New Moon in Taurus 

This is a powerful transformative New Moon in Taurus. Taurus, the most grounded and steady of the earth signs, and of all the signs, invites us to bring abundance and manifestation of our desires into our lives, making it an auspicious New Moon for setting an intention. Taurus at its highest and deepest expression embodies the wisdom of cyclic growth and of nature, a Master Teacher for those who listen and see the deeper currents in the turning seasons and the Earth’s great intelligence. At the New Moon we can lean into these energies. This is our greatest lineage of riches, the wisdom of nature and the cosmos. (The Hierophant is correlated with Taurus in the Major Arcana of the Tarot, the one who hears and listens, connected to the divine).

Setting an intention is a powerful statement when reflected upon with deep thoughtfulness and feeling alignment, to attract in the energies, thought forms, and outer circumstances, that can support what you are wanting to grow and actualize in your life. (The power of intention is in creating and shaping our lives).

This Earthy New Moon lines up with the powerful Mars Pluto opposition for the last of 3 deeply disruptive and transformative upheavals around power and intention since the first Mars Pluto opposition on November 3rd 2024, right before the Presidential election. The 2nd opposition was January 2 2025, and the last will be April 26 during New Moon. This 3rd opposition is finishing a long review about power, intensity, things hidden surfacing, and the eruption of hidden forces. It highlights how we relate to the yang, or masculine, qualities, and what needs transforming around the values based on the old definition of the warrior. This sets the stage to meet our new evolutionary calling, especially at the upcoming Aries Vortex. Venus is highlighted now in Pisces, with characteristics of the feminine, or yin sustainability, of empathy and inclusiveness of a larger receptiveness and sensitivity to the collective healing and integration now trying to take place. How will Venus and Mars find their balance, in your life, in our lives, as is needed for the creative birthing of a new evolutionary time?

Mars leaves the post shadow of its retrograde cycle on May 1st, opening the portal for Beltane or May Day. Beltane is one of the Celtic cross Quarter days celebrating the midway point between spring and summer, associated with fire, fertility, and the sacred union of nature. 

It is educational for us astrologers, and for all, to look at what’s been taking place collectively since November 3rd, around these issues, and to see what indeed is being pulled out into view for us to review, transform, reevaluate, and take action on.

It is also worthwhile to contemplate our choices since November 3rd, seeing what transformation is taking place, seeing what was hidden from view which is now seen, and to see what actions we have taken, and in what ways we are aligning with the drive for actualization in our lives.

Apr 27 – New Moon at 7 Taurus – Powerful New Moon connections with the warrior (Mars) and the god of the Underworld (Pluto). Taurus prefers peace, stability, and to see the positive, but something is erupting from below! Contemplate your values and how you take a stand for them.

April 27 – New Moon, at 7 Taurus, 12:30 pm PDT

 

Affirmation for New Moon, in Taurus

“During this time of upheaval, I seek a centered groundedness within myself. I see the beauty of this Earth that I am gifted to live within and upon. I carry gratitude in my heart. I take up the offering of Taurus to set my intention for manifesting.”

Apr 26 – Mars at 3 Leo opposes Pluto in Aquarius – Heat from below, or intensity in expression! Feelings of domination or awareness of deeper needs and issues that have been repressed. Time for transformation of action, reaction. Watch being pushed around. Stand your ground with the clear nobility of the lion.

Apr 30 – Venus enters Aries – Diana, or Artemis, the huntress with her dogs, independent and true to her wildness, attunes to nature. Boldness of the feminine, boldness in receiving, boldness in one’s perception. Daring and adventurous. Independent but also relational. Feel her uniqueness!

Opening the door to May’s spring days, is Venus leaving Pisces where it is exalted and entering Aries where it is in it’s detriment. Venus in Aries is an Artemis or Diana figure, with her dogs, exploring nature and following her own thread. A courageousness that propels her to new places. Now on May 2nd she merges with Neptune in Aries bringing out paradoxical combinations. Venus and Neptune as unconditional love, the love of moving and creating and loving (Venus) through altered states of consciousness (Neptune). Neptune’s higher vibration is soul and heart territory, dimensions flowing and rhythmic where imagination empowers vision. Now both in the fire sign Aries, a self centered sign compelled to act through its upwelling motivation, an initiator, a risk taker, assertive for its own desires. With this combination imagine an impassioned artist, lover. A a bold visionary who shares enthusiastically with others.

