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May 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Scorpio
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Overview for this Month: Scorpio (All)
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio:
You're finding a better balance, solving problems, and enjoying companionship in May, dear Scorpio. The month can find you mainly focused on your relationships and gaining a different perspective on your life. It's the time of year when others' agendas and needs tend to come into the spotlight. You're also more inclined to seek others' company, advice, and feedback.
You're also highly motivated to actively learn and participate. You're attracted to new physical or mental challenges, and your desire to learn about the world and share your ideas and opinions stands out this month. You're attracted to others who share your open-mindedness or who have an interesting perspective to offer you. There can be friendly competition that stimulates you to do your best or to reach higher.
With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, look for mistakes and misunderstandings, particularly in your dealings with others, negotiations, and contracts. Combined with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th, there is a general feeling of limbo in the first half of the month. It may be best to wait things out, plan, and strategize for the best results.
People in your life seem to have more dramas than usual, and you're often drawn right in! It's a time to review old problems, conversations, and negotiations. Others may not always come through for you in the usual ways, but there can be new ways of connecting to discover. This period is more about accepting and enjoying people than making big moves. While you're in limbo, you can certainly enjoy yourself! You're likely to look at something (or someone) from the past in a new way, which can prompt new beginnings. You don't have all the facts or answers before you, but this is the start of some serious rethinking of matters.
From the 19th, a new mission related to companionship, relationship needs, and goals emerges. Counseling and advice can be in focus and helpful.
Harmonizing and connecting seem to be the most important factors for reaching your goals at this time of year. But May is also a time for facing fears and breaking through taboos. You can experience a real sense of joy through intimacy with someone special or experience an emotional breakthrough of your own. You or a partner may receive a financial boost. Let in the positive energy now, and make room for new opportunities.
From the 21st, your focus turns to support, money, and shared talents or resources. Intimate relationships can get a considerable boost, or you're invested in connecting with your deeper desires and ambitions, and it feels great to get to know yourself better. You might enjoy a special relationship or passion project.
Another important shift happens the day before the Sun's move: Mars moves to the top of your solar chart, awakening ambitions and a competitive spirit. The desire or need to take charge of your life or to devise a reliable plan take hold now. It’s possible that conflicts can occur with people in upper management or a position of authority during this cycle, or problems with reputation can occur, but this is also a time of increased courage and drive to advance, improve, perform, and excel.
The month's Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th and in your sign, stirring pivotal emotions, feelings, and revelations. It’s important not to jump into something too quickly or to overstate your feelings. However, aim to pay special attention to epiphanies occurring this month.
You’re working on making your connections stronger and happier this year, and this all starts with taking better care of yourself. With all the emotional excitement, you’ll likely feel energetically drained as you begin to see a relationship, someone, or your image and personal impact in a new light. The result can be that you want to make changes — even go through a personal reinvention of sorts. These feelings are real and vital, but it’s best to take your time with them.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move into your partnership sector, where this planet of abundance will visit until May 2024. This powerful influence can improve your close relationships or bring you into contact with someone very helpful and influential in your life. Good publicity may come your way, as you are well-received and especially likable during this transit.
You might place quite a bit of hope in your close personal relationships. If you are unattached, this could be a time when you meet someone special. If already involved, you’re inclined to want to spend leisure time with your significant other. Legal matters or challenging relationship problems from the past may reach an agreeable resolution. Negotiations, counseling, advising, and work with the public are favorable. A partnership may strengthen as you combine and merge your resources. For some, there can be a new connection that becomes intimate quickly.
You’re discovering relationship needs and exploring how they impact your sense of independence. Strong forces are challenging you to move out of your comfort zone to move forward! Through partnership or cooperation with others, you’ll get to the inner balance necessary to achieve your personal goals. Particularly in the last week of May, you can recognize what has held you back from sharing yourself with others in healthy ways or forming close alliances.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Scorpio (Born October 24 to November 2) and Scorpio Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Scorpio:
May 2023 Scorpio 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 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 21st 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, Pleasure
Until May 7th:
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 7th 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 April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications with friends or groups, as well as intimate communications and shared financial resources, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to financial transactions and personal communications with friends, or, better yet, take this time to re-budget or rethink your plans instead of taking premature action. Group meetings may be postponed or cancelled, and friends may seem distant or confused.
