May Astrology Forecast 2026

Hey, my name is Chris Brennan. You're

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Joining me today is astrologer Austin Copic and we're going to be talking about the astrological forecast for May of 2026. Hey Austin, good to see you

of 2026. Hey Austin, good to see you again.

Yeah, it's nice to be back.

We're back again. It's been a month since our last forecast episode and we're going to spend the first hour of this episode talking about major news and events that happened since our last forecast and the astrology behind those

news stories. Then in the second hour,

news stories. Then in the second hour, we're going to jump into doing a deep dive into the astrology of May. So, as

always, there'll be timestamps if you want to jump ahead straight to the forecast episode and skip the news. But

otherwise, before we get into the news section, I wanted to give just a quick overview of the astrology of May to give you a preview of what's coming up later in this episode.

All right. So here is the for those watching the video version the planetary alignments calendar that shows all the major astrological aspects this month but I'm actually just going to mention

um some of the highlights this month and try to give some keywords to do things a little bit differently this time. So,

the month opens with uh what I would describe as a peace shattering Mars Jupiter square around May 4th. And then

around the same time, there's a very intense Pluto station on May 6th and the dates surrounding it, which highlights themes of power and control, but will also mark an important turning point

with respect to ongoing technological and social transformations that have been developing over the past few years.

Speaking of te of of technological transformations, in the middle of the month, a newly ingressed Uranus into Gemini will make its first conjunctions with Mercury and the Sun in Gemini,

which will initiate and accelerate new technological advancements in communications and transportation, while also promising some unexpected disruptions this month. The middle of

the month also features some mildly pleasant sex tiles between the sun and Jupiter and Mercury and Jupiter on May 10th and 12th respectively as well as a

sensual Venus Mars se sex sex tile around May 18th. Later in the month things become more tense with a destructive Mars Pluto square around May

26th. But fortunately, by the very end

26th. But fortunately, by the very end of the month, we close out May with one of the most positive and auspicious alignments of the year starting to form

in the sky as Venus and Jupiter form a conjunction in the sign of Cancer that will eventually culminate in early June.

So, those are some of the main main highlights. You think think those are

highlights. You think think those are the main highlights? We've got the basically those two rough Mars aspects at the beginning and towards the end of the month, but then we got some sex tiles in the middle and we got that nice

Venus Jupiter forming by the end. Yeah.

Yeah. I agree with all that. I would say it's also um it's also important to note that on the 18th Mars's ingress into Taurus is Mars leaving Aries and

therefore leaving the rough co-presence with Saturn which began on the 9th of April um and is and a very unpleasant

configuration and so part of what I like about May is that some of the great some of the difficulties which have been present

um go away, right? And the negation of a negative is absolutely a positive.

Yeah, brilliant point that that the lack of or disappearing of a tense aspect that has ground things to a halt I know for a lot of people will be will be um

really good to look forward to. So

we'll get into that more later in this episode in the second hour. But for now, why don't we make a transition to talking about the news and events since our last forecast episode.

Let's do it.

All right. So, the first section, of course, the main thing that happened this month was surrounding the Iran war where there was escalation, a blockade,

an uncomfortable peace, as well as an oil shock that is is finally starting to hit and starting to impact things. So in

April there was this rare uh quadruple conjunction of Mercury, Mars and Neptune and Saturn and we expected themes of

escalation as well as grounding to a halt. Uh the keyword we've used for

halt. Uh the keyword we've used for years for Mars Saturn conjunctions is like hitting the gas and the brakes in a car at the same time and the internal

feeling of tensions but also of everything coming to a stop um around that time. And what was interesting is

that time. And what was interesting is at the beginning of the month when Mars started to move into the orb of the conjunction with Neptune and Saturn,

things did escalate. And on April 7th, Trump in a tweet threatened to wipe out the entire Iranian civilization, saying, quote, "A whole civilization will die

tonight, never to be brought back again."

again." And this obviously like freaked out everybody because it's literally like the one person in the world that has

access to the nuclear weapons and stuff that could do something like that was threatening to do it. And it was just absolutely unprecedented and an

unprecedented escalation of this war and everything that's been happening right as Mars and Saturn and Neptune were moving into that conjunction.

Were you tracking that, Austin?

Uh, it was hard not to, but yeah, it would be harder to find a an example a better example of inflammatory rhetoric, which would be a a massive

understatement.

Um, like yeah. Um, I think that speaks for itself, especially with um with the Mars Saturn conjunction being so close and with Mercury there. Mercury, of

course, offering a bullhorn or um conveying the message um of the planets which it's near.

Yeah, I definitely think uh threatening a genocide is a little beyond inflammatory rhetoric, but indeed.

Yeah, it's uh it's getting getting there. Uh so that was actually probably

there. Uh so that was actually probably one of the most tense as things that happened this month is that conjunction was coming together. But then

immediately after that, a bunch of country, everyone like freaked out and like ran to try to to to find a way to get it to stop this. And he ended up backing off. And then a fragile twoe

backing off. And then a fragile twoe peace deal was brokered, which was set to expire uh 2 weeks later, which was around the Mars Saturn conjunction, which went exact on April 19th. So

immediately after that, um, Vice President Vance was sent to peace talks, direct peace talks with Iran on April 11th, which interestingly happened right

on the Venus Jupiter sex tile that was going exact around the 11th and 12th.

And I thought that was an interesting example of a sex tile because the it was like it went from like him um threatening to wipe out a civilization to suddenly we're doing

peace talks and the peace talks went nowhere with both sides taking maximalist approaches but nonetheless it was like a lightly positive peaceful

time after what could have been an extremely destructive one. And so it gave me a little bit of a nice reflection on what a sex tile is like, which is like a lightly or moderately

positive aspect.

Yeah, I was very impressed. I was like I was looking at my phone saying go bonific you know cuz that was that um you know we have both Venus and Jupiter

in connected via sex tile there. both of

which um prefer peace and advocate for peace. Um and both of them in places

peace. Um and both of them in places where they are individually strong and then with that alliance via sex tile. I

was uh I was impressed by um the fact that things were that there were even the peace talks were even being attempt especially given um how brutal and

destructive Mars Saturn conjunctions can be and you know and the fact of the the what was being said um only a few days

before it really showed the the power of the benefits to offset even uh a brutal conjunction.

It was they did better than I thought they would do and I'm happy for it.

Yeah, for sure. Um, so after the peace talks didn't go anywhere, a couple days later on April 13th, Trump imposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports. And

this is right as the Mars Saturn conjunction is like coming up to and that ended up being one of the primary things of the Mars Saturn Neptune conjunction was this blockade going into

effect where basically there's a dual blockade because the Iranians were already blockading ships from leaving the straight of Hormuz. And now Trump and the US are blocking ships from going

in or out of the the straight of Hormuz.

And what was this eventually culminated actually on April 19th, the very day of the Mars Saturn conjunction when the US

actually fired on an Iranian ship and disabled it and then boarded it. And

um around the same time on April 22nd, just after the Mars Saturn, a report came out from the US saying that it would take 6 months to clear the mines

that Iran had laid in the straight of Hormuz, which then by implication meant that the the oil shortages and some of the naval issues in the area were going

to last for much longer than than people were expecting or than people were hoping, I should say. And um one of the things that was fascinating about that is I started looking through the history

of previous blockades once we saw that once I was seeing that there's like a blockade happening under this conjunction and I actually found that the longest naval blockade in modern

history happened in the early 1950s on a Saturn Neptune conjunction during the Korean War. It's called the blockade of

Korean War. It's called the blockade of Wanson. Um, and the US Navy and UN

Wanson. Um, and the US Navy and UN forces maintained a blockade that lasted for 861 days all the way from 1951 to 1953 that coincided with that

conjunction in Libra. And then even further back, one of the other largest blockades, naval blockades in history happened during the Napoleonic Wars

between France and Britain. And that

actually centered around the Uranus, the the Saturn Neptune conjunction that happened in 1810. So I was fascinated to see that there was like precedent in this conjunction and some of the

previous ones for things like this.

Yeah. Um that's interesting and it also makes immediate astro sense in in that we have Neptune um referring to um

sometimes quite literally the waters and then Saturn which blocks obstructs or slows down. So we have like a slowing

slows down. So we have like a slowing down of passage through waters. I also

thought that the dual blockade, the double blockade um spoke very uh uh spoke to the Mars Saturn conjunction

very clearly because with Mars Saturn um you know literally talk about uh we we've uh used the gas and brakes at the same time which means going nowhere or

going very slowly. Um uh it's also common to speak of a Mars Saturn conjunction especially if you end up between the two as being between a rock

and a hard place right so we literally have like two like four uh uh for any perspective uh uh captains um right for

any vessels you have like literally two military forces which might destroy you um and the result of which of course is um an almost complete lack of movement.

It was also interesting to me. I was

reflecting on how in a um a lot of traditional astrology um a planet that is between Mars and Saturn is considered to be besieged, right? Like a castle

would be besieged where you're nothing nothing gets in or nothing gets out. And

I had a sort of oh like a duh moment when I realized that a blockade is just a naval siege, right? It's not a castle.

Um, so you got to use different tactics, but like blockades are sieges. And so to have all that hit and Mercury during this time hits a perfect moment of being

perfectly besieged in that small space between Saturn and Mars. Um, and I thought that that spoke to um this

incredibly economically destructive um blockade besiegement um as perfectly um as possible. Like

that's of course that's the astrology for it.

Yeah, that makes sense. And

yeah, that makes a lot of sense with the blockading and the enclosure and everything else. And sometimes the

everything else. And sometimes the astrological alignments happening very literally even with Saturn and and Neptune as you were saying. Um but so this the dual blockade is effectively

choked off traffic in the straight which normally handles something like 20 to 25% of global oil and this has created a global oil supply shortage and an energy

shock which has become the largest physical oil supply disruption in history and it's also the most severe global energy shock since the 1970s.

So, one of the things that the Mars Saturn conjunction coincided with perfectly was that the last tankers that got out of the straight of Hormuz carrying oil from the Middle East before

the war started in February um arrived at their destinations around April 20th right on the Mars Saturn conjunction.

So what happened in April that's just starting to be felt now is we made the transition from the initial shockwave of the event in February when the war

started to suddenly the economic impact and the reality of the fuel shortages starting to settle in now uh in in late

April. And what's happening is that oil

April. And what's happening is that oil shortages are already starting to hit other countries where there's um physical shortages, there's rationing, and there's also different governments

are attempting to curb usage in order to make up for the the oil shortfalls and just the lack of ability of it availability. And I think it's kind of

availability. And I think it's kind of hilar not hilarious. Hilarious is not the word, but it's interesting that we've used the the phrase like, you know, hitting the gas and the brakes and

just what comes what happens as things like come to a halt. Anytime we've

talked about Mars Saturn conjunctions over the past few years and now that's literally what's happening around the world and even here in the US where gas

shortages are not happening because the US has become such an oil producer. the

price of gas has been rising every day since the conjunction went exact around April 19th. So that the the people in

April 19th. So that the the people in the US and consumers are actually starting to feel it because the price of gas is like a globally set average rather than something that you know is

purely controlled by the US or what have you.

Yeah. Yeah. Um in addition to that uh Yeah. So, just to go back to gas and the

Yeah. So, just to go back to gas and the brakes, um, we talk about how frustrating that is and you end up trying really hard to barely move, but another part of that analogy that, as

you said, is quite apt is, uh, that's a good way to run out of gas while going nowhere. M

nowhere. M um and so I think it's also worth adding that most reports um indicate that we

are just getting the very very very tip of the iceberg of the effects of the damage that has already been done. Um it

is like the light from a distant star which will not reach us for months. Um

and that in addition to uh a significant uh portion of the the world's petroleum flowing through the straits of moves, a huge chunk of fertilizer supplies goes

through there and that this will inevitably uh that this these shortages will inevitably impact agricultural yields for the whole for the entire next

year. And you know, fertilizer makes

year. And you know, fertilizer makes food. Food makes people run. It's um

food. Food makes people run. It's um

it's pretty important, too.

Yeah. The price of like wheat and other stuff is already starting to go up like a lot. Um, so one of the realizations I

a lot. Um, so one of the realizations I had this month because we we had talked in the last forecast episode about how I remembered I I always and never forget the Mars Saturn conjunction that

happened in Capricorn and Aquarius in like March and April of 2020 and how everything ground to a halt due to the the lockdowns during CO. Um, but that

was also the last time there were significant um disruptions in oil and things like that. There was that time on that Mars Saturn conjunction and then there was actually another one two years

later on the next Mars Saturn conjunction since they have every happen every couple years and that was when Russia invaded Ukraine and then all of a

sudden immediately after that the US and a lot of countries put um sanctions on Russia and on Russian oil and things like that that created similar

disruptions in oil and energy. And um

eventually what I realized this month is I made some connections that I hadn't made before about how Saturn the Saturn Neptune cycle itself is tied in with the

history of oil. And a year ago when Nick and I um did the full like 8 hour Saturn Neptune episode where we went through every conjunction over the past 2,000

years in history, we had picked up on a few that were tied in with oil. Um, but

I often didn't make the connection that oil was actually a recurring theme. But

I put this together this month and I did a little short video on it. But just to give you the summary of it, um, the big one is that in 1846, kerosene was invented by a Canadian inventor. And

this was the first time that oil was kind of like synthesized into something that could be used in lamps. And it

began the modern use of oil literally on a Saturn con Neptune conjunction that was happening at that time. So basically

we started modern reliance on oil started on the Saturn Neptune conjunction around 1846.

