Mythic Zodiac

May 2020 Forecast

Rick Tarnas, the author of Cosmos and Psyche has a great video about the archetypal signature of our time.  If you want to understand how archetypes work in the world, don’t miss this one.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjx9wRO_ds8&feature=share

We have three planets turning retrograde this month within three days.  They are Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter.  Pluto turned regrade on April 25 and in June we will have Mercury and Neptune moving retrograde.  This means there will be reversals in many areas in the coming months.  Some will be positive.  We may show a lifting of the quarantine and then return to locked down with different areas of the country being on different timelines.  It’s a frustrating time when we don’t know where we stand.  Retrogrades bring a lot of hidden things to light.  So watch for some revelations during the months these planets are retrograde.

Dates to Watch:

Note to my Astrology Clients. Use your Planetary Placement and Ascendant Sheet to find if the following transits will have a major impact on you.

May 3 – Venus Square Neptune at 20 degrees Gemini/Pisces.  If you are thinking of committing to a long term relationship today, Don’t! Neptune brings in unrealistic ideals into relationships today.  You are especially starry-eyed if you have the ascendant or any personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) at 18 to 22 degrees of Gemini or Pisces.  You can use the other side of Venus in the arts and create some beautiful pieces today.  Venus will square Neptune all month.

May 4 - Sun Conjunct Mercury at 14 Taurus.  This is a positive Full Moon.  It is opposite Mercury and Trine Neptune.  It’s all about compassion and deeply committed communications. The Sun lights up your mind.  You can have some very bright ideas today.  These ideas will be about land, food, and all the practical things in life.  You may find a new, dependable source of food products today.  You can be absolutely brilliant if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 12 to 16 Taurus or Scorpio.

May 7 – Full Moon at 17 Taurus/Scorpio.  Scorpio energy demands a deep examination of the hidden issues and patterns in your life.  Unconscious ideas can rise to the surface now. A Full Moon is similar to a minor Lunar Eclipse it shines a light on 2 houses in your chart that contain Taurus and Scorpio.  See the meaning of houses here.

May 9 – Mercury trine Pluto at 24 Taurus/Capricorn.  Today and tomorrow are great aspects for your mind and communications.  On this one someone you admire may help you out.  Pluto wants to get to the bottom of things and to uncover what has been buried.

May 10 – Mercury trine Jupiter at 27 Taurus/Capricorn.  This could bring in some work that is financially rewarding. We could express ourselves in optimistic ways.  We can set the pace for future growth.

May 11 – Mercury moves into Gemini until May 28.  Mercury loves being in Gemini.  He loves the fast pace.  It is the sign he rules and it connotes verbal gymnastics.  Geminis are getting the wind in their sails, stay away from them; they can talk your head off this month.  Tell them not to say anything unless it is true, necessary, and kind.  That will stop them in their tracks.

          Mercury Square Mars at 28 Taurus/Aquarius.   Everyone is saying what they think today.  Not necessarily a good thing.  Keep your tongue and your keyboard under control.  Especially prone to explosive anger if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 26 to 29 Taurus or Aquarius.

          Saturn turns retrograde at 1 degree of Aquarius and stays retrograde until Sep 29.  You may experience a loosening of the strict rules you have imposed on yourself or maybe the strict rules about self-isolation will lift a little. This starts a period of deep self-examination.  Funds may be limited. What is important is to look and see if you have any planets at 1 degree of Aquarius and what house it falls in.  You may feel restricted in the area ruled by the planet and the house.

May 12 – Mercury trine Saturn 1 Gemini/Aquarius.  Make realistic decisions today.  Your judgment is good.

May 13 – Mars enters Pisces until June 27. Mars, the warrior is all ego. Pisces is about the spiritual side of life. We may get confused about the direction we want to go in.  Also, in relationships, you can start acting like a big baby.  You put on a mask of the sad, sweet, martyr.  Cut it out unless you have the ascendant or personal planets in Pisces, then you can’t help it.

