Aries Horoscope for May 2016

This is another fascinating month for you, Aries, a follow-up on all the meditative experiences that have been the norm for you recently, with the twin retrogrades of your ruler, Mars, through your sector of higher mind and that of Mercury also, recently turned direct and now slowly straightening out. You are engaged in studiously determining where to put your best foot forward as you take stock mentally, and also physically. Your belief systems, and as well your sense of where you are heading with your life in general, have been through a sea change that is rather profound. You are coming out the other side with alterations that are beginning to gel. You are serious about finding a sense of purpose that matches inner core values, and some very new ways of looking at the world around you that you have been incubating all through the past month.

As the month begins, you are feeling the comfort of the Moon in your sign, and also the sense of excitement and being on edge that comes from the highlighted presence of Uranus there also, which does after all correspond to the identity sector of your solar chart. Uranus symbolizes an energy that is always something of a wild card, and you have been feeling his impulsivity even more lately. All the outer planets are stimulated this month, especially on the first weekend when the Gemini New Moon lights up your house of discovery and learning. This is distinctly a tme of affirming intuitional vision and of incorporating new ideas into your existing worldview.

Jupiter, very much highlighted in this New Moon, is located in your sixth sector of service; Venus rules interpersonal connection. Because both Jupiter and Venus are emphasized in this New Moon configuration, and throughout the month, there is a pull toward relationship and helpfulness to others. As independent as you are, you are expanding into a feeling of warmth and camradery that tells you that you really cannoot go it alone. Jupiter combines with Neptune, symbolizing a positive energy for moving ahead in ethereal ways, while Saturn in square represents the compensatory and conservative attitude of holding back, therefore also grounding the productions of your imaginitive vision. Your work takes on, in this context, a sense of mission and accomplishment that also enjoins you to inquire as to exactly of what your partiucular contribution might consist. Only when what you do comes directly from you, independent of other voices or attitudes, and springing forth from your own inner intention, will you be fully satisfied.