Taurus Horoscope for May 2015

This late spring birthday timing represents another month of intensity, Taurus, with however a more subtle twist than what you have been experiencing in your recent sailing of the deep waters of your ongoing spiritual evolution. You are forward-thinking these days, with a powerful mystical component that somehow does not contradict logical thought process but rather adds to it. The trick is that in order to take fullest advantage of current cosmic currents, you must more fully embrace paradox as the essential truth of human existence. Idealism bordering on illusion runs alongside of you and might show up in friendships, group affiliations or future goals. The transformation of your values and belief system is far from complete, and enters into a different stage in the second half of the month, as relationship with intimate partners takes on a new dimension of commitment.

As the month begins, you are feeling the juiciness of your personality more strongly than usual, in this your birthday time of the year, while also identifying with an inner mandate to be of service to others around you. You are normally a lover of beauty and sensorial pleasures, and this is even more prominent for you this month since your ruling planet, Venus, is powerfully placed, residing in your sector of materiality and resource. Your sensitivity to others is also increased, because Neptune is playing a large role in this current lunar cycle, and was square to Venus at the timing of the recent Aries New Moon, from the middle of last month. This also implies that your grand visions and plans for the future could well be colored by the fantastic and lofty qualities of Neptune's energy, perhaps coming with a tendency to over-idealize potential outcomes. It might be wise to apply that appreciation for the material side of life to the nuts-and-bolts reality of your personal budgeting and finances, as there could be a tendency to give in too easily or to overspend.

Getting your monetary ducks relatively in a row will likely have a ripple effect from mundane affairs into the realm of your emotional well being, also. As you come into greater alignment with your higher ideals and values, you will only gain. In terms of shared resources or business endeavors, your judgment is stimulated, perhaps in a critical manner. This is indicated by the presence of stolid Saturn in this area of your solar chart, providing an added dash of shrewdness, so that you could be leaning in the direction of dampening down your enthusiasm. You can enhance your dealings by striving for a good balance between finding optimal benefit for yourself and all others involved. With your affairs in general, it is a good idea to make as much headway as possible before May 18th, when Mercury begins its retrograde in an important sector of your chart, since for the latter half of the month, miscommunications and glitches become more likely.

Another element to consider during this monthly cycle is the more internal portion of your experience, and the expression of what you find within you. Your life has been, and continues to be, a series of intense changes; your spiritual education is blossoming and unfolding with extra magic. Your soul's vitality hinges on identifying and caring for repressed pieces of yourself that were lost when you were quite young, and thus unable to fully deal with any traumatic events that might have taken place. By examining more closely where you came from, and the experiences that shaped your personality, you may find that there are patterns governing your avoidance to pain, back then, that have long ago outworn their usefulness. You benefit by bringing these pieces to the surface and integrating them into who you are now in a new way. One mode of doing this is by expressing them through your creativity. This can appear in many forms, such as dancing, writing, drawing, or simply speaking and being witnessed by someone you trust; by giving voice to these lost pieces of yourself, you can make great strides toward becoming more whole. This process can serve and anchor the development of the new philosophy of life that you are forming, which will ripple out into every facet of your being as you grow and evolve.

A big piece of this integration process will likely come up in what you find reflected in your own mind and heart as you relate to others. It is often through relating to another that you get to see yourself more clearly. This can sometimes be a confronting process, since you might not always enjoy what you see. You might be able to learn more about your relating style, finding the source of pain within it, by taking a backwards glance into your formative experiences, and identifying the root of your own patterning. Doing so has the effect of allowing you to see yourself in the present moment more clearly. There is a window of opportunity this month to bring the positive energy symbolized by Jupiter into this process, and to find yourself in a more positive and empowered orientation to your closest relationships.