Aquarius Horoscope for May 2016

This is another in a series of amazing months for you, Aquarius. When this year is done it might be said that you will barely recognize your former self. Your process of growth is reaching new heights, and perhaps new limits also. Just when you thought you had a plan, though a tad over-optimistic, concrete practicality interposes itself and your dreams and schemes come crashing down to reality. The good news is that you then pick up the pieces and move on, and in the direction of a greater sense of internal responsibility, not to others but to yourself. This is not by means of disregarding others, or your connection with mass consciousness, which will actually be enhanced. It is only that you distinguish an even greater call that comes to you from within, and is yours alone. Once you recognize the demands that your soul itself places upon you there is no turning back.

As the month begins, your curiosity is on the upswing, and this is an excellent place for you to be, considering the uncertainty of these times, at least in terms of known and pre-figured outcomes. You are at the ready, to surf the wave that arrives rather than the one that you expected. The planetary energies are gathering their force leading up to the first weekend of June, and then they roll down the slope of the energy that they have created, leading you, once the stir has settled, to a new form of self-determination. This takes as components a serious yearning for something real, together with otherworldly values and optimistic intimacy, and makes out of them a stew with no well-understood flavor, which will wind up in the moment however it does. In any case, on the inside of your mind where it counts you are to be well rewarded. Once you crack this inner egg you will be the richer for it, as well as the emotional equivalent of wiser, with no need for the false comfort of received consensus values or thinking.

This symbolism is presaged by planets making a Grand Cross in mutable signs that lines up perfectly with the Gemini New Moon of Saturday evening, June 4th. Jupiter and Neptune speak to cosmic horizons dipping into the earthly realms, as represented by concrete Saturn, emblematic of the physical world in all its frustration and glory. As spiritual teacher Adyashanti says, once you recognize that everything is awareness, this body, this river, this wall, then you have arrived at the blessed place of non-duality and inner peace. When Chiron stations to retrograde motion on the 27th, in trine with a stationing Mars and in alignment with your ruler, Uranus, conjunct Eris, the new planet beyond Pluto, and also for the week leading up to this point, you will be filled with wonder and compassion and a strong desire to push ahead for only those values that you most deeply cherish, and can no longer sideline or ignore.