You’re likely to be on the road this month or learning something new or philosophical. Mercury’s transit of Taurus, from May 10 to 25, will bring you extra travel opportunities. nature walksThe middle of the month can be a breather.
You should be aware of some potentially stressful moments when you’re on the road around May 12, 18 and 24. There may be more mishaps and complications than usual (like your rental car breaking, a travel stomach, being pickpocketed or making a cultural faux-pas). It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try new things or ask questions about history and politics, but you might tread more cautiously than on a normal day. There’s a greater chance that things will go wrong. But there’s also a greater chance for unexpected, eye-opening and meaningful memories.
Libra Rising
Some relationships need to be broken up a little before they can come back stronger than ever. Sometimes? There may be no way to go back. Your mission for this month is to bring recent insights and shifts in awareness into the real-time relationships you have with others. Venus, now direct, will transit your seventh-house of others throughout the month of may. This is a time to check in with important people, reveal the current state of your marriage, and establish new ties. Saturn will also be in your relationship sector starting May 24, so all of this soul-searching may have been a prep for a more serious winter of commitment. Whether you’re committing to a partner or to a more solo path, the first few months will be daunting. It may have been necessary to reach a point of radical acceptance before moving forward.
This could be about your love life, but it can also mean a big business deal or a change in how you work with clients, if you have 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. The message is to divest from the wrong investments in order invest in what you should be investing in.
Jupiter is also squaring your lunar nodes, especially around the 19th of May. Your ninth house represents learning, travel and spirituality. The odyssey that you’ve been traveling on for the past year has reached a crucial tipping point. It is a kind of cliffhanger, before the end of the season. This is akin to “settling on a theme before you defend your thesis” or the point where your quest to understand the world has no more room for error. It’s finally happening after a long year of false begins and incomplete assumptions. You will be satisfied after spending so much time chasing the answers (or visas). The Sun and Mercury will both join Jupiter after May 20. The end of this month offers stimulating opportunities for you to expand your horizons, through publishing, academic commotion or spiritual searching. You’ll have to pinch yourself, but this is actually a graduation ceremony. You’ll feel it all worth it when you hold your diploma.
Scorpio Rising
It is inevitable that the truth will eventually come out, especially for someone who is able to sense incomplete information from a distance. The full moon in Scorpio, on May 12, will bring up the dirt that has been buried but is now exposed by the interrogation. Mercury will make a perfect square to Pluto at the same time the moon reaches fullness on that day. Pluto itself stations direct May 4 bringing important things to the surface this month regarding your family, the past and possibly the land you call “home”. This is a major event that may make you reevaluate your life. Some subtler disruptions may occur in your personal relationships, career or public life on May 17-18. These could be aftershocks of earlier revelations. Although it’s difficult to be honest, your honesty will ultimately determine how others respond. The other person is going to choose how they respond.
