May 1st marks Beltane, the Mayday festival of Gaelic and pagan traditions. Bonfires blaze, petals open, and under the gibbous moon the lovers Dionysus and Venus, Shiva and Shakti, masculine and feminine, embrace in ecstatic union. This is the season of creation.
In the zodiac, Aries claims the role of the masculine. It rams down walls to break stagnation — confrontation and destruction are fuel for the Aries engine. With Mars in Aries through all of May, the ignition is ready to combust. The divine feminine, of course, is to be found in the Venusian gardens of Taurus. This May, the sign of fertility and pleasure hosts the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus. Aries does, Taurus is. You are the source, the generator of all potential. There’s nowhere to go, nothing to do. It all comes from you.
The dance of masculine and feminine, of ideation and generation, is on like never before. Whether you are eyeing your opposite under the starlight, or reconciling those seemingly disparate parts within you — the one that one day craves world domination, and another, peace and pleasure — both sides must come together. The new moon in Taurus on May 7 is meant to be a moment of conception, of centering your body as an engine of creative power.
The reconciliation of opposites is a collective necessity. The Aries eclipse in April revealed how far individualism has gotten us, and what happens when different causes are siloed into their own corners. What comes next will involve coalition and negotiation. There is no such thing as moral purification. There is no separation in the molten hot furnace of life, the kitchen of Aries and Taurus. If you want out of your room and into the future, you’ll have to join the dance, and see what happens when you forget yourself on the floor.
Duality and dialogue are the way of the future with the launch of Gemini season on May 20, and Jupiter’s entry into Gemini on May 25. Jupiter is said to be in its fall in Gemini; the planet of expansion often struggles to find perspective in the sign of immediate experience. And yet, Gemini forces a confrontation with the shadow, the opponent, the Black Swan we’ve long ignored. Jupiter’s year-long residency here inspires new frameworks, alliances, and awareness. What if we could see beyond ourselves? What if our community didn’t sound just like us? You are not any one thing. You are both and neither. In this pain-in-the-ass of a middle place, you can find freedom to think and choose for yourself.
On May 23, the collisions on the dance floor yield new life, with a full “flower moon” in Sagittarius, the sign of optimism and new horizons. Take this full moon to rid yourself of expectations, so that all you’ve created can truly soar.
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UPDATES:
Book a reading! May and June books are now open.
New episode of The David Odyssey Show, this time covering the Age of Aquarius. Brace yourself.
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