Saturn into Aries

This month as well, Saturn enters Aries on the 24th, and we begin the Saturn Neptune conjunction in Aries as well as the beginning of the Aries Vortex formation, which continues through Dec 2026.

On May 24th Saturn enters Aries – the last time Saturn was in Aries was 1996-1998.

In 2025, Saturn will move to almost 2 Aries, retrograde (July 12) back to 25 Pisces, then go direct on November 27th.

Saturn will reenter Pisces from September 1 – February 13th 2026, then enters Aries fully, going to 14 Aries.

Saturn in Aries is a disciplining, structuring, slowing, maturing force to Aries’ initiating, on the go, impulsive yet courageous energy. Saturn in Aries is a time of testing for more mature leadership, obstructing impulsive actions. asking for accountability.

On a personal level, it disciplines the quick moving Aries energy into deeper understanding. It can focus the highly creative energy of Aries. Obstacles become sign posts for realistically assessing and learning how to be in the present and accept what is, while balancing control with boldness. With Saturn in Aries we are called to cultivate patience as Saturn tests, limits, constricts, and discerns, potentially to get to the truth, the essence of things, events, and our true nature. It is like the Zen Master Teacher.

As it enters Aries it begins its conjunction with Neptune in Aries. What dreams want to come into reality?

Saturn fact checks Neptune’s illusions and spin. When Saturn meets Neptunes ones hopes and visions for the future meet a reality of what’s really possible. Saturn and Neptune in Aries, can support creative artistic endeavors if one takes time to plan, to work with organization, and to keep at it! Patience and perseverance pays off.

For more on Saturn Neptune conjunction, Saturn into Aries and the Aries Vortex forming, join Susan for her May 9th talk.

Celestial Events for May

May 2 – Venus conjunct Neptune at 1 Aries – (see above)

May 4 – Pluto goes retrograde at 3 Aquarius – as Pluto retrogrades it stations at 3 Aquarius. What needs to be seen that has been hidden. How are we dealing with power?

May 5 – Mercury at 22 Aries sextiles Jupiter in Gemini – Mercury enjoys Jupiter in Gemini’s stimulating conversation, new ideas, talking philosophy, and love of learning and teaching.

May 6 – Venus at 3 Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius – Intimacy, share deep conversations, good time for honesty in relationship with thoughtfulness of each other.

May 10 – Mercury enters Taurus – Mercury leaves quick Aries and slows its reflective qualities in Taurus, seeking body intelligence, with the potential to tune into nature’s wisdom, meditation, and stillness. We check our values.

Full Moon at 22 Scorpio, 8:56 am PDT

May 12 – Full Moon at 22 Scorpio, 8:56 am PDT – The Scorpio full Moon in May is known as the Wesak Moon, the full Moon under which Buddha attained enlightenment after being challenged by the demons of thought. Scorpio Moon embodies deep and strong emotions and passions. The pairing with Taurus brings the polarity to Scorpio, calmness and acceptance of what is, with the power to observe and steady, to ground.

In this image you can see the combination of Scorpio and Taurus, the intensity and heat of the challenging beings and the reaching of Buddha’s hand to call Mother Earth to witness and steady him. (for more on this join Susan for the monthly astrology talk, May 9th)

The Moon opposes Uranus at this full Moon highlighting uncertainty, change and the potential to break through as it conjoins with the Taurus Sun. The timing of this Moon brings us into the beginning of the Aries Vortex where the challenging evolutionary energies are calling us to awaken, to bring out boldness in order to redefine our ideals, our structures and systems, and lead us forward into the future.

 

Affirmation for full Moon in Scorpio

“Under the Scorpio full Moon I am reminded of the Buddha facing challenge and adversary with calm intention and steadiness. I lean into the personal transformations now taking place with gratitude for, and open to, the larger intelligence and compassionate cosmos within which I live, which guides me, as I listen in stillness. “

May 12 – Mercury at 3 Taurus squares Pluto in Aquarius – Pondering deep thoughts. Making sense of the beauty of life and the suffering of life. Knowing when to speak and reveal, and when to be quiet and patient. Intensity of feeling surfaces and challenges steadiness of mind. Stay centered.

May 17 – The Sun conjuncts Uranus at 27 Taurus – Revolutionary, boldness in breaking through to one’s authenticity. Change, sudden shifts. Radical moves.

May 17 – Mercury at 13 Taurus squares Mars in Leo – Assertions of self, or the need and hesitancy of asserting oneself. Evaluating what needs to be expressed. Conflictual communications, debate, encountering different ideas that challenge.

May 18 – Jupiter at 25 Gemini sextiles Chiron in Aries – good time for healing, or new levels of integration, especially through sharing ideas, communicating, and reassessing our deeper needs. Expressing them and acting upon them for success.

May 20 – The Sun at 29 Taurus sextiles Saturn in Pisces – a day to organize, plan, work in the garden, to slow and reflect on what you want to manifest.

May 20 – The Sun enters Gemini – Shift in energy, from steady Taurus to energetic and social Gemini. From fixed energy to mutable, adaptable, flexible, changeable energy. Communications in all forms become highlighted.

May 21 – Venus at 15 Aries trines Mars in Leo – this is ready to go energy, passionate affection harmonizes with taking bold action, romantic in adventurous way. Artistic expression flows.

May 22 – The Sun at 1 Gemini sextiles Neptune in Gemini – a day for dreaming, imagination, meditation and moving into to altered states. A day of compassion and empathy. Without clear boundaries or centerness, there can be overwhelm, or confusion.

May 24 – The Sun at 3 Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius – a day for working with transforming, deeper issues that surface flow into new understanding, communicating powerfully.

May 24 – Mercury conjuncts Uranus at 27 Taurus – Innovative thoughts, speaking authentically, thinking originally, communicating revolutionary ideas, stepping beyond the status quo or challenging those in power.

May 24 – Saturn enters Aries – the beginning of a new 29 year cycle. Saturn seeks to bring discipline structure and limitation to Aries’ impulsive, intuitive, on the go energy. Potentially it can settle the highly creative Aries into manifesting through patient intention. Slowing the wild horses of impatience, Saturn teaches the rewards of the long road. (See above)

May 25 – Mercury enters Gemini – Bright ideas, love of learning, writing, communicating. Watch getting too many things on your plate, watch being scattered.

May 25 – Mercury at 1 Gemini sextiles Saturn in Aries – Saturn will help slow and focus Mercury’s thinking. Great day for organizing and planning.

May 26 – Mercury at 1 Gemini sextiles Neptune in Aries – What new thing would you like to imagine into your life? Imaginative creative thinking.

May 26 – New Moon at 6 Gemini – with 4 planets in Gemini, there is a quickening. This new Moon aligns with and activates the beginning of the Aries Vortex time. How can we ground and implement new systems, activating community into action, into revisioning the future, honoring what we deeply value, taking into account the needs of the collective? We may experience our twinness, feeling the polarization of opposites. In esoteric astrology, Venus is the planet of Gemini, for its aim is to find the energetic pathway which harmonizes opposites. Can we learn how to do that?

May 26 – New Moon, at 6 Gemini, 8:03 pm PDT

 

 

Affirmation for New Moon in Gemini

“I set my intention for honoring the opposing needs within myself, allowing communication between the parts, for acceptance, even resolution. My intention is to be willing to see more deeply into the needs of those who are opposite in their views or background from me.”

May 27 – Mercury at 3 Gemini trines Pluto in Aquarius – powerful communications, profound thoughts.

May 29 – The Sun conjuncts Mercury at 9 Gemini – highlights the mercurial, changeable, mentally creative thinking and speaking, of Gemini. Highly creative or very scattered. Creatives learn to live with some chaos as creation is more important to Gemini than order.

The Twelve signs for May 2025: Sun and Rising Signs

Aries (Mar 20-Apr 19): Dear Aries, during the first half of the month, creativity and positive relationships are strengthened. The full Moon on the 12th highlights intimate communications for healing and or financial considerations. You’re encouraged to try something different and let your unusual uniqueness show. Your ruling planet, Mars, in Leo, expresses more boldness and desires to build confidence within you. Saturn moves into Aries on the 24th. Slow down and reflect on what you are wanting to manifest. Create a plan and a schedule. That sets the direction and that’s the goal.

Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): Dear Taurus, Happy Birthday! What is up for change in your life? What are you deeply desiring? With Venus entering Aries on April 30th, it’s time to go for it! What’s holding you back? The full Moon in Scorpio opposite Uranus dares you to create change. And why not? With the full Moon in Scorpio on the 12th, you can observe how others are influential, even though you feel you do your own thing. Saturn moves into Aries on the 24th, time to clean out those closets and drawers! Time to go deeper into your dream life. Your unconscious wants to be explored. Saturn can bring about more focus to deeper layers of yourself. 

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): Dear Gemini, this has been an interesting 12 months for you with Jupiter moving through Gemini. Travel, learning, teaching, moving into new environments. Jupiter leaves Gemini on June 9th. Your ruling planet, Mercury, having been retrograde then direct through Pisces and Aries, has focused on what needs completing and what is new and brings excitement. Mercury enters Taurus on the 10th, slowing your momentum in order to integrate and digest your perceptions, ideas, and thoughts. The full Moon in Scorpio on the 12th highlights your working life, and daily routines. What a great time to make changes in those routines, to bring something new into your work, or to transform your habits and body. Saturn in Aries, slows our energies to bring more focus into certain areas. Gemini, transiting Saturn asks you to envision how you want to interface with the community, or what boundaries you will hold for your own well being and creative desires.

Cancer (Jun 21–Jul 21): Dear Cancer, what do you need to complete in order to set the stage for new beginnings that can bring upliftment and well being? Now is a good time to reflect upon that, as Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and growth, enters Cancer on June 9th to spend the next 12 month in your sign (happens once every 12 years). The full Moon in Scorpio takes place on the 12th. You can resonate with this water sign, it’s depth and movement through feeling spaces. this full moon encourages you to recommit to your creativity, to your self expression. With Uranus opposite the Moon change is positive and liberating. Saturn in Aries asks you to get serious about your goals and what you are aspiring toward. What a powerful time to work with intentions! Where in your life might you benefit from discipline and structure? Great time to reach out for support if needed.

 

Leo (Jul 22 – Aug 22): Dear Leo, perhaps this last part of April and the beginning of May has brought some challenges as well as positive insights and decisions about what you now want and need to do. Mars now in Leo is encouraging focus on your desires, along with its discerning, sharp clarity, to take action. It’s opposition to Pluto, just completing in that second week of May, may have brought you to deep places to make your decisions. The full Moon in Scorpio on the 12th, highlights home and family, while the Sun and Uranus opposite the Moon, are in the area of your chart that represents your outward public standing and career. Deep feelings and insights help to liberate you. Saturn, moving into Aries on the 24th, aligns with your fire sign, Leo, creating an natural time to focus on building new structures in your life. It offers patience as things move along.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): Dear Virgo, perhaps you are feeling inspired, with your ruling planet in Aries and starting to sextile Jupiter in Gemini, bringing in new acquaintances, new ideas, or situations. Or perhaps you are very busy with lots on your mind. As Mercury moves into Taurus on the 10th, the pace slows. You settle in and deepen. Perhaps, there is an important decision to make, or perhaps, you finally give yourself time to reflect upon what you would like to manifest in the coming year. The full Scorpio Moon takes place on the 12th, highlighting how you connect with those around you. On this day, the conversations deepen, and take unusual turns, leading to surprise, new insights, or breakthroughs. Saturn moves into Aries on the 24th, offering you the ability to engage at deeper levels with those you love. Powerful transformations can be had.

Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): Dear Libra, much focus is now on your relations with others and how you find balance between yourself and others. Your ruling planet, Venus, is now in Aries, so you may attract into your life strong, independent people that will naturally take the lead. This can be exciting and encouraging as you embark on new projects or journeys. Or you may need to find a way to cultivate your own Aries energy of decisiveness and bold new beginnings. The full Moon in Scorpio on the 12th highlights both collaborations and intimacy with others and how you deal with shared finances. It sets the stage for powerful transformations to take place, making it important for you to know how you are wanting to involve yourself with others. Saturn in Aries will help you define your relation with others, or perhaps, the structure in which you work with others. It brings much discernment into the patterns you bring into relationship. Let it be your teacher through any challenges.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): Dear Scorpio, the Taurus energy in your house of relations encourages you to go slow and steady. Your ruling planet, Mars, in fiery Leo, encourages you to show up and express yourself. It highlights career at this time, so knowing what you want or intend in work, and/ or setting goals and intentions is important now, especially at the full Moon in Scorpio, on the 12th. This is a powerful full Moon for you, with Mars opposing Pluto! Are there some issues arising that need attention or resolution? With Uranus opposing the Scorpio Moon it can be a time of breaking through into a new way of relating. Saturn in Aries brings your attention to how you take care of your body and soul, asking what habits, routines, support you and which ones don’t. With Saturn in Aries it’s time to organize your office, or reconsider your working environment and how it might be more supportive to you.

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 20): Dear Sagittarius, with the Sun and Uranus now in Taurus, your fiery Sagittarius energy becomes more practical to the details of things. Especially in regards to your work, plans, and health. Your ruling planet, Jupiter, still in Gemini, brings excitement as you meet, learn, and work with others, sharing ideas and information. Next month, Jupiter moves into Cancer, on June 9th, marking a shift in your energy and life journey. Last time it was in Cancer was June 2013-July 2014. What was taking place for you then? On the 12th, the full Moon in Scorpio lights up the sky, making it the time to meditate, drop back a bit, slow down, and take stock of where you have been and where you are now going. Something is changing, possible liberating you of routines of the past. As Saturn moves into Aries on the 24th, your relation with children increases. Certainly you will begin a time of manifesting your creative self expression in some concrete way.

Capricorn (Dec 21- Jan 19): Dear Capricorn, as May begins the Taurus energy accentuates your enjoyment of children and encourages your self expression. The full Moon in Scorpio takes place on the 12th, a powerful full Moon that highlights your relation with groups, friends, and plans for the next phase of your life. There may be changes being made so that you can interact more deeply with others, supporting transformation. Or changes that can allow for more financial ease. Your ruling planet is responsible Saturn, the master teacher, teaching through life challenges, helping to find structure, create boundaries, and discern clarity. It moves into Aries on the 24th beginning a new cycle for you. At this time, how do you want to take initiative and pursue what you are desiring to manifest? How might you be more trusting in yourself and your intuition? The next 2 years can support this development.

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 17): Dear Aquarius, the Taurus energy of Spring brings you home, asks for grounding and simple pleasures, to sit in nature or the garden. The full Moon in Scorpio takes place on the 12th, a very powerful full Wesak Moon for you! It lights up your house of public standing, bringing your attention to how you balance inner and outer areas of your life. You are naturally a transformative agent, and with Pluto in Aquarius opposite Mars in Leo at this time, you may feel the arising of old issues, old ways of feeling, that are ready to be released, so more and more authenticity, and mentally creativity, take place. Your ruling planet, Uranus, joins the Sun, encouraging break through. Saturn is your other ruling planet. It moves into Aries on the 24th. With Saturn in Aries, it supports your patience and perseverance in your goals. Slow and steady it says.

Pisces (Feb 18-Mar 19): Dear Pisces, with the Sun in Taurus, family, friends and connection with others is important. Communications are more practical. On the 12th, the full Moon in Scorpio lights up the sky. You resonate with this watery Moon, which highlights your learned wisdom to share with others. This Moon brings out the philosopher, teacher, or traveler in you. It activates the desire to learn, and expand your way of seeing life. Jupiter is your ruling planet, now in Gemini, and on June 9th it enters Cancer, bring a year of support and growth to you, especially in self expression, creativity, and enjoyment of children. Saturn enters Aries on the 24th. This represents a shift in your energy toward more practical views on finances, and how you want to share your talents. It calls your attention to what you most deeply value.

 

Susan Heinz is a professional astrologer in Santa Cruz for 42 years, bringing together traditional & esoteric astrology, Tarot and Qabalah. For info on her Friday monthly astrology groups, her Qabalah, astrology and/or painting classes, and for personal readings, call (831) 479-3751, or go to www.susanheinz.com