Astrology of the Week Ahead: May 19th to 25th — Saturn Enters Aries!

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/].

Happy Monday, everybody. We are going to take a look today at all of the astrological transits for the week ahead. That is today, Monday, May 19 through Sunday, May 25. The highlight of the week is Saturn's entrance into Aries. We're going to be spending a significant amount of time looking at that transit this week, including horoscopes for all 12 signs later in the week.

Today, I will look at the angular house positions for the rising signs that are Cardinal. So if you're an Aries, a Cancer, a Libra, or a Capricorn rising horoscope, I'm going to remind you of the angular place that Saturn is entering this week. But then we'll do horoscopes for all 12 signs later at the beginning of the week.

When I do overviews, I like to include maybe the transit of the week in terms of the angular houses that that transit is hitting. So that will always mean that one family of signs—Cardinal, fixed, or mutable—will get a little something at the beginning of the week. Cardinal signs today.

So anyway, there's a bunch of other transits, though. We've got a number of sextiles and trines that are very interesting this week, a Mercury conjunction with Uranus that's going to flash, and, of course, Saturn's entrance into Aries. So lots to get into.

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All right, on that note, let's take a look at the astrology of the week ahead. I'm going to put the real-time clock up, and there were some requests to meet the puppy. So at the end of today's video, I am going to pause, and unless the puppy is sleeping—which it's like a sleeping baby, like you don't wake up a sleeping puppy because you're getting a breather—but if the puppy is awake and hanging out, I'll bring him on camera so you can say hello to him. And if not, then one of the days this week I'll do that. Okay. Anyhow, people, so many people ask, "Can I see the puppy? Can I see that?" I was like, yeah, we'll do like a show and tell.

So anyway, here we are Monday, May 19. Let's take a look at the transits for the week ahead in summary first. So a bunch of sextiles and trines. Tomorrow, we're going to see the Sun briefly sextiling Saturn. So anytime you have a sextile between planets, you're typically talking about the ability of these two planets to bring forth their archetypal combination in a way that feels harmonious or that is more constructive in terms of the way we relatively describe our karmic experiences in the world.

So that leaves room, as always, for interpretation, but certainly this Sun sextile to Saturn brings a kind of bright but stoic and wise—it's to me like a bright, knowing grandmother or grandfather energy. There's a combination of the brightness of the Sun and the wisdom of an anaretic Saturn in Pisces coming together in very earthy, feminine signs. That sextile is present at the start of the week.

The other thing happening tomorrow, just as a side note, is the Sun, after making that sextile, will enter the sign of Gemini, where it will immediately now be in sextiles and trines with outer planets. Everything gets very airy as the week goes on. So that's something to just pay attention to in the background. I won't be doing a video on that, but it does happen tomorrow at the same—basically the same time that the sextile occurs—right afterwards, Sun enters Gemini.

Now, if we go forward just a little bit further to Thursday, the 22nd, this is, you know, a sort of subtle but powerful transit. Venus will be trining Mars. Now, Venus is in Mars's sign and therefore has reception with Mars, who is her host, but is in the superior trine. This is really nice. It's sort of like saying you have something of a demanding houseguest in Venus because she's asserting herself from a superior position over Mars, but Mars is her host.

It's kind of like when my daughter is asking me for a lot, but she's not doing it in a rude way. And so I'm like, okay, you know, she's asking me to do something that's a bit of a stretch for me, but you know what? I'm going to do it because, you know, it's a lot, but it's something I can do. It's something I can provide for. So I kind of like—I always come up with images like that in my head when I'm trying to think about aspect dynamics, because it really helps to put them in images rather than keeping them conceptual.

So Venus is a houseguest in the temple of Aries. She's needing something from Mars. That's one way that you can think about what a planet's doing when it's in another planet's temple. "I'm Venus. I need love. I'm Venus. I need sensuality or art or women or friends, and I need the host's will to provide those things for me." When Venus then gets into a superior trine with Mars, she's placing a little bit of pressure on Mars in Leo to provide for her needs, but it's a trine, which is very constructive and effective and helpful.

And because she has the guest-host dynamic at play, it's like she's a bit of a demanding guest, but Mars is going to provide something fairly constructive and positive here in their dynamic. It's very fiery, though, so we could be noticing the surge of fire as the week goes on, but a pretty constructive trine from the two of them, all things considered. We'll be talking about that as the week goes on.

