business affairs, and career matters can excite, delight, awaken, and animate. It can be a time for enjoying opportunities, promotions, or advances. Be confident, or at least pretend to be, and you’ll grow into it!
Consider whether you’re holding on too tightly to ideas of yourself or a relationship to your detriment, particularly if it’s blocking you from exploring your options and fully enjoying yourself. Major shifts in your expectations from, and attitudes toward, romance can be in focus, but any obsessiveness in this regard is likely due to fear. You may struggle between wanting more or less from a relationship. There can also be a strong need to release yourself from debts and obligations.
Venus activates your sector of discovery, spirit, and adventure until the 7th and then the Sun from the 21st forward. These influences open your mind and open doors for promotion, publishing, travel, and education. Perhaps a legal outcome leads to more freedom or an opportunity emerges to explore an extra-curricular activity. It can be a time of romantic possibilities with someone offering you an entirely different perspective on life. Intelligence attracts!
The day before the Sun enters your spirit sector, Mars enters your house of friends, dreams, and hopes. These create a palpable energy shift from introspective or work-focused to interactive and forward-looking. You can feel mentally refreshed as you do things a little differently. Warm and positive energy is with you for sharing viewpoints, creative expression, friendship, and learning. Non-routine topics or activities favor you most.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter's move into your solar eighth house, where it will bless matters until May 2024. This transit can bring financial gain, deepened relationships or more joy in an intimate relationship, and a generally easier time attracting support–-moral, economic, or otherwise.
Now and in the year ahead, your relationship with yourself or a partner can grow as you understand your deeper needs more fully and embrace the more hidden elements of your nature. Your private life is likely to be rich and engaging. It can be a time for tackling existing debt or obtaining an important loan. With intimacy, your ability (and desire) for deeper levels of experience is paramount. Superficial connections simply will not do! Combining your resources, whether this is about money, time, or talents, can bring rich rewards. Expect a pursuit of pleasure that touches the soul.
In the last week of May, you can connect with the right resources or tools to feel more personally empowered or eliminate a bad habit or dependency. It’s an excellent time to recognize your attachments and examine what you may be holding onto that keeps you from feeling personally powerful.
See also This Month in Astrology.
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Libra (Born September 24 to October 3) and Libra Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Libra:
May 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 20th:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar eighth house. Your attention turns inward, as well as to close personal relationships on a deeper level. Personal transformations, personal power, and intimate matters fulfill you most during this cycle. There may be a strong focus on other's money, such as the resources of a partner, inheritance, banking and loans, or taxes.
You are more intense in your mood and disposition, and perhaps even secretive, at this time of year. You are more in touch with the deeper and even primal elements of your own personality, and more able to see these things in others. This can be a determined and personally powerful time of year if you apply the energy of this transit constructively.
From May 21st forward:
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now.
A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself. The only caution with this cycle is that you could lose touch with managing everyday affairs and important details.
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.
The Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar second house. Surprises surrounding your personal finances and possessions 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 personal finances is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination or fruition of a financial project, an event involving personal possessions that holds your attention, a sudden money-making opportunity, a flurry of activity resulting from a financial matter, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until May 7th:
Venus continues to grace your solar ninth house. During this cycle, your ideals in love are set high. You might become inspired by a loved one now, or someone might awaken a new perspective or way of thinking in you. You could also enjoy a trip, or a new adventure of sorts. In fact, you are attracted to anything that is non-routine and fare best when you are reaching out beyond your usual bounds. You might be attracted to people or even objects that are exotic or different in some way during this cycle. It's a good period for personal charm and attractiveness in general.
From May 7th forward:
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
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications involving legal affairs, travel, and education, as well as communications about the past, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. With Virgo ruling your twelfth house sector, somebody might be deceiving you or working against you, or nagging issues from the past may crop up and demand attention. Put off making solid travel plans if possible.
Occurring in your solar eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
After the 14th, information unclogs and delays lift.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 20th:
Mars continues to energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
From the 20th forward:
Mars is energizing your solar eleventh house now. Group activities and cooperative efforts are the best way to achieve your goals right now. In fact, you have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do. Avoid allowing the ego to attempt to dominate others. You prefer to lead a group rather than follow during this period, and there are certainly ways to do so without stepping on others' toes.
