MAY 2020 Horoscope
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ARIES/ARIES RISING:
Uphold word and integrity. Covert communications or intuitive insights are high during the first weekend in May. You could be making secret financial plans, selling information for money online, engaging in gossip, or receiving intel and inspiration from otherworldly sources. The bigger meaning of this becomes clearer mid-month during the third week and into full view during the last week of July.
Financial and career sectors light up in May, so likely its money over matter, which is especially true 5/4-10. It may be time to talk to a boss about the realistic prospects for your pocketbook in this role or industry, and some may even consider changing industries or companies within the year. Although the circumstances may be abrupt, its not an overall bad idea to completely change your career direction now; if not, you will have to wait until 2023 for another chance to change course in a significant way.
In the meantime, consider taking action around a hobby to earn some extra cash on 5/11 especially leveraging your friends or fellow hobbyists as clients. On the other hand, some Aries’ may not be seeing the prospective profitability of a hobby business and soon determine it should be kept only for fun. It is quite possible Aries could be the perpetrator or recipient of some hidden animosity, gossip, or underhanded plans beginning 5/12 through end of June. As a result, a business contract or legally-binding document could get retracted, delayed, or inaccurately represent the parties.
Be thoughtful that people uphold their agreements with you and vice versa. Something in your immediate surroundings or daily schedule could change, and its probably something typically unnoticed by you because you consider it an inherent given or commonplace. (On that note, it could be electronic or transportation related.) Get going on padding your pocketbook or raising your deserve-level on 5/22-25.
Something may soon change in your household, living situation or family over the next two months and Aries starts getting cues about this during the last week of May.
TAURUS/TAURUS RISING:
Accountability is your bankability. Powerhouse communications and negotiations are possible on 5/4, Taurus’ most favorable date this month. Get it in writing! Jot down brilliant ideas, pen a friend, sign on the dotted line, or get your voice to go viral online. Taurus’ luck continues through 5/7-9 when a Full Moon in the partnership sector makes you more appealing to the public, clients, lovers and business partners. This would be a great time to represent your professional organization or a charity through an announcement, promotion, or deal.
The second week of May is the stickiest of them all this month, so gain momentum in the first week. Starting the second week of May through the fall, Taurus may find that travel plans are called off, educational initiatives don’t work out as planned, and some legal matters hit a bump in the road. Get your side of the story out there, express your opinion, and share professional expertise on 5/9-10 to position yourself as an essential player amid the chaos and changes that coming throughout the summer. But watch your professional penning around 5/11-15; pushy words with a boss won’t fly or a public statement that overreaches could be costly. The professional organization you’re associated with may soon hit some cashflow turbulence, so you don’t want to give leadership any extra excuses for letting you go.
Focus on staying grounded, confident, and truthful. Demonstrate your value by publishing expertise in a newsletter, webinar, or online video around 5/14-17; a quick trip or outing during that time could be good for your spirits as well. These efforts may improve the work and money situation a bit from 5/22-25 and you may receive a positive bounce from social networks, professional peers, and amongst friends. More changes in a legal agreement or informal understanding that affects your everyday lifestyle will come next month.
GEMINI/GEMINI RISING:
Value yourself. Gemini experiences creative inspiration underscored by a lack of romantic clarity around 5/3-4. Writing, photography, or digital design might fire up your business right now. Open the creative channels of the psyche because genius ideas or intuitive information may strike! Consider writing or speaking about what comes to mind, especially if you can publish it online. Meanwhile, on a personal level, you could be feeling lonely or unsure about the course of a love entanglement. Don’t jump to conclusions just yet; simply take note of what ideas and feelings pop up around this time as they will resurface again near 5/20.
Your work may see some success during the 5/7 Full Moon so plan important job assignments or project fulfillments. Wealth-building efforts you’ve been pursuing this year will soon slow down or require a secondary strategy starting around 5/9-14 through November. An income source may be diminished or yield slower returns than anticipated. This will force you to confront scarcity fears and help you become more resourceful. Don’t give up but reorient your plans and their timeline.
Some Geminis may discover that the amount of money needed to truly feel safe isn’t as large as imagined or that the job you were doing to earn the wealth doesn’t really align with your internal values. Reviewing financial and internal values becomes especially important 5/12-6/25 during Venus Retrograde through your zodiac sign Gemini. You may begin to see early signs of this money shift, how you feel about the work you’re doing, and how you feel about yourself.
