The PLANETARY PLANNER

MAY 2025| PART 3—Planetary Promptings, an Overall Overview of May + Zodiacal Perspectives

PLANETARY PROMPTINGS•••

Solar Spotlights

The sun this month demands a reckoning with authenticity: to strip back the polished layers and remember the source-beam that still hums inside you, fierce and undiminished. It asks you to feel into the deep soil of being, to carry the ancient light into the future not through conquest, but through conscious embodiment. The sun’s connections to the nodes, Uranus, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto, and finally Mercury, call you to stop clinging to the old mirrors and instead become the fire that melts them. This is a month of integration and ignition—choosing not the safest version of yourself, but the truest, the one already waving at you from the other side of fear.

Moon Moods

The moons of May offer a sacred choreography between presence and transformation. The Leo first quarter moon asks you to stand radiant without burning yourself up in your own need for recognition. The Scorpio full moon drags you into the soul’s forge and demands the real alchemy: burning down what’s hollow and freeing what is still fiercely alive inside you. The Aquarius last quarter moon offers a space for synthesizing all you’ve seen and survived, reminding you that true wisdom remembers without bitterness. And the Gemini new moon invites the ultimate risky act: to trust in beginnings that are still more whimsy than form, to dream aloud before you’re certain it’s safe to do so.

Mercurial Machinations

Mercury this month asks for a marriage of patience and courage. As it moves from Aries into Taurus and then Gemini, Mercury tugs you from fiery impulse into the slow work of embodiment, then back into the electric hum of quicksilver intelligence. You are asked to strip your words down to their bones, to say what you mean, and to mean what might still be becoming. Mercury reminds you that thinking is not enough—you must build the bridge between inspiration and articulation. And sometimes, the greatest movement of the mind is the surrender of needing to know it all before you begin.

Venusian Ventures

Venus, wild and unrepentant in Aries, asks you to risk being radically, rebelliously alive in your love, your art, your becoming. She refuses the safe and stagnant versions of devotion. She demands you love yourself in the messy in-betweens, the fits of laughter and rage, the outbursts of wonder. As Venus dances with Neptune, Pluto, Mars, and Chiron, she invites you to trust that your longings are not mistakes—they are blueprints. This month, Venus insists that you live as if joy is not something you wait to earn, but something you dare to claim, even with your hands still shaking.

Mars Movements

Mars in Leo demands one thing above all this month: to act from the core of your being, not the crust of your performance. It asks you to stop bowing to the audience and to start bowing to the spark inside—the one that burns whether anyone is watching or not. Mars isn’t interested in perfection; it’s interested in whether you’re willing to be utterly alive. The trine to Venus reminds you that real courage looks less like domination and more like self-revelation. Prepare to be cracked open. Prepare to leap—not because you know how it ends, but because something deeper insists you must.

Junctures of Jupiter

Jupiter in Gemini demands that you navigate complexity without losing your center. This month, it invites you to recognize the dance between adaptation and integrity: when to shift shape to survive, and when to plant your feet and become the mountain. The t-square to the nodes is a cosmic checkpoint: will you sell yourself for speed, or will you carve a slower, truer road toward what matters most? Jupiter promises expansion, but not through superficial cleverness—it will only come if you dare to bring the whole of yourself to the crossroads, especially the parts you almost forgot were still alive.

Structures of Saturn

Saturn, completing its pilgrimage through Pisces and plunging into Aries, asks you to stop dreaming about being ready and to start building from the inside out. It demands grit, humility, and a savage kind of hope—the kind that drives you to sweep the floor before you try to paint the ceiling. Saturn doesn’t promise applause. It promises the bones of the new world, hammered together through practice, failure, and raw persistence. This is the month Saturn insists that you stop pretending you’re unready and instead pick up the first tool you find and begin—clumsy, sacred, stubborn.

Upheavals of Uranus

Uranus in Taurus asks you to find revolution in the tiny places: the cracked teacup, the forgotten patch of soil, the dream you almost dismissed because it wasn’t loud enough. It demands that you abandon the addiction to spectacle and instead commit to the radical act of deep presence. Uranus reminds you that real change isn’t manufactured; it’s remembered. It’s what floods back into you when you strip away everything that isn’t fundamentally yours. This month, your job is not to tear everything apart but to listen for the places where the future is already sprouting through the cracks.

