Steve Judd's Forecast for May 2010

The first half of May, when Mercury is still retrograde, is a time where communications in general will be down, and common sense will be noticeable by its absence. But once we’re past the middle of the month, things are suddenly going to become both very clear and very fast. Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus all get into a big bout of celestial handbags, and a number of hard choices are going to have to be made at the end of May. If you react in ways that bring difficulty or challenge into your life at this time, more fool you. The pattern at the end of May is unique, it hasn’t happened like this for well over a hundred years, and probably a lot longer than that, and it holds in it the chance to break the mold, throw it away and begin again as well as the chance for innovation, novelty and stimulation and for re-inventing yourself. If you take chances at the end of May there’s a slightly higher chance than normal of them coming true. Chances, not risks. The old ways are going, it’s time to break new ground. Enjoy.

Aries Towards the end of this month Uranus, the planet of change, moves into your sign for the first time since 1926. Whilst the effects of this may not be noticed by many of you, notice is being served that things are changing and can never go back to being the ways that they were even two years ago. Loosen and lighten up, check your metaphorical joints for flexibility and be prepared to go whichever way the tide takes you. Change can be disruptive and chaotic – it can also be stimulating and bring independence and freedom, and sometimes the combination of the two. As this year evolves, so you’ll see that change is becoming a regular thing.

Romance and Relationship

The first three weeks of May offer better social opportunities than at the end of the month, although all of this time is a generally good period where you aren’t likely to be seen as being too tactless, and where your directness may be seen as refreshing. Things should work out well for you, but not if you just wait for them to occur. By being more proactive, you can initiate openings and throw fishing lines into the future in a way that almost guarantees later success. Take your chances.

Business and Finance

Everything is actually working out quite well at the moment; the only fly in the ointment is you! Your capacity for patience is never that strong at the best of times, and now is a classic example of this. If it’s working, don’t fix it. If you were to give in to your impatience levels now, you would make impulsive attempts to hurry along things that are actually doing well under their own steam, and push them before they are properly mature. Don’t gamble on the future

Health and Spirit

This month is the final run in to a new period in your life, the last little bit of acceleration needed to get you up to speed so that you can enter June in a way that makes you super effective and efficient. You don’t have that much choice in the matter – slowing down now just isn’t an option, so instead grab control of the reins and make sure that you have at least a substantial say in the outcome of things. Are you dancing on the strings of others or are you the puppeteer of your life?

Taurus The big issue during May is communication, or the lack of. The first two weeks of the month are full of difficult news, missed links, misunderstandings and general communication breakdowns. And even after the middle of the month, when normal service seems to be resumed, there will still be hesitancy in believing everything that you’re told. It’s not going to be until the end of the month that you’re really going to be able to make sense of all that is currently happening, so don’t worry too much if some situations seem a little beyond your reach. It’s a month of assimilating experiences, not understanding them. That comes later.

Romance and Relationship

Traditionally you’re slow to boil: this month, you’re slow to calm down. It would be easy to get hot under the collar about things that normally you wouldn’t do, so watch your unusually strong tendency for sudden actions and be wise enough to know when to walk away just as you’re about to metaphorically strangle someone. As the last ten days of the month develop, so the temperature around you cools somewhat, and you can begin to get a clearer perspective on whom you can and can’t work with.

Business and Finance

With Mercury retrograde in your sign until the middle of the month, it really is not a good time for any type of negotiations, agreements or deal that involves signing your name to any binding document. By the middle of the month, the potential confusion is dissipating, and by the end of May there’s obvious signs of clarity emerging, decisions can be made safely and there are no new problems. The moral of all this is simple; take your time and consider everything wisely.

Health and Spirit

The Taurus new Moon around the twelfth of the month seems to bring with it a new appetite for opportunity, as though some of the old problems and challenges that had been holding you back and stopping you from taking your chances have now evaporated and gone. Indeed, there is a fresh energy emerging, but it is still new and untested, so certainly take your time. Initiation and new beginnings are fine, but don’t run before you can walk.