On a personal level, get ready for a rocky road in romance over the next five weeks! Venus Retrograde is signature for breakups, reunions, and flash love affairs. Especially with your inner values and financial circumstances changing, you may seriously question the role of a romantic partner in your life. Gemini may also become more conscious of how their choice of relationship partner affects their image or course of direction. (Speaking of image, don’t commit to any drastic appearance changes such as plastic surgery or a new hairstyle from June to July.) A new lover or relationship outlook could arrive near the New Moon in your zodiac sign, Gemini, 5/20-22. But don’t jump in with both feet as the Venus Retrograde cycle is still in effect; things have yet to fully play out. Mercury, your planetary ruler, inches into the money sector starting 5/28 foreshadowing bigger shifts yet to come in pocketbook and personal value from June to July.
CANCER/CANCER RISING:
Keep an eye on partnerships. On a practical level, behind-the-scenes work strategies come into focus this month. Perhaps you’ve secretly been planning to re-brand, launch a major marketing campaign or online course, expand your work across state lines or international borders, or obtain an advanced accreditation to gain footing in an industry.
On a personal level, intuition or spiritual stamina may be tested. Be extra mindful of physical and mental health in May; don’t let worries about the world turn into some psychosis. This is especially true the first and third weeks of May. Social networking could help get you out of your funk or advance your career, so mingle with friends or join special interest groups during the week of Cinco De Mayo. If your creativity or general zest for life needs a boost, then leverage the enthusiasm of others to bolster your own. A sale or flirtation may even result from what started as simply a friendly connection! Overall, relationships get reviewed starting Mother’s Day weekend into the subsequent week.
For the single Cancerian, your best dating prospects during the month arrive in the first week but only if you’re socializing and not hiding in your shell. Have you been too afraid to put yourself out there or perhaps settling for prospects when you know you could do better?
For the committed Cancerian, are you sticking it out in a relationship sheerly for security purposes or are you ready for the relationship to have a clearly defined next step?
Professionally, it could be time to welcome in or draw the line with business partners or collaborators. Partnership decisions hit 5/10, remaining under assessment through the fall; you may get some unnervingly realistic feedback from a friend or lover around 5/11-17. Intuition about a work situation or partnership becomes essential 5/20-22 so be sure you’re reading between the lines. This includes not only instincts about others and circumstances, but honest insight about yourself too. Marketing, social campaigns, or a social excursion could be ideal around the Memorial Day holiday. Your voice becomes most powerful 5/28 through July, so be conscious of how you are representing yourself as there could be some misinterpretations coming up within the next two months. Speak your truth, sell ideas, and honor your word.
LEO/LEO RISING:
Withdraw graciously. Leo may let go of a friendship, hobby, or professional organization between now and this summer. Or at least experience some uncertainty in those areas. And it could have to do with your changing career direction or how something/someone impacts your reputation. Leo is poised public announcements, professional decisions and act in the driver’s seat on 5/4. The 5/7 Full Moon in your domestic sector highlights family needs or circumstances in your living situation that require attention.
Perhaps that’s why you’re pulling away from a friendship, hobby or career commitment? It’s something you would have already known was coming since Fall 2019. Your health or desire for greater work-life balance may be an underlying driver for these decisions and something surrounding those drivers 5/9-15. Any day during that time frame would be good for you to verbalize your intentions to others with the exception of 5/11 being less favorable.
Leo may act to protect their money or material goods linked to this other person or organization from around 5/13-July. If you’ve already started pulling away or reconfiguring plans, 5/22-25 could be your window to speak up or make a move with relative grace preserving your dignity and theirs. Likely this will be an extended process rather than overnight transition. It could take you May until July to entirely navigate the situation. Romantically, an amour could fade before coming to full fruition or a former flame may attempt to reclaim your spotlight.
VIRGO/VIRGO RISING:
Guard your good name. Virgo poises for a career shift or re-making of their image, title, or label. Unrest in a business partnership or romance—or a longing for them—could be a contributing factor. These emotions arise 5/3, 5/20, and again in July.
Virgo could also be itching to get out via a quick trip or change of scenery from their everyday spots. The urge to explore may have been present since late October last year. Some publicity or word-of-mouth could bolster business around the Mother’s Day holiday; this might also be personal publicity that attracts an admirer.
Mid-month is when things get rocky, so strap on the seatbelt starting the second week of May. Someone could attack your credibility within the next five weeks, so protect your pristine reputation. Professionally your company or industry could take a wide turn, you may lose a job, or have an incident with a superior. If you’ve been wanting to get out of a career commitment, things could naturally devolve. If this would throw a wrench in professional plans, then use extra diligence at work this month and quickly nip anything that looks turbulent. Be careful around “frenemies” and watch your own tone—interpersonal interactions have a bit more vigor this month so watch out for being the match strike.
