Welcome to your May Astrological Forecast.
As we arrive into May we trust that Spring is truly here. Tuning into the sounds of the bees and birds, the smell of the flowers, the sprouts becoming plants, the air continuing to get warmer: The vitality of the earth is mirrored all around us through new colours and life everywhere.
May brings us a Blue Moon and two Full Moons, bookmarking this month with themes of harvest and release.
This month moves us out of sensual, steady, embodied Taurus into curious, witty, adaptable Gemini.
Earth to Air. Fixed to Mutable.
And mutable signs lead us into a new seasons.
This month, we may feel this as quickening time of change as we move closer to the summer solstice.
This month, we celebrate Beltane, the cross quarter day on the Wheel of the Year that is celebrated from April 30th to May 1st. Honored as the midpoint between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, Beltane is a time when the earth is ripe and new life is flourishing everywhere. Taking place during the heart of the spring season in Taurus, a sensual, earthy sign ruled by Venus – goddess of love and beauty- we can feel the Beltane energy invoking our own passionate nature.
From sundown April 30th to sundown May 1st, Beltane celebrations would traditionally happen to gather and dance the maypole, around the bonfire, initiating fertility rites, sacred union and merry making.
Each of the sacred days of the Wheel of the Year initiates a 6 week season. This month, Beltane initiates us into the Summer Solstice, as we begin to move into the height of the Sun. Everything is coming into full bloom. Every day brings a little more light, a little more warmth. We can feel our own expansion within.
Questions to ask yourself this month:
What is coming alive in you?
What is wanting to grow and flourish?
Keys transits this month
May 1st : Full Moon in Scorpio 11°, 10:22am PDT
We start the month strong with a Beltane Full Moon in Scorpio.
Scorpio, a fixed water sign, known for its ability to dive deep into the mystery, the unknown and the subconscious and shadow aspects of ourselves and this world.
Shining a light into the darkness to witness the deep spaces within that we may have been avoiding or dismissing. Opening to see the shadows and what is ready to be revealed, we allow for healing and integration. It is not always easy, though trusting in our ability to navigate these waters.
Full moons bring the energy of release and fullness, the peak of our lunar cycle. A falling away of what is ready to be let go of and a celebration of what we have learned, integrated and ripened into.
Taurus and Scorpio are polarities across from each other on the wheel as Beltane and Samhain. A powerful time of the thinning of the veils, of celebrating the cycles of transformation, death and rebirth.
It feels auspicious to have this heightened energy on Beltane this year. Perhaps you may be called to celebrate in community by dancing around the maypole or fire, coming into communion with your beloved, deepening in reverence with the earth in all her abundant glory or letting your own inner wisdom guide you to honor this time in your way.
Calling on the fae to dance with us through this Beltane season. Honoring the deep magic and mystery that moves through all things while celebrating life and the beauty of the earth.
Honoring the fertile and creative life force that courses through our veins and within all of life.
Inviting this season of abundance to nourish and bless us with its richness.
May 16th | New Moon Taurus at 25°, 1pm PDT
The Moon in fixed embodied Taurus is a favorable position.
It brings a slowing down and steady grounding, creating a solid foundation from which to move forward. Honoring our body temple, what it is to be in a body and to receive all the vastness this human experience has to offer.
Inviting in a deeper rooting in of ourselves and into the earth. Receiving the abundance and nourishment that is available to us as we create the seeds of possibility for the good of all.
Honoring the medicine of Taurus calling us to slow down, be present and nourish ourselves. Taurus’s ruler Venus, planet of love and beauty, brings her wisdom to this new moon.
Calling us into our sensual bodies to appreciate what it is to experience pleasure all that is available to us.
Inviting us to drop deeper into our hearts and our longing to connect and create meaningful relationships with others.
Creating awareness around what we value, our self worth and what is important to us.
Reminding us of the beauty that lives within and all around us, if we allow ourselves to receive it.
May 17th | Mercury enters Gemini at 3:27am PDT
Mercury returns back to one of its rulers in Gemini, the sign of the cosmic messenger, the shapeshifter, the storyteller.
Mercury in Gemini moves fast and sometimes it can be a lot to keep up with the quick firing of the brain and the need to act and make things happen. Truths may be needing to be spoken and trusting the urge while being compassionate with others that may feel different than we do.
The medicine here is to follow the inspiration, the excitement and our unique gifts and let this have space to be felt, to be expressed and trust what wants to come through without needing to filter it.
Mercury rules communication and in Gemini we may feel that all of a sudden our channel has opened and we have so much to say. Remembering that the compliment of speaking is listening. What does it feel like to listen and allow ourselves to move and act from this place of deep presence?
Perhaps something is wanting to come through you?
Can you open to the full potential of this expression and allow it to be revealed?
May 18th | Mars enters Taurus 3:26pm PDT
Here action driven Mars meets steady Taurus. A pairing that can sometimes feel challenging with Mars wanting to move fast and Taurus wanting to slow it all down.