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.
After the 14th, information unclogs and delays lift.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 20th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
From the 20th 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 Scorpio:
You're finding a better balance, solving problems, and enjoying companionship in May, dear Scorpio. The month can find you mainly focused on your relationships and gaining a different perspective on your life. It's the time of year when others' agendas and needs tend to come into the spotlight. You're also more inclined to seek others' company, advice, and feedback.
You're also highly motivated to actively learn and participate. You're attracted to new physical or mental challenges, and your desire to learn about the world and share your ideas and opinions stands out this month. You're attracted to others who share your open-mindedness or who have an interesting perspective to offer you. There can be friendly competition that stimulates you to do your best or to reach higher.
With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, look for mistakes and misunderstandings, particularly in your dealings with others, negotiations, and contracts. Combined with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th, there is a general feeling of limbo in the first half of the month. It may be best to wait things out, plan, and strategize for the best results.
People in your life seem to have more dramas than usual, and you're often drawn right in! It's a time to review old problems, conversations, and negotiations. Others may not always come through for you in the usual ways, but there can be new ways of connecting to discover. This period is more about accepting and enjoying people than making big moves. While you're in limbo, you can certainly enjoy yourself! You're likely to look at something (or someone) from the past in a new way, which can prompt new beginnings. You don't have all the facts or answers before you, but this is the start of some serious rethinking of matters.
From the 19th, a new mission related to companionship, relationship needs, and goals emerges. Counseling and advice can be in focus and helpful.
Harmonizing and connecting seem to be the most important factors for reaching your goals at this time of year. But May is also a time for facing fears and breaking through taboos. You can experience a real sense of joy through intimacy with someone special or experience an emotional breakthrough of your own. You or a partner may receive a financial boost. Let in the positive energy now, and make room for new opportunities.
From the 21st, your focus turns to support, money, and shared talents or resources. Intimate relationships can get a considerable boost, or you're invested in connecting with your deeper desires and ambitions, and it feels great to get to know yourself better. You might enjoy a special relationship or passion project.
Another important shift happens the day before the Sun's move: Mars moves to the top of your solar chart, awakening ambitions and a competitive spirit. The desire or need to take charge of your life or to devise a reliable plan take hold now. It’s possible that conflicts can occur with people in upper management or a position of authority during this cycle, or problems with reputation can occur, but this is also a time of increased courage and drive to advance, improve, perform, and excel.
The month's Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th and in your sign, stirring pivotal emotions, feelings, and revelations. It’s important not to jump into something too quickly or to overstate your feelings. However, aim to pay special attention to epiphanies occurring this month.
You’re working on making your connections stronger and happier this year, and this all starts with taking better care of yourself. With all the emotional excitement, you’ll likely feel energetically drained as you begin to see a relationship, someone, or your image and personal impact in a new light. The result can be that you want to make changes — even go through a personal reinvention of sorts. These feelings are real and vital, but it’s best to take your time with them.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move into your partnership sector, where this planet of abundance will visit until May 2024. This powerful influence can improve your close relationships or bring you into contact with someone very helpful and influential in your life. Good publicity may come your way, as you are well-received and especially likable during this transit.
You might place quite a bit of hope in your close personal relationships. If you are unattached, this could be a time when you meet someone special. If already involved, you’re inclined to want to spend leisure time with your significant other. Legal matters or challenging relationship problems from the past may reach an agreeable resolution. Negotiations, counseling, advising, and work with the public are favorable. A partnership may strengthen as you combine and merge your resources. For some, there can be a new connection that becomes intimate quickly.
You’re discovering relationship needs and exploring how they impact your sense of independence. Strong forces are challenging you to move out of your comfort zone to move forward! Through partnership or cooperation with others, you’ll get to the inner balance necessary to achieve your personal goals. Particularly in the last week of May, you can recognize what has held you back from sharing yourself with others in healthy ways or forming close alliances.
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See also 2023 Scorpio Preview Horoscope and the full 2023 Yearly Scorpio Horoscope.
