On May 5, a Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio will help us lay emotional obsessions to rest and what isn’t meant for us will become starkly obvious
Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinARIES// ARIES RISING
With Mars in weepy Cancer, you are driven towards the familiar and safe, particularly as it feels like we are on the precipice of collective change. Your instincts aren’t wrong, and this Eclipse season may result in losses, particularly as the Full Moon falls in your sector of intimacy. You become who you spend the most time with, and it might be time for a change. Life in the fast lane can be fun, but what do you truly value? What is it you desire most? You are trading in the superficial for the more substantial, looking for truth. And it’s looking for you too.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinTAURUS//TAURUS RISING
Happy Birthday Taurus! This month gives closure to a two-year chapter of upheavals in your sector of relationships. What you need in relationships has been revealed to you, unfortunately, by showing you what you won’t tolerate. Your understanding of yourself has been upgraded, as you master new talents and anchor in a higher level of self-esteem. Some people can handle it, and others can’t. Moving forward, you are prompted to pick partners and friends who reflect your sense of self-worth.
Jupiter begins a 13-month transit through your sign, showering you in abundance and cosmic blessings. You may feel drawn to faraway places, as your universe expands, as well as your worldview. This is inciting a period of luck and highlighted self-awareness. Enjoy!
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinGEMINI//GEMINI RISING
Buried emotions are unearthed this eclipse season, as you ponder relationships old and new. The Lunar Eclipse on the 5th falls in the sign of Scorpio, highlighting intimate bonds and the fears associated with them. It is time to eliminate old obsessions, evict people from your headspace and start your next birthday year with a clear mind. Processing your emotions and truly allowing yourself to feel, in privacy, and without distraction, will help you move through this window.
Deep intuitive messages may feel obvious this month, as your perspective sharpens on what it is you desire most. With Mercury stationing direct and quickening the pace, you are ready to turn a new leaf, and bestowed a shiny new outlook.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinCANCER//CANCER RISING
Your personal mission has changed, as you search for belonging, purpose and spiritual clarity. You are asking the age old questions “What time am I upon, and where do I belong?” and answers are booming through the ether. This Eclipse is eliminating what isn’t meant for you from your sphere. This applies to people, as well as addictive substances that dull your shine.
In this new era, our propensity to feel, both physically and emotionally, is expanding. Mid-month, Venus and Mars configure in a celestial marriage in your sector of self. This is a time to pair your receptive, loving nature with physical action. You are getting what you give, and reality responds to you loudly and clearly. Be aware of what you are focused on. Eliminate doubt, and ask for what you desire most.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinLEO//LEO RISING
May is untethering you from people, places and things that aren’t cohering with your core mission. As your values change and recalibrate, so does your understanding of love. You recognise that not everyone is going to handle you like the spiritual royalty you are, and even so, you can continue to operate from the heart. Your propensity to experience loss and heartache coincides with your boundless ability to experience love.
With the Lunar Eclipse on the 5th culminating two years of intimacy and codependency mishaps, it’s time to let go of old flames and outlooks. As Jupiter prepares a 13-month residence in your career sector, the blessings ahead are bountiful. Expect greater visibility and admiration. You are on a trajectory for success and affirmation, simply because it’s what you are focused on.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinVIRGO//VIRGO RISING
Self-esteem in action looks like giving your body what it wants and needs. Sometimes it’s a snack, other times it’s velvet bedding. Taurus season is your call to imbue your day-to-day with the mystical and luxurious, and balance self-love and self-discipline. The Lunar Eclipse on the 5th is challenging you to release obsessions and quit beating yourself up. You aren’t here to strive for perfection, and sometimes all you truly need is comfort.
It’s time to stop focusing on the nitty-gritty small details, and experience something new. Jupiter transitions into Taurus mid-month, inciting adventures to faraway places, and bestowing you with a brand new ideology about where your life will lead. Let yourself feel the pull of unexplored routes, and follow your wanderlust to lands with new textures. Both figuratively and literally.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinLIBRA//LIBRA RISING
Eclipse season shines its light on the energy you have taken on from other people, particularly as it affects your self-image. Secrets are revealed and skeletons are coming out of their closet. You may have to confront loss and examine your relationship to grief. You love to keep it light and polite, but there is beauty even in heartache.
It’s a period of endings, and what isn’t meant for you will be removed. It’s time to stop undervaluing yourself, and proclaim your many talents and trades. The higher you value yourself, the more abundance you attract. With Jupiter moving into Taurus for 13 months, you are walking into a new realm, one with richer colours and more of the aesthetic nourishment you crave.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinSCORPIO//SCORPIO RISING
May 5th brings the final Lunar Eclipse in your sign until 2032, ushering you to lead with openness and vulnerability rather than engaging in games of manipulation and control. Relationships are accentuated as the Sun radiates through your opposing sign of Taurus, encouraging you to explore new dynamics and friendships.
As Jupiter prepares for a 13-month stay in your sector of partners, luck in love is on the horizon. Your appetite for depth and intensity will be met by someone who shares your values, as long as you can articulate them, loudly and proudly. Mars, your co-ruler, enters Leo on the 21st, helping you blare your personal outlook to audiences far and wide.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinSAGITTARIUS//SAGITTARIUS RISING
Taurus season plants you firmly in your body, encouraging you to balance your inner realm with the here and now. It's time to examine your health, both physically and spiritually, as the Lunar Eclipse on the 5th relays messages about your needs and desires. Are you chasing down things that are good for you? What are you running away from? It’s time to incite a personal revolution, and switch up the day to day, to make more room for what feels good.
With Jupiter stationing in your sector of daily routine and health, the next 13 months are expanding your relationship to your body and where you take it. New job opportunities may be in store, as is luck with finances and work is on the horizon.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinCAPRICORN//CAPRICORN RISING
Eclipse season holds the anticipatory energy of lasting change, as you culminate cycles of fear around community perception. As you hone in on your core values and personal truth, you have to let go of those who aren’t accompanying you on your trajectory. On the 5th, a Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio ushers you to let go of your fear, and find solace in your own innate power.
Romance is beckoning, and you have won the astrological lottery, with Jupiter shining its glorious glow in your sector of romance and play. For the next 13 months, creative ventures and romantic pursuits will be plentiful. It’s time to be playful and spontaneous, and let yourself experience sensory fulfilment.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinAQUARIUS//AQUARIUS RISING
Your ongoing quest for appraisal and greatness will be tested this month, as the Lunar Eclipse reveals the desires that are rooted in unmet childhood needs. The more you can supply yourself with the safety and kindness you deserve internally, the more luck you will have in the world at large. With Pluto retrograding and backtracking into Capricorn, you may feel more introspective, needing a hideaway from the wider world. Take some time to go within, and retreat into your imagination.
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Illustration by Gabrielle RosensteinPISCES//PISCES RISING
With Saturn stationed in your sign, you are learning lessons that will stand the test of time. Boundariedness and time management are not your strong suit, but they are becoming important tools that allow you to balance your whimsical effervescence with action. This Lunar Eclipse is eliminating fear from your perception of the world, and challenging you to get your head out of the clouds. It’s not all doom and gloom, because with Jupiter arriving in Taurus mid month, you have a higher self esteem. It emanates out of you and draws the right people towards you.
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