Aries Horoscope for May 2013

This is the time of your life, Aries, and you must employ it. Coming on the heels of a surprisingly intense start to the springtime, you have before you a great month for looking within yourself and for getting things done. You are exploring all facets of profession and career development, and as you do, consistently finding new wrinkles regarding your work in the world that bring primary focus to those issues that truly matter to your personal evolution, long-term. The rest you are increasingly able to let go. Your finances are on your mind as well, but, again, you win by picking and choosing only those aspects that further your personal evolution. Your ultimate goal is to be all that you can be and to become all that you can, in good conscience, become.

As the month begins, and following upon the recent Lunar Eclipse of April 25th, which took place in your intimacy sector, you are taking a closer look at relationships in your life and your own sense of isolation that might also be a current factor for you. This is because the time of the eclipse and the weekend that followed emphasized Saturn in this same sector of your solar chart, representing limitations and consequent lessons. There is a strong focus now on delving down into your own inner world, partly as a reaction to what is going on for you right now, perhaps best described as some sense of blockage to deeper connection with others. The truly interesting thing here is that, as you concentrate on tending your own garden, you emerge from that process in deeper touch with yourself and in better shape to connect with intimate others as well.

This is also the month of the next exact hit of Uranus in square with Pluto, as I have recently been mentioning, an echo of the fast-paced sixties when revolution was in the air and flowers were poked into the barrels of the mobilized soldiers' guns. There are indeed themes from that time that are now returning, and even more crucial for your own development there is also revolutionary activity taking place within you. You can get a clue as to your particular process of (r)evolution by the placement of transiting Uranus and Pluto in your solar chart and in aspect to your natal planets. Although nearly everyone is involved, the way that these powerhouse planets hit your chart definitely matters. The degree of their 2013 collision is the 12th of their respective signs, and if you were born near the beginning of April, or if you have the Moon or personal planet within two degrees of 11 — especially in one of the cardinal signs of Aries, Cancer, Libra or Capricorn — you are more greatly affected, and your life might indeed seem turned upside down with the drama of the changes coming to you.

This idea of life at a standstill is in many ways an illusion, even if directly experienced. Like the farmer who said "we'll see" when his neighbors consoled him for his son's broken leg (an injury that subsequently allowed this same boy to remain at home while the others were called up to the war front) the trouble that you currently find yourself in could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. In spite of all appearances, the cosmos brings you what you need, and what you are ready for. A long period of dysfunction could be coming to an end with the stormy weather of this climactic year, and this month is one important crossroads of that action.

Uranus in your sign therefore transits your sector of identity and self-concept, while Pluto in close square occupies the career sector of your solar chart. The trickster energy and startling enlightenment represented by Uranus allows you to see the world in some very new and different ways, marking a break-out from the rut of routine conceptions. Since Pluto is acting on this same point there is undoubtedly a transformational effect as well, so that old and outmoded positions can be permitted, with awareness, to begin to melt away like the unsubstantial dew that they really are; thus allowing new ideas and new self-identifying concepts to enter in. Similarly with career and profession. The changes there are major, having been several years in the making, and lead you away from what was no longer serving you in this important area. You can go more easily by embracing the change, or more slowly, and more painfully, as you wish. Nevertheless change is inevitably coming to you and it is powerful and far-reaching in its effects.

Aries Horoscope for May 2013

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