Virgo Horoscope for May 2013

Your destiny is calling, Virgo, and it is a high-priority message. Recent depth explorations have given you new perspectives, critical to your chances for true forward movement. Like the extra-high tide that comes only once, this opening can be seized at the flood for great and fortunate progress, or left unanswered. An idealized and almost dream-like experience of relationship is part of this. Even though the temptation is strong to follow the crowd, or your partner, you find when you check inside that you must remain true to yourself at all costs. Illusions glimmer, offset by critical voices within you, but these contrasting factors can be navigated successfully when you keep your eye on the prize. As your radically altered self-expression reveals, you are transforming at the core and there is no looking back.

As the month begins, you are finding your way forward in the wake of the very powerful Full Moon eclipse from the middle of the last full week of April, when the Moon conjoined Saturn. Your next phase is beckoning, but requires that you take on a new mandate regarding how you organize higher mind activities and your emerging worldview. With Saturn involved by opposition to the Sun and Mars in your ninth sector, there is an intense concentration of energy there, together with a frustrating slow-down which is however productive long-term. Your ruler, Mercury, is very active in this month's configurations and so, by extension, are you. The full meaning of what you are currently about will come more clear over time, but for now, at least you know in your gut that you are called to something, and that that something is significant.

This is the month that Uranus and Pluto come into exact alignment for the third time of seven over the course of this climactic decade. Their square is stressful, but it is also creative, and as well as to the surrounding culture, brings much-needed evolutionary change to you individually.

With Uranus currently residing in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution, you are definitely on a sputtering path of hugely important self-development; this comes and goes in fits and starts, but the bottom line is that you are seeking within yourself the keys to your freedom from previous unintentional type-casting, and that you will find relevant and surprising information deep inside you to the extent that you can open to it. There are also implications for partnerships in your life that continue to amaze you with their multi-faceted qualities.

Then, with Pluto residing for this decade in your fifth sector of creative self-expression, the artist in you is coming to the fore, in an on-going emergence that has taken place over the past few years. In many ways, your self-expression and the way that you present has been in a complex metamorphosis that has had the effect of allowing you and others to see you as you really are by burning off the unnecessary parts as a sculptor removes the excess marble. In the end, only his intended creation remains. All these dynamics are accelerated over this pivotal summer; by fall you might not even be able to recognize yourself.

Neptune too, is powerfully invoked at this time, and especially by month's end, located in your seventh sector of partnership. You are very idealistic and optimistic regarding all aspects of your life and particularly significant relationships, either personal or business. These too are undergoing a transformative effect over the course of this year. Partnership connections are key for you right now, although somewhat slippery and difficult to pin down and define. Your strong sense of idealism colors your perceptions and leads you to the conclusion that everything is perfect. As only makes sense, self-deception in these matters is possible, perhaps leading to deception on the part of others, or on yours.

It is difficult to discern the important pieces in all this whirling chaos, and it is vital that you do so. You are blessed with a powerful intuition, which helps immensely. A strong Saturn is also part of this mix, representing caution and limitation, and this also serves you in the way of intelligent holding back as well as rushing into the new, which is actually also very key for you as you go through the changes of the coming months.