Scorpio Horoscope for May 2024

This is an amazing month, Scorpio, of seeing life circumstances as filled with numinous meaning. A mystical consciousness has invaded, stemming from the potent eclipse energy from the previous month, in your sector of work environment, health regimens, and day-to-day habit patterns. As the retrograde of Mercury winds down over these first two weeks, these areas have been up for review and introspective questioning. Your creative self-expression has renewed commitment that is coming to you in part through partnership connection. The May 7th New Moon represents a fresh start, with new ideas and relationship plans coming fast and furious that affect your life purpose and large shifts in your habitual patterns and at the very core of your being that are continuing to be felt. You dwelling space or your family dynamics could be transforming, including perhaps your family of origin, and these changes can feel fated, as part of a larger cycle of self-development and enhanced sense of moral compass. All in all, you have a lot to handle, and you do well to trust your own intuition plus that of trusted partners in your life, while remaining as open as you can to your potential for meaningful change.


The following was written by our guest columnist Alea Balzer. You can write her at alea.balzer@gmail.com


You enter May in the waning light of the Aries New Moon lunation cycle, which was begun in last month’s recent solar eclipse in your sphere of health, daily work, and service. This is therefore the site of a developmental turning point that will unfold over the next six months. Because the eclipse featured the highlighted presence of Chiron, the Wounded Healer, this cycle, continuing into the present month, could have stirred up past wounds or vulnerabilities tied to your sense of daily accomplishment and how you care for yourself and others. With an Aries stellium in this eclipse configuration, Mars, your ruler, was another featured element, indicating that this recent New Moon might have also opened a door for healing through the initiation of a more dynamic and embodied experience of daily life.

On the 2nd, Pluto stations retrograde in Aquarius at the very bottom of your chart, associated with family, home life, and the deepest parts of yourself. Standing still in the sky, the agent of transformation draws attention to the much slower process of regeneration at your roots. A separating square from Venus in Taurus to Pluto over the month’s first few days links developments in your partnerships to this evolution.

Mars, your ruler, forms a sextile to Pluto from your sector of physical wellbeing and daily routines from the 1st to the 5th. Having moved through some complicated territory in Pisces last month, Mars now leaves his recent conjunction with Neptune straight into his home sign of Aries. This presents a minor indication that your mojo may be returning, in revised form, yet still frisky. At least you can now complete work, house, and health activities in a reasonably straightforward manner. These aspects from Venus and Mars to transformative Pluto at the beginning of the month could stoke the fire of passions or emphasize a clash around reciprocity or needs for security and independence.

Mercury conjuncts Chiron, the Wounded Healer, from the 5th to the 7th, possibly bringing issues of health to the forefront. A conscious approach to the inner programs governing how you distribute your energy will empower agency and help you identify unhelpful habitual patterns and self-attributed burdens. However, release and regeneration will likely not come through your mind alone; emotional or physical purging of trapped emotions will also prove to be purifying.

On the 7th, the Taurus New Moon arrives to brighten your sphere of partnership. In the wake of last month's Jupiter-Uranus conjunction from April 20th, changes unfolding within intimate or business relationships might have propelled you into uncharted territory yet are likely pivotal to this new 14-year cycle between these planets, aimed toward greater fulfillment. Much is generative about this brand new lunation cycle, making for a fresh start in your relationships from friends to romantic, and including business partnerships. All are potentially uplifted by the presence of the benefics, Jupiter and Venus, serving as archetypal bookends for a stellium of five planets in your opposite sign. This juncture could mark a transition towards a more stable phase of the year. It's a favorable time to set things in motion. There is additionally a sextile from Sun and Moon to Saturn in Pisces, which suggests the involvement of creativity, children, and joy, where delays or challenges there signify increased serious commitment. Progress may now meet with strengthened resolve.

The Sun conjoins Uranus in Taurus on the 12th and 13th. Change continues to be the path of least resistance and the most growth at this juncture — grasping tightly to the old will in any case prove futile. A sextile to Saturn in Pisces from Venus in your opposite sign suggests this is about taking responsibility for your happiness. Desires and creative gifts you have kept hermetically sealed may hold much potential.

On the 15th, the First Quarter Moon in Leo brings the influence of your career and public image into the equation. Mercury enters Taurus the same day, applying to a square with Pluto that is active until the 17th. With your influential fixed-sign angles activated, unyielding tensions between vocation, relationships, and home life may be emphasized as you consider significant life decisions. Today might illuminate unexamined factors about the roles you take on in the world and you could find yourself asking where are you in all of this?

On the 18th, Venus conjoins Uranus in your opposite sign, the same day as a Jupiter Cazimi there. Unexpected or sudden developments in relationships, love, sexuality, and money might launch you into a new future. Relationships must have enough space for both parties to grow individually and together, and these matters may be catalyzing forces. It's an auspicious day for attracting what you want or making breakthroughs through creative experimentation. Steps taken toward joint ambitions could foster new partnerships or have long-term influence.

A Mars-North Node conjunction in Aries is activated between the 18th and the 21st, motivating your daily work and health routines with some larger purpose. It's a good time to clean out a mental closet of dysfunctional habit and implement something new. You benefit by going with your gut; spontaneous action may take you closer to your desire. However, sharpening your instincts requires that you differentiate what threats are real and what just feel like threats. Today might also call for something physical along the lines of running like you're being chased.

The Sun enters Gemini on the 20th, initiating a new emphasis in your sector of intimacy, shared resources, and personal transformation.

The Sagittarius Full Moon on the 23rd illuminates the significance of your resources, gifts, and values as the lunation cycle finds its culmination. Venus conjoins Jupiter as both planets connect to Neptune in Pisces across your spheres of partnership and self-expression. The tension of merging is being revealed in the Full Moon. You might find yourself inquiring What is yours, and what is ours? Neptune in Pisces is the dream, Sagittarius is the inspiration, and yet Venus-Jupiter in late Taurus makes it real. What is developing within your realm of relationships can ground and grow a romantic and creative vision. Venus forms a trine to Pluto which gets stronger later in the day, indicating that complications around home concerns reflecting issues of partnership may come up and seek a solution. Some needed assistance may become seen and therefore more readily available.

Jupiter ingresses Gemini on the 25th. While a pragmatic approach to finances is wise when Jupiter is involved, your investments, intimate relationships, and joint efforts offer avenues of purpose and growth over the next year. You may be even more curious about the hidden parts of life, delving deeper into subjects like the occult, sexuality, psychology, and the nooks and crannies of your psyche with greater openness. Upon Jupiter’s entry into Gemini, his trine to Pluto empowers both planets. Thus, from the 23rd till the end of May, your foundations and shared resources may draw much attention.

As the May month nears its ending, on the 29th, a Mars-Chiron conjunction overlaps with these transits at the end of the month, which may intensify focus on confronting and overcoming personal limitations or illuminate more obsessive approaches to your body or environment. With Jupiter now in your sphere of personal transformation, there could be a willingness to let a fresh breeze blow through some of your closely held patterns and pain, including resolutions around family conditioning and karma. Emphasizing duality and cohesion, this could be about healing through curiosity and friendliness to all parts of yourself without the need for reconciliation or justification.