          Venus turns retrograde at 21 Gemini until June 25 and stations direct at that time at 5 Gemini.  The last time Venus went retrograde in Gemini was in May-June 2012.  Similar themes from that time could resurface.  During the retrograde, you will have a long time to examine your relationships and your finances in a cool, rational way.  You may find that the wonderful progress you were making in your new relationship can now stop and go backward.  Past relationships can come back. This is a good time to think of how you communicate in relation to others.  Venus will be in Gemini until August 7. Because Venus is the goddess of harmony and love, Geminis may stop being such smart alecks and become kinder.

May 14 – Jupiter turns retrograde at 27 Capricorn until Sep 12 and stations direct at 17 Capricorn at that time. Jupiter will stay in orb of Pluto all year. Jupiter can amplify the Pluto themes of power and corruption and help us see how these issues are playing out in our world. Jupiter rules our ideals, optimism, growth, and our belief systems.  We may start to question if what we believe is true or a renewal of our faith.

May 15 – Sun Trine Pluto at 14 Taurus/Capricorn. You could receive very valuable advice from a colleague or relative.  The advice may be how to build your financial security.  Good fortune for those of you with personal planets or the ascendant at 12 to 16 Taurus or Capricorn.

May 17 – Sun Trine Jupiter at 27 Taurus/Capricorn.  Another aspect of possible wealth, but you have to work for it.  Especially positive for those of you with personal planets or the ascendant at 25 to 28 Taurus or Capricorn.

May 20 - Venus Square Neptune at 20 Gemini/Pisces.  Venus has backed up to square Neptune again. Maybe we can see our way out of the confusion that started on May 3.  Or maybe it will take to the last time we have this Venus/Neptune aspect to climb out of the clouds.  That won’t be until July 27.  It may take 3 passes of this aspect for you to figure out the illusory nature of your love.  Watch it if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 18 to 22 Gemini or Pisces.

           Sun enters Gemini until June 20. This is the month to learn, teach, communicate what you think is important.

May 22 – New Moon at 2 Gemini.  This is the start of the Gemini month.  You want to be entertained and find being quiet boring. You will find yourself asking questions such as, what is really going on with this virus scare.

          Mercury conjunct Venus at 20 Gemini.  Your writing and speech is more artistic today.  You could receive important correspondence from a friend especially if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 18 to 22 Gemini.

          Sun Trine Saturn at 1 Gemini/Aquarius.  This is good for dealing with elders.  It is also good for new projects that will endure for years.  Get grounded in your work if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 0 to 3 Gemini or 0 to 3 Aquarius.

          Mercury Square Neptune at 20 Gemini/Pisces.  Mercury gets confused when he meets up with Neptune. You are not thinking straight if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 18 to 22 Gemini or Pisces.

May 28 – Mercury enters Cancer, turns retrograde on June 18 until Jul 12, and finally enters Leo on August 4.  Mercury will stay in Cancer for a long time.  During this time your thinking will have an emotional tinge to it.  It’s time to think about your home and family.  Do you want to have children? I wouldn’t advise it.

 

OUTER PLANET TRANSITS:

JUPITER is now in Capricorn until December 20, 2020.  This month Jupiter will turn retrograde on May 14 and will stay at 24 Capricorn all month.   Jupiter is about growth and expansion especially in travel and education and also in the area of your life ruled by the house in your natal chart that contains Capricorn.  Jupiter isn’t very happy in Capricorn because for the following year he has to get down to business; become responsible, and build a career. Don’t forget about his excessive qualities. In Capricorn, he could work too hard, and be too focused on the material and forget to smell the roses

SATURN  is now in Aquarius and will turn retrograde on May 11. This month he will stay at 1 degree of Aquarius.  On July 1 he will back up into Capricorn again.  Then he will reenter Aquarius on Dec 17 and stay in Aquarius until March 2023.  In Aquarius, he wants to work with a network or with the community.  If you have Saturn in a challenging aspect to your ascendant or to personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) you may be in store for some hard lessons around the issues ruled by the planet and the house the planet is in or rules.

