This Month in Astrology – May 2024
May 2024
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Horoscopes for the Month
Void of Course Dates this Month
On May 2nd, Pluto turns retrograde, and Pluto’s intense and complex energy hangs heavy in the air in the days surrounding this event. Now and over the coming months (Pluto is retrograde until October 11th), we may be reassessing how we use our power. We are not as open, overt, or direct about our desire for control or power, and some of us may be less in touch with it. While retrograde, Pluto will return to Capricorn on September 1st. When Pluto heads back into Aquarius in direct motion in November, however, it’s there for the long haul–no more dancing as it transitions between the signs.
On May 6th, Saturn forms a semi-square with Pluto. This is the first of three, the next two perfections to occur on September 25th, 2024, and January 26th, 2025. This longer-term transit points to possible power struggles, frustration, and manipulation. We may recognize the need for change, but feel blocked by others or by circumstances; or we might attempt to stubbornly hold on to what has worked for us in the past. Persistence will pay off in the end, and the need to adjust our expectations becomes obvious.
On May 7th, a New Moon occurs in the sign of Taurus, prompting a new beginning. This lunation brings a fresh start to our lives, awakening our needs to take charge, particularly when making ourselves feel more secure and comfortable. It’s a time for re-evaluating our relationship with money and possessions to discover what it is that we truly value and that which genuinely makes us happy and fulfilled.
We should concentrate on what we can do to increase our feelings of self-worth and simplify our lives in key ways. This is a time for reconnecting with nature, to our bodies and the world of the five senses. Creative ways of seeing, using, and approaching our personal possessions, valuables, money, and talents are in focus. This lunation has much healing potential.
Taurus New Moons are generally good for getting back in touch with simple and physical pleasures–savoring good food, and enjoying activities that bring us in touch with nature and with our bodies. It’s time to “stop and smell the roses,” and to become more aware of what makes us feel comfortable and secure. We are challenged to be more sensible and possibly conservative in our approach but, at the same time, open to making fundamental changes. We are also challenged to follow through on projects or situations that we may have abandoned or considered dropping if we deem them to be appropriate and worthwhile.
We may be dealing with a certain level of stubbornness, both in others and in ourselves. However, it’s an excellent time for connecting with our bodies and with nature through earthy activities, as well as appreciating what we already have. This New Moon aligns with Uranus and harmonizes with Saturn. We’re listening to our needs for change and innovation, but we’re respecting the process, a need for patience, and what’s worked for us in the past.
On May 23rd, a Full Moon occurs in the sign of Sagittarius. This lunation reminds us of the need to reach out beyond our usual routines, thought patterns, and neighborhoods. The Full Moon in Sagittarius is a time of expansion. As such, we should be especially aware of what we’d like to promote at this time, trying to put aside or out of our minds those things that won’t serve us well if blown out of proportion.
This Full Moon harmonizes with Neptune and Pluto, and the Sun has just recently aligned with Venus and Jupiter, bringing a sense of good luck and goodwill along with some inspiration and determination to see things through.
On May 23rd, Jupiter forms a sextile to Neptune. This is a time when we seek inspiration or are inspired to follow a dream or vision or to pursue a cause. We are considering our dreams, imagination, and compassion as we plan out or pursue our objectives, and we may feel supported or encouraged on a spiritual level. We are inclined to see the good in people and situations.
This is a one-off aspect but a longer-term influence. Jupiter is expanding our desire for security, comfort, abundance, earthy or sensual experiences, money, and material things while in the sign of Taurus. As it harmonizes with spiritual Neptune in Pisces, we’re more likely to factor in our spiritual values and need for imagination, romance, and concern or compassion for others into our pursuit. Read more about Jupiter’s sextile to Neptune.
On May 25th, Jupiter enters Gemini. Jupiter will transit the sign until June 9th, 2025. In Gemini, Jupiter urges us to learn as much as we can about the people around us, as well as to learn, share, and connect. During this Jupiter in Gemini cycle, we place strong emphasis and value on the intellect. We see opportunities to grow and succeed through intellectual, verbal, and written channels.
We are more inclined to believe that intelligence and knowledge are the major keys to solving problems. Communication and contact are valued. We attract the most good fortune when we use our wit and ingeniousness, are versatile, sociable, curious, and put others at ease with friendliness and sincere curiosity.
Negative manifestations include lack of follow through, too many ideas without a plan to set them into motion, gossip, too much information, fickleness, ambivalence, and indecision. We may take on too many things and lose focus, for example. Jupiter in Gemini finds joy in getting–and keeping–in touch. It’s a powerful time to improve our communication skills, and it’s an excellent period for upgrading the systems, machines, or devices that keep us mobile and connected–for example, phones, cars, bikes, computers, and so forth. New avenues or channels for communicating and transiting can open up.
We have more options or we see more options during this transit. Areas that can improve and benefit from this influence are sales, education, representing (agent), teaching, guiding, marketing, writing, editing, journalism, information gathering and relaying, transport, touring, languages, commerce, aviation, and communications.
There can be some good fortune or experiences surrounding communication and learning. Favored now are pursuits and fields that require dexterity, novelty, logic, gathering, collating, reporting, quick thinking, and agility. These areas can be most attractive or profitable.
With Jupiter in Gemini, we prefer learning programs with a focus on ideas, fact-gathering, interaction, and discussion. Belief systems that connect people and that encourage conversation, discussion, and questions are more appealing. Read more about Jupiter’s transit of Gemini.
