!! OMG Stars: Horoscopes for Taurus Season 2025 !!

Happy May, happy Taurus season, happy Spring to you all!

I started writing these horoscopes the day before the Taurus new moon, and they tucked back into bed for a bit while my other life took over for a couple weeks. Their emergence will be just before the Scorpio full moon on May 11th, making these horoscopes a little baby lunar cycle project.

For your astrological edification, a trick: new moons are always when the sun and moon are in the same sign, and full moons are always when they are in opposite signs, so if you ever want to impress a date, you can look at the sky and say “oh, it’s a new moon in Taurus/Full moon in Scorpio/insert sign names here” depending on what season it is and what the moon looks like. New moons are about new energy, beginnings, times to plant seeds, so I hope that this emergent springtime finds you on the cusp of hopeful beginnings.

This Taurus season we finally get a break from the exhausting astrology of the first months of this year. We started 2025 tough, with a series of retrogrades from all three of the personal planets, Mercury, Venus, and Mars. People have been irritable, depressed, isolated, neurotic, angry, and lacking the skills to work through those feelings. I am happy to report that we are moving out of this astrology.

We don’t get a complete break from the tough feelings, but we have better capacity to choose what to do with it. The end of April closed out the worst of the Mars related astrology: after a retrograde to start the new year, we dealt with an existentially long time of Mars in the sensitive and vulnerable sign of Cancer (where the planet of anger and will does not so much love to be). After all that, Mars will spent several days in opposition to Pluto. These two planets are both very intense, with Mars being our interpersonal intensity and Pluto being more societal and geopolitical. This opposition well-describes the way that living in a very scary and challenging time in the world affects our bodies, our selves, and our relationships.

Here now in May, Mars will be direct in Leo, taking the tough lessons he’s learned over the past few months forward into the creative energy of Leo. This is a great spring for making art, or just expressing yourself in general. Mercury and Venus are now in Leo’s fellow fire sign Aries: lots of fire, this Springtime.  With lots of Aries happening currently in the sky, we move into a place of bravery, individualism, and more open attitudes to conflict. I’m hopeful this could be helpful, but I do have to give the fair warning that there are obvious hard things about this kind of astrology. Neptune is just in its early days of its long transit through Aries that will see us into 2039, so we’ll all need to work extra hard to fight against toxic individualism and towards collective liberation.

Overall readers, I hope that this astrology can give you hope. Here in Toronto it’s been a very long and difficult winter, but the bulbs blooming are getting me through. I’m looking for the metaphorical bulbs all around me right now, which is a perfect thing to do in this astrological and meteorological season of flowers.

Amelia

PS: You may notice that I go back and forth on indicating that these horoscopes are for your rising vs. sun sign. I made a reel about this on my Instagram recently, you can see it here.

Horoscopes are written using whole house calculations and are meant as inspiration and affirmation. Specific calculations are made for the rising signs, but if you don’t know your rising sign, you can read for your sun. You can access your birth chart at astro.com, café astrology, or many other apps and websites using your birth date, time, and location. You can also find out lots of personal information by booking a reading with me here.

Aries

Your sign is getting a lot of attention this coming month, with Venus in your sign, and in fact over the next couple of years with Saturn in Aries. Neptune also recently moved into your sign, where he will stay until 2039. Aries loves attention, so this should be great for your lot, but something I’ve also noticed about Aries placements lately is that they don’t always go great with pressure and expectations.

Aries really needs circumstances to be just right in order to thrive, and like a little kid learning a new skill, doesn’t like to be pushed too far too fast. Remember to go at your own pace, work towards your own goals, and make your own opportunities.

Taurus

Happy you season, Taurus! Unless you’re in your early 20s and live to be over 100, this is the last Taurus season of your life in which you’ll have to deal with having Uranus in your sign. Since 2018 Uranus has been messing up all the stuff that Taurus likes most – comfort, reliability, and predictability. Uranus is the planet of chaos and innovation, and Taurus is the sign of the earth, so while we’ve certainly seen a lot of chaos here on our home planet, I think it’s important to remember that a lot of really important work has been going on around developing sustainable technologies, cleaning up the messes we have made, and protecting vulnerable species.

We’re doing bad at a faster rate than we’re doing good, but I was recently reminded (by an ecological scientist), that every bit of good we do is important. Every single ounce of Co2 that doesn’t make its way into the atmosphere makes a difference, every piece of plastic kept out of the ocean. That kind of steady persistence is among the most Taurean qualities I can think of. Astrologers sometimes discuss which, if any, sign would be related to the Earth were we to give our own planet an astrological correspondence, and every person I’ve spoken to has said Taurus.

I hope you take comfort (one of your favourite things) from this idea, and from the knowledge that it is some the very qualities of your sign that will most help this planet in the future unknowable years to come.

Gemini

Last month’s horoscopes focused on Aries and Mars, and those are still some pretty important placements for March’s astrology, so I hope you can keep your focus with me, Gemini, because I have more to say about him for you. In the Aries season horoscopes I talked about how Aries shows up in your chart – around the 11th house of friends and community. This can mean you bring a lot of energy and enthusiasm to this area of life.

