- The Moon is in Capricorn.
- There is no void Moon period today.
- The Moon is waning and in its Waning Gibbous phase.
- The Full Moon occurred on the 23rd in the sign of Scorpio.
Retrogrades:
- Mercury is no longer retrograde and is in its post-retrograde shadow until May 13th.
Ingresses:
- Venus enters Taurus (Venus is in Taurus from April 29th to May 23rd).
**Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
Daily Horoscopes/Astro Highlights for each Sign:
Aries
Venus heads into your solar second house today, dear Aries, and until May 23rd, your love life or affections begin to steady out and stabilize. This cycle boosts your powers of attraction with money, gifts, favors, and valuables. You are gracious when handling yourself and more likely to take the high road if needed. Increased self-respect reverberates and benefits you. You are attracting the good things in life! At the same time, your appetite for nice things might grow, and building and collecting are appealing during this transit. Exhibiting patience with money and business can be particularly helpful to you. It’s also a stellar time for developing your talents or using them in pleasing ways. You’re skilled at managing your resources and using your people skills to move your business forward. While you may be a little self-indulgent, possessive, or acquisitive during this cycle, it’s excellent for getting comfortable and learning about your needs. Today’s Moon also inspires a focus on the practical side of your life.Taurus
Venus heads into your sign today, dear Taurus, and you’ll host this planet of love, harmony, and pleasure until May 23rd. As your planetary ruler, Venus in your own sign boosts your personal power. In the weeks ahead, you’ll find it easy and natural to express your needs and affections. Positive attention and appreciation are especially forthcoming during this transit. Romantic matters and pleasure-seeking activities come to the fore, and your powers of attraction skyrocket. Others more often appreciate and admire you, and you tend to attract rather than pursue. This will be even more prominent with Mars in the background of your solar chart beginning tomorrow. People are seeing your softer side these days! There can also be more clarity in love or with your affections. Because Venus also rules your work and health sector, it can also be a good period for these life departments.Gemini
Venus begins its transit of your solar twelfth house today, dear Gemini, and until May 23rd, it’s a time of greater understanding of the more spiritual side of love or making sacrifices in the name of love. Your affections are private or in flux, but your compassion engages more fully, which can draw you to people who need help. Benefits often come through behind-the-scenes efforts in the weeks ahead. It’s an excellent time to enjoy some solitude and privacy and to become very cozy with your inner world. Ideally, you learn more about your past and your deeper feelings about recent events. Intuition heightens, particularly with people, and so does sensitivity, so take special care of yourself during this period. There can be much to enjoy behind the scenes. Today’s Moon is also intimate, bringing out your need to connect with your deeper desires.Cancer
Venus heads into your social sector today, dear Cancer, where it will transit until May 23rd. This warm transit gently stirs your need to soak up ideas and inspiration from others. You gravitate to people and situations that make you feel at ease about expressing who you are. There can be unique benefits and opportunities through networks, groups, and friends during this cycle. You might share some of your talents or expertise with others with satisfying results. Your tastes are for the new, different, and progressive. Friendly relationships form or strengthen in the weeks ahead. You’re especially focused on equality and positive energy in your love relationships. Friends are more supportive or help connect you with opportunities. Today is people-oriented–you’re seeking feedback and interaction.Leo
The Moon spends the day in your work and health sector, dear Leo, and you can be pretty focused on getting your affairs in order. It’s an excellent time to organize, sort, and analyze. Venus enters your solar tenth house for a transit until May 23rd. With Venus now square to your sign, you might need to work a little harder to attract the things, people, and circumstances you want. However, regarding reputation and career, you have more charm and diplomacy at your disposal. People in authority or in the general public tend to hold you in good favor. There can be much enjoyment of your career or the pursuit of long-term goals in the weeks ahead. You more often draw on your people skills in your work. This transit sometimes coincides with rewards, awards, or relationship status changes. You’re in a great place to refine or realign your goals, and you might soften or enhance your reputation.Virgo
Venus heads into your sector of spirit and higher thinking today, dear Virgo, supporting you for over three weeks. Until May 23rd, you’ll find expressing or showing your feelings more natural and straightforward. You could seek more excitement in your social or love life or with your pleasures and pastimes. You appreciate different or exotic situations, people, and things more than usual. Learning and expanding your mind are also attractive, and you gravitate to people and things that give you a new and interesting perspective. You want to experience new situations during this cycle. You’re no longer overthinking your love life or your feelings. Your perspective and unique personality make you shine, and it’s a good time for promotion or marketing efforts.Libra