Date | Time (ET) | Event | Position |
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May 1 | 7:27 AM | Last Quarter Moon | 11 Aqu 34' |
May 2 | 1:47 PM | Pluto Retrograde | Plu 2 Aqu 06'Rx |
May 6 | 7:48 AM | Saturn semi-square Pluto | Sat 17 Pis 06' semi-square Plu 2 Aqu 06'Rx |
May 7 | 11:22 PM | New Moon in Taurus | 18 Tau 02' |
May 15 | 1:36 AM | Ceres Retrograde | Cer 21 Cap 33'Rx |
May 15 | 7:48 AM | First Quarter Moon | 25 Leo 08' |
May 15 | 1:05 PM | Mercury enters Taurus | Mer 0 Tau 00' |
May 16 | 1:32 PM | Pallas Rx enters Scorpio | Pal Sco Rx |
May 20 | 8:59 AM | Sun enters Gemini | Sun 0 Gem 00' |
May 23 | 9:53 AM | Full Moon in Sagittarius | 2 Sag 55' |
May 23 | 4:30 PM | Venus enters Gemini | Ven 0 Gem 00' |
May 23 | 5:44 PM | Jupiter sextile Neptune | Jup 29 Tau 31' sextile Nep 29 Pis 31' |
May 24 | 3:53 AM | Jupiter semi-square True Node | Jup 29 Tau 37' semi-square Nod 14 Ari 37' |
May 25 | 7:15 PM | Jupiter enters Gemini | Jup 0 Gem 00' |
May 28 | 5:22 AM | Jupiter quintile Saturn | Jup 0 Gem 34' quintile Sat 18 Pis 34' |
May 30 | 1:12 PM | Last Quarter Moon | 9 Pis 46' |
(See the full table for 2024)
See also: This Week in Astrology week to week for more detail.
This Month’s Overview Horoscopes
The following horoscopes outline how the above astrological influences might affect each individual sign.
Overview horoscopes fill in here as I write them, ideally during the week before the month begins. It is not unusual to see some signs temporarily missing as I write the twelve of them over the course of a few days, starting with the featured sign of the month (birthday month).
AriesMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries: May is a month of personal fulfillment, financial growth, and effective communication, dear Aries. Your ruling planet, Mars, energizes your sign all month, boosting your confidence. However, the most significant event is Jupiter's shift into your communication sector. This move, lasting until June 2025, finds Jupiter's energy harmonizing with your sign, enhancing your studies, communications, and potentially your mobility or transportation options. Some healthy self-focus is entirely appropriate and quite beneficial this month. You're expressing yourself more authentically and confidently--there is strength in how you carry and express yourself. Communications are more effective than usual, and your ability to focus is excellent. Simultaneously, your finances and resources sector is bustling with activity. This is a standout time for earnings, where you're not just making money, but also discovering new ways to increase your bottom line or better utilize your existing resources. It's an imaginative, intuitive period for you, and your financial situation, business, sense of security, and comfort levels all receive a boost as a direct result. You're looking at finances, self-worth, talents, and resources in fresh, innovative ways. With these life departments, you're ready to explore potentials and possibilities, fostering a sense of increased personal meaning and purpose on an emotional level, as well as through your relationship with your practical world, resources, money, business, and belongings. It's a favorable time to assess your position in a business venture or with your finances and resources. This introspection may reveal dormant or overlooked resources or talents. By adopting a generous and high-minded approach, you can maximize the benefits of this self-discovery. A growing theme of communicating, learning, connecting, short trips or errands, and transportation emerges as the month progresses. The Sun heads into your solar third house on the 20th and Venus on the 23rd, and you're focusing on mentally engaging activities. You're motivated to pursue a study or personal interest, and you're charming with your words. The Full Moon on the 23rd can stir a turning point or confrontation with previously buried or overlooked emotions and issues in your life. It can be a time of awards, announcements, publishing, promotion, commitments to learn, and epiphanies about belief systems and projects. Jupiter's move into your solar third house on the 25th initiates a cycle that lasts over a year and enhances your communication skills. This celestial shift also opens up new channels for expressing yourself, learning, and connecting. In the period ahead, you'll likely be especially mentally alert and busy, and you might expand your social circle, update your skills, advertise, or publish in fun, fulfilling ways. This is an exciting time to broaden your horizons and explore new avenues of self-expression and learning. It's a strong time to grow your knowledge base. Your mind is open and you more enthusiastically (and with less inhibition) share your ideas. Social media may figure more strongly for some of you. For others, transportation options now available make life a little more enjoyable. Your daily life can expand. More day-to-day contact with friends and family can be healing and pleasurable. Happily, you can experience a newfound feeling of liberation in your thoughts and your ability to express yourself. You are finding your voice in some way. The last week of May is pleasantly bustling! You're motivated to pursue a study or personal interest now. The practical side of your life is also full and fruitful. Applying new information to business and money ventures can figure strongly. It's a good time to work with your natural talents and put them to practical use, fostering a sense of personal fulfillment and optimism. |
TaurusMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus: It's a personally powerful month, dear Taurus, with the Sun in your sign until the 20th, Venus until the 23rd, and Mercury in Taurus from the 15th onward. Figuring strongly in May are brilliant happiness goals and plans, camaraderie, and a magical social life or experience. Interestingly, Jupiter exits your sign in this month that's primarily devoted to you. This Jupiter transit has been with you for just over a year, boosting your confidence and independence. With Jupiter's new transit, starting on May 24th and sticking with you until June 2025, you'll build upon exciting ideas and prospects you picked up during the lucky planet's journey through your sign. It's time to secure your place in the world with a quieter, comfier transit that may be just what you need now! This transit is filled with potential for growth and security. All eyes are on you, with the Sun in your sign until May 20th and Venus until the 23rd. Even so, Mars doesn't reach Taurus until June, so energy levels may be low, and you could be feeling on the fence about a number of matters, after which you self-assuredly pursue what you want. There are themes of retreat, reorientation, and healing. You are not moving full-speed ahead just yet. You need some time to process things before making the big decisions! The New Moon in your sign on the 7th boosts your magnetism and can also bring support from friends or networks. If you've been feeling the need for a fresh breath of air, think seriously about ways to reinvent yourself. The 17-18 is particularly strong for making opportunities for yourself by putting more faith in yourself and your capabilities. You