Gemini It’s one of those months where the more you try and get ahead for yourself, the less likely you are to succeed, but the more your work benefits those less fortunate than yourself the more fulfilled you will become. And this benefit from bringing others together can really work in your favour – there’s a position going vacant in your life for the matchmaker, you could easily find yourself brokering meetings leading to very healthy and favourable circumstances. Your seeming ability to be in the centre of things does you credit, and brings acclaim from local community. So make things happen, but don’t be selfish about the results.

Romance and Relationship

Probably the best time of the year in terms of day to day developments at the social and romantic level, with the first week of May being particularly auspicious for significant opportunities to meet others halfway and everyone benefit as a result. There is a lighter vibrancy about you now, given to enjoying yourself through contact and pleasure, so make the most of it whilst it is around. As the end of the month draws near so the energy changes again, and new things develop.

Business and Finance

In many ways you could easily feel as if you’re walking a tightrope now, between the two extremes of excess and scarcity, or of indulgence or denial. Neither is good for you, although the hardest thing to do is exactly what seems to be being asked of you – to tread the middle ground in a way that keeps you stable whilst the rest of the world seems to be losing it. Your ability to balance things in your life at this time is a direct reflection of your state of inner maturity.

Health and Spirit

Again, the message is balance in the face of challenge. You’re a bit of a walking pin cushion at the moment; you seem to be picking up vibes and impressions from all around you in a way that isn’t normally the case. Probably a good idea to take a few hours out in the near future and go of on your own to a spot in nature that inspires you, because by doing that you can temporarily extract yourself from the melee of headless chickens that seem to be all around you at the moment.

Cancer It’s a waiting game at the moment. You may feel as though there are huge things going on at levels that are difficult to understand or explain, even to yourself. And if you feel that, you’re right. You’re in the final stages of a process that’s been ongoing for a number of years, and the coming few months metaphorically represent a time of closure, when old patterns and attitudes are finally left to rest in a way that’s permanent and irrevocable. So don’t mourn if old things or attitudes are leaving now, what’s really happening is that you’re clearing the decks so that the future can come in without having to negotiate old worn out baggage.

Romance and Relationship

Again, it’s a waiting game, but there are definite sigs of healthy change on the horizon that weren’t there a month ago. There’s been a lot of attrition and wearing down over the last few months, and that’s about bottomed out now, the bounce back is beginning. And as the end of the month approaches so you should find that your social and romantic life begins to improve in a way that’s very welcome. Venus is moving into your sign mid/end month – you can begin to enjoy yourself again.

Business and Finance

Although it may seem as though the pressure is off, at least compared to how things were a few months ago, be assured that you’re not out of the woods yet. This is not time for further growth and expansion, no matter how good the opportunities may seem. But it is a great time for consolidation and rooting yourself, treating the tests of recent times as an exam of your ability to thrive and prosper under challenge. So get your roots strong, and the rest will build from there.

Health and Spirit

Although Saturn’s influence has diminished, Pluto remains as a brooding presence in the background, reminding you all that things have changed permanently in recent years and can never go back to being the same. Don’t let yourself get sucked into other people’s game plans, whether psychological or material. Keep your own counsel and let your actions and deeds be transparent, because if you’ve nothing to hide then you’re not going to attract unwelcome attention.

Leo For months there have been various reasons why things haven’t worked out for you, but now the time for reasons and excuses really is in the past. You’re entering the final stages of a six month period of having Mars in your sign, and now that he’s picking up speed the time for action is here. You should be finding that your get up and go, your vivacity and libido are all up and you want results, not reasons. So make things happen, but do it in a way that is assertive and projective as opposed to aggressive and confrontational. You can take the initiative now; but ensure you bring others with you, not against you and you’ll be glad you did.

Romance and Relationship

There’s times when you can be the sensitive little pussy cat liking nothing more than to have your tummy rubbed in front of a warm fire, and the there’s times where you can the saber-toothed tiger on the prowl, looking for fresh meat. Obviously these are extremes, but you tend to beheading towards the latter rather than the former at the moment. By all means go and get what you want, but be aware at the same time that you could easily tread on other people’s toes.

Business and Finance

There’s still a degree of uncertainty and confusion around, at least during the first half of the month that says this is not a good time to be finalising deals or making arrangements in any permanent way, because there is still further information to come, or water to flow under the bridge. It is only as the end of the month approaches that you’re going to get any degree of confirmation as to which way the tide is flowing, so bide your time.

