Astrology of the Week Ahead — May 5th to 11th Building Into a Potent Full Moon

Hey, everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/]. Today, we're going to take a look at all of the astrological transits for the week ahead, that is May 5 through the 11th.

Really, this week is a kind of segue into a powerful full moon that's taking place in Scorpio opposite Uranus a week from today. So the context of the transits this week, given that full moon, is going to be important. We'll take a look at that today, and I'll also do some coverage for the fixed signs with some horoscopes at the end.

The fixed signs will, of course, be getting that full moon a week from today in one of the angular houses. So I'll take a little bit of time on that at the end. That's our goal for today. Before we get into it, remember to like and subscribe. We know that a lot of people watch the channel regularly who are not yet subscribed. When you do that, it really does help us grow. We appreciate it.

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Those are all webinars you can register for. If you can't attend live, you get the recording. So be sure to check those out as well. All right. Well, on that note, let's turn our attention to the real-time clock. By the way, I've got these fancy new images on the TV in my office. They need the images for some reason aren't being mirrored, so I'll have to adjust the orientation, and it'll look a little bit nicer, but kind of a cool little production value element.

When I use this camera view, sometimes I use my other camera view. But anyway, Venus retrograde had me updating a few things with respect to my setup, so that's been kind of fun. Anyway, on that note, let me put up the real-time clock, and let's take a look at our transits for the week.

It's a quiet week, astrologically, given how much is happening next week by contrast. So we start off here Monday, May 5, and there's only really three transits of the week, but everything this week is building from the moment of a first-quarter moon that's just past us over the weekend, into the full moon by the start of next week.

That full moon is in Scorpio. It's opposite Uranus. It's a very powerful full moon. And so in some ways, we can really read the transits of this week as the moon is in its waxing gibbous phase, as moving us into a powerful full moon.

So the transits of the week that we're going to look at, starting with the transit that is happening today, is going to be Mercury's sextile to Jupiter. That transit is perfecting today. Mercury's in the superior position, Jupiter's in Mercury's sign. So a pretty nice, harmonious contact between these two planets starting the week off.

When Mercury and Jupiter get together, you usually get a simple description of the combination of these two planets. It's the building of consensus, the building of agreement, the developing of terms within a contract that lead to both parties signing, the negotiation that leads to an accord or a treaty.

Mercury and Jupiter are like coming to terms on the deal of a used car with someone you're negotiating with. Mercury and Jupiter are when the analytical parts and the breaking of things into components, and discussion and debate or argumentation are coming together with Jupiter, who tends to build cohesion and a sense of togetherness or unity.

So a sextile between these two planets, especially when Jupiter is in Mercury's sign—that means that Jupiter has what's called reception with Mercury—is pretty favorable. It's a nice combination for when you're learning something, for example, to feel as though you are starting to understand how different parts or facets of a craft or an art form all work together cohesively.

Or, for example, when you study astrology, you're starting to put aspects and houses and signs and dignities all together to form a coherent delineation. It's kind of like the parts are all coming together. Another way of putting it would be when you learn a musical scale and then suddenly you find the fluency to travel around it rather loosely or freely and innovate or improvise.

Mercury and Jupiter can also be about confidence, mentally, intellectually, verbally. It can be about nice or helpful uses of technology or communication, and it can also be about inventiveness, discovery, and mental excitement. So when we get excited about new ideas, Mercury and Jupiter together in a sextile makes sense.

When Mercury and Jupiter come together in a sextile, they're so smoothly connected that sometimes we may get out over our skis and be overly confident, or say too much, or put our foot in our mouth, or become overly confident or cocky or arrogant, mentally, verbally, intellectually. We can kind of over-promise and under-deliver.

So some of those inflation tendencies when you combine the two together are there, but I'm frankly, I think that this is a really nice combination, where you're more likely to see some really constructive harmonizing features today, especially. But you might have felt those things building over the weekend—May 4, May 3, up till today, May 5.

We're going to give this a couple of days to separate, and you'll be experiencing this really all the way through. Let's see here. Give it about three degrees of separation. Yeah, about through Wednesday. But today is the peak of the exchange between the two planets. So watch for that. You could study the whole-sign houses of Aries and Gemini in your chart if you wanted more topical specificity.

Now, as we move forward in the week, tomorrow is really the other main transit of the week—the two in the early week. The week is quiet as it goes on. Of course, we're building into this full moon, so I'll say more about that. But tomorrow, Venus has a nice little sextile to Pluto.

The early part of this week is nice to see some of these harmonizing aspects coming through. You know, we'll take that after a number of transits in recent times have been pretty intense—Mars opposite Pluto and so forth. So Venus in Aries catching a little sextile to Pluto in Aquarius. That transit is happening tomorrow. We'll have more coverage on that tomorrow, but I think for this one, again, we think about harmonization between the two planets.

I don’t think of outer planets having inferior or superior positioning within aspects because they just don’t seem to behave within the parameters of the ancient aspectual theory in that respect. But what I can say is that anytime Venus and Pluto are harmonizing through a sextile—sextiles being the nature of Venus—you get some really nice things.

