Virgo Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Virgo Sun and Virgo Ascendant.
May 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Virgo
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Overview for this Month: Virgo (All)
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
Your larger focus is on the "big picture" this month, dear Virgo. Strong areas of focus in May are learning, sharing ideas, publishing, venturing beyond your usual bounds, friendships, and worldly goals. You're looking for spirit-lifting activities!
You have a strong desire for experiences that transcend the ordinary. Whether physical or mental, opportunities to satisfy this itch are decent, but there can be some related delays to work around with Mercury retrograde until the 14th. Changes, backtracking, and obstacles tend to redirect you on a more appropriate path — it's mostly a matter of staying flexible.
You're in excellent shape in public or professional settings with Venus at the top of your solar chart until the 7th, after which you're de-emphasizing responsibilities to the outside world until the 21st. There can be an important meeting of minds with someone in authority, the achievement of a unique goal, or another such boost.
In the first half of the month, redoing work you thought was complete or returning to old material or conversations and problems can make you feel a little stuck at times. However, you're bound to make some progress in a "two steps forward, one step back" kind of way. Minor inconveniences aside, you're getting to a much better place mentally. The temptation may be to release a special work or complete a project or study before it's truly ready. However, it's best to exercise patience. It may be better to wait for a time when people are more receptive.
Consider, too, that with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th muddying the waters, you're better off taking more time to refine things than you are for pushing something ahead. It's best to avoid expecting things to transpire exactly as expected and avoid taking things at face value only in the first half of May.
Watch for processing too much information or for sensory overload — aim to be discriminating with what you take in. Still, there can be important discoveries, ideas, and changes in your mindset or attitude. Watch for impulsive self-expression, but give weight to your emotions and any epiphanies. Recent inattention to details or daily affairs may need rectifying.
The New Moon on the 19th can reinforce your passion for an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts.
Watch for over-controlling or micromanaging your work, routine, health and schedule, as it may limit the time and energy you have to explore your extra-curricular activities. At the same time, aim to identify fears that may be holding you back from expanding your reach.
Your social sector is active this month: Venus is there from the 7th forward, and Mars is a guest until the 20th. A more active and lively social life is likely, or there can be a particular focus on group or teamwork. You can play a more vital role in others' lives now.
Themes shift from the 20-21 forward. Mars heads into your privacy sector, and the Sun moves into your sector of career and reputation. You're likely to feel more confident or happier about where you're heading. Making plans and setting goals can be exciting, but it's also vital that you make time for rest and reflection. Fortunately, with Venus in your social sector, you better understand the benefits of relaxing and taking some time off from responsibilities, helping you find a balance between performance and downtime.
As well, Jupiter moves into your spirit sector this month, and it's a happy move! For the coming year (until May 2024), Jupiter harmonizes with your sign, helping you rise above minor problems and discomforts as you tune into the bigger picture and gain perspective. You're more optimistic and confident with this transit. This influence pulls you out of an introspective phase and into a more outgoing, active, spontaneous cycle. Over the coming year, there can be new opportunities to learn, publish, communicate, promote, explore, and connect.
In the last week of May, there can be progress, growth, or good news related to special topics, promotion, learning, and sharing, and you can connect with the right people and information to feel that you're heading somewhere you want to go. An expanded worldview figures strongly.
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Virgo (Born August 23 to September 2) AND Virgo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Virgo:
May 2023 Virgo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 20th:
The Sun continues to shine its light on your solar ninth house now. This is a cycle in which you seek to expand your experiences and awareness, whether through philosophical thinking, higher education, travel, or simply activities that take you away from your everyday routines. You may feel a little restless if you don't find ways to explore.
It's an excellent period for looking at your life from a different perspective--a broader one--whether you initiate this process or you make contact with others who stimulate you to think about your circumstances differently. Your energy is strong, open, and friendly right now, you come across well to others, and you are a little bolder and adventurous than usual.
From May 21st forward:
The Sun illuminates your career and reputation sector. More than any other time of the year, your focus is drawn to your "place" or standing in the outer world, and your reputation. This is the time when you are more interested in, and focused on, accomplishing something important. Your competency is something that you are especially sensitive to during this cycle.
You want to shine! Your vision is practical right now, and you want to see tangible results for your efforts. More contact with authority figures is likely during this period. Recognition is likely to come your way whether you ask for it or not, and the responsibility that comes right along with it! Do what you feel is right, keeping in mind that you are at your most visible during this period in the year.