Then in 1882 John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard

John D. Rockefeller formed the Standard Oil and Trust which is one of the big the first big um oil conglomerates basically just like all the big oil conglomerates today. This was like the

conglomerates today. This was like the first one. And Nick and I had actually

first one. And Nick and I had actually pointed that one out, but we pointed it out because it was like a secretive behind the scenes thing where they were doing like sketchy business things

behind the scenes, but it was the oil was also part of what was important on that Saturn Neptune conjunction. Then

you jump forward to the next conjunction in 1917 and this is in the middle of World War I. And what happened is that the mechanization of World War I caused the first major global oil crisis at

that time. right on that Saturn Neptune

that time. right on that Saturn Neptune conjunction during World War I. Um then

you jump forward to the next conjunction and then you're at 1953 1954 when that Saturn Neptune conjunction coincided with um the US and Britain uh or

organizing a coup in Iran to overthrow the democratically elected leader and installed a shaw which Nick and I talked about and you and I have talked about extensively except the reason why that

happened is because the Iranians were trying to nationalize their oil fields.

So it was ultimately about oil on that conjunction even though we focused on how it had to do with the overthrow of the leader of Iran and the US getting involved in Iranian politics. So then

you jump forward to the next Saturn Neptune conjunction and that was 1989 and that was when the Exxon Vald disaster happened where this oil tanker like crashed and caused this huge

ecological disaster which led to a lot of additional restrictions on oil but also changed the public perception of oil in some ways due to the the clear

ecological impact that it had. Mhm. And

just for an additional like Saturn Neptune note, Neptune often denoting um describing someone who is in a confused

or intoxicated state. If I'm remembering correctly, the captain was drunk.

Okay, that's a good point.

I have like strong but not particularly clear 10-year-old memories of that being on TV. Um and just like you know birds

on TV. Um and just like you know birds coated in oil and it was a it was a huge thing.

Yeah. I remember like the sea otterters coated in oil and people going and using like bath soap to try to like rinse them off and stuff like that.

Yeah. People at the beach at the beaches trying to help the wildlife.

Yeah. So but but anyway, so it means that one of the interesting things about the Saturn Neptune conjunction just to stand outside of ourselves and the havoc and the war and and tragedy and

everything else is happening is just now we can see that the Saturn Neptune cycle is tied in very in a very crucial way to the history of oil and humanity's reliance on it. And that's true in this

conjunction now. And maybe one of the

conjunction now. And maybe one of the most important things that this is setting a foundation for over the next 36 years because this will also have an impact with how we use oil over the next

36 years. But in subsequent conjunctions

36 years. But in subsequent conjunctions over the next century, I think we'll continue to see important turning points when it comes to humanity's interaction with oil and reliance on it or attempts

to move off of oil in different ways and things like that.

Yeah. the role. Um, yeah, that's really interesting. Um, I have seen

interesting. Um, I have seen a number of articles recently about how the uh the situation as it has already

changed um in regard to oil um has changed the incentives around renewables where they now have an additional appeal

that they did not when the oil um was sure to flow freely, right? because now it's like a national

right? because now it's like a national security issue.

Um whereas if people weren't into renewables previously for environmental reasons, now there's like very tangible reasons why having that creates a

national security issue in different different ways or what have you. Um so

yeah, good news. Hopefully maybe that'll push some ways additionally development of renewable energy. I mean,

unfortunately, the other thing we've been talking about the past couple of years that I predicted at one point in a year ahead forecast a couple years ago that's been coming true is also returning back to a period where nuclear

energy is being emphasized, which has been additionally coming true with Uranus coming back to Gemini where the nuclear age started, but hopefully maybe

some renewable stuff will also be emphasized as part of this new 36-year cycle that we're laying the foundation for now.

Yeah.

All right. So, um, in the year ahead forecast, we said that we saw that the Saturn Neptune conjunction would happen in February and said that some major world defining events would happen at

that time. But then we said that we

that time. But then we said that we would return back to those in April when they were reactivate when that conjunction of Saturn and Neptune was

reactivated by Mars hitting it uh when those three planets conjoined in the sign of Aries. And so part of this ended

up being um the oil shock starting and the energy shock starting in February when the war began, but then fully hitting in April when the last oil

tankers reached their destinations around the world at that time. And I

want to note how notable that is, how that worked out in that instance, because I saw a bunch of other instances of that that we'll talk about in the news section this month as well, where

something happened in February, which then came back up again in a similar way in April once that Saturn Neptune conjunction was reactivated by Mars.

Yeah, that's very clean astromath.

Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So, um anyway, so the Saturn the Mars Saturn thing's grounding to a halt was largely the supply shock that's happening worldwide.

But then it was also this weirdly tense piece that obviously won't last because both sides have conditions that are unacceptable to the other and currently

haven't budged very far in terms of what they're asking. And it reminded me a

they're asking. And it reminded me a little bit though this month, this conjunction of like the Mars Saturn conjunction during COVID in March and April of 2020 because on the one hand, while

some people, many people were like sick or dying, you know, like I was super sick back then, there's videos of of me being really sick with COVID in the first wave, but I was reminded that like

other people during that time were actually enjoying the sudden lack of movement and were like baking bread and like playing board games and other stuff like that. And while that wasn't my

like that. And while that wasn't my experience, it reminded me a little bit of that this month where sometimes things grounding to a halt can sometimes bring a lack of movement or in this

instance um was sort of peaceful because nothing was happening even if it was an awkward sil silence because it happened right

after a period of extreme conflict and like fear about like a destruction of a civilization and things like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Sometimes a

lack of motion is a positive thing, right? If the car that is bearing down

right? If the car that is bearing down on you, the pedestrian, is suddenly slowed to a halt and can barely move forward. That's a that lack of movement

forward. That's a that lack of movement is a positive thing.

Yeah. Well, and it it reminded me of this quote I I actually quote in my book from Dorthus where he says that Mars Saturn conjunctions can um have some positive outcomes

because they balance each other out due to the extremes of the heat of Mars versus the cold of Saturn creating a middle ground, but that it does ultimately lead to it says in Greek

inactions.

So, I think we can see how that worked out in some ways. Um but in terms of the future um the longer the straight is closed the worse of a global recession

this will create and it's rapidly turning into like a point of no return situation in terms of the damage it's doing to the entire world economy and currently both sides the US and Iran are

trying to wait the other out thinking that they can last longer than the other can and the markets this month have been very surprisingly disconnected from

what's going on with the energy shock in sort of like a Saturn Neptune opium sort of delusion. But it's just a matter of

of delusion. But it's just a matter of time before that catches up if this keeps going longer and longer, which it appears that it will. Um, this week, like I said, oil futures have started

going up. So, they may already starting

going up. So, they may already starting to be waking up in terms of the market price of oil starting to match what what oil actually costs to buy right now in

different different parts of the world.

Yeah. Um there are a number of instances where people are very confused um uh by

the price of various goods um and fuels um not matching the actual situation. Uh

I'm seeing that in a lot of areas and it is um it's worth noting that in 1979

which is parallel to 2026 um in the Mars cycle um if you look at oil prices from the um from the beginning of the year

versus the end of the year uh they quadrupled um in 1979 and although they've roughly doubled at this point um

if uh if 2026 ends up being uh parallel to 1979. Um we we we would be looking at

to 1979. Um we we we would be looking at only being halfway there. Um but yeah, the this this Mars Saturn conjunction

both um auguring a this dramatic dual blockade that everyone knows is um doing um lasting damage to global trade. like

we got the thing that occurs but whenever you have the conjunction of two planets it's um just like the conjunction of the sun and moon every month is the new moon which says

something about the entire cycle to come in in the case of the sun the moon just a month but Mars and Saturn have a like 25 month just over 2year cycle and if we

think back to those previous Mars Saturn conjunctions like did the Mars Saturn conjunction which happened in uh late

winter, early spring of 2020 only have an effect on that month or did it have a lot to say and did it um augur events that would have an impact for the next

two years. And then similarly with that

two years. And then similarly with that uh extremely early point in the Russ uh Russo Ukraine war where um Mars and

Saturn were coming together and Kiev was literally besieged, right? Mars Saturn

besiegment that like that was a rough point but it was it it did not um it had consequences which lasted for years and which we are still in the midst of. And

so like a conjunction is the beginning of a whole cycle in addition to being a dramatic moment in its own right.

Yeah, that's a great point. Like

conjunctions are seed moments and it was laying the planting the seeds for something that's going to be growing and developing for some time um you know over the course of the next year

especially. But you know, a lot of the

especially. But you know, a lot of the people a lot of the people that are that specialize in oil and energy markets and things like that are all feel all keep

talking as if this is like a tsunami that already is out there that's like rushing towards land but just hasn't fully fully hit yet. And

that's a great that's a great metaphor.

Yeah, I think that's going to end up being a metaphor that we're going to be using a lot in retrospect over the over the next month or two. describe this

weird period of calm just before the full impact of this energy shock really hits everywhere around the world as as hard as it seems like it's about to.

Yep.

All right. So, in terms of the war, I mean, it seems like a matter of time before that conflict will reignite. And

we were surprised a ground invasion didn't take place on the Mars Saturn conjunction, although we're not really out of the woods yet because neither side really seems ready to make the

necessary concessions like I said. And

the US has actually been building up forces um including troops and sending in planes and equipment and other stuff like that. A third carrier just showed

like that. A third carrier just showed up uh shortly after, right around the time of the Mars Saturn conjunction.

arrived in the Middle East or in near the Middle East. Um, and in terms of the short term in the next month, um, there's two aspects really that we have

our eye on that look tense. The first

is, like I said, the peace shattering Mars Jupiter square in the first week of May seems to be the next potential hot spot where tensions could flare again.

Um, and I I'm use I'm reusing the the keyword peace shattering for Mars Jupiter because that was the keyword I used in January for the Mars Jupiter opposition which ended up then falling

on the start of the uh military operation or whatever you want to call it with the US and Venezuela. Um, so

that's the first potential hot spot at the beginning of the month and the first week of May. And then the second potential hot spot is that Mars Pluto square in the final week of May looks particularly destructive as well. So

we'll be keeping our eye on both of those in terms of the the short-term future.

Yeah. Um and a question that arises for me is um is it either of those that reignites serious hostil or active hostilities as

opposed to this sort of whatever you want to call what we're doing now. Um

but um it's like is it either of those or do we uh will it do we end up needing to wait until the Mars Uranus conjunction um in very early July which

is very uh a more dramatic moment for Mars than either of the two that happen this month. Um but it might not take

this month. Um but it might not take much um to uh plunge back into active warfare.

Yeah, because that's the thing with Uranus has now by the end of April has just moved into Gemini where it's going to stay for the next seven years. And as

a result of that, as as astrologers that have followed that cycle and I've done multiple episodes about it, um we know that this is just the beginning of a

larger conflict and it's a larger conflict that the US will be involved in over the next seven years, just as it has been involved in one of the most

important and pivotal but also um violent and and deadly wars in its history have happened during the the Uranus and Gemini transits that we've had three of them during the

Revolutionary War, the Civil War and World War II. So um we can see then that there was also hints hints of that larger conflict that larger war

developing this month around the Mars Saturn conjunction where for example the ship that was shot the Iranian ship that was shot on April 19th the day of the

Mars Saturn conjunction was carrying parts um it's speculated to be military parts from China to Iran and Trump even like mentioned this at one point in

passing in an interview and being saying he was surprised about it or elsewhere um the Ukrainians have been targeting Russian oil exports over the past month

where because the price of oil has been going up, Russia stands to make a lot of money from the price going up and them being a huge oil exporter. So Ukraine

has been attacking their ability to export oil uh to devastating effect, possibly wiping out as much as like 40% of Russia's exports of oil over the past

month. Um similarly, Iran's foreign

month. Um similarly, Iran's foreign minister recently met with Vladimir Putin in Russia and there's also a recent spat of articles about Russia's economy getting worse, which is

interesting in terms of the Saturn Neptune conjunction and the history of that with Russia. Um, so there's all these things like swirling around that are creating these overlapping

connections between the different countries that are at war or in conflict with each other right now in a way that's very reminiscent of previous major wars, especially World War II and

the buildup to that. Um, so some of what it feels like we're seeing, some of what I I think we're seeing right now with Uranus going into Gemini is the buildup

to what eventually will be like a larger world conflict on the scale of like a World War II or potentially a World War II.

Yeah. Um there there's a real danger um that these conflicts start sort of knitting together uh both escalating and drawing uh other

parties in as well as sort of knitting together into a large into larger world spanning conflicts. We also have you

spanning conflicts. We also have you know it um we also have elements that are

reminiscent of World War I um and other conflicts. Um, we have one major

conflicts. Um, we have one major difference between the current state of things in World War II, um, which I don't know if it's better or worse, but

a lot of the potential, um, both actual and potential belligerent have serious internal crises that they are barely

managing to stab off. And I would include the United States in that. um

like there's a lot of internal pressure in Russia, in the United States, in the EU, in China, like there this is a period instead of countries being

unified um within themselves though perhaps for abhorrent reasons like we had during World War II. Um all of these

belligerents have um huge internal contradictions which are a threat to them at the same time as these external issues are or these external conflicts

are sparking up. It seems to be um seems to be a very signature for this point in time. You know, we've talked um plenty

time. You know, we've talked um plenty and for years about whether this run of Uranus through Gemini would for the United States look more like the Civil

War internal conflict or World War II external conflict. And I think we're

external conflict. And I think we're we're getting uh what what we're beginning to see now that Uranus is Gemini, although I think it's been visible for a while, is that we we have

not just in the United States, but in a number of important nations, uh a simultaneous escalation of internal and external conflicts.

Yeah, absolutely. I mean the US with this Uranus return starting and even this week there's been stunning stuff happening with the Voting Rights Act being struck down or portions of it with

um political persecutions that are starting to happen. I mean, the US is going through an incredibly important transformative period where the very

nature of the the way the government used to operate is being challenged and is potentially being transformed into something different than what it had

been or to what the way that it was set up essentially. And we're also

up essentially. And we're also witnessing that transition into potentially something very new and different at this time as well.