On the same day, the Sun will sextile Neptune. Again, sextiles—they're not like, I don't—I wouldn't consider them throwaway transits, but they're often subtle, right? Like, let me give you a super easy example: the Sun sextiles Neptune, and you find that you and your kids are running through the sprinkler in the yard and having fun and being joyful and getting wet together. It's a nice memory. It passes like that, and the Sun was sextile Neptune.

I'm making this up. I'm not including Gemini or Aries here, where the two planets are actually located, but you get the point. It's not a throwaway transit. That might be a memory that your kids remember when they're 40, you know. But it's—it doesn't have to—like, sextiles can be so smooth that they're not popping out like, you know—like, they're—all of the funniest images are coming to my head. I apologize.

They're not sticking out like a stressful event that you have to maneuver around. Typically, they're more like a smoothly integrated event, which is why sometimes you don't even notice them. That's what I'm trying to say. Like, if the inappropriate voices and images in my head would just give me a minute. It happens though, like when you're—I don't know, this is my experience as an astrologer—when you're processing transits and you're talking about them in a class or with a client or whatever, my—my like, my encyclopedia or almanac inside my brain is all images, and the images that pop up randomly—I don't—they just arrive, you know? They just pop up, and some of them are so absurd and funny, and immediately I'm like, "Yeah, that's a good example, but not appropriate for the podcast." So, and then sometimes I share them, and it turns out that maybe everyone has the same absurd sense of humor that I do, but—

All right, anyway, May 24—let's move on. On the 24th, Saturday, we have the Sun trining Pluto. Now, this is a not-so-subtle transit, because we have a very constructive trine again. Notice the sextiles and trines this week. Really nice, supportive energy, truly. I mean, especially given that at the end of the week, we've got Saturn entering its fall in Aries, you know, just—it feels like, you know, when, like, the door comes open and like Darth Vader enters, the rebels with their little pea guns are sitting there. So anyway—

Sun trining Pluto over the weekend—nice, smooth energy. I feel like deeper, more profound shifts of our thinking, communicating, even things like technology and something around technology popping up that feels like a little bit deeper or more profound. I wouldn't be surprised to see things like that popping up over the weekend. And let me just—okay, put the screen back up. I apologize. I had something pop up, and I needed to get rid of it so it wasn't blocking my view.

Okay, so the Sun trine Pluto on Saturday, May 24—you're going to be feeling this building from the 20th all the way through the 24th. So yeah, that three-degree range is significant, but this is where the transit perfects. And so the most intense expression of the transit is usually felt or observed in our lives right around this time. So that would be Saturday. I'll come back and say more about that in a second.

Then, on the same day, what's really profound about this to me that makes this day sort of doubly important is that on the same day, we're seeing Mercury conjoin Uranus. So a Sun trine to Pluto in Mercury's sign—well, Mercury actually conjoins Uranus. Feels like whoa. Now we're talking about a significant movement of facts or events or perceptions or learning or speaking or thinking. Concepts are moving around.

I feel like this could be a moment of real movement and progress, especially on the conceptual, ideological, mental level, and in terms of discovering thoughts or ideas that can free up space or that are somehow liberating or freeing up more creative energy. So I love this kind of creative burst of Mercury and the Sun that happens on Saturday. That is a really nice transit.

Well, what's interesting is whatever that little revolution is all about, it comes just as Saturn enters Aries. So if we take this forward by some hours on Saturday the 24th, we're going to see that it is not long before Saturn enters Aries, which happens about 11 PM Central. So it's on May 25 on the East Coast, basically. By this point in the United States, it'll be a little earlier in the evening on the West Coast. Central time, we get it pretty close to midnight, around 11 PM, so we—you could say Saturn enters Aries.

For most people, you'll really wake up to find Saturn has been in Aries on the 25th, but the 24th here is obviously important. By the way, you see me like I'm like, pulling fuzz—like, I have a puppy, and I have, like, just dog hair. So—but he is so cute. Anyway, Mercury then enters Gemini on Sunday. These are big talking points with the Saturn entrance into Aries, and the Mercury conjunction to Uranus, and the Sun trine to Pluto. Like, Saturday is a big day.

