May: You Can Have a little Doomscroll, as a Treat

Written with love by Mariah the Mystic

May weaves the loose but opportunistic threads that appeared in April. In this garish, growing garment, you are knitting spacious pockets to hold new skills and a durable bodice for your Final Form. May wonders, explores, and navigates tight corners by ripping and expanding seams. Personify the work ethic of Girl Boss and the blood pressure of the Stoned Sage to create this potion of perfect potential. Behold your Stage 2 Pokémon evolution, a tactical suit built to withstand bewildering battles, and the level-up opportunities 2026 bestows upon you.

Taurus and Gemini play Go Fish over the personal planets as they pass on through. Meanwhile, outer planets reverse, amplify with solar splashed cazimis, and continue their chaotic interplay. Our inner and outer worlds are bumbling like chaotic electrons and protons, close and excited, transferring, resonating, and causing electromagnetic trip wires we do our best to avoid.

Personally, the ideas from months past move from infancy to their idea stage. We are ready to envision, plan, and experiment. This is unmitigated lab time, fine arts open studio, or unmonitored research in the archives. Dapple determined progress with the cool and versatile aura of the cucumber. Your best work this month will happen when you block out any external factors that throw you off your game. While disturbances can’t be fully eliminated, you do retain control over how you respond and what you choose to release. Static is sure to catch fire if you don’t release your pressure valves on occasion. Avoid petty quarrels by picking your fist fights, removing yourself from heightened emotional spaces, and fueling slowly to avoid detonation. Air out grievances as they bubble up, and lean into deep curiosity and compassion when in doubt. A deeper interest and inquiry into the world and the people yield clearer insights faster than guessing games and gut instincts.

Collectively, insights shock us, and power struggles test us. Culturally, this month gorges itself on aesthetics, from haute couture to the newest hawt ‘cure’. Accessible enjoyment and expressions fight for screen time against the aspirational, unwearable, Runway-retired samples. The Devil Wears Prada 2 debuts in theatres, boasting massive styling budgets, an aged-up cast sponsored by tasteful onabotulinumtoxinA, and a carefully curated critique of the Fashion Industry and its moguls. Right in step, The Met Gala celebrates its annual Gala and premier art collection, mostly overshadowed by the billionaire boys' club that keeps it alive. While we await every attendee's translation of an evocative theme, the world teeters on the brink of chatbot-induced demise. Worldly politics continue to redirect, misdirect, and interject. The lack of parity between what we can access, or ‘gander at’, through tech, and what we can realistically access, or own, in the material world is palpable and taunting.

May brings us not one, but two full moons in a saloon-style standoff. A powerful Scorpio lunation burns the wick deep at the mouth of May, and a wildly Sagittarius Moon vignettes the month with an uncaged howl. Both are incredibly charged pylons of release, saddled in the middle with the last sweetened giblets of our Venusian friend, with the New Moon in Taurus. This overpass is primal and thumb-sucking. Put your bare pussy on the grass and open your mouth up to the sky to be filled. It is raining down honey abundance in the form of a mystery box. Let your gut lead, and also, hang out a little. There will be trash cans at each end of the tunnel to spit out what you don’t want to integrate.

The fast-moving planets creep from earth to air, and the seasonal menu shifts from the sensual towards the academic. We find catacombs of questions, and a hungry appetite for partnered mind-melding. When the communication channels are clear, we feel closer than we ever have. Venus, the evening star, leads us back to water in the spheres of beauty and romance. This sacred well revitalizes and encourages our softer side; we remember, and we empathize and sympathize further. This sentimental flow counters our current hardened focus, digging into what is meatier and more meaningful. Mercury follows suit in early June, bringing the same pastel hue to our amygdala, carving a pale space to reflect emotionally and psychologically on the intel gathered.

Pluto Stations Retrograde in Aquarius, tumbleweeding in reverse until October. Here, power struggles reveal chips, scratches, and wiggling table legs. Confront and debrief relational dynamics and struggles with control as they arise, rather than sweeping them under the rug and sitting atop it. Pluto warns of subsequent fallout and dramatic ruptures if we don’t speak with sincerity, communicate our needs, and express building resentments.

Uranus’ new basecamp in Gemini has barely collected a month’s worth of dust before it gets a magnification special from the Sun. Like finger-in-the-socket therapy, revelations are hitting our windshield rather than passing by in the wings of the landscape. Be on the lookout, anyway, to see if any revelations are arriving in or around your line of sight.