Notions of Neptune

Neptune in Aries pulls you into the raw, molten edge of your own becoming. It doesn’t ask you to find peace—it asks you to wrestle with the primal forces that birthed you and dare to ride them into the unknown. Neptune demands that you stop mistaking rebellion for transformation, shadowboxing for sovereignty. This is a month of facing the adolescent energies within: the part of you that would rather rage than risk softening, the part that fears belonging because it knows the cost of true connection. Neptune asks you to stand bare-souled before your own unformed future and say yes anyway.

Penetrations of Pluto

Pluto, pausing at 3° Aquarius and stationing retrograde, demands you leave behind the map entirely. It insists that you feel your way forward now, through scent, through song, through the animal certainty in your blood that knows what the mind refuses to name. Pluto doesn’t ask for loyalty to what was. It asks for ruthless devotion to what could be. This is a month for crumbling, for shedding, for refusing to prop up what no longer breathes. In the rubble, in the wreckage, you find not ruin but raw, unclaimed magic—and the doorway into the next world waiting for your footprints.

Nodal Nuances

The nodes in Pisces and Virgo this month ask for a strange marriage: devotion to mystery, and commitment to practical magic. They demand you grieve and bless your old dreams—and then build the scaffolding for new ones. You are asked to hold paradox like a sacred chalice: to be tender enough to dream of collective healing, yet tough enough to do the granular work of making it real. The nodes whisper that your yearning is not naive. It is ancient. It is necessary. And it is time to stop postponing the world your soul already remembers how to shape.

Concerns of Chiron

Chiron in Aries asks you to stop mistaking the waiting for dormancy. This month, Chiron demands you trust the building heat inside you, even if you can’t yet name the fire. It’s asking you to fall in love with your own creative restlessness—the way you hover at a thousand brinks without falling, the way your hands twitch toward futures not yet fully birthed. Chiron knows the difference between chaos and ripeness. This month, it begs you to catch the spark as it flies, to leap without rehearsing the landing, to remember that what you have stored inside you isn’t a burden. It’s a blessing. And it’s nearly time.

MAY 2025| OVERALL OVERVIEW

May 2025 is not a month you stroll through like a distracted tourist; it’s a month you live through like a myth being written in real time.

Every current hums with threshold energy—the sensation of being poised, breathtakingly, between the old scaffolding and the new world not yet fully named. The cosmos doesn’t offer simple encouragement this month. It hands you a hammer and a seed and says: Build something real, something that can survive the storms you haven’t even imagined yet.

The sun, straddling Taurus and Gemini, demands that you stitch together the light of your own authenticity with hands stained from real effort. The moons churn and hum with a sacred pattern—each phase asking you to remember, release, reimagine. Mercury insists that words matter but not more than the breath underneath them; Venus refuses to let you love half-heartedly; Mars roars that bravery isn’t bravado but the willingness to reveal what you cannot fake.

Jupiter juggles possibilities at the crossroads, flashing both the danger of selling yourself short and the glory of trusting the messier, longer road. Saturn shifts from mist to flame—dragging you from dream to duty with the relentless whisper that readiness isn’t earned; it’s chosen. Uranus flickers in the hidden corners, asking you to make revolution not through grandstanding but through the radical act of being awake to what is truly sacred. Neptune strips your illusions and dares you to find spirit inside the raw, trembling spaces you usually run from. Pluto digs under your feet and rips up old anchors—calling you, always calling you, to leap without waiting for the bridge to appear.

The nodes pull the soul’s yearning into sharp focus, dragging ancient dreams through the tight eye of collective reality, asking if you’re ready to build the impossible in slow, sacred increments. And Chiron burns along the edges, reminding you that the waiting itself was never wasted time—it was the seasoning of your fire.

This May, you are not being polished. You are being tempered.

Not made softer. Made truer.

The future is not waiting patiently at the end of the road.

It is running alongside you, wild-eyed, breathless, laughing—daring you to let go of everything false so that you might finally catch up to your own becoming.