feel considerably more optimistic and can more readily get others on board for ventures you're considering. Ideas for future projects can be golden, so pay attention! The motivation to improve your life skyrockets. You're in fabulous shape for investing in your personality, and it's also a standout time for influence, faith, and hopefulness. There is growing activity in your financial sector in May, and you can expect some opportunities to improve your financial situation. Mercury in your sign from the 15th boosts your ability to make important connections and stirs your desire to talk, share, and express yourself. Your voice is stronger partly because you make more effort to be heard. Jupiter helps you build upon exciting ideas and prospects you've picked up during the lucky planet's recent journey through your sign. Excitement can revolve around finances, possessions, home-related endeavors, or self-worth issues later in May. A windfall or significant gift can be in focus. You're pouring more heart, energy, and perhaps money into your comfort and security. It's an excellent time to build something solid for yourself, especially a business, but this can extend to a relationship, home, hobby, or more. Good energy is with you for being proactive with practical matters. It's an intense, favorable period for boosting income or improving your reputation. Jupiter helps you find more meaning and hope regarding your finances and valuables. It's a fine time to enhance and enjoy your resources, talents, and money. Jupiter moving through your money sector this birthday year gives you a chance to discover new or untapped financial resources that can increase your economic well-being. Innovative thinking this month contributes significantly. You're putting your best face forward in May; others will find you easy to be around. Your true colors positively shine, and you have an aura about you that expresses vibrant, healing energy. At the same time, it's important to lay low, observe, and tie up loose ends. The last week of the month is well-balanced. You're in a practical frame of mind. You still have a lot going on under the hood, and conserving some energy for busier periods ahead makes sense. |
GeminiMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Gemini: May is a month that often revolves around you, dear Gemini. Still, it's a month for getting your bearings, rest, and reflection. The biggest headline is Jupiter entering your sign on the 24th. Visiting for over a year, Jupiter is set to bring more meaning and pleasure or satisfaction to your life. Mars spends the whole month of May in harmony with your sign--a most welcome boost to energy and motivation levels. Indeed, part of you is sociable in May, and another part needs more time to process and reorient yourself. Opportunities to move toward your goals can emerge in pleasing ways this month, and they may even feel a bit magical. You benefit from past work, good deeds, and experience, particularly in your profession. It's a time to use your inner resources to better understand your life path. You want to make peace with the past and live a more emotionally empowering life. There can be benefits to some level of solitude or moments of reflection. A revelation, empowering thought, or significant memory can emerge from deep within, and this can give you a real confidence boost, or there can be an event that similarly stimulates you. Unloading a burden can help release you from the past or its hold on you. While life may be bustling and engaging at times, it's crucial to carve out time for rest and healing. The New Moon on the 7th underscores the need for introspection. Although you may be in higher demand this month, your inner world remains a powerful draw, and a part of you may prefer to stay reserved or withdrawn. Striking a balance between activity and rest is a wise approach. The Sun enters your sign on the 20th and Venus on the 23rd. While you're receiving a lot of attention and coming out of your shell on some levels, you're also reserving some decisions for later. Fortunately, it's straightforward to project what you want to put out there. Aligning yourself with a worthy cause can also be very satisfying now. Jupiter's move into your sign is a powerful event. In the last year, you've been building your spiritual confidence in subtle ways. Now, you're less affected or intimidated by your usual fears and inhibitions. Your confidence in your intuition has also improved. These things will help you embrace this new Jupiter transit of Gemini that runs from this month to June 2025. You should enjoy more self-confidence, and the projection of a fresh "new you" is bound to attract attention. New connections are likely. You'll be building and enhancing your personal image, manner, attitude towards life and independence, confidence levels, relationship with your body, and self-assertion. You're learning — or relearning — to take charge and "own" these things. It's a time of fully embracing your natural traits. New physical activities or programs, businesses, or a fresh start regarding how you walk into a room or grab opportunities can be part of the picture. Jupiter helps enhance your image and repairs your relationship with yourself as you advance. You'll find people more overtly appreciating you and your general vibe. Revelations and epiphanies are likely with a Full Moon in your opposite sign on the 23rd. A matter brewing, buried, or hidden reaches a head, and there can be significant discoveries or epiphanies about your feelings or a close relationship. There could be new clients, invitations, sudden interest in your services or, more simply, your companionship. Your attitude is very forward-looking as you close out the month. You are less interested in the details than the overall effect of any particular plan. There can be a strong sense of release and freedom from previously limiting, rigid, or stifling conditions. Professional or life-path goals can come together. |
CancerMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer: The focus on your life path, long-term goals, or career continues this month, dear Cancer, but your happiness pursuits are also in the spotlight in May. You'll find more and more time and attention for your social life. Rest and relaxation are especially attractive in the last week of the month! You are enthusiastic about pursuing your ambitions and ready to tackle your responsibilities this month. Dynamic and engaged, you're in an excellent position to pour more energy, drive, and passion into your work, business, money, or reputation. You can be motivated to start taking solid, clear steps to fulfill a dream or goal. You can very effectively zero in on those things that matter the most to you deep down inside. You have a special way with people and are persuasive, finding it almost effortless to reinvent a project or perhaps even a friendship. It's a potentially powerful month for payoffs from recent career or business efforts, networking, and connecting with friends. Aim to enjoy the energy of the Sun and Venus in your friendship sector until the 20th and 23rd. You're well-positioned to make friends and repair or boost existing friendships. Around the New