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Taurus horoscope for May 2024
The Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in Taurus and whether you were born this month or in the latter days of April, this is your birthday month and a chance to embrace a new solar year and the journey ahead. While Jupiter returned to Taurus during your birthday month last year, it was halfway through by then and just the start of a journey that would see the planet of luck and expansion spend 12 months laying down the foundations and opening the doors to a new 12 year Jupiter cycle of expansion. The Sun has come full circle with Jupiter now at the end of that journey, this is giving you an empowered start to your new solar year and the remaining 11 years of your current Jupiter cycle.
Last month's alignment between Jupiter and Uranus has already opened your mind to possibilities and especially when it comes to your personal truth. As you move into the new month Venus, who had already moved through Taurus by the time Jupiter returned last month has just returned and here until 24th May, she will continue to give your heart a voice and for the rest of your birthday month. The Sun will leave on 21st May and Venus on 24th May, but with Mercury returning on 16th May but not leaving until early next month, with a chance to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open before Jupiter leaves on 26th May.
While only by a matter of days, the Sun's return to your income sector on 21st May and Venus' return on 24th May is giving them a chance to get in first before Jupiter returns. By the time Jupiter returns to begin your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade, the solar spotlight will still be on your income situation, matters and options, as it is at this time each year and Venus will have begun what she will work to make the most lucrative weeks of any year. The difference this time is that this will bring the planets of money and luck together here for the first time in over a decade.
Love & Romance
By the time you move into the new month Venus, the planet of love has been in Taurus for less than 48 hours and is still settling in. Yet from the start her mission to not only update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for this new solar year but to turn those desires and expectations into reality is getting off to a dream start. There is rarely any planetary activity in your romantic sector at this time of year, but Venus returned a week after the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment's direct turn there. Venus will spend the early days of the month at a friendly aspect to Juno, with a chance to renew a special bond forged seven months ago.It was in October 2023 that Venus and Juno returned to your romantic sector within days of each other, Venus to begin a month long visit and Juno to begin what should have been a three month visit. While Venus moved on, a retrograde turn has kept Juno here and now that they are back in harmony, Juno is there to give Venus everything she needs in order to set your romantic intentions for the coming year. At the same time, Venus returned a few days after last month's Full Moon in your relationship sector, allowing her to miss any personal and/or relationship tension this might have created while benefiting from a better sense of what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.
Venus is in Taurus until 24th May and in that time the Moon will make its monthly visits to your romantic and relationship sectors, something that will help to cement those desires and expectations on both fronts. The Moon will move through your romantic sector from 16th May to 18th May. As well as making these the most romantically charged days of the month, a friendly aspect to Venus will give you confidence in what your heart is telling you. It will be a different story when the Moon moves through your relationship sector from 21st May to 23rd May. This time the Moon and Venus will clash and ahead of her departure on 24th May, this will be a chance to flush out what you want from your relationships and what they need from you.
Business & Career
As you move into the new month the Moon has just returned to your career sector and until leaving on 3rd May, this is a chance to begin the month with your professional instincts and imagination fuelled while feeling emotionally and intuitively engaged from the start. However, this is not what makes the timing significant and instead, it is that this will put the Moon here during Pluto's final days in direct motion in your career sector, ensuring you are emotionally engaged as the tide gets ready to turn. The Moon will leave just over an hour after the planet of change and transformation turns retrograde, giving you a front row seat as his focus shifts from the road ahead to the road behind.As will be the case with each monthly visit, the Moon will form a friendly aspect to the South Node in your work sector as it moves through. However, as its focus is always on the past, this will help with a transition that will shift the focus from the changes that you could make moving forward and instead, on the changes that you can make by looking back. The advantage here is that there is no second guessing while having hindsight to draw on. Pluto will have to come to a standstill in order to turn retrograde and will barely move all month, but this is giving you a valuable and timely chance to cement things in place professionally ahead of what comes next.
What comes next is the return of the Sun to your income sector on 21st May, Venus on 24th May and Jupiter on 26th May to begin your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade. It will be advantage enough to have the planets of money and luck in your income sector at the same for the first time in 12 years, but this will be the first time in our lifetime that any planet returning to your income sector had Pluto in your career sector for support. At the same time, while the South Node has been in your work sector since July 2023, this is the first time since then that you have had planets in your income sector. This opens up a whole new partnership and a world of possibilities across the income, work and career fronts. This makes it important to pay attention as the Moon moves through your work sector from 18th May to 21st May and through your career sector again from 28th May to 30th May.
Money
As you move into the new month it is business as usual on both sides of the financial fence, but with a sense that this is about to change. For you, business as usual means no planetary activity in either of your two money houses since the last planet to return to your financial sector in 2023 finally left in February and with just the Moon's monthly visits to keep income and money matters on track. That will be the case when the Moon makes its monthly visit to your income sector from 9th May to 11th May, something that every four weeks can sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger.A friendly aspect to the South Node in your work sector and Pluto in your career sector is something that every four weeks will also create a positive few days across the income, work and career fronts. However, as well as leaving you with a sharp nose for money and a download of information to unpack, this is likely to leave you with a sense of anticipation and a gut sense that things are about to change. It is 10 days later that the Sun will return to your income sector, something that at this time each year will always shift the solar spotlight onto your income situation, matters and options. However, it is what comes next that will be the game changer.
On 24th May, three days after the Sun's return on 21st May Venus, the planet of money will return to begin what can be the most lucrative months of any year. However, the game changer comes two days later when on 26th May Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion will return to begin your biggest year for income growth and expansion in over a decade. From this point, your income sector won't be empty again until June 2025. Meanwhile, the Moon will not only return to your financial sector from 23rd May to 26th May, but two days after the Sun's return to your income sector they will clash to create a Full Moon that can energise both sides of the financial fence. This will also give money matters a voice before all the focus shifts onto the income side of the financial fence.