Speak up for yourself 5/20-22. A learning opportunity or getaway looks like an attractive escape around 5/24-25, but can’t prevent you from ultimately having to face the music. The situation with this friend, lover, or professional organization becomes imminent 5/28 and into next month.
LIBRA/LIBRA RISING:
Get it in writing or get a refund. Legal arrangements or documented agreements come under inspection this month, likely related to employment, a lease, a health-related matter, or a personal obligation. It could be that something in the fine print of the rules of how something gets done no longer works favorably, and it could get costly. You or the other party gets brought into the arena about it, so anticipate lots of phone calls, emails, and paperwork trading before the matter is resolved.
Watch over your good name. Venus, your planetary ruler, Retrogrades for the next five weeks through the multitasking sign of Gemini suggesting it’s best to have several options lined up. An exchange of money or goods is at stake, along with self-esteem and feeling valued. Ultimately, someone is going to have to pay.
The weekend of 5/3 could be tough, or at least begin showing signs of the bigger theme yet to pinnacle around 5/20. Your household or family members may play a role in the challenge of the situation or perhaps its resolution.
In the bigger picture this year, your roots are seeking greater stabilization. To achieve this may ultimately require moving, buying/selling property, integrating or confronting relatives. The second week of May could be the most difficult as initially you thought these domestic matters had improved or shown promise, but now may backpedal until the true issue can be uprooted. In addition, travel plans could be significantly delayed over the summer—especially if they were connected to your career, a goal achievement, or expectations linked to a formal title. Others who hoped to pursue and spiritual or educational pursuit this summer—such as a workshop or learning program—may find it also delayed or not without difficulty. Things just generally don’t go as planned in the realms of law, travel, education or marketing. This invites you to reconsider a career direction, company, or matter of reputation over the next two months.
SCORPIO/SCORPIO RISING:
Watch your investments. Money linked to an entrepreneurial endeavor or creative project comes under question over the next two months. Perhaps a side-hustle blossomed into a buoyant company, but now there’s questions about partnership, dividends, investment and who is responsible for what. Maybe you’ve invested a lot in a passion pursuit or romance but wondering what the real return is. If you have any outstanding debts the collectors may come calling.
The first week in May is excellent for open discussions with the others involved; you are most able to express yourself, get the truth, and get things confirmed on 5/4 and 5/7. How these decisions affect your public image, prestige, or overall life direction become apparent on the 5/7 Full Moon in your zodiac sign, Scorpio. This is the most powerful time of the month for you and may draw connections to similar people, situations or feelings that first arose last fall around Halloween 2019.
It could soon be that some business contracts, legal agreements, or informal understandings wind up in the air starting mid-May through October. Is there something you had tried locking in earlier this year but couldn’t, or perhaps something initially agreed to under different circumstances just isn’t feasible now? Promises may come and go during the next six months.
Scorpio could also be learning something, including an educational component in their offering, or be required to travel a bit for an opportunity.
Romantically, your love life could be active albeit with a touch of uncertainty after 5/12 into next month. You want to get close but haven’t fully sized up how close yet. Your pleasure principle is strong so the urge to have fun could distract you from financial priorities. Memorial Day holiday could prove particularly romantic or social. Soon the travel bug will excite summertime.
SAGITTARIUS/SAGITTARIUS RISING:
Meet your mirror. Rebalancing relationships becomes imminent over the next two months, but the importance extends through the next two years. Starting in May, the lunar nodes shift into your partnership sector and identity sectors respectively, pulling you towards newer relationships that open your eyes and help shed old self-concepts. Important people may come into your life to show you how powerful you can really be, give candid feedback about your limiting ways, test your ability to grow beyond present habits and present opportunities for a new life.
A life that feels destined. The last time you had such a calling was 2002-2003, how did your life path change? Connecting with others will bring you more self-awareness from 2020-2022, and be highlighted especially this May-June during a Venus Retrograde cycle. This may become apparent as soon as 5/3-5, and underscoring it could be the intuition that a new location or change in your family or household situation might play a role. On top of that a job change or taking better care of your health could be additional ingredients necessary to make your destiny recipe work. You notice subtle hints of this around 5/7-10 and again 5/14-17.
Romances or business partnerships require review from 5/13-6/25. There will be breakups, reunions, unexpected bumps and possibly tempting affairs. Try to see the relationship beyond just the immediate interaction: What does this person represent to you? Do they symbolize parts of yourself that you are trying to embody more, or parts of yourself you are working to move away from? See the other person as a refection of you trying to reveal itself.
