Monday, May 17
This week, Venus will take center stage in our lives. The planet of relationships, beauty, and the feminine aspects Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune AND Pluto, and will also change signs on Wednesday (moving from Gemini to Cancer). All in 7 days!
Therefore, this week will likely bring to us experiences and reflections that allow us to more clearly access and discern what it is that we find attractive, how and if our relationships feed us, and how the divine feminine shows up in our lives.
This weeklong celestial extravaganza kicks off today as Venus aligns with Jupiter. Our concept of love and harmony is stretched. Or alternatively, we may feel as if we are being stretched too thin with commitments to relationships/friendships that we come to realize don’t provide us with the value that we had once considered they contained. However it manifests in your life, you’ll likely learn a lot about what pleases you and what does not.
Tuesday, May 18
With Venus squaring Saturn today, we may come up against restrictions in our relationships that provide a means for weighing and measuring the true value with which we accord them. Or, experiences may arise that make us question or redefine our idea(l)s of femininity—what it means to be a woman and/or in touch with our anima. Yet, given that Venus also makes a harmonious relationship with Neptune, we may find that our reflections can help us to transcend our previous beliefs and connect in with a deeper sense of the sacred feminine and the inherent mystic that resides within.
Wednesday, May 19
Today, on the Venus agenda, we have the planet of beauty squaring Uranus. When this celestial pair gets together, we get an influx of expect-the-unexpected when it comes to relationships, romance, and women (and the anima residing within men). Consequently, if you’ve desired to try something new on for size—whether it be a different lipstick, fashion style, or seduction technique—today may be the day you’ve been waiting for.
Additionally, there’s a waft of unitive compassion in the air as the Sun squares Neptune. We may be able to feel into a deeper sense of others’ joys and sufferings, sensing how while we are individuals we are all so deeply connected. Neptune helps dissolve boundaries—an asset for inspiring artistry but a challenge those who are struggling to move past co-dependent patterns. And while Neptune can help open up our awareness, allowing us to access often-veiled truth, it’s important to not fall into this planet’s diffusive pull on our consciousness that may result in us spacing out and/or not taking responsibility.
Thursday, May 20
Today is the first full day of Venus in Cancer, as last night the week’s celestial star moved into this sign from Gemini, where it had recently resided. With the planet of what and how we love in Cancer for the next 3+ weeks, we may feel pulled towards a greater sense of nurturance. A desire to feel safe and comforted may prevail as likely will a greater appreciation of the nourishment we receive from our food and the other gems of the Great Mother, Gaia.
Additionally, this evening the Sun’s travels through Taurus draw to a close as it shimmies into the sign of Gemini, where it will reside until the Solstice on June 21.
As such, today provides a wonderful opportunity to reflect back over the past 30 days and see what this Taurean time period has inspired within us.
* What have we learned about our abilities to make things manifest?
* Have we come into a deeper sense of alignment with our senses, glimpsing insights into how tastes, sounds, colors, and other sensual stimuli may inspire and nurture us?
* Did new understandings about our routines and habits—the role they play in our lives and/or how easy it is for us to create new ones—emerge?
Asking ourselves Taurean-themed questions such as these may provide great wisdom that we can take forward with us in our lives.
Friday, May 22
Mercury has been on the minds of many these days given that this planet ended its current retrograde cycle last week. And since the Sun and Moon are both in Mercury-ruled signs today (Gemini and Virgo, respectively) and the Moon makes a harmonious alignment with Mercury, today is likely to be no different. We can use the focused energetics to hone in and evaluate our relationship to information, seeing whether we efficiently receive and disseminate it, and how we may better use our faculties of analysis to craft more holistic solutions to challenges at hand.
Saturday, May 22
Today is one of those astrology headline days, a day of a significant astrological alignment—the first of three oppositions of Jupiter and Saturn.
How do Jupiterian freedom and Saturnian structure work together? I have found that my ashtanga yoga practice serves as a great parable for the synastry of these seemingly disparate energies and have used it as the theme around which I have sculpted a piece on this celestial opposition. For more, see this post.
Sunday, May 23
It’s a day for relationships. Not only is the Moon in let’s–get-along Libra but the planetary star of the week, Venus, is opposite Pluto.
When the goddess of love and beauty is aligned with the god of the underworld, passion escalates and relationships may feel more intense. The concept of control—maintaining it and/or releasing it—comes into focus, with a feeling of all-or-nothing enveloping romantic and/or creative pursuits.
When Venus and Pluto dance as they will today, desire—whether it be sexual or a deep yearning to truly reveal oneself to another—is the name of the game. Buried feelings—those we’ve turned a blind eye towards or just didn’t want to express—are drawn forth and emerge from deep within.
Usually when planets are in opposition, our first instinct is to identify with one of the planets and project the energies of the other onto another person (or other people). For example, we may feel that we are being sweet, loving, and beyond reproach (Venus) and that it’s our partner or friend that is being secretive, manipulative, or wanting things to change in a dramatic way (Pluto), or we may play the role of Pluto while projecting Venus onto them.
Yet what planetary oppositions teach us is that, in fact, we are likely both—in this case both the one who desires harmony (Venus) and the one who desires transformation and honesty (Pluto). Where oppositions lead us is towards the illumination it takes to be able to integrate seemingly disparate sides of ourselves.
For clues on the themes and patterns that may present themselves, consider back to February – May 2009, as this was the time period when Venus and Pluto were in a related alignment. Issues that are arising around this current time may reflect an unfolding of those that came to light last year at that time.
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