As well, the best way to achieve your goals during this period is to work as a team, or to at least to do some networking. You may have more energy than usual to want to organize projects. Your humanitarian impulse may be stimulated. The role you play for other people in your life becomes the focus. You may feel that your schedule gets overloaded at this time with things to do (usually for others).
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
The month's energies are natural for looking within, dear Libra. Finances, mainly shared money and property, loans, and support, deserve special attention. A passion project or special relationship can consume much of your attention. You’re in good shape to get in better touch with your inner power and recognize or build upon support from others. Opportunities to pool your resources with someone can emerge.
However, there can be some matters from the past to settle or some backtracking in these areas—Mercury’s direct motion on the 14th signals a turning point. From the 20th, however, you're coming out of your shell, craving more adventure and clearer about your goals.
But in the first three weeks of May, you can experience a strong need for inner change, transformation, and self-mastery. It’s a time for observing and processing rather than taking new action. Things can be left hanging in a particular relationship or with money or support until mid-month when blocks clear.
Waiting for an answer never feels great, but you have much to keep you busy as you wait. You’re returning to old problems with a different attitude and taking care of unfinished business. New insight into an old relationship or your psyche can be helpful and enlightening. You could be coming to conclusions or gaining clues to a mystery or other investigation.
A new perspective on money matters or a close relationship can steer you on an improved course. Perhaps you recognize you’ve dwelled too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move past it and move on.
The month's Lunar Eclipse furthers progress with money, resources, and sharing matters. Unrest or discontent nudges you to make important changes in earning, spending, and sharing your money, talents, or other resources. While emotions and realizations feel big around the eclipse on the 5th, adopt a wait-and-see approach. It will take time before the information you need to make solid decisions arrives. You’ll be facing feelings and making changes and improvements that ultimately lead to a stronger sense of security, predictability, and safety. Take your time before making any pivotal decisions but aim to examine feelings coming to the surface, however raw they may be.
There's also a strong theme related to career, longer-term goals, ambitions, responsibilities, and reputation running through the month. You have Mars in your career sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward. Life path goals, public life, performance, business affairs, and career matters can excite, delight, awaken, and animate. It can be a time for enjoying opportunities, promotions, or advances. Be confident, or at least pretend to be, and you’ll grow into it!
Consider whether you’re holding on too tightly to ideas of yourself or a relationship to your detriment, particularly if it’s blocking you from exploring your options and fully enjoying yourself. Major shifts in your expectations from, and attitudes toward, romance can be in focus, but any obsessiveness in this regard is likely due to fear. You may struggle between wanting more or less from a relationship. There can also be a strong need to release yourself from debts and obligations.
Venus activates your sector of discovery, spirit, and adventure until the 7th and then the Sun from the 21st forward. These influences open your mind and open doors for promotion, publishing, travel, and education. Perhaps a legal outcome leads to more freedom or an opportunity emerges to explore an extra-curricular activity. It can be a time of romantic possibilities with someone offering you an entirely different perspective on life. Intelligence attracts!
The day before the Sun enters your spirit sector, Mars enters your house of friends, dreams, and hopes. These create a palpable energy shift from introspective or work-focused to interactive and forward-looking. You can feel mentally refreshed as you do things a little differently. Warm and positive energy is with you for sharing viewpoints, creative expression, friendship, and learning. Non-routine topics or activities favor you most.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter's move into your solar eighth house, where it will bless matters until May 2024. This transit can bring financial gain, deepened relationships or more joy in an intimate relationship, and a generally easier time attracting support–-moral, economic, or otherwise.
Now and in the year ahead, your relationship with yourself or a partner can grow as you understand your deeper needs more fully and embrace the more hidden elements of your nature. Your private life is likely to be rich and engaging. It can be a time for tackling existing debt or obtaining an important loan. With intimacy, your ability (and desire) for deeper levels of experience is paramount. Superficial connections simply will not do! Combining your resources, whether this is about money, time, or talents, can bring rich rewards. Expect a pursuit of pleasure that touches the soul.
