Today’s Moon:
- The Moon is in Aries to 8:18 PM, from which time the Moon is in Taurus.
- A void Moon period occurs today from 5:38 PM to 8:18 PM.
- The Moon is waning and in its Waning Crescent phase. The Moon is Balsamic today.
- The Last Quarter Moon occurred on the 24th, and the New Moon (Solar Eclipse) will occur tomorrow.
Retrogrades:
- Pluto stations and turns retrograde today (Pluto is retrograde from April 29 to October 8).
Ingresses:
- Mercury enters Gemini today (Mercury is in Gemini from April 29-May 22, and later, from June 13-July 5).
**Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Daily Horoscopes/Astro Highlights for each Sign:
Aries
You’re in a grounding solar cycle, dear Aries, but today’s energies can leave you feeling drained or without a clear direction. It’s temporary, and it may signify that you need to take a pause. You could be tuning in to past difficult conditions, dealing with guilt, or frustrated about lost time. Those things you have neglected may reveal themselves today, or they could be catching up with you. If you’re feeling behind, keep in mind that it will pass. Tomorrow’s New Moon will redirect you. For now, try to get in touch with what you’re escaping or avoiding and look for ways to close something or deal with loose ends so that you can move forward. Also today, Pluto turns retrograde, and until October 8th, you’ll be reworking career and planning initiatives, doing the research and legwork, and refining projects. Some of your long-term career goals may be up for review during this retrograde cycle. Facing up to truths about the past and a closer look at financial, career, life path, or intimacy matters can be part of the picture. While pressures and fears can magnify just for a few days, the retrograde cycle itself helps you detach and observe, giving you a clearer perspective. You’re more able to see areas where you’ve been over-attached, worried, obsessed, or a bit paranoid. Intelligent, curious Mercury moves into your communications sector, stirring your desire for mental engagement in the weeks ahead.Taurus
The current Sun cycle gives you a personal boost, dear Taurus, leaving you feeling more in charge of your life in a general and relative sense. Today, however, there can be a tendency to want to hide away just a little. You might not be feeling up to coming to conclusions, making strict commitments, or dealing with definitions. A friendship can be on the ambiguous side for some. However, tomorrow’s Solar Eclipse in your sign will likely redirect you. Today, Pluto begins its yearly retrograde cycle, and partnerships or studies may require more thought or strategy until October 8th. It’s an excellent period for backing off a situation just a little to gain perspective and see where you’ve been too tense, attached, or prone to want to control. During the coming five-plus months, you may be reassessing, observing, and gaining a new vision of a close relationship, publishing project, educational path, or belief system. Today also features Mercury moving out of your sign. In truth, it will return to Taurus on May 22nd due to an upcoming retrograde. However, until then, it’s a promising period for getting advice, or simply sorting out your finances. You’re inclined to think in practical and sensible terms. It’s also a great time for learning useful, practical skills.Gemini
With the Sun in your solar twelfth house, you’re getting your bearings and reflecting upon recent events, conditions, and feelings, dear Gemini. Tomorrow, the Solar Eclipse will help direct you along these lines. Today, you might grapple with lowering energy or motivation levels and perhaps some ambiguous feelings about friendship, work, or reputation matters. Take the extra time to unwind, or if you cannot do so, be a little extra cautious and vigilant with rules, facts, and figures. On a positive note, however, it’s a great time for creative thinking, imagining, and relaxing. Pluto turns retrograde today, and until October 8th, you benefit from a review or reassessment of wellness programs, routines, work projects, debts, and intimate relationships. If the give-and-take or trust in a key relationship has fallen out of balance, you’ll feel it more intensely now. Health and work matters, especially related to issues of control or fear, can also come into sharper focus with this shift. This is temporary, however, and as the retrograde progresses, you’ll be detaching just enough to make improvements. Also today, Mercury moves into your sign, encouraging you to express yourself or reach out more often. Your communications have more impact in the weeks ahead. You’re in your own terms and in a better position to make important changes or to steer your life in positive directions. You might prefer to take the lead when it comes to mental or intellectual tasks and to make executive decisions.Cancer