Eclipses
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 5th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar third house. Surprises surrounding your siblings, neighbors, or classmates are in store. Something that has been in hiding or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your sector of communications is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination of a writing project, an event involving a sibling that grabs your complete attention, a sudden opportunity for an adventure or trip, a flurry of activity in your immediate environment or neighborhood that demands attention, a letter or other communication that holds a big surprise, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until May 7th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From May 7th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
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 your own body language and personal manner (you may feel that others misunderstand you), as well as communications involving the career or public, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. You are ruled by Mercury, so the likelihood of being misunderstood, in general, is high. Put off career decisions as well, as career matters are Gemini-ruled for you.
Occurring in your solar ninth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding travel or education plans. Delays or complications are very possible in these areas. Go over applications carefully before submitting them and make sure you understand instructions clearly. Expressing your opinions now might come across in entirely the wrong way. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with professors and lawyers as well; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
After the 14th, information unclogs and delays lift.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until the 20th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From the 20th forward:
With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing!
It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself.
Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
Your larger focus is on the "big picture" this month, dear Virgo. Strong areas of focus in May are learning, sharing ideas, publishing, venturing beyond your usual bounds, friendships, and worldly goals. You're looking for spirit-lifting activities!
You have a strong desire for experiences that transcend the ordinary. Whether physical or mental, opportunities to satisfy this itch are decent, but there can be some related delays to work around with Mercury retrograde until the 14th. Changes, backtracking, and obstacles tend to redirect you on a more appropriate path — it's mostly a matter of staying flexible.
You're in excellent shape in public or professional settings with Venus at the top of your solar chart until the 7th, after which you're de-emphasizing responsibilities to the outside world until the 21st. There can be an important meeting of minds with someone in authority, the achievement of a unique goal, or another such boost.
In the first half of the month, redoing work you thought was complete or returning to old material or conversations and problems can make you feel a little stuck at times. However, you're bound to make some progress in a "two steps forward, one step back" kind of way. Minor inconveniences aside, you're getting to a much better place mentally. The temptation may be to release a special work or complete a project or study before it's truly ready. However, it's best to exercise patience. It may be better to wait for a time when people are more receptive.
Consider, too, that with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th muddying the waters, you're better off taking more time to refine things than you are for pushing something ahead. It's best to avoid expecting things to transpire exactly as expected and avoid taking things at face value only in the first half of May.
Watch for processing too much information or for sensory overload — aim to be discriminating with what you take in. Still, there can be important discoveries, ideas, and changes in your mindset or attitude. Watch for impulsive self-expression, but give weight to your emotions and any epiphanies. Recent inattention to details or daily affairs may need rectifying.
The New Moon on the 19th can reinforce your passion for an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts.
Watch for over-controlling or micromanaging your work, routine, health and schedule, as it may limit the time and energy you have to explore your extra-curricular activities. At the same time, aim to identify fears that may be holding you back from expanding your reach.
Your social sector is active this month: Venus is there from the 7th forward, and Mars is a guest until the 20th. A more active and lively social life is likely, or there can be a particular focus on group or teamwork. You can play a more vital role in others' lives now.
Themes shift from the 20-21 forward. Mars heads into your privacy sector, and the Sun moves into your sector of career and reputation. You're likely to feel more confident or happier about where you're heading. Making plans and setting goals can be exciting, but it's also vital that you make time for rest and reflection. Fortunately, with Venus in your social sector, you better understand the benefits of relaxing and taking some time off from responsibilities, helping you find a balance between performance and downtime.
As well, Jupiter moves into your spirit sector this month, and it's a happy move! For the coming year (until May 2024), Jupiter harmonizes with your sign, helping you rise above minor problems and discomforts as you tune into the bigger picture and gain perspective. You're more optimistic and confident with this transit. This influence pulls you out of an introspective phase and into a more outgoing, active, spontaneous cycle. Over the coming year, there can be new opportunities to learn, publish, communicate, promote, explore, and connect.
In the last week of May, there can be progress, growth, or good news related to special topics, promotion, learning, and sharing, and you can connect with the right people and information to feel that you're heading somewhere you want to go. An expanded worldview figures strongly.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
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Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
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romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Virgo in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Virgo Horoscope.
Virgo (Born September 3 to 12) AND Virgo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Virgo:
May 2023 Virgo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now.
A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself. The only caution with this cycle is that you could lose touch with managing everyday affairs and important details.
Eclipses
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 5th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
This Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar third house. Surprises surrounding your siblings, neighbors, or classmates are in store. Something that has been in hiding or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your sector of communications is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination of a writing project, an event involving a sibling that grabs your complete attention, a sudden opportunity for an adventure or trip, a flurry of activity in your immediate environment or neighborhood that demands attention, a letter or other communication that holds a big surprise, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until May 16th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From May 16th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
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 your own body language and personal manner (you may feel that others misunderstand you), as well as communications involving the career or public, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. You are ruled by Mercury, so the likelihood of being misunderstood, in general, is high. Put off career decisions as well, as career matters are Gemini-ruled for you.
