Love Notes | May 1-8, 2026

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Love Notes

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


Couple standing on cliffside trail holding hands at sunset with ocean background

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Frida Kahlo

Aries

  • A love of all things past—history, memorabilia, vintage, etc.
  • Love for persons of the past or someone from a past life
  • Love history—past conditioning affects your relationship; a need to bring more love into your life
  • Something from a long time ago links to issues surrounding self love
  • Open heart or generosity—may be dealing with an ex or old lover from the past
  • Giving and receiving love is tied to unfinished business
  • A relationship is the agreement to continue your love through this incarnation

Taurus

  • Need for self appreciation and love to achieve the ideal
  • Confidence in “the one”—person, place, object, pursuit, activity, interest, situation, etc.
  • Confident that you’ve found the partner with all the traits, values and attributes you desire; partner worth spending a lifetime together; marriage material
  • Recognition—being in the spotlight
  • Success—may be receiving gifts, recognition or good fortune
  • Riding high—high magnetism and powers of attraction

Gemini

  • New horizons—secret adventure
  • Something (or someone) falling down a rabbit hole—someone is keeping secrets
  • Pushing boundaries because of an inability to read emotions; a need to wake up
  • Change that may be linked to element of relationship that is clandestine, secretive, or hidden
  • Matters under cover—being discreet is important due to circumstance
  • New perceptions linked to luck, timing and knowledge coming to light that might have been secretive or hidden

Cancer

  • Feeling trapped and unable to manifest desires—confining situation is hindering you from sharing, expressing or making the most of your best self
  • Uncomfortable changes due to being stuck in leaded consciousness (you/others); relationship never fully develops
  • Focusing will—may be in wrong direction if trying to change partner into the ideal
  • Using your power to look for an escape route; relationship making one of you feel trapped and unable to progress; you or partner may need greater freedom
  • Harnessing personal power to manifest in matters that carry a risk factor
  • Alchemy—positive inner transformation taking place
  • Keeping a tight lid on what you’re trying to manifest—creativity or positive changes percolating before release

Leo

  • Being unrealistic about what the ideal is (you/others)
  • Dreaming of “the one”—lucid dream, astral travel
  • Living the dream—access to the ideal—relationship, person, object, destination, situation, conditions, environment, activity, pursuit, etc.
  • Partner with all the traits, values and attributes you desire; partner worth spending a lifetime together; marriage material
  • Aspirations that tie to receiving gifts, recognition or good fortune
  • Dream guidance concerning how to achieve the ideal
  • Being in the spotlight; a highlight on fame (yours/others)
  • High magnetism and powers of attraction—possible shift at the full or new moon

Virgo

  • Time to stop struggling, acceptance of what is—relationship never fully develops; trying to change the partner into the ideal
  • Achievement that is only possible through uncomfortable changes
  • Basking in the glow—the feeling of butterflies inside
  • Wanting to accomplish but confining situation is hindering you from sharing, expressing or making the most of your best self
  • Success in looking for an escape route—relationship is making one of you feel trapped and unable to progress; you or partner may need greater freedom
  • Attainment—like magic in a bottle
  • Keeping success under wraps—positive transformation beginning to take form

Libra

  • An old road (literal, figurative)
  • Directions to a wine bar or place that serves alcohol OR moving on from situation involving alcohol; wine shipment
  • Aimlessness, need for orientation—person of wisdom may offer advice
  • Knowing when to move forward or move on due to age, experience and wisdom
  • Creating, following plan in hopes that relationship will improve over time
  • Ability to move forward—experience assists in making alliances
  • Motivation or drive to maintain long term relationship (or not)
  • Seeking direction—may be through relationship with someone much older who is likely to be more financially established
  • A focus on older couple; May-December romance
  • Moving on OR following a path linked to parents, ancestry, heritage
  • Determining the path with someone you’ve known for a long time

Scorpio

  • Grief over something you think has absolutely no chance of happening
  • Disappointment related to hopes and dreams (yours/others)
  • A need for action to address emotional wounding
  • Fortunate turn after the unhappiness of a loss, disappointment or rejection
  • Blessings in disguise—rejection is protection
  • Unexpected gift or opportunity after dealing with the sadness of betrayal, separation or a death
  • Serendipitous events relieve the grief—results surpass expectations

Sagittarius

  • Choices surrounding wine or places that serve alcohol
  • Decisions concerning a long term relationship or someone you’ve known for a long time
  • Choices linked to parents, ancestry, or heritage
  • Decision about an older couple or related to aging
  • Help in making decisions—experience assists in making alliances
  • Wise decisions; decisions backed by age and experience
  • Relationship with someone much older who is likely to be more established financially
  • Choices linked to May-December romance
  • Decisions made in the hope that relationship will improve over time

Capricorn

  • Pushing boundaries—children are impacting the relationship
  • Exploring with childlike curiosity—a need to try something new
  • Travel linked to children or involving someone from childhood
  • Consideration of children
  • Expansion into new territory—something new
  • Childlike exuberance of romance; playful interactions
  • Exploring the possibility of dating someone younger
  • Pushing the boundaries to create something new

Aquarius

  • Shocked by a love triangle—one person catered to by multiple parties
  • A need to open to new possibilities due to third party interference (positive or negative)
  • Surprise at being the center of attention—multiple suitors vying for attention
  • Unexpected encounter; surprise related to a social setting—may be party of three
  • Unexpected news centers on a crowning achievement; surprise at being recognized as an authority or in the lead
  • Three persons that connect to a blast from the past
  • Three people in a relationship (business, romantic, social)

Pisces

  • Boldness in behavior is just an illusion—excessive preoccupation with appearances—to appear happy, financially stable, attractive, youthful, sexy, intellectual, capable, etc. as a couple or to attract a partner (you/others)
  • Projections onto others or vice versa; behavior reflected back
  • Caution about superficial relationship concerned predominantly with looks
  • A need to tread lightly—some aspect of self, a relationship, or a partner is illusory and not exactly as it appears on the surface
  • A need to take a closer look before taking a risk; refusal to see the truth (you/others)
  • Putting it out there that you like the way someone looks
  • Taking a risk with a bold look; a focus on image, persona, brand, etc.
  • Happiness, laughter, enjoyment (or the illusion of)

Image: Le Baiser, Ambrogio Antonio Alciati

Decks: Romantic Love Oracle, Love is a Garden Affirmation Deck, A Word of Advice, The Alchemist Astrologer

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