
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.
The Taurus weather now encourages you to become an ace at people management because in order to get what you want, you’re going to have to play ball with somebody else in a kind of double act or duet. This is really because you not only have a money compromise or property deal (perhaps, an agreement over possessions), it is also clear that you have Seventh House transits which suggest a test of patience with your former or current partner. The partnership can be within the family and the money and property also within the family. It is also most commonly about marriage, de facto partnership, separation or divorce.
So much of this will hinge on your ability to team up with someone now. It doesn’t matter if they exist on the end of a telephone or if your money is tied up with them – it all hinges on how you are together. Keep your eyes on the prize of a compromise or deal negotiation, Libra, and keep walking forward. But remember, someone else is walking with you. Maybe more than one person if it’s family. Don’t go too fast or too slow or you’ll fall over. What would it take to make you a great duet? Just do it!
If you both remember that you’re basically headed in the same direction, it should make it easier to manage the road ahead. The foundations are there, so work from there. With good timing, a high degree of tactfulness and a lot of give, you can both create a solid bond of trust in terms of your double act. And this also applies to a dispute or conflict, because the Seventh can indicate that too. If there is, then this would explain why the money, house, shares, business, valuables, apartment, land and the rest have to be so carefully balanced.
Are you in a legal or other conflict? The more cleverly you manage the other person now, the easier it will be to progress. There is nothing manipulative or false about this. It’s just about people skills. Nevertheless, for the next few weeks, you’re going to be faced with a fairly demanding journey, Libra.
Venus is your ruler. It can make us too scared to move in case we upset the other person’s position. But you can’t sit on the fence or you’ll get nowhere (particularly, if your fence is part of those renovations you’re doing). Just do what Venus suggests and find the common ground you share. That’s your foundation stone. Locate the centre force. The Eighth is often about a will, trust fund, legacy or inheritance as much as it is about a dowry. This is the first time since 2018 that life has been predictable. What remains now is the split, the carve-up or the division of the turf.
May is also about Gemini weather in your Ninth House of foreigners and foreign countries. 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. This is a revolution. A radical change which will set you and other people quite free, Libra.
You’re in a completely different position/situation to this person! So, you must learn to be flexible enough to bend, swing and sway with each other as the winds of change blow you forwards and backwards. That way lies progress. Uranus has a reputation for fierce revolutions – the French and American for a start. Does it have to be like that? Uranus is also about hearing and saying ‘No.’ Rejecting or being rejected is part of what is going on, Libra, but this break with the past will liberate you and very likely everybody else involved.
Do what you must to make sure that they understand where you’re coming from and what you need from them in order for both of you to go forward. Give this revolution exactly what it needs to flourish. That would be the chef’s kiss, most idealistic and spiritually satisfying outcome. Is it possible? If it’s not, there must be a continuation of what you saw at the end of April – the shunning of who/what represents the past in favour of who/what is the future (invented every time you look at it).
Publishing in its digital and traditional form, but also academia and further education are also typical of this transit. The ‘world’ part of the world wide web, for example. Even if you neither travel nor emigrate, you may travel in the mind at home now. Foreigners in your own town or country are an example of this. So, might be a book or website in translation or a course with international students.
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