Don’t Miss The Celestial Event of a Life – June 5 & 6

The 2012 Transit of Venus

It won’t happen again until December 2117. On June 5th, 2012, Venus will transit the face of the sun in an event of both historical and observational importance. The best places to watch are in the south Pacific, but travel is not required. The event will also be visible around sunset from the USA. Credit: Science@NASA
On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again.

Transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs separated by more than a hundred years. This June’s transit, the bookend of a 2004-2012 pair, won’t be repeated until the year 2117. Fortunately, the event is widely visible. Observers on seven continents, even a sliver of Antarctica, will be in position to see it.

The nearly 7-hour transit begins at 3:09 pm Pacific Daylight Time (22:09 UT) on June 5th. The timing favors observers in the mid-Pacific where the sun is high overhead during the crossing. In the USA, the transit will be at its best around sunset. That’s good, too. Creative photographers will have a field day imaging the swollen red sun “punctured” by the circular disk of Venus.

Observing tip: Do not stare at the sun. Venus covers too little of the solar disk to block the blinding glare. Instead, use some type of projection technique or a solar filter. A #14 welder’s glass is a good choice. Many astronomy clubs will have solar telescopes set up to observe the event; contact your local club for details.

Transits of Venus first gained worldwide attention in the 18th century. In those days, the size of the solar system was one of the biggest mysteries of science. The relative spacing of planets was known, but not their absolute distances. How many miles would you have to travel to reach another world? The answer was as mysterious then as the nature of dark energy is now.

Venus was the key, according to astronomer Edmund Halley. He realized that by observing transits from widely-spaced locations on Earth it should be possible to triangulate the distance to Venus using the principles of parallax.

The idea galvanized scientists who set off on expeditions around the world to view a pair of transits in the 1760s. The great explorer James Cook himself was dispatched to observe one from Tahiti, a place as alien to 18th-century Europeans as the Moon or Mars might seem to us now. Some historians have called the international effort the “the Apollo program of the 18th century.”

A double transit: the International Space Station and Venus on June 8, 2004. Photo courtesy of Tomas Maruska. In retrospect, the experiment falls into the category of things that sound better than they actually are. Bad weather, primitive optics, and the natural “fuzziness” of Venus’s atmosphere and other factors prevented those early observers from gathering the data they needed. Proper timing of a transit would have to wait for the invention of photography in the century after Cook’s voyage. In the late 1800s, astronomers armed with cameras finally measured the size of the Solar System as Edmund Halley had suggested.

This year’s transit is the second of an 8-year pair. Anticipation was high in June 2004 as Venus approached the sun. No one alive at the time had seen a Transit of Venus with their own eyes, and the hand-drawn sketches and grainy photos of previous centuries scarcely prepared them for what was about to happen. Modern solar telescopes captured unprecedented view of Venus’s atmosphere backlit by solar fire. They saw Venus transiting the sun’s ghostly corona, and gliding past magnetic filaments big enough to swallow the planet whole.

2012 should be even better as cameras and solar telescopes have improved. Moreover, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is going to be watching too. SDO will produce Hubble-quality images of this rare event.

Your Daily Horoscopes for May 30th

We try to remain pleasant, but this cosmically noisy day pulls us in many directions. We can be light on our feet with the Sun, clever Mercury and sweet Venus all dancing in adaptable Gemini. But Mercury’s conflictive square with warrior Mars tempts us to argue about things that may not matter in the long run. Thankfully, the Moon’s entry into harmonious Libra at 6:45 am EDT encourages practicing diplomacy as a strategy to re-establish harmony.

Aries Horoscope (Mar 21 – Apr 19)

You may enjoy the apparent chaos today as you’re distracted by one good idea after another. Although you believe you’re a positive force for change now, you should proceed carefully because you aren’t as invincible as you think. Losing your cool isn’t a wise idea; expressing extreme emotions could create more problems than it solves. Physical exercise helps channel your energy appropriately, but you also need to take additional timeouts to keep your anger in check.

Taurus Horoscope (Apr 20 – May 20)

You know you have too much on your plate today, yet you’re eager to accomplish as much as you can. However, you’re tired from chasing after so many goals. Don’t spread your energy too thin; instead, set priorities and focus on the most important tasks first, letting the others go. Panic is unnecessary even if you run into unexpected problems. Remember, the calmer you are now, the more effective you will be throughout the day.

Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – Jun 20)

You’re very charming, especially with sweet Venus in your sign. But tension is in the air and you can lose your patience if you don’t pay close attention to your feelings. You may even find yourself in the heat of an argument now, wondering how it happened. Remember, you aren’t the only one who is stressed out today, so your smartest move is to take the high road by demonstrating how well you can listen and respond with kindness.

Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – Jul 22)

You appear to have your desires under control, but you aren’t actually expressing what you want now. Your feelings are drawing you into deeper waters and the emotional currents can carry you far off course. But you may reach a breaking point where it requires too much energy to hide your inner world from those you love. Don’t wait too long to say what’s on your mind. A gentle approach makes the most sense while demanding results will just stir up unnecessary resistance.

Leo Horoscope (Jul 23 – Aug 22)

You may feel unnerved from an intense emotional interaction with someone close to you. You could spend much of the day exploring ways to alleviate the tension. Unfortunately, even clever tactics won’t hide the edginess to your voice. Examine your unspoken feelings if you notice that your words sound sarcastic. There are several sensible strategies for re-establishing your balance, yet saying hurtful things is not one of them. Instead, cultivate the peace and harmony that you seek.

Virgo Horoscope (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

Concentrating on your job is difficult now as impetuous Mars in your sign squares cerebral Mercury in restless Gemini. Sometimes you can let your thoughts wander for a while, but today your fantasies may not be all that peaceful. Worrying about meeting other people’s expectations leads you around in endless circles. Fortunately, you can break out of a temporary emotional tailspin by doing something useful in the present moment, rather than wasting time stressing about the past.

Libra Horoscope (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

It’s not easy to settle down today as your key planet Venus aligns with unpredictable Uranus. A lighthearted attitude seems inappropriate if you think you should be more concerned with serious issues. You may be too conscientious to try escaping from your responsibilities. Although harmony and pleasure seem elusive now, the Moon’s return to your sign can be a much-needed catalyst in your search for peace.

Scorpio Horoscope (Oct 23 – Nov 21)

You aren’t happy about having to maintain a high level of focus today, especially with all the intriguing distractions tempting you. But, ultimately, your strength of purpose is nonnegotiable; you really don’t want to get angry, but it could be an effective way now to inform others that you mean business. Those unwilling to help you along your path would be wise to quietly step out of your way.

Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

You are able to see the beauty in someone special, but it may not be easy to express how you feel today. You are tempted to sidestep the issue by glibly telling a story or talking about your plans so you don’t have to show your vulnerability by sharing what’s in your heart. Remember, the deeper meaning of life won’t come from a clever conversation. Although it’s easy to demonstrate your wit, it’s more important to be honest and clearly say what’s on your mind.

Capricorn Horoscope (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

You won’t likely be caught off guard today, and your apparent stability could draw others to you as they try to manage the stressful situations in their own personal lives. However, you’re not entirely without your own worries now, and everyone else’s demands might create an extra layer of anxiety for you. Nevertheless, go ahead and offer your shoulder to a loved one, but be firm about drawing the line when you need time to take care of yourself.

Aquarius Horoscope (Jan 20 – Feb 18)

You nostalgically remember simpler days in the past and you may long for their return. You might even experience anger when you realize that these times are complicated and simplicity isn’t likely to be found. Although you’re balancing on an emotional high wire now, you still have an opportunity to live your dreams. Don’t let this chance slip by without doing something about it.

Pisces Horoscope (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

You have more strength than others realize, yet your resistance to your own power can get in the way of your success. Don’t succumb to any feelings of insecurity by needlessly comparing yourself to anyone else. You are a unique individual with unique capabilities; the key now is your own self-awareness. Fortunately, managing your belief system can have a positive impact on everyone around you.

Daily Love & Romance Horoscopes for May 30th

Aries

You have a chance now to tackle the communication lines, especially on the relationship front from both ends, working to give your heart and the past a voice, while staying in the moment and discussing the things you need to talk about. A mix of authenticity and of nostalgic sentimentality can go hand in hand.

Taurus

The key to making the most of fiery and passionate Mars’ final weeks in your romantic sector and the romantic passions you’re able to tap into, is confidence in what you deserve from love. It’s not only confidence moving forward that matters, with a chance now to view the past through filters that empower you.

Gemini

As the Sun and Venus draw closer to a rare Venus eclipse in your sign, in just a week from today, it’s the past and the future that are drawing close. With a lot of your romantic focus on the past but the Sun shining the light on the road ahead, this is starting to give you a clearer sense of where you’ve been and where you’re going, especially on the romantic front.

Cancer

With Pluto, planet of change and revolution in your relationship sector settling for the status quo or for anything that isn’t authentic is no longer an option. This makes it hard to fall into a sense of complacency, as you may have done in the past and it’s less that your relationships are changing and more that you are.

Leo

The laws of attraction and synchronicity are not only both in effect, they are slowly coming together, with serendipitous moments and encounters just as likely to create new opportunities as they are to create second chances. This makes it important to put your heart in the hands of fate and the love gods, trusting in something more than your five senses can see.

