Recently I was having a celebration dinner with Michelle Roque, my talented creative director who had done such brilliant art direction work on my calendars and planners, handling Parisian artist Izak’s work with such grace. Michelle was telling me that some of her friends love Astrology Zone – they only read my summaries to my monthly column. I put down my fork. Hearing this news made me sad. I asked, are you sure, Michelle? She nodded. I strive so to give my readers complete information, and this month, May, I look ahead to the rest of the year to show what is due for you, for planning purposes. Almost none of that vital information will be in my summaries – there was too much to explain.

Many Capricorns have been consumed with home, property, and family matters over the past years. Some Capricorns were uprooted and needed to move house more than once. There were a host of challenges involving your living space – you may have struggled meeting a monthly mortgage, or saw your house ravaged by a natural disaster with insurance refusing to cover all. Other Capricorns had to move to take advantage of professional opportunities, and did so willingly, but it was not always easy to do because the choice to move likely came up suddenly.

The cause of this home-related turnover you may have experienced was Uranus, the planet of change, which had set up shop in your fourth house of home in 2010 and has been there ever since. If you didn’t move, you had other surprises related to your home living space, or in regard to the care you were giving an elderly parent or relative. Throughout all this, you have become quite adaptable at packing up in a flash. Clearly Uranus taught you flexibility. If your birthday falls in the third week of January, you have been feeling Uranus in your home sector very strongly lately, for Uranus has been reaching the very end of its tour in Aries. Uranus is now about to make a monumental departure from your home sector this month, and I will explain more about how your life will change for the better in a moment.

On top of all this, Saturn went into Capricorn last December for a three-year stay, and is not due to leave until December 2020. As tough love Saturn moves through all the degrees of the sign, the first to feel Saturn’s pressure were, and still are, those Capricorns whose birthdays fall in December.

As Saturn continues to orbit in deep space through the constellation of Capricorn, it will later move to the early-January born Capricorns, but then the December-born Capricorns will feel some relief. That’s how all planets work – you feel its presence most when the degrees are beamed directly to your Sun or other heavenly body in your chart. So while you probably didn’t feel Uranus in your home sector the entire time, you did for part of the time, and the effects may have been quite extreme because changes were sudden.

Now Uranus moves to fellow earth sign Taurus to your house of romance, love, children, and creativity. This is wonderful news, for finally instead of a challenging placement of Uranus, this planet of change in Taurus will be in an exhilarating place to be in your chart, and that will certainly give sparkle to your love life. If you are single, you may now meet the one for you in a very unusual way, out of the blue, when you aren’t expecting a fateful meeting. If you are married or in an established relationship, this exciting vibration from Uranus will bring new energy to your relationship. If you want children, there will be the possibility of a surprise pregnancy surfacing sometime within the coming seven years. If you have older children, one may surprise you in a pleasant way, and that child is likely to be your firstborn.

The house that Uranus is entering, your fifth house, also rules your creativity, which is to blossom enormously over the coming seven years. Uranus is the planet of originality and innovation, so you will be capable of achieving impressive work – you need to bring it out from within you. If you feel you need special training in your craft, get it – you will be glad you did. Under the coming trend, a beloved hobby could flower into a full time profession.

This is the first time since 1934 to 1942 that Uranus has entered Taurus, so the effect would be new to everyone, of every sign, and each sign will feel this shift differently. In 2018, Uranus will only be in Taurus for six months, from May 15 to November 15, at which time Uranus will retreat back to Aries. Yes, Uranus will be back to your home and family sector, but by March 6, 2019, Uranus will move permanently into your fifth house of love / creativity / children for seven years, until 2026.

Were you wondering, will Uranus stay in my romantic sector for seven years? Yes, and here is why: Uranus takes 84 years to circle the Sun, and so divides his time evenly among the 12 signs and 12 houses, with seven years per sign. When Uranus moves back to your home and family sector for three-and-a-half months in mid-November of this year, the only Capricorns that are likely to feel the presence of Uranus are those born on or within a day or two of January 19.

Still, if that is your birthday, you may not feel any changes at home, because those may have already taken place. You will have no new or full moons in your home sector, and Mars is not due to enter that part of your chart, so I think every Capricorn is done with focusing on home and family so much. Uranus is on his way out and things are getting better by the minute.

Let’s look at some of the words used to describe Uranus – exciting, innovative, quirky, different, individual, independent, iconoclastic, idiosyncratic, self-reliant, disruptive, freedom loving, and skeptical of tradition. Uranus is also linked to humanistic and charitable work, often to defend groups of people who suffer and that have been overlooked or marginalized by society. This list of adjectives may describe the type of person you are drawn to now that Uranus is moving into your love sector.

