The month starts with windy Gemini, dispersing the blooms of spring as we transition into summer. Gemini is mutable, flexible, adaptable. Ruled by Mercury, the precocious youth, who is full of curiosity, quick moves and sudden twists and turns.

May 26 – New Moon at 6 Gemini – with 4 planets in Gemini, there is a quickening. We may find that lots of ideas are circulating and that connecting with friends is enjoyable.

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

The mystical planet, Neptune, enters Aries and starts the beginning of a great new cycle. Last time Neptune entered Aries was 168 years ago. This is the beginning of the influence of the Aries Vortex, a unique planetary alignment from 2025 to 2026.

The New Moon in Pisces gives us the opportunity to gather ourselves internally, pausing amid the tumultuous seas of change, and to tune in to what is essential in our lives.

This is the second New Moon from the Winter Solstice, which begins the Chinese New Year of the Wood Snake or Serpent. This Aquarius New Moon is in a flowing trine with Jupiter in Gemini, supporting growth, expansion of plans, rapid sharing of information and communications, positive outcomes. It’s encouragement

2025 shakes things up and begins as the full force of the last part of the Dragon year roars in. And like a large high-tide wave, that comes thundering in, it also has a pull that draws the wave back, through February. We feel the push forward and the draw back as situations are activated, evaluated, then reflected upon. And yet the year will be fast moving and so it is named, “Into the Rapids”.

After the deep dive in Scorpio, Sagittarius flares upward, broadening our views, supporting us to perceive more long term strategies and possibilities. This is fire birthed from watery depths of feeling.