However, when we get to the 25th, Mercury will sextile Saturn, and I mean, to me, that's again, just like the transits earlier in the week—Sun sextile Saturn, Venus trine Mars, Sun sextile Neptune, Sun trine Pluto—a lot of trines and sextiles. So overall, I like that there is so much smooth, flowing energy this week, again, especially since Saturn is changing signs and entering into a more difficult dignity space. A lot of us may notice that, but given the kind of buffer of all these little transits that are of the nature of Venus and Jupiter, I feel like, you know, we should—this should be a week where there's a lot of support and positive movements and developments.

Again, that's relative—what that looks like for each of us. But yeah, so Mercury sextiling Saturn on Sunday the 25th, and that rounds out the week. All right, now let's go back and say a little bit more about each of these transits, one at a time, just kind of covering them generally first.

So the Sun sextile to Saturn on Tuesday, May 20—that is tomorrow—that little sextile, to me again, it's so brief. One of the things that I like when these two planets come together is the providing for creative resources that are kind of wise and steady. There's a gravitas when the Sun and Saturn get together, always. There's a kind of heaviness or weightiness, and at its worst, the squares, oppositions, and conjunctions can sometimes feel like melancholic and a little depressive or morose, almost like a rainy day when you really wanted a sunny one.

But when they get into sextiles and trines, what I've found is that the way that I would talk about it—like an image that comes to my mind, speaking of that little thing that I was talking about earlier that pops up for me—would be a day in the spring when there is the laying of new mulch, you know, around your—the landscaping, maybe there's landscapers out in front of your apartment complex. You know, it's a hot day of work in the sun, but you're doing something that's really beautiful. You know, you're planting in your garden, you're getting your yard cleaned and trimmed for the first time in spring. The combination of these two energies—earth and water, the Sun and Saturn—but in a Venusian sextile, to me, feels like productive, practical, supported, fortified, a little serious, a little heavy, but smooth.

It's like, well, at least you're not working on a 95-degree day. It's 75, sunny, and there's a breeze, you know, but you have to work all day on getting something done. There's sort of support there to do it. That's the image I—one image that I would use to describe the resourcefulness of this transit. So watch for that. That's, you know, tomorrow.

If we go forward to the 22nd on Thursday, the Venus trine to Mars—to me, we will be spending extra time on this this week, as well as the Sun trine Pluto, Mercury conjunct Uranus, Saturn entering Aries. That will be the focus for our week. That transit. And then Venus trine to Mars—Venus is trine to Mars happens Thursday, May 22. You're going to feel it building from today all the way through Thursday, and then, you know, starting to fade over the weekend.

When Venus is a guest in any temple, here's a simple way of thinking about what's happening. Venus comes in and says, "I always need to act and behave like myself. I need to bring about my own significations." And we're not talking now about Venus in a natal chart who might also be tied to the topics of other houses through her rulership—just purely as kind of putting Venus in a transit vacuum. Venus is always going to be Venus. "I want to do love. I want to do relationships. I want to do creativity. I want to do sensual fulfillment. I want to do friendship, even. I want to maybe go shopping or eat tasty food," right? Think about what Venus likes to do.

Now, put Venus in the temple of Mars, and Mars has to provide for Venus the material that she will use. So this is why Venus in a Mars-ruled sign can be tricky, because she's like, "I want love and friendship." And Mars is like, "Well, how about competition instead?" Well, if you enjoy playing—I don't know, pickleball—I've never played it, but if you enjoy playing pickleball with your friend, then that would be lovely. If you enjoy, you know, competitive banter—like playing a board game or Yahtzee or something, you know, playing some poker with friends—then, you know, fine. You're well provided for in Aries, you know. But you can see how what Mars provides for Venus in some ways kind of conflicts with Venus's nature.

So there has to be a creativity or a willingness to take what the host can give. And that is usually going to translate for us as working with Mars energy in the way of Venus. Like, how do you do that tension? So anyway, now imagine that Venus is like, "I want to do Venus things," and Mars has to provide. Well, if you're in a superior trine to Mars and you're Venus, this means that you're saying, "Look, Mars. I really want to do love, creativity, sensuality, good food, sunshine, pleasing things. That's what I want." When you're—when Venus is in the superior position in the trine with Mars, she's really putting pressure on Mars to provide something that's closer to her own nature, that will resemble more of her needs and her desires, and then Mars in the sign of Leo will provide it.

