May 2026
Aries
On the one hand, this is going to be an active month in the heavens, with the Sun and all three faster planets on the move, two Full Moons and even the dwarf planet Ceres on the move. On the other hand, after two years where the three outer planets have been transitioning out of where they have been for years if not decades, each one has now completed that transition and are now where they will remain. We only reached that point on 26th April, when seven years after returning to your income sector and just days after the Sun had returned to put the solar spotlight on your income situation, matters and options Uranus left, not to return for another eight decades. With Mercury returning from 3rd May to 17th May and Mars returning on 19th May to begin his first war on income roadblocks and barriers in two years, even when the Sun leaves on 21st May, the most lucrative weeks of 2026 will just be getting started and Uranus' legacy and sense of direction will live on. Meanwhile, Uranus is settling into his first full month in your communication sector, where he will not only remain for the next seven years, but will be working in partnership with Pluto, who is now in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking until 2044. This is something that until leaving on 19th May Venus will be taking advantage of, with the final days of her mission to give your heart and your relationships a voice getting a boost when Mercury, the planet of communication returns on 17th May. The Sun's return on 21st May and Mars' return next month will keep the momentum going. Meanwhile, this will see Venus return to your home and family sector just as Jupiter moves into his final six weeks and in time to help bring things home. Meanwhile, this month's first Full Moon will fall in your financial sector on 2nd May and the second in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 31st May. With no planetary activity in either, this will give both a boost.Taurus
Whether you are an April or May born Taurus, until the Sun leaves on 21st May this is your birthday month and the start of new solar year. This year there is a mix of the expected and a break from the norm, though it might not be until the end of next month that this will be fully appreciated. What is expected is that this is when the Sun will always move through Taurus and travelling with the Sun, Venus and Mercury won't be far away. While Venus left last month, it was after the Sun returned and in time to give your heart a voice from the start. Mercury will make a flying visit from 3rd May to 17th May, with a chance to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open, while making choices, decisions and plans for the coming year. However, it is less what is here and what is not here, in that on 26th April, after seven years acting as a guide and the keeper of your personal truth Uranus left, not to return for another eight decades. While Uranus' legacy will live on, it means that when Mars, who will return to Taurus on 19th May, leaves at the end of next month, this will end all planetary activity here for the year. Meanwhile, helping Uranus settle into his first full month in your income sector and into his home for the next seven years, is having Venus, the planet of money here until 19th May, Mercury returning on 17th May and the Sun on 21st May, but also the support of the two planets in your career sector from the start. With Pluto in your career sector until 2044 and Uranus in your income sector until 2033, this is the start of a partnership that will have an impact for years to come. Meanwhile, Venus will not only leave and return to your communication sector on 19th May, but on the same day that Jupiter moves into his final six weeks, ushering in a powerful time for all aspects of communication.Gemini
For you, with the Sun in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart before returning to Gemini on 21st May to begin your birthday month and new solar year, May is a month when the past, present and future are going to overlap. While the Sun returns at the same time each year Venus and Mercury, who will travel alongside him but not to the same strict timetable, can return to Gemini before then and that is the case this month. The month not only begins with Venus already in Gemini and leaving on 19th May will give your heart a voice before your birthday month and new solar year even begins, but on 26th April, Uranus returned to spend the next seven years here. Until leaving in 2033, Uranus will act as your guide, internal compass and keeper of your personal truth. Mercury's return on 17th May will also bring a chance to put heart and mind on the same page before the Sun's return, all while the Sun is focused on bringing your old solar year home. Even then, with Mars returning to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 19th May to begin the six week wind down of your current two year Mars cycle, this will keep the doors open to the past. It is also on 19th May that Venus will not only return to your income sector, but on the same day that Jupiter moves into the final six weeks of his 12 month quest for income growth and expansion. With the Moon returning on the same day, where things have been limping along, all of a sudden the planets of money and luck will team up, bringing the laws of attraction and synchronicity and the element of luck into alignment and into play. This begins what could be some of the most lucrative weeks of 2026, but with planets continuing to arrive for months after they leave. This makes the Full Moon in your work sector on 2nd May, and a chance to jump start things on the job front, all the more important.Cancer