Moon on the 7th, interesting opportunities for friendships and partnerships can suddenly arise, bringing new and exciting people into your life. It's a time to improve your links with friends, groups, and networks, and to embrace the potential of these new connections. Your spirits are high, your attitude is fresh, and your sense of community is strong. You might gain the moral support of someone special, further enhancing your sense of belonging. May is powerful for your outlook, optimism, feelings of progress, friendships, and desire to learn, explore, and discover. These areas feel lighter, more romantic or idyllic, and pleasantly mysterious. You could make spiritual or soul connections with friends through shared beliefs or topics of interest, travel, or education. However, the last week of May requires more quiet time and emotional space for healing, thought, and reflection. This is not a time for pushing yourself, but for valuing your need for rest and renewal. There are great rewards for slowing down the pace now. While you can sometimes feel drained, extra rest can do wonders for both your physical and spiritual well-being. This is about pursuing emotional and physical renewal before your birthday month, which can be symbolic but vital as you recharge and refresh. Some things may be up in the air now, and these things need additional time to mature, but your well-being is a priority. In fact, a major headline this month is Jupiter changing signs. While you are busy being productive, Jupiter slips into your privacy sector where it will spend just over a year, and this can lead to a stronger sense of spiritual peace, preparing you internally for outward changes when Jupiter passes over your Sun starting in June 2025. This transit can feel magical for a sense of inner peace and the ability to take things in stride. Even though you may be working behind the scenes or a little more withdrawn than usual in the year ahead, this transit helps you to find comfort in a little more introspection and solitude. Still, it's seldom a lonely sort of self-absorption. Self-contentment is a more apt word to describe it. If you need help during this Jupiter transit, it tends to come just in the nick of time from unanticipated or hidden sources. You will be building tremendous inner and spiritual strength in the year ahead, and it all begins now! It's an excellent period for giving of yourself on a charitable level, as you will derive much satisfaction from doing so. You may find that a partner's daily life or health improves dramatically during this period. You can feel protected as if you have a guardian angel watching over you. Fears and anxieties that may have weighed you down with guilt or pressure can easily be faced and lifted this year. You're in great shape for enjoying your own company, gaining more peace and quiet, trusting your intuition, and supporting others or doing behind-the-scenes good deeds. The Full Moon on the 23rd can bring news or a turning point related to health or work. Try to be as flexible as possible with changes, especially with your routines, as this will make transitions much more manageable. Allow them to happen, or better yet, make them happen! There could be some rushing to meet a deadline or a shuffling of priorities involved. |
LeoMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo: A fun development for you, dear Leo, is the arrival of Jupiter in your solar eleventh house for an extended stay of over a year. This cosmic shift is a beacon of hope, inspiring you to dream, plan, and envision a brighter future. It's a transit that brings a wave of positivity, promising new acquaintances who can propel you towards your goals, or the opportunity to join a group or association that brings immense joy and fulfillment. Leo, the year ahead holds the potential for you to expand your network through new acquaintances or group activities, and this journey begins now. This is a time when recognizing the value of teamwork can make your business endeavors more fruitful. Love may also find its way to you through your friendships. Still, May asks you to work a little harder than usual, as it's a time when you want to shine for your performance, achievements, and responsibilities. You're taking particular pride in these things. The New Moon on the 7th can bring a sense of starting fresh with your reputation or work. You have the chance to shine, and you may even meet someone new through your business dealings. From the 15th, it's a period for communicating with more impact and thinking up long-term strategies that will move you closer to your goals. This month, inner changes reflect well on the outside. It's a brilliant time for support or advancement. You see romance, imagination, and beauty in your connections, goals, and aspirations. Awakening to a particular ambition or long-term purpose isn't out of the question! Transits stir your desire to improve and excel. While much of the month is about performance, opportunities to break away from routine are yours for the taking. Mars harmonizes with your sign all month, and it's a fabulous boost. You may get the chance to explore brand-new experiences on mental or physical planes this month, and they're inspiring. You're looking to round out your life and regain some perspective. Energy levels smooth out, and you're feeling very much in your element. Personal desires are strong and hard to ignore! Your romantic life can be particularly active and possibly impulsive. There can be excitement, motivation, and possibly even love connected to schooling, special topics of interest, adventure, and extracurricular or online activities. Social activity increases later in May, or you're more interested in connecting with friends, networks, the community, or your higher goals, dreams, and plans. While you're not moving away from your responsibilities or professional goals just yet, from the 20th, you're allowing more time for personal and interpersonal activities. You're in great shape for expanding your horizons through your connections to others. A Full Moon on the 23rd occurs in your creativity sector, and there can be significant discoveries or turning points related to hobbies, creative pursuits, children, friendships, and long-term happiness goals or projects. A friend could push you in the right direction, whether directly or indirectly, regarding finding good outlets for your creativity and self-expression, travel, education, or romance. The support from and to friends in the last week of the month stands out. This is a time when you can work on a project or venture designed to last, with the reassurance of your friends by your side. It's an excellent time to put in extra effort to learn, study, or perfect a project or craft. Attending to formal communications or your duties could be in order. |
VirgoMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo: Learning new things or enjoying different activities hold stronger appeal for you in May, dear Virgo, and could be the backdrop for interesting twists in your life story. The month's transits open your mind and heart to new ideas, and you seek more meaning or insight. Energies are mixed but mostly balanced, as you're paying particular attention to your need for life experience and spirited activities, as well as your career or responsibilities and your relationships. You're dividing your time well, and you're set to gain something valuable in all of these areas. Partnering brings rewards and interesting perspectives and experiences this month. You enjoy an increased sense of meaning in May. It's possible that a partnership is a source of inspiration, and the realization of a happiness goal seems more likely. You might enjoy a different perspective through a new topic of interest, line of study, person, or experience after the New Moon on the 7th. You have a great need to make productive use of your time, especially with learning endeavors. Prepare for a period of self-expression and personal growth, dear Virgo. The month's transits are set to awaken your need to discover, learn, and grow. Your success will be greatly influenced by your visionary, optimistic approach at this time. You might find yourself in an excellent position to promote, communicate, and publish, or you could make beneficial long-distance connections. Solid energy is with you for social or cultural events, mind-expanding activities, and studies. At the same time, you can experience powerful emotions, attractions, and discoveries this month. You're putting more energy into your private life, an intimate relationship, research, or investigation. You can benefit from more power behind the scenes and an incredible ability to put something negative behind you. From the 20th forward, you can feel as if you're moving up! It's a visible, outgoing, spirited, and also highly accountable and responsible period. In the last week of the month, focusing on work can be motivating and energizing. There's an emphasis on your responsibilities, work, and performance. Keep an eye out for the Full Moon on the 23rd, as it's a reminder to maintain a balance in your life. If you've been too focused on your goals and responsibilities to the outside world, this lunar event might prompt you to shift your attention to your family, home, or personal life. It could also lead to an epiphany as you come in touch with your true feelings on a matter. This month, Jupiter makes its way to the top of your solar chart. While it does push for achievement, it also brings a sense of joy and meaning to your career pursuits. This influence is not fleeting, as Jupiter will bless your career and ambitions for over a year, until June 2025. This is big news, as Jupiter only makes a sign change every thirteen months or so! Your reputation is set to improve significantly this year, instilling a sense of optimism and motivation. On the career front, there's potential for adventure and freedom. Whether you're more adventurous with your career or you enjoy more freedom with your work, this period is about growing your long-term goals and prospects. The year ahead could bring a reward or recognition for your hard work. A career opportunity may present itself, or you might find yourself in the spotlight. An event could occur that expands your professional interests or boosts your reputation, and you're likely to derive more pleasure from these activities. This promising outlook is sure to stir up excitement and hope about your career prospects. It's a time to discover more joy in following your ambitions and performing or excelling. Working towards a well-defined goal can be motivating and satisfying, although this goal may not be fully fleshed out just yet. Your position with bosses, parents, teachers, or authorities can improve wonderfully in the year ahead. Even so, you're making your own career opportunities with a confident attitude. |
LibraMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra: The month ahead, dear Libra, is marked by a focus on relationships, observation, and breaking routines. Notably, there will be interesting developments in a partnership or your relationships in general. However, the highlight of this period is Jupiter’s move into harmony with your sign. This is not just a temporary boost for the month , but a significant event that sets the tone for the year ahead. This month presents a favorable opportunity for you to quit a bad habit, especially if you have some support or a team effort to back you up. The key is to include trusted others in your plans. Solo efforts don’t fare as well as those done with others in May. Particularly in the first half of the month, brainstorming, especially one-on-one, can lead to profitable results. Your intimacy sector is well-lit in the first three weeks, and you’re in particularly good shape with shared finances, loans, support, research, and intimate relationships. The New Moon on the 7th can bring a pleasant surprise involving money, support, family, and home. Intimate relationships or feelings are likely to heat up suddenly, or this is a time when you awaken to feelings you’ve buried or denied. You may need to pull yourself out of your comfort zone just a little to get what you want or deserve, but the results can be fantastic. This period could inspire you to reevaluate your daily affairs, work, or wellness programs. You might feel a sense of purpose and enjoyment in your projects and routines. Your interest in psychological health and its impact on your physical well-being could deepen, potentially leading to rewards on financial and intimate levels. From mid-month onwards, open and honest communication about emotionally-charged topics, such as power dynamics and shared finances, is crucial. This could be a time when you realize the need for a fresh approach to your intimate life and feelings of empowerment and connection. Consider the benefits of pooling resources with someone. Still, Mars opposes your sign all month, meaning others seem to be taking the lead more often than you. It could also point to tensions in a close relationship, although with things out in the open, resolutions become possible. Collaboration or shared activities can thrive once you’ve sorted things out. In fact, opportunities emerge to make dynamic changes to your life through or about people. Strong feelings and emotions related to a partnership are likely, and you may be looking for others to fulfill your desires. Of course, this can be problematic if taken too far, so watch for overidentifying. However, you are certainly magnetizing people to you now. Keep in mind that you’re bringing out strong reactions and feelings in others, whether or not it’s your intention! You might look at it this way: others are challenging you to experience new things or emotions. The last week of May reveals an emphasis on your sector of spirit and adventure, stirring your need to learn, share ideas, and reach out beyond the usual routine of your life. If a getaway, new course, promotional campaign, or publishing project are possible, this can be a fine time to spread your wings. The Full Moon on the 23rd can stir a little drama in your immediate environment, or it can be a time for reaping the rewards of recent projects or learning efforts. If you’ve been avoiding your daily affairs, you must bring back more balance. Jupiter has encouraged introspection and a deeper connection with your desires and needs in the last year. This spiritual regeneration begins to direct outward from May 25th as you seek to expand your mind, social circle, or activities with renewed faith in your powers to do so. Since Jupiter changes signs only once every year or so and transits a particular sign only every twelve years, Jupiter’s move into your solar ninth house this month is big news. While its harmonious trine to your sign may be subtle at times in the year ahead, the results can be nothing short of fabulous. Your ability to communicate your ideas is improved multiple times over, and your popularity increases. You are an idea machine this year, and your hunches are spot on. This transit stimulates a more adventurous, spirited approach to your world. Soon, Jupiter will team with Pluto and work on making serious improvements, but for now, you’re discovering what you want to achieve. |
ScorpioMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio: May brings a strong focus on relationships, work, and health, dear Scorpio. While gently challenging, it can also be quite balanced. A new beginning in a relationship or with relationship goals can figure strongly, with the New Moon on the 7th nudging you forward. Pluto, one of your ruling planets, does turn retrograde on the 2nd of May, pointing to a natural orientation toward introspection. Nevertheless, others are in the spotlight, especially close friends or a partner. Willingness to make changes and improvements can bring rewards. It can also be a time of notable developments with shared resources or stirrings in this area. Whether or not you are aware of it, you attract people and situations that benefit your personal growth at this time in your life. It’s a time to believe in your ability to contribute much to a partnership. Someone can have an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you. You’re in lovely shape for love, romance, creativity, and partnership in May. You’re enhancing and improving your life as you connect with the need for more nuance, fun, and romance in your life. You see your needs from relationships differently, and your faith in your creative output, relationships, or romantic life is renewing. A partner or a relationship can inspire you to reach new heights. You’re also finding ways to inject routine work or daily life with more excitement. Traveling through your solar sixth house all month, Mars encourages you to channel your passion into productive pursuits or move a work or health project forward. Improving your health and daily routines can go a long way toward reaching or getting closer to your longer-term goals. There’s the potential for satisfying hard work on straightening out your health, job, routines, and daily affairs. Your partnership sector is active in the first three weeks of the month, and relationships are in strong focus. People are intrigued with you and drawn to you. They can be distracting at times but thoroughly helpful much of the time. There can be much chatter between you and a significant other or about close relationships. As the month progresses, you’re in the mood to specialize! Influences spotlight your inner world and the often hidden dynamics in a close relationship. Jupiter moves into your solar sector of joint finances, intimacy, and transformation, and the year ahead is a power period on a financial level. Support from others is a stronger potential than ever. Regarding intimacy, your ability (and desire) for more profound levels of experience reigns. Superficial connections won’t do! You get the opportunity to derive real satisfaction and enjoyment from your relationships during this transit that's with you until June 2025. Expect a pursuit of pleasure that touches the soul. This Jupiter transit might release you from a debt or dependency, or if you’ve kept to yourself and now need support in the form of loans or backing, this could be the time when you get what you need. It’s a time to sort out your debt or joint finances. You’re determined to get a hold on your life, perhaps through tackling bad habits, addictions, or negative attitudes that may have been undermining your confidence–opportunities open to you to do so. You’re in great shape for deepened relationships or more joy in an intimate relationship. Your relationship with yourself can grow as you understand your deeper needs more fully and embrace the more hidden elements of your nature. Combining your resources, whether this is about money, time, or talents, can bring rich rewards. A Full Moon in your resources sector on the 23rd can stir revelations and unveilings centered around money, ownership, valuables, values, talents, sharing of responsibilities, and power dynamics. Look for clues that give you a new perspective on an issue, but give things time! People in your life can help you get in better touch with your ideas because conversations with them jumpstart your thinking processes. |
SagittariusMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Sagittarius: The month ahead is a significant one for you, dear Sagittarius, as it brings focus to your working or daily life, routines, entertainment, and relationships. A major highlight is Jupiter's transition into your partnership sector, marking the start of an almost thirteen-month period filled with fortunate opportunities for one-to-one relationships. As Jupiter is your ruling planet, its sign changes hold special meaning for you. The year ahead of you is particularly favorable for pairing up! May presents you with opportunities for personal growth and self-improvement--you have work to do! You may find more joy and meaning in your routines, and your work could become more fulfilling. This month, you might feel a greater sense of value in your work and be inspired to prioritize self-care. It's a time of abundant ideas to enhance your health or work attitudes and efforts. Your graciousness can pave the way to success. You might experience a surge of optimism and confidence in self-care and self-improvement, particularly through efforts to upgrade your daily life, habits, and routines. The New Moon on the 7th offers a chance to start anew with your work or health. Whether it's about reorganizing your life, adopting healthier habits, managing your time more effectively, or focusing on the details of chores, duties, projects, and plans, you're ready to begin afresh. But while there is much attention to your work and health sector this month, this is not the time to hide away. With Mars in your solar fifth house all month, you can be especially motivated to get going on a creative project, hobby, or even a relationship. There's a more lively spirit in a relationship. It's a time to show confidence in yourself and your favorite people. You can find your creative voice or share yourself with others more confidently. It's a robust transit for enjoying more romance, playfulness, and fun. You could be drawn to someone who exudes strength, or you might meet with people who either share and reinforce your perspective on life or fully appreciate it. Around the Full Moon in your sign on the 23rd, you can experience epiphanies, personal triumphs, and discoveries about your life plan, body, and attitude or outlook. You might embrace your independence or enhance a current