Virgo

If it feels like things are slowing down on the relationship front they are, but for all the right reasons. Neptune and Chiron, the planets of dreams and healing are the two planets keeping things active on the relationship front, with both slowing down ahead of their retrograde turns this gives you a chance to take things slowly.

Libra

Having Venus, planet of love in an adventurous part of your chart is always an advantage, bringing more adventure into your love life and reminding you that when it comes to love it’s all about the journey. But with Venus in retrograde motion the door is also open to second chances and to make up for lost time.

Scorpio

At the same time that Jupiter is in his final weeks of a year long visit to your relationship sector, working with you to tie up loose ends and to put your relationships on the right track, the very opposite is happening on the romantic front. Here the stars are with you for the long haul and over the next few weeks will open the door to second chances.

Sagittarius

At the same time that the Sun and Mercury are moving forward in your relationship sector Venus is retrograding back, with a gap between all 3 closing. With the Sun and Mercury showing the way forward and Venus holding the door open to the past and second chances, you’re getting a clear sense of where you’ve been and where you’re going.

Capricorn

While Jupiter will leave your romantic sector in 13 days time, with Mercury just 8 days away from your relationship sector there’ll not only be a lap over, but a chance to channel any romantic energy into your relationships. That’s more important than you realise, with a need to already be looking ahead on both the romantic and relationship fronts and on how to bring the two together.

Aquarius

Because the Sun and Mercury are moving forward in your romantic sector they are focused on the road ahead, while in retrograde motion Venus is focused on the past and the road behind. Over the course of the next 7 days this will all come together and with the past merging into the future and the future merging into the past, the lines are becoming blurred.

Pisces

As the Moon wraps up his penultimate visit to your relationship sector before Mars leaves, he’ll be looking to push whatever buttons or get whatever emotional responses are needed to come out fighting. This is all about getting you to give a damn, with no reaction a wrong or bad one, so long as you’re feeling something.

Your Daily Cosmic Calendar for May 30th

Your creative artistic expression receives a notable boost as Venus makes an inspirational, 72-degree link to high-flying Uranus (12:52AM PDT). Some of these positive vibes could get lost in the shuffle because the Moon is in void mode in Virgo until 3:47AM PDT when the lunar orb enters airy Libra. Once the Moon enters Libran territory, strive to increase the value of your investments as Mercury makes a subtle and yet still supportive, 30-degree link to Vesta (5:21AM PDT). Healing forces are highlighted at 10:06AM PDT when the Sun squares Chiron. The question here is whether you can tweak the healing vibes in order that you successfully treat and repair old wounds and pains. If you are looking for trouble, you will undoubtedly find it around the time when the Moon makes its monthly opposition to Uranus (4:58PM PDT) quickly followed by a 90-degree struggle between Mercury in Gemini and Mars in Virgo (5:21PM PDT). Mental and emotional hassles can lead to a rise in temperamental conditions across the board. Don’t project anger on to well-meaning friends and loved ones. Find ways to negotiate agreements and settlements even with hard-nosed competitors and adversaries – if possible. Let the good times roll several hours later as the Moon forms a flowing trine of 120-degrees in air signs with the Sun (8:49PM PDT). Dismiss the moody blues by replacing ornery attitudes with a happy and enthusiastic disposition. You can feel the illuminating vibrations coming from tomorrow morning’s inspirational, 72-degree connection from Mercury to Pallas.

Your Weekly General Horoscopes for May 29th

Aries

With Jupiter on his own in your income sector but getting ready to leave in a few weeks time, this is a week for consolidating things on the income front, cementing your expectations and beginning the process of walking the talk. This comes just as Mars is about to move into his last full month in your work sector, with a visit from the Moon from Monday to Wednesday sharpening your instincts and evoking the kind of emotional responses that will get your passions moving. Meanwhile, although Jupiter is still another 2 weeks away from your communication sector there is something special developing there, with the communication lines now running in all directions. This is having the most impact on the relationship front, where the door is open to second chances and making up for lost time.

Taurus

The Sun and Mercury both left your sign last week, wrapping up your birthday month and setting your new solar year on the course you want it to continue on. Yet with Jupiter still here the much bigger job of laying down the foundations for a Jupiter cycle of expansion that won’t run its course until 2023 is still under way, although due to leave on the 12th June this has become a lot more urgent. Already the focus is shifting to your income situation, which is fast becoming the biggest game in town. Jupiter will return to your income sector on the 12th June, kicking off the most expansive year in over a decade for both income matters and for expanding your expectations across all the currencies in your life, but already the door is open to both new opportunities and second chances.

Gemini

After a solar eclipse in your sign last week and a lunar eclipse in your relationship sector next week, a week off from the intensity eclipses bring is just what you need. While the Sun returned to your sign and kicked off one of your most important solar years in a decade last Monday and Mercury returned last Thursday this is the first, last and only full week that they’ll spend here together. You begin the week with the Sun and Mercury aligned in your sign, giving you the clarity and intellectual savvy to take your power back and start making informed choices and decisions. It’s Mercury’s alignment with Venus over the weekend that not only puts heart and mind on the same page but the past and future as well, a time when the door is open to both new opportunities and second chances.

Cancer

More and more there is a need and a desire to pull back, for you’re not only now in the wind down period of your current solar year, a time when there is a need to review and look back over the year that has been, but heart and mind are also in need of respite. If life has been hectic, then this gives you a chance to step back, though any thoughts of being able to retreat to your cave and stay there will soon be discarded. With Jupiter now in his final weeks in your sector of friendship, teamwork and networking and Mars coming into his own in your communication sector, the need and the call to connect is just too strong and too important to isolate yourself completely. However, you do need time to stop, recharge your batteries and hear yourself think, so set some clear boundaries.

Leo

Already the professional focus that over previous months has been all consuming, is starting to wane, especially after the Sun and Mercury’s departure from your career sector last week. Even Jupiter, here since June 2011, is getting ready to leave and in just 2 weeks from Wednesday you’ll be left with no planetary activity in your career sector, something you haven’t experienced since April 2011. With Pluto staying on in your work sector there is no danger of losing your professional momentum anytime soon, though the focus is shifting more to your income situation, where your fighting spirit is starting to emerge. Where all the energy that was focused on your professional game is shifting to is social, personal and professional networking.

Virgo

The only thing that is stopping your life from becoming professionally dominated is Jupiter, who won’t return to your career sector until 2 weeks from Tuesday. However, with the Sun and Mercury not only spending their first, last and only full week together in your career sector, but moving into the week aligned and Mercury aligning with Venus here over the weekend, this is still going to be a professionally dominated week. But with Jupiter still in an adventurous part of your chart there is a reluctance to fully throw yourself into your professional game, with a chance instead to keep your options open. With Mars igniting your personal passions, chances are you’re looking for a new quest to get excited about or at least an unwillingness to engage in anything that doesn’t excite you.

Libra

Give yourself a week off this week, either literally or metaphorically and embrace a sense of adventure. With things slowing down on the work front ahead of Neptune’s retrograde turn in your work sector next week and Chiron’s the week after and Mercury not returning to your career front until next week, regardless of the conditions in play this week this was always going to be a week for taking your professional hat off as much as possible. However, it just so happens that the Sun and Mercury are spending their first, last and only full week of the year together in your sector of travel, adventure, learning and discovery and that a desire for adventure and richer experiences finally has something concrete to latch onto. Life is too short for simply going through the motions.

Scorpio

After a solar eclipse in your financial sector last week and a lunar eclipse in your income sector next week, regardless of what the stars are up to this week this was always going to be a week where money matters were likely to dominate. This is doubly so with Mercury spending his first, last and only full week in your financial sector, giving you both a smart head for money and a chance to tap into the forces that are opening new doors and those that hold the door open to second chances. Until next Monday’s lunar eclipse the focus is on your financial situation as a whole though. Yet as much as this is a week where money matters may dominate, this is also an important week on the relationship and romantic fronts, with a reminder that there are some things in life that money can’t buy.

Sagittarius

Next Monday’s lunar eclipse in your sign will bring you to a fairly dramatic turning point in your solar year, marking the halfway point where you have a chance to look back at where you’ve been and forward to where you’ve gone. In the lead up to this, in what is an important and busy week on the relationship, work and career fronts, it’s more important than ever that you remain true to yourself. What you will find, especially the closer to next Monday’s lunar eclipse, is that this is being tested and that there are likely to be plenty of situations where standing up for or being true to yourself might mean rocking the boat. Yet this gives you a chance to come up against the very blocks that stopped you from being true to yourself in the past, this time with the support to push through.

Capricorn

It’s hard to imagine a more professionally focused week, except I don’t need to imagine because I know things are set to become even more professionally focused over the coming weeks. You begin the week with the Sun and Mercury aligned in your work sector and over the weekend Mercury will be the first planet to align with Venus since she arrived in early April. This is Mercury’s first, last and only full week in your work sector, with his intellectual savvy the clue that holds everything together. This comes just as the Moon’s last visit to your career sector while Saturn is in retrograde motion for another 30 years sharpens your professional instincts and hindsight. Yet playful Jupiter vibes and Mars’ passion for adventure won’t let you get away with life becoming all work and no play.

