Welcome to your Queer Weekly Horoscope, a bite-sized look at the coming days broken down by your zodiac sign.
Welcome to your first weekly horoscope of Pride month! (Well, the first two days of it anyway! We have to get through the rest of May first.) This week, Gemini’s ruling planet Mercury makes some major connections during its final stint in Taurus. Mercury helps us get organized in cooperation with Saturn, inspires creative conversation with Uranus, gets a little wicked with Lilith, and amps up intuition with the assistance of Neptune. The Sun offers us a tantalizing glimpse into the future, powered by remembrance of the past. Then, at the very end of the week, Jupiter allies with Pluto to pave the way for coming change.
Gemini starts the parade for this weekly horoscope, then we’ll march through each sign until everyone’s forthcoming fate has been fêted! If you know more of your placements than your Sun Sign alone (Moon, Rising, Mars, Venus, etc.), check their entries as well to get a full picture of your astrological forecast.
What the stars are up to:
- The Sun, Venus, and Jupiter are in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Mercury is in Taurus.
- Mercury forms sextiles with Saturn and Neptune, passes through conjunction with Uranus, and creates a trine with Lilith.
- The Sun forms a sextile with the North Node.
- Jupiter creates a trine with Pluto.
What it means:
This is a good week for you, though I’m not sure how much you’ll enjoy it. In the ongoing movie of your life, it might make for one of those plots that’s more pleasant to watch than it is to actually live. Each twist and turn of fate serves to improve your overall position… while simultaneously leaving you breathless and bewildered. You can talk about it all you want, but there’s simply not enough time to fully process each development before the next bizarre stroke of luck strikes! It will probably feel as if you’ve morphed into your cheerfully chaotic sibling sign, Sagittarius. (Fortunately, they’re fun people, and it’s not like you’ve ever struggled to cope with turbulence before, anyway.)
Sunday concludes your week with a massive whole-life overhaul. A sudden-onset wave of healing and self-understanding is liable to have you feeling like you know exactly how to fix the problems in your life. Expect to stay up late in an excited flurry of frenzied activity. You’ll introduce everyone to the new and improved version of yourself next Monday morning!
What the stars are up to:
- Your ruler the Moon travels through Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries.
- The Moon reaches Last Quarter phase in Pisces.
What it means:
The Last Quarter Moon in Pisces jostles you out of touch with the overarching mood of the season. For a few days at the end of May, you just can’t understand why everyone else is obsessed with nonsense that absolutely does not interest you. You have to focus your mind on work to avoid getting annoyed with the seeming inanity. But over the weekend, personal relationships begin to flourish and you’re plugged back into the great overwhelming electric current of humanity. By Saturday, you’re vibing hard with deeply profound connections that inspire faith in humankind, and appreciating the unexpected moments of frivolity that make life fun.
What the stars are up to:
- Your sign ruler the Sun is in Gemini.
- The Sun forms a sextile with the North Node (creating a corresponding trine with the South Node).
What it means:
You’re in for a happy little preview of your future! Want to know how you earn it? You grit your teeth, gird up your courage, and reach back to offer a supportive hand to the bit of your heart that remains tethered to the past. This is proving to be a very generous season, and you need to extend that same grace to yourself. Have some compassion for the younger versions of yourself — the ones you usually try to forget. Look back on old embarrassments with affectionate eyes and release yourself from shame. Only then will you be able to move forward to the future you glimpse at the edge of the horizon.
What the stars are up to:
- Lilith is in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Mercury is in Taurus.
- Mercury forms sextiles with Saturn and Neptune, passes through conjunction with Uranus, and creates a trine with Lilith.
What it means:
Have fun being bad! And weird, you’re definitely being weird, too. But that doesn’t matter! Dignity is overrated. Sometimes, impulsive idiosyncrasy is important for the health of your psyche.
What the stars are up to:
- The South Node is in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Venus is in Gemini.
- The Sun creates a trine with the South Node.
What it means:
You’re kicking off summer in the deep end, pondering existence from the surface of a pool float that’s anchored by the weight of your past. If you feel like diving, you can swim way down the chain to find links that extend even farther than your own time on this planet. You’re in a relatively peaceful moment of your journey through South Node-influenced fixation on personal history. Sometimes it can feel like a burden, physically weighing you down with fatigue, but right now it feels fascinating to investigate the trail of your own shining thread through the tapestry of time.
