Horoscopes For The Week of May 15th

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Monday, May 15th

Mercury enters Taurus

Thursday, May 18th

Saturn in Sagittarius trines Uranus in Aries

Friday, May 19th

Venus in Aries opposes Jupiter in Libra

Saturday, May 20th

Sun enters Gemini

Mercury’s re-entry into Taurus on Monday will help to ground some of the energy of a week filled with lightning and fire, reminding us that progress needs courage, but it also needs a consistent, thoughtful approach. Mercury is starting to pick up speed, finishing up its last few days of its retrograde shadow. Venus spends the week making its way to an opposition to Jupiter, inspiring grand love-affairs, adventures and an exaggerated need to escape the work we have to do. The sun’s shifts into the versatile air sign of Gemini will inspire us to think on the go and adventure out into new neighborhoods, markets and social situations. Keeping Gemini energy focused is about as easy as herding cats, so the focus shifts to the importance of diversifying our efforts, education and the type of conversations that we have. It’s time to learn, cultivate curiosity and gain a broader perspective.

All that action aside, this week’s astrology is dominated by the second trine between Saturn in Sagittarius and Uranus in Aries. It’s a set-up that aims to be helpful. A trine is an astrological aspect between two planets that represents an easy rapport. Much like a really good date, everything flows. Time passes without effort. Compatibility creates a vortex of vital energy for both parties to fill up on.

However.

Even really good dates are a little suspect when those involved have opposing agendas. Saturn’s agenda is to restrict. Make solid. Stabilize. Construct. Separate. Reject. Adhere to tradition. Uranus’s agenda is to smash. Change. Make new. Invent. Startle. Shock. Awaken.

What kind of opportunity can these two build together?

This second trine between Saturn and Uranus (the first was in late December 2016) is the second date between this odd couple. It’s the date where both parties start thinking, “How likely is this union?” Chemistry is still the driving force, but critical thinking is starting to kick in.

This week, we get to see what this unusual paring has been help us create. Think back to December when you read your horoscope and consider the progress that you have made in the areas of life it speaks about over the last 4-5 months.

This week, Saturn and Uranus reveal how well we have been able to innovate the structures of our lives. This week we are asked to keep considering the skeletal structure that we build our world around. The bones must be stacked in such a way that they strong enough to withstand the compression of daily life while the connective tissue, ligaments, tendons and muscles need to be flexible enough to facilitate the creative ways in which we need to move around the issues that we face.

This second trine has extra voltage added to it: the north node. Having just moved into Leo, the north node sits within 2° of making an exact grand fire trine with Saturn and Uranus. The north node has a magnifying effect. It’s hungry. In Leo, it wants experiences and will amp up our need to take action.

Its important to keep working on ways to collectively channel, in an orderly and disciplined way (Saturn), the disruptive, rebellious trickster energy (Uranus) that wants us to stay hungry for the creative actions (north node in Leo) that are ours to take. Minions move mountains while the Kings of Chaos are too busy eating cake to notice.

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Aries & Aries Rising

Be willing to view any breakdowns you are experiencing as precursors to breakthroughs that you are about to experience. That way you’ll be less invested in the chaos that may be threatening to consume you at the moment and more invested in considering the new shape your life is taking.

Look back at the shifts that have occurred in you since the beginning of the year. Some of these shifts may have felt like they were forced upon you, through disruptions and destabilizing events. Some of these shifts may have occurred in a more harmonious way, creating a feeling of support and celebration for your evolution. Some of these shifts will have felt like an uneasy mixture of the two, reminding you that life is, more often than not, like that.

You don’t have to enjoy the process of transformation. But it helps tremendously to witness it. It helps tremendously to acknowledge it. It helps tremendously to remember that there are also times when life feels stagnant and boring.

This is not one of those times.

Help yourself by keeping consistent with the practices in your life that help you to digest the changes that you are undergoing. Make time for the people, places and rituals that keep you grounded. Take a moment to reflect on all that has shifted within you and the kind of positive impact that this shift might have on your future endeavors.

