May 23-30, 2025

“It appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”

John Keats

Underlying Theme for All the Signs: The material world is an illusory playground that, if not careful, can lure you to yield to temptation or attach to an outcome. Perhaps the decoy of perceived pleasure prompts you to constantly run from one sensation to another in an attempt to numb your nerves rather than acknowledge the pain of suppressed emotions.

This week signals a need to recognize what is healthy and what is not. Events bring a warning to watch out for indulgent excess and the addictive behaviors of self or others. Allow yourself to recover from the overwhelming challenges of life or the all-consuming focus on the financial to regain your sensitivity. You are both the lock and the key; the puzzle and the answer. To reconcile the two, slow down, disconnect from the external, reconnect with your body, and grant yourself permission to feel.

Be sure to look at your Sun, Moon, and Rising signs for an expanded perspective. You can click any card to enlarge the view.

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Aries

• Making decisions guided by intuition; intuitive response
• Decision to trust your instincts about whether this relationship feels right or should move forward
• Decision based on intuitive messages received through an encounter and what they reveal

Taurus

• Being unrealistic about someone who is very different from their attractive presentation
• Fluctuating and unsettled circumstances because of person acting in pretense to have best interests at heart
• Dream guidance; psychic awareness of falsity in others—false friend, gossip, liar, opportunist, player, imposter, con
• Changes that may link to ulterior motives or secret agenda
• Masked emotions (may be connected to dreams or aspirations)
• Shift in circumstances related to falsity

Gemini

• Haunted room; sensing the presence (or lack of) someone who once occupied a room
• Dreams, visions, imagination at play when sleeping
• Fairyland bedroom, vision of intimate space; magical reality links to honeymoon or romantic getaway
• Confusion (resolved or not) surrounding intimacy; being ghosted by someone you are/were intimately involved with
• A need to sort out fiction from reality if relationship is to deepen in ways that lead to greater physical and/or emotional intimacy
• Believing in your dreams regarding intimate connection; intimate discussions that center on believing in your dreams

Cancer

• Facing the inevitability—death, surgery, taxes, an ending
• Seeking inner peace; deep transformation—opening to higher self
• Awareness of an ending or transformation that results in completely different circumstances
• A need for spiritual guidance (may be linked to stressful or crisis-oriented situations); profound and unsettling changes
• Wisdom—need for therapy or psychological intervention
• Knowledge or truth that may tie to large sums of money, shared assets, investments, debt; release of funds
• Dealings with Scorpio persons (sun, moon, or rising sign)

Leo

• Need for spiritual guidance where opportunity is concerned
• Knowledge or truth surrounding opportunity; intuitive awareness that a door is opening
• An opportunity to use your knowledge
• Wisdom of an opportunity; opening to higher self leads to opportunity; the wisdom of whether to open the door to something
• Seeking inner peace—an opportunity will present that allows you to create beneficial change provided that you take the initiative

Virgo

• A need to avoid impulsiveness that disrupts or interrupts solitude; a greater need for solitude rather than engaging with others
• Breakthrough in treatment or understanding may link to retreat, rehabilitation, conferences, hospitalization, isolation, time spent near the sea, or quiet destination
• Rushing to the rescue (situation, environment, relationship)
• Quest that may include the need to be alone as a couple
• Breakthrough in reaching someone who has been in solitude; unexpected visitor or news
• Something takes off—may be related to solitary endeavor or a quiet place; taking off to spend time alone
• Sudden inspiration or insight—a breakthrough that occurs from spending time alone

Libra

• Falsity in the family; false presentation of or to family; masking family issues
• Use of nostalgia in secret agenda; ulterior motives
• Presenting a false face in the relationship—masked emotions linked to nostalgia (feeling it or not)
• Memories tied to betrayal—false friend, gossip, liar, opportunist, player, impostor, con; reveling in the past
• Past influences of conditioning to wear a mask
• Difficulty moving on from person acting in pretense to have best interest at heart
• Someone very different from their attractive presentation

Scorpio

• Receptive to an opportunity that’s been kept under wraps
• Feeling trapped in the realization of running after illusions; relationship never fully develops; futile attempts to change partner or situation into the ideal
• Uncomfortable changes that leave you feeling blocked; relationship making one of you feel trapped and unable to progress; you or your partner may need greater freedom
• Feeling as if luck is just out of reach—confining situation is hindering you from sharing, expressing or making the most of your best self
• Looking for an escape route (may not be telling others)
• Listening to intuition—(i.e. when to put a cork in it, what to say or not, when something should be released, etc.)
• New direction—positive inner transformation
• Open to opportunity—positive shifts in projects or endeavors that are currently percolating but not yet released

Sagittarius

• A need to encourage a positive mindset surrounding desires
• Healing the connection—may be through sexual encounter
• New beginning where passion is concerned—pursuit, interest, relationship, motivation
• Revitalization of passion—strong attraction with another person; intense sexual chemistry
• Positive shift brings renewal—may be linked to physical attraction, magnetism (yours/other)

Capricorn

• Moving on—not a serious relationship; friends with benefits
• Aimless wandering for fun; aimlessness—need for orientation because you’re lost or can’t get your bearings (literally, figuratively)
• Directions linked to travel, transportation, moving forward; focusing on the road; foggy road conditions—hard to see up ahead
• “Taking your show on the road”
• Thrill seeking as part of the motivation or drive
• Creating or following a plan that may connect to entertainment, amusement, fun
• Not sure where this is headed BUT… relationship is mutual fun ride that may or may not develop into something deeper; relationship offers sheer excitement and pleasure of company

Aquarius

• Control issues—having to act due to excessive demands; someone may be expecting the royal treatment
• Time to act (may be in response to domineering or aggressive behavior)
• Control over actions or timing
• A need to take the initiative—diving right in to take control
• Acting on authority (yours/others); actions of authority figures
• ”It’s my time” motivated by sense of entitlement (valid or not)
• Investment of time to gain authority—in position, over subject, to take the lead
• Starting something that gives you greater control; good timing puts you in control

Pisces

• End of a struggle connects to retreat, rehabilitation, hospital, quiet time, peaceful environment
• Quiet time with friends; a need to be alone as a couple
• In harmony with the environment
• A need to seek harmony, peace—greater need for solitude rather than engaging with others
• At peace in a private world or with being alone
• Decision made—may involve solitude, destination by the sea
• Finding peace because things are falling into place

Decks: Romantic Love Oracle, Love is a Garden Affirmation Deck, A Word of Advice, The Alchemist Astrologer; The Good Tarot, Collette Baron-Reid; Mystical Healing, Inna Segal

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