Aquarius

Mercury’s return to your work sector next week will open the door to the first planetary activity in either of your professional houses since November 2011. While it will be good to finally find your professional groove and get your professional year up to speed, it’s also important to make the most of one of the last weeks between now and mid 2015 that you can take your professional hat. For once the tide turns there’ll be no going back. Yet it’s where forces are now gathering in a playful, creative and romantic part of your chart that instead of dying down and giving over to busy work forces, will only get stronger over the coming months. The message coming through loud and clear from the stars this week is that finding and maintaining a balance between work and play is a must.

Pisces

Despite the fact that you begin the week with the Moon in your work sector and you have a lunar eclipse in your career sector next week, this is a week where the majority of the focus is on home and family matters and on your relationships. After a solar eclipse in your home and family sector last Monday the Sun is settling into his month long visit with a lot less fanfare than it started with and with lucky Jupiter returning in 2 weeks from Tuesday, this is becoming an increasingly important area of your life. With Mercury, planet of communication spending his first, last and only full week in your home and family sector, communication is essential, not only on the home front but on the relationship front as well, where things are finally catching their second wind.

Your Career Horoscopes for the Week of May 29th

Aries

Things become more serious for Mars this week, for while he’s been in your work sector since last November, his longest visit in 47 years, it’s time to bring things home. While Mars won’t leave your work sector until early July, the Moon’s visit from Monday to Wednesday comes just as he’s ready to move into his last full month and just as you’ve cleared any roadblocks. After many ups and downs and false starts it’s time to put the pedal to the metal and go for it. For a planet that usually spends just 6 weeks in your work sector at a time, the 6 ½ months he’s already put in has given you the experience and the savvy to bring things home. As the Moon sharpens your instincts this will help you to pick your battles wisely, ensuring that your time and energy is going into the right places.

Taurus

Since Saturn returned to your work sector in October 2009 the Moon’s monthly visits have helped you to keep track, giving you an intuitive read on the ever changing conditions. Saturn’s current retrograde phase in your work sector is the third in as many years and when the Moon returns to your work sector on Wednesday and aligns with Saturn on Friday, it will be for the sixth time this year and the fifth time while Saturn is in retrograde motion. This should be a run of the mill encounter then, but it is anything but, for it’s the last time that the Moon and Saturn will align in your work sector, while the door to the past is still open for another 30 years. Keeping your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground is a must, especially when it comes to what hindsight is telling you.

Gemini

Things are finally slowing down on the professional front, not because you’re running out of steam. You’re nearing a point where you’re able to work with what is already on the table, before new doors start opening on the work front in August. Considering that when they do open that they’ll remain open until mid 2015, taking things slowly while you can is a real necessity. Things are slowing down because Neptune and Chiron, the only two planets active in either of your professional houses, are coming to a standstill and are in their final days in direct motion. Neptune will turn retrograde next Tuesday and Chiron a week later, with a need to avoid rushing or pushing things. The Moon’s return to your work sector over the weekend will give you a chance to pick up on some valuable clues.

Cancer

As you move into the new week you’re just 7 days away from a lunar eclipse in your work sector, an eclipse that because the Moon will only return on the same day is likely to catch you by surprise. However that shouldn’t be the case if you’re paying attention, for while eclipses are wild cards and bring things to a head or to a turning or tipping point, if you’re paying attention the clues are there before hand. This makes it important to have your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground, but also to avoid over thinking, for it’s more about being aware of what is actually happening and where things actually stand than looking back or projecting forward. This means paying attention and finding a balance between not sweating the small stuff and keeping your head out of the sand.

Leo

After first the Sun and then Mercury left your career sector last week Jupiter is back to being on his own, as it has been for the majority of the time since the planet of luck returned last June. Yet what has been a 12 month mission to bring your professional game up to speed, to point your professional goals and ambitions in the right direction and to invest all that you can into your professional game is now coming to an end. Jupiter will leave your career sector in 2 weeks from Tuesday, after which point there’ll be no more planetary activity in your career sector until April 2013. With all your cards now on the table and the confidence of knowing that you have the right amount of stamina and stickability on the work front, it’s now more about positioning yourself for future success.

Virgo

Each week conditions deepen on the career front, with last week’s solar eclipse in your career sector, along with the Sun and Mercury’s return topped this week by the consolidation taking place. However, you’re still on your way up with events next week literally eclipsing events until now and the week after that going a step further. This is still early days in a professional comeback that within the next few weeks will reveal just how many options you have. In the meantime you begin the week with the Sun and Mercury aligned in your career sector and over the weekend Mercury and Venus will align. With Venus in retrograde motion and the Sun and Mercury in direct motion, this is the start of a coming together of forces, giving you a clearer sense of where you’ve been and where you’re going.

Libra

Things are slowing down on the professional front, to a point where you could even take time off or simply glide, which could be just what you need. Yet if there is any fear that this is the start of a slump, rest assured it’s not and this is in fact one of the only real weeks you’ll get for some time when you can actually catch your breath. Neptune and Chiron, the only planets currently active in either of your professional houses, are slowing down, with Neptune turning retrograde in your work sector next Tuesday and Chiron a week later. Even if you wanted to, this is not the time to push things. With Mercury returning to your career sector next week and opening the door to the most active 3 career months of the year, taking the time this week to catch your breath is a must.

Scorpio

Any week that begins with the Moon in your career sector has to be a good one, ensuring that you’re off to the best possible start, with your professional instincts sharp and engaged and with your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground. While the Moon will leave on Monday after spending the weekend in your career sector, you’ve had a chance to get your bearings and away from the coalface to listen to what your instincts, hunches and imagination have been telling you. By this time next month you’ll have the first planetary activity in your career sector for the year, so this gives you a chance to start lining up at doors before they’ve even opened or before they’re even there. Move into the week trusting and following your hunches and keep it that way.

Sagittarius

On both the work and career fronts there is a real call to action this week and a sense that it’s time to bring things home. After the Sun and Mercury both left your work sector last week, leaving you with the objectivity and intellectual savvy to play your A game, this left Jupiter on his own and due to leave in 2 weeks from Tuesday, it really is time to bring things home, putting things on the track that you want them to continue on. It’s the Moon’s return to your career sector on Monday and position here until Wednesday that will sharpen your professional instincts and evoke both your emotional responses and your fighting spirit. This comes just as Mars is getting ready to move into his last full month in your career sector. It’s time to pull out all the stops.

Capricorn

Conditions on the work and career fronts couldn’t be more different, with Saturn on his own and in retrograde motion in your career sector, while on the work front the door is open to both new opportunities and second chances. Yet it’s the unity between these two areas of your chart that creates a complimentary set of circumstances, creating a new level of professional confidence as you wake up to how many options you have. The Moon’s return to your career sector on Wednesday will sharpen your professional instincts, with his alignment with Saturn on Friday giving you a chance to delve deep into the past. This is the Moon’s last alignment with Saturn while he’s in retrograde motion for another 30 years, so the sense of hindsight you’re able to tap into will be too important to ignore.

Aquarius

You have had no planetary activity in either of your professional houses all year and other than a Full Moon in your career sector on the 6th May, nothing but the Moon’s monthly visits to your work and career sectors to keep things on track. That’s about to change and this is one of the last weeks for a while that you’ll have a chance to take your professional hat off and keep it off. For with Mercury returning to your work sector next week, kicking off the 3 most active months of the year on the work front and an active 3 years on the career front kicking in during that time, things are about to get busy. The Moon’s return to your career sector over the weekend, coming full circle from the Full Moon on the 6th May, will give you one last chance to get your bearings before new doors open.

Pisces

At the start of the week your focus needs to be on all things work, job and employment related, for you’re moving into the week with the Moon in your work sector. While the Moon will leave on Monday, having spent the weekend here this allows you to move into the new week with your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground and a wealth of insights, hunches and clues to draw on. While new doors won’t start opening on the work front until the 26th June, holding onto those clues and hunches is essential. By the weekend your attention needs to start shifting to your professional game as a whole, ahead of a lunar eclipse in your career sector next Monday that could catch you unprepared. While you can’t second guess a lunar eclipse, you can at least start paying attention.

Your Weekly Money & Finance Horoscopes for May 29th

Aries

After the Sun and Mercury left your income sector last week Jupiter is on his own and after a busy and intense few months on the income front, it’s time to bring things home. Your income sector has been continuously active since April 2011, which has put a lot of focus on your income situation and plenty of time to explore all your options. Yet it’s only been since June 2011 that Jupiter has been here, but due to leave in just 2 weeks from Tuesday it’s time to bring things home and to do whatever you need to, to ensure that you’re on the right track to achieve what you want in the future. The Moon’s return to your financial sector on Friday and position here over the weekend will sharpen your financial instincts, but also provide some timely wake up calls.

Taurus

You have a chance this week to get your bearings and to consolidate your position, especially on the income front. After a solar eclipse in your income sector last Monday and a lunar eclipse in your financial sector next Monday, there is no doubt that there are intense money times, but also a time when you’re able to finally get things moving. For the first time since Venus returned to your income sector on the 4th April she has company, after both the Sun and Mercury returned last week. There is a real sense that things are coming together on the income front, with the Sun and Mercury aligning on Monday and Venus and Mercury over the weekend, putting all your available cards on the table. However, this is still early days, with a need to keep your mind, eyes and expectations open.