 URANUS is in Taurus until Apr 2026. This month he moves from 6 to 8 degrees of Taurus.  If you have personal planets or the ascendant at 4 to 10 degrees of Taurus or Scorpio, you will feel a need for freedom and for making some radical changes in your life. I believe in ‘cooperating with the inevitable’. If you have Uranus in a challenging aspect to your ascendant or personal planets, go on a long vacation, move or make some major changes in your life.

NEPTUNE (creativity, sensitivity, escapism, dreams) is in Pisces until 2026. This month Neptune moves stays at 20 degrees of Pisces. A lack of focus, a sense of drifting or an inability to see a betrayal or disappointment until it's too late can be experienced by those of you with the ascendant, Sun or Personal Planets at 18 to 22 degrees of Pisces or Virgo. For the enlightened out there, Neptune can also bring artistic, musical, creative expression, increased dreams and spiritual insights. Watch for some really inspired films to come out during the time Neptune is in Pisces. 

PLUTO is in Capricorn until 2023.  This month, Pluto is moving retrograde and will stay at 24 degrees of Capricorn. Profound changes will be felt especially by those with the ascendant or personal planets at 22 to 26 degrees of Capricorn or Cancer. What needs to die in order to be reborn?

 Stay safe and well.

 

Janet Kane

www.mythiczodiac.com

 

 

The Great God Pan is Back

I remember reading a biography a long time ago where the author said, “Socrates has been thought of as the wisest man on Earth, but he had a primitive mind because he prayed to Pan”.  I rejected that statement right off and decided that Socrates was the wisest man on earth and if he prayed to Pan there must be a good reason.  So I decided to learn all about Pan. I found out that Socrates was praying to nature; to what is real. 

The reason I love the ancient Greeks is that they apply an image and a narrative to people and events.  Since studying the ancient Greeks, I have always looked for the gods hidden in events that happen in our world.  The Covid19 virus had me stumped until I saw a headline that said “Chinese attempt to spread panic through social media around the covid19 pandemic”.  DUH!  So it’s my ole friend Pan raising his ugly head. Pan has become translated as all nature.  Panic and pandemic are words associated with Pan

There is a Christian tradition that when the heavenly host told the shepherds at Bethlehem of the birth of Christ, there was a deep groan heard through all the isles of Greece that told that the great God Pan was dead and that all the royalty of Olympus was dethroned and that several deities were sent wandering in the cold and darkness.  With Pan gone, nature had been deprived of its creative voice.

We have been repressing Pan ever since.  Pan represents unbridled nature and we believe it has no place in our so-called civilized world. The virus also represents unbridled nature.  There is nothing foreign about this virus.  It belongs here on earth with us.  But because we have set ourselves against nature it has turned into a powerful enemy.  Pan has brought us to our knees wanting us to stop the carnage of his earth. So what is the best way to deal with this Pandemic?  How do we honor Pan? 

Stopping pollution and becoming more conscious of the earth will satisfy Pan. I think a more earth-friendly humanity is what Pan wants to see.

There are pictures on the internet about how clean the air is now and how the animals are entering into cities.  Pan is happy with all of that.  Don’t for one minute think the gods have been dethroned.  They are stronger than ever because they now reside in our unconscious.  As C. G. Jung stated, the gods have become our diseases.  So let’s bring all the gods of Olympus back to be honored.

Let’s honor Pan by growing gardens, taking care of the animals, and appreciating the natural beauty around us.

 

Stay well,

Janet Kane

A Myth for Taurus

The Sun has entered Taurus on April 19, 2020

Taurus is an earthy fixed sign and so they are not crazy about change. Mutable signs (Gemini, Sagittarius, and Pisces) keep adjusting their lives to meet outer circumstances.  But not Taurus, they find a place, job and relationships that suit them and they plop down and don’t move.  Getting them to budge is like trying to push a sleeping bull--he may get angry, but won’t move.