There can be some fuzziness or ambiguity today, dear Cancer, with the Sun and Neptune forming a minor challenging aspect. Temporarily, it may not be easy to motivate yourself. You’ll be far better off if you let things flow along rather than push for definitions and firm answers. Be a little more vigilant in situations that require extra focus or attention, but nurture your imagination otherwise. It’s important to pay special attention to the emotional or spiritual needs that you’ve overlooked on this day before a Solar Eclipse. Also today, Pluto begins its yearly retrograde cycle, and while the shift itself can feel a bit heavy and problem areas can feel magnified, the cycle itself tends to help ease some pressure. Areas most affected for you are one-on-one relationships, creative projects, children, or romance. This retrograde, lasting until October 8th, can prompt the need to review your feelings. There is a tendency to cling to old patterns or examine the past instead of braving new territory. Aim to detach yourself a little from matters to gain a clearer, more objective perspective. This process helps you identify areas where you’ve been pushing too hard or where you’ve been too attached for your own good. Mercury heads into your privacy and soul sector, making the weeks ahead good for digesting and reviewing matters.Leo
Tomorrow’s eclipse can motivate you to take care of business, dear Leo. However, with today’s Sun-Neptune aspect, doubts may set in about your goals, or you could be putting faith in something unrealistic. Procrastination is possible now. Try to take a break or slow yourself down to get your bearings. Pluto begins its yearly retrograde cycle today, lasting until October 8th, and problem areas can magnify with the shift, likely related to work, routines, health, family, and home. As you grow accustomed to this energy, you’re in a brilliant position to review and reassess these matters as you gain perspective. You more clearly see where you’ve been over-attached or put too much pressure on yourself. As a result, you take on a more detached, observational role in these areas of life. Also today, Mercury moves into your solar eleventh house, and thoughts and communications can increase with or about friends during this cycle. Your thinking is progressive, and your ideas are more well-received than usual.Virgo
You can experience restlessness or a temporary dip in motivation today, dear Virgo. If you’re receiving confusing signals from a significant person, it may have to do with uncertainties rather than full-on problems. With today’s Sun-Neptune aspect, it can be all too easy to glamorize a situation or person. Someone’s behavior can be hard to understand. With emotions and people, you don’t appreciate ambiguity! Aim to focus on manageable and predictable matters if you need a break today. Also today, Pluto begins its yearly retrograde cycle, and there can be a temporary magnification of problems, complications, and fears related to those areas of your chart strongly influenced by Pluto: learning, connecting, romance, creativity, recreation, communications, and transportation. Pressures will subside going forward, and in fact, you’ll get to the point where you’re significantly detached enough to gain a better perspective on these things. This way, you can more clearly see where fear and over-attachment may have been working against you. This powerful period for self-knowledge lasts until October 8th this year. Mercury enters your solar tenth house, and there can be valuable training, advice, or new connections that emerge in the weeks ahead. Show your integrity since what you say has more impact and perhaps consequences! There can be publicity, or you’re giving more thought to career and business affairs.Libra
On this day before a Solar Eclipse, you could be feeling a bit deflated temporarily, dear Libra. A Sun-Neptune minor challenging aspect can have you second-guessing something, which could end up being useful if it gives you a chance to catch your breath. Try not to expect too much, and perhaps keep in mind that you are a little more sensitive to imbalances in your environment and fluctuations in others’ moods. A dip in vitality is likely short-lived, and you can be highly creative when it comes to new or improved work methods. Also today, Pluto begins its retrograde cycle. It lasts a little over five months–until October 8th. In the months ahead, you’re in the position to review, reassess, and gain a new perspective about areas of your chart strongly influenced by Pluto, including finances, matters related to security and comfort, family, and home or domestic life. Some related plans may need some adjustment, but you might find it easier to detach from some pressures and fears in these areas. Right now, however, you may be feeling these pressures more intensely as the shift occurs. Keep in mind that you’ll find this process far more comfortable as you grow more accustomed to this energy.Scorpio