In the last week of May, you can connect with the right resources or tools to feel more personally empowered or eliminate a bad habit or dependency. It’s an excellent time to recognize your attachments and examine what you may be holding onto that keeps you from feeling personally powerful.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
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Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Libra in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Libra Horoscope.
Libra (Born October 4 to 13) and Libra Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Libra:
May 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery.
All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets.
This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.
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.
The Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar second house. Surprises surrounding your personal finances and possessions 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 personal finances is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination or fruition of a financial project, an event involving personal possessions that holds your attention, a sudden money-making opportunity, a flurry of activity resulting from a financial matter, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until May 16th:
Venus continues to grace your solar ninth house. During this cycle, your ideals in love are set high. You might become inspired by a loved one now, or someone might awaken a new perspective or way of thinking in you. You could also enjoy a trip, or a new adventure of sorts. In fact, you are attracted to anything that is non-routine and fare best when you are reaching out beyond your usual bounds. You might be attracted to people or even objects that are exotic or different in some way during this cycle. It's a good period for personal charm and attractiveness in general.
From May 16th forward:
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
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications involving legal affairs, travel, and education, as well as communications about the past, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. With Virgo ruling your twelfth house sector, somebody might be deceiving you or working against you, or nagging issues from the past may crop up and demand attention. Put off making solid travel plans if possible.
Occurring in your solar seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; 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 eighth house. You are more intuitive now than usual, picking up all of the hidden cues from people around you and reading between the lines. This is an excellent cycle in which to do some financial planning and strategizing.
Research is also highly favored. It's easier for you to approach sensitive, intimate, and personal matters with rationality and logic. As such, this is a great time to open up conversations about topics that normally might cause waves, such as those revolving around the sharing of power, intimacy, and finances.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
The month's energies are natural for looking within, dear Libra. Finances, mainly shared money and property, loans, and support, deserve special attention. A passion project or special relationship can consume much of your attention. You’re in good shape to get in better touch with your inner power and recognize or build upon support from others. Opportunities to pool your resources with someone can emerge.
However, there can be some matters from the past to settle or some backtracking in these areas—Mercury’s direct motion on the 14th signals a turning point. From the 20th, however, you're coming out of your shell, craving more adventure and clearer about your goals.
But in the first three weeks of May, you can experience a strong need for inner change, transformation, and self-mastery. It’s a time for observing and processing rather than taking new action. Things can be left hanging in a particular relationship or with money or support until mid-month when blocks clear.
Waiting for an answer never feels great, but you have much to keep you busy as you wait. You’re returning to old problems with a different attitude and taking care of unfinished business. New insight into an old relationship or your psyche can be helpful and enlightening. You could be coming to conclusions or gaining clues to a mystery or other investigation.
A new perspective on money matters or a close relationship can steer you on an improved course. Perhaps you recognize you’ve dwelled too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move past it and move on.
The month's Lunar Eclipse furthers progress with money, resources, and sharing matters. Unrest or discontent nudges you to make important changes in earning, spending, and sharing your money, talents, or other resources. While emotions and realizations feel big around the eclipse on the 5th, adopt a wait-and-see approach. It will take time before the information you need to make solid decisions arrives. You’ll be facing feelings and making changes and improvements that ultimately lead to a stronger sense of security, predictability, and safety. Take your time before making any pivotal decisions but aim to examine feelings coming to the surface, however raw they may be.
There's also a strong theme related to career, longer-term goals, ambitions, responsibilities, and reputation running through the month. You have Mars in your career sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward. Life path goals, public life, performance, business affairs, and career matters can excite, delight, awaken, and animate. It can be a time for enjoying opportunities, promotions, or advances. Be confident, or at least pretend to be, and you’ll grow into it!
Consider whether you’re holding on too tightly to ideas of yourself or a relationship to your detriment, particularly if it’s blocking you from exploring your options and fully enjoying yourself. Major shifts in your expectations from, and attitudes toward, romance can be in focus, but any obsessiveness in this regard is likely due to fear. You may struggle between wanting more or less from a relationship. There can also be a strong need to release yourself from debts and obligations.