I’m sure the Taureans out there love being stuck in their homes during the coronavirus.  If they don’t they have a nasty Uranus aspecting one of their personal planets or their ascendant in their birth chart.  Also, we are now experiencing  Uranus In Taurus which only happens once in 84 years.  If anything gets the Taurus moving it is Uranus transiting their sign.  Since they aren’t used to making slight adjustments in their life, they usually don’t handle this energy very well and act in wildly unpredictable ways. They may get married, divorced, or move to Majorca.  That can shock the hell out of the rest of us who have close relationships with Taurus. Watch April 22 when the New Moon in Taurus meets up with Uranus.  Taurus types could start something new that is entirely outside the box for them.

Since Taurus rules the home, farms and the production of food.  Uranus in Taurus is causing a disruption in our food supply.  Taurus also rules banking, the image above is the bull statue on Wall Street.  They plan to move the bull because of protests and where are they thinking of moving it to? The New York Stock Exchange. You can't separate the bull image from money.

 

You have this archetype if you have Taurus Rising or Personal Planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) in Taurus or Venus in a challenging aspect (Conjunction, Square Opposition) to the personal planets.

TAURUS

Earth Element:  Material and concrete experiences

Fixed Mode:  Concentrated energy

Hero Type: Determined, introverted style

Archetypes:  The Banker, The Gardener, and The Builder

Taurus Moon:   Inner Need for Security

Taurus Sun:  The search for true Value

Taurus Ascendant:  Surrounded by Material “stuff”

MYTH:

I usually use King Midas as an archetype for Taurus, but I’m sure a lot of Taureans out there are sick of me using greedy, materialistic King Midas as an archetype for their sign.  Well, there is another myth to describe the Taurus archetype and that is Hestia.   Hestia is known as the Mistress of the Hearth and is normally envisioned as a living flame or portrayed as a virgin maiden who covers her head with a veil.  Her worship went far back into prehistory times when each family honored the spirit of the hearth fire burning in the center of their round thatched hut.  It was regarded as a sacred space.

In ancient Greece, Hestia was the name of the place where family, friends or visitors would gather around a hearth for warmth and food.  Both Poseidon and Apollo wished to marry Hestia, but she asked Zeus to free her from these annoying suitors.  Zeus agreed that she could remain a virgin.  There is another story that Priapus tried to rape Hestia and a donkey brayed and she shrieked and Priapus fled in “comic terror”.  Hestia wasn’t hostile to men like Artemus or cold like Athena, she was very social and enjoyed family life even though it wasn’t her own.  What she loved most of all is being alone in her home.

When all the gods and goddesses were fighting, Hestia alone would not be brought into the fray.  She taught mankind how to build houses. She protects the towns, the town halls, and the altars.  In Rome, she was known as Vesta.  The Roman festival for Hestia is 28 of April, during the sign of Taurus.

Taurean Traits: We learn both the positive and negative aspects of Taurus from this myth.  Taurus hesitates to marry because she doesn’t want to leave her home, her job or her hometown.  They like their own place and the idea of sharing their space does not agree with them.  Also, they don’t let a stranger penetrate their “interior”.  They can be veery stubborn.  They are good at Real Estate.  They like stability and constancy and emotional and financial security are very important to them. They stay away from confrontations.  They aren’t adaptable to changing situations.  Focus and centering is their gift.

Psychological Health for Taurus – “Expressing Will, making decisions when they need to be made, accepting change but having a sense of constancy in the life” – Lynn Koiner

Primary Goal:   Inner stillness and Simplicity

Challenge: Who or what should I preserve or hold on to?

Let’s celebrate the Sun in Taurus by baking bread, inviting friends over for dinner and saying a prayer to Hestia.

 

Stay safe and well,

Janet Kane

www.mythiczodiac.com