May is your punch-in card for progressing forward in your devotions and for the little, unserious curiosities that keep our society learning, investigating, and wanting to discover more. Be guided by the answers you already know and deeply feel. Dare to ask follow-up questions for what is unknown, and be willing to unravel the braids back to their beginnings, just to find your answers.

Aries Sun + Rising: With the quaking legs of a newborn foal, you are finding your footing, and that requires you to shake off your pride. April’s en uteru has absorbed into your bones for May's many tests of Love and Luck. The chance to break out in a stride is incentive enough for you to chance looking like a fool.

Taurus Sun + Rising: Pulled back to your nucleus, embrace a lazy river pace. Become one with the core, and with Self, finding what eases you back towards equipoise. While others brave the rapids, face your own obstacles by resting properly beforehand, excelling with your own rhythm, and keeping your own tube afloat.

Gemini Sun + Rising: Your cell tower is ringing off the hook, but remember that you control the extensions. Pour yourself into what is really calling to you, rather than what makes your heart race or what would quickly clear the line. Deny, pick up, or ask to hold; the outcome of these decisions are in your own hands, heart, and head alone.

Cancer Sun + Rising: A metal detector for the precious silver of a lucky coin, you are getting signals of warmer and colder as you roam. Let your sensitive antennae discern between the heat of anxiety and the chill of fear. Respect locked doors, dead ends, and icky intuitions. When the light burns red hot, run your hands across the decorative panelling for trap doors, soft spots, and clues to get closer to your treasure.

Leo Sun + Rising: The direction of the wind is either assisting your job, like wind in your sails, or smacking seawater into your condemned vessel. It is never too late to change course, slow your drift, or revisit your map. Heroics are not the same as real courage; facing tougher tundra when there is no other passageway, or perhaps choosing to retreat when breaking your soul is the cost.

Virgo Sun + Rising: Boredom, overthinking spirals, or too much time inside conjure the same sensations as claustrophobia, even though the walls remain 10 feet away. Return to your flesh in a way that borders on religious. Baby, your bad brain with peaceful sounds, unplugging from stimulations, or redirecting yourself gently back to optimism when you notice you’re orbiting a negative headspace.

Libra Sun + Rising: Let your feelings be doves released into the expanse of your words, thoughts, and interpersonal communications. Release the clamp on your tongue and allow yourself to be articulated and understood. Keep debates cordial by leaning into larger truths, lived experiences, and the bounty of your charismatic psyche.

Scorpio Sun + Rising: Seasons change, and you do too. Loosen your grip on the underground, and be transplanted to a new pot. This compact resilience you’ve formed allows you to be the authority; to leave instead of stay, to avoid wallflower behavior, and let your roots expand in a space that fits your new growth. Your seeds will still be scattered, microscopic proof of the new and the old, living on in the pollinated ecosystem.

Sagittarius Sun + Rising: Polite fences sometimes do better than high walls when it comes to passing what is hard to say no to, or likely ‘too good to be true’. Have faith in your resolve to stay the course as planned, even if it's tempting to accept a cheat code. Overlap your cheery nature with your organic honesty to sweeten the delivery, like a solo fruit bat that occasionally echolocates from across the cave.

Capricorn Sun + Rising: Imbibe on the last drops of Venusian punch, finding genuine satisfaction in your recent efforts and ambitions. This is a savory stop point to lounge and soak up some good fortune without your usual severity. Let the sky restock what is in store, let tensions fizzle out naturally, and mind your corner by minding your regular routines.

Aquarius Sun + Rising: The Ouija board speaks, “Out of Office.” If you’re asking for external validations or searching for outside answers, you probably already know, you just don’t like it. You’ll sweat less if you let yourself be reformed without opposition or impatience. Too much butane on your metallic surface and you’re a puddle of cherry-hot liquid, but too little and you’re icy and unbending.

Pisces Sun + Rising: Seep into what is loquacious, hungering, or heaven-sent. Divine interventions are cascading if you open your eyes wide, and your ears and mouth wider. Humor yourself with dalliances, messages that require childlike wonder, bridge-building between the intimate andthe stranger, and by offering a droplet of your essence into what is currently bewildering you.