Gemini

With Mercury returning to your income sector next week, this is the final week where your sole focus is on your financial situation as a whole. June is expected to be a fairly intense money month, especially on the financial front as a whole with Pluto, in retrograde motion in your financial sector feeling the heat from two different angles. One of those angles will be Mercury’s return to your income sector and the pressure this will put on Pluto, giving you both a smart head for money but also bringing some timely wake up calls. This makes this an important week for focusing on your financial situation and money matters as a whole, refusing to stick your head in the sand or sweeping things under the carpet, without sweating the small stuff or creating challenges where there are none.

Cancer

As you move into the new week the Moon is wrapping up his monthly visit to your income sector, allowing you to move into the new week with a nose for money and having had spent time over the weekend getting your bearings. Hold onto the clues and hunches this leaves you with, for by this time next month the 3 most active months on the income front for the year will be underway and what you’re just getting hints of now will be a lot more tangible. It’s too early to anticipate what lies ahead, but you can be confident that the money gods are already working to make the period from the 26th June to the 3rd October the most lucrative months of the year. Until then hold onto both the clues and the nose for money that you move into the week with, slowly steering things in the right direction.

Leo

Things have settled right back on the money front and forces on the financial and income fronts are still in play they are no longer in conflict, with the challenges and financial tension of recent weeks and months easing right back. With Neptune spending his last full week in direct motion in your financial sector, before turning retrograde in a week from Tuesday and Chiron turning retrograde a week later, things on the financial front as a whole are taking a more background role. This allows income forces to come to the fore, with the Moon’s return to your income sector on Monday and alignment with Mars on Tuesday giving you a nose for money and igniting your fighting spirit. With Mars leaving your income sector on the 4th July, it’s time to come out of your corner fighting.

Virgo

The Moon makes an important visit to your income sector this week, his last before Saturn turns direct. You’ve had some real up and down times on the money front, with forces on the financial and income fronts in opposition over recent months, but you have already moved on from that and there is a chance now to consolidate your position, especially on the income front. While there may be some financial matters to address over the coming week, as far as this week is concerned it’s your income situation that needs your attention. With growing support from a planetary line up in your career sector, the Moon’s last encounter with Saturn, while in retrograde motion in your income sector, gives you both a nose for money and a chance to recognise where there are old stones still unturned.

Libra

When the Sun and Mercury left your financial sector last week they left you with a lot of financial objectivity and a smart head for money, but they also left behind Jupiter, now on a mission to bring things up to speed. Having been in your financial sector since June 2011, Jupiter will leave your financial sector in 2 weeks from Tuesday and not due to return until 2023, it’s what you’re able to invest now into your financial situation and your financial game that will determine much of your financial reality over the coming week, months and years. This isn’t about having the end results in your hands, rather all about putting your financial game on the course that you want it to continue on. There’ll be time to focus on your income situation in the second half of the year.

Scorpio

With a solar eclipse in your financial sector last Monday and a lunar eclipse in your income sector next Monday the money gods are active in your chart, with a chance this week to step back from the intensity that eclipse energy creates. This comes just as the Sun and Mercury not only spend their first full week in your financial sector but begin the week already aligned, allowing you to move into the new week with not only some clear financial objectives and a smart head for money, but on the same page. This is Mercury’s first, last and only full week in your financial sector, with his alignment with the Sun at the start of the week and with Venus over the weekend giving you a chance to get your head around all things financial, ahead of next Monday’s lunar eclipse in your income sector.

Sagittarius

You have one more week before things start to get more complicated on the money front, with a chance this week to focus on income matters, leaving money matters as a whole until next week. This doesn’t mean sweeping things under the carpet or sticking your head in the sand, just that with Mercury returning to your financial sector next week, bringing with him a smart head for money, that if you don’t need to make financial choices, decisions and plans now then you’re best to wait. In the meantime, this gives you a chance to make the most of the last week for sometime where Pluto, in retrograde motion in your income sector, is the only planet active in either of your money houses, with an important week on the work and career fronts giving you a chance to cement your income objectives.

Capricorn

You’re moving into the week with the Moon still in your financial sector, having spent the weekend sharpening your financial instincts and providing clues and hunches. While the Moon will leave on Monday, simply starting the week with your financial instincts sharp, your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground gives you an advantage you’ll retain for as long as you choose not to over think things. This is one of the Moon’s last visits to your financial sector before the first planetary activity kicks off on the 26th June, with a chance to both get your bearings and start pointing things in the right direction. Hold onto the hunches and clues you move into the week with, even those you don’t want to hear. Don’t sweat the small stuff, but don’t stick your head in the sand either.

Aquarius

The Moon makes a timely visit to your financial sector this week, sharpening your financial instincts and giving you a chance to put things into perspective. The Moon’s alignment with fiery Mars on Tuesday might push some buttons, bringing a potent mix of emotional and passionate responses. For on the same day that the Moon aligns with Mars, creating some real financial motivation and some strong reactions, this also puts pressure on Neptune, a week to the day before the planet of dreams is due to turn retrograde in your income sector. Yet this is short lived and with Neptune about to open the door to second chances on the income front and Mars ready to make his final month in your financial sector count, these are the right wake up calls at the right time.

Pisces

The Moon makes an important visit to your financial sector this week, making it important to keep your head out of the sand. The Moon will return to your financial sector on Wednesday and leave on Friday and as he does when he returns each month will sharpen your financial instincts and give you a chance to get your bearings. It’s not the Moon’s visit that is pivotal and more that this will be his last encounter with Saturn while he’s in retrograde motion in your financial sector, not for the year but for another 30 years. You’ve experienced this dozens of times over the last 3 years and even their alignment on Friday will be the fifth this year since Saturn turned retrograde. But as their last this is your final chance to really get to the bottom of old financial issues and matters.

Your Daily Love & Romance Horoscopes for May 29th

Aries

Until now the love gods have put all their attention onto your relationships and especially when it comes to ensuring that the communication lines are open. But the Moon’s visit to your romantic sector over the last few days is likely to have stirred some discontent on the romantic front, with a sense of rebellion taking root.

Taurus

As the Moon and Mars align in your romantic sector a potent mix of emotion and romantic passion will make it hard to deny how you really feel. If the Moon is doing its job this will evoke your fighting spirit, for as you start to wake up to what you might be missing out on, your inner romantic warrior is likely to respond with a resounding ‘I don’t think so’!

Gemini

At the same time the countdown is on to next week’s lunar eclipse in your relationship sector, with a need to keep things out in the open, there is a growing sense of romantic nostalgia. It’s by letting your romantic desires and your heart dwell on the past, but at the same time keeping your relationships firmly focused on the future, that you’re able to create something special.

Cancer

As the Moon not only makes his monthly visit to your communication sector but aligns with fiery and passionate Mars energy, you’ll find it easier to speak out than it will be to hold your tongue, which is a good thing. Things will get a little bumpier on the relationship front next month, with the more you can clear the air now the better.

Leo

If love, your heart or your romantic resolve was never tested, you’d never know how strong it really was and would live in fear. Your heart is a lot more robust than you realise and in order to find or experience real love then you need to take your defences down. Making yourself vulnerable is scary, but your heart doesn’t need to be wrapped in cottonwool.

Virgo

Don’t over react to any relationship pressure or tension today, for it’s simply the Moon making his monthly visit to your sign and therefore moving into opposition with Neptune and Chiron in your relationship sector. This will happen every 4 weeks and is nothing more nor less than a chance to test the waters and make sure things aren’t being swept under the carpet.

Libra

After an active 3 months on the relationship front ran its course just under 3 weeks ago things have eased back, however they’ll never quite go off the boil. With Uranus, planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected staying behind the love gods have your back, refusing to let things become bogged down again.

Scorpio

Both the Sun and Mercury left your relationship sector last week and with Jupiter himself leaving in 2 weeks time, it’s time to bring things home. The Moon has already made his last visit before this powerful relationship year comes to an end, so you already have all the answers and inside needed to put your relationships on the right path.

Sagittarius

At what is an important time on the relationship front the Moon is putting the focus on your professional game today and rightfully so. The relationship chapter that you’re now in will run through to mid 2013 and conditions will only get better, so you need to learn how to juggle your relationship with the real world. Start with having the right boundaries.

Capricorn

When the Sun and Mercury left your romantic sector they left Jupiter on his own and with the planet of luck and expansion not only the last planet here but due to leave himself in 2 weeks time, holding onto his romantic energy and focus is a must. At what is turning into one of the busiest times of the year, this is going to be easier said than done.

Aquarius

The Sun and Mercury only returned to your romantic sector last week, but it’s already clear that this is no ordinary visit. With last week’s solar eclipse having already opened new doors and Venus holding the door open to second chances, it’s clear that the love gods are on your side, with a need to believe in love and in what’s possible.

Pisces

Just as Mars, planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos is about to move into his final month in your relationship sector he aligns with the Moon today, bringing together a potent cocktail of emotion and passion. While things may get a little fiery on the relationship front, this will also create some real passion and steam.