    Uranus moves to Taurus to your fifth house of romance, love, children, and creativity. This is wonderful news, for this planet of sudden, exciting change will be in an exhilarating place to be in your chart, and will certainly give sparkle to your emotional life over the coming seven years.

Here is an interesting fact. In deep space, Uranus is individualistic too – he doesn’t spin like the other little planets upright. Uranus does his own thing, and actually spins on his belly unlike any other planet.

In the coming years – and possibly immediately – under Uranus in Taurus, you will widen the type of persons you would be interested in dating. Some of the people you meet and choose to date might surprise friends – not usually your type – but Uranus has an experimental quality that it will impart to you. You may meet someone with a background very different from yours, and that person may come from a country overseas or have a religion different from yours. A first meeting might be odd or different in some way. Uranus in the faith house might suggest you will date someone a bit younger than you.

I have a little story that might illustrate how Uranus works. When transiting Uranus first entered my fifth house like you have now, I was 23 years old. I was out of college and working, but wanted to change jobs. It was a sunny, warm August day. I was told I could leave my resume off for a certain position I wanted situated in a building on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. I went in person, just in case the HR lady would see me, but she was out for lunch, so I was only there a minute or two, and decided to leave.

I pushed the button to the elevator and when it arrived, there was just one person in the elevator, a handsome man. I was only going from 2 to 1. I pushed the button to go to the lobby, and he laughed and said, “I think the elevator will go there anyway.” I laughed and agreed and turned to look at this person. He had blue eyes and blond hair, and looked a little like a young Clint Eastwood. He wore a suit and was carrying a leather portfolio for what must have been important papers – flat, neat.

I said to myself, why don’t I meet good-looking, nice people like this? Why is it so hard for me to meet nice people? He asked me why I was in this office building and explained I was dropping off my resume. I learned he lived about ten blocks away in my neighborhood. He asked for my phone number and I hesitated a little but then gave it to him.

Long story short, I did not get the job, but my personal life certainly took flight. We started dating, and in the space of seven years we had gone through courtship, got married, and had two daughters, all before I was 30. Uranus can certainly create surprises. Meeting in an office elevator in New York was not at all what I imagined when I thought of meeting the person who would change my life.

On May 15, you will have a new moon that will light up your fifth house of love, romance, fun, pregnancy, children, and creativity. That is the same day Uranus will enter this part of your chart, so you might begin to see news immediately. If you are single, you have opportunities to meet someone in weird ways, like I did, so keep looking your best.

If you are hoping for a baby, you might suddenly get pregnant, when you least expect that to happen. Or, if you have had problems, Uranus is tied to new developments and high tech in science and biomedicine, so you may try and be successful with in vitro fertilization. If you filed for an adoption, you may suddenly get a call that your baby has arrived, so come take your little bundle of joy home! Foster parents may get a similar call.

I cannot see all in your natal chart, so if you have a powerful planet at odds with Uranus, there could be less than perfect results. For that you would need to see an astrologer and have her or him draw up a chart and see what the newly arrived Uranus in Taurus will do, and how it will fit into the puzzle of your entire chart. I CAN see, however, that Uranus in Taurus will be beautifully oriented to your Capricorn Sun, and if you were born in December 21-25, you are feeling that energy now.

Also that new moon of May 15 will be at 25 degrees, so that new moon will reach out to Capricorn birthdays that fall January 14, plus or minus five days. This means you, too, have an excellent chance of seeing your love life start to dazzle, so stay optimistic! The same is true if you have Capricorn rising, or a Capricorn natal moon at 25 degrees, or another natal planet in Capricorn, Virgo, or Taurus at 25 degrees too, in all cases, plus or minus five degrees.

You had a very social full moon on April 29, just hours before the dawning of May. That was a positive full moon in Scorpio, so perhaps over the weekend of April 28-29 you went to a party or wedding that turned out to be lots of fun and may have had a touch of glamour about it.

Saturn was in fine angle to the Sun and full moon, and because Saturn is your ruler, it had extra prominence in your life. You may have made a new friend or contact – possibly someone older than you – that can give you wise advice or tips that you can use in your personal or professional life. Neptune was also highly supportive, so you may have been inspired by some of the people you met. It’s also possible that to go to the social event you likely attended, you went to a pretty place that was situated near water. If nothing special happened over the weekend of April 28-29, you may still have a wonderful event on your agenda in the first days of May.