"How about we—how about we give you this? We're gonna—I don't know, let's just say, like, we're gonna go to a public park. We're gonna, like, look our best and be well-dressed and take the family out and have fun and notice and observe all of the people and feel good about the way we look." And, you know, it's like, almost like the peacocking of Mars and Venus—like Mars in Leo, like Mars in Leo is gonna provide some Leonine, you know, material—like, "Let's go find a place to strut publicly and enjoy the summer weather." You know, of course, again, just a made-up image.

My point is that we should find that Mars in Leo—think about what Mars in Leo provides: power, pride, strength, nobility, courage, honor, dignity. It's kind of like a proud king. If Venus in Aries is like the proud king's courageous, willful daughter—like, think of Venus in Aries that way—then the proud king is going to provide something meaningful for his fiery daughter. That is the way that I'm looking at this. And we will break this transit down more, and I will have five things to watch for, and all that good stuff as the week goes on, but again, it's a really good trine in the sense that there is—when you see reception between a planet and its host in an aspect perfecting, and it's a trine, that's typically going to show up favorably for all of us. So let's—we'll watch out for that.

Now, on the same day, the Sun sextiles Neptune, and this, to me, is like more evidence that the day is probably going to feel, in some ways, sort of ideal. There's a fiery idealism in the sky. There's a feeling of victory and a feeling of being—kind of being on cloud nine. And you know, because the Sun and Neptune when they sextile provide that—it's almost like beautiful sunlight. We've never been to the ocean before, and you've watched a sunrise, and you've seen the disk of the sun coming up over the ocean, and that beautiful, serene—it feels like anything is possible. In those 10 minutes of watching the sun come up over the ocean, you get this feeling of light and clarity and also the endless expanse of water. It's very—it's a very vast, big kind of sublime feeling. That's how—that's how I feel. I just noticed those little moods coming through when the Sun and Neptune connect in positive ways, like sextiles or trines.

So that's coming through at the same time that Venus is trining Mars. That makes for a pretty nice little window of time on Thursday in particular, to feel that building on Wednesday, and then it really sort of leaks over into Thursday. Now, then we get into the weekend, and this is where we will be spending a whole bunch of time this week.

On the 24th, you'll feel this building throughout the week again, like now through the weekend. You'll see—you will notice these themes building. You're going to see two things. First, we're basically simultaneously—it's not really a first or second—the Mercury-Uranus conjunction in Taurus and the Sun's trine to Pluto. Now, what these two things share in common is that the Sun's trine to Pluto—again, think about sunshine as things like illumination, clarity, direction, purpose, courage, individuality, and that kind of sense that you're on a heroic, purposeful mission in life—all solar themes. They connect in a trine to Pluto in Aquarius, and it feels like a surge of constructive power, especially mentally or intellectually or on the level of things like commerce and ideas and technology and plans and thoughts and words and communication.

So you get this kind of surge of very airy, creative energy from the Sun and Pluto—very constructive, very useful. And then Mercury conjoining Uranus—the two tend to be very inventive, a little disruptive, like a little bit of divine chaos, but also very brilliant, quick, adaptive, innovative, creative, original, outside-the-box. I love this combination. This combination is so cool. I think Saturday is going to be a really neat day where we see a kind of revolution of circumstances and a surge of creative power and energy. So again, we'll be spending a lot more time with that one as the week goes on. That'll be a highlight for this week's content.

Then, this is really the big news. Saturn enters Aries. This will be our other major talking point. I'm not going to say as much about this right now, because it's so big. There's so much to talk about. That's why we're going to have a few videos, including horoscopes devoted to Saturn in Aries. Saturn's entrance into Aries—I don't want people to think because Saturn is entering its fall that it's bad, but we are talking about the exaltation of the Sun and the spring domicile of Mars. And here we have the god that is associated with winter and fall, decay, old age, impermanence, death, endings—you know, wisdom, time, maturity, but sort of melancholic, sort of heavier, more gravitas—when it enters Aries.