Scorpio (Born November 3 to 12) and Scorpio Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Scorpio:
May 2023 Scorpio Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your seventh house. At this time of year, you have a greater need than usual to be with a partner. Bouncing ideas off someone helps you to better understand yourself. A partner provides a mirror for your own self-discovery. Now is the time to realize your own potential through a significant other. During this cycle, you focus on balancing your personal interests and objectives with your social life, or with those of a partner. The emphasis is on "us" rather than "me".
You need the energies, companionship, and support of other people, and they may also seek out your support and companionship. It's important to include others rather than to go solo for the time being. However, bending too much to the will of another is not advised either. Social interactions of a personal, one-on-one kind are emphasized. Circumstances are such that your diplomacy skills are required. Your popularity is increasing, and is reinforced by your own ability to cooperate and harmonize. Your ego and pride are tied up in how you relate to others now. This may be an especially busy time for people who consult or work with clients one-on-one.
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 May 16th:
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 16th 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 April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications with friends or groups, as well as intimate communications and shared financial resources, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to financial transactions and personal communications with friends, or, better yet, take this time to re-budget or rethink your plans instead of taking premature action. Group meetings may be postponed or cancelled, and friends may seem distant or confused.
Occurring in your solar sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; 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 seventh house. You tend to weigh the pros and cons of every issue during this cycle, taking into account others' needs as well as your own. Some indecisiveness is possible now, simply because you naturally entertain opposing viewpoints. You have a strong desire to cooperate and communicate with others now. You feel most comfortable spending time with people on a one-to-one level, or with those with whom you share a personal history.
Interestingly, your own thoughts become clearer through dialogue with others during this window. You may be doing public relations work, counseling, negotiating, or arbitration during this cycle. There is a lot of emphasis on communications with partners and best friends at this time. You can use the power of words to advise others or to make peace with people in your life. You are more diplomatic than usual during this transit.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio:
You're finding a better balance, solving problems, and enjoying companionship in May, dear Scorpio. The month can find you mainly focused on your relationships and gaining a different perspective on your life. It's the time of year when others' agendas and needs tend to come into the spotlight. You're also more inclined to seek others' company, advice, and feedback.
You're also highly motivated to actively learn and participate. You're attracted to new physical or mental challenges, and your desire to learn about the world and share your ideas and opinions stands out this month. You're attracted to others who share your open-mindedness or who have an interesting perspective to offer you. There can be friendly competition that stimulates you to do your best or to reach higher.
With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, look for mistakes and misunderstandings, particularly in your dealings with others, negotiations, and contracts. Combined with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th, there is a general feeling of limbo in the first half of the month. It may be best to wait things out, plan, and strategize for the best results.
People in your life seem to have more dramas than usual, and you're often drawn right in! It's a time to review old problems, conversations, and negotiations. Others may not always come through for you in the usual ways, but there can be new ways of connecting to discover. This period is more about accepting and enjoying people than making big moves. While you're in limbo, you can certainly enjoy yourself! You're likely to look at something (or someone) from the past in a new way, which can prompt new beginnings. You don't have all the facts or answers before you, but this is the start of some serious rethinking of matters.
From the 19th, a new mission related to companionship, relationship needs, and goals emerges. Counseling and advice can be in focus and helpful.
Harmonizing and connecting seem to be the most important factors for reaching your goals at this time of year. But May is also a time for facing fears and breaking through taboos. You can experience a real sense of joy through intimacy with someone special or experience an emotional breakthrough of your own. You or a partner may receive a financial boost. Let in the positive energy now, and make room for new opportunities.
From the 21st, your focus turns to support, money, and shared talents or resources. Intimate relationships can get a considerable boost, or you're invested in connecting with your deeper desires and ambitions, and it feels great to get to know yourself better. You might enjoy a special relationship or passion project.
Another important shift happens the day before the Sun's move: Mars moves to the top of your solar chart, awakening ambitions and a competitive spirit. The desire or need to take charge of your life or to devise a reliable plan take hold now. It’s possible that conflicts can occur with people in upper management or a position of authority during this cycle, or problems with reputation can occur, but this is also a time of increased courage and drive to advance, improve, perform, and excel.