Your Daily Number for May 27: 6

A financial opportunity may surface today. It’s a great day to fearlessly exercise your negotiation skills. On the personal front, a relationship may become more serious as commitment issues are placed on the table.

Fast Facts

About the Number 6

Theme: Family and Social Responsibility, Service, Healing

Astro Association: Gemini

Tarot Association: Lovers

Your Daily General Horoscopes for May 27th

Aries

The Sun and Mercury align in your communication sector today, the smartest, most intellectually savvy and articulate area of your chart. This creates an opportunity to take your communications to a whole new level, at a time when Venus is also working to give your heart a voice. With some romantic and playful vibes in the air today, this gives you a chance to take time out to connect and also to have some fun with it.

Taurus

Just a day after the Sun’s alignment with forces on the income front and opposition with forces on the financial front came to a head, Mercury reaches the same point today. While this will keep any financial tension high it also gives you the insight and the smart head for money to gain a real sense of where things stand on both fronts. With Jupiter just over 2 weeks away from your income sector it’s time to get serious, for with a lot on offer a lot more is expected from you.

Gemini

Just as you may be experiencing some personal and/or relationship tension, creating the kind of wake up calls you would normally get from a Full Moon, but without the emotional intensity, the Sun and Mercury align in your sign. This allows you to see right through any pressure with your eyes open, your mind sharp and the communication lines open. You’re now able to turn this into an opportunity to gain a whole new level of authenticity, on both the personal and relationship fronts.

Cancer

As the Sun and Mercury align in an intuitive part of your chart, where most of the action is now taking place, this creates a powerful cosmic shift, with Mercury and his intellectual savvy taking the lead. Mercury is due to return to your sign early next month, so this will not only see your mind become sharper today as you gain more mental clarity, but the focus shift more to the future. Spend some time at the drawing board today, with some good ideas being forged.

Leo

Having the Moon in your sign as the Sun and Mercury align in a social and serendipitous part of your chart is a real advantage, giving you a better read on the hunches that have the power to put you in the right place at the right time. There is a real sense of synchronicity in the air today that you’re able to tap into and if life has been too professionally focused of late, then this gives you a chance to make up for lost time.

Virgo

Normally when the Sun makes his annual visit to your career sector, for the month that he’s here and the few weeks either side that Mercury and Venus may also be here, it’s hard to take your professional hat off over the weekend. That is normally okay, but considering that you now have continuous planetary activity through to mid 2013 that’s too long to go without taking time out. Actively work to create the right work/life balance.

Libra

This has been a big week, with lots of planetary shifts and changes and a lot of powerful dynamics in play. With a new sense of adventure in the air but also a reminder of a new professional surge ahead, taking time out over the weekend to embrace a sense of adventure or to catch up with friends is a must. There is something special in the air today, with adventurous as well as social and serendipitous vibes in play.

Scorpio

By this time next month there will be planetary activity in your career sector, for the first time this year and as the Moon makes one of his last visits before then, this gives you a chance to sharpen your professional instincts and look ahead. It may be the weekend but chances are you not only have your professional hat on but your money hat as well, looking for your next challenge on the career and income fronts.

Sagittarius

Having the Moon in an adventurous part of your chart over the weekend gives you a chance to blow off some steam, after what is likely to have been an intense week. You’re moving into some defining professional weeks where you need to be on your toes and that can’t happen if you’re always on the clock, 24/7. If you want to ensure you move into your new working week on top of your game, take time out to embrace a sense of adventure while you can.

Capricorn

It may be the weekend, but with the Moon making one of his last visits to your financial sector before the first planetary activity for the year and the Sun and Mercury aligned in your work sector, chances are you’ll have both your work and your money hats on today. On the money front it’s all about listening to your financial instincts and imagination, while on the work front it’s about having your eyes open and your thinking cap on.

Aquarius

Having the Moon in your relationship sector as the Sun and Mercury not only spend their first weekend in your romantic sector but align, puts the focus on your personal life today. It was just 6 days ago that a solar eclipse opened the door to new beginnings, when it came to matters of the heart and just 11 days since Venus, planet of love opened the door to second chances. It’s your relationships that get to benefit from this today.

Pisces

You have a bit of a conundrum on your hands today, for while your imagination and your intuition is likely to be drawn to matters on the work front, with a sense that you’re nearing a new turning point on the professional front, it’s home and family matters that are likely to dominate. It may be the weekend but chances are you will have your work hat on, even if it’s just to listen to your intuition. Don’t let this be at the expense of home and family matters, which also need your attention and focus.

Your Daily Love & Romance Horoscopes for May 27th

Aries

As the Moon makes one of his last visits to your romantic sector before things start to move for the year, you have a chance to listen to your heart and pick up on any important clues and hunches. By this time next month the most romantically charged months of 2012 will be underway, with some clues today for what might lie ahead.

Taurus

The Moon’s return to your romantic sector tomorrow will kick off an important few days on the romantic front and a chance to really fire up your romantic passions. Until then keep an open heart, realising that it’s not your job to tell your heart how it should feel, rather its job to tell you how it feels.

Gemini

As the Moon makes his last visit to your communication sector before a lunar eclipse in your relationship sector in just 8 days time, this gives you a chance to clear the air. The key to turning what is often a wild card on the relationship front into an opportunity to turn things around, is having the communication lines open.

Cancer

As the Sun and Mercury align in an intuitive part of your chart, this gives you a chance to give old feelings being stirred a voice and the past in general, giving you a chance to clear the air. With communication becoming far more important in the future, especially on the relationship front, work today to give the past and unsaid words a voice.

Leo

The closer you get to a lunar eclipse in your romantic sector in just 8 days time, the more you’re likely to sense that something is building and with a tendency to want to jump the gun and take control. Yet this is one time when you need to take your hands off the wheel and let fate take over instead, no matter how scary that might be.

Virgo

On both the romantic and relationship fronts there is a surprising lack of urgency and also a chance to focus more on the big picture. On both fronts it’s now become more about the journey, which will always have ups and downs. So long as you focus on the big picture, any ups and downs along the way will only make your relationships and love life richer.

Libra

There is a sense of synchronicity and of romantic adventure in the air this week, with a chance to challenge your excuses. At the same time that intuitive lunar vibes stimulate the hunches that have the power to put you in the right place at the right time, it’s your heart’s willingness to take a risk that will encourage you to seize the moment.

Scorpio

Throughout what has been a defining few months on the relationship front your relationships have had to compete with a busy focus, but that is life and you can’t put your relationships in a bubble. Work now to prepare your relationships for the real world, where they can’t get 24/7 attention, yet are strong enough that they don’t need it.

Sagittarius

This time last week Venus, planet of love was on her own in your relationship sector and in her first week in retrograde motion was focused exclusively on the past. Now a week on the Sun and Mercury are not only here but they’re aligned, with your eyes and the communication lines now open. All of a sudden you’re able to see where you’ve been and where you’re going.

Capricorn

As Jupiter spends his penultimate weekend in your romantic sector there is a real need to make love a priority. This time last week the Sun, Mercury and Moon were all here to help lucky Jupiter to get things up to speed, but over the last 6 days they all left and it’s time to bring things home. Dare to believe in love the way that it believes in you.

Aquarius

The Moon’s monthly visit to your relationship sector is usually more about wake up calls and drawing your attention to the things you’ve been sweeping under the carpet. But with Venus in retrograde motion in your romantic sector and the Sun and Mercury aligned here, the romantic focus is overwhelming. This is going to make it hard for all but the most obvious relationship wake up calls to get through.

Pisces

With Mars, planet of passion coming into his own in your relationship sector and some of the best relationship weeks of the year stretching out in front of you and new doors about to open on the romantic front, your future is all of a sudden looking up. Maybe the challenges of recent weeks and months was worth it after all, leaving you ready for what’s coming up.

Calendar of the Moon for May 26th

Hawthorn Tree Month

Color: Purple
Element: Air
Altar: Upon a cloth of purple place a vase of the budded hawthorn twigs, a knife, incense of gardenia and marjoram, and a figure of the Goddess.
Offerings: Contemplate something that is both beautiful and painful.
Daily Meal: Serve fruit juice with the food.

Huath Invocation
Call: Now is the time of the flower’s blossoming.
Response: Now is the time when the hand reaches forth to pluck.
Call: Now is the time when we struggle with our instincts…
Response: To take beauty for ourselves, or to leave it in its place.
Call: Now is the time when we must remember that all plants are not ours.
Response: We did not plant the forest, and it does not belong to us.
Call: We were not the first beings on this earth.
Response: We have come young and late, and the trees look down upon us.
Call: They groan from the centuries of our meddling.
Response: They grow thorns to protect themselves.
Call: Now is the time when the hawthorn goddess steps forward.
Response: Now is the time when the heartless lady lifts her hand.
Call: Now is the time of great beauty in the world.
Response: Now is the time when Nature protects her beauty.
Call: The hawthorn goddess stabs us to the heart with beauty.
Response: She reminds us of our place in the world.
Call: She reminds us that we do not own this green planet.
Response: She reminds us that our grasping fingers can still bleed.
Call: She makes the hedges that our animals cannot cross.
Response: She sets the boundaries that no man may cross.
Call: She makes our hearts beat faster or slower.
Response: Her berries are sweet, but she protects them.
Call: We must respect her as we respect the Earth….
Response: The Green Man falls before her, heedless and headless.
Call: She is the blade of all trees, and we shed our blood for her.
Response: She is the teeth of Nature, and we give way before her might.

