Daily Cosmic Calendar for Sunday, May 18th

As mentioned at the close of yesterday’s calendar entry, a revelatory tie of 72-degrees between Mercury and Pallas (2:13AM) gives your thought process a well-deserved boost. Strategy sessions with trusted colleagues or friends — regarding business and professional matters — can help you leapfrog over erstwhile competitors. However, six to seven hours later, be prepared for mounting challenges to your authority as Venus in Aries squares Jupiter in Cancer (8:32AM) while Venus parallels Uranus (9:42AM). Anytime Venus and Jupiter are at odds it is wise to avoid overdoing a good thing. Meanwhile, Venus and Uranus just made a conjunction in the zodiac three days ago — where the creative arts, social affairs, and love ties were stimulated, but possibly led to anxious feelings and nervous conditions in large numbers of people, especially women. Today’s Venus-Uranus parallel reinforces that earlier message from the cosmos. Mercury becomes the main messenger to earthlings later on when it trines Ceres (4:11PM) and makes an off-kilter, 150-degree link with Saturn (8:00PM). The Mercury-Ceres liaison can increase your Productivity I.Q. while the Mercury-Saturn connection points you toward adjusting thoughts and attitudes to find eventual rewards in your main fields of expertise. Get set for an intense Monday as several planetary sky patterns and Mars turning stationary direct have the potential to wreak havoc in societies across the world. [Note to readers: All times are calculated for Pacific Daylight Time. Be sure to adjust all times according to your own local time so the alignments noted above will be exact for your location.]