
Jessica Adams has prepared your monthly astrological forecast for May. Discover what the stars have in store for you this month including your Premium Extended Forecast
May 2026 is about Taurus weather. The Sun in Taurus is opposite the Moon on May 1st, 2026. Mercury enters on May 3rd, 2026. Mars enters on May 18th, 2026. There is a New Moon on May 16th, 2026. Ceres in Taurus dominates just before. Taurus weather is about the end of years of instability with courtship, the bedroom, babies, children, teenagers or young adults. It stopped in April and May is the bargaining period for a sign-off deal. A classic example is child custody. You will have your own story based on your birth chart.
May is also about Gemini weather. Mercury enters on May 18th, 2026. The Sun on May 21st, 2026. Ceres on May 28th, 2026. Uranus has been in Gemini since late April. When the Sun enters Gemini and your zone of workload and wellbeing from the final week of May well into June, a revolution becomes visible. Public and impossible to miss. This is all very new and it’s all quite radical. You are a grounded earth sign (when you get it right) and so this kind of stormy weather can be quite challenging even as you find it sets you free.
Capricorn, pull back, get real, seek advice, ask around and, most of all, keep your perspective. Your point of view or your plan could be absolutely right even without the feelings. If so, great. But how do you know unless you can introduce some detachment and ask people who are sensible, intelligent and objective. It may be Ozempic, it may be a new work project.
The usual Uranus transit rules apply to yourself and to other people now. Watch what unfolds and manage it properly with one eye on your own independence as well as theirs. Good plan or not a good plan? Remove the emotions first. You are also coming out of this unstable cycle involving younger generations. It may have hit you as a stepmother, a teacher or someone trying for IVF. It began in 2018 and the aftermath (May) requires adjustment.
Children in this context means your own sons and daughters or other people’s. It also covers pregnancy, fertility, abortion, miscarriage, adoption and so on. Find a technique (mental or physical) that will ground you, stabilise you, centre you and release the past. And do get outside opinions from people you trust and respect who have no vested interest in the situation but can give you excellent impartial opinions. It may be that you’re right. The world of children and babies, teenagers and younger adults is far too important to let yourself be swayed by immediate reactions to the end of the uncertainty (which happened at the end of April).
Uranus in Gemini in your Sixth is alongside this other more personal cycle. The revolution that sets you and others free is usually announced with the world turning upside-down. And it will happen more than once by 2027. Your everyday working life has its own chain of command. Even if you’re working for yourself (or head of the home), you still have to think about your duty to other people. All work is a service even if you’re apparently calling the shots. If you’re a President or a Prime Minister, you still have a duty to the people who voted for you. So, in a way, you’re still in service to them just as a PA is to her boss. Uranus is about freedom, liberation and independence.
This cycle will strongly influence the chain of command where you are – no matter if you’re a full-time houseperson with florists, supermarket delivery boys and gardeners to consider or if you’re at the head of your own company. It’s about space and autonomy. A break with the past. I have known sackings, resignations, takeovers and corporate wars to come out of these cycles. Strike action. The golden rule with Uranus in Gemini in your Sixth is that if anything or anybody has blocked your flow with work or wellbeing, it has to change or go. Wellbeing – mental and physical health – is strongly affected on this transit, Capricorn. Freedom of choice is here in a big way ongoing.
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