Occurring in your solar eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Information unclogs on the 14th.
From May 26th forward:
Mercury transits your solar ninth house. Not content to focus on mundane, practical affairs just now, your mind turns to bigger visions, thoughts, and ideals. You are open to expanding your knowledge base during this cycle, and communications from or with someone far away may be part of the picture.
You are putting everything into perspective now, rather than compartmentalizing. Instead of simply shooting the breeze, you are more inclined to discuss broader philosophies now. Your inclination during this cycle is to think about the "big picture" rather than the mundane circumstances and details of your life. Missing appointments and other forms of forgetfulness could be part of the picture now.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
Your larger focus is on the "big picture" this month, dear Virgo. Strong areas of focus in May are learning, sharing ideas, publishing, venturing beyond your usual bounds, friendships, and worldly goals. You're looking for spirit-lifting activities!
You have a strong desire for experiences that transcend the ordinary. Whether physical or mental, opportunities to satisfy this itch are decent, but there can be some related delays to work around with Mercury retrograde until the 14th. Changes, backtracking, and obstacles tend to redirect you on a more appropriate path — it's mostly a matter of staying flexible.
You're in excellent shape in public or professional settings with Venus at the top of your solar chart until the 7th, after which you're de-emphasizing responsibilities to the outside world until the 21st. There can be an important meeting of minds with someone in authority, the achievement of a unique goal, or another such boost.
In the first half of the month, redoing work you thought was complete or returning to old material or conversations and problems can make you feel a little stuck at times. However, you're bound to make some progress in a "two steps forward, one step back" kind of way. Minor inconveniences aside, you're getting to a much better place mentally. The temptation may be to release a special work or complete a project or study before it's truly ready. However, it's best to exercise patience. It may be better to wait for a time when people are more receptive.
Consider, too, that with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th muddying the waters, you're better off taking more time to refine things than you are for pushing something ahead. It's best to avoid expecting things to transpire exactly as expected and avoid taking things at face value only in the first half of May.
Watch for processing too much information or for sensory overload — aim to be discriminating with what you take in. Still, there can be important discoveries, ideas, and changes in your mindset or attitude. Watch for impulsive self-expression, but give weight to your emotions and any epiphanies. Recent inattention to details or daily affairs may need rectifying.
The New Moon on the 19th can reinforce your passion for an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts.
Watch for over-controlling or micromanaging your work, routine, health and schedule, as it may limit the time and energy you have to explore your extra-curricular activities. At the same time, aim to identify fears that may be holding you back from expanding your reach.
Your social sector is active this month: Venus is there from the 7th forward, and Mars is a guest until the 20th. A more active and lively social life is likely, or there can be a particular focus on group or teamwork. You can play a more vital role in others' lives now.
Themes shift from the 20-21 forward. Mars heads into your privacy sector, and the Sun moves into your sector of career and reputation. You're likely to feel more confident or happier about where you're heading. Making plans and setting goals can be exciting, but it's also vital that you make time for rest and reflection. Fortunately, with Venus in your social sector, you better understand the benefits of relaxing and taking some time off from responsibilities, helping you find a balance between performance and downtime.
As well, Jupiter moves into your spirit sector this month, and it's a happy move! For the coming year (until May 2024), Jupiter harmonizes with your sign, helping you rise above minor problems and discomforts as you tune into the bigger picture and gain perspective. You're more optimistic and confident with this transit. This influence pulls you out of an introspective phase and into a more outgoing, active, spontaneous cycle. Over the coming year, there can be new opportunities to learn, publish, communicate, promote, explore, and connect.
In the last week of May, there can be progress, growth, or good news related to special topics, promotion, learning, and sharing, and you can connect with the right people and information to feel that you're heading somewhere you want to go. An expanded worldview figures strongly.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also general trends for Virgo in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Virgo Horoscope.
Virgo (Born September 13 to 23) AND Virgo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Virgo:
May 2023 Virgo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
May 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until May 11th:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar eighth house. Your attention turns inward, as well as to close personal relationships on a deeper level. Personal transformations, personal power, and intimate matters fulfill you most during this cycle. There may be a strong focus on other's money, such as the resources of a partner, inheritance, banking and loans, or taxes.
You are more intense in your mood and disposition, and perhaps even secretive, at this time of year. You are more in touch with the deeper and even primal elements of your own personality, and more able to see these things in others. This can be a determined and personally powerful time of year if you apply the energy of this transit constructively.
From May 11th forward:
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now.
A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself. The only caution with this cycle is that you could lose touch with managing everyday affairs and important details.
Eclipses
A Lunar Eclipse occurs on May 5th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
The Lunar Eclipse stimulates your solar second house. Surprises surrounding your personal finances and possessions are in store. Something that has been "in hiding" or brewing under the surface of things comes to light, or there is a significant fruition or culmination. Your sector of personal finances is involved. This could manifest, for example, as the culmination or fruition of a financial project, an event involving personal possessions that holds your attention, a sudden money-making opportunity, a flurry of activity resulting from a financial matter, and other such possibilities.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until the 26th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From May 26th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
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 your own body language and personal manner (you may feel that others misunderstand you), as well as communications involving the career or public, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. You are ruled by Mercury, so the likelihood of being misunderstood, in general, is high. Put off career decisions as well, as career matters are Gemini-ruled for you.
Occurring in your solar eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Information unclogs from the 14th forward.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
From the 3rd forward:
Mars is energizing your solar eleventh house now. Group activities and cooperative efforts are the best way to achieve your goals right now. In fact, you have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do. Avoid allowing the ego to attempt to dominate others. You prefer to lead a group rather than follow during this period, and there are certainly ways to do so without stepping on others' toes.
As well, the best way to achieve your goals during this period is to work as a team, or to at least to do some networking. You may have more energy than usual to want to organize projects. Your humanitarian impulse may be stimulated. The role you play for other people in your life becomes the focus. You may feel that your schedule gets overloaded at this time with things to do (usually for others).
Overview Horoscope:
May 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:
Your larger focus is on the "big picture" this month, dear Virgo. Strong areas of focus in May are learning, sharing ideas, publishing, venturing beyond your usual bounds, friendships, and worldly goals. You're looking for spirit-lifting activities!
You have a strong desire for experiences that transcend the ordinary. Whether physical or mental, opportunities to satisfy this itch are decent, but there can be some related delays to work around with Mercury retrograde until the 14th. Changes, backtracking, and obstacles tend to redirect you on a more appropriate path — it's mostly a matter of staying flexible.
You're in excellent shape in public or professional settings with Venus at the top of your solar chart until the 7th, after which you're de-emphasizing responsibilities to the outside world until the 21st. There can be an important meeting of minds with someone in authority, the achievement of a unique goal, or another such boost.
In the first half of the month, redoing work you thought was complete or returning to old material or conversations and problems can make you feel a little stuck at times. However, you're bound to make some progress in a "two steps forward, one step back" kind of way. Minor inconveniences aside, you're getting to a much better place mentally. The temptation may be to release a special work or complete a project or study before it's truly ready. However, it's best to exercise patience. It may be better to wait for a time when people are more receptive.
Consider, too, that with a Lunar Eclipse on the 5th muddying the waters, you're better off taking more time to refine things than you are for pushing something ahead. It's best to avoid expecting things to transpire exactly as expected and avoid taking things at face value only in the first half of May.
Watch for processing too much information or for sensory overload — aim to be discriminating with what you take in. Still, there can be important discoveries, ideas, and changes in your mindset or attitude. Watch for impulsive self-expression, but give weight to your emotions and any epiphanies. Recent inattention to details or daily affairs may need rectifying.
The New Moon on the 19th can reinforce your passion for an idea, ideal, or course of study, and you can feel compelled to share your thoughts.
Watch for over-controlling or micromanaging your work, routine, health and schedule, as it may limit the time and energy you have to explore your extra-curricular activities. At the same time, aim to identify fears that may be holding you back from expanding your reach.
Your social sector is active this month: Venus is there from the 7th forward, and Mars is a guest until the 20th. A more active and lively social life is likely, or there can be a particular focus on group or teamwork. You can play a more vital role in others' lives now.
Themes shift from the 20-21 forward. Mars heads into your privacy sector, and the Sun moves into your sector of career and reputation. You're likely to feel more confident or happier about where you're heading. Making plans and setting goals can be exciting, but it's also vital that you make time for rest and reflection. Fortunately, with Venus in your social sector, you better understand the benefits of relaxing and taking some time off from responsibilities, helping you find a balance between performance and downtime.
As well, Jupiter moves into your spirit sector this month, and it's a happy move! For the coming year (until May 2024), Jupiter harmonizes with your sign, helping you rise above minor problems and discomforts as you tune into the bigger picture and gain perspective. You're more optimistic and confident with this transit. This influence pulls you out of an introspective phase and into a more outgoing, active, spontaneous cycle. Over the coming year, there can be new opportunities to learn, publish, communicate, promote, explore, and connect.
In the last week of May, there can be progress, growth, or good news related to special topics, promotion, learning, and sharing, and you can connect with the right people and information to feel that you're heading somewhere you want to go. An expanded worldview figures strongly.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart.
Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Highlights section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
The horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. For those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes (classic), simply read the first decanate regardless of your birthdate.
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