Aries — May 2026

May is going to be a very busy month for Aries, in exactly the way that suits you — lots of action, lots of noise, lots of reasons not to sit still long enough to feel anything. How convenient. *Saturn* has been grinding through your first house since last year, and by now you should have learned something about limits, patience, and the structural weaknesses in your own personality. Whether you *have* learned any of that is a different question, and frankly I have my doubts. *Neptune* is sitting right alongside it in Aries, which should add a lovely fog to the proceedings — there's a version of you this month that is genuinely inspired, doing something brave and creative and new, and there is a version of you that is simply confused and calling it vision. You will believe it is the first version. The people closest to you will have their own quiet opinion. The *Full Moon* on 2 May lands in Scorpio, your eighth house. That's intimacy, shared resources, the stuff you've buried. The Moon doesn't care that you buried it. She will dig. Whatever you have been not saying to a person you care about — or a person you're trying to stop caring about — it becomes significantly harder to not say after the 2nd. The elaborate system you've built to avoid this conversation, which probably involves being very busy, volunteering for extra work, picking unnecessary arguments about something totally unrelated, and developing a sudden intense interest in a new hobby, will start to show structural cracks. Scorpio light is unforgiving. The eighth house does not do polite hints. *Mars*, your ruler, is in your own sign until mid-month, which means you have energy, momentum, and an almost complete inability to listen. When Mars crosses into Taurus around the 17th — the same day the *New Moon* in Taurus illuminates your second house — there's a shift. Taurus slows Mars down, which is an experience Mars hates, and which Aries tends to experience as everyone else suddenly getting stupider. Your second house is money, security, what you actually value when you stop performing boldness for a moment. The New Moon here is useful, if you let it be. It's a decent time to review whether you're earning what you're worth and spending like someone with a plan rather than a mood. *Mercury* is moving through Aries, Taurus, and into Gemini this month — my sign, which means I'm biased, but it does make communication sharper in the latter half of May, and if you have something to actually say, rather than just rebut, you might get somewhere. *Jupiter* in Cancer in your fourth house is doing quiet work on home and foundations. Something about where you live, or who you live with, or what family means to you, is expanding in ways you haven't fully acknowledged. The second *Full Moon*, on the 31st, is in Sagittarius — your ninth house. Big ideas, travel, philosophy, the stories you tell yourself about your own life. It will feel exhilarating, like an escape hatch, and Aries will absolutely take it. This is fine, as long as you notice that you are *using it as an escape hatch*, rather than convincing yourself it's pure ambition. Here is the bit you won't want to hear. The conversation you're avoiding isn't actually about the other person. It's about something you want that you don't think you're allowed to want, and the reason you won't bring it up is that saying it out loud makes it real, and real things can be refused. You are braver than almost anyone I read for, and you are using every last bit of that courage to avoid being vulnerable in front of someone who would probably be quite gentle about it. At some point this month, despite your best efforts, you are going to feel something and be unable to immediately do something about it. You'll survive. You always do — which is both your greatest strength and the reason you've stopped believing you need help.