Yeah. Well, and just the Yeah. And into the the fight over that

Yeah. And into the the fight over that as again, Uranus has been in Gemini for 5 days now. We had our little preview um last year for a couple months, but um we

are 5 days into um a show that's going to run for seven seasons.

Yeah. And something ominous happened right on that the day of that ingress that we'll talk about. Although maybe

this is the time to talk about it. Uh,

and we could rearrange the outline a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, let's do that. I wasn't

trying to prompt that, but that feels right.

Okay. So, let's let me move things around then. Um, so on so Uranus went

around then. Um, so on so Uranus went into Gemini. It finished its seven or

into Gemini. It finished its seven or 8year transit through Taurus, which it started in 2018 and 2019. On April 25th, Uranus fully moved into Gemini. And on

the very day of the Uranus ingrass, like pretty much in the hour, like I was actually Lisa and I were watching it and like looking at charts and watching the

Uranus ingress take place on solar fire when I got a call from a friend Nicholas who said that um that the White House correspondents dinner happened and what

happened is somebody attempted to assassinate President Trump. And at the exact time that it happened, the moon was at 29° of Leo, conjoining Trump's 29

degree of Leo ascendant, and it was squaring Uranus, which is at 29 Taurus.

And then basically as that was unfolding, Uranus switched into Gemini.

And um you know, I had a couple of astrological takes about that, but one of them one of them had to do with the Mars.

Well, where first, what's your reaction to that? Or is there anything I missed in

that? Or is there anything I missed in describing that?

Well, it's just uh one, it's just stunning. Like Uranus does an uh does

stunning. Like Uranus does an uh does two ingresses like every seven years.

And so for um Uranus's ingress into Gemini, which is um uh which is the beginning of a seven years out of every 84, which is absolutely loaded for US

history for literally within minutes, like the same part of the same day um to have an attempt on the life of a US

president um is shockingly coincident with the patterns we've seen in history.

And um certainly um I don't know omen is maybe not exactly the right word, but maybe it is. It um it seems like it

can't help but speak to the cycle which we are now u we are now in until the early 2030s. Um, and I would um point

early 2030s. Um, and I would um point out that during the two previous runs of Uranus through Gemini, um, our our

president did not survive Uranus and Gemini. FDR died um while Uranus was in

Gemini. FDR died um while Uranus was in Gemini and Abraham Lincoln um was assassinated while Uranus was in Gemini.

So, it's um um not a particularly healthy time to be the president of the United States based on historical precedent.

Yeah, I mean my take was just what my main take was just that that happening right on the day of the Ingress seemed like an omen in the sense that Uranus in

Gemini historically has coincided with the three most defining but also violent and bloodiest wars in US history. And

you know to have that happen the day of that ingress and the repetition of that now means we're moving into another incredibly important defining turning point in US history but also one that

will probably be particularly violent and bloody. So beginning that with an

and bloody. So beginning that with an attempt on the president's life was probably or will probably end up being a notable omen for the new chapter that we'll experience over the next seven

years when we look back on back on it in retrospect someday.

Yeah. Yeah. It's um uncomfortably on the nose with the historical precedents.

Yeah. So, and immediately afterwards, one of the things I noticed was there was immediately a lot of discussion about people claiming it was like a false flag and that it was a fake

assassination attempt or or something like that. And um I don't really have a

like that. And um I don't really have a opinion. I mean, I don't I don't think

opinion. I mean, I don't I don't think it was a false flag myself, but I thought it was interesting that that discussion became so intense afterwards

because we were still having the Mars Neptune opposition. And just a few weeks

Neptune opposition. And just a few weeks ago, Nick and I did a private podcast for patrons where we were looking at historical charts and we um were looking

at the early 1930s when in Germany Hitler came to power and then the Reich stag fire happened and that was right on a Mars Neptune conjunction and a lot of

people believed it was a false flag that Hitler and the Nazis had like burned that down and then used it to like take political power. But um I was reading up

political power. But um I was reading up on it recently and apparently I was reading some summaries by historians on Reddit on the Ask Historians subreddit and they were the consensus was that the

historians themselves don't believe that the that the Reich tag fire was a false flag but just that the Nazis capitalized on it afterwards to take additional

political power but that much of the public believed that it was a false flag. So, I thought there was an

flag. So, I thought there was an interesting echo there of just like um that coming up two different times in history under a Mars Neptune conjunction.

Yeah, that makes sense. And it also I think speaks to the Saturn Neptune point in history that we occupy. Um where it

is increasingly difficult um to verify or dismiss contending claims um like the epistemological fugue

of the present um is a very real thing.

Um, and it's noticeable on a daily basis and I think it will be uh extremely noticeable in historical retrospect

where it's it's so confusing.

Yeah, absolutely. Um, okay. So, I want to run through just a few other news stories because there's a few other interesting things happen and one of the recurring themes was that Mars Neptune

conjunction. It was very loud this month

conjunction. It was very loud this month and I was actually surprised at how loud it was in certain ways that made sense.

So, one of the themes that came up at the very beginning of the month, but it kept coming up over and over again in different ways is that the Mars Neptune conjunction went exact around April 13th, although it was already with an

orb and building up by the beginning of the month. And there was this string of

the month. And there was this string of different stories in the news related to the concept of religious heresy and just this idea of heresy. And so for example

on April 5th on Easter Trump said uh quote praise be to Allah on Easter Sunday. Um and it was at the end of like

Sunday. Um and it was at the end of like a profanity laced threat threat demanding that Iran reopen the straight of Hormuz. So it wasn't like a positive

of Hormuz. So it wasn't like a positive uh thing. It was like him using it in

uh thing. It was like him using it in some sort of provocative way. And then

again on April 11th, Trump said it again a second time. The following day on April 12th, Trump attacked the Pope. And

there was this whole drama that around for like a week about Trump getting in this back and forth with the Pope and attacking the Pope and everything that came along with that. Then the next day

on April 12th, or actually it was the same day that he attacked the Pope, he posted a picture of himself as Jesus.

And this caused like you know that's in Christianity is like a heretical thing to do. So it caused all of this outrage

to do. So it caused all of this outrage and discussion. And then um the very

and discussion. And then um the very next day he ended up having to there was a bunch of backlash. So he ended up deleting it and walking it back and pretending it was something else that he was a doctor or something like that. Um,

but what was interesting and I found fascinating is the same day on April 12th. Um, that weekend, I think 9-in

12th. Um, that weekend, I think 9-in Nails did this amazing performance of a song, an old song of theirs. It's like

30 years old. that's titled Heresy at Coachella, which they performed on April 11th, but then the video went viral on April 12th because it was such a cool

like remix of the song with a new digital producer that they were working with that it was really cool and the performance was really stunning. Um, but

part of the lyric in it was like, you know, God is dead and no one cares and um, if there is a hell, I'll see you there.

Yeah. a banger from uh from 15-year-old Austin's world.

Yeah, Young Austin was super into it.

Um, no, I was really good. Well, they

released like an album based on that later and it was really good that week.

So that happened, but then get this, uh, a few days later later, April 15th, um, Pete Hegsith leads a a prayer circle at the Pentagon, but he ends up using this

fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction where Jewels like famous um, statement in Pulp Fiction about righteous vengeance and

other things like that, which people often to be fair commonly think is a real Bible quote, was just like a mashed together fake Bible quote that Quinton Tarantino used in the film and Hexath

used it and then it caused all of this like outrage and stuff. Although it was interesting because it brought up that apparently Hexath has been leading these prayers at the Pentagon for months now

and it really made me think of Neptune and Aries and this idea of a religious shift behind militaries happening sort of in the background right now.

Um then there was all sorts of other stuff. There was on April 19th, there

stuff. There was on April 19th, there was a photo of um Israeli soldiers smashing a statue of Jesus in Lebanon that went viral and then the IDF surprisingly put out a statement

acknowledging that it was one of their soldiers. Um on April 24th, Russell

soldiers. Um on April 24th, Russell Brand um struggled in an interview where Pierce Morgan asked him to tell him like why he brought this Bible to court and

what passage would really inspired him and Brand like looked through it for like a minute or two and couldn't find a passage. So it was like another notable

passage. So it was like another notable instance. It just

instance. It just yeah a little bit more on that and adding the Neptune um note. Um many

people are quite skeptical of Russell Bran's recently strongly professed conversion. Um it apparently um from

conversion. Um it apparently um from what I know it um his uh his conversion to Christianity also very public

conversion also happens to coincide with a number of sexual assault cases coming up. um and that many people uh believe

up. um and that many people uh believe it to be um moral camouflage or you know totally fake and for PR which is um perhaps part of why he was challenged

about it. I believe he was also wearing

about it. I believe he was also wearing like a giant clunky wooden cross like it's really um uh yeah like laring

pretty hard is the impression.

So that's another Neptune u like Neptune camouflage concealment deception etc. All of those um like tier one keywords

um uh are are present or around Russell Brand's situation as I understand it.

Yeah. Yeah. And well, it's like a year ago when I did the Saturn Neptune episode with Nick, we kept finding instances of Saturn Neptune conjunctions being coinciding with the founding of different religious communities over the

past 2,000 years, including some major worldwide religions. But in this

worldwide religions. But in this instance, it seemed like this triple conjunction of Mars, Neptune, and Saturn had to do with the rules surrounding religious belief and what happens when

someone transgresses those rules. And

that was that was part of what I was picking up during the course of this.

Um, and with the conjunctions, I actually suspect there's a couple conjunctions that I think were important in the first century with the founding of Christianity as a community and as a

religious community and structuring some of the first structurings of it, especially Yeah. early on. But um it

especially Yeah. early on. But um it reminded me also of a lot of the delineations in the ancient astrological texts for like when difficult really difficult placements are in the 9inth

house of it would delineate it in like Fermicus as people who will commit heresy or sometimes of of atheists who reject God or the idea of spirituality or other things like that. And Austin,

you'd done an article years ago about like Marilyn man Marilyn Manson having Saturn in the 9inth house in a night chart, right? Yeah, I think I wrote that

chart, right? Yeah, I think I wrote that for the mountain astrologer in 2012. Um,

but yeah, it's a night chart. Um, Saturn

is in Aries in the 9inth house. Um, and

it's someone like Marilyn Manson's fame was literally being um, wildly theatrical theatrically blasphemous.

Like I believe the most successful worldwide tour was the Antichrist Superstar tour and Saturn right there in the ninth. Um and that was during his

the ninth. Um and that was during his Saturn return when he became um famous for blasphemy. And Fermicus says that uh

for blasphemy. And Fermicus says that uh Fermicus says that this person will be hated uh will be hated by gods and emperors alike. And so you have both um

emperors alike. And so you have both um like a religious uh disdain, right?

Where um um back in uh his heyday um there were there would be uh scads of religious protesters. Um, but that

religious protesters. Um, but that people were also concerned and condemnatory about Marilyn Manson from a secular angle as well. So, I was that

was one of the moments that sold me on 2,000-year-old delineations. Um, not

2,000-year-old delineations. Um, not just being hyperbolic and outdated. But

yeah, like literally a heresy configuration, right? Totally. Well, and I had talked

right? Totally. Well, and I had talked about this recently with like Madonna's chart where she has Mars in the ninth house and sometimes doing pushing boundaries religiously or doing things

that were perceived as heretical at the time like the music video for like a virgin was like hugely controversial at the time in the '8s

uh for example, but even more recently um you know we talked a lot last month about how this Mars Saturn conjunction was happening in Trump's 9inth house and how the ninth house related to foreign

countries thinking about the war with Iran but it's also the 9inth house so it's like of course he and the Mars Saturn Neptune conjunction is like he ends up like posting a picture of

himself as Jesus and then even his he gets in a fight with the pope of like the head of you know certain denomination of Christianity so that's pretty on the nose as well.

Yeah. Yeah. That's and he's got and though he doesn't have any planets in the ninth but the ruler of the ninth is Mars which is right on the ascendant in his nativity

right and one delineation in this instance is like posts picture of themsself as as Jesus right right who is yeah yeah well I mean

in many ways it shows you like what is what is the true source of his faith what does he believe in right yeah um okay so that was a Mars

Neptune thing. Another Mars, Saturn,

Neptune thing. Another Mars, Saturn, Neptune thing is um the weaponization of AI where early this month there were

these AI Lego music videos that were being produced um in connection with Iran that went viral. And I thought this was fascinating from an astrological

standpoint because it was like Mars was weaponizing the AI video of Saturn Neptune that we've been seeing growing and developing and becoming perfected

over the past few years. And um the videos were like these there was one company in particular that was producing them that the news reports were saying

was um being funded by Iran or something like that to make sort of like propaganda type videos and but they also

had music. There was like AI music raps

had music. There was like AI music raps basically which were kind of catchy but they were also just brutal and very cutting and there kept being more and more of them produced as the month

progressed so that it ended up centering especially on the Mars Neptune conjunction that went exact on April 13th which is really really interesting.

Yeah. And it it it makes a lot of sense astrologically that Mars coming to uh coming to join Saturn and Neptune weaponizes, right? Like we could

weaponizes, right? Like we could literally use that as a keyword for Mars. Like what does Mars do when it

Mars. Like what does Mars do when it comes to other planets? Like it figures out how to weaponize whatever is present there.

Absolutely. Yeah. Um, so I wrote down some headlines for some dates like April 2nd, Time magazine published a piece analyzing the psychological impact of

the videos dubbing it quote new age of AI propaganda or April 15th closer to the conjunction. The Guardian published

the conjunction. The Guardian published a major report declaring it that Iran is quote winning the propaganda war and quote against the US. So, um, it's interesting because this is kind of the

thing that we expected would be more prevalent in the 2024 presidential election, but the AI the AI didn't quite get there by that point to be as as impactful as it perhaps could have if if

that was happening today.

But on April 16th, just 3 days after the conjunction, in response to mounting pressure, YouTube officially banned the Iran linked explosive media accounts that were producing the main videos.