For example, the discovery of hidden, deep, meaningful, rich, fertile, creative energies within sexual dynamics or relationships. "Oh, wow. We just went to another level in our intimacy." "Oh, wow. We just discovered some fruitful unconscious material in our friendship or relationship that may be conducive to us cooperating at deeper levels or getting along at deeper levels, or creating, being creative together in new ways."

So the kind of unconscious excavation of Venus-Pluto that can be painful and intense and deep—and you know where we confront shadows around Venus—is a little bit easier, a little bit more fluid. I like this for just nicely and easily making adjustments with respect to things like your appetite or your diet or how much you take in, or how you moderate or work with the pleasure principle in your life.

If Pluto is going to expose you to some of the shadows relative to how you experience pleasure—"Oh, I don’t experience it enough," or "I tend to go too far in either way"—the contact with Pluto that Venus is making through a sextile is likely to be a lot easier. So when you learn something or see something that helps you modulate pleasure, it's an easier experience to be in receipt of.

It's not going to knock you over the head or completely knock you down in the way that a square might or an opposition might. I like that, because it's not that it becomes any less Plutonian. It's that the way that it comes through is easier to gel with or flow with.

I think about it like those kind of moments where you find yourself more easily able to adapt or make healthier, positive changes. It's like, "Oh, I see something that needs to change. I'm seeing a shadow, but I'm seeing it in a way that's light and not super confrontational, and so it becomes just a little easier to adapt and work with."

Venus's sextile to Pluto can also just tap us into darker, more erotic, subterranean themes around things like art, love, friendship. The topics that come up can just be a little bit more Plutonian. This is a Venus in Aries, just coming off from the conjunction with Neptune. So it has a little bit of like a space warrior goddess feeling to it. It's just like a little other. It's like a sci-fi Venus warrior goddess connecting with Pluto in the sign of Aquarius.

So what innovations does Venus bring to the table right now, mentally, intellectually, ideologically, as well as, you know, being her embodied self as the goddess? That may be an interesting way of looking at it. There are ideas, paradigms, thoughts, technologies, next- or other-worldly, you know, spaceships that Venus is thinking about building or flying in. So anyway, I'm having fun with that.

Now, those are the first two transits of the week that are sort of bigger and more impressive. If we move on to May 10, that is Saturday, and that's really the next transit of the week where Mercury enters Taurus. Now this is where we start to see the first of a number of transits through the sign of Taurus that will be very dynamic and very Uranian.

Eventually, as we can see here, the sun is going to catch Uranus in a conjunction, the full moon is going to aspect Uranus by opposition from Scorpio, and Mercury will eventually go through that conjunction with Uranus as well. So the second, like the middle to late part of May, becomes highly Uranian, coming off from this full moon.

So in a way, this week is kind of just sort of gradual, not a lot happening in terms of big dynamic transits. But then toward the end of the week, we start to get this energy of Uranus. The reason that it starts to appear as soon as Mercury enters Taurus is that for ancient astrologers, any time a planet is in the same temple as another planet, it starts to infuse itself with the energies or archetypes of the other planets in the temple.

So in other words, as soon as Mercury enters the sign of Taurus, it gets solar and it gets Uranian. We get a Mercury. There's a lot in common with Uranus in terms of being inventive and a little bit more mental, intellectual, technological, and shifty and surprising. Mercury is that. Uranus is that. So we start to get this Uranian vibe coming through by virtue of Mercury entering the same temple that Uranus is in.

That starts happening Saturday. Not surprisingly, on Saturday, the moon will enter Scorpio. Now, as soon as the moon enters Scorpio, which by my count is about 4 PM Central Time on May 10, that Saturday, then immediately we start to see the building of this Uranian energy.

So what is Uranus doing? Uranus is about breakthroughs and revolutions, and those breakthroughs, revolutions, surprises, plot twists that are kind of sudden and unexpected. It's unexpected that can be disruptive or that can kind of shift the narrative suddenly and in dramatic and interesting ways that feel like a revolution of circumstance.

Those things are happening as the full moon comes through by next Monday. So you're going to start feeling that on Saturday, as soon as Mercury enters Uranus's sign and the moon opposes Mercury as it enters Scorpio and starts building into the full moon opposition with Uranus and the sun.

So we can see that opposition coming through. Of course, we'll spend time with this next week at the beginning of the week. I may even spend time on Monday just looking at the full moon as opposed to doing a weekly overview. Sometimes when transits land on the Monday of a week, it's better to do it that way.

Anyhow, you can see right here that the full moon in Scorpio at 22 degrees is just four degrees off from the opposition to Uranus. So this is a full moon that is very charged up. It's a full moon in its fall in Mars's sign opposite Uranus. Very disruptive energy coming through starting next week.

Not surprisingly, by the end of next week, we get the sun conjoining Uranus. We get things like Mercury hitting Mars. So a little bit of a calm before the storm this week, in terms of where the energy of this lunar cycle is heading and how dynamic and Uranian everything starts to get, trickling in on Saturday of this week, May 10, and then by the 12th, Monday, it's much more dynamic and much more Uranian in terms of those sudden, unexpected twists or turns of plot.

