Libra Horoscope for May 2011
By Susan Miller
Last month, true to the legend about your sign, you began to prove you are a wizard when it comes to setting up effective partnerships. With more than half the solar system in your seventh house of partnership, commitment, and joint ventures of all kinds, you certainly know whom you'd like to work closely with and are anxious to get things going. Planets filled this house last month, and you had a very favorable new moon, but Mercury was not cooperating. Mercury was retrograde from March 30 to April 23, causing various delays and problems to arise. Talks probably slowed down when you saw points you still hadn't had a chance to discuss. It was no time to sign a contract. Now you are looking at a very different picture.
As you enter May, you will find a clear and open road ahead. Mercury is now speeding ahead, and there's nothing to stop you now. After May 11, Mercury will move even faster, so buckle up! Not only do you have the support of Mercury, but also in your house of partnership, you will have no less than FIVE major planets, including Uranus, Venus, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter. They will stay until mid-month, with the exception of Uranus, a major outer planet that just entered this area of your chart and is due to stay not a few weeks but many years - until 2019.
Each planet, like guests at a party, has arrived with a gift in hand for you. Uranus' gift will be to bring surprise and excitement through the one (or several) serious partnerships that you create, and this will be true not only for May, but for many years down the road. The position of Uranus always indicates the place (or person) we go to for stimulation, and so, from now on, for you, that's through your partner, whether in business, or in your personal life, through your mate, or long-term romantic partner. Uranus just entered this area of your chart on March 11, and as you see, will stay for seven years. (During the last year, 2018 and early 2019, Uranus will go in and out of Aries as it retrogrades, which is why it will seem like eight years.)
This is a new trend for you, because until now, you've looked to your work for excitement, but something radical has changed, either within you or due to external events. For example, it is possible you left your long-term position and have been rethinking your life as it's been - that could account for some radical changes. Uranus has never filled this house in your lifetime (the last time he visited Aries, it was 1927-1935), so you will enjoy seeing the world through a new filter. Surely, partners will hold a lot of the control this month. They will be good for you, so there's no reason to be worried about this step - go ahead now with plans if this relationship feels good to you.
Uranus is highly creative, idiosyncratic, probing, and pioneering, and this would describe your partner. You may have changed careers and work alongside highly talented, artistic, or innovative types who keep you guessing with all they say and want to invent. Your partner may work in science or medical research, in entertainment such as in Internet or television programming or transmission, or in high-tech such as with the creation of software, gaming, electronics, or telecommunications. The one other area ruled by Uranus relates to areas of study that are not completely understood, such as the realm of astrology.
In your personal life, there are other ways you may experience this trend. You may decide that your culture's norms don't suit you, and so you'll be determined to design your own type of marriage or partnership, even if it flies in the face of convention. Your union may turn out to be one very different from the traditional union you were taught as the norm as you grew up. Or, the impulsive side of Uranus may assert itself, where you decide to marry very quickly for any variety of reasons. That would not be an ideal way to use Uranus, not unless you know the person well and some outside event causes you to radically move up your timetable.
My father was born with Uranus in his seventh house at birth, which indicated he would marry someone very unusual - my mother. If you were to meet Little Mom, you would find nothing idiosyncratic, rebellious, or very different about her. She is very stable and practical, in many ways predictable in a comforting way. I feel I am that way, too. Yet back when my mother and father married, astrology was not accepted.
My mother kept her interest and knowledge of astrology under wraps, and she became, in time, quite a scholar, reading, studying - and doing her own empirical research. She devoted her time to the subject at the end of the day, when her work was done. She loved the stillness of the night and often I would awaken in the night to get a glass of water, only to see Little Mom intently studying the charts of our family, curled up on the couch, night after night.
My mother tells me that at first, my father used to make fun of her interest in astrology. Later, however, after they married and had their two children, he used to us that Little Mom was proven right so often, he stopped making comments about astrology. In fact, in dire times, such as when my uncle was lost in the War when they had just met (years before they were married and years before I was born), she correctly pinpointed the day and time when my father would hear that my uncle not only survived but was well and unscathed. (It turned out only two survived in the platoon, my uncle being one.) Uranus can work in many ways. In a day when few people knew about how astrology worked, my father would shake his head, unable to know how my mother could possibly look at mathematics and know such things.
According to old astrologic texts, Uranus also often points to "stranger" or "foreigner" to describe the partner. True to form, my mother wasn't from Italy like my father's parents were, but instead, her parents were from Germany. She wasn't Catholic like my father's very religious family, but Protestant. Yet both families embraced the other and all lived in the same neighborhood very happily.
In their day, differences in background mattered to some before considering marriage, but not so much anymore. It certainly didn't matter to my father, although I hear my Grandmother was worried at first. Uranus always points the way to future trends. My father loved my mother with all his heart, until the day he died. They were loyal and true blue to each other for forty-six years. As you see, hosting Uranus in the seventh house can have many possible manifestations, and this can be a very positive trend. Thinking about it now, my father seemed destined to marry my mother, who really was unusual and ahead of her time, but in a quiet, studious way. I'm so happy for that. The link of Uranus to mathematics, science, and to space is there too, with my mother's love of astrology. (I was to get a business degree from NYU, never in a million years thinking I would ever make public my knowledge of astrology! Uranus is very prominent in my chart, so I guess I should have known things would take a different course.)
You, dear Libra, were not necessarily born with Uranus in the seventh house, but you do have this planet of sudden change, innovation, experimentation, intellect, and genius currently transiting your seventh house until 2019, and so you will feel the influence quite strongly. I gave you this story to get you thinking about how things might work out for you.
Let's now go back to the other planets currently filling your seventh house of partnership in early May.
Aside from Uranus, the other most important planet visiting this sector is Jupiter, called the giver of gifts and luck. You've had Jupiter in this house all year, but he is set to leave next month on June 4. This means if you had hoped to form a serious partnership in business, or if you hope to get engaged or married, you might want to act before Jupiter leaves in June, for he will not be back to this part of your chart again until May 2022. Jupiter brings blessings of happiness as well as financial rewards and profits too, something to keep in mind no matter what kind of partnership you are considering.
Venus is there too, and will bring happy feelings to the surface. Venus always makes things smooth and sweet, so apparently your closest relationship is going very well these days.
Mars' presence shows a certain urgency to make things official, for Mars is the planet of energy and action. Mars will leave on May 11, but will be strong during those first ten days of May.
Mercury continues to be in your partnership house, too. Mercury brings news and conversation, intellect, and the ability to plan. As you see, you have all the elements you need to make a successful partnership.
As you begin May, you have a sensational day on May 1 when Mars will meet with Jupiter and bring you enormous satisfaction from a partner in love or business. Mars rules your solar seventh house of marriage and commitment, and your third house is ruled by Jupiter - the third house has to do with contracts and agreements. On May 1, these two houses, committed partnership (seventh house) and contractual promises (third house), will be linked in a highly beneficial way. Promises made will be promises kept, so circle this day in red! It would be an ideal day to sign a contract. Give May 1 a plus or minus two days of influence.
Your next big day will be May 10, when both Venus and Mercury will link to Jupiter. Both planets will align with Jupiter on the very same day! Wow! Mercury rules contracts and promises, and Venus, love, so you really do have a great day for an engagement or marriage, or for signing partnership papers. Venus also rules Libra, as well as all financial matters, so you should be very happy with how things go on May 10! There's a good chance you will need to fly to another city on this day to complete a deal, and if so, again, you've got the right day to do it. If you get an offer, even if you had no plans to accept, you may hear yourself saying - yes!!! Yes!! The moon in Leo will only bring more happiness and more optimism.
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