*Some times are better than others to make magic with, astrology can tell us what those times are. The new moon in Gemini, occurring on May 25th, is the perfect new moon to learn how to use astrology as a tool for living life in accordance with the universe. Please join me for New Moon Manifestations: The New Moon in Gemini & the Astrology of the Lunar Cycle from May 25th – June 22nd.

Taurus & Taurus Rising

Check-in with your commitment to your healing. Accompany yourself through your process. Don’t leave yourself hanging. Feelings tend to spread like wildfires this week. When they do, imagine them cleansing your psychic space. See the bursts of new emotional information as flames of purification. Bear witness to the process so that it doesn’t get out of control. The most dangerous thing we can do is leave a fire unattended, assuming that it will sort itself out.

This week’s astrology will help you to articulate it. Put it into words. Wrap your head around it. Whatever is coming up for you at the moment. Whatever unconscious fears you have been able to get a better look at lately are important to talk about. To get off your chest. To get clear about. To get a better understanding of. This week helps you do so.

Channel the emotional clarity that the week brings you as inspiration for creative projects. Do something with the energy. Break up the emotional patterns that keep you revolving around the same heartbreak. Distract yourself with self-love. Be revolutionary in your ability to give yourself what you need. Be consistent in your ability to track the shifts you are undergoing. That way you’ll be less prone to hang onto a situation just because its familiar to you and, instead, much more ready for the next round of growth-enhancing experiences you are undergoing.

Gemini & Gemini Rising

This week ushers in the sun’s yearly 30-day journey through your (sun and/or rising) sign and therefore brings with it some extra energy for you to work with. With both the sun and Mars in Gemini, you are provided with an extra bit of clarity around your purpose and how to pursue it.

However, Mercury, your ruling planet, has yet to catch up. This week, Mercury enters a part of your chart that makes forward movement lower on the list of priorities. While a part of you will be wanting to seek progress, there may be some communications or machinations of the mind that are stuck working out a problem or paradox of the past.

Move forward with what you can. Let yourself take time with what can’t be rushed. Try not to simplify what is complicated. Allow things to sit for a minute if resolutions aren’t currently available.

There’s an emphasis on your ability to make breakthroughs in regards to your relationship patterns at the moment and that too is a process that won’t be complete this week. All masterpieces take time to build. This emphasis has been pushing you to become incredibly honest about the commitment structures that you most need in your intimate relationships. Since the end of last year, you’ve been encouraged to expand your awareness of what is possible when you are in relationships where the agreements that are made consider each individual’s needs. Invest in the relationships that respect authenticity and prioritize agency. Invest in the relationships that help you build bridges to joyful and expansive experiences. Invest in the relationships that call you out and call on your willingness to continually work on yourself.

Cancer & Cancer Rising

As the sun slips into your 12th house of behind the scenes scheming, the next 30 days will be ones that are best spent making peace with what happened over the past year, and making room for what you’d like to invite in over the next. Part of you will need a moment to recalibrate. A little time to digest. A little break from the confines of a rigorous schedule.

Too bad Saturn has other plans.

The planet of consequences is currently traveling through a part of your chart that governs your work projects and health, demanding your dedicated effort on both topics. This week highlights the important shift of perspective that you have been undergoing since December in regards to your projects, your career and the ways in which you support yourself. What have you revolutionized about the structure of your work? What perceptions about your role in your career have you been able to deconstruct so that there is more room for your personal growth? What are you no longer willing to do that was at a personal cost to you?

This week the revolution continues. It’s exciting. It brings an invigorating energy to your work. It brings you a few surprises. Stay sturdy with your efforts and your affections for your projects. Like all living things, your work needs love to flourish. Instead of pushing, solving or even seeking an answer to the situations that you face on the job, try to allow more joy, more connection and more appreciation for what it is you are doing.