relationship by improving your self-reliance. It's a time to recognize the need for positive change. From the 25th, Jupiter, the planet of expansion, works magic on your close partnerships and relationships. This transit lasts until June 2025 and emphasizes a relationship with someone special. Negotiations, counseling, advising, and work with the public are in favor. You'll have opportunities to expand your horizons and enjoy or benefit from your connections more than ever. In the year ahead, resolutions will likely be found for long-standing problems in existing relationships, or a new relationship can figure strongly. Good publicity may come your way, as you are well-received and incredibly likable during this transit. You seem to attract people and situations that benefit your personal growth. There can be someone who has an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you. In the last week of the month, you tend to attract strong and intelligent people into your life, and you take more pride in your close relationships. People in your life can encourage your new ideas or topics of interest. It's also a fine time to positively and successfully combine family and partnership, emphasizing your crucial role in nurturing and maintaining these relationships. |
CapricornMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn: The month ahead emphasizes your personal life, dear Capricorn, including home, family, entertainment, and work or daily affairs. In some ways, two distinct themes dominate your month: pleasure and work! Your creative juices are flowing, and you can have a strong urge to express your unique talents or pursue a new hobby. At the same time, your everyday routines capture your attention. This month, you're bound to find plenty of moments to enjoy yourself and share your happiness with others. It's a time of wonderful, inspiring creativity, communication, personal interests, or romance. People are drawn to you and your ideas, and you feel freer in self-expression. Your imagination flourishes, and creative writing, speaking, and other such pursuits can thrive. It's an excellent time to expand your mind and connect with others through the mind. The New Moon on the 7th heralds a fresh start, particularly in areas of romance, creativity, hobbies, entertainment, or pleasure. If you've been holding back due to a lack of confidence or energy, this is the time for a shift in attitude. There's a larger-than-life element to your feelings and desires this month, and you might uncover hidden or dormant talents. You're in a prime position to attract what and who you want into your life. You're also actively pursuing your desires and expressing your unique personality with newfound confidence. Mars transits your home and family sector all month, stirring much activity on the home front. This influence can undoubtedly bring some tension to your domestic world, and physical and creative release from pressure can be beneficial. From the 20th, you have the powerful Sun in your sector of self-care, daily routines, and work. It's a good time for better working conditions or improved habits. You could be feeling especially interested in tackling ambitious projects or working on health goals. There can be pleasure derived from doing a job well or a sense of accomplishment after taking care of important details. The Full Moon on the 23rd occurs in your privacy sector, and buried matter and secrets come to light. You're receiving powerful messages from your hunches and intuition. Feelings about a past issue are now undeniable. It's a time to decide to either embrace or let go of a situation or attitude. In the last week of May, you'll find yourself with more energy to invest in work, organizing your personal environment, and health routines. A major development: Jupiter enters your sector of work, health, and daily routines, where it will remain until June 2025. This is a significant shift that will expand the nature and scope of your daily activities and routines. You'll discover more meaning and joy in your work or daily affairs. Opportunities for improved working conditions and advancement are likely. Your positive attitude towards your job or duties could play a key role in attracting these opportunities and potential windfalls. The goal now is to discover a more rewarding and fulfilling path while keeping your feet on the ground. You might also enjoy a stronger interest in nutrition, cleaner living, and fitness. You'll find new ways to manage and improve your daily life, but there can be some initial dissatisfaction before you feel the drive to make improvements and refinements. As you close out the month, you can feel a surge of optimism and confidence about self-care and self-improvement. Aim to share your eagerness and generosity now and in the year ahead. You might discover new ways of taking care of the practical side of life, and it's empowering and freeing. |
AquariusMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius: This month, dear Aquarius, there's a distinct emphasis on home, family, and familiarity, especially with a New Moon on the 7th encouraging a fresh start. Still, May is also strong for communication, creativity, learning, and self-expression, and these themes build as the month advances. It's a reassuring time to boost your feelings of security and center yourself, even if your mind stays busy. The cosmos supports you in finding a new approach to family, and there can be material benefits related to your home, family, or real estate. Improving home life can tie in with a better income or attitude toward your things, money, self-worth, and talents, providing a stable foundation for your growth. You're widening your comfort zone a little and thinking about growth and expansion, and you might take some steps toward improving your life from the ground up. Whatever you're building, you're putting your heart and soul into it, maximizing its chances of success. Happiness or hopefulness is substantial. With Mars in your solar third house all month, you can feel passionate about a particular project, learning endeavor, or person! Good energy is with you for breaking new ground in your special interests or studies. It's a period of making powerful, meaningful connections of the mind. You're an effective arbitrator. You can have strong karmic ties to someone now. You may want to take on a challenging project as transits stir your creativity and passion for a mental interest or pursuit. You're motivated to learn, connect, and share. Do watch for impatience in your communications and movements. If you find yourself getting frustrated or rushing, take a moment to breathe and consider the best way to express yourself or proceed. But tap into your passion and enthusiasm for personal interests and activities. From the 20th, you pay more attention to expressing yourself in creative hobbies, romance, recreation, or the pursuit of pleasure. Matters of the heart can be magical, and your sense of drama expands. You might take action to correct things that have been making you unhappy or extend thoughtful gestures to someone and boost a connection. The Full Moon on the 23rd can bring a significant turning point or illumination to a friendship