Chant:
Cauldron of Changes
Blossom of Bone
Arc of Eternity
Hole in the Stone

[Pagan Book of Hours]

Your Daily Love & Romance Horoscopes for May 26th

Aries

After so much focus on your relationship and especially on working to ensure that the communication lines are open, it’s the Moon that offers some light relief today and the timing is spot on. It’s the Moon’s return to your romantic sector today that sets the scene for a romantically charged weekend, especially if you listen to and follow your heart.

Taurus

While the second half of 2012 is destined to become more relationship focused, the spirit of romance will never entirely die down, especially if you’re willing to engage your romantic passions now. There is a call for a more fearless approach to love, refusing to hold back out of fear of failure.

Gemini

Don’t be surprised or alarmed by any relationship pressure today, but don’t ignore it either. It’s today that the Sun reaches a point where he’s challenging your relationship intentions and providing some timely reality checks and wake up calls. Refuse to sweat the small stuff or to stick your head in the sand.

Cancer

Because Venus, planet of love has put her return to your sign on hold, not returning until August, this has given you more time to both make peace with old ghosts and to prepare for some major romantic developments in the second half of the year. One of the key areas of preparing is working on your sense of confidence, which is more important than you realise.

Leo

Chances are the pressure and doubts you may have been feeling earlier in the week will return today, a little sharper but also in a way that is more transparent. This gives you a chance to look behind what’s pushing any buttons, creating any doubts or roadblocks and establish why, aware that you can’t change what you can’t see.

Virgo

You’re in the early days of a massive professional resurgence and you have already passed what you would normally expect, with even more on the way. Already you need to be protecting your personal life, doing what you can to address any work/life balance issues and to create the right boundaries and priorities.

Libra

Normally Venus, planet of love will spend just under 4 weeks in an adventurous part of your chart, creating both a desire and an opportunity to move out of a romantic rut. This year Venus is here for 4 months and she’s not taking no for an answer, even opening the door to second chances and an opportunity to make up for lost time.

Scorpio

Over the course of the last 5 days the Sun, Moon and Mercury have all left your relationship sector and the love gods have put all their cards on the table. Even the Moon won’t return to your relationship sector before Jupiter leaves, but with luck still on your side it’s up to you now to invest everything you can into creating something sustainable.

Sagittarius

While you have Venus, planet of love in retrograde motion in your relationship sector and therefore focused on the past and the Sun and Mercury in direct motion and therefore focused on the future, they’re more united than this might seem. For they are in fact all moving towards each other, giving you a sense that something special is coming together.

Capricorn

As the Moon leaves your relationship sector he wouldn’t be doing his job if this didn’t push some buttons, yet over the last few days this has provided the wake up calls needed to ensure you’re not asleep at the wheel. With new doors due to open on the relationship front in just 9 days time, pay attention to all wake up calls, not just those you want to hear.

Aquarius

As the Moon returns for his monthly visit to your relationship sector he’s met by a wall of overwhelming romantic forces, which he has to fit around. While this will shift some of your focus to your relationships the forces now at work on the romantic front are just too strong, giving you a chance to inject more romance into your relationships.

Pisces

As the Moon wraps up his last visit to your romantic sector in just 13 days time, he’ll be leaving you wanting more, which is what will keep you awake and alert. With the most active romantic months of the year less than 2 weeks away you can’t afford to be asleep at the wheel, with a chance also to deal with any work life balance issues.

Your Daily Love & Romance Horoscopes for May 25th

Aries

It’s been 6 months since the Sun, Mercury and Venus and therefore your heart, mind and soul have been on the same page, but it’s where they’ve united that’s important for you. It’s on the communication front that things are coming together and it’s your relationships that will benefit from communication lines that now run into the past and future.

Taurus

What created such up and down months on the romantic front, with some real highs and lows that has created a real roller coaster ride, is the challenges and support Mars, planet of passion has received in his journey through your romantic sector. All those ups and downs are behind you, with a chance now to start fighting for what you want from love.

Gemini

Saturn reaches a point today where he’s just a month to the day away from turning direct, with the coming month his last in retrograde motion in your romantic sector for another 30 years. Throughout that time Venus, planet of love will remain in retrograde motion in your sign, giving your heart a guided tour down love’s memory lanes.

Cancer

As the Moon wraps up his monthly visit to your sign, he’ll know that when he returns Mercury, planet of communication will be here and the lifeline this will throw to your relationships. With communication destined to become more important in the future, start the way you intend to go on.

Leo

You’re just 10 days away from a potentially game changing lunar eclipse in your romantic sector, especially as it’s the last before the North Node leaves in August. It’s where a natural current is guiding things in the right direction that you’re approaching an important fork in the river of love, which at this point is still out of sight.

Virgo

This is not usually a time of year that you would expect relationship pressures and challenges, yet that’s what you’ve experienced over recent months. This is something that usually happens in the month or two around your birthday month, but flushing things out earlier in the year has allowed you to get everything out in the open, with a rebuilding now possible.

Libra

When Venus, planet of love returned to an adventurous part of your chart early last month, she was on her own and it stayed that way until just 4 days ago when the Sun returned. Now even Mercury is on board and with heart, mind and soul now committed to approaching both love and life in a more adventurous way, anything is possible.

Scorpio

Jupiter, planet of luck is back where he was on the 5th March, on his own in your relationship sector. However, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then and where back then you were waiting for a push to bring things up to speed, that push has been and gone. With Jupiter leaving in 2 ½ weeks time, put everything you have into everything you do, into putting your relationships on track.

Sagittarius

In what is an important and undoubtedly a game changing relationship month Mercury, planet of communication will only spend 15 days here. As he spends his first full day in your relationship sector Mercury is embarking you on a speed course on how to open the communication lines and on what to do and what not to do.

Capricorn

When Jupiter leaves your romantic sector on the 12th June there’ll be no more planetary activity here until 2013, with the planet of luck himself not back for another 12 years. But by then the first planetary activity for the year in your relationship sector will have kicked off and already there is a chance to balance your romantic and relationship focus, with the love gods already beginning the handover.

Aquarius

The Sun’s return to your romantic sector 4 days ago kicked off a game changing month on the romantic front, a month that will end with a second New Moon. Venus will spend the whole of that month in retrograde motion here, with the door open to second chances at a time when your luck in love is destined to radically transform.

Pisces

With no planetary activity in your romantic sector since September 2011, all you’ve had to keep things going is the Moon’s monthly visits and the intuitive read this gives you of your heart. Yet as the Moon makes his last visit before the first planetary activity in 8 months, there is a sense of urgency to the wake up calls he’ll be evoking.

Magickal Correspondences for Friday, May 25th

Magickal Intentions: Love, Romance, Marriage, Sexual Matters, Physical Beauty, Friendship and Partnerships, Strangers and Heart
Incense: Strawberry, Sandalwood, Rose, Saffron and Vanilla
Planet: Venus
Sign: Libra and Taurus
Angel: Ariel
Colors: Green, Pink, Aqua
Herbs/Plants: Pink Rose, Ivy, Birch, Heather, Clematis, Sage, Violet and Water Lilly Stones: Rose Quartz, Moonstone, Pink Tourmaline, Peridot, Emerald and Jade
Oil: (Venus) Cardamom, Palmrosa, Rose, Yarrow

Friday belongs to Venus, and its energies are warm, sensuous, and fulfilling. Efforts that involve any type of pleasure, comfort, and luxury, as well as the arts, music, or aroma (incense and perfume) works well on this day. As Venus lends its sensuous influences to the energies of this day, use it for any magical work that deals with matters of the heart.

Your Daily Horoscopes for Thursday, May 24th

We are able to think faster and engage in clever repartee now that communicator Mercury slides into interactive Gemini. The lingering effects of several planets in practical Earth signs is fading quickly with four planets moving through intellectual Air signs. Unfortunately, it may be nearly impossible to keep our thoughts focused for the next few weeks as the planetary emphasis on flighty Gemini increases our curiosity about everything.

Aries Horoscope (Mar 21 – Apr 19)

You may have a conflict between your desire to hang out with friends and the simplistic need to stay true to yourself. Although you really want the camaraderie that comes from being with your peers, you might not be willing to risk your emotional security by spending too much time away from your home and family. You could try to rationalize your behavior, but ultimately you believe it’s easier to hold yourself back. Fortunately, if you stop struggling you can get the most out of the present moment.

Taurus Horoscope (Apr 20 – May 20)

Oddly enough, you have very little resistance to change now, yet too much flexibility can get in the way of your happiness. You must take the credit or the blame for your present condition, but don’t waste your energy regretting previous actions or trying to complete unfinished business. Don’t wait for a better time to take action; this is it. Let go of your past so you can embrace your future.

