May starts off hot and heavy, as Spring kicks off smack dab in the course of eclipse season and a Mercury retrograde. The Sun radiates in sensual, artistic sign of Taurus, tuning our focus toward great thing about the natural and material. Although our artistic temperaments could also be enhanced, changes await, as this month highlights problems with bodily autonomy, changes in global power structures and shifts in values. On the first of the month, the Sun meets messenger planet Mercury, currently retrograde in Taurus, bringing us “aha” moments, powerful insights, and lightning-fast information. On the 2nd, Pluto stations retrograde, starting its regression into Capricorn. We may even see some old power structures resurface, as we revisit themes of hierarchical rulership. It could feel like we’re revisiting the past, with a fresh set of eyes. Although Taurus is a stubborn sign, focused on the comfortable essentials, change awaits. May is a call to embrace what makes us feel beautiful, and change into embodied warriors of truth and justice. 

For over two years, we now have been in cycles of purging the shadow elements of Scorpio: addiction, fear, secrecy, codependency and toxic dynamics that seek control over love. With the North Node in Taurus, we now have all been encouraged to deal with our own values, self-worth and physical bodies. Expect these issues to succeed in an intense climax on the fifth of the month, when a Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio concludes our journey through these lessons, helping us lay some emotional baggage and obsessions to rest. Lunar Eclipses bring break-ups, breakdowns and breakthroughs, and we are able to expect what isn’t meant for us to change into starkly obvious. Recent relational standards are being set for everybody.

On May 7, Venus enters Cancer, joining Mars in Cancer, amplifying our desire to search out home, safety and security. Our sensitivity is highlighted, as is our desire to search out those that match our values, and are able to emotional reciprocity. We favour empathic connections over those which can be entertaining, and are encouraged to lean into our feelings. In any case, it’s how we make good art. Jupiter amplifies our artistic temperaments when it enters Taurus on the sixteenth, inciting a 13 month period of increased pleasure, material abundance, and revitalised values. It’s a renaissance of the fabric and physical, ensuring that whilst we live in a digitised age, presence and embodiment comes first.

On the 14th of the month Mercury stations direct, followed by Mars’ movement into Leo. We’re making daring moves, desperate to express our creative outlooks and get into egoic rebuttals. Mars in Leo means we’re led by love or the limelight in no congruent order, and God help anyone who stands in our way. Gemini season kicks off on the twenty first, and the season of the Twins makes us inquisitive storytellers, encouraged to learn and explore.