The month's Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th and in your sign, stirring pivotal emotions, feelings, and revelations. It’s important not to jump into something too quickly or to overstate your feelings. However, aim to pay special attention to epiphanies occurring this month.
You’re working on making your connections stronger and happier this year, and this all starts with taking better care of yourself. With all the emotional excitement, you’ll likely feel energetically drained as you begin to see a relationship, someone, or your image and personal impact in a new light. The result can be that you want to make changes — even go through a personal reinvention of sorts. These feelings are real and vital, but it’s best to take your time with them.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move into your partnership sector, where this planet of abundance will visit until May 2024. This powerful influence can improve your close relationships or bring you into contact with someone very helpful and influential in your life. Good publicity may come your way, as you are well-received and especially likable during this transit.
You might place quite a bit of hope in your close personal relationships. If you are unattached, this could be a time when you meet someone special. If already involved, you’re inclined to want to spend leisure time with your significant other. Legal matters or challenging relationship problems from the past may reach an agreeable resolution. Negotiations, counseling, advising, and work with the public are favorable. A partnership may strengthen as you combine and merge your resources. For some, there can be a new connection that becomes intimate quickly.
You’re discovering relationship needs and exploring how they impact your sense of independence. Strong forces are challenging you to move out of your comfort zone to move forward! Through partnership or cooperation with others, you’ll get to the inner balance necessary to achieve your personal goals. Particularly in the last week of May, you can recognize what has held you back from sharing yourself with others in healthy ways or forming close alliances.
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 Scorpio Preview Horoscope and the full 2023 Yearly Scorpio Horoscope.
Scorpio (Born November 13 to 22) and Scorpio Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Scorpio:
May 2023 Scorpio Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 11th:
The Sun continues to spotlight your solar sixth house. This is a busy period that finds you tending to many different details of your daily existence--your work, various projects, organization around the home and office, your daily routines, and health matters. Your ego may be especially tied up in the work you do, so that you are proud and more creative than usual in your job. You may be in the position to take charge in your work, or to take charge of your health and diet. Sometimes this cycle relates to increased activities involving pets. You seek to perfect your skills or methods now, and you focus on the parts that make up the whole now in order to improve your daily life. As a result, you can be more critical than usual, but this process is necessary for you to sort out what works for you and what doesn't.
From May 11th forward:
The Sun illuminates your seventh house. At this time of year, you have a greater need than usual to be with a partner. Bouncing ideas off someone helps you to better understand yourself. A partner provides a mirror for your own self-discovery. Now is the time to realize your own potential through a significant other. During this cycle, you focus on balancing your personal interests and objectives with your social life, or with those of a partner. The emphasis is on "us" rather than "me".
You need the energies, companionship, and support of other people, and they may also seek out your support and companionship. It's important to include others rather than to go solo for the time being. However, bending too much to the will of another is not advised either. Social interactions of a personal, one-on-one kind are emphasized. Circumstances are such that your diplomacy skills are required. Your popularity is increasing, and is reinforced by your own ability to cooperate and harmonize. Your ego and pride are tied up in how you relate to others now. This may be an especially busy time for people who consult or work with clients one-on-one.
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 twelfth house. Surprises surrounding the compassionate care and attention you give others, as well as the work and service you render, 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 sectors of self-undoing, privacy, and dreams is involved. This could manifest, for example, as a situation that tests your faith and compassion, a culmination or fruition of a service you render, an event that calls on your urge for privacy and reflection, and other such possibilities. Finding a balance between practical concerns and spiritual or non-material matters is what this Lunar Eclipse is about for you.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 26th:
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 26th 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 April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications with friends or groups, as well as intimate communications and shared financial resources, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to financial transactions and personal communications with friends, or, better yet, take this time to re-budget or rethink your plans instead of taking premature action. Group meetings may be postponed or cancelled, and friends may seem distant or confused.
Occurring in your solar sixth house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to work, health matters, and daily routines. Be as non-judgmental as you can with co-workers and/or employees. Re-thinking the suitability of your job is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. Work-related mess-ups can frustrate you, or you might need to redo work that you thought was complete. However, you might find that the refinements you make now will be very valuable later. Double- check your work before submitting it. It's a fine time for researching health and nutrition programs, as well as job skills and opportunities, but perhaps not the best time for beginning all-new programs. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with co-workers and health professionals; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
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Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
From the 3rd 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.
