Transit calendar · Asteria

Collective transit calendar · 2016–2032

Ingresses, stations, eclipses, and moons. No chart required.

May 2023 · UTC

May 2023

25 events

A retrograde turn pulls things back for review, and an eclipse accelerates a turning point, 4 sign changes shift the collective tone, the lunations mark the month's open and close, a slow outer-planet aspect colours the backdrop.

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Upcoming transits · the agenda

1May · Mon
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Pluto stations Retrograde in Aquarius
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Pluto stations Retrograde. Collective power goes underground for review.
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Pluto stations Retrograde in Aquarius, and the deep renovation of community, technology, and belonging turns inward. Systems reveal fault lines before they repair.
Watch what institutions expose under pressure. Your job is clarity, not cynicism.
5:08 PM
1May · Mon
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Mercury Cazimi
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Mercury Cazimi: heart-of-the-Sun clarity around speech, contracts, and timing.
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Mercury meets the Sun in Cazimi, seated in the heart of the solar fire where a planet is briefly purified instead of burned. This is concentrated weather for speech, contracts, and timing, not background noise.
Claim one clean truth and act on it before the window closes. Cazimi rewards backbone, not spectacle.
Sky context Pluto stations Retrograde in Aquarius
11:28 PM
4May · Thu
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Venus square Neptune
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Venus square Neptune: the sky shifts.
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Venus square Neptune perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with dream, myth, and what dissolves.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Pluto stations Retrograde in Aquarius; Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio
5:40 PM
5May · Fri
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Venus sextile Jupiter
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Venus sextile Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Venus sextile Jupiter perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio
4:03 AM
5May · Fri
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Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio
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Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio: climax and release around depth and transformation.
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Lunar Eclipses are Full Moons that end things, reveal things, or both. In Scorpio, pressure gathers around depth and transformation. What was tolerable may become untenable overnight.
This is not chaos for sport. It is closure with the tags still on. Let what is finished actually finish, even if the ending is quieter than the buildup.
Deep dive
Thematically, Scorpio Lunar Eclipses ask you to stop negotiating with what already ended, but at volume. The psyche has been circling this topic for months. The eclipse is the month it stops circling.
Use the truth under the polite version as your compass. Endings here are about dignity: how you leave, what you keep, what you refuse to drag forward.
Relationships and public life can spike around Lunar Eclipses. Try not to make permanent decisions from a temporary surge.
Gravity and hope: release is making room. The space that opens is not empty. It is available.
5:34 PM
7May · Sun
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Venus enters Cancer
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Venus enters Cancer.
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Venus enters Cancer, shifting love, money, and what you are willing to keep in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio
2:25 PM
9May · Tue
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Uranus Cazimi
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Uranus Cazimi: heart-of-the-Sun clarity around rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
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Uranus meets the Sun in Cazimi, seated in the heart of the solar fire where a planet is briefly purified instead of burned. This is concentrated weather for rupture, invention, and the plot twist, not background noise.
Claim one clean truth and act on it before the window closes. Cazimi rewards backbone, not spectacle.
7:56 PM
12May · Fri
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Mercury sextile Saturn
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Mercury sextile Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Mercury sextile Saturn perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Taurus
8:42 AM
13May · Sat
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Mercury sextile Venus
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Mercury sextile Venus: the sky shifts.
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Mercury sextile Venus perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with love, money, and what you are willing to keep.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Taurus
2:44 AM
13May · Sat
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Venus trine Saturn
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Venus trine Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Venus trine Saturn perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Taurus
6:57 AM
15May · Mon
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Mercury stations direct in Taurus
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Mercury stations direct. The stalled sentence can land.
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Mercury stations direct in Taurus, and communication unclogs. The conversation, contract, or plan you kept revising is ready to move.
Say it plainly. Sign what is true. Travel with margin anyway.
3:17 AM
15May · Mon
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Mars trine Neptune
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Mars trine Neptune: the sky shifts.
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Mars trine Neptune perfects, pulling drive, conflict, and heat into contact with dream, myth, and what dissolves.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Taurus
1:45 PM
16May · Tue
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Jupiter enters Taurus
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Jupiter enters Taurus.
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Jupiter enters Taurus, shifting growth, belief, and scale in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Taurus; New Moon in Taurus
5:20 PM
18May · Thu
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Jupiter square Pluto
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Jupiter square Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Jupiter square Pluto perfects, pulling growth, belief, and scale into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Taurus; New Moon in Taurus
1:10 AM
18May · Thu
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Sun sextile Neptune
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Sun sextile Neptune: the sky shifts.
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Sun sextile Neptune perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with dream, myth, and what dissolves.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mercury stations direct in Taurus; New Moon in Taurus
9:00 AM
19May · Fri
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Mercury sextile Saturn
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Mercury sextile Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Mercury sextile Saturn perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context New Moon in Taurus
6:40 AM
19May · Fri
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* New Moon in Taurus
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New Moon in Taurus: plant one real intention around stability and the senses.
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The sky goes dark in Taurus, and that is not emptiness. It is the month's reset around stability and the senses. New Moons are the inhale: the seed is underground, but the body already knows.
This New Moon asks you to commit to what is worth keeping. Do not renovate your whole life overnight. Pick one sentence you can repeat for two weeks and let the feeling arrive before the spreadsheet does.
Deep dive
Think of what lasts in the hands. That image is the architecture under the mood. New Moons in Taurus reward honesty about desire, not performance about ambition.
Gravity and hope: if the intention still matters at the Full Moon, it was real. If it fades, you just saved yourself a longer detour.
3:53 PM
20May · Sat
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Mars enters Leo
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Action wants a stage. Create with intention, not ego.
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Mars enters Leo and the collective fight gets theatrical. Courage, competition, and creative heat rise together.
Point your will at work worth showing, not just work worth posting.
Sky context New Moon in Taurus
3:31 PM
21May · Sun
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Mars opposition Pluto
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Power meets action. Transform, do not arm-wrestle the universe.
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Mars opposes Pluto, and intensity spikes. Conflicts that were simmering can boil. The temptation is to win. The work is to evolve.
Choose the ending that makes you more honest, not more dominant.
Sky context New Moon in Taurus
3:12 AM
21May · Sun
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Sun enters Gemini
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Sun enters Gemini.
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Sun enters Gemini, shifting identity and visibility in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context New Moon in Taurus
7:09 AM
21May · Sun
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Sun trine Pluto
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Sun trine Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Sun trine Pluto perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context New Moon in Taurus
1:58 PM
22May · Mon
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Sun sextile Mars
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Sun sextile Mars: the sky shifts.
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Sun sextile Mars perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with drive, conflict, and heat.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context New Moon in Taurus
5:57 AM
23May · Tue
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Mars square Jupiter
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Mars square Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Mars square Jupiter perfects, pulling drive, conflict, and heat into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
5:13 AM
26May · Fri
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Venus sextile Uranus
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Venus sextile Uranus: the sky shifts.
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Venus sextile Uranus perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
7:37 AM
28May · Sun
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Sun square Saturn
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Sun square Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Sun square Saturn perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
10:46 AM