Astrological Insights for May 19 - 25, 2025
Saturn Charges into Aries (and Gemini Season Begins)
Here are some insights about the opportunities and challenges that this week’s astrology may offer us collectively. If you’re looking to access personalized insights to help you navigate the now, I’d love to do a Stellar Guidance Session with you. And if you’d like to further understand family patterns that may hold you back from freely being yourself, let’s do a Stellar Constellation Session. Click on the buttons below to schedule a session (and know that if none of the availabilities work for you, you can always email me as sometimes I am able to offer other possibilities). And, if you’re in the Seattle area, I’ll be back in June so we can do an-person session if you’d like.
On Tuesday, we dart into Gemini Season, a month-long period in which curiosity takes hold and lights our path. It’s a time to ask question and find answers, doing so through holding a wide-angle lens, seeking insights here and there. Gemini, the sign of the twins, also encourages us not to limit ourselves to a single lane when we realize that our pull towards variety and multiplicity more deeply honors our interests and affinities. In that, we often are able to see how the “this” and the “that” have more in common than we previously thought, and in doing so we discover synthesis rather than fragmentation.
Before that, in the last day-plus of Taurus season, honor a call for practicality and pragmatism. Consider how routines and rituals ground you in a rhythm that has consistency and gifts you a sense of security. Connect to nature and hear the clarion call to feel more embodied including through the pleasure you receive through your senses.
This week also begins another layer of the ping-pong energetic that colors the next year, as we experience the slower-moving planets moving into one sign, reversing courses back to its old territory, until finally taking up residency in the new sign. Neptune began this period of orchestrated flux when it moved into Aries on March 30 (it will return to Pisces on October 22 before settling into Aries for thirteen more years on January 26). Uranus will begin its back and forth when it enters Gemini on July 7. It stays there until November 7 when it saunters back into Taurus until April 25, upon which it re-enters Gemini where it will stay for the next seven years.
And this week we have another layer of this ping-pong occurring with structured Saturn charging into Aries where it will be for the next three-plus months. On September 1 it will swim back into Pisces, until February 13, when it will once again stride into Aries, staying there for about two years.
Not only is this week’s Saturn ingress into Aries part of this intense flux state we may be feeling for the next year, but its entering Aries itself of course brings with it significant meaning. Saturn in Aries offers us a clarion call to become a conscious warrior, one who is brave and courageous, aware of what they deeply desire, understands how to fuel themselves for undertakings, thoughtfully sources their willpower to move forward at the behest of their aims, and is cogniznant of how to be in relationship with their rage and anger.
I imagine it will also test our patience with topics such as wars and battles, artillery and weaponry, impetousness and impulsiveness, and hyper-masculinity. The times when it crosses the 0 degree Aries spot—around May 24, September 1, and February 13—it will be on the cardinal axis, a zodiacal hot spot that when activated often illuminates events and awareness on the world stage that remind us that the personal is political, the political personal, and that we are woven together in a thread that scaffolds collective existence.
If you want to further understand not only the sources of stress that Saturn in Aries can bring but also how to access an alliance with its potentials, all of which can help you galvanize your well-being, you can now buy the recording and handouts from the recent webinar I taught for Astrology University, entitled Self-Care Strategies for the Fire and Air Era. It not only will give you practical tips and rituals—dietary insights, breathwork practices, dreamwork routines, flower essences, and more—that will allow you to work with all the Saturn/Neptune in Aries (and Uranus in Gemini) energies but you’ll also learn more tools to navigate this year’s ping-pong flux state.
One last thing about this pioneering week. The same day that Saturn enters Aries—Saturday—we have the Mercury/Uranus Conjunction. Be open to discovering information from not well-trodden sources, consider that conversations could seem frenetic, and leave ample space in your calendar between appointments so that if plans change (or unexpected traffic emerges) you won’t be so stressed and pressured. Also be open to out-of-the-blue Ahas! that often emerge when the planet of communication meets up with the planet of the unexpected.
Have a good week!
xxStephanie
Astrological Insights
May 20: Sun/Saturn Sextile; Sun enters Gemini
May 22: Sun/Neptune Sextile; Venus/Mars Trine
May 24: Sun/Pluto Trine; Saturn enters Aries; Mercury/Uranus Conjunction
May 25: Mercury enters Gemini'; Mercury/Saturn Sextile
All days reflect Eastern Daylight Time (- 4 hours GMT)
Understanding the Meaning of Death Appearing in Dreams (Well + Good Article)
Remember back in late April, when we had the third of the three recent Mars/Pluto Oppositions, an invitation to exhume the hidden, be open to the intense, and consider endings and beginnings, as well as the cycles of life? I was wondering what may appear for me during that time, notably that it was igniting my Venus, the planet of alliances.
Well as “synchronicity” would have it I received an email from writer Safire R. Sostre who was working on an article for Well + Good, on a topic that felt exceptioanlly Plutonian to me. She was exploring what it may signify when you have a dream of a loved one dying and wanted me to provide some insights on this subject.
As you may imagine, this dream theme is much less frequently about prognostication and more about transition, transformation, and endings and beginnings. If you’ve ever had this kind of dream, or are just interested in the topic, check out there article here.
Gorgeous work. ⭐️