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It’s a week of depth and vulnerability, empowerment and alchemy. As the days ahead bring Pluto retrograde in Aquarius, a Mercury Chiron conjunction, and a new season of Mercury in Taurus, they create a space in which where you can meet your underworld and transmute your fears into wisdom. Your weekly horoscope for May 4-10, 2025 explores how.
Weekly Horoscope, May 4-10, 2025 Preview
May 4| Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius
May 5 | Moon Enters Virgo
May 7 | Mercury Conjunct Chiron
May 8 | Moon Enters Libra
May 10 | Mercury Enters Taurus; Moon Enters Scorpio
Pluto Retrograde
Our recent retrograde-free period draws to a close as Pluto begins its annual backward spin. Here it works beneath the surface in the unconscious aspects of self. Though not overt in its invitations and sensations, this retrograde invites us to dance with transformation and empowerment.
Beginning May 4, 2025, and lasting until October 13, 2025, this particular retrograde takes place in the collective-driven, future-oriented air sign of Aquarius. As Pluto spirals backward, it does so for the sake of what is becoming. It is a retrograde that looks back so we may touch the unformed, the unknown, and the collective currents we are only beginning to reach.
Retrogrades are a sacred pause. A reflection, review, renewal. In Pluto, these invitations invite us deep into the psyche. This retrograde is a space to observe unconscious patterns, shadows, fears, and emotions that move beneath our surface even as we imbue and shape all that lives above the surface.
As Pluto holds a mirror for all that lives within us, it does so for the sake of empowerment. This planet desires to show us our strength, authority, beauty, depth, and power. We look to all that seemingly holds power over us, both internally and externally, so we may remember our truth and take our power back.
Mercury Conjunct Chiron
Awareness, courageous conversation, vulnerable words, and remembering our voice as medicine—these are all associated with Mercury conjunct Chiron which meets us this week on May 7, 2025.
A conjunction is the coming together of two planetary bodies in our cosmos. As they meet, they merge, fuse, collaborate and seemingly become one for a moment. Mercury represents the mind, communication, awareness, and perspective. Chiron represents our wounds and our medicine, our hurts and our healing. Chiron is a sacred doorway into our own wisdom.
As these come together, so do our minds and our hurts and our vulnerabilities, our awareness and our medicine. It is a day to access empowerment through vulnerability, courage through past experiences, and healing through communicating our needs.
Mercury Enters Taurus
The entry of Mercury into Taurus takes place on May 10, 2025. Mercury is our messenger of the planets, our mind and communication, our thinking and organizing. As Mercury enters Taurus, our words become tangible and our communication becomes grounded in the senses. Taurus invites Mercury deep into the body, into the earth, the soil beneath our feet.
This transit grounds our minds with patience, practicality, and presence and asks that we think before we speak and speak with greater intention. It invites a calm, simple, and grounded environment within the sacred portal that is our mind. And it offers a beautiful opportunity to rewrite our own narratives of self-worth, beauty, and value.
It is a space for both practical planning and deep nervous system healing. A space to remember the mind and body as one and with loving presence, bridging any gap between the two. And it is a transit to come deeper into the wisdom within the body and a reminder that information, guidance, knowing, intuition, memory, and perspective don’t exist only in the mind.
Weekly Horoscope, May 4-10, 2025
The days ahead are a time for old issues to move through the channel of our mind and voice, alchemizing everything in the process. Your weekly horoscope explores where to start.
Aries Rising
This week invites you to look within so that you can look ahead. As Pluto invites you to reflect on your deeper hopes and dreams, it also desires a reclamation of your power from collective thought. Meanwhile, Chiron and Mercury invite courageous expressions of past hurts that are ready to become medicine.
Taurus Rising
There is greater self-authority desiring to be embodied. As Pluto retrogrades, it invites you to review any patterns, structures, and people, both inner and outer, that seemingly hold power over your life and your impact. Meanwhile, Chiron and Mercury invite you to reconnect with the sacred by experiencing emotional, energetic, and physical release.
Gemini Rising
This week invites you to review any systems, people, intermediaries, philosophies, or teachings that stand between you and spirit. You are ready to remember your authority and come into direct contact with this realm of life. And you are ready to restore your trust, hope, and dreaming as you create space for your inspiration and desires.
Cancer Rising
May you sink deeper into yourself this week—into your waters, emotions, and all that lives beneath your surface. There is treasure, wisdom, and empowerment waiting within to transform you. And there is authority, self-reclamation, and leadership desiring to flow through your work, career, and legacy.
Leo Rising
This week initiates a season of self-exploration. It sensitizes your intuition and awareness of what lives beneath the surface, underneath words and dynamics, within your relationships. It invites you to become aware of and bring healing to any imbalance in power and authority in your connections.
Virgo Rising
Your deepest wisdom lives in your body. This is a week of reclaiming yourself and meeting your depth through consistent everyday acts and moments of sacredness. Through your routines and rituals, your practices and your habits. Through remembering your body as holy and your emotions as guidance.
Libra Rising
The unconscious expresses itself through art, color, sound, symbol, imagery. This week, your unconscious desires to speak. Welcome with reverence, respect, and presence your emotions. Much will be transmuted through your creative expression, including old patterns, ancestral wounds, longheld fears, and heart hurts. Expect profound empowerment.
Scorpio Rising
This week initiates a season of profond self-discovery. Where presence with your emotions, memories, and past is key to your empowerment, wisdom, and future. It is a space to commune with the sacredness of your physical body, and renew the way you tend to yourself and your growth, day in day out.
Sagittarius Rising
Surrender your mind. It is being guided into the waters of your psyche, the vaster depths where all transformation takes place. Perhaps speaking through your dreams and transmuting through your voice, your mind is going through a period of reorganizing while fears and wounds are alchemizing through your creativity.
Capricorn Rising
Clear the noise. Come into your body. This week isn’t about anyone else but you. Your wisdom. Your knowing. Your ownership of self. It’s a week that invites you to review your source of self-worth, releasing and updating where required. And it is a week to transmute inherited patterns and emotions through using your voice.
Aquarius Rising
You are air. You are movement, changing, transitory. Give yourself permission to enter your cocoon, for this week invites reflection and transformation of self. It invites you to reclaim your mind and voice as you remember your words as medicine. And it invites you to cleanse your thinking, for your truth waits.
Pisces Rising
There is much moving and shifting beneath your surface. In the unconscious, in the body, in the depths of who you are. Your weekly horoscope invites you to release the noise of the collective as you take back your energy and intuition. And it invites you to occupy more of your body, remembering it as a sacred, beautiful, and worthy home.