The wisdom here is patience and perseverance. To follow what motivates us and to remember that action created by building foundations first creates a much steadier structure for what we are creating. To be thinking of not only what is right in front of us though what we are creating going forward.
The stamina of Taurus is an asset here. Allowing any softening of resistance with change with small steps that will create stability and forward action.
Remembering that Taurus is a sensual sign that loves the tactile nature of this human experience.
Tuning into the beauty of nature, of connection and that what we are creating is for the greater good of all.
May 19th | Venus enters Cancer at 6:46 pm PDT
Venus and Moon conjunction in Cancer at 6:49pm PDT
Each month Venus and the Moon meet in the sky in their cosmic dance, today these two celestial bodies met in only minutes after Venus moves into Cancer
In astrology, Venus and the Moon are two of the luminary bodies associated with the divine feminine.
In astrology, Venus connects us to feminine within and in our interactions with others and the external world. Each time Venus changes signs, a new energy is infused in connection to the array of Venusian themes of relationships, values, pleasure, beauty and love.
The Moon connects us to our intuition, inner world, feelings and emotions, our lunar aspects and connecting us with the high priestess.
Venus, our ways of relating and connecting, sharing love, our connection to beauty, values, our solar aspects and connecting us with the Empress.
When these two meet in the sky a new portal or cycle is created bringing forth new insights and remembrance.
Venus in Cancer is the soft and flowing water, sensitive yet strong, protective yet expansive. Cancer rules birth and conception and is connected to the archetype of the Caregiver and Mother. Here we are aware of themes around our family, home, feelings and emotions, and how we take care of ourselves and others.
As the nurturer Cancer wants to make sure everyone’s needs are met though sometimes forgets about her own.
Thus falling into the shadow of the martyr who feels that she has to do it all and gives and exhausts herself to depletion.
Can we honor the deep emotional realms without getting lost in them?
Can we create time for our own self care and make sure our own needs are met?
Moving with the ebbs and flows of our feelings through gentleness and nourishment. Honoring our sensitivity as a gift and what it has to share with about the subtle magic and beauty of our lives and our connections,
May 20th | Sun enters Gemini at 5:37pm PDT
From grounded, sensual Taurus we move to changeable, intellectual Gemini. A time of quickening and curiosity that sparks new creative inspirations and leads us to the threshold of the Summer season.
Gemini, the shapeshifter, the chameleon, knows how to keep its wits about it, remembering to be flexible and adaptable as things shift and change, perhaps even unexpectedly. Keeping our minds open to new perspectives, ways of thinking and potential outcomes. Allowing the mind to be an ally and a place to access wisdom and insight, instead of a prison, rigid and stuck in ways of thinking that are not serving our evolution and that of humanity.
Gemini loves to play, be creative. What wants to come through you? Honoring our inner child that lives within that. Bringing in laughter and joy. Perhaps you are called to be more social and engage with others. Creating spaces to allow your inner child to be expressed.
Ruled by Mercury, the Messenger, the wisdom of Gemini can guide us to a greater awareness of how we communicate and express ourselves. Encouraging curiosity to see how we are interacting and how we can step more fully into truth and authentic expression.
What new inspirations are being breathed through you at this time?
May 31st | Full Moon Sagittarius at 9°, 1:44am PDT
We started our month off with a Full Moon and complete with another Full Moon. Marking a Blue Moon when there are two Full Moons in one month.
This Full Moon, is in mutable fire sign Sagittarius, the sign of the explorer and philosopher on the quest for universal truth.
Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, brings an optimistic, enthusiastic, future oriented and spiritual knowledge seeking energy.
Inspired by independence, growth, higher learning, truth, our beliefs,and liberation. The freedom to express our truth, and to be ourselves without barriers.
Sagittarius’s symbol of the archer, inspiring us to focus on what we are moving towards. Seen as the centaur, half man/woman, half horse, creating a bridge between our human and animal nature, earth and spirit.
Where are we wanting to shift our focus to?
Calling in clarity for the higher purpose or vision that we are calling in.
This moon asks to look at our beliefs and if they are in alignment with what we are creating in our lives. Going inward and deeper to see where we may be holding on to stories or patterns that are keeping us from the truth of who we are. Getting more clear of what lies beneath and what the WHY is underneath it all.
Taking some space to listen to what is alive and present within you.
Soothing our nervous system if it is feeling activated.
Taking a salt bath to purify anything that is being released
Putting on your favorite song to dance through what is arising
Laying on the earth and feeling the support and love from the mother
Clearing your space with sacred smoke or essential oils
Lighting a candle and releasing into the fire what is ready to be transmuted into love
We are in a time of great transformation individually and collectively.
Can you allow the energy flowing through to open new levels of consciousness?
Each time we move through the layers of our conditioning, imprints and old belief structures, we are paving a new way, not only for ourselves but for all beings and those yet to come.
Celebrating this collective rising.
We are stronger together.
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