Gemini Horoscope (May 21 – Jun 20)

Your ruling planet Mercury returns home and this may stimulate a higher level of mental activity. Unfortunately, the hectic pace of your life is picking up even further, even if you’re already busy. It’s best now to take the sweet moments as they come, for it might be difficult to make a decision and then stick to it. Take time to think about what you could learn. Pursue your interests without committing to any one particular path just yet.

Cancer Horoscope (June 21 – Jul 22)

You can feel the tension build as the necessity of change confronts your current plans. Take whatever time today you need to consider what you really want to do, or you could end up making the situation even worse. You might not be able to separate fantasy from reality now, so avoid making any significant decisions for a couple of days. There’s nothing wrong with waiting until you clearly know how you feel before making your next move.

Leo Horoscope (Jul 23 – Aug 22)

Your social life is re-energized by talkative Mercury’s move into your 11th House of Groups. Instead of being overly concerned with your personal calendar, use the next couple of days to increase your involvement with the larger problems of your community or even humanity itself. But remember there’s no right or wrong when it comes to your life path. Instead of worrying about trivial things now, just focus on alleviating the pain and suffering of someone close to you.

Virgo Horoscope (Aug 23 – Sep 22)

You may be temporarily distracted by one thing after another now that your ruling planet Mercury is in restless Gemini. But rather than trying to force an issue by placing yourself right in the middle of a complex situation, seek solitude instead. Relax your concentration and follow your thoughts wherever they may take you. Unfortunately, trying to constrain your mental process only leads to frustration. Combine tolerance and patience and you will find the right solution.

Libra Horoscope (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

Loquacious Mercury joins the willful Sun and romantic Venus in your 9th House of Adventure. You might want to escape and take an extended vacation now. Unfortunately, you could use up all your time and energy talking about your ideas instead of actually going anywhere. Don’t just get lost in your dreams; make practical travel plans that can bend a bit with the changing circumstances of your life.

Scorpio Horoscope (Oct 23 – Nov 21)

Messenger Mercury joins the cosmic party that’s already spicing up your 8th House of Intimacy and Transformation. You might be confused by someone’s inconsistent feelings, especially since they are slippery and may morph into something else if you attempt to address them. You could even make an error in judgment while assessing the current situation and then take an ineffective course of action. Don’t waste time worrying about what went wrong; just rethink the problem and try again.

Sagittarius Horoscope (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

You may feel real conflict between your work duties and the personal circumstances of your life. Your rational mind is quite purposeful now, but don’t overlook the needs of your friends and partners, too. However, don’t be fooled by someone’s emotional appeal unless it’s also based upon facts. Be gentle with your own self-criticism, even if you must re-evaluate your position again and again.

Capricorn Horoscope (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

Although you want to find time today for personal enjoyment, there’s too much on your plate now even for a quick escape. Practical responsibilities might require that you reschedule your playtime. Cover as much ground as you can on all your projects, but don’t worry if you have unfinished business when the workday is over. Just make sure to take care of your need for pleasure before the day is done.

Aquarius Horoscope (Jan 20 – Feb 18)

There may be little you can do to prevent someone from going through his or her own discomfort now when adapting to a new situation. You are usually comfortable with the notion of making big changes in your life when necessary. However, just the thought of having to deal with a major shift might upset you today because of all the uncertainty in the air. Stay attuned to your own process and don’t project your fears on to anyone else.

Pisces Horoscope (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

What worked well for you in the past isn’t necessarily useful now. Don’t try to hold on to memories that only bring you sadness. Let the thoughts bubble into consciousness one last time and then leave them in the past where they belong. Conjure up some of that famous Piscean compassion so you can judge yourself less harshly. Being kind to others starts with accepting who you are first.

Your Daily Love & Romance Horoscopes for Wed., May 23rd

Aries

Let’s face it, you have already experienced more than your fair share of relationship challenges and pressures, not only over recent months but on and off over the last few years. But you really have turned a corner and where before there were roadblocks there is now nothing but support. Use the past to empower you, while the door is still open to second chances.

Taurus

With the second half of 2012 destined to become a lot more relationship focused, work now to ensure that the communication lines are open. It’s a growing sense of romantic confidence and a return of your romantic passions that is giving you the courage to speak out, letting others in.

Gemini

Venus, planet of love will remain in retrograde motion in your sign until later next month, due to turn direct just 3 days after Saturn turns direct in your romantic sector. Until then the door to the past and to second chances is open, while in every other aspect of your life the focus is on the future and all that it holds.

Cancer

The Moon is wrapping up his last visit to your communication sector before a very rare Venus eclipse here in just 2 weeks time, giving you an intuitive read on the romantic nostalgia in the air. With the past already coming alive this gives you a chance to get up close and personal with old ghosts, recognising where you need to let go.

Leo

While you have no planetary activity in your romantic sector you are not on your own, with the North Node creating a natural current that is drawing you towards the future and your full romantic potential. This makes it important to keep your romantic focus on the future and the road ahead, for that’s where the opportunities lie.

Virgo

It was just a week ago today that the last opposition played out between forces on the personal and relationship fronts, giving you a chance to get things out in the open. Since then things have eased back on the relationship front and your personal passions and confidence have bounced back, with a need to hold onto the lessons of the last few months.

Libra

It was 2 weeks ago to the day that Mercury, planet of communication left your relationship sector, wrapping up the most active and defining but also the most challenging relationship months of the year. Chances are you won’t be tested this way again for several years, making it important to hold onto the lessons learned and the communication lines this opened.

Scorpio

As Mercury, planet of communication spends his last full day in your relationship sector he knows it will be another 12 years before he’ll meet up with lucky Jupiter here again, giving you the confidence to put your heart on your sleeve and everything on the line. With luck on your side and the communication lines open, what have you got to lose?

Sagittarius

It was the Moon’s return to your relationship sector just hours behind the Sun that formed the unexpected solar eclipse 2 days ago, but as he wraps up his visit he not only knows he’ll return next month for a second New Moon, but that a lot will change between now and then. This makes it important to listen to your instincts, but also keep an open mind and heart.

Capricorn

While Mercury, planet of communication visits your romantic sector once a year, giving you a chance to give your heart a voice and put heart and mind on the same page, it’s been 12 years since he’s teamed up with lucky Jupiter and it will be another 12 years before he does again. This makes his last full day here even more important, with giving your heart a voice a must.

Aquarius

It was the Moon’s return to your romantic sector 2 days ago and alignment with the Sun that created the solar eclipse that both opened new doors and created a real tailwind. But this is also the Moon’s first visit to your romantic sector since Venus turned retrograde here, giving you an intuitive read on the old doors that opened just a week ago to the day.

Pisces

It was a week ago to the day that Mars, planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos faced his final battle and his final opposition, but already things have moved on considerably. Not due to leave your relationship sector until early July, Mars’ passions and fighting spirit can now go into bringing your relationships up to speed.

Daily Love & Romance Horoscopes for May 22nd

Aries

With not much support on the communication front and that support actively working to enhance second chances on the relationship front, you almost can’t fail. So long as you’re willing to do whatever it takes to ensure that the communication lines are open and that you’re listening as well as talking, things will take on a life of their own.

Taurus

Mars, planet of passion passed his final roadblock last week and with any pressures and challenges behind you a new sense of confidence is emerging. With Mars not leaving your romantic sector until early July you have plenty of time to make up for lost time and to let your romantic passions take the lead.

Gemini

The first full day of your new solar year, one that even in its early hours looks anything but an ordinary run around the block, is also the last full day of an alliance between Venus, planet of love in your sign and Saturn, in retrograde motion in your romantic sector. With the door now open to your future, but your romantic focus on the past, you’re able to see both with equal clarity.

Cancer

Having the Sun in a nostalgic part of your chart has been a game changer, with the cosmic spotlight now directed onto the road behind. With Venus, planet of love in retrograde motion here and Pluto in retrograde motion in your relationship sector, they’re no longer operating in the dark, making any potential second chances easier to spot.

Leo

With no planetary activity in either of your romantic or relationship sectors, overwhelming professional forces haven’t met much resistance. But if the scales have been balanced too far towards your professional life they have already begun to shift, with both new doors and the door to second chances now open in a social and serendipitous part of your chart.

Virgo

Since returning to your relationship sector in February Neptune, planet of dreams and fantasies has been standing back as personal and relationship challenges played out, all the while bringing a sense that anything was possible. Due to turn retrograde in just 2 weeks time, Neptune gives you a chance to slow down and engage your imagination.

Libra

As Venus, planet of love spends her first full week in retrograde motion in an adventurous part of your chart, she has support on all sides. With the Sun spending his first full day here as well, life as a whole is taking on more colourful dynamics. With the seriousness of recent months behind you, it’s time to have some fun.

Scorpio

With the Sun already gone from your relationship sector, Mercury leaving in just 2 days time and even Jupiter in just 3 weeks time, you’re now in the end game, where it’s all about putting your relationships on the path you want them to continue on. While your relationships are still a priority they won’t be for much longer, so getting things on track is essential.

Sagittarius

Where yesterday’s solar eclipse in your relationship sector and the new doors this opened may have taken you by surprise, you have a chance today to adjust. One of the biggest adjustments is how to focus this with Venus, planet of love’s first full week in retrograde motion in your relationship sector and the doors to second chances this has opened.