Today’s Sun-Neptune influence can temporarily slow you down, dear Scorpio, but it’s likely to benefit you, especially on this day before a Solar Eclipse. Work and chores can seem overwhelming just for now. If energy is variable, it may reflect some lack of confidence in what you’re currently doing or where you’re heading. Allow yourself to steer a little off course if possible so that you can get your bearings. Timing can be slightly off, making it best not to load your schedule. Consider whether something’s missing on spiritual or emotional levels. Also today, Pluto begins its retrograde cycle, which lasts over five months, putting you in a more reflective frame of mind. It’s a great time to dig deep within for answers. Looking to the past is a necessary process that can help you see what things in your life need to change. It’s also a time to take a break from pushing yourself too hard mentally. Some projects might stall or need some editing, adjustments, and refinements. The shift happening today can act to magnify fears and problem areas. Still, as you adjust to this shift, you’ll find this cycle useful for self-understanding.Sagittarius
With today’s Sun-Neptune minor challenging aspect, dear Sagittarius, you’re unlikely to find a direct path to achieving your goals. You could temporarily second-guess things. This transit challenges you to question the ordinary, but this is about taking a detour, not facing a roadblock. Imagine, dream, and consider options that you’ve forgotten–it’s important to be flexible and willing to adapt. Physical energy levels may be on the low side, but creative imagination is powerful and may very well be uplifting. Also today, Pluto begins its yearly retrograde cycle, prompting you to review your financial affairs, attitude towards money and things, what and who you value, and self-worth. While fears or worries related to money and security can magnify as this shift happens, the retrograde cycle itself, lasting until October 8th, helps you gain perspective. Your choices and decisions improve with less pressure on you to control or micromanage your practical affairs. Even so, it’s important not to push matters that need to evolve in their own due time.Capricorn
On this day before a Solar Eclipse, dear Capricorn, you can experience an energy dip, some deflation, or a desire to escape. It’s not an ideal time to get answers. However, it’s a good time to wind down and let go of overthinking. Pluto begins its yearly retrograde cycle today, affecting you more than others because Pluto is in your sign. As the shift occurs now, there can be some magnification of unresolved matters, fears, or compulsions. However, once you get beyond the shift, the retrograde cycle until October 8th is excellent for detaching yourself from these things enough to see where you may have been overly worried or obsessing. In fact, you’re in a great position to review and reassess your approach to self-starts, new beginnings, friendships, and group connections. If you’ve been over-controlling, you recognize this now and want to take some pressure off. Mercury heads into your work and health sector, making the weeks ahead suitable for tidying up your life in small but impactful ways.Aquarius
While you’re in a cycle that’s strong for centering yourself and getting comfortable, dear Aquarius, you could be feeling some waves of uncertainty today. There could be a lack of clarity with money, business, or mechanical issues, and it can be too easy to overlook or miss relevant details. Motivation dips are temporary, and it may be best to try to pace yourself rather than seek definite answers. Tomorrow’s Solar Eclipse is likely to help redirect you. Pluto begins its yearly retrograde today, and you could experience some intensifying fears, worries, or frustrations. However, these things should settle down nicely during this cycle that lasts until October 8th. It’s a time for observing and understanding your attachments and fears. You may not have noticed how worries, guilt, and control issues work against you. Now that you’re making these associations, it’s easier to work on healing and resolving problems.Pisces
You might aim to take extra time to yourself today, dear Pisces, with the Sun in a minor but challenging aspect with Neptune in your sign. You may feel overlooked, a bit out of sorts, or ready to escape or procrastinate rather than face something head-on. Some confusion or fogginess is possible, especially in business and financial matters, but it’s also temporary. Pluto begins its yearly retrograde cycle today, and certain long-term goals are up for revision until October 8th. Plans, obligations, and concerns regarding your social life, friendships, or happiness goals may have heavy energy hanging over them now during the shift. Still, things not only even out but begin to feel less pressured going forward. Giving special attention to your emotions and exercising patience can help you navigate this shift. This retrograde period is powerful for taking a step back and examining your fears, resentments, and possible self-destructive tendencies so that you’re not living on autopilot. It’s a fine time for healing.* Remember to read horoscopes for your Ascendant sign and Sun sign. If you don’t know your Ascendant sign (and you know your birth time), you can look it up here.
Astrology of Today – The Details:
If you’re astrologically inclined and interested in the details of the Astrology of today, here are some of the factors considered in the forecasts:
Planet Color Key: The longer the bar, the slower the aspecting planet, and the longer the duration of the planet’s transit.
The purple marker above shows where we are in the current moon phase cycle.
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