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May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio:
You're finding a better balance, solving problems, and enjoying companionship in May, dear Scorpio. The month can find you mainly focused on your relationships and gaining a different perspective on your life. It's the time of year when others' agendas and needs tend to come into the spotlight. You're also more inclined to seek others' company, advice, and feedback.
You're also highly motivated to actively learn and participate. You're attracted to new physical or mental challenges, and your desire to learn about the world and share your ideas and opinions stands out this month. You're attracted to others who share your open-mindedness or who have an interesting perspective to offer you. There can be friendly competition that stimulates you to do your best or to reach higher.
With Mercury retrograde until the 14th, look for mistakes and misunderstandings, particularly in your dealings with others, negotiations, and contracts. Combined with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th, there is a general feeling of limbo in the first half of the month. It may be best to wait things out, plan, and strategize for the best results.
People in your life seem to have more dramas than usual, and you're often drawn right in! It's a time to review old problems, conversations, and negotiations. Others may not always come through for you in the usual ways, but there can be new ways of connecting to discover. This period is more about accepting and enjoying people than making big moves. While you're in limbo, you can certainly enjoy yourself! You're likely to look at something (or someone) from the past in a new way, which can prompt new beginnings. You don't have all the facts or answers before you, but this is the start of some serious rethinking of matters.
From the 19th, a new mission related to companionship, relationship needs, and goals emerges. Counseling and advice can be in focus and helpful.
Harmonizing and connecting seem to be the most important factors for reaching your goals at this time of year. But May is also a time for facing fears and breaking through taboos. You can experience a real sense of joy through intimacy with someone special or experience an emotional breakthrough of your own. You or a partner may receive a financial boost. Let in the positive energy now, and make room for new opportunities.
From the 21st, your focus turns to support, money, and shared talents or resources. Intimate relationships can get a considerable boost, or you're invested in connecting with your deeper desires and ambitions, and it feels great to get to know yourself better. You might enjoy a special relationship or passion project.
Another important shift happens the day before the Sun's move: Mars moves to the top of your solar chart, awakening ambitions and a competitive spirit. The desire or need to take charge of your life or to devise a reliable plan take hold now. It’s possible that conflicts can occur with people in upper management or a position of authority during this cycle, or problems with reputation can occur, but this is also a time of increased courage and drive to advance, improve, perform, and excel.
The month's Lunar Eclipse occurs on the 5th and in your sign, stirring pivotal emotions, feelings, and revelations. It’s important not to jump into something too quickly or to overstate your feelings. However, aim to pay special attention to epiphanies occurring this month.
You’re working on making your connections stronger and happier this year, and this all starts with taking better care of yourself. With all the emotional excitement, you’ll likely feel energetically drained as you begin to see a relationship, someone, or your image and personal impact in a new light. The result can be that you want to make changes — even go through a personal reinvention of sorts. These feelings are real and vital, but it’s best to take your time with them.
Another headline in May is Jupiter's move into your partnership sector, where this planet of abundance will visit until May 2024. This powerful influence can improve your close relationships or bring you into contact with someone very helpful and influential in your life. Good publicity may come your way, as you are well-received and especially likable during this transit.
You might place quite a bit of hope in your close personal relationships. If you are unattached, this could be a time when you meet someone special. If already involved, you’re inclined to want to spend leisure time with your significant other. Legal matters or challenging relationship problems from the past may reach an agreeable resolution. Negotiations, counseling, advising, and work with the public are favorable. A partnership may strengthen as you combine and merge your resources. For some, there can be a new connection that becomes intimate quickly.
You’re discovering relationship needs and exploring how they impact your sense of independence. Strong forces are challenging you to move out of your comfort zone to move forward! Through partnership or cooperation with others, you’ll get to the inner balance necessary to achieve your personal goals. Particularly in the last week of May, you can recognize what has held you back from sharing yourself with others in healthy ways or forming close alliances.
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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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