Leo & Leo Rising

With nowhere to hide and a whole lot of cosmic energy on your side, this week makes clear the kind of permission you need and can now give yourself to grow. Think back on the last 5 months. What have you come to understand about your path? What have you come to grasp about your ability to meet the challenges that cross it? What have you come to recognize about your capacity to develop your talents?

Whatever you have been able to apply your discipline towards developing will be showing signs of major progress. Whatever fears you have overcome by practicing your craft will serve you well now. Whichever life paths you have been able to fully embrace and accept as your own should now be bringing you to places where previously unforeseen opportunities reveal themselves.

Stick to the tracks that connect you to your passion. Stick with the ideas that tend to free up your creativity. Keep sourcing inspiration from all that brings you pleasure and joy. Network with the folks that find it easy to view a situation from the most surprising and intriguing angles. Learn from those that find it easy to incorporate the many different sides of themselves into all that they do, and all that they create in the world.

Virgo & Virgo Rising

With the sun warming up the part of your chart that has to do with your career and ability to make your mark in it, it’s time to set your stage afire. The limelight that is shining down upon you is giving you an opportunity to get your words and ideas out into the world. Publish your perspective. Write about your way through the world. Express yourself through the mediums that make you want to do the best job that you can. This spotlight might give you the opportunity to travel, learn from new experiences or help you to gain a perspective on your life that you haven’t had in a while.

Revel in anything that feels refreshing.

While this week lifts your career life up, it also makes obvious the work that you have put in on the ground floor. Whatever healing has occurred in regards to your ability to work through family issues, issues at home and issues that tap into your need for security, stability and a sense of belonging has been hard-won. This week those issues brush up against your need for your own time, space and agency. What becomes evident through this process is the importance of keeping your word, showing up for your responsibilities and then giving yourself the free time that you need when and where you can.

Libra & Libra Rising

This week the feeling that you need to escape life and travel the world with a one way ticket mounts. Get yourself out to the places that help you feel refreshed, revitalized and intellectually stimulated. Take advantage of any adventures that come your way.

They will help you to feel connected to possibilities that you tend to forget are open for you to make use of. Staying in a rut is easy, because inertia, but you have too many options open to you to remain stuck when the door is open.

Run through it.

This week optimizes your over-the-top ability to charm anyone who gets in your way. It also reveals the weakness of that charm however, because, at this point, what you really need is a more interesting, more layered and more nuanced connection. Charm will only get you in the door, but to get into someone’s heart and to let someone into yours takes stamina. What might occur for you in the coming days is a realization of how easy it is to misuse your ability to attract others and how difficult it actually is to attract those that want to stick through all the ups and downs of being around you and being with a real relationship.

Scorpio & Scorpio Rising

The revitalization of your resources over the past 5 months has been an important process for you to undertake. It’s too easy to take for granted what we have to work with. It’s too easy to take for granted what we have been given. It’s too easy to think that we need to seek something outside of ourselves in order to be successful instead of sticking with the difficult and sometimes painful process of developing ourselves.

Growth isn’t supposed to feel good at every stage. We forget that feeling awkward is a good sign. None of us grow up without a moment where we feel physically out of balance. Same goes for every other aspect of our growth. Learning to witness ourselves as a work in progress helps us to develop the humor needed to navigate life’s sense of irony. The past couple of years have most likely belabored this point, possibly making it a little more difficult than you might have preferred to get the work done and support the work that supports you.

This week wants to be a little more helpful. Whatever resources you have been able to free up from the tyranny of conformity will be your saving grace. Witnessing how your resources can be put to use in different contexts can stimulate your creativity and connect you to more options in your career. Keep at the solutions to your work-life predicaments while paying close attention to the answers that are the least taxing to your system.

Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising

Over the past 5 months, you’ve been challenged to work within the confines of your life with as much creative ingenuity as you have capacity for. What you have been able to accomplish, therefore, has been an incredible feat. Some would call this making something out of nothing. Some would call this pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Some would call this making a miracle. But any of these perspectives might not give you the credit that you deserve.