With the Sun always spending the first three weeks of May in your friendship sector and with the solar spotlight on your social life, friendships, teamwork and networking before returning to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart to begin the month long wind down of your old solar year on 21st May, this is always going to be a month of contradictory forces. At some point in May, it is almost guaranteed that either Venus or Mercury will take the step either before or after the Sun, making this more an overlap than a point where the focus shifts from one side of life's fence to the other. Even more so this month, with both not only active from the start, but with Jupiter leaving Cancer at the end of June, with major doors already opening. It was in the last week of April that within the space of 48 hours, Venus and Uranus returned to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart. Venus to spend until 19th May taking your heart on a nostalgic trip down memory lane and Uranus, to spend the next seven years focused less on closing old doors and more on guiding you through your intuition, sixth sense and inner voice. With the Sun in your friendship sector until 21st May, Mercury moving through from 3rd May to 17th May and Mars returning to spend the next six weeks here on 19th May, an overlap will continue all month. Meanwhile, 19th May is also significant for another reason. This is the day Mars not only leaves your career sector and ends the most active months of this professional year and returns to your friendship sector, but this will see Venus return to Cancer, just as Jupiter moves into his final six weeks. This is the point when the two benefics of the solar system will join forces to bring the foundation year of a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion home. Meanwhile, we have a Blue Moon this month or two Full Moons. The first on 2nd May is in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart, while keeping things balanced, the Full Moon on 31st March will be in your busy work sector.Leo
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in your career sector, the solar spotlight is always on your career and professional situation, matters and options at this time of year, but with a lot more fluidity this year. Before the month even began, but after the Sun returned, first Venus left your career sector and two days later, after seven years Uranus left as well. This means that when Mars, the last planet to return to your career sector this year leaves at the end of June, this will end all planetary activity on the career front for the year. However, you're a long way from that point, with the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos not returning until 19th May, two days before the Sun leaves and even then, kicking off what could be some of the busiest six weeks of the year. Having begun the year in your work sector, this is the next step and a chance for Mars to fuel your professional passions, fighting and competitive spirit and channel them into bigger goals and ambitions. Meanwhile, after guiding things professionally for the last seven years, Uranus is settling into this first full month in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking and his home for the next seven years. Venus, who is here until 19th May, has already formed a friendly aspect to both planets in your relationship sector. With Uranus in your friendship sector until 2033 and Pluto in your relationship sector until 2044, this is the start of a partnership that will have an impact for years to come. This is something that Mercury, the planet of communication will add to when he returns to your friendship sector on 17th May and the Sun on 21st May. Meanwhile, Venus will not only return to a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart on 19th May, but on the same day that Jupiter moves into his final six weeks here. This is when they will join forces to prepare for their game changing return to Leo next month.Virgo
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery until returning to your career sector on 21st May, the solar spotlight won't just shift from one side of life's fence to the other, but often Venus and/or Mercury will return earlier than that, creating an overlapping of the two. This year, you not only have that from the start, but for the whole of this month and the majority of next month as well. What will be a deviation from the norm is that when Mars, who won't even return to an adventurous part of your chart until 19th May leaves at the end of June, is that this will end all planetary activity on this side of life's fence for the year. It was only on 26th April that after seven years Uranus left, though with a parade of planets keeping the momentum going and the spirit of adventure alive until the end of next month. At the same time, Uranus is settling into his first full month in your career sector, where he will not only spend the next seven years, but in partnership with Pluto, who having returned to your work sector in November 2024, is here until 2044. Venus, who returned to your career sector on 24th April, has already formed a friendly aspect to both planets in your work sector, as will Mercury when he returns on 17th May and the Sun on 21st May. So while the adventurous side of life's fence is active all month, things are also firing up professionally. Venus is only in your career sector until 19th May, and this will have significant implications. By then, professionally, things will be in safe hands, allowing Venus to leave and return to your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking. This is the same day that having returned in June 2025, Jupiter moves into his final six weeks. As well as bringing you to some of the most auspicious weeks of the year on the social, friendship, teamwork and networking fronts, this will bring the elements of luck and the laws of attraction and synchronicity together.Libra