Powerful experiences could arise 5/22, even if they are subtle at first but their deeper meaning known later. Meanwhile, there is some work to be done around your household, living situation or office home base during the last week of the month. Focus on getting things practically organized and healthier—literally or metaphorically. Soon you will have to make resource decisions linked to a partnership, which could suggest financial resources or intangible resources such as time and trust.
CAPRICORN/CAPRICORN RISING:
Release control to activate passion. Instability around a lease or employment arrangement could surface right away as May begins but will take until mid-month to fully be justified. This could be linked to a creative or entrepreneurial endeavor, or just generally limiting your sense of personal expression and fun in life.
You entered 2020 with big plans. Plans so big that they perhaps did or could have altered your entire life direction, location or career. However, on 5/10 through the fall, Capricorn will either wait or second-guess about pulling it off. Prepare for a setback, delay or reversal of what you thought you were going to do in 2020. Best to re-visit plans from the first six months of this year and slowly rebuild options.
This year will test if you have the courage to instigate new beginnings and the grace to confront failure? Get information about what your possibilities are and have open conversations with colleagues, landlords, or those who have authority over you starting 5/12 through the end of next month. What could initially feel like scary setbacks or losses may actually make you more available to the fun of pursuing creative passions, having children, igniting a romance or having time for leisure the way your hard-working sign secretly wants but rarely allows.
Capricorn admits to craving this looser lifestyle around 5/14-17. As an intermediary it’s a great time to explore online classes, promoting your creativity using digital media, or try internet dating around the US Memorial Day holiday. During the last few days of May you’ll see that soon a business partnership or romance is going to imminently change.
AQUARIUS/AQUARIUS RISING:
Lust for love and creativity. You’re trying to gain confidence that a creative project, entrepreneurial endeavor or side hustle is going to be profitable. But there’s doubt in the air. The next five weeks may feel like pulling pennies out of passion pursuits unless you design new ways to draw dollars. It could be that you’re thinking too hard and not enough out of the box. What if you focused on having fun with it? Get back to the original joy of the endeavor—the part of you that would do it for free anyway—and then see what new marketing or positioning ideas arise. You could put your work on display, promote yourself to a superior, or host an important business meeting on 5/7. The preparations or initial ingredients arose a few days earlier around 5/4. Possibly this is something you have been cultivating since October 2019.
In the backdrop your overall work situation is slowly changing. By year’s end you might not be in the same job, or industry or delivering your service in the same way as it always has been. Signs of this bigger permutation emerge already in mid-May. Something about your family or location potentially factors into the matter and it becomes clear around 5/11.
Overall, you are most effective 5/1-12 as Mars energizes your zodiac sign. During this time you are more likely to take action on behalf of your interests, defend your turf, and make things happen.
On a personal level, romance could hit a roadblock from May-June. A fling could fizzle or a seductive Don Juan(a) could lure you away from home base. Think very carefully about romantic involvements, especially if its relatively new (this is less challenging for long-term, established, or formal relationships). Resources may be a topic, such as a debate about combining rooves or pocketbooks, or perhaps one of you is temporarily experiencing a cash-strapped lifestyle that means romance can only be entertained on a budget. For some, children could be a defining issue during; if you want to have kids, what’s happening with a child of yours, or theirs.
PISCES/PISCES RISING:
Home is where the heat is. It’s getting steamy at home as a situation with household members, an issue with the physical structure of the nest, piece of real estate or location itself requires review. Are you in the right spot to make your dreams come true? Does something about this location or property not fit your lifestyle? Is there a question about someone you’re living with? A relationship or overall life path you wish to pursue could be underscoring the real feelings about this. The first week in May brings critical conversations, fact-checking and possibly contract negotiations. Efforts in these areas can move forward, especially if it’s something you’ve been working on since Fall 2019.
The reality may be that soon you’ll withdraw from a romance, hobby or professional group that doesn’t align with your future vision—or at least seriously adjust it so that it does. You’ll know if that’s necessary beginning the week after Mother’s Day. Overall this year, you may feel that significant hopes and dreams for the future have been put on indefinite hold.
Assertiveness is your strong suit from 5/12 through next month during which time you’re more ready to stand your ground, draw boundaries, and take action on your own behalf. Just remember not to bulldoze others or jump to hasty decisions. This could make you extra snippy when interacting with others, particularly in close relationships. 5/20-22 brings insight and action to the domestic dilemma that pervades your hemisphere over the next five weeks and you’re in a slightly better negotiating position around 5/24-25 so open your mouth or get it in writing. The entire story won’t conclude this month however as themes around an entrepreneurial endeavor,
passion pursuit, romance or children press well into June.
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