Magic is made with effort.

Acknowledge, appreciate and consider what your efforts have brought about. What has restraint taught you? What kind of discipline has been most helpful to you? What have you come to understand about giving yourself permission to pursue your dreams?

No one is responsible for our personal freedom but us. Our emotional freedom, our ability to take care of our needs and our ability to come to terms with what has harmed us, come at the cost of knowing the truth. Whatever degree to which you have been able to recognize and reconcile yourself with the truth is in direct correlation to your ability to feel a true sense of what it means to be free.

Sometimes knowing the truth breaks up our world into fragments and sharp edges. Sometimes it liberates a deep love within us. Sometimes it feels like we can finally access that deep love for ourselves while, at the same time, feeling the harsh awakening that comes with truth. What we need, in any case, is the strength of character to see ourselves through the transformations while finding reliable self-care strategies to lean on.

Some might call this magic, but the conjuring is in the consistent and unrelenting attempt to be right with life.

Capricorn & Capricorn Rising

There is a tone to the week that picks up on the color palette of the last few months. For you, it has something to do with your ability to work from the inside out. Feeling free, especially when we have a hefty work load, can sometimes seem like an impossibility. While you have some extra energy and the ability to get a good amount of your workload squared away, I want to encourage you to work in ways that inspire you to keep yourself in mind.

Your best work isn’t necessarily your biggest work. Your most important work isn’t necessarily your most (at this moment) public work. Your deepest work isn’t necessarily the work that gets you the most likes.

Your work on yourself will only encourage your work in the world to soar to greater heights.

Make your primary focus the marriage of your internal healing and your external productivity. Find the places where those two aspects of your life intersect. Your life is going through an evolutionary process, one that is asking you to shift priorities and make room for new possibilities. Your work is bound to be effected. This is a good thing. This is an important thing. This is a necessary thing. Go for purpose over product at the moment and you’ll find a renewed energy to work with, one that can sustain you through the many different incarnations that you will inhabit.

Aquarius & Aquarius Rising

The answer to your issues is to actively seek strategies and solutions with your people. The more willing that you are to access the hive-mind the easier the solutions will come pouring forth.

You’ll have to make yourself open to the feelings that accompany the vulnerability of doing so. You’ll have to see past the limiting beliefs that you are supposed to have all the right answers on your own. You’ll have to navigate around the idea that you are supposed to find your way through everything on your own. The creative solutions that you need are available to you through your ability to receive the combined intelligence of people.

But this is nothing new. Over the past five months you have been asked to stretch your ability to work with others. You’ve been asked to develop your role amongst your peers. You’ve been asked to learn how to lead others and you may have been asking yourself how best to do that. This week makes clear that the leading is in the learning. The importance of you inhabiting both roles is key to developing your ability to be authentic with your peers. You are in a unique position to model the importance of curiosity, generosity and collaborative creativity in all your leadership roles, friendships and working partnerships.

Pisces & Pisces Rising

There are many ways to be present in your work. There are many ways to show up responsibly for your labors of love. There are many ways to master your craft, handling it with great dignity and respect.

The most important thing is that you make efforts to do so.

We are put to use by fate. Unknowingly directed by our destiny. Prowled by our purpose. The only way to offend the gods that guide our life is to act like we don’t take it seriously. Our success, whatever that means to us, needs our effort. Not our perfection. Not the praise that we want to receive (or think we need in order to do the work in the first place). Not our obligation. Just our sincere effort. Just our purest of intentions. Just our most earnest yearnings to be of use in the world. The past couple of years have been pushing you to pursue these avenues, but the last 5 months have been asking you to actively awaken them within you. Keep moving towards your most honest motivations. They will end up revealing opportunities that you didn’t know imaginable. Your life is larger than the plans that you have for yourself or that others have for your life. This week wants to remind you that the more you focus on having integrity, the more you’ll draw to you that mirrors that strength of character.

Horoscopes For The Week of May 15th

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