This month we hav a whole heap of planets moving through this part of your chart, so expect some action around social groups. Mars (Aries’ ruing planet) is also recently direct and finished with a really awful transit through Cancer. Relief! He’ll move into your 3rd house of communication this month, bringing some passion and heat to that area of your life.

There’s definitely a potential for conflicts in your social groups this May, Gemini rising.

Cancer

Cancers of all placements, breathe easy because Mars is FINALLY out of your sign. This was a long time with a planet your sign is not known for dealing well with: Mars first moved into your sign in early September last year, stayed there til early November, was retrograde in Leo for a bit, then came back to Cancer in the first week of January where he stayed until mid April. Six months with the planet of anger, irritation, and things with pointed edges in your sign is a pain in the butt

It could have made you more irritable, more prone to aggression, or any host of annoying feelings, particularly those of you with Cancer rising (I must admit though, it could also have involved some times of increased physical energy and feeling hot and sexy, so it’s not all bad).

Either way, it’ll be a relief to get this planet off your back and into a more relaxed energy throughout the rest of May.

Leo

While Cancer up above gets to celebrate Mars leaving the sign, you, Leo, get to welcome the planet. Cancer is a sign of sensitivity, vulnerability, and nurturing, whereas Leo is about creative self expression: all of this to say, your sign is a bit better prepared to deal with the energy of Mars. Mars did spend some time hanging out in your sign last fall/winter, from early November until the very beginning of the new year, but he was also retrograde for much of that so it wouldn’t have felt great.

This month (and until June 18th), Mars will be direct in your sign, bringing energy, passion, and a little bit of anger. Do I wish, for all of our sake that Mars would stay in Leo for Pride? Yes, that is my gay astrologer duty. But we take what we can get. Since Mars was recently retrograde in your sign, this upcoming period of being direct indicates there’s something unfinished that has to do with this sign. If you’re Leo rising, it most likely has to do with identity and social interactions. Did you get in a fight and agree to revisit the topic later on? This could be the month you feel called to do so, but keep in mind that the Mars energy is still around so you’ll still be mad.

Mars also rules physical energy (did you abandon a workout plan? Pick it back up), some aspects of sexuality (libido gone? I hope it’s back!), and all sharp things (go find that old man with the truck that rings a bell and sharpens knives). Happy hunting season.

Virgo

Virgo, your sign rules service and invisible labour, which I know, from seeing you as clients, is a quality many of you have a love/hate relationship with. Depending on the rest of your chart you might actually really like being thanked. You might really need a bit of attention and not know how to ask for it.

This is the plight of many a Virgo! I bring this up because I suspect this summer you’ll be called on for this quality quite a bit. We’re moving out of a (long, years long) period of more introspective/low energy/passive astrology into more extroverted/energetic/aggressive astrology. Virgo, I think there will be messes to clean up.

Your choice is to decide how much you want to be the one to do that work, and—please spend some time with this one—whether you want to do this thanklessly or not.

Libra

This is an interesting time astrologically for Libras, one (as astrology is so often) that is full of contradictions. On the one hand, Pluto recently moved into your fellow air sign of Aquarius, so while it’s a long journey, you will at some point between now and 2044 have a trine to your Libra placements from Pluto (this is three years of intense support!). Jupiter is alos closing up its journey through gemini, so at some point this past twelve months, you’ve had a trine from the big nice guy (Jeff Goldblum played Zeus in that Netflix show Kaos, and I think Jeff Goldblum makes a great Jupiter).

This is all slow and long term support, though, and this month your ruling planet Venus moves into your opposing sign of Aries. Few oppositions in the zodiac feel more to me like fighting siblings than Aries and Libra do. You want the same things but you have completely different ways of wanting them. Aries can’t admit how much it likes to be comfy and you can’t admit how much you like to be right. With Venus in your sister sign, I encourage you to lean into the qualities of your opposing sign a bit more, especially if you’re a Libra rising.

How do you get mad? When do you stand up for yourself? When do you stand up, say “whatever”, and get cheese fries? This month, Libra, I hope it’s a few times.

Scorpio

Scorpio, today I give you an astrology lesson (your lot have excellent memory and can take it): In Western astrology, every sign has a ruling planet, the planet which most embodies the qualities of that sign and whose transits and natal placements become important for people born under that sign. Astrology is, like all fields of knowledge, an evolving practice, so as we learn more about the cosmos, we update our readings of astrology. Part of what this has meant has been astrological delineations of planets we discover as we build bigger and better telescopes. The first such planet to be noticed by humans was Uranus, in the late 1700s: prior to this we only knew about the visible planets, those which show themselves to us as stars, and which were worshipped by the ancients as Gods.

Since the outer planets were discovered after the birth of this form of astrology, it’s meant that some signs get two ruling planets: a traditional ruling planet (one of the visible planets) and a modern ruling planet (which can only be seen by a telescope). Ancient astrologers accorded Mars to the rulership of Scorpio, but after Pluto’s discovery in the 1930s, the furthest out and most mysterious planet was given rulership of your sign. All this to say: these two planets both have significance for Scorpio, and until very recently, they’ve been FIGHTING.

