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There’s awareness, opportunity, and abundance present this week as Mercury comes together with Chiron in Aries and the Moon begins anew in Taurus.
Weekly Astrology Forecast for May 5-11
May 6: Mercury conjunct Chiron in Aries; Moon enters Taurus
May 7: New Moon in Taurus
May 8: Moon enters Gemini
May 11: Moon enters Cancer
Mercury Conjunct Chiron
In astrology, Mercury is synonymous with our thoughts and communication, and in mythology, it is believed to be the messenger of the gods. Mercury shares insights with any planet that comes close to it.
Chiron is considered our healer of the cosmos. It alchemizes our hurts, fears, and stories by helping us step into them and access the wisdom and medicine found there.
As Mercury and Chiron come together in Aries on May 6, 2024, we are gifted awareness, catharsis, and bold self-reclamation. Awareness of the hurts that have been moving beneath the surface. Awareness of the courage and medicine found when we look directly at them. Awareness of the strength we have when we voice our truth.
Mercury conjunct Chiron is a moment in time when we can boldly reclaim much of ourselves, remember our own courage, and know that awareness can be transformative. It helps us understand that to bring something once unseen into our consciousness and to name it is to take away its power. This conjunction brings transformation through insight, truth, and expression.
New Moon in Taurus
A day after Mercury and Chiron come together in our cosmos, the new Moon in Taurus gifts us inspiration, richness, and beauty.
A new Moon is a new beginning. As both the Sun and Moon begin again in Taurus, it’s a lunation inviting us to fall in love with our bodies, with our senses, with our physical, tangible, earthly realm as a manifestation of the sacred.
As the Moon begins its lunar cycle again, the cosmos joins it in its own arrangement of planets and energies. With the presence of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus, we are invited to look ahead, to open to more, and to anchor into this opening. There is sweetness and there is practicality. There is inspiration and openings paired with a devotion to the long term, so that we may build what is ours to build.
It’s a new Moon inviting security, safety, support, and resource as your birthright. It’s a new Moon inviting the blooming of you, in your own time, at your own pace, secure in your nervous system, and trusting in your energy. And it’s a new Moon that invites you to bask in the richness of being alive, letting this richness fill you to the point of overflowing.
Your Invitation
As Mercury and Chiron come together, it’s time to explore your inner landscape.
You are ready. You are ready to bring something into your awareness, whether from your body, your unconscious, your intuition, or the ethers. You are ready to reclaim your power from what was once unconscious. You are ready to express the words that have been waiting to move through your voice. You are ready to remember your power through words, whether through journaling or with a trusted friend. This is a beautiful day to explore your inner terrain through words, for there is much ready to be expressed.
You are also offered abundance through the new Moon in Taurus. It invites you to receive more. There is beauty, there are gifts, there are opportunities, there is magic this week. All around you and in every moment. Can you feel it, know it, create with it? Can you allow yourself to let it in? Can you revel in what it means to be you?
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Jordane Maree is the founder of Girl and Her Moon, a platform and community exploring Soul through the lens of astrology, tarot, and energy healing. She is a writer, intuitive astrologer, energy and soul guide, and host of Girl and Her Moon, The Podcast. She is inspired, every single day, to be the mirror for you to see all that you truly are, you in all your infinite abilities, in total expansion, in infinite opportunity and love.