However, the attempts to suppress the content for the most part backfired because the ban drove massive engagement on X as well as Telegram where the

videos continued to rack up billions of cumulative views globally. So, um, part of the takeaway from that that was that the videos represented a significant tactical shift in modern psychological

warfare where it was in a way like weaponizing western internet culture and humor and recognizable intellectual property against the United States. And

I thought that was a really interesting um and unique manifestation, but it was very very distinctive.

Yeah. Yeah. No, and that's a good summary of it. Um, like that's um it's

um it it seemed um so we say it it reminds me of um some not too many years ago when um it was it began to be

recognized that drones were useful for all sorts of these things all sorts of things in um in warfare. And then that will just be the case forever. Like why

would we not why would you not use drones to spot for your artillery? Like

when these tools are out there like they just get picked up and become part of part of the game.

Yeah. When it was another Yeah. Like first instance rather like

Yeah. Like first instance rather like the first of um of the first instance of a a recognizable instance of a new normal rather than like look at this

crazy thing that happened this one time on this set of conjunctions.

Yeah. Well, and it was also another instance of big thing happens in February, which is the release of the Epstein files on the conjunction and then Saturn Neptune conjunction gets

reactivated in April where a lot of the focus of the videos, these music videos basically was like the Epstein files and stuff like that and saying things about things about that.

Yeah. Yeah. and and um you know one of the things that struck me was that even though the like low attention span sort

of anglophere internet culture has mostly moved on from the Epstein files.

It made me um sort it just made me reflect that the like the release well the the reality um or realities that

that those files indicate have um I don't know permanently but have done significant long-term damage to the United States credibility and reputation

and that just because you know the the news cycle isn't dwelling on it now doesn't mean that it hasn't lodged in the minds and perspective of people all

around the world.

Yeah. And and that actually reminds me like one of the weird things that came out of nowhere earlier this month was Melania just like gave a speech out of nowhere

talking about how she had no connection to the Epstein files. And so that was another way in which suddenly it came back again out of nowhere even though it didn't at the time it was a little

unclear even why that was happening.

Mhm. Mhm. Mhm.

Yeah. All right. Um, one other major Mars, Saturn, Neptune, that was a really he heavy one that happened this month was um I don't know how to summarize it,

but there was a story that came out about websites that were men who were like drugging their spouses and assaulting their partners and recordings

of this. And this um one of the there's

of this. And this um one of the there's many different angles and there's been a lot of different things written about of it. One of the unique things I wanted to

it. One of the unique things I wanted to add to the discussion was just that I thought it was a reactivation of again the Saturn Neptune conjunction from February because in February I talked

about how there was the case of the French woman Jazelle Pelott and her biography came out right on the Saturn Neptune conjunction in February like

within a day or something and she had been involved in the past few years as the Saturn Neptune conjunction was building which is a rep repetition of her own natal conjunction of um this

famous case where her partner had been drugging her and assaulting her and lots of other really terrible things connected with that, but that she um was very open with her story and she

published her biography and was trying to help raise awareness about this as a broader societal issue around the world.

But then um so that happened in February, but then 2 months later this went viral again based on a CNN story that was published in late March. But

for some reason it went viral in April and suddenly brought this to the attention of people that this is a far bigger, worse and more pervasive um

issue of this happening in in different organized ways. And so I wanted to

organized ways. And so I wanted to mention that because in the original Saturn Neptune research a year ago, we had picked up on a theme of poisonings

that had come up in history. And in

February, there was even a a report from some US government agency issuing an alert about increased cases of like of partners poisoning partners. But that

seems to be one of the weird themes about this conjunction then that's sort of getting reactivated now and then some of the adjacent things that come with it.

Yeah. Yeah. And that that of course um overlaps significantly with the the the the themes the what got uh the Epstein material.

And that also resonates with the, you know, like the 1989 90 um Saturn Neptune and the uh what got called the satanic

panic and the um rep like the the many reports of um sort of regular abuse of uh of a similar sort, not identical, but

um this does seem to be one of the heavier, as you put it, themes that s that comes up with Saturn Neptune.

Yeah. Well, and in the CNN article that I read, one of the people, one of the women, the victims was talking about how she was then being like gaslighted by her spouse afterwards who was saying like, "No, this is not happening or

you're just imagining things or something." And that really spoke to the

something." And that really spoke to the Saturn Neptune as well. But all all of that came out and there's a lot of discussion about it in the astrological community

um when the Aries stellium pileup peaked when there was like six planets in Aries including the moon and the sun around that new moon in Aries. So there was

just something very striking and and poignant about that happening this month that was also very very disturbing.

Yeah.

Yeah. Um okay. So, originally I was going to end the news section with like the Uranus and Gemini things. So, that's

like not a great way to end the news section, but may So, maybe to summarize, is there anything we forgot to mention or any news things that you can think of

um that we didn't cover?

Yeah, there are a few things. Um so in addition to um Mars visiting the Saturn Neptune conjunction weaponizing the existing AI

stuff which we've seen explode under Saturn Neptune. Um but we also saw a

Saturn Neptune. Um but we also saw a significant increase in criticism of um

uh AI especially uh LLMs um during that same period. Um and um part of it is uh

same period. Um and um part of it is uh a significant increase in articles speculating about the limitations of

LLMs being um the limitations being significantly greater than has been marketed. Um, and

a lot and in addition to that, a lot of there's been a lot of criticism in particular of Sam Sam Alman of Open AI

who's really been the poster boy for AI and Open AI being the sort of poster company for AI. Um, and so in addition

to significant criticism um uh of Sam Olman, the Mars in Aries cherry on top um is the uh is the fact

that uh there was a not very effective uh attempt to firebomb his house. A

Molotov cocktail was thrown. And that's

another again almost keyword for Mars or cliche for Mars, right? like like

throwing incendiaries.

Um and so yeah um and so yeah the the Mars in addition to weaponizing also um ratchets up the critique um you know and so yeah that that was a thing that

happened.

Yeah. Yeah. the um there there there's been some sort of pivot it seems like with open AAI ever since February where when the war started um there was also

that article that was written by the founder the president of Anthropic about you know whether the the AI could be

used in war and then since that time Anthropic stock price has skyrocketed and gone up quite a lot or or investments and different things like

that connected with it. Um whereas it seems like OpenAI has been having more problems with like closing Sora. Um

right now there's a whole thing happening about court case involving Elon Musk like suing them as well. Um so

it does seem like there's a lot of interesting issues there that coincided with Mars hitting the Saturn Neptune which is in some ways like piercing a little bit the bubble the AI bubble that

open AAI was the one that created or really helped to spearhead over the past few years. Yeah, the um critic the

few years. Yeah, the um critic the concerns and criticisms about open AI as perhaps the most egregiously bubbled um

have proliferated into um uh in proliferated across the the industry where people are looking at some of the like the rate of cash burn

just how expensive things are and how certain benchmarks of performance have not been delivered or been delayed and there's growing concern. Um, but it is

it is not a bubble pop moment. It will

probably look significant from the vantage point of whenever we get that bubble pop. Um, but you know, in that

bubble pop. Um, but you know, in that direction, but not the not the moment of maximum drama.

Well, yeah. I mean, because that's literally the only thing that's propping up the economy and the stock market right now is the huge investments in AI.

So if that if that bubble if and when that bubble does pop like that would be a turning point and would be disastrous.

Yeah. One of several factors that will um take us into a not so abundant time.

Yeah. On top of the energy shock on top of um the d uh on top of the housing market in the United States and on top of other things.

Yeah. It's one of the big ones.

All right, my friend. We could keep talking about news all day. Is Wait, was there a second story? Was that it?

I think that's it.

Okay. You didn't have like a fun one or like a positive No, no, the other one No, was about um fractured leadership and Yeah. Well, that that does sound fun,

Yeah. Well, that that does sound fun, but I don't know about you. I didn't I didn't have a great April and from what I could tell the world didn't have a great April. Uh maybe I need to travel

great April. Uh maybe I need to travel in time back to the moment that the Venus Jupiter sexile was perfect.

Probably had some really adorable times hanging out with my toddler. Um but

those aren't those aren't uh front of mind right now.

Yeah, I did notice around on the Mars na Saturn Mercury conjunction when it went exact I had like three different third house things all happen in the in the same

24-hour period where it was like um a neighbor like returned something of mine but it was damaged uh but it was an important thing. a listener gave me some

important thing. a listener gave me some tips on um like tangible tips on helping improve my voice like in terms of doing long recordings and my voice not getting

worn out which I started to implement which are great. And then like my uncle like called me out of nowhere. I hadn't

spoken to in a few years and it was all in the same like 24-hour period of having a pileup of planets in my third house of communication, extended

relatives and neighbors.

Yeah. So if anybody else Yeah, not too shabby. So, if anybody else had an

shabby. So, if anybody else had an interesting like activation of whatever house that conjunction of planets happened in, let us know in the YouTube comments.

All right, my friend. Let's take a little break and then we'll jump into the forecast.

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All right, my friend. Why don't we transition into talking about the astrology of May?

All right. Well, there's a full moon on the first day of the month.

Yeah. Let me put the uh planetary alignments calendar up just to give people that quick preview who are watching the video version on YouTube of what some of the major aspects are this month that we got coming up and that

we're going to be talking about here. Um

so, should we do big picture stuff sort of like I started with and then get into things? Should we go through

things? Should we go through chronological? What are you What are you

chronological? What are you What are you feeling today?

Yeah, I I I like a quick overview and then into the nitty-gritty and then a summary.

I like that that that uh five paragraph essay format.

All right. So, the big overview is, you know, this feels to me this feels like a month where everything's sandwiched in between those two harsh Mars aspects.

you know, not to be a downer and everything, um, since there's been so many tense aspects over the next the past few months, but it's like we open this month with that tense, as I said,

peace shattering Mars Jupiter square that happens in the first week of May.

And then towards the end of the month, we get that really tense and sometimes like violent Mars Pluto square that happens in the last week of May. And

then things are either scrunched in the middle of that or they are happening at the end of the month when we finally move into some really positive alignments for once in early June.

Yeah. Um I mean I share your opinion of the two Mars moments. Um I think the the

positive shifts um from the between the 18th through the 20th um outweigh that Mars. I really I really like how things

Mars. I really I really like how things look with some exceptions at the end of the month. Um you know we we get a

the month. Um you know we we get a better Mercury, we get in many way we get Mercury, Venus and Mars all more or

less improve their positions um with caveats. And so I I like I like the the last 10 days of the month and where things are during the end of the

month um will only get better during the next 101 15 days of uh of June. Um and

so we're we're we're headed out of the months of madness into a brief reprieve um is my my take on it. Um it's a brief

reprieve. there are months of madness um

reprieve. there are months of madness um uh uh scheduled uh scheduled for not that much later this year. Um but um I I think in general people will enjoy the

end of the month much more than the beginning of the month. I think that's true. I think we do have a brief

true. I think we do have a brief reprieve in early June, but I I think I don't want to overstate that because there's a obstacle course before we get there and it's not 10 days at the end of

the month because that Mars square with Pluto happens late. So the the window when the good stuff kicks in is much more narrow at the very end of May. Um

because here's the I'll I'll put up the chart for those watching the video version. There's that Mars Pluto square

version. There's that Mars Pluto square that's on May 25th. So that's already that's super late in the month and we don't really even get out of like 3deree

range land until what like 29th.

Um but and then we also have to clear this like Venus Saturn square on the 29th and then Venus is cruising into that conjunction with with Jupiter after

that. But it's like we're doing the next

that. But it's like we're doing the next forecast episode or I'm doing the next forecast episode by then where we'll be checking in with that.

Yeah. Yeah. It's um it's definitely uh it's on its way to a better place, but as you point out, there are um the Venus, Saturn, and the Mars Pluto both need to be cleared. I guess just the

directionality of that that knowing that right after those get cleared, things look as good as they as they're going to this year. Um gives me gives me a sense

this year. Um gives me gives me a sense that they're in a in a positive trajectory. And I, as I mentioned

trajectory. And I, as I mentioned earlier, I really like that Mars is leaving Aries, just leaving behind that co-presence with Saturn, Neptune. I

think is going to um bring down the the inflammation significantly.

Yeah, that's going to be a huge tone shift in the middle of the month on May 18th when Mars goes into Taurus, finally breaks that signbased conjunction with

Saturn and Neptune. The gas the the brakes perhaps are lifted off the gas a little bit at that time. Um,

and that's and it's this period I think that in overview is worth pointing out is between the 17th and the 20th we have Mercury, Venus, Mars and the Sun all

change signs, right? Mercury for

Mercury's into Gemini on the 17th and then on the 18th we get Mars or yeah, we get Mars and then Venus and then the Sun

on the 20th. And so that's that's just a huge shift in um uh in a in a very it's four planets in as many days. Um and so

that just changes the the feeling and we can uh leave aside whether it's for the better or for the worse. Um it's just really different. Um it's a it's like

really different. Um it's a it's like the the the the month up to the 17th is very different than the month after the 20th with the 17th through the 20th

being that major set of gear shifts.

Yeah, there's also some really nice sex tiles in the middle of the month. Um

there is first the sun hits that sexile with Jupiter around the 10th and then a couple days later Mercury sexiles Jupiter on the 12th and then later we

get Venus and Mars switching signs at the same time with Venus going to Cancer and Mars into Taurus and then Venus sexiles Mars right at that time which is a nice little described it as a central

aspect at the beginning but a nice little balance between those two two planets. Yeah. And um it's worth noting

planets. Yeah. And um it's worth noting that, you know, we're talking about sex tiles rather than massive piles of conjunction, which we have basically had

every month um of this year beginning in January. We've had um big pileups um

January. We've had um big pileups um with dramatic implications and effects in January, in February, in March and in

April. And so we're heading out of that

April. And so we're heading out of that everything mashed together in in dramatic assembly um situation which I'm

okay with.