While the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in your financial sector and this will always put the solar spotlight on your financial situation and money matters at this time of year, his departure and return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 21st May, can make this a month that is saving its best until last. Not this year, for this will not only be on display from the start, but a major powering up on the playful, creative and adventurous side of life's fence has already begun. This won't take away from the focus on money matters, with the two running side by side all month. It was in the last week of April that, after 24 days in your financial sector Venus left, followed two days later by Uranus, who has spent the last seven years acting as a guide and promoting an honest relationship with money. Fortunately, the Sun had not only returned a few days earlier, but the dwarf planet Ceres won't end her first deep dive into your financial needs and priorities for another four years until 29th May. In other words, money matters are in safe hands and especially with a chance to harness Mercury's smart head for money when he moves through from 3rd May to 17th May and Mars returning on 19th May for his first chance in two years to fire up your financial passions and fighting spirit. Meanwhile, as you move into the new month, while Uranus is settling into his first full month in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery, since her return Venus has already formed a friendly aspect to Pluto and the asteroid Juno in a playful and creative part of your chart, where their alignment last month has already created the resolve to change things up. With Uranus in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery until 2033 and Pluto in a playful and creative part of your chart until 2044, this is the start of a partnership that will have an impact for years to come. This is something Mercury will add to when he joins Uranus on 17th May and the Sun on 21st May.Scorpio
As always the case, the Sun will spend the first three weeks of May in your relationship sector, before on 21st May taking the solar spotlight off your relationships and shifting it onto your financial situation and money matters, when he returns to your financial sector. This is always going to make this an important month on the relationship and financial fronts, but even more so this month and not just now, but with ongoing implications. For underneath this, a major shift in the dynamics of the year has just taken place. It was in the last week of April and just after the Sun had returned, that after just 24 days Venus left your relationship sector, followed by Uranus two days later. Unlike Venus, Uranus had been here for seven years and not returning again for another eight decades, this was a major shift. Had the Sun not returned when he did, this would have ended all planetary activity on the relationship front, but it didn't and with Mercury, the planet of communication returning from 3rd May to 17th May and Mars returning on 19th May, the focus will remain on your relationships. However, only until the end of June, when Mars' departure will end all planetary activity on the relationship front for the year, something not experienced in seven years. Meanwhile, as one era is drawing to a close, another has just begun, with Uranus settling into his first full month in your financial sector, where he is here now until 2033. Where, for the last seven years, Uranus has acted as a guide for and helped to keep your relationships on an authentic path, he will spend the next seven years doing the same when it comes to your financial situation and money matters. Venus will leave on 19th May, but with Mercury returning with his smart head for money on 17th May and the Sun returning on 21st May, as he does at this time each year. Meanwhile, this will not only see Venus leave and return to your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery on 19th May, but on the same day that Jupiter moves into his final six weeks. With both leaving and returning to your career sector next month, this is the perfect time for them to join forces.Sagittarius
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in your work sector, whether on the job front or with whatever it is that keeps you busy and occupies your time, this can be a busy time of year. However, as is often the case, the dynamics will change as the month progresses and that process has begun even before you moved into the new month. It was in the last week of April and just after the Sun had returned that first Venus left, giving you a sense of what you want, while two days later, after seven years acting as a guide Uranus left, not to return for another eight decades. Had they left a few days earlier or the Sun had returned a few days later there would be no overlap but instead, you won't miss a beat. The Sun will be joined from 3rd May to 17th May, with this smart, practical and intellectual planet making it easier to work smarter. Mercury will have left by the time Mars returns on 19th May to begin what could be some of the busiest six weeks of any year and to take over from where the Sun will leave off two days later. Mars will also return in time to ride the wave of forward momentum that a New Moon on 17th May can create. Meanwhile, helping Uranus to settle into his first full month of what will be a seven year transit through your relationship sector is not just having Venus, the planet of love here until 19th May, but having already spent her early days at a friendly aspect to Pluto and Juno in your communication sector. This is something that Mercury, the planet of communication will do when he returns to your relationship sector on 17th May and the Sun on 21st May. This will not only see Venus swap out her planet of love for her planet of money hat when she returns to your financial sector on 19th May, but on the same day that Jupiter moves into the final six weeks of his 12 month quest for financial growth and expansion. This will bring the element of luck and the laws of attraction together, with the best possible timing.Capricorn