In the first part of May, Mars, the energy planet, will still be visiting Capricorn until May 15. This is an enormous advantage that first started March 17, so if there is still someone high level that you need to see, make that appointment with great haste.

Unfortunately, a part of the time Mars was in Capricorn was limited by Mercury retrograde from March 22 to April 15, but that frustrating period is over, and Mercury is no longer sluggish and tired, but in good shape. This is another reason to use Mars in Capricorn to your advantage from May 1 to 15.

When you have Mars in Capricorn, as you do now, you have energy and drive, your passion for an idea or endeavor could light nations to your cause. It would be hard for anyone – even in your personal life – to say no to you. You will lose this advantage May 16, so by all means get busy.

Mars will move into Aquarius on May 16, and rather than stay the typical amount of time, seven weeks, Mars will remain in Aquarius for six months, until November 15. The reason Mars is staying in Aquarius so long is that Mars will retrograde from June 26 to August 27. All living things need rest, including planets like Mars, but this is NOT great news. Mars Is the planet of energy and action, and when he is out of phase, your endeavors slow down, hit snags, and sometimes have to be partly redone.

The months of late June through late August would be no time to launch anything vital or to make a decisive action. In fact, you might want to take a vacation during some of that time, for nothing of consequence will be achieved. There is another reason I say that – Mars’ brother Mercury will again go retrograde during the middle of the Mars slowdown, from July 26 to August 18. July and August will be very tough months to see any kind of progress on any score, and everyone, of every sign will feel this slowdown.

Mars is the natural ruler of your solar fourth house of home and family, so you might run into all kinds of delays if you hope to buy a house or condo. Try to move things along and do it this month, or in early June, at the latest, or wait until September. Put off naming contractor in those months, but if you are ready, you can do so now. If you were deciding on a nursing home for a parent or other relative, if you can keep your relative home through the summer with an aide, that would be the ideal decision. For some readers, it’s impossible to wait until September, so do what you have to do. You can make successful decisions now in May, or early June.

Mars in Aquarius will be tearing through your personal income / saving sector, and it seems you are entering an expensive period that will last through mid-November. I am not sure why this will happen, but it will be home related. Maybe you know you are about to buy a condo or rent a summer cottage, or make repairs on your current home.

If you have a roommate, protect yourself with a contract, so that your roommate can’t move out one night without notice and leave you having to shoulder the entire rent by yourself. I am trying to protect you because of these unexpected financial aspects that could come up.

Mars will be in hard angle to Uranus on May 15, but you could feel this aspect for days before or after this date. Mars is in your money house, and Uranus is in your love / and children sector, so you might be spending on seeing a doctor during pregnancy and buying things in advance for the baby, or spending more on a special (expensive) medical procedure like IVF. Alternatively, many female readers in their early 30’s are freezing their eggs to give themselves more time to have children if they have not yet meet the one the person want to marry.

If you have children, you may be hiring a special tutor for that child, or sending him to camp or to a private school soon. Even if your children are grown, they may still need a loan or outright infusion of cash, and you will want to help your son or daughter. There will be a direct link between money and your fifth house, so you may already know the plans you have to care for your offspring.

Mars will remain in early degrees of Aquarius while it goes direct, retrograde, and direct again. At the same time, Uranus will remain in very early degrees of Taurus. This means Mars will square Uranus at 90 degrees, a hot-button aspect, which often denotes obstacles and setbacks, sometimes triggering anger or frustration. Both signs, Aquarius and Taurus, are fixed signs, making any dilemma that comes up longer to fix, because both sides are wedded to their opinions. Mars will be at the same aspect (90 degree square in early degrees of Taurus and Aquarius) on August 1 and September 18, so those dates will echo what you hear May 16.

Actually, you don’t need an exact aspect hit, so you will need to be mindful of cash flow for weeks, well before and after May 15, August 1, and September 18. Watch what happens on May 15, for the theme that comes up this month will be echoed all the way to September 18. I say that because the degrees are not changing much at all, and the signs of Uranus and Mars are staying the same.

The month ends on a sweet note. Jupiter and Neptune will be in rare alignment May 25. This is an aspect so rare it takes years for these two planets to come together like this. They will again on August 19 this year, but then after that, they will spin their separate ways, not to create anything like this until July 2026. This is a supremely romantic aspect, so by all means, find a way to use it. Single or attached, this water sign glittering triangle in the sky is for you.