Yeah. But it's like like I said at the beginning, we're not out of the woods because some some stuff hits the fan in the first week and so while Yeah. The first first half of the month

Yeah. The first first half of the month is just April part two.

Yeah. Exactly. So, while there's like great stuff to look forward to and want to instill some hope that there's some good aspects coming up in the opening of the month in the first week, this is the

one we've got to get through first, which is Mars hits about 19° of Aries and it squares Jupiter at 19° of Cancer.

And because Mars is earlier in the order of signs, Mars is actually in the dominant position where it's overcoming Jupiter and therefore afflicting it or

maltreating it. So that the the Martian

maltreating it. So that the the Martian warlike principle of Mars is winning out over the peace principle of Jupiter like

the peace and stability and the good thing principle of Jupiter. And this is further problematic because pretty much simultaneously

Pluto is slowing down and stationing retrograde at 5° of Aquarius right as that's happening. So there's like this

that's happening. So there's like this intensification of Pluto and then Mercury comes up and squares Pluto at the same time. Um

and we are just coming off a full moon in the sign of Mars, right? Scorpio on the first.

right? Scorpio on the first.

Yeah. The Yeah. And so we've got like which predisposes um the ensuing two weeks to Marshall activity. And so Mars is making that uh

activity. And so Mars is making that uh that square to Jupiter, Pluto, Mercury.

Yeah, it's um um there's uh what what reprieve may exist is not present in the first first week of the month at all. Um

it's if anything a reintensification.

Yeah. And it's like Mars is still within 10 degrees of Saturn at this point of that conjunction. Um it's pretty much

that conjunction. Um it's pretty much within 15 degrees of Neptune. So it's

like that is still very much operative.

And then all of a sudden we get Mars overwhelming Jupiter. And you know that

overwhelming Jupiter. And you know that keyword, like I said, peace shattering or breaking the peace worked really well in January cuz it literally was like right on the Mars Jupiter opposition

that the Venezuela military raid happened. Um,

happened. Um, so that's one element of things is having the reactivation of this tough lineup of planets in Aries that was

already so tense and where we had this tense peace for this like uncomfortable piece for like the past few weeks. Um,

but now with Mars hitting Jupiter, we've had previous Mars Jupiter aspects where there's been like an explosion like sometimes it's like you know large

explosion type energy both literally sometimes but also sometimes metaphorically in terms of the way that people experience that personally.

Yeah. Yeah. It's um Yeah. Sometimes you

have Jupiter magnifying what Mars does.

Yeah. And so that's happening. And at

the same time, Pluto is stationing at 5 degrees of Aquarius, which is as far into Aquarius as it's gotten um this time at at all since it since Pluto

moved into Aquarius a few years ago. And

then that point of 5° of Aquarius, it's just going to be hanging out at all month until eventually Mars comes up and squares it there from five Taurus. So, I

feel like anybody that's got stuff at 5° of the fixed signs is just really going to get kind of be getting nailed by that a couple of times this month. Both with

Pluto and the slow moving um feelings of intense overwhelming transformative, but sometimes very dark experiences that take you to the

underworld and then eventually you have to emerge out from from under. um gets

emphasized twice this month both when Pluto first stations at five Aquarius and Mercury squares it but then also when Mars comes up there because I

remember the last few Mars Pluto aspects it's like you know sometimes it's extreme instances of violence like the Mars Pluto square that happened in um

October of 2023 right 22 so that was like October October 7th and then everything that came after that. Um

then there was last year there was um a terrorist thing that happened on New Year's when there was the Mars Pluto opposition and there was

like a truck that was blown up in front of a hotel uh I think in Vegas and there was like one other incident. Those fires

started in LA around that time that then like wiped out so many homes. And then

during the very last Mars Pluto opposition was when the Pope died and his funeral happened like right on the Mars Pluto opposition when the two of

the the ancient classical gods associated with the underworld which are Pluto and um in ancient astrology Mars and the Babylonian Nurgal um came into

that close alignment and there's this this literally like leaders from around the world like flying and to mourn the death of like a world leader.

Yeah. Yeah. Mars Pluto Mars Pluto annihilates um and creates fear and so that's by far the most difficult thing that occurs at the end of the month.

Yeah. Like everything is just sandwiched between those two aspects. So it's like we have two really tense ones at the beginning and end and then we have some good stuff in the middle sprinkled in

the middle and good stuff especially forming at the very end as a light does start to form as we after we get to the very depths of the the sort of cavern

that Mars and Saturn take us Mars and Pluto take us to.

So that's the large framing. The other

large framing, the last large framing thing I want to do is um last year when Uranus briefly dipped into Gemini, we didn't end up getting a Sun Uranus or a

Mercury Uranus conjunction in Gemini.

They happened in Taurus a year ago, but this year is unique cuz we're going to get our very first conjunctions where first on the 17th and 18th, Mercury it

ingresses into Gemini and then it conjoins Uranus in its home sign. So, we

get our very first Mercury Uranus conjunction of this 7-year period that we'll see many more of. And then a few days later, the sun moves into

Gemini and conjoins Uranus on the 22nd.

And we get our very first reset of the synotic cycle between the Sun and Uranus and Gemini, which again is the first of like six or seven of these over the next seven years.

Yeah, it's it's a significant moment.

Yeah, it's a significant moment because some of the themes, you know, those conjunctions are going to be seed planting moments. So, there's going to

planting moments. So, there's going to be some things that are created or born at that time that will spark some of the technological the innovations and

technology and communications and travel that we're expecting from this Uranus transit over the next seven years, the rapid advancements in those areas.

um there's going to be some seeds planted at that time we're going to have to pay attention to that will be born and begin to grow around those two conjunctions especially even though

they're they're otherwise light passing conjunctions I think they're going to be more important because they're happening at the beginning of this larger transit and that's probably also true in terms of each of us personally whatever house

Uranus has just moved into um those being seed planting moments for some of the things that are going to grow or and develop over the next seven

Yeah, there um absolutely. Um

I I are are we going to come back to this when we do it sequentially?

Um yeah, I just wanted to I feel like we strayed significantly from the overview. Um because I have things to say, but if we're just going to come back I

I mean I wanted to mention this because this in my outline is my overview of two of the most important aspects of this month. But that's those are the last two

month. But that's those are the last two I wanted to mention.

Okay.

Yeah. So, um you want to go through sequentially now?

Well, that um I I we just said that's what we're going to do. We don't have to, but I'm um I I need to know what structure we're using if we're not doing what we just said.

I'm just making I'm just making sure you're done with the o you didn't have any other overview things to say.

No, no, I like I like a I like a quicker survey. All right, that's good. So,

survey. All right, that's good. So,

let's back it up to May 1st because we're actually recording this in order to get a decent election for recording and releasing this episode. We're

actually recording this on April 30th and we're releasing it on May 1st and that is the first day of the month. It

coincides with our first alignment of the month which is the month opens with a full moon in the sign of Scorpio right at the very top of the month. Right.

Indeed. Yeah. First day of the month, full moon in Scorpio.

So, there are a couple things I think worth noting about this. Um, one, um, so this is

Mars ruled, um, lunation.

Hold on a sec. The mic cut out. I think

I think your main mic got unplugged.

All right.

Yeah. Sorry about that. So, the month kicks off with the full moon in Scorpio.

Um the moon in Scorpio is the moon in a Mars ruled sign. So we have more uh we continue the emphasis on Mars. Our

last lunation before this full moon in Scorpio was the new moon in Aries also Mars ruled um which we had in the middle

of April. But now we begin May with

of April. But now we begin May with another Mars ruled uh lunation. And as

we uh as we just talked about, Mars is still doing dramatic things. Mars is

closing in on the superior square to Jupiter. Um potentially wrecking what

Jupiter. Um potentially wrecking what what piece um ease or slack is present or at least pressurizing them on a more

individual level. And so it is um um it

individual level. And so it is um um it is uh in many ways it's going to feel like April did. Um not not a whole not a

whole lot of um not a whole lot of relief present yet.

Yeah. I think um I like this day in isolation just cuz once the full moon goes exact in Scorpio even though it's ruled by Mars it then applies to that nice trine with Jupiter and Cancer. So

that it's a full moon so it's feeling like a high energy day and like a culmination of some events but there is some buoyancy or a little bit of optimism um just in terms of the short

term that day with the moon applying to trine Jupiter and baking that into our full moon chart for for that period of time. Yeah, it is nice that the moon

time. Yeah, it is nice that the moon after opposing the sun moves into that nice trine with Jupiter and um and so

like it um how should we say the like as a as a lunation it doesn't doesn't negate the difficulties or stresses but

it uh it suggests with the moon's application to Jupiter that there are ways to better adapt to it. There are

ways to repair things that may have gotten busted. um along the way um or

gotten busted. um along the way um or and that there uh there may also be ways to um how should we say uh shield or protect against further wear and tear or

damage right there. The Jupiter gives some some options to reduce the negative little padding um and maybe repair some difficulties and make some progress

regardless of the difficult ongoing situation.

Yeah. Yeah. And um you know with it being ruled by Mars and that bringing the Mars Jupiter square into focus which then just just ramps up and accelerates

over the next few days after that. Um

some of the delineations of Mars Jupiter sometimes can be taking um decisive action uh towards something but sometimes like moving too fast or

expanding too quickly and sometimes even like recklessly in order to attempt to accomplish something. And I feel like

accomplish something. And I feel like that sets a little bit of tone for the first week as we're having not just the full moon but also moving into that Mars Jupiter square.

Yeah. Yeah. There's a there's definitely an intensity and a drive. The the pacing is not particularly uh sustainable. Um but sometimes

uh sustainable. Um but sometimes sometimes that's just not the pace of things and you've got to you've got to push for a little bit to catch up or to keep from falling behind.

Yeah, that's a great point because especially because Mars is like still coming off. It's coming off of that

coming off. It's coming off of that conjunction with Saturn which is all about slowing down and restricting movement and like holding Mars back whereas Jupiter is the opposite. that

Jupiter is like throwing gasoline on the fire and telling Mars to just like go go go and the speed principle of Mars like

increasing like it now now the um the brakes have been lifted your foot has been taken off the brakes and they're fully on the gas and it's like moving

forward at a rapid pace.

Yeah. With a full moon's worth of fuel tank.

Exactly. So high energy. So, we come into the month pretty high energy then and um it looks like Mercury changes signs and and finally dips out of of

Aries at this time and moves into the sign of Taurus where it starts building up very quickly cuz it's moving fast.

It's moving like a couple degrees a day towards that square with Pluto and that's going to be one of our characteristic aspects of Pluto station.

But then the Mars Jupiter square culminates on May 4th. Um

culminates on May 4th at 19° of Aries to 19° of Cancer.

Uh is do you have is there anything else to say about that aspect like peaking at that time or culminating at that time?

Um, not in I mean we do have it is interesting that we have the moon in perfect aspect to that Mars in another

fire sign that day, right? And so the like the the moon is very strongly supporting um and fueling the Marshall side of that.

Um yeah, so yeah, I mean definitely it's definitely go go go. It'll be

interesting to see to what degree. Um it

uh it it it uh it um marks a resumption of more active hostilities internationally.

Yeah, that's definitely one of our main um target points for that of of an a significant exchange and uh sort of explosions and things like that around

that time.

Oh, go ahead.

No, go ahead. I was just going to say, you know, like um because if if we're if we're looking at the movement of the planets in this first part of May

relative to this really intense deadlock between Mars and Saturn, which looked like a dual blockade, right? Um at least in the the largest of theaters. Um and

we're looking at what like what is there anything that breaks that deadlock? What

does it what does that look like as Mars as you uh as you just said like as Mars moves away from Saturn and we have Mars

like super um we have Mars boosted magnified um um and in many ways in control of things um with a lot of

support um by this point on May 4th, right? So things are really getting

right? So things are really getting moving after that period of deadlock.

Yeah. And maybe that's worth then even though in the when you do the numbers like Mars wins out in this instance. So

there were primarily delineating this square is negative because the malefic has the upper hand.

Jupiter squaring Mars will have some positive benefits for Mars. Some

affirming things like affirming and saying yes to whatever it is that Mars wants to do. And that's part of why we're delineating it as like speeding up and going fast. Um, and the pace of

things starting to quicken, especially coming off of the full moon. Um, other

positive things that Jupiter might be saying yes to when it comes to Mars can be acting more decisively and directly after a period of either indecision or

going too long without taking action.

like inaction was a major theme of Mars, Saturn, Neptune. So all of a sudden um

Saturn, Neptune. So all of a sudden um taking decisive action and doing things in a more direct manner and a more decisive manner I think a lot of people are going to be experiencing with this

square.

Yeah, absolutely. especially um because in a lot of cases the the experience will be trying to do something but with a lot of resistance and other things

keep getting in the way and so um you know we come to May and a lot of things haven't gotten done but finally um like the the road is opening up and um people

can floor it without having to drag a two-tonon cinder block behind them. And

so there's there's a there's a there's the release of uh there's a release from the frustration. Um and you know when

the frustration. Um and you know when people can go as fast as they want in their cars, they don't always make wise decisions, but it is nonetheless um like

a a bit of a an exciting relief to be able to floor it. You may, you know, floor it into the car in front of you or into a wall, but there is nonetheless a

freedom of uh of motion and action. It's

not a It's not a low-key week. It's not

a a take it easy low-key week this first week of May.

No, it's just not. It's like the It's like a cruising it down the autobond as opposed to like we had been stuck in traffic in like the LA freeway or something like that for the past few

weeks.

Yeah. Yeah. the Autobon with Yeah. Um, more like more like a like a

Yeah. Um, more like more like a like a video game combat version of the of the Autobon.

