Summary
Highlights
The Sun enters Gemini (May 20), further boosting mental energy, learning, and communication. Venus squares Neptune (May 22), encouraging divinely inspired creativity and deep, merging connections in relationships, but also warns against illusion or gullibility. The Sun also conjuncts Uranus (May 22) for breakthrough ideas, authentic self-expression, and serving others with unique talents. Mercury sextiles Saturn for stabilized and productive thinking.
Vesta conjoins Neptune (May 22) enhancing selfless service to higher causes with unconditional love, compassion, and spiritual inspiration. Venus quincunxes Pluto (May 23), indicating needed adjustments in relationships for honesty and authenticity, or bold, uninhibited creativity. It also highlights potential for great wealth and power dynamics in connections.
Uranus conjuncts Sedna (May 24), a once-in-a-lifetime aspect, symbolizing the transformation of trauma into profound breakthrough and transcendence. It encourages rapid paradigm shifts and reaching new levels of being. Mercury quintiles Neptune for magical, inspired creative thinking and channeling information. The Sun sextiles Neptune, allowing for easier connection with spiritual awakening, inspired creativity, and flow states.
Mars squares Pluto (May 26), an intense aspect that can manifest as conflict or passionate action. It requires mindfulness to direct energy towards positive goals like building assets or pursuing occult practices, rather than aggression. The Sun trines Pluto, offering a calming influence and emphasizing thoughtful transformation. Vesta sextiles Pluto, empowering selfless service to worthy causes with profound depth and transformative power.
Venus quintiles Chiron (May 28), making it an excellent time for receiving or giving healing and wisdom creatively or financially. Venus squares Saturn, highlighting structural challenges in relationships, creativity, or finances that may need attention or recalibration for greater stability and productivity.
The Sagittarius full moon (May 31), a rare blue moon, brings clarity and opportunities for release and adjustment. It emphasizes adventurous exploration, higher learning, wisdom-giving, and expanding horizons, both internally and externally. Avoid dogmatism and embrace conditional truths. This full moon also highlights life purpose, with tight aspects from Mars for necessary adjustments and Juno for committed partnerships. Trines from Neptune, Vesta, Pallas Athena, and Saturn support spiritual awakening, selfless service, assertive strategy, and stable manifestation. Arys' quincunx suggests stirring things up for positive change.
The speaker reiterates excitement for the 'Quarterly Astrology Update' service, providing a detailed example of his own 90-day chart analysis. Upcoming forecasts will cover June 1-15, including a Gemini new moon and significant Venus aspects. The May session winner, Paul, is announced for a free reading.
Mars enters Taurus (May 18), fostering persistence, endurance, and sensual energy. This can empower building wealth or pursuing passions with sustained effort. Venus enters Cancer (May 18), promoting heart-centered relationships, family connections, and beautifying the home. Venus also sextiles Mars (May 19) for harmonious and energetic relating, creativity, and financial endeavors.
This episode covers astrological events from May 16-31, 2026, including a Taurus new moon, a Sagittarius blue moon, Mars square Pluto, and powerful Sun and Venus aspects. It also introduces a new 'Quarterly Astrology Update' service.
The Taurus new moon (May 16) emphasizes groundedness, resources, nature, sensory experience, and persistence. It's heavily aspected by Mercury for grounded communication, Uranus for intuitive hits and authentic self-expression, and Ceres for abundance and trauma healing. Venus and Jupiter offer support for relationships, creativity, finance, expansion, and higher learning. Mars, Chiron, Aerys, and Saturn also bring energies of initiation, healing, catalytic action, and structural testing.
Mercury enters Gemini (May 17) enhancing mental capabilities for learning, thinking, writing, and communication. It forms a harmonious sextile with Chiron for trauma healing or wisdom-giving, and conjuncts Uranus for brilliant, unconventional ideas and intuitive hits. On May 19, Mercury sextiles Neptune for divine inspiration and creative writing, and trines Pluto for deep thinking and investigative work.