Think about it like this. If you are the house of the spring sunshine and you have someone entering hospice care coming into your home, well, you're going to be able to provide light, life, enthusiasm, buoyancy, a kind of hopeful, uplifted quality for Saturn. But you can't deny the fact that you're also, you know, as the host, you're in the presence of someone who's ready to leave their body. Now, I'm using this as an image, right? I'm not saying anyone's going to die. I'm just saying, like, there's a strong juxtaposition between the themes of early young life and birth and old age, death, etc., that comes up with Saturn in Aries, which is why there are so many interesting but complex themes that come up when Saturn is in the sign of the Sun's exaltation—Aries. Same thing. It's in its detriment in Leo because the Sun and Saturn are natural opposites, like life and death, spring and winter, etc. So we're going to explore that archetypal tension this week.

Then again, on Sunday, Mercury will enter Gemini and immediately sextile Saturn in Aries. Um, I like that. We're having a little communication from the messenger right away, with respect to Saturn's entrance into Aries. And I guess thankfully, Mercury will be well-resourced in its own sign, connecting with Saturn in a harmonious sextile immediately. Um, giving some voice to Saturn in Aries, we'll get a pretty clear sense by Sunday of what some of Saturn in Aries's first words and thoughts are, you might say, so that should be interesting.

Certainly, as an astrologer, I'm looking forward to that, because I love it when a planet changes signs—a slow-moving planet—and then you get a first transit activating that. It gives an outlet for the planet to speak and give you some thoughts immediately about what this new archetypal combination is like. All right. Well, as promised, Saturn is entering Aries, which means the cardinal signs are getting the angular transits this week. I will do horoscopes for all 12 signs later in the week, but for now, let's just take a look at what's happening for our cardinal signs rising.

So we're going to start with Aries. Look, if you're an Aries rising, this means that you're getting Saturn entering your first house, which really announces a new era in your life that's going to be quite existential. Who am I? What am I doing? What's no longer working? How am I aging? How am I maturing? What do I need to take more seriously? Is it my health? Is it my body? In what ways am I being asked to grow and evolve as a person? In what—what patterns psychologically are becoming clear as those that are troublesome or problematic that I need to work on or change? And how am I showing up in my relationships or at my job or in my family? Saturn in Aries will bring a lot to the forefront for the kind of in the personal psychological realm for those Aries risings.

If we go forward to Cancer, we're looking at this in the 10th house, which is really about your interaction with the world, the public sphere, your forward or outward-facing self, which is there no matter what phase of life we're in—retirement or working stage of life, or if we're a parent full-time, or whatever—it's still about how you show up and how you're seen and how you exist in the world, and then the interior life by contrast. There's always a juxtaposition between the external and the internal. When transits enter the 10th house, they're naturally activating that binary.

The 10th house also has to do with purpose. What is my purpose professionally? How am I—how is my career changing directions? What is ending? What tensions are coming up that I have to look at? How—how am I being asked to be more of a veteran or a master even out in some space, publicly or within my career? Saturn in the 10th can bring a lot of time-tested, veteran, mature wisdom and experience to bear on your career as well. So formative, substantive developments in the career for Cancers, but some of them will also be trying.

We look at Libra, and we see this entering your seventh house—the place of relationships, the place that's connected to spouse and marriage, intimacy, interpersonal connections with other people, the happiness that is really there for all of us in intimate interpersonal dynamics. Saturn in Aries is like we've got evolutionary curriculum starting to form in the sphere of interpersonal dynamics. This can also include things like business relationships, any kind of working relationship, and even the way we work or deal with various adversaries in life.

So finally, for Capricorns, we see Saturn in Aries in the fourth house—the place of roots, of home, family, of the internal versus external sphere. So the private life, the home life, where you're living, your parents, your ancestral karma, your history, and where you call home, or how you create a safe, private, secure space for rest, recovery, safety—questions about parental karma, familial karma, all of that kind of stuff coming up for Capricorns. And also a period of time in which, you know, you're doing something like reconstruction of your roots. For a couple of years, there's going to be an emphasis on learning and growing so that the foundation of your life—psychically, emotionally, physically—is more solid, more mature, and, you know, a safer place that can really hold and support you.

So these are, again, just a few thoughts for our cardinal signs rising because you've got the angular transit this week, but we'll do horoscopes for everyone later. After I sign off right now, there is an informational video about the Year One program that starts on June 22. I'm really excited about this program. If you are getting into astrology and you just feel like you've been bit by the bug, you're starting to see and feel and experience things through the language, it really helps to have someone take the guesswork out and guide you through a well-structured, designed curriculum, put you on a path through a lineage that you can develop your own creative identity through as an astrologer.

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