May 2026 Astrology: Stay Close To The Truth

The month opens with a revealing Scorpio Full Moon and ends with a revelation under the Blue Moon.

May carries us on a journey, beginning with the harsh exposure of the Scorpio Full Moon and ending with the Blue Moon in Sagittarius. Between these lunar spectacles is a month full of revelations and reckoning.

We were invited to dive deep into the thoughts, feelings, and frustrations that are difficult to name right out of the gate. This chapter of our lives opened with the Martian Full Moon on May 1 — mirroring a time where we had little patience for the delay of truth. The Scorpio Full Moon was an invitation to begin the month on a clean slate — without the buried emotion or lingering resentment that hardens our presence and eats away at our peace. The opportunity to release what burdens us remains.

Reaction is not the wise way forward, a lesson we remember now that Mercury has taken root in practical Taurus from May 2. Rational thought is favored, but not the kind that detaches us from our heart or creative pulse. Mercury may be discerning, but Taurus is sensory. In choosing our words deliberately, we discover the value of slowing the thought process to arrive at conclusions without the fire we’ve grown used to.

Collectively, we’re undergoing a subterranean shift from May 6, when Pluto — ruler of transformation, destruction, and resurgence — stations retrograde in futurist Aquarius. This is an annual occurrence, where Pluto retraces its path, and our questions or reflections turn inward: What has been dismantled or irreversibly changed within us as a result of the evolving world?

Pluto retrograde is a long-running cycle, ending on October 16, but not before we register the unconscious ways we have participated in systems, hierarchies, and narratives we claim to oppose.