There’s a decent chance you’ll be traveling this month, or at least learning or philosophizing about something interesting. Mercury’s brief pass through Taurus from May 10 to May 25 creates extra movement for you in the realm of journeys, so whether you’re adding more stamps to your passport or having rich discussions on your nature walks, the middle of the month could provide you with a breath of fresh air.
If you are on the road, watch out for some potentially tense moments around May 12, May 18, and May 24 in particular. You might run into more than your usual share of mishaps or complications (like, say, your rental car breaking down, or a case of travel tummy, or getting pickpocketed, or accidentally committing a cultural faux pas). That’s not to say you should avoid having new experiences or asking questions about politics and history, but maybe just tread a little more carefully than you would on a good day. Even though there’s more potential for things to go wrong, there’s also more potential for surprising, eye-opening, and meaningful memories to take hold.
Libra Rising
Sometimes relationships unravel a little in order to come together again in better shape than before. Other times? Perhaps there’s simply no going back. A big part of your mission this month is to integrate recent realizations and shifts in your awareness into your real-time connections with others. As newly direct Venus transits your seventh house of others through the month of May, consider this a sort of check-in with the important people in your life, a revelation of the state of your union, a chance to reestablish ties with others from a more self-aware place. With Saturn also cozying up to your relationship sector as of May 24, it seems as though all this recent soul-searching has been a preparation for (and a prelude to) a longer winter of commitment that begins in earnest these next couple of months. Whether it’s commitment to a partnership or commitment to a more solitary path, it’s probably going to feel daunting at the outset. Perhaps it was necessary to get to a place of radical acceptance first in order to move forward feeling firmly rooted in your truth.
While your love life is probably what this refers to, there might also be a major business deal in the works, or a new way of working with your clients if you run a practice. May also brings turning points in your finances close to the Scorpio full moon on May 12—perhaps because you’ll be getting to the bottom of some math that hasn’t been adding up, or maybe because you’ll be changing something about the way your accounts are set up. “Divesting from the wrong things in order to invest in the right things” is more or less the vibe here, and could be an important part of setting yourself up for success in both your personal and professional life.
Also happening all month (but especially around May 19), Jupiter will be squaring the lunar nodes from your ninth house of learning, travel, and spirituality. An odyssey you’ve been on for the last year reaches an important tipping point before it concludes, a sort of cliffhanger before the season finale. Think of this as a sort of “settling on a thesis before you defend your dissertation,” or a point of no return in your larger journey to know the world. Something is finally clicking into place after a year of false starts and incomplete assumptions, and this will surely feel satisfying after so much time spent chasing the right answers (or visas). With the Sun and Mercury both joining Jupiter in this part of the sky after May 20, the end of the month will provide stimulating opportunities to expand your world further, perhaps through literal travel, publishing, academic commotion, or spiritual seeking. If you can believe it, this is a graduation ceremony. Hopefully it’ll all feel worth it with that diploma in your hand.
Scorpio Rising
The truth always comes out eventually, and this goes double for someone like you, who can sense an incomplete truth from a mile away. Coming up soon, the full moon in Scorpio on May 12 digs up dirt that may have tried to stay buried, but was probably no match for the persistent interrogation that will expose what’s really going on. Mercury will perfect a square to Pluto as the moon is reaching fullness that day, and Pluto itself stations direct on May 4, bringing significant things to light this month about your family, past, and perhaps the literal land you call home. This feels big, somehow, and might force you to reevaluate certain aspects of your life. On May 17 and 18, some subtler disruptions show up in your relationships and potentially in your career or public-facing life, potentially as aftershocks or adjustments to earlier revelations. It’s not easy to lay all your cards out on the table, but your honesty is all you can really control. Other people are gonna choose to respond however they choose to respond.