Okay. So, that though is not the only thing going on because we see Pluto's like stationing this entire time and it finally stations on the 6th and 7th and

of May and that's right as Mercury comes up and squares it around May 5th and 6th. So on the one hand um we have to

6th. So on the one hand um we have to think about Pluto and like what Pluto's been doing over the past few years. One

of the primary things that we've seen is like massive technological transformations through the you know as soon as Pluto went into Aquarius we started seeing

this stuff with artificial intelligence breaking out and the way that that's already transformed so many different things in the world in different different ways. um that reaching some

different ways. um that reaching some sort of turning point here as Pluto stations which may be even more important now that it's not just Pluto stationing but also Uranus has gone into

Gemini so that we're building up to that trine between Uranus and Pluto that's going to be happening over the next few years which will just massively accelerate some of the the technological

transformations and changes that have already been happening. I feel like we get a really important turning point with that here for some reason this month at the beginning of May.

Yeah, it's interesting. So, it's a um it's a retrograde station for Pluto. So,

it's marking as far as Pluto's gotten into Aquarius and as far as it's going to get um for most of this year, right?

because Pluto will be pulling away um uh pulling back until moving forward again much later um to exceed this point. But

this is um you know it's almost like planting the flag on the moon and then going back to Earth, right? So the

station shows it's gotten this far, right? Um and most of us are not caught

right? Um and most of us are not caught up with as far as it has actually gotten. And so the station will make

gotten. And so the station will make that clear and doubly so because Mercury is tightly configured to it via square

just as Pluto is planting that flag. And

so that Mercury Pluto squares um Mercury is not necessarily celebratory um of what what's happening with Pluto. Um you

know the squares by nature awkward and brings out arguments or conflicts between planets. Um and so you know a

between planets. Um and so you know a lot of times Mercury Pluto gives a like kind of haunted um thinking or you know

paranoid or you know is if it's paranoid whether it's paranoid or not depends on whether they are actually have to get

you. Um but like paranoid about like um

you. Um but like paranoid about like um concerned maybe preoccupied with ominous big picture stuff which is what Pluto

does. like big slowm moving um like you

does. like big slowm moving um like you know uh uh yeah big slowmoving things that are somewhat ominous and inexurable and so Mercury gets occupied

with looking at just how far Pluto's come and the implications of that.

Yeah, we've seen a lot over the past several years of for doing the forecasts of Mercury Pluto hard aspects sometimes coinciding with um reporters doing

investigative reports and looking into dark underworldly things that are happening behind the scenes and then doing some sort of expose of that where Mercury is like bringing to light

something that someone or some group of people wanted to keep hidden or secret but only as a result of a persistent

investigative or reportive type research like a Sherlock Holmes type situation or you got me to after one Mars Pluto Mercury Pluto aspect you got me to watch that one series uh

True Detective True Detective which is a good Mars Mercury Pluto uh themed show.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um yeah, there's absolutely that um like seeking the the hidden truth. Um, it's Mercury, Pluto,

hidden truth. Um, it's Mercury, Pluto, squares, conjunctions, and oppositions are very disclosure themed, like like, "Oh my god, look at what's been

happening the whole time."

Yeah, absolutely. Um, so on a personal level, sometimes they can be kind of obsessive though and for some people if it's hitting a hard aspect in your chart of something like a conjunction square

opposition and fixed signs, there might be a thought or or something that you're just really focused on that day that you keep obsessing about and you have a hard time turning your attention away from.

And that'll be a little bit more intense this time just because it's not just a passing Mercury aspect. that'll be the most intense that day, but just because there's also this station. So, our

attention is being drawn towards something, but it's being drawn in a way that's that's causing us to think very deeply about it and to focus on it very intensely.

Yeah.

Yeah. um

in passing um you know we had talked in the past few months about like um you know Zillinsk's sun being at 5 degrees of Aquarius in the 9inth house and Lisa Lisa had actually highlighted that as a

really important aspect and just the fact that that's stationing there. I'm

going to be paying attention to an important development taking place either with Sinsky or with Russia at this time just because having Pluto station right on your son is a pretty

intense transit but having it in the ninth house where it's like the leader of a country is locked in a war with another country um it seems like a important turning point there.

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.

All right. So, Mercury, Pluto, uh it may also be important in terms of like the US and the country because some of the um things about the Pluto return for the

United States when the government was set up when Pluto was in Aquarius seem like they're becoming really important right now. already mentioned some of

right now. already mentioned some of those like the voting rights act, some of the other things are happening right now, probably a turning point with that as well and some of the ongoing process

of structural decay at this point and and dismantling um reaching a turning point in early May I'll be paying attention to also.

Yeah, that's a great point.

All right. So after that, after that tense thing, you know, it's still going to be some days before those aspects move away. As we move through the the

move away. As we move through the the last week, last of the first week of April, um Mars doesn't get outside of the 3 degree range of Jupiter until like

the the 8th or the 9th, for example, or the 10th. So we're still coming out of

the 10th. So we're still coming out of some of those aspects for quite a while.

and the repercussions or the echoes or what's the word for like the the shock waves of some of that are still hitting during

the rest of that that first uh 10 days of of May.

Yeah. Especially because there's nothing there's nothing else to like there's nothing else dramatic that distracts from that for better or worse, for good

or for evil like like the Yeah. like th

those uh the ripples of that first week are free to continue um well into the second week. Mercury, you know, Mercury

second week. Mercury, you know, Mercury once passing that that square Pluto um you know starts to disappear from the morning sky um becoming invisible and

we'll be headed towards the sun for the next couple weeks um and invisible for a little bit more than that. But um you know that's a like and I'm going to I'm going to what?

And Jupiter.

Yeah.

Mercury to Jupiter, right? Um yeah, it'll it'll get there.

right? Um yeah, it'll it'll get there.

Um but um that's not the first uh it's going to Yeah. Anyway, point being um it'll take a little bit and so the the intensity of the first week doesn't just

end um at the end of the first week. Um

we need we need Mercury to as you just pointed out um make that aspect to Jupiter. Um what is it on the 12th 13th?

Jupiter. Um what is it on the 12th 13th?

Yeah, there's these two positive two or more positive aspects this month is the sun sexiles Jupiter on the 10th and then Mercury sexile Jupiter on the 12th and those do kind of break.

It's nice because we get these two positive aspects coming in right as Mars has moved outside of the 3°ree range with Jupiter. So that there there's a

with Jupiter. So that there there's a lightly positive affirming optimistic sort of hope oriented couple of aspects

even though it's weak and ultimately not going to be a huge thing to write home about in terms of completely like fixing all the chaos that just broke out with Mars square Jupiter. There's at least

this light couple of days where where there's some hopeful affirming aspects.

Yeah. there's like um some nice things that happen or some some ways to mitigate some of the difficulties especially on a personal level, right?

Like the uh um a sun Jupiter sexile is not going to rearrange geopolitical affairs. Um but um that the the sun and

affairs. Um but um that the the sun and then Mercury's um backto-back sexiles with Jupiter will um be opportunities to kind of keep things together and

strengthen them or put them back together after um you know what may have been a first first week of April with plenty of wear and tear or almost first

two weeks with plenty of wear and tear.

Yeah, definitely. So after that point in terms of like major aspects we see um Venus starts heading into that

sexile with Mars as well and Mercury and the sun. I guess we have a kazmi and a

the sun. I guess we have a kazmi and a reset of that cycle in Taurus around the 13th and 14th and then the sun and Mercury start very quickly heading for

the exit and heading for Gemini and heading for Mercury's home sign.

Yep. Yeah, we've got um yeah, we get we finally get Mercury and the sun together in the third deck in of Taurus and then um shortly thereafter we get a new moon in Taurus.

Oh, there it is. Yeah.

And new new moon at 20 25 Taurus looks like 25 26.

Yeah, it's a little it's a little closer to Kaput Alol than I would like it to be. um you know which is a a fixed star

be. um you know which is a a fixed star with um a deservedly fearsome reputation put to owl just call it this fixed star owl. It like familiarizes it.

owl. It like familiarizes it.

Oh but there there are so many owls though.

That's true. Okay. Um

so new moon in Taurus. So that's the other side of our you know there's definite like closing down of one cycle that we've been in for the past month with this new moon and the opening of a

new one cuz this is also like right before Mars changes signs and completes its trip through through Aries and moves into Taurus and it's right before Mercury and the sun move into Gemini and

Venus and Venus leaves Gemini moves into so this is a huge um turning point then at this point in the month this new moon on May 16th which just happens to fall

right in the month that evenly divides us between the first half of the month where we're still dealing with all of that Aries stuff and we're having the full moon and we're having Pluto station

and Mercury square it and then this is the the turning point where we'd close that chapter and we open up a a fresh one and there's a huge vibe shift that takes place because all of the planets

change signs.

Yeah. We basically get um like a a a planet changing signs every day for the next um 4 days. We get new moon and then a planet changes and then the next day a planet changes. The next day a planet

planet changes. The next day a planet changes then the next day a planet changes. So it's very transitional that

changes. So it's very transitional that like 16th through the 20th.

Yeah. Very transitional. I like I like the transition in terms of like one of one part of the transition is Venus sexiles Mars which is just like a

lightly positive and uh balancing aspect between those two energies that are so polar opposite but sometimes in the past

we've seen hard Mars Venus aspects have things about like gender conflicts between the genders like gender wars sometimes even like bad stories coming

up in the news about inappropriate like sexual things, but this is a sex tile.

So, it's the more like lightly positive constructive version of that, which is why in the overview I divi I described it as like a lightly sensual aspect.

Yeah, it can definitely it can definitely do that. And it yeah it helps um uh the the planet of conflict and the

planet of harmony between people um like have a constructive relationship, right?

Because and any sufficiently good relationship has a um has figured out how to how to mediate the need for conflict and the need for um harmony,

right? And so like it's um it's a nice

right? And so like it's um it's a nice point. It's a It's a nice point between

point. It's a It's a nice point between the two.

Yeah. How to find a balance between give and take.

Yeah. Give and take and um uh passion and quietude. You know, some it's nice

and quietude. You know, some it's nice to just relax with somebody and u sometimes a little friction is necessary so nobody gets bored. Um but and when

those two things are in accord people are happy and uh when they are not right um especially when conflict is uh

conflict is unmitigated um by the um by peace then you know you have war on a variety of levels. So yeah it's a nice

moment. It's not hugely powerful um but

moment. It's not hugely powerful um but I'll take it.

Yeah. I just like it because I noticed also that the moon conjoins Venus in Cancer like right as that's happening.

Um it hits Venus at like 29 maybe zero cancer and then Venus immediately sexiles Mars. So there's just some cool

sexiles Mars. So there's just some cool some nice little nice little lovely aspects going on there. a little give and take, little balance between principle of like selfishness versus the

principle of, you know, sharing with another and having a nice nice little day there, I think.

Yeah, for sure. Well, and at that point, Venus is still um early enough in Cancer that it's uh coming into a square with Neptune rather than the harshness of the

square with Saturn. And a little little square with Neptune might be a little a little delusional, but it's not um uh it's not as blatantly unpleasant or

unfortunate as the square with Saturn, which Venus will have to cross before getting to that lovely conjunction with Jupiter in June.

Yeah, that's a really good point. So

like the lightly favorable sensual aspect of Venus sexile Mars is sort of coinciding with one of those otherwise usually

somewhat lovely romantic aspects between Venus and Neptune that is usually in this instance it's a square so it's a bit divorced from reality and it's a bit

um overly idealistic or romantic about what the actual situation is but what otherwise is kind of uh at the time can be a lovely if somewhat somewhat

misleading aspect.

Yeah. Yeah. um you know it it with Neptune Venus aspects um especially the um the the 180 and the 90 um and the

conjunction um it just makes you you just need to think about what is the value of escapism right like one cannot live one one's lifestyle cannot be escapism um but a

little bit of an escape here and there is a is a beautiful thing that actually helps you go back to go back to and shoulder your your burdens

somewhat refreshed. You just can't

somewhat refreshed. You just can't mistake a lovely escape from the you know u the the plotline of life itself.

Yeah. Sometimes it makes life worth living and each of us tell ourselves stories that are stories that sometimes

help give meaning and purpose and also a sense of magic or romance to things. And

sometimes that serves a really important function that can be really good. And

and it reminds me that you know Venus going into Cancer is also the beginning of its co-presence with Jupiter. So

there is something grounded and positive and hopeful and optimistic that's building up there. Even if Venus has to get through the somewhat unrealistic

square with Neptune as well as a somewhat cold and distant square with Saturn first before it can truly make that conjunction or complete that conjunction with Jupiter.

Yeah. But Right. But that's what it's moving towards is um an unambiguously positive configuration which is only a couple weeks away from that ingress.

Yeah. Literally our best configuration of the year is coming up in June with that Venus Jupiter conjunction in Cancer and Venus just has to clear Neptune and clear Saturn especially. It's weird at

the very end of the month. That's our

last sort of harsh aspect right after the Mars Pluto square is Venus needing to get through the square with Saturn first, which with Saturn in the superior

position. It's like Venus is coming off

position. It's like Venus is coming off of this lovey sort of uh sexile with Mars and this square with Neptune that's all magical, but then there's like a

cold water that kind of gets dumped on Venus's head for a day here around May 28th that probably won't feel super good or at least at the very least where the reality of the situation might become

more apparent and some restrictions or things that are not ideal set in. Um but

it's a it's a passing aspect. Yeah, it

is passing and yeah, sometimes and the yeah, Saturn Saturn especially in this position in a superior square definitely restricts um the joy that Venus might

otherwise feel and maybe that's by emphasizing the limitations of a relationship or um uh you know uh the drawbacks like just

dwelling upon the negative. But it can also be um I you know I'm so ready to go play outside but I have so much work to do.

Mhm. Right.

Into the desk and then um you know once I clear that square to Saturn then I can go play with Jupiter.

Right. Saturn. Yeah. Saturn just brings sometimes the restriction isn't within the relationship itself. it's just

within life, but it uh restricts the fun time you might otherwise be having.