Venus activates your sector of discovery, spirit, and adventure until the 7th and then the Sun from the 21st forward. These influences open your mind and open doors for promotion, publishing, travel, and education. Perhaps a legal outcome leads to more freedom or an opportunity emerges to explore an extra-curricular activity. It can be a time of romantic possibilities with someone offering you an entirely different perspective on life. Intelligence attracts!
The day before the Sun enters your spirit sector, Mars enters your house of friends, dreams, and hopes. These create a palpable energy shift from introspective or work-focused to interactive and forward-looking. You can feel mentally refreshed as you do things a little differently. Warm and positive energy is with you for sharing viewpoints, creative expression, friendship, and learning. Non-routine topics or activities favor you most.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter's move into your solar eighth house, where it will bless matters until May 2024. This transit can bring financial gain, deepened relationships or more joy in an intimate relationship, and a generally easier time attracting support–-moral, economic, or otherwise.
Now and in the year ahead, your relationship with yourself or a partner can grow as you understand your deeper needs more fully and embrace the more hidden elements of your nature. Your private life is likely to be rich and engaging. It can be a time for tackling existing debt or obtaining an important loan. With intimacy, your ability (and desire) for deeper levels of experience is paramount. Superficial connections simply will not do! Combining your resources, whether this is about money, time, or talents, can bring rich rewards. Expect a pursuit of pleasure that touches the soul.
In the last week of May, you can connect with the right resources or tools to feel more personally empowered or eliminate a bad habit or dependency. It’s an excellent time to recognize your attachments and examine what you may be holding onto that keeps you from feeling personally powerful.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Libra in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Libra Horoscope.
Libra (Born October 14 to 23) and Libra Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Libra:
May 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 11th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar seventh house--your partnership sector. This can be a time of much learning through the mirror of close relationships. It's not the time to push your agenda or personal plans forward; rather, it's a cycle in which you are at your best when you recognize the need to form alliances, to give back to a special someone, and to compromise in order to find some balance in your life.
It's a strong period for putting yourself into another person's shoes and to better understand him/her. You may be meeting with someone strong and assertive by nature now, or a partner is more assertive and needy of attention. There may be some competitive feelings between you and a significant other now. Focus is on reconciliation, forming or cementing bonds, diplomacy, consultation, one-on-one interactions, and negotiations. You may feel a little drained physically now, temporarily.
From May 11th forward:
The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery.
All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets.
This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.
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.
The Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar first house. Surprises surrounding your personal plans and your personal presence may be in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your sector of personal appearance, initiative, and "me first" energy is involved. This could manifest, for example, as a sudden assertion of independence (even a temper tantrum), a situation that tests your leadership skills, a culmination or fruition of an important partnership, and other such possibilities. Finding a balance between autonomy and dependence is what this Lunar Eclipse is about for you.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 26th:
Venus continues to grace your solar ninth house. During this cycle, your ideals in love are set high. You might become inspired by a loved one now, or someone might awaken a new perspective or way of thinking in you. You could also enjoy a trip, or a new adventure of sorts. In fact, you are attracted to anything that is non-routine and fare best when you are reaching out beyond your usual bounds. You might be attracted to people or even objects that are exotic or different in some way during this cycle. It's a good period for personal charm and attractiveness in general.
From May 26th forward:
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
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications involving legal affairs, travel, and education, as well as communications about the past, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. With Virgo ruling your twelfth house sector, somebody might be deceiving you or working against you, or nagging issues from the past may crop up and demand attention. Put off making solid travel plans if possible.
Occurring in your solar seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; 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:
Mars animates and energizes your solar tenth house. This transit stimulates your ambition and/or your desire to be recognized for your accomplishments. Whether it's professional or personal, you are likely to have an increased desire for others to notice you. This can be a good time to become self-employed or start a business if other factors (and Mars itself) are favorable. Conflicts with those in authority are possible now. You may pour more energy into self-promotion or business/career activities.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
The month's energies are natural for looking within, dear Libra. Finances, mainly shared money and property, loans, and support, deserve special attention. A passion project or special relationship can consume much of your attention. You’re in good shape to get in better touch with your inner power and recognize or build upon support from others. Opportunities to pool your resources with someone can emerge.