But also the innovative energy, the inventive energy, the "let's create a breakthrough" kind of scenario that a full moon opposite Uranus implies. I would anticipate that next Monday's full moon—this is on, of course, this is on May 12—let me just put that up so you remember—will be about different kinds of significant emotional breakthroughs.

And also, it's interesting to note that as that full moon is coming through, we get the Venus-Mars tension amplified by Mercury, the sun, and Uranus all in Venus's sign of Taurus. Well, the full moon is in its fall in Mars's sign, and hey, look, we have Venus starting to enter into a trine with Mars.

So the masculine and feminine features of the full moon, as well as the trine between Venus and Mars, suggest that there's an opportunity to be harmonizing things that appear maybe initially as somewhat chaotic or disruptive or fast and revolutionary, but there is enough backing here to suggest that things are going to be capable of harmonization along the way.

So I like the resources that are sort of available in the sky next week for a lot of Uranian activity, but the potential for harmonization alongside of it. I'll be saying more about that as things go on. But yeah, everything this week is pretty quiet, building up toward this full moon moment a week from now.

So with that in mind, what I want to do is—let's, yeah, I'm going to put the fixed signs up. I'm going to give you that look at the full moon. Let me just do this. Okay, sorry, it's taking me just a second here. So we are having—I'm having you fixed signs take a look. We're going to take a look at your horoscopes, just for the fixed signs.

I'll probably do some more horoscopic work later for everybody, but for now, the fixed signs are the ones getting the big full moon a week from today. So I want you to think about this week to come, if you're a fixed rising sign, as building toward this culminating event in the following house:

If you're a Taurus rising, this is a dynamic series of changes that are presenting themselves in the house of marriage and interpersonal relationships, the pleasure derived from other people and our intimate connections with other people. This could also be about sexuality, marriage, love, dating. Sometimes things like a big full moon in that house opposite the Uranus in your own house are also about the dynamic ways in which you're changing as a person, and then those changes are, in turn, affecting relationships.

So the self-other dynamic is very loud for Tauruses in the week ahead. If we go to Leos, our next fixed sign in order, we see that this full moon in Scorpio is landing in your fourth house, the place of home and family. Now, of course, it's in that dynamic opposition with the planets in Taurus in the 10th house—very public-facing part of life, often related with career and vocation, but also whatever ties you in and gives you a role to play in the civic and social arena, generally.

So the tension between those two places is interesting, but the full moon is focused on the place of home, family karma, ancestral karma, roots, living environment. There's a lot taking place right there. Maybe the excavation of family karma in particular is coming up for Leos in the week ahead.

For Scorpios, the next fixed rising sign, you have this in your first house. So the self-other axis is being activated again, like it was for Tauruses, but much more of an emphasis on what's building, culminating, developing, peaking within your own body, within your own psychology, within the ongoing conversation of self-development that you're living.

So a full moon like this brings a kind of culmination of emotions or feelings or thoughts or ideas about who you are or about who you're meant to become. "What is most essential to who I am and who I need to be at this stage in my life?" Those questions come into focus with this full moon for Scorpios. And of course, they may play off from the relational house, the relationship house as well.

Finally, we're going to look at Aquarians as our last fixed sign, with the full moon coming into your 10th house. So that 10th-house focus on career, vocation, reputation in the world, your kind of rank or station, and maybe there's some kind of culminating presence, energetically, spiritually, psychologically, in the workplace or within the overarching story of your life path in the domain of career.

So what is building, culminating, developing in that house? But then the tension is, once again—like it was for Leos—in the fourth house, pushing back from the space, pulling in the opposite direction from the space of home, family roots, the private or inner sphere of life.

So what's taking place publicly versus privately? What is peaking around your career, workplace environment? What changes are taking place there, and what kind of dialogue is it in with the home, private sphere of life, family, and family pressures or obligations at the same time?

I do like this, though, as a moment of catharsis for Aquarians with respect to their work in the world and their sense of purpose. So again, for those of you who are newer to my channel, I typically will just pick one family of signs for one of the biggest transits of the week when I do my weekly overview.

So today, the fixed full moon, I take a look at the fixed rising signs, because you're getting that transit in an angular house, which tend to be the most dynamic of the horoscopes. But as the week goes on, you'll typically find that there's at least one more set of horoscopes I'll do, often for the same transit, where I cover all 12 signs.

Again, I just like to include a little bit of horoscopic work in the weekly overview, because I think for those signs that are getting the angular transits, it's kind of nice to know a little further out, because they tend to be so loud anyway. So I will leave it there. I hope that you guys have a great week. It's relatively quiet.

I've got some other things we're going to get into on the channel this week, aside from the normal content I like to have. I might be trying to catch up on my Moon in Profile series. We'll see if I get that done or not. It takes a—well, it takes a lot of work to get those presentations done, so I'm a little slow with them.

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