Or it's like the marriage is about to take place, but you have to do some of the paperwork ahead of time and figure out the details before the agreement can be fully made or entered into.

Yeah. Yeah. You got to go through the the anxiety producing um couple weeks leading up to it, right? Nice. Okay. I like that. So,

right? Nice. Okay. I like that. So,

let's back up a little bit though, cuz really quickly we did have Mercury going into Gemini and then the sun going into Gemini. Both the days have the potential

Gemini. Both the days have the potential for some curve balls and some unexpected disruptions, but also potentially some excitement and again some um some speed,

some sudden like forward movement that comes out of nowhere, especially May 17th when Mercury conjoins Uranus at one degree of Gemini making its very first

conjunction in that sign for the next 7 years. And then a few days later, the

years. And then a few days later, the sun goes in and conjoins Uranus on the 22nd, beginning a new sonotic cycle with Uranus in that sign and planting some

seeds that will not just grow over the next year, but probably over the next seven years as well.

Yeah, it's um right like as you mentioned earlier, it's the it's going to be the very first time that Mercury has conjoined Uranus and Gemini and the very first time that the sun has conjoined Uranus and Gemini. Um and so

there should be again uh although there there may be curveballs or surprises not all of them pleasant um there's a uh an uh there's a a freshness to it right

like Mercury's getting some new ideas like the sun is seeing um like a very innovative revolutionary if perhaps unsafe

um Uranus like meeting like having their first uh their first meeting about what they're going to do over this whole next here. Um, and so, you know, I think for

here. Um, and so, you know, I think for a lot of people there will be an experience of thinking about finding themselves thinking about things in a new way or thinking about a situation or

thinking about the world. Um, and yeah, there's there's a there's a freshness that I'm looking forward to here. Um,

there's a lot of a lot of things have grown quite stale and a lot of ideas have demonstrated to be bad ones, but have not been replaced with better

thinking. You know, it's one thing to

thinking. You know, it's one thing to recognize an idea is not great, but when no other ideas have presented themselves, when it's just a variety of

um stale, perhaps even decomposing ideas to choose from, it's really not that much of a choice. And so, I'm looking forward to uh Uranus and Gemini and

these conjunctions with it, introducing some new things, maybe ways to get from here to there that we haven't thought of. um ways to think about things that

of. um ways to think about things that we haven't thought at least not in a long time.

Yeah. And it because it's happening in Gemini and it's like Uranus in Gemini now. It has this like light chatty

now. It has this like light chatty energy to me. It reminds me of an analogy of like meeting up with a friend at a coffee shop and and drinking a strong cup of coffee and then the two of

you just get chatting together and like talk for the entire afternoon. Um, both

of the day those days really remind me of that kind of vibe and and just the entirety of Mercury and the Sun moving into Gemini with Uranus feel like a much

lighter chatty energy um during early during this part of the second half of May, the later part of May and the early part of June.

Yeah. Yeah. And stimulating be another word I That's a that's good. That's the key word.

Stimulating. Um, I mean actually that's funny cuz I think Norwak will be happening around that time, right? So

there will be actually astrologers getting together and talking and having fun and literally drinking coffee,

right? Um, okay, brilliant. So, and

right? Um, okay, brilliant. So, and

that's the Northwest Astrology Conference. Side side plug for that

Conference. Side side plug for that happening in May.

I'll be there um doing a pre-conference workshop, giving a talk.

Nice. Everyone should check that out. My

Gemini moon will clearly be stemmed up.

Yeah, everyone can buy Austin a cup of coffee so he spazzes out during his workshop.

Um, all right. So, um, the other vibe shift though we need to talk about is one you mentioned, which is what happens when Mars leaves from Aries but also

goes into Taurus and how that's going to be a huge vibe shift in a number of different ways. Not just because it then

different ways. Not just because it then begins the buildup to the square with Pluto, which is one part of that as a looming thing that starts increasing at that point, but also just because it

goes into Taurus and it moves into I mean, interestingly, for the first time, the first Mars and Taurus transit we've had in like seven or eight years without Uranus there, which is going to be a different vibe.

But you know, sometimes one of the people actually I think about with that transit is that always always ends up being a super important transit for Trump anytime Mars goes into Taurus because it

goes into his 10th 10th whole sign house. And in the past decades sometimes

house. And in the past decades sometimes some of the instances where he gets the greatest push back have coincided with that transit. like um the day of January

that transit. like um the day of January 6th, Mars went from Aries into Taurus literally that evening as it was all

unfolding and um you know 2024, the summer of 2024 in the presidential election. A bunch of stuff happened when

election. A bunch of stuff happened when Mars went through Taurus. Um so we'll be looking at a at a pivotal point for him as well around this time.

Yeah. during the Mars and the the six weeks or so that Mars is in Taurus or are you saying the pivotal are you saying a pivotal point on the ingress

during the entirety of that transit because usually it's like um a bunch of dust starts getting kicked up usually at the beginning of that transit as soon as it ingresses for him but it usually

culminates around the time that it hits his mid heaven later in the sign around 23 24 like for example in early 2020 early 2021. It's like January 6th

early 2021. It's like January 6th happens on the Ingress. But then when Mars hit his midheaven, I think he was impeached like the second time and he started getting kicked off the social

networks and things like that. So that

there was a real beginning and then culmination thing. But I guess I'm just

culmination thing. But I guess I'm just saying I'll be paying attention to this transit and his chart just because Mars 10th house transits tend to be very important for him.

Yeah. And it it'll be really interesting to see what Mars and Taurus does when Uranus is not there because Mars Uranus co-presents and conjunctions are always

electric no matter what sign they're in.

Um and whereas normally like Taurus is not a high octane um sign for Mars. It's usually um with you know with Uranus not there um

Mars's movement from Aries to Taurus is usually a a stepping down um of the of like the intensity of conflict and the

the desire for conflict. Ongoing

conflicts tend to take on like a slower, more measured perhaps grindy or stagnant pace. Um

pace. Um but um but yeah, we we'll see. um that

has not been the case when Uranus was there in Taurus, but now Uranus is no longer there. So, we kind of are going

longer there. So, we kind of are going to get to know Mars in Taurus again. Um,

nonetheless, yeah, it is a blessing that Mars's movement into Taurus not only takes it out of a very high octane place for Mars being Aries, but it also takes

it out of the same sign as Saturn as Mars Saturn uh co-resences and conjunctions are always brutal though in a variety of ways.

Yeah. Uh, so it removed some of the restrictions and the things that were holding Mars back that were interesting during its move through its home sign, which was also kind of interesting because there was reception there. And I

discovered recently that that was the only Mars Saturn conjunction we're actually going to have in Aries. The

next one happens in Taurus in a couple years, which is pretty wild.

Yeah, it happens like right after Saturn's ingress, right? So, it's going to be it's going to look like Mars is going to hit Saturn and Aries, but then

Saturn's going to sneak off into Taurus.

Yeah. So, it's like normally we would be moving from a more fast-paced Mars in Aries to a more slow and plotting Mars

in Taurus. But um you know the fact that

in Taurus. But um you know the fact that Mars is coming off of the conjunction with Saturn, I don't know how that math ends up working out if we also feel like there's some release from restrictions

at that time.

It's a good question, right? Um because

yeah, because Saturn had like we've seen Saturn be restrictive um during the the conjunction, right? There was a a brutal

conjunction, right? There was a a brutal and destructive deadlock um during the exact conjunction. Um and we'll see how

exact conjunction. Um and we'll see how um how should we say how free Mars feels during the second half of its time in Aries, right? Which yeah um we've got

Aries, right? Which yeah um we've got weeks of yeah we've got the square of Jupiter.

Um but yeah, usually on its own Mars and Taurus is slower, more measured, less excited about starting fights. Um, and

it's worth noting that whatever Mars and Taurus is, it's what precedes Mars's conjunction with Uranus when it enters Gemini at the very end of June and then

conjoints Uranus at the beginning of July. So,

July. So, right. Well, that's what I was wondering

right. Well, that's what I was wondering about his chart is just like what the hell is it going through the 10th culminating hitting the midheaven and peaking at that time but then hitting

Uranus in late June and early July which is one of the most problematic aspects that we we've been looking forward to this year when Mars conjoins Uranus and

Gemini for the first time on the 4th of July. Yeah, I think that um I think

July. Yeah, I think that um I think we'll probably get some version of the slower Mars during this Mars in Taurus.

Um because in in Taurus um Mars is in Venus's territory and Venus uh of course does the square to Saturn which though

not pleasant for Venus means that Mars's ruler is also impeded by Saturn more slowness and then Venus moves into that conjunction with Jupiter which you can

have you know kind of a sleepy warrior but if they are being directed by um like the most benefic um peaceful uh

pair uh pair in the sky is probably not going to be doing crazy violence. Um

we'll see. All bets are off in this during this period of history. But I my guess is that relative to what we get in July and what we had um in April in the

first half of May that we're going to get a slower Mars.

Yeah.

Could be wrong. Just just thinking about it. Having Uranus depart from there

it. Having Uranus depart from there certainly brings the speed of Taurus down a bit compared to what it has been.

I've already seen a bunch of the people with like Taurus prominent in their chart like the Taurus risings are already just like immediately have vibe shifted out of like a major chapter that

they've been in for the past seven or eight years since 2018 2019 and are already clearly moving into a huge new chapter of their life where things are going to become less

up in the air and less erratic and less volatile, less volatile, less revolutionary, less um trying to change things suddenly and rearrange major parts of their life. Um

that's been fascinating to see just in the past week that shift with Taurus people and um you know maybe part of the vibe here is like make Taurus slow again. Um,

again. Um, you know, Taurus is supposed to be those tangible things. And we've seen over the

tangible things. And we've seen over the past seven to eight years, Uranus going through there and all of a sudden like Taurus getting digitalized with like Bitcoin and like digital currencies

suddenly becoming popularized and now finally we get it moving out of there and maybe Taurus will go back to being like earthy and slow again.

Yeah. Make Taurus boring again, right?

Um, or reliable. I'll give a I'll give a more reliable. make our Taurus people

more reliable. make our Taurus people more reliable again. But this month at least though, we've got some some Mars stuff going on. So, there are um Martian qualities that will be happening with

Taurus. We have to talk about this

Taurus. We have to talk about this square because this is our second most tense aspect of the month that goes exact around the 25th of May when Mars

hits 5° of Taurus and squares Pluto. And

I know we've mentioned this already, but I want to make sure we give it ample time that this is our our second tricky aspect of the month. And what's weird is

that it's like reactivating that 5°ree uh of fixed signs point after a little bit of a lull this month after it was initially activated in the first week of

May. So I feel like for some people it's

May. So I feel like for some people it's going to be like some major ground shaking things happen at the beginning of the month but then for some reason it comes back and gets reactivated and comes back into your life in a

significant way during the very last week of the month.

Yeah, there there is um yeah there's a lot of resemblance between that Mercury square Pluto at the beginning and the Mars square Pluto at the end.

Yeah, I mean the the Mars square Pluto is more forceful, more decisive, more actionoriented. And

the problem with Mars Pluto aspects is they tend to take action but they tend to go too far at at the core level. It's

like Mars is the decisive action-taking planet, but Pluto is the planet that takes small things and makes them big and blows them out of proportion and takes them to their utmost extreme.

And um in some instances, we've seen keywords with that over the past several years of like Mar being Mars being the war or violence principle, but when Pluto is thrown in on top of Mars, it

becomes the like annihilation principle of just like completely wiping something out. and that sort of energy um being

out. and that sort of energy um being somewhat prominent at this time in in around May 25th and the days surrounding it.

Yeah. Yeah. There is that sort of Yeah. that that that ominous uh that

Yeah. that that that ominous uh that ominous like threat of annihilation energy that's generated by Mars Mars and Pluto during this time. there are some

like breaks on it um but like with the configuration of the benefics and this and that but like it's definitely um like it's ominous

and you know and another thing that we've seen right is that with Mars Pluto um uh you get um how should we say um non-state actor

violence you get terrorist what you know like you get things that fall into the terror the terror category rather than just like another, you know, another battle in another war.

Um, you get like surprise violence that where there's not supposed to be violence. Um, and so, you know, which

violence. Um, and so, you know, which has that like again that ominous quality that Mars Pluto generate like it, you know, death can come for you anywhere.

It's not just on the battlefield.

Yeah. And that like shocking sort of extreme levels of violence.

Yeah.

Um, is something we've seen before.

positive side, let's say some positive Mars Pluto things. There can be this intense sustained drive and that can double up especially here because it's happening into fixed signs. So that if

there's something that you have to do or especially people that are put in a let's say either a life or death situation or a situation where you have

to do something and it and it's make or break and could save somebody else, let's say for example, and you dig down deep in yourself and you find the hidden

power that you didn't know that you had to persevere and to ext expend a great deal of energy over an extended period of time to do something extraordinary

um under difficult circumstances can sometimes be that energy as well.

Yeah, it's that that energ like that energy that's only available in survival situations whether it's your survival or the survival of someone or something

really important to you. Um and like you said, dig deep, right? That's Pluto,

right? like dig into reserves that are usually um uh off limits for a reason but are necessary in those circumstances.

Yeah, for sure. um in mundane. I'll be

interested to see if there's any major like funerals just cuz I was so struck a year ago by the the Pope's funeral happening like exactly on that Mars Pluto opposition which was more it was more significant

at the time cuz Mars was coming off the retrograde but um yeah just having the realization a year ago that it was like Pluto is one of the ancient rulers of the underworld and Mars and Mesopotamia

was one of the ancient rulers of the underworld and their coming together was this really literal example of a huge funeral uh with all the world leaders coming in to see the pope. Um yeah, I'll

see if that keyword happens to arise again for some reason in this instance.

Yeah, we'll see. To whom and to what death pays a visit.