However, there can be some matters from the past to settle or some backtracking in these areas—Mercury’s direct motion on the 14th signals a turning point. From the 20th, however, you're coming out of your shell, craving more adventure and clearer about your goals.
But in the first three weeks of May, you can experience a strong need for inner change, transformation, and self-mastery. It’s a time for observing and processing rather than taking new action. Things can be left hanging in a particular relationship or with money or support until mid-month when blocks clear.
Waiting for an answer never feels great, but you have much to keep you busy as you wait. You’re returning to old problems with a different attitude and taking care of unfinished business. New insight into an old relationship or your psyche can be helpful and enlightening. You could be coming to conclusions or gaining clues to a mystery or other investigation.
A new perspective on money matters or a close relationship can steer you on an improved course. Perhaps you recognize you’ve dwelled too much on a past relationship or problem, which has unnecessarily weighed you down. You are now feeling the need to move past it and move on.
The month's Lunar Eclipse furthers progress with money, resources, and sharing matters. Unrest or discontent nudges you to make important changes in earning, spending, and sharing your money, talents, or other resources. While emotions and realizations feel big around the eclipse on the 5th, adopt a wait-and-see approach. It will take time before the information you need to make solid decisions arrives. You’ll be facing feelings and making changes and improvements that ultimately lead to a stronger sense of security, predictability, and safety. Take your time before making any pivotal decisions but aim to examine feelings coming to the surface, however raw they may be.
There's also a strong theme related to career, longer-term goals, ambitions, responsibilities, and reputation running through the month. You have Mars in your career sector until the 20th and Venus from the 7th forward. Life path goals, public life, performance, business affairs, and career matters can excite, delight, awaken, and animate. It can be a time for enjoying opportunities, promotions, or advances. Be confident, or at least pretend to be, and you’ll grow into it!
Consider whether you’re holding on too tightly to ideas of yourself or a relationship to your detriment, particularly if it’s blocking you from exploring your options and fully enjoying yourself. Major shifts in your expectations from, and attitudes toward, romance can be in focus, but any obsessiveness in this regard is likely due to fear. You may struggle between wanting more or less from a relationship. There can also be a strong need to release yourself from debts and obligations.
Venus activates your sector of discovery, spirit, and adventure until the 7th and then the Sun from the 21st forward. These influences open your mind and open doors for promotion, publishing, travel, and education. Perhaps a legal outcome leads to more freedom or an opportunity emerges to explore an extra-curricular activity. It can be a time of romantic possibilities with someone offering you an entirely different perspective on life. Intelligence attracts!
The day before the Sun enters your spirit sector, Mars enters your house of friends, dreams, and hopes. These create a palpable energy shift from introspective or work-focused to interactive and forward-looking. You can feel mentally refreshed as you do things a little differently. Warm and positive energy is with you for sharing viewpoints, creative expression, friendship, and learning. Non-routine topics or activities favor you most.
A big headline of the month is Jupiter's move into your solar eighth house, where it will bless matters until May 2024. This transit can bring financial gain, deepened relationships or more joy in an intimate relationship, and a generally easier time attracting support–-moral, economic, or otherwise.
Now and in the year ahead, your relationship with yourself or a partner can grow as you understand your deeper needs more fully and embrace the more hidden elements of your nature. Your private life is likely to be rich and engaging. It can be a time for tackling existing debt or obtaining an important loan. With intimacy, your ability (and desire) for deeper levels of experience is paramount. Superficial connections simply will not do! Combining your resources, whether this is about money, time, or talents, can bring rich rewards. Expect a pursuit of pleasure that touches the soul.
In the last week of May, you can connect with the right resources or tools to feel more personally empowered or eliminate a bad habit or dependency. It’s an excellent time to recognize your attachments and examine what you may be holding onto that keeps you from feeling personally powerful.
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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.
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