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May 2025 Astrology Forecast: Portal of Transformation
On May 1, 06:41 AM —
May 2025 begins with Pluto stationing retrograde in Aquarius and welcoming us into a new portal of transformation. This is an invitation to take a step back and reflect on the changes we experienced since Pluto entered Aquarius in November 2024. All planets have been direct since April 12: Pluto stationing retrograde breaks this trend and invites us to redirect our focus inward.
On May 12, a Scorpio Full Moon directly opposing Uranus in Taurus will accelerate the pace of personal and collective evolution by pushing us out of stagnation and complacency. This event will challenge us to choose transformation over comfort and release attachments and ideas about security that prevent us from growing. After Gemini season begins on May 20, the pace of events continues to accelerate as we experience a shift from Fixed to Mutable energy. On May 24, Saturn leaves watery Pisces to enter the yang, fire sign of Aries: this is the first ingress of Saturn into Aries since 1996.
May 2025 ends with a Gemini New Moon and Mercury’s ingress in its Air domicile, an invitation to explore unfamiliar ways of thinking and being and welcome change with openness and curiosity.
Here are May 2025’s transits in more detail.
Pluto stations Retrograde in Aquarius
May 4, 2025, 11:27 AM EST
Pluto stationing retrograde offers us an opportunity to look back and reflect on the transformation that has taken place since the planet entered Aquarius back in November 2024. When the Lord of the Underworld appears to move backward in the heavens, we are asked to deepen our inner work and emotional and psychological self-exploration. In Aquarius, Pluto retrograde is an invitation to reflect on, restructure, and redefine our relationship with our communities, to technology, the internet, AI, as well as those social movements we may feel part of. Pluto will be retrograde until October 13, challenging us to deepen our understanding of our own psychological nature and the psychology of the masses and group dynamics.
Mercury enters Taurus
May 10, 2025, 08:15 AM EST
Mercury’s ingress into Taurus slows down the pace of our thinking and invites us to focus on what is practical, tangible, and matter-of-fact. This transit supports our ability to be patient and consistent, and reminds us of the importance of taking enough time to understand how something works. While Mercury is in the sign of the Bull, we tend to look for information that confirms rather than challenges our current values, ideas, and perspectives. We are not very inclined to change our minds, and it can be easy to fall into some sort of intellectual stagnation. However, shortly after entering Taurus, Mercury squares Pluto in Aquarius: this square forces us to question existing opinions and perceptions and encourages a deep transformation of how we think, speak, and relate to our minds.
Full Moon in Scorpio
May 12, 2025, 12:55 PM EST
The Scorpio Full Moon brings our attention to the dance between our desire to transform and overcome our current limitations and our resistance to change. This event emphasizes the tension between our survival instinct and attachment to intensity and the call toward growth and evolution. The Scorpio Full Moon tightly opposes Uranus, conjunct with the Sun in Taurus: this aspect exacerbates the urge to break free from the known and create a reality aligned with our uniqueness. This Full Moon emphasizes the need to release attachments that no longer support our growth and create space for a more liberated and authentic way of being. Uranus’ activation adds an unpredictable quality to this event, which can bring sudden changes and unforeseen turning points.
Sun enters Gemini
May 20, 2025, 2:55 PM EST
The Sun’s ingress into Gemini, brings the spotlight on the power of our minds, thoughts, and words. This time of the year is an opportunity to look at the world with new eyes, celebrate diversity, and explore unfamiliar social circles. Gemini season motivates us to engage in new ways with our surroundings, encourages us to initiate conversations with strangers, and inspires gravitate toward experiences that stimulate our minds. This time of the year invites us to question habitual perceptions, cultivate curiosity, and navigate life with an open mind while paying more attention to our thinking patterns, our communication habits, and our approach to learning.
Saturn enters Aries
May 24, 2025, 11:36 PM EST
Shortly after Neptune, Saturn leaves Pisces and enters Aries too. Saturn is going to remain in Aries until September 1, when he temporarily retrogrades back into Pisces. As with all planets entering Aries, this event marks the beginning of a new cycle. Saturn in Aries will emphasize the need to take responsibility for our actions, develop more discipline, and learn to discern when it is appropriate to initiate something or respond instinctively and when, instead, patience and time are required before making a decision. This transit can be connected with a feeling of having one foot on the gas and one on the brake. However, we can’t interpret Saturn’s ingress into Aries without taking into account the fact that Neptune has also just entered Aries and the two planets are going to be conjunct for the rest of the year. The Saturn-Neptune conjunction will underline the need to harmonize our relationship with both the material and the spiritual realms. It will ask us to discern when discipline is necessary and when instead surrendering to the flow is required.
Mercury enters Gemini
May 25, 2025, 9:00 PM EST
Mercury’s ingress into its Air domicile of Gemini marks an increase in the pace of our thinking and inspires us to learn, study, and explore the topics and subjects that spark our interest. In Gemini, Mercury’s lighthearted, versatile energy inspires us to approach life with humor and curiosity and to see everything as a learning opportunity. This transit represents a great opportunity to pursue new interests, refine our communication skills, embrace a new mindset, and look at our reality from a different angle. Mercury in Gemini encourages a versatile and experimental approach to learning, communicating, making decisions, and solving problems.
New Moon in Gemini
May 26, 2025, 11:02 PM EST
As the calendar month comes to an end, a New Moon in the early degrees of Gemini begins a lunar cycle centered around renovating our ways of thinking, communicating, and learning. This event encourages us to see our surroundings with new eyes, explore how changes in our mindset impact our experiences, and be very conscious of the power of our thoughts, words, and attention. The Gemini New Moon will be conjunct with Mercury, widely conjunct with Uranus in the late degrees of Taurus, and harmoniously aligned with Pluto in Aquarius and Saturn and Neptune in Aries. This configuration will support our capacity to adapt to change, encourage us to think outside the box, and inspire us to refine our ability to manifest our ideas into form.
May 2025 Astrology Forecast: Our Invitation
As the month comes to an end, Saturn joins Neptune in the early degrees of Aries. Even though their alignment won’t be exact until February 2026, the energy of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction will strongly color the entire month, as well as the rest of 2025.
Saturn and Neptune are going to be within 1º from one another, forming what is technically referred to as a Balsamic phase conjunction. They are completing a cycle that started in November 1989 with their last conjunction, and the energy calls for closure: it is a time filled with endings and we are witnessing the dissolution of the old.
The structures we have been relying upon have lost their original purpose and they need to be fully released before we can start creating new ones. For the rest of the calendar year, Saturn approaching Neptune reminds us that before new structures can be built, what is coming to an end must be allowed to fall away.
We invite you to explore what May has in store for you with our May 2025 horoscopes, magical guidance, rituals, journal & much more!