Yeah. All right. Well, that's a sufficiently ominous statement that I I I can't improve on it. So, I'm going to leave leave it there and say once Mars

breaks that square and once Venus breaks the square with Saturn on the 28th, by the 28th, Mars is

already at 7. It looks like it gets to 8 by the 29th, from like the 29th, 30th, 31st, we're heading into a much better part of

the month and a much better part of the year. And I don't want to oversell it

year. And I don't want to oversell it because obviously we're living in very crazy chaotic times where some big stuff is happening in world events, but our best aspect of the year starts to form

at this point in the last 2 to three days of May. And I think um the vibe of that will be palpable, especially when we hit this full moon because we

actually weirdly have three lunations this month. And we have a full moon in

this month. And we have a full moon in the sign of Sagittarius that happens on the final day or two of the month. Um,

which is ruled by Jupiter. And I think that's just emphasizing then the Jupiter and the Venus Jupiter uh conjunction that's forming at that time.

Yeah. Yeah. There's um yeah, things are moving into as good as they're going to look this year, right? Um, and so don't, you know, don't don't wait for the

rapture um to appreciate what's going on. Like it's um it's not that all

on. Like it's um it's not that all difficulties uh evaporate. It's not that the geopolitical order is rearranged into something stable, harmonious, and

just. It's just that it's a it's a nice

just. It's just that it's a it's a nice break relative to the rest of the period of time that we're actually in. Um and

one thing uh and that you make a good point about the Jupiter ruled nature of the moon in Sagittarius. Another thing

that I noted about that lunation that's um pretty significant is that we have both the sun and the moon are tightly conjunct um uh royal stars very very

bright storied stars. The moon is um tightly

storied stars. The moon is um tightly conjunct Antares which is the heart of the scorpion and then uh at the same time the sun is tightly conjunct El

Debron which is the uh the red eye of the bull and those are those are big bright powerful stars and so you'll actually be able to see uh the moon with

the bright red star of Antares uh during the night of the full moon you'll be able to look up and just be like oh there's the moon there's a super bright red star Nice. Yeah, that'll be brilliant cuz the moon is going to be

like the only thing visible it looks like in the sky at that time planetwise or celestial bodywise besides that fixed star that it'll be right next to.

Yeah. Yeah. And so, um, you know, the fixed star, excuse me, the fixed stars, the, um, the royal stars are, um, um, not inherently, how should we say,

positive so much as that they're fundamentally powerful. like they're big

fundamentally powerful. like they're big and bright. Um and so um very often um

and bright. Um and so um very often um conjunctions with them mean things that are important happen and um you see in the charts of people that are important

in their respective fields. You see

those conjunctions with the royal stars and so you know the sun and moon spread out across two just sort of it speaks to some sort of importance of the events that happen um at this time and for the

next few weeks and Yeah, really important things and it'll be a great time to take advantage of soon.

Yeah, that Venus Jupiter conjunction and the auspiciousness surrounding it to do some important things to initiate some important things electional in terms of electional astrology. Speaking of, I

electional astrology. Speaking of, I completely forgot to mention the electional chart this month. Um,

I should do that. So, actually, I'll back up and do that. um to start things, but also to see um especially coming off the Mars Saturn conjunction where I

noticed that people were were having some challenges in the Aries sector of their chart and whatever house that coincided with to be moving into a period where there's some truly

positive uplifting hopeful growth oriented or expansive things happening in the Cancer sector of each of our charts. Um it'll be nice to be ending

charts. Um it'll be nice to be ending the month on that note.

Yeah. Yeah. Actually looking forward to the next month for the first time in a while.

Yeah. You're going to take some time to write, I hear, right?

Yeah. I'm um in the midst of a desperate uh ordeal uh to finally finish the second edition of 36 Faces, which I've

been in for months. Um and making progress. Um but yeah, I'm going to I'm

progress. Um but yeah, I'm going to I'm going to bow out of the actually positive description of June. Um,

because as much as I love doing the podcast, it's a lot of work and I need to save as much of my brain as possible to get this to get this book that I already wrote 12 years ago out,

right?

Yeah. Well, that's going to be a great time for for doing that with uh Venus Jupiter taking place in your ninth in your 10th house.

Nice nice Mercury in Gemini.

Nice Mercury and Gemini. Lots of good things. You'll have a little

things. You'll have a little interruption needing to do Norwak and do some conference stuff, but otherwise the I I can say that the planet the alignments look very auspicious for you

you finishing stuff this time.

Yeah, I think so. Um it'll help make up for April.

Absolutely.

Um okay, I need to mention before we wrap up the electional chart for the month. All right. So, our auspicious

month. All right. So, our auspicious electional chart for the month that Lisa Shy and I found in our private electional astrology podcast that's

available for patrons or our page on Patreon. We found a ton of charts this

Patreon. We found a ton of charts this month because there's some really good configurations. We actually gave people

configurations. We actually gave people like almost 20 charts this month, but the single best chart that I wanted to highlight and give to the public for

elections this month takes place in that little interim period in between the hard Mars aspects after the first one and before the second one fully kicks

in. And the election for this month is

in. And the election for this month is on May 20th, 2026 at about 6:10 a.m. in the morning, where

you want to set the chart for your location and then adjust the ascendant until the ascendant degree is at about 6° of Gemini. And if you do that, you'll end up with a chart that looks roughly

like this, where we have a chart with Gemini rising and Mercury is exactly conjunct the degree of the ascendant in Gemini in the first house. And um we

also have the moon in cancer forming a conjunction with Jupiter at 21° of cancer in the second house in a day chart. so that Jupiter is fully

chart. so that Jupiter is fully beneficial conjunct the degree of the ascendant and also fully taking advantage of Uranus

having recently moved into Gemini so that it will be um accelerating whatever Mercury is trying to do when it comes to having good things going for

communication or movement or um ideas and innovation and technology and different things like that that are related to Mercury are getting

accentuated in such a positive way in this chart by the present presence of Uranus. Um it's also rare because it's a

Uranus. Um it's also rare because it's a really good financial chart at the same time by having that auspicious moon Jupiter conjunction and cancer in the second whole sign house. So, it's one of

those rare charts where it's not just good for communications and technology and other first house things, but it also happens to be a pretty good chart for financial things as well. At the

same time, um the part of the chart that's not as good where you have drawbacks because you always have drawbacks in every chart is that Mars is in the 12th house which has to do with um enemies sometimes self undoing and

people that you don't get along with and having some difficulties there. But

otherwise, it's just an excellent chart for Mercury election as well as financial matters. And that's the chart

financial matters. And that's the chart that I wanted to highlight this month.

But if you need other charts for other dates to do things during the course of the month, we have, I think, 18 other charts in the episode of the Electional Astrology Podcast that we just released through our page on Patreon, which you

can get access to at patreon.com/astrologyodcast.

patreon.com/astrologyodcast.

What do you think of our Mercury election for the month, Austin?

Oh, I love it. Um, another thing I would add is that it's immutable rising. So,

Mercury rules the first and the fourth, right? So, two angular houses. Um, and

right? So, two angular houses. Um, and

then that beautiful Jupiter which the moon is conjoining is responsible for the seventh and the 10th. And so, that's all four of the angular houses, the

angular houses um, outweighing all the other houses in terms of raw power and impact. Um, and so having all four

impact. Um, and so having all four angles ruled by happy, well situated planets is a firm foundation for almost anything.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I might use this. I I got a book idea this past

this. I I got a book idea this past week. The idea for a book I want to

week. The idea for a book I want to write and I think I might use an election like this to start that because I think Mercury elections can be really good for writing projects. I think I used a similar Mercury election for

starting to write my Henistic astrology book, for example.

Very nice. Yeah. I so wish um that I was in the position to start another project.

Yeah. Or that you had used a chart like this for your your writing project.

Yeah. I mean,

I don't want to get into it. It's um

it's been years and years of rewriting and expanding and deciding what the scope of the rewrites would be, etc., etc. It's it doesn't there's there was no opportunity for a clean beginning in

the same way that you can begin a new project.

Well, you know what's funny about that?

At the in in the intro to my book, I I misspeak and I say I used a reasonably auspicious electional chart to start writing my book in like 2008. But the

data I give, it was actually a terrible electional chart. It was just the best

electional chart. It was just the best chart I could find at the time. And the

book process, I wrote it over years, was not working. And it was like way too big

not working. And it was like way too big in certain sections and like short in others. And the tone was off cuz I wrote

others. And the tone was off cuz I wrote it over a 10-year period. So I actually had to start over again. And I reelected a better chart that was actually a good electional chart that was more of a

Gemini chart like this. And then I restarted the book from scratch and over the course of the year wrote it over again just to adopt a consistent tone using my voice as it had developed after

10 years of writing. So as a funny little side note if anybody ever reads my book that the electional chart I mentioned is actually terrible and I ended up doing a different electional chart to actually finish writing the book.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and with big projects sometimes it it looks like that where it's like, well, I've got four months where I can focus and then, you know, then next year I've got another

couple months where I can focus. And,

you know, each um each stint um um kind of needs its own election.

Yeah. Well, and sometimes it's okay on some things to start over again. Like in

other instances, you know, you should persevere and just push through until until you get it done. But in other instances, if you can start something over again, sometimes it can be worth it symbolically if you have an opportunity

to.

Yeah. I'm not starting the book over again.

I was trying to talk you into it, but All right.

Yeah. Just scrap it all on the on the 20th, right? Exactly.

right? Exactly.

It's going to be another five years, folks.

People would be so mad at me. I would be getting Well, I wasn't going to, but Chris had this really good election.

Yeah. All right. Well, we'll see what happens. Good luck with the writing this

happens. Good luck with the writing this month. Um, I think that brings us to the

month. Um, I think that brings us to the end of the forecast episode. What do you have doing? What are you doing? What do

have doing? What are you doing? What do

you have coming up aside from abandoning abandoning us from the next month for the next forecast episode while you're writing?

Well, I'm abandoning you to the only portion of the only month that actually looks nice. So, I think I think

looks nice. So, I think I think everybody will be okay without me.

That's fair.

Um Um, so I'm going to be at Norwak. I'm

going to do a workshop on um the pairing of planets and nodes and all of the weird wacky wonderful haunted disturbing things that they do together.

I will also be giving a lecture. I will

be attending to my regular duties as a teacher in my pro my fundamentals of astrology program. Um, as always, you

astrology program. Um, as always, you can find uh a vast trove of lectures and workshops and classes that I've given uh

that are recorded and available for purchase and download on my website. Um,

for sphere and sundry, the fixed star series that I elected and c consecrated and created um came out last month. It's

really something quite special, but not as special as what's coming out this month. So, um, Sphere and

this month. So, um, Sphere and Sunundurries got a project that's, it's funny that we're talking about projects that take near a decade. Uh, there's a project that's been going for about seven years that's finally about to come

out this month on the 20th. Um, great

minds think alike and, uh, it's dubbed the Magnum Mundi Project. And so um over the years um we've gotten all of the

planets in the signs which they own in the theme mundi like all the planets in their doiciles and then Kate has um uh

uh ritually unified and integrated all of these into one master series. So it's

12 different projects um that were that um uh were all unified one by one into one corpus of um talismanic materia and

it is full of juice would be the um stupid abbreviated version of it but it's really exciting and powerful. we've

started uh we unccorked it and have been guinea pigging for the last bit and so that that series which is all of the planets in all of their dono styles all

at the same time um you know so complicated and laborious that it actually sort of circles back around to become it's the zodiac but with all of

the powers uh with all the powers as they were in the beginning. Um that

comes out on the 20th.

Nice. I had no idea we were using the same election. Great great minds.

same election. Great great minds.

Yeah, it's the the Uber theme of Mundday project. It is magnum.

project. It is magnum.

I love it. That's brilliant. Uh what are your websites?

So I'm Austin Copic.com and then uh you can find Spa and the Magnammundi project at sphereandsry.com.

All right. Well, everybody in the YouTube comments, wish Austin good luck in his writing project. uh he needs all the good energy he can get, but I think he's going to pull it off this month.

So, I'm excited to see you on the other end of that when you come back and we do the forecast for what, July. That'll be

a fun one for the Mars Uranus conjunction.

Yeah, it'll be there'll be a lot to talk about.

There'll be some things. All right. Fun.

Um as for myself, I've been um you know, the Mars Neptune conjunction. Sometimes

this happens dur during Mars Deepune conjunctions, but I was just tremendously energetically wrecked and like drained this month. So, I was doing

more stuff lately to try to find ways to make episodes more um approachable so I can keep doing stuff and I was experimenting with doing shorter

episodes as well as doing um shorts like some vertical shorts. And I released two short videos just to patrons through my page on Patreon because I realized like

in periods in which I'm less energetically available or uh capable of doing things that that's the primary, you know, group that I still need to make sure I'm still releasing content to

is the people that are like paying subscribers that are actually supporting my work and and this research. So, I'm

going to keep doing that and trying to experiment with releasing short videos to patrons, maybe releasing more short videos of short to medium length on

YouTube and and experimenting with um using this as an opportunity to if I'm less energetically overflowing with the ability to do long stuff, if I could

find that as a challenge to um sharpen my my ability to do shorter form content in different ways. So, I'm going to be experimenting with that this month.

Although, I do have a great book interview lined up about a book that's coming out about Linda Goodman that I'm super stoked about and I'm going to record that early in May, release it for early access to patrons right away and

then to the public once it's done being edited. Um, but otherwise, if people

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So, I think that's it. I think that's it for this episode. So, thanks Austin so much for joining me once again. Good

luck this month during your your quote unquote break, during your writer's break. I hope you have a a good

break. I hope you have a a good successful time.

Thank you. Yeah. Um

I I hope so, too.

I think I feel very good uh about this.

I think you'll have great success and I look forward to seeing the book once it's done. But otherwise, I think that's

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