or project. There can be revelations, unveilings, and important discoveries related to creative endeavors, your love life, networks, friends, and goals. This Full Moon is about being true to yourself and, by extension, to others, sparking your curiosity and engagement. Jupiter moves into harmony with your sign on the 25th as it begins visiting your sector of joy, romance, and pleasure. This transit sticks with you, blessing your leisurely activities, dating life, and creative worlds until June 2025. You enjoy increased popularity and forge new friendships in the year ahead. You can be excited to break free from certain inhibitions about expressing yourself. You have been doing a lot of 'work' on yourself recently, and now is the time to share the 'new you' (which is still, in fact, in the process of evolution). New hobbies are very possible. This could be anything from painting to gardening to learning a musical instrument. Channels for fun, love, and self-expression are opening! New opportunities to truly enjoy yourself through recreation, pastimes, and other amusements will likely come your way. Romantic opportunities also expand. It's even possible that a friendship turns into something more, or friends can be integral in exposing you to a new hobby, different and exciting forms of recreation, or romantic opportunities. As the month advances, areas brought to life are recreation, hobbies, children, romance, dating, pleasure, creative endeavors, creative self-expression, leisure time, and fulfillment through play. As you advance, more opportunities are sure to emerge that serve to awaken hidden or dormant talents, and the ball starts rolling now! |
PiscesMay 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces: You're communicative and engaged this month, dear Pisces. Your mind is curious, and improved connections are in store. You’re often busy with errands, connections, learning, communications, and more movement than usual this month. However, there are also persuasive prompts to settle in and get comfortable. In fact, you can find inspiration through your conversations or communications. Expressing yourself through spontaneous, interesting, and perhaps unusual activities can be especially rewarding. You can be particularly pleased with your projects, studies, and contacts. The connections you make, whether physically or mentally, seem fateful and meant to be. It can be a good time for news or information that positively redirects you. New ways of communicating, connecting, and getting around can open up for you, especially after the New Moon on the 7th. Your mind is more willing, open, and curious than ever, and you might gain a new appreciation for things in your daily life that didn’t pop for you in the past. Others might be showing their appreciation for your writing, insight, work, or advice. As well, you gravitate to information that brings benefits to your life. You might also take steps to improve a relationship with a sibling, relative, classmate, or even a neighbor this month. You’re particularly charming in your communications in May. You enjoy a stronger desire to reach out and share your story or connect with others in May. There can be a lot to do and a lot to think and talk about, and doing some juggling is likely. Fortunately, it comes more naturally to make extra time for rest as the month advances. May is also a strong month for creative improvements to your home, comfort levels, and business. You might discover new ways to earn more or increase your enjoyment of a special pursuit. With Mars visiting your resources sector all month, you can feel especially passionate about your job, business, and personal possessions — whatever you’re currently building can excite you now. You have a stronger feel for what may be a good buy, business move, or strategy and the confidence to go for it. This potential for joy and satisfaction from your creative efforts should inspire and motivate you to take action. From the 20th, your focus is shifting. You’re enjoying family and home life or putting down roots. You bring more pride to your domestic world, and you can benefit by spending more time with family or at home and local activities. It can be a time for investing in your comfort, home, and safety. This emphasis on family and domestic life should make you feel valued and prioritized, reinforcing the importance of these aspects in your life. Interestingly, opportunities emerge to improve as you approach your comfort, home life, family interactions, and daily life with more positivity. Pushing some boundaries or changing your routines in fresh ways can positively impact your personal life. Around the Full Moon on the 23rd, there can be a culmination of a project, recognition for your work, or a sudden realization of your true calling. An emerging responsibility reminds you to pay more attention to your public or professional life. In the last week of May, you're likely to thoroughly enjoy connections with family and personal time for yourself after a sometimes hectic but productive month. This period also holds significant potential for personal growth and improvement, which can serve as a source of motivation and focus for you. On the 25th, Jupiter begins its longer-term transit of your solar fourth house of family, roots, and home. This is a significant shift that can bring about substantial improvements in your personal and domestic life. There can be improved relationships with loved ones, a new addition to your family, the urge to expand, redecorate, or build your home and domestic world, or the beginning of a new, long-term project or business venture. It’s time for an upgrade to your living conditions or arrangements. Moving, renovating, or increasing your feelings of safety and comfort can figure strongly. You’ll also be working on establishing and centering yourself emotionally. You’re thinking about growth and expansion and taking small steps toward improving your life from the ground up. You can be in a celebratory or happily domestic mood. Whatever you’re building, you’re putting your heart and soul into it, maximizing its chances of success. |
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May 2024 Aspects TimeLine:
See also: This Week in Astrology for more detail.
See also: Table of Planetary Transits, Sign Changes, New/Full Moons, and Retrogrades for the Month
This Month’s Ephemeris:
This Month’s Ephemeris with extra points and abbreviations rather than glyphs:
Ephemerides with additional points are for Eastern Time. The North Node and Lilith are the True positions. Retrogrades are underlined. Extra points are Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Lilith. These come from the excellent software, Sirius 3.0.
This Month’s Void Moon Dates:
Using the table below: The Moon is Void of Course from the time of its last aspect listed below until the Moon enters a new sign. Generally speaking, these periods are not ideal for launching new endeavors, although they’re not impossible periods, either.
The times given below are Eastern. These should be adjusted for different time zones. For example, for Pacific Time, subtract 3 hours from the given times.
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