Maybe you’ve felt like no one has been driving the bus for the past few weeks, or maybe you’ve been faced with conflict all over the place. Whatever the case, Scorpio, you finally get a break, and with the full moon in your sign on the 12th of May, I hope you can put to rest some of the baggage you’ve been carrying as a result.

Sagittarius

For the past year, your ruling planet has been in your opposite sign of Jupiter. Up above I just talked about how Libra and Aries are the fighting siblings of the Zodiac, but Gemini and Sagittarius are what I always refer to as the party continuum of the Zodiac. Gemini says: I have an idea, and Sagittarius says: let’s do it. For the past year Jupiter has been full of ideas, and depending on the position of your Sagittarius placement, you’ve had a number of ways to respond. If Sagittarius is your rising sign, you’ve probably had a really big year when it comes to your one-on-one relationships.

There’s probably been drama here, as well as a lot of hope, and perhaps some big let-downs. Jupiter can be like that. We put all our faith in Jupiter, we ask so much of him, but let’s remember that ultimately Jupiter is also just Jeff Goldblum in a tracksuit.  All of this to say, this will be the last month of Jupiter in Gemini before your ruling planet moves into Cancer, and the last time Jupiter is in Gemini for twelve years.

This is the halfway point in a Jupiter cycle for your sign, so think about what you started 6 years ago and where it’s at now. You’re likely to feel a little disillusionment, but this is really the hardest time of a Jupiter cycle, and I expect (especially if you’re Sag rising) that you’re coming into a more energetic period for this second half.

Capricorn

Capricorn, I would love to tell you that all the tough astrology you dealt with at the start of this decade (please excuse me while I convulse thinking about this decade being half finished) is completely over. Let me rephrase that – I would love to tell you that nothing hard was gonna happen again. I feel like I went though a period where every time I wrote a Capricorn horoscope it was reporting on tough news. I’m sure you felt it. 2020 was particularly brutal for your sign (and all cardinal signs), particularly if your placements are after 20 degrees of Capricorn.

The good news: that part of the story is over and done with, completely closed. The bad news: there’s other things to stress about. You would not be the sign of the boss if this weren’t the case, though, and I’ll tell you a secret: this is also true of your fellow cardinal signs Aries, Libra, and Cancer, but you’re the only cardinal sign I’m telling this to. This is because you can take it, but it’s also becuase Capricorn, as an archetype, likes to be prepared. So Capricorn, this May, I want you to be prepared for minor irritations.

I want you to be ready for someone to get on your nerves, for people to fall short of your expectations, and for things to ask a lot of patience of you. I know you have this in you, Capricorn, so please take it as such a compliment that I’m telling you all this (it’s our secret).

Aquarius

How are you doing, Aquarius, in this time of intense upheaval? You may have heard people talk about the “Age of Aquarius” lately (and…always, at many points, of course). This probably doesn’t mean what you think it means. The phrase “The Age of Aquarius”, and I say this as a working professional astrologer, is high level new age woo-woo stuff. It’s not about a planetary movement that I pay attention to, but rather an extremely vague calculation about the earth’s rotation and something about the equinoxes. The “Age of Aquarius”, depending on who you ask, gets its start somewhere between 1447 and 3597.

Something astrologers all have in common, and something we have in common with Aquarians, is that we like precision. We like a neat tidy degree that lets us know something is this or that. I tell you this, Aquarius, because I know how much your sign likes facts and likes being right, and with this fact I give you such a good “well actually” that you’ll end any party chit-chat with the kind of righteous weirdo energy your sign loves. People right now are saying that the “Age of Aquarius” is starting because Pluto is moving into Aquarius, and they heard that song from the musical Hair and are assuming this is what it means.

The downside: this is not, in fact, an astrological age of particular importance to you, Aquarius, with any degree of precision or specificity that can help us. The upside: I just gave you something to be correct about. Screenshot this page and bring it up next time you hear someone ask you how it feels to be in the “Age of Aquarius”.

Pisces

This May is a time for one final push of energy from your sign, Pisces, because starting on the 26th Saturn will finally (after 2.5 years) leave your sign and get into Aries. Saturn in Pisces has been a challenging and important transit. Saturn is about restriction, rules, boundaries, where Pisces is about possibility, belief, and dreams. Saturn in your sign can be a dampening on all of these things for all of us.

On the other hand, I think it’s been important for all of us to take our dreams seriously, to put a little structure around them, and to lend authority to people and subjects normally cast aside by purveyors of knowledge. This month, Pisces, I invite you to show up as possibility, belief, and dreams. If you’re a very practical Pisces, this can be in your own home, or by expressing your creativity in your day-to-day life.

If you’re a full woo-woo Pisces this can be by taking these next few weeks to reflect on how we as a collective consciousness need Pisces to dive into our shadow work. Wherever you sit on this spectrum, I invite you to take your own dreams seriously for these next few weeks, and think about what tangible steps need to be taken to turn them into action.

OMG Stars is our astrology column written by queer astrologer Amelia Ehrhardt (@amelia.np.e). At the beginning of each new astrological season, Amelia interprets the upcoming astrology with a focus on how to navigate current events (astrological and global).