May Horoscopes

Astrology of May
Current Configurations
Past Months

Aries	Libra
Taurus	Scorpio
Gemini	Sagittarius
Cancer	Capricorn
Leo	Aquarius
Virgo	Pisces

May 2011

Current Astrology

	The Sun is in Gemini
	The Moon is in AquariusThe Disseminating Moon is in Aquarius: All day
	Moon Void of Course 9:24 pm to 6/9 3:14 am
	Next Mercury Retrograde Aug 23 - Sep 15

May Horoscopes

by Henry Seltzer

Aries Horoscope (March 21 - April 19)
Cardinal Fire. Your ruling planet is Mars.

It's a powerful time, Aries. You are still quite energized and charged up with the multifaceted possibilities of your situation, only now you are able to even more concretely pursue them to their logical or perhaps their emotional conclusion. Your ideas continue to come fast and furious, and not all of them can blossom. Sudden left turns come up out of the blue, and before you know it you're taking a new byway. Relationship twists and turns are only part of the story, and have their better than expected endings that are also beginnings. Tough love has its own rewards, so that you are learning more than you ever thought you would as you advance, seemingly haphazardly, toward an unknown outcome.

As the month begins, you are feeling comfortably centered in yourself and also extremely energized, with powerful feelings of optimism and positive aspirations partially offset by a strong sense of limitation that comes to you from the mentoring of more cautious partners. This latter might seem burdensome but actually provides a useful counter-balance to desires and impulses that could otherwise take you too far out on a limb of one kind or another. As it is you might easily jump ahead with plans that are finally more ready to be actualized than they were during the previous month of the Mercury retrograde period when the communication planet was moving backward through your sign, causing all kinds of mischief and missteps. It might be best to wait even a while longer, until mid-May, for really launching out with entirely new ideas. You are currently uniting several disparate areas of your life in the pursuit of the ultimate expression of your own uniqueness: self and other, heart and mind, emotional as well as mental intensity. The New Moon of late Monday evening, May 2nd – in the early morning hours of May 3rd on the East Coast – provides a fresh burst of energy for your dreams and schemes, touching on all these themes and even amplifying them. Although security-driven, you are experimenting with new forms at this time, so that the standard means of finding it through material or financial considerations will no longer entirely do the trick. You might feel the pinch of lack but also find within yourself the ability to rise above the material as a means of measuring self-worth or emotional security. You might also find yourself beginning to forge a new and long-lasting method of appreciating yourself through artistic or communicative channels. With the First Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 10th, you will likely run into some difficulties within your process of growing awareness and the initiatives that you have taken up since the beginning of the month. This is a powerful time of reassessment that is essentially positive in its nature, although there will undoubtedly be insights gained and surprising events to be dealt with. You might find that interpersonal tensions arise but if you practice restraint these can be integrated into fascinating learning experiences that promote character. With the Full Moon of Tuesday, May 17th, you are taking a more settled position and coming into a better integration of the relationship issues that have been on the front burner for you lately. There might be troubling images from the past that come up for you now, perhaps with the ultimate purpose of moving you beyond them. There could represent issues stemming from early experience that have been hanging on within your psyche for years now below the level of conscious awareness, and that you are now finally willing to accept and integrate. The days leading up to the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, May 24th, constitute a particularly powerful time for you both spiritually and emotionally. This is a time when you are seeing more clearly both the aspects of your current situation that simply do not at work for you, and those that do, as you take the lessons learned from the past three weeks into your next phase. You are sensing that something in your life has to radically alter, and you have the courage of your convictions now to make important and necessary changes. The final full week of the month you are seeing things differently, perhaps feeling the pressure of personal evolution as you prepare for greater changes still to come over the next few months' cycles of becoming.