Capricorn

With the Sun and Moon gone from your romantic sector, Mercury leaving in 2 days time and Jupiter in just 3 weeks time, a journey that began in June 2011 is coming to an end. That journey is to bring your romantic expectations and experiences up to speed and your love life on the track you want it to continue on, with a new sense of urgency setting in.

Aquarius

At the same time that yesterday’s solar eclipse in your romantic sector has opened the door to new beginnings, with Venus spending her first full week in retrograde motion here the door is also open to second chances. You have so much romantic clout and for so long that you don’t have to pick and choose which to go after, with anything possible.

Pisces

You’re now in the final weeks of a major mission to bring your communications up to speed, something that your relationships will rely on moving forward, with a need to make every effort you can now to ensure that the communication lines are open. You’ve come too far to be tripped up now by unsaid words.

Daily Cosmic Calendar for Tuesday, May 22nd

Every so often, the universe requests a siesta and pulls in the reins – allowing humanity and events on Earth to proceed without a lot of outside interference. This is one of those infrequent, 24-hour time-periods. The Moon continues its transit through Gemini – placing an emphasis on reading, writing and exploring favorite hobbies. A key event is the monthly Moon-Venus union (2:25PM PDT) – the first lunar conjunction with Venus since this planet’s reversal on May 15. Feminine issues are on center stage right now. Make sure your primary partnerships are improving rather than stagnating. Review your recent progress in the fine and graphic arts. It should be business as usual on the professional front – thanks to a flowing trine in air signs of the Moon and Saturn (3:52PM PDT). However, this harmonious tie between the Moon and Saturn also begins a long void twilight zone that lasts until 4:32AM PDT tomorrow. The main rule-of-thumb during any void-of-course lunar cycle is to finish old projects on a high note, but not launch bold ventures. Take this message to heart as Mercury forms a contra-parallel to Pluto (6:50PM PDT). Psychic storm warnings are posted – particularly on the relationship horizon where casual conversations could turn into vociferous debates or outright arguments. Be prepared for added controversy and unsettled conditions in affairs of the heart tomorrow as Mercury will oppose Juno just a few hours before one of two annual Sun-Neptune squares.

Your Business & Career Horoscopes for the Week of May 21

Aries

It’s where you’ve been held back or penned in on the work front that you’re finally able to put your foot down and go for it this week, spurred on by a new sense of urgency on the income front. It was only last week that Mars, planet of passion, drive and ambition faced his last hurdle and not due to leave your work sector until the 4th July what has been a marathon is switching back to a sprint again. As you come into the home straight of a journey that began last November, you’re no longer green behind the ears and you have a wealth of experience and professional hindsight to draw on. This allows you to pick your battles wisely at what is a time for putting your head down and your tail up, putting everything you have into everything you do.

Taurus

There is a new level of confidence on the work front this week and it’s coming from the fact that things have shifted to support your hard work and effort and all the drudge work put in, in the past. Saturn, the only planet in either of your professional houses, has been in retrograde motion in your work sector since early February and will remain in retrograde motion until later next month, so nothing has changed as far as he’s concerned. It’s still all about putting your head down and your tail up, putting in the hard work behind the scenes that you need to but more that the conditions have changed. Saturn is no longer under pressure, so the work pressure should have eased right back, but it’s support and confidence on the income front that has changed all the filters.

Gemini

There is a chance to pull back this week. It was just last week that the last in a series of Mars oppositions, that has put direct pressure on your career sector, finally ran its course. Where this created professional pressure and work/life balance pressures specifically, you’ve had a chance to learn a lot and take heed of any wake up calls. But with the pressure gone and both Neptune and Chiron, the planets staying on to keep your professional game on a roll slowing down, ahead of their retrograde turn early next month, there is no longer any urgency. Instead there is a chance to pull back this week and work with the cards already on the table. This is now all about the big picture and it’s that big picture that you have a chance to refer back to now, with a chance to get your bearings.

Cancer

Pay attention to any work pressure early in the week, finding a balance between avoiding sweating the small stuff and not sticking your head in the sand. It’s on Monday, 2 weeks to the day before a lunar eclipse in your work sector is likely to see fate reveal the final wildcard up its sleeve, that the Moon and Sun will align to push some buttons. This comes at the start of the month long wind down to your current solar year, when there is a need to start conserving energy and to pace yourself. This may present as a case of Mondayitis, in which case you need to humour yourself and not push through this, telling yourself to buck up. There is a serious need to slow down and to look at where any expectations are coming from. A slower approach may see you accomplish more in the long run.

Leo

Moving into the new week with the Sun, Mercury, Moon and Jupiter in your career sector would suggest that this is going to be a professionally charged week and while it will remain an important professional week, things ease back dramatically while becoming more urgent at the same time. With the Sun and Moon leaving your career sector on Monday, Mercury on Thursday and none meeting up with lucky Jupiter again here for another 12 years, all your cards are now on the table. It’s the insight, professional instincts and intellectual savvy that the Sun, Moon and Mercury leave you with that allow you to move into what is the end game ready to play your A game. With Jupiter leaving on the 12th June it’s time to bring things home.

Virgo

Venus’ retrograde turn in your career sector last week and her first full week in retrograde motion suggests this should be a fairly quiet professional week, with the focus on the past and on working behind the scenes. While this will play a part in this week’s dynamics this is anything but a behind the scenes week, with your professional game being thrust into the limelight in the early hours of the week. It’s on Monday that the Sun and Moon not only return to your career sector within hours of each other, but align to form a solar eclipse on Monday. This opens the door to new beginnings and opportunities, just as Venus is opening the door to the past and second chances. Mercury’s return to your career sector gives you the intellectual savvy to manage a changing professional landscape.

Libra

You have a chance to rest on your laurels this week. It was only last Thursday that work pressure began to ease off, yet unlike the false starts of the past, this time you really have crossed your final hurdle. Pay attention as your professional instincts kick in, from Thursday or Friday onwards, for what you’ll be picking up on is the Moon’s return to your career sector, for what is his last visit before new doors open in less than 2 weeks time. Once new doors open on the career front, from the 7th June onwards, they’ll remain open for the next 3 months, bringing you to the most important professional months of the year, especially when it comes to looking at where to from here. This makes it important to step back this week, catching your breath before the next wave.

Scorpio

Things have eased back considerably on the work front, to a point where you’re now able to focus more on pacing yourself, keeping what has been put in motion in play. Mercury only left your work sector on the 9th May, so this is still early days and with Uranus staying on to keep things on track, it’s less about the push to bring things up to speed and more about being in the driver’s seat, keeping things on the road. It’s the Moon’s return to your career sector on Saturday, a month to the day before new doors are due to open, that gives you a chance to both sharpen your professional instincts and look ahead. This gives you your first real glimpse of what will be the defining months of your professional year, with a chance to start looking ahead to new mountains and goals to conquer.

Sagittarius

Despite a professionally driven start to the week, expect things to ease back. It was only last week that Mars faced his final hurdle and not due to leave your career sector until the 4th July, his professional passions move into the overdrive this week, ready to make up for lost time. At the same time you begin the week with the Sun, Mercury, Moon and Jupiter in your work sector, completing one of the most formidable line ups you’ve gone into a new working week with all year. Yet while you still have several more weeks to bring things up to speed on the career front, on the work front this is the end game. The Sun and Moon leave your work sector on Monday and Mercury on Thursday and with Jupiter leaving 3 weeks later it’s time to wrap things up and tie up loose ends.

Capricorn

After Venus’ retrograde turn in your work sector last week her first full week in retrograde motion should see things pull right back especially as Saturn, the only other planet in either of your professional houses, is also in retrograde motion in your career sector. While this does open the door to second chances on the work and career fronts, especially as Venus and Saturn are working together, this is destined to be anything but a quiet and behind the scenes week. It all changes dramatically when within hours of each other first the Sun and then the Moon not only return to your work sector on Monday, but align to form a solar eclipse. This opens the door to new beginnings and a game changing month on the work front, while the doors to second chances are also open.

Aquarius

Apart from a Full Moon in your career sector earlier in the month you’ve had no help from the professional gods this year, with no planetary activity in either of your professional houses so far this year. That’s about to change with Mercury returning to your work sector on the 7th June, opening the door to an active 3 months on the work front that will overlap the start of a much bigger phase on the career front, that won’t ease off until 2015. In short, your time on the professional sidelines is about to end, with the Moon’s last visit to your work sector before things kick off giving you a chance to sharpen your instincts, get your bearings and pick up on some valuable clues. Keep your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground, especially between Thursday and Saturday.

Pisces

Look behind any work/life balance pressures, for it’s coming from buttons being pushed as planetary influence kicks in on the home front, inadvertently putting pressure on the very points on the career front that are due to come to a head during a lunar eclipse in just a few weeks time. At the same time this gives you a chance to address any work/life balance issues it also provides some valuable wake up calls, putting you on alert to developments that are likely to come to a head during the lunar eclipse in your career sector on the 4th June. It’s the Moon’s return to your work sector on Saturday, a month to the day before Mercury returns and opens the door to the first planetary activity here for the year that gives you a chance to tap into any clues, hunches and insights ahead of time.

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