It seems you will be invited to see friends, possibly a short distance away, to a beautiful place near water, near May 25-29. Venus will also be in ideal position at month’s end and create a golden triangle – a grand trine of amazing grace and beauty in the night sky – suggesting if you have a partner, you will be close and have a very happy month’s end.

You will also benefit from Venus in Cancer, touring your seventh house of close committed relationships from May 19 to June 13. If you have any touchy subject to bring up with your significant other, use the days that fall within the ones listed, when Venus will be in Cancer. You are likely to have a silky smooth discussion, or at the very least, it will go better than you expect.

The spotlight is on you, and life is very busy. At times, you might wish things would slow down – that events are coming at you a bit too quickly. You can handle this pace, even if at times you feel at times you can’t possibly keep up.

You have an advantage now, for Mars in Capricorn will ask you to set the agenda and can affect the direction events will go. Be courageous, for with Mars in your sign, others are likely to accept your ideas. The first two weeks, until May 15, will be golden for you. Once Mars leaves, you won’t have Mars in Capricorn again until 2020, from February 16 through March 30.

Life has not been exactly easy for you, for since December (2017) your ruler, teacher Saturn moved into Capricorn in a rare, once-in-three-decade visit to your Sun sign. Since then, you have likely taken on more responsibilities, and are in the process now of learning to juggle them all.

To balance the serious tone that Saturn has wrought, May brings lots of reasons to enjoy life. The full moon of late last month, April 29, will still be exerting happy feelings during the first week of May. You may have attended a luxurious event over the weekend of April 28-29 that still lingers in your mind and makes you smile. If you met a new person you’d like to know better to form a friendship, make the first move by suggesting lunch with that person. With Saturn, your ruler, so supportive, that person is likely to have wise advice for you, and may be older than you. Still, you both seem to connect very well and could be friends a long time.

The new moon of May 15 will be one of the most romantic of the year. If you are single, after this date appears, plan to circulate in the two weeks that follow. If you are attached, it’s time to book a special occasion dinner or to buy tickets to the ballet, a concert, or Broadway show. Find ways to revive your relationship with your steady sweetheart or spouse with fun and a flirty approach.

On Friday, May 25, good fortune Jupiter will make a rare alignment to planet of unconditional love, Neptune, representing a gorgeous aspect. Consider celebrating your love by booking a romantic trip for two. If you only have only a few vacation days due, leave over the long weekend, May 25-May 28, your very best days of the month.

When Mars leaves Capricorn on May 15, Mars will enter Aquarius and stay an unusually long time, until November 15. (A typical stay of Mars in one sign is seven weeks, not six months.) Mars will focus you solidly on economics and business, income, financial responsibilities and spending. A difficult day for money matters is due May 16, when Mars and Uranus will clash, causing a sudden and unexpected expense or news that will require your quick, full attention. If you have an important meeting to center on money or profits, don’t pick May 16, but rather make it for the four-star day, May 23, when the Sun will align with Mars.

This is a monumental month, for Uranus, the planet of surprise, will leave Aries and enter Taurus on May 15, the same day as the new moon. From now until November 7, Uranus will remain in your house of true love, giving serendipity and fun to your life from now on. This year will be a preview of years to come, for Uranus will retrograde back to Aries in November but return to Taurus on March 6, 2019. From then on, Uranus will remain in Taurus until April 2026, a period of seven years. Uranus in Taurus is a superb placement for you, for it will add richness to your emotional life with love, surprise, and time for laughter with small children. Uranus will also stimulate your creativity in a noticeable way.

Not only will you benefit from Uranus’ move into Taurus, you will also benefit from Uranus’ departure from Aries, a place it has occupied over the past seven years. Many Capricorns were uprooted and needed to move residence suddenly, possibly more than once. This unsettling period lasted ever since Uranus set up shop in your house of home in 2010 until now. Once Uranus leaves Aries for good on March 6, 2019, Uranus will not return to Aries in your lifetime, as Uranus takes 84 years to circle the Sun (and in this case, to return to Aries in April 2094). This is all good news.

At month’s end, the full moon in Sagittarius of May 31. At this point, plan for rest. This full moon will arrive on the heels of the outstandingly romantic alignment of Jupiter to Neptune on May 25. A drive out of town to a sunny seaside location where you can breathe in salty fresh air, and hear nothing louder than an occasional foghorn in the distance, would do the trick to have you unwind and enjoy life more. This full moon suggests you might be able to lengthen your long weekend to an entire week or more, a lovely idea.