What the stars are up to:
- Your sign ruler Pluto is retrograde in Aquarius.
- Jupiter creates a trine with Pluto.
What it means:
Hell yeah, Jupiter slaps lil’ retrograde Pluto with a big ole high five of luck! Scorp is in for a sweet surge of good fortune this week, even if you can’t shake the lingering shadow of suspicion long enough to fully enjoy it.
What the stars are up to:
- Your sign ruler Jupiter is in Gemini.
- Jupiter creates a trine with Pluto.
What it means:
Growing up, were you one of those kids who would periodically feel a compulsion to rearrange your room and then suddenly start flinging full-size furniture around, even though you were only four-feet tall? In pop astrology, Sag often catches a rep for enjoying travel and experiencing new places, but I feel like y’all sometimes like changing your own immediate environments even better. Have fun with that this week! It’s time to switch things up.
What the stars are up to:
- Your sign ruler Saturn is in Pisces.
- The waning gibbous Moon in your sign creates a trine with Uranus, and forms sextiles with Neptune and Saturn.
What it means:
You are more sensitive and thoughtful than you usually give yourself credit for. You don’t realize you’re a genuinely good person because you imagine that acting like a decent contributing member of your community is baseline behavior undeserving of special recognition or praise. You also delude yourself into believing that your necessary sense of self-regard and healthy dedication to enforcing boundaries classifies you as “selfish.” It’s cute, but you really don’t have to keep up the posture of self-deprecation! The rest of us know that you genuinely care a lot.
What the stars are up to:
- Pluto is retrograde in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Uranus is in Taurus.
- The waning gibbous Moon in your sign creates trines with Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun; passes through conjunction with Pluto; squares off against Mercury and Uranus; and forms a sextile with Mars.
- Mercury passes through conjunction with Uranus.
- Jupiter creates a trine with Pluto.
What it means:
You spend the first three days of the week working through internal emotions. Then, you arrive at a revelation that sparks conversation. You’re gifted with an opportunity to expand in previously unexpected directions, and you’ll most likely seize it with both hands and teeth. You always enjoy a chance to move unpredictably, even if that unpredictability becomes a pattern in and of itself.
What the stars are up to:
- Saturn and your ruler Neptune are in your sign.
- Mercury forms sextiles with Saturn and Neptune.
- The Last Quarter Moon in your sign squares off against Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun; passes through conjunction with Saturn and Neptune; and forms sextiles with Uranus and Mercury.
What it means:
You remain highly attuned to your own intuition and systems of organization. You’re also growing increasingly adept at explaining the inner mysteries of your own mind to yourself. The Last Quarter Moon inspires a shift toward resolving some outstanding issues, even if it sets you at odds with other signs’ current drive to impulsivity. Don’t get frustrated with your timing! Just try to respect yourself and satisfy your own needs as best as you can.
What the stars are up to:
- The North Node, Chiron, and your ruler Mars are in your sign.
- Mars passes through conjunction with Chiron.
- The waning crescent Moon in your sign forms sextiles with Jupiter, Pluto, Venus, and the Sun, and passes through conjunction with Mars.
- The Sun forms a sextile with the North Node.
What it means:
I worry y’all will grow bored of hearing me say, “You’re healing and building toward your future!” over and over in this space, but Mars, Chiron, and the North Node are still doing what they do — this week even more intensely than usual. So, I’m sorry to report there will be no major disaster to provide some narrative spice to your horoscope — just a whole long week of positive energy, productivity, and progress.
What the stars are up to:
- Mercury and Uranus are in your sign.
- Your sign ruler Venus is in Gemini.
- Mercury forms sextiles with Saturn and Neptune, passes through conjunction with Uranus, and creates a trine with Lilith.
What it means:
Mercury is staying busy during its final week in your sign (for now). You’re packing more communication into the next seven days than you’d usually manage in a month: First up, you get serious. Then, it’s time to find creative ways to express yourself. You indulge in some selfishness by Saturday, but that’s fine — sometimes that’s necessary and you really do deserve it! Then finally, you can chill out and avoid talking to other people because you’ll be too busy communing with your own intuition.
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