Venus begins transiting an intimate sector of your solar chart, dear Libra, and it will continue to influence this sector until May 23rd. With Jupiter already in this sector, you’re likely to find quite a bit of enjoyment in figuring things out, researching, investigating, analyzing, or getting to know yourself, looking for clues and hidden aspects, and from intimate relationships. It’s also a good time to attract emotional or financial support. You might sort out problems related to money and complex power dynamics in relationships. You are looking for deep, intense, and rich experiences with others. Even complications are attractive on some level now! Your special touch keeps things upbeat and healing in the period ahead.Scorpio
With Venus moving into your partnership sector for a stay of over three weeks, dear Scorpio, you’re in great shape for attracting, developing, and enhancing relationships. Venus brings sweetness to your manner and a close relationship as well. You might draw helpful, charming, or pleasant people into your life during this cycle that sticks with you until May 23rd. In contrast, Mars will move into your work and health sector tomorrow, and your desire to advance and reach (or surpass) your goals is strong. However, you can discover good advice or counsel from others, and people seem to want your company. It’s a friendlier time, although the attraction is more to one-on-one interactions than group settings. You are especially companionable and ready to accommodate others during this cycle. It’s an excellent time to show your commitment to a relationship or to distinguish yourself as a unique friend. The weeks ahead are favorable for negotiations and agreements.Sagittarius
Venus heads into your solar sixth house today, where it will transit until May 23rd, dear Sagittarius. The period ahead is helpful for making beneficial connections, whether through the pursuit of your work and health goals or because of your more vital interest in these things. This cycle favors enjoying projects, organizing, watching your nutrition, and similar activities. Your daily routine satisfies and rewards you. Work that requires specialized people skills can thrive, or a personal touch can improve your work or services. With Venus transiting your solar sixth house, you’re well-positioned to bring more harmony, pleasure, and warmth to your chores or routines. You might also develop more appreciation for your work or chores.Capricorn
Venus is in a harmonious, supportive relationship with your sign until May 23rd, dear Capricorn. This transit brings lightness, warmth, and graciousness into your life, and it’s perfect for your powers of attraction. You seek more pleasure from life during this cycle. Creativity, romance, children, entertainment, and other channels through which you express your need for play and reinforcement can be in pleasant focus. It’s excellent energy for enjoying yourself, charming others, and popularity. Your appeal is on the upswing in the weeks ahead, and your desire to make something special is growing. It’s a time of more emotional color and excitement. The Moon spends today in your sign, bringing a natural, positive frame of mind and a feeling of emotional re-awakening.Aquarius
Venus heads into your home and family sector today, dear Aquarius, bringing graciousness and charm, attractive powers, and a greater desire to interact until May 23rd. This transit benefits your home, family, personal life, foundations, and primary attachments. Venus here can boost your relationships with roommates, loved ones, and family in the weeks, but it can also improve your relationship with yourself as you learn about your needs and wants. It’s a strong period for plumping your nest or your base of operations. You might invest your energies into making your place of retreat as comfortable and harmonious as possible. It’s a vital recharge point for you, particularly with your affections. You can get to your very heart now, gaining a fresh understanding of what you need from life regarding love, pleasure, comfort, and beauty. Today, the Moon spends the day in the sign behind yours, and some form of rest or relaxation is appropriate.Pisces
Venus begins its transit of your communications sector, dear Pisces, and until May 23rd, your need to share your thoughts and feelings increases–and so does your ability to do so! There are benefits from your studies, mental interests, and communications. You’re also more thoroughly enjoying these things. You might get happy news, or you could receive positive publicity. Harmonizing with siblings, acquaintances, classmates, or even neighbors is easier. Your mindset is positive, helping you across the board. Venus brings more pleasure, charm, and warmth to your communications and daily affairs in the weeks ahead. It refines, improves, and enhances your social, learning, and connecting abilities. Mental compatibility is of particular importance in love relationships during this cycle.* 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.
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