Posted on April 30, 2025 by Henry Seltzer of ASTROGRAPH.COM
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The astrology of May is coordinated to the recent Taurus New Moon some three days before the month began, from April 27th, so that the resulting thirty-day lunation cycle carries through almost the entire May month. There has been some very intense astrological patterning in recent months, and this month is in some ways even more so. The recent New Moon featured not only Uranus in a tight 1° aspect to Saturn, a sextile, as well as an extremely tight triple conjunction of Venus with the true North Node and Saturn, but also a grand cross in Fixed signs between the Taurus Sun and Moon at 7° of the sign, square to Mars and Pluto in opposition, at 4° and 3° of Leo and Aquarius respectively, and completed by the 2° Scorpio position of the new 21st century KBO planet Haumea. This kind of New Moon has a technical terminology in that we could call this a real doozy. The effect on our individual arc of development and, as well, the zeitgeist, is major, especially considering that Pluto is featured in early Aquarius. The transformational effect is revelatory and life changing. Numinous Neptune, recently entered into Aries for the first time in 165 years, is closely contra-parallel Venus and conjunct as well within 2°, so there is a feeling of foggy mysticism that suffuses the entire May month, in which rational reasoning might flounder. The question of the factual truth of the matter – versus prevailing illusion – is currently another powerful factor of our times and perhaps for our individual lives also.
Other lunations this month are also quite powerful, beginning with the Scorpio Full Moon of Monday, May 12th, and continuing to the Moon’s Last Quarter of the 20th and the Gemini New Moon of the 26th. As far as the Full Moon, there are a few important factors here, not least among them that Mercury, now in Taurus, and at 3°, is exactly square Pluto practically to within the very minute of a degree! This increases, as this culmination dawns, our consciousness around the transformative process in which we are engaged. The Moon at 22° of Scorpio opposite the Taurus Sun - with Uranus close at hand – is the focus of a yod from Chiron, the Wounded Healer, and Jupiter in Gemini. Also, Chiron is conjunct Eris now within ½ degree, and exactly semi-sextile the Sun/Uranus midpoint of 24° of Taurus. It is possible that our own inner wounding might come up, as part of our depth researches at this timing.
The Last Quarter Moon of May 20th is also quite dramatic, with the Moon and Sun in 29° 43’ of their respective signs of Aquarius and Taurus, thus hovering on the very brink of Pisces and Gemini and affecting all four of these signs. Because Uranus has by this time reached 27° degrees of Taurus, the trickster effect is still quite active, as we negotiate the lunar phase that Dane Rudhyar considered to be a “crisis in consciousness” when the shift in awareness brought about by this lunation cycle is in its final stages of completion. The position of Saturn and of Neptune, both quite near the Aries Point and therefore sextile the Sun in this lunation, with a midpoint of 0° Aries, is also significant. Saturn with Neptune in extremely close conjunction will be with us all this summer and fall, indicating what celebrated astrologer Richard Tarnas called increasing polarization, blue states and red states, and “deception unmasked.” It is fairly clear by now that, at least on the US political front, this is no longer really much of a walk in the park.
Finally, the Gemini New Moon of the 26th also represents something of a volatile moment. Saturn has now actually ingressed into Aries, with Neptune still a couple of degrees away. They will get to within ¼ of a degree by mid-July. Sun, Moon, and Mercury are in trine to Pluto, further intensifying the transformational stew, while Chiron and Eris are perfectly conjunct. Our all too human inner wounding is brought more dramatically into the field of our awareness and might serve to further our evolutionary development into our most authentic version of ourselves that we can muster. Blessed be!
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