With the Sun always spending the first three weeks of May in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart and then returning to your busy work sector, this is always going to be a month of two halves for you and more often than not, an overlapping of the two. Sometimes for a few days or weeks, but this began back in the last week of April and will continue until Mars, the last planet to return to a playful and creative part of your chart this year, leaves on 29th June. As Mars won't even return until 19th May, that is still a long way off, but the writing is on the wall. This is something that you haven't faced for some time, for until he left on 26th April, for the last seven years, even when the last of the faster planets had moved through a playful and creative part of your chart, Uranus would stay on. That is not the case this year, making this month and next a chance to work with the planets on both sides of life's fence to put the right guardrails in place. For while the faster planets have already begun returning to your work sector and more will return over the course of the month, Uranus is here now until 2033. Where there had been near continuous planetary activity on the playful and creative side of life's fence, this has now shifted to the busy side of life's fence, though with a handy two month overlap or transition period. Meanwhile, while Mercury will return to your work sector on 17th May and the Sun on 21st May, Venus will leave on 19th May, though not before working to attract both job potential and the money. Meanwhile, this will not only see Venus return to your relationship sector, where as the planet of love she will be right at home, but on the same day that having returned in June 2025, Jupiter moves into his final six weeks here.Aquarius
For you, at some point during the course of May, the focus is going to be on home and family matters and on matters of the heart and all things fun, playful, romantic and creative and often with an overlapping of the two. That is because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in your home and family sector, putting the solar spotlight on home, family and on those rituals and routines that can help you feel grounded and can bring a sense of belonging, before returning to your romantic and creative sector on 21st May. Because at some point during the month, Venus and Mercury will do the same, there is never a line in the sand when all the focus shifts from one to the other and that is definitely the case this month, with some additional players thrown into the mix. Running ahead of schedule, Venus has already left your home and family sector and two days later, on 26th April, after seven years, Uranus left as well, not to return for another eight decades. Having acted as your guide and working to ensure you were living as authentically as possible, Uranus' departure just days after the Sun's return has left you with things already on the right path. Meanwhile, this has seen Uranus follow Venus into a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart, where as the planet of love, until leaving on 19th May, she will be working to make these some of the most fun and romantically charged weeks of any year. On the other hand, Uranus is here to act as your heart's internal guide and compass for the next seven years. Mercury will join them on 17th May to give your heart a voice and to put heart and mind on the same page, but Venus will be gone by the time the Sun returns on 21st May. It is on 19th May that Venus will not only leave and return to your work sector, but on the same day that having returned in June 2025, Jupiter moves into the final six weeks of his 12 month quest for job growth and expansion. This will bring the laws of attraction and the element of luck together and with perfect timing.Pisces
Where the last few years have been dominated by the transition of all three outer planets, from where they had been for years if not decades, but they are now finally settled into the positions they will maintain for years to come, it is the faster planets that are on the move, while there are two very different Full Moons this month, each with perfect timing. The Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars are all on the move this month and in all cases they are helping with a major transition in the closing days of April, of Uranus out of your communication sector, where he had been for the last seven years and into your home and family sector, where he will remain for the next seven years. Uranus was the last of the outer planets to complete a transition that had begun in July 2025. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in your communication sector, Mercury, the planet of communication will return from 3rd May to 17th May and Mars will return on 19th May to begin his first war on communication roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined in two years, Uranus is not going to leave a hole. Instead, with Mars not leaving until 29th June, this will be a gradual process that by the end of next month, will leave your communication sector empty for the rest of the year. In the meantime, Uranus didn't return to your home and family sector on his own, with Venus having returned two days earlier to make home where your heart is. Uranus has returned to strengthen the inner circle of your life, making whatever you call home as authentic as possible, which in turn will be the hub that will make every other aspect of your life operate more authentically. Venus is only here until 19th May, but with Mercury returning on 17th May and the Sun on 21st May, there will be just as much support for this new chapter. Meanwhile, this will not only see Venus return to your romantic and creative sector on 19th May, but on the same day that Jupiter moves into the final six weeks of what, since his return in June 2025, he has been working to make your luckiest year for love, matters of the heart and all things fun, playful, romantic and creative in over a decade.
