Energies of the Week: May 4–11, 2025
Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius, Mercury in Taurus ✨💫🌱
Following the New Moon in Taurus, which ushered in the promise of a new, different beginning requiring profound changes, this week is a period of growth. It invites you to infuse inspiration, creativity, and enthusiasm into your endeavors and begin to breathe life into your vision.
Now is the time to demonstrate how you will nurture the seeds of intention planted earlier and help them flourish to yield the desired outcomes.
Mars in Leo has definitively moved out of its retrograde shadow, as of May 2, while Venus will spend the entire month in Aries until June 6, inviting a new way of approaching relationships, values, and desires, with greater courage, directness, passion, and honesty.
This period is rich in new stimuli, emotions, and achievements. It offers many the opportunities to take initiative, prioritize their desires, express them passionately, and embark on new beginnings, especially if there are significant key placements in fire and air signs.
✨💫On Sunday, May 4, the Moon reaches its First Quarter 🌓at 14°21′ Leo ♌. This lunar phase often brings internal or external conflicts and a desire to take action and implement plans set in motion during the New Moon.
While the Moon in Leo enhances personal power, creativity, and the urge for bold ventures, its square with the Sun in Taurus may keep us attached to our comfort zones, making it challenging to break free from real-world limitations.
If you belong to the middle of the second decan of Fixed signs (Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, Aquarius), the current invitation is to listen to your heart and fight for your dreams. Take initiatives that reflect your uniqueness. Dare to expose yourself and step forward without losing your grounding.
Let your passion guide you and work on plans that have practical significance. Above all, remember: faith in yourself is the first ingredient of any creation.
On the same day, May 4, Pluto stations at 3° Aquarius, preparing for its annual retrograde motion, which will last until October 13.
The days surrounding Pluto’s station are particularly intense, amplifying its transformative influence. As the planet of mystery, the subconscious, and profound transformation, delves into the “Underworld,” urging us to confront what has remained hidden, repressed, or buried in the shadows of our psyche and behind the scenes.
This retrograde journey magnifies our shadows, bringing forth fears, obsessions, emotional burdens, manipulative patterns, and power dynamics. It’s an invitation for introspection and honesty, prompting us to revisit past narratives that keep us confined and to reassess our relationship with power, both personal and collective.
This is a moment of strength and truth, a period to process the deep changes initiated during Pluto’s direct motion in previous months and to determine what needs reinforcement, reinvention, or release.
It’s time to eliminate toxicity from your life—be it relationships, roles, habits, identities, or beliefs that hinder your independence and undermine your growth.
If you have planets or points between 0°–4° of Fixed signs (Taurus, Scorpio, Leo, Aquarius), instead of resisting, make space for change. Rather than fearing, confront your fears. Pluto is the guardian of your deepest truth, and now is the moment to recognize and conclude what no longer serves, allowing you to emerge stronger.
On a collective level, Pluto’s retrograde in Aquarius brings to light previously hidden activities—secret agreements, corruption, abuse of power, financial interests, technological control, and ethical dilemmas related to genetics, technology, and energy.
This period catalyzes purification and reform, dissolving structures lacking a solid ethical foundation. It’s a time when light is cast upon shadows, compelling humanity to identify the root causes of issues, understand them, reassess, and transform.
✨💫The week begins with a particularly favorable influence on communication, learning, and intellectual exchange, thanks to Mercury-Jupiter sextile at 22° Aries-Gemini on Monday, May 5.
This harmonious aspect, activating the early degrees of the third decan of fire and air signs, promises to expand your horizons and enhance your ability to express ideas confidently and persuasively.
It’s an excellent time to plan for the future, teach, write, publish, advertise, negotiate successfully, or present your work. Travel, exams, contract signings, and all forms of social or professional networking are also favored, potentially bringing significant opportunities.
✨💫On Tuesday, May 6, the Venus–Pluto sextile at 3° Aries-Aquarius, following previous contacts on February 7 and March 21 (when Venus was retrograde at the same degree, finds you more ready to engage in relationships with depth, yet ones that also respect your individuality and independence.
This harmonious aspect offers the chance to love intensely, invest emotionally, and connect deeply without losing yourself. It may bring relationships with strong magnetic attraction, free from previous toxic elements, the rekindling of a past relationship under new terms, or even karmic encounters that offer essential lessons.
Relationships now become mirrors of soul growth, empowering you. If you belong to the early degrees of fire and air signs, this is an opportunity to transform how you perceive your power, connect, manage resources, or attract abundance.
✨💫On Wednesday, May 7, the Mercury-Chiron conjunction at 24° Aries is a profoundly healing aspect that illuminates wounds related to personal expression, identity, the ability to take initiative, and defending your ideas.
Depending on the area of your chart where this occurs, you may feel a strong urge to express what you’ve previously hidden or hesitated to say.
Old wounds, hurtful words, or unspoken truths resurface for release. If you’re involved in writing, teaching, or healing, your pain can become a valuable gift to others.
The participation of Eris, the archetype that fights for the excluded, adds force to the aspect; it calls you to voice what others avoid or what you’ve previously feared to express. It’s time to give voice to the unspoken, to express pain, and to allow yourself to be vulnerable yet strong through authenticity.
Despite potential tensions or conflicts, a healing channel opens through dialogue, empathy, and acceptance. This conversation with the wound is not only personal liberation but also paves the way for others to find their voice.
✨💫On Saturday, May 10, the cosmic messenger Mercury enters the sign of Taurus, where it will remain until May 25, altering our perception and the way we communicate and process information. Words and thoughts now carry more weight and grace. And although we may process more slowly, we feel the words rather than utter them, and perceive more through the senses.
Transitioning from the speed and impulsiveness of Aries to the calm, stable, and earthy environment of Taurus, Mercury invites us to slow down and focus on the practicalities of life—security, values, possessions, the body, nutrition, and the physical world. It encourages us to take our time before communicating or making significant decisions, so that we can feel more certain and grounded.
Part of Taurus’s wisdom lies in quiet observation, patience, persistence, and presence in the here and now. This is an ideal period to connect with familiar environments that provide comfort and security, to process ideas and information, and to begin giving them form, substance, and roots.
Astrologically, May unfolds as a month of relief and the rebirth of hope, especially in its latter half. It introduces us to a new timeline that mentally and energetically changes us, acting as a bridge between who we were and who we can become.
Light returns from the dark tunnel of transformation. What once held you back now pushes you forward.
Believe in your power. The seed cracks open to become a tree. And you, too, are leaving something behind and transforming to root yourself anew!
As Saturn prepares to leave Pisces and enter Aries, a deep shift in our collective and individual consciousness begins to unfold. From the depths of faith, dissolution, and sacrifice, we move toward the first spark of creation.
In the first sign of the zodiac, the Teacher of Boundaries calls us to become creators of fate and masters of ourselves and our destiny. To sever the umbilical cord to the past, embrace the new, and rebuild from scratch.
Saturn in Aries brings the responsibility of the Beginning, and we can no longer wait. Life calls us to live it with authenticity and courage.
Have a blessed week!
May this month lead you forward with peace and grace!✨🌱🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli