Leo Horoscope for May 2025

This is a month, Leo, while pursuing outer world success, of equally dedicating your activities to understanding yourself at depth. The recent Taurus New Moon, from just before the beginning of May, took place in your sector of career and professional life and yet there is a mystical heart that also comes through this powerful lunation of catering to your own deep process. Mars, ruler of Aries and thus your sector of higher mind, is also very active in this recent lunation, residing in the early degrees of your sign, or your first solar house, and exactly opposing Pluto, which indicates that changes in your beliefs and worldview are also an important part of this month’s astrological mandate. Numinous Neptune, newly arrived in Aries so residing now in your higher mind sector, is powerful, conjuncting Venus and Saturn for extra determination and vocational influence. Your innermost values are more completely coming into conscious reckoning and becoming a significant part of your outer world persona in a process of balance and integration of inner and outer considerations. Then, too, Mars opposed Pluto in your relationship sector also speaks to the transformation of your connection with specific partners and of your relationship dynamic in general. It is a heady stew you are navigating in this current cycle that also partakes of a great deal of intuitional information that cannot be ignored. The Scorpio Full Moon on the 12th in your sector of your psychological roots represents a culmination of thi month’s arc of development and brings this point home all the more clearly.

The following was written by our wonderful in-house astrologer, Leslie Benson. You can find her at Astrology for Awakening.

The month opens in the wake of the potent April 27th New Moon in Taurus, which initiated a new cycle in your tenth sector of vocation, visibility, and worldly calling. This lunation brought the Sun and Moon into the focal point of a tense T-square with Pluto in Aquarius opposed to Mars in your sign, highlighting questions of power, purpose, and your sense of agency. You may find yourself feeling heated and emboldened with Mars activated in your sign and first or identity sector, so that you might possibly be at a turning point in your career or public role. With transformational Pluto a part of this mix, you are likely feeling both pressure and possibility as you clarify what you want to build, and where you're no longer willing to compromise. If you find yourself struggling with either internal or external conflict, especially regarding being seen or making your impact felt and known in the world, these challenges may serve as catalysts that push you toward greater authenticity and alignment with your evolving contributions. This is also a perhaps overly passionate timing for you, and you benefit by attempting to become as aware as possible for when you might become “triggered” and are in danger of acting out more than makes sense for maintaining dispassionate communications and studied compromise solutions.

On the 1st and the 2nd, Venus and Neptune come together in your ninth sector of higher wisdom, travel, and personal philosophy. With Neptune newly arrived here for a new ~14-year chapter, this meeting marks the beginning of a long, soulful unfolding in how you make meaning in your life. You might feel called toward spiritual study, artistic exploration, or expansive dreaming. Venus adds some softness and receptivity, but also invites you to tune into your core values – especially if you’re navigating educational opportunities, spiritual practices, or visiting places internationally for the purpose of broadening your horizons. Inspiration is strong now, but illusions may also blur the path, so keep a keen eye fixed on your inner compass.

Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius on May 4th, in your seventh sector of relationships, echoing its strong placement in the recent New Moon, and amplifying its influence further. This could bring a shift in your partnerships, where power dynamics or deeper emotional undercurrents begin to surface for review. Pluto’s journey through the area of your chart is a long and layered journey, and this is just one chapter, beginning to transform and reshape how you experience relationships in general, but especially around intimate partnership. This month may open a doorway of insight around connection, trust, and mutual understanding.

Mercury enters Taurus on May 10th, echoing and focalizing your internal reflections on your career path. You may find yourself grounding into a more deliberate mentality finding traction in putting your ideas into practice. Conversations with mentors or collaborators could offer perspective, and you may feel ready to voice a new direction or try on a new attitude around your public role.

The Scorpio Full Moon arrives on May 12th, lighting up your fourth sector of home, family, and your psychological roots. Opposite the Sun in close proximity to Uranus, this lunation may shake up your private world with sudden insights, emotional revelations, or unexpected changes in your living situation. While emphasized Scorpio tends to bring up deep feelings, this Full Moon has also an electric charge that could disrupt old patterns and bring to the surface intuitional realizations or hidden emotions entombed deep within you. Your understanding could also blossom concerning your own long-buried traces of inner wounding, the likely residue of early childhood trauma. It’s a powerful time to be present with all your emotional spheres, and to honor the parts of you that need acceptance, security, and stability.

On May 20th, the Sun shifts from Taurus to Gemini, shifting the spotlight to your eleventh sector of community, friendship, and long-term vision for your future self. This shift invites a more outward-facing energy and encourages you to reconnect with your communal networks. Ideas might be able to flow more freely, and collaborations could spark exciting possibilities. It’s a good time to remember that you don’t have to do it all alone. Your light can shine even brighter when reflected through shared purpose and connection.

On May 24th, you have a major shift occurring with Saturn entering Aries, your ninth sector of higher mind and travel or educational goals, joining spiritual and other-worldly Neptune there. These two outer planets will travel together within two degrees of each other until mid-September, growing as close as ¼ degree in mid-July, thus marking a time that may drastically reshape your beliefs and worldview. This pairing invites you to root your compassion and inspiration in tangible practices and experiences, and to explore not just what you believe, but what you’re willing to commit to. You might encounter over this period tests of faith, or moments where your optimism meets the harsh light of reality, but this is also an important blending, where meaningful growth can occur. You’re being asked to pour your dedication and devotion into that which enlivens your spiritual calling and builds resilience to be present in the practicality of the here and now.

On May 26th, the Gemini New Moon lands in your eleventh sector of community and vision, offering a fresh beginning in the realms of collective belonging and future goals. With Mercury conjunct this lunation and Pluto in a flowing trine, this is a potent moment to seed intentions around community, activism, and shared dreams. What are you working toward, not just for yourself, but for the world you want to help shape? What form of intelligence and contribution do only you carry as a unique being on this planet? Listen closely to the subtle promptings of your intuition. Your inner fire and passion may contain important messages about where to go next, and who to walk with on the journey.

After a first quarter of the year shaped by all inner planet retrogrades and a lot of internal, slow reorganization, this May month might begin to stir a sense of forward momentum – not all at once, but in flickers of clarity and renewed energy. There’s a feeling of something taking root, not only in your outer world, but within your heart, your vision, your sense of direction. Perhaps this month offers an invitation to move in alignment with your inner truth, to follow the gentle pull toward what feels life-giving and soul-affirming. What emerges now might not be the final form, but rather the first golden glimmers of a longer unfolding. May your steps be guided by warmth, courage, and trust in your own becoming, and may the path ahead be one where your light is welcomed, witnessed, and wholly your own.

Leo Horoscope for May 2025

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