Health and Spirit

Time to walk your talk and live life according to your philosophies. If you can do this now you set in place new ways of dealing with the world that changes your public image and makes your personal and professional boundaries much more obvious to those around you, and this makes you more of a force to be reckoned with. And the impressions that you put out now will sustain you in the outside world for a long time to come, so act in a way that others will remember favourably.

Virgo The basics of this time are quite clear and obvious, and easily summarised astrologically in one word – Saturn. Saturn is paying his last visit to your sign until the year 2037, and by August his visit will be just a memory. But until then, use the coming few months to finish off any outstanding business or challenges that remain from recent months and years, because by doing so you can affect your future in a very positive way. If you graft and concentrate on getting the big problems out of the way in the coming short term, not only will the little issues also fall by the wayside, but also by the time of August you will have a level playing field in front of your for the first time on over three years.

Romance and Relationship

Fermenting nicely, there’s a steady glow about you that’s yet to hit maturity and be ready for full efficiency and effectiveness, but slowly and steadily over the coming month you’ll see that the quality of people coming into your life is more stimulating, both at the mental and the physical level, and that this quality is a reflection of how you’re becoming. So measure your own value in relationships by the quality of relationship around you – what you see is what you get, but the future is growing nicely ...

Business and Finance

With Jupiter and Saturn having a right old ding dong at each other and using you as their battlefield, this month is simply not a great time to be taking any type of new chance as far as splashing the cash goes. Speculation or risk taking simply won’t work, the only option realistically for the medium term is to hold your ground and persevere with what you’re already doing, and see it through to the end. By the end of July this year you’ll be able to make safe long terms projections, but not until then.

Health and Spirit

Much of the last seven years has been a time of both endings and new beginnings, with the last two and a half years being particularly eventful as you try to make some type of new structure more solid in your life. Now you can begin to see the final answers to the challenges of recent years beginning to take shape, within a very few months doors will be closing permanently in a way that only leaves forward movement as a viable option. So clear the decks, allow the future to come in cleanly ...

Libra During this month you can do something you’ve been meaning to do for a long time – rest. The pressure and restriction of recent times has now passed on, at least for the short to medium term, and as things stand there’s no sign of any new pressure coming in anyway that’s going to disrupt or challenge. And from now until early April you can indeed step down a gear or even two, and pay some attention to important issues such as your health, energy levels and general feeling of well being. Time to recharge and build up your reserves, knowing that by doing so you can build bulwarks against further times of challenge yet to come. No new problems, so rest up just for a while.

Romance and Relationship

Both Venus and Mars are smiling on you from afar, so this is not a bad time at all. In fact, there is something to be said for taking chances now, as come what may you won’t get into trouble. Not knowing is safe, but is does also bring frustration and inertia. If you engineer situations so there can only be a yes/no answer, at least you will know where you stand and can then move on one way or another. And for this month, the planetary energies are definitely in your favour, so use it or lose it.

Business and Finance

There’s a lot of confusion and uncertainty out there which if you let it get to you pushes you into the middle of things and you become just another headless chicken. But if you can stay mentally detached from what’s going on, then you’re in an excellent space to review your strategies and plans over the last six months and see if they still stand up in the cold light of day. This is a time of review and adjustment, not growth or for that matter major engagement. Stay just a little bit apart.

Health and Spirit

The last six months have been fraught with new challenges and difficulties that have really made you sit up and become more pro-active. Now, as the pressure and stress of recent times temporarily eases, you can look back and see what you’ve learnt and evaluate both how your relationship with the outside world is now compared to six months ago and also how well you’ve behaved according to your conscience. And if you’re fine with that, carry on! Otherwise, this month is great for tweaking ...

Scorpio There are two very different energies around you now, one challenging and the other very positive indeed. Regarding the challenging, it’s time to ask yourself, and perhaps your very close friends, if you’re actually being a little pushy or at least not being aware whose toes you’re treading on. Your tact and subtlety levels are not that high at the moment. However, there is also a sense of exuberance that endears you to others, and your ability to be more popular as this time evolves grows stronger by the week. So ensure that your efforts also benefit those around you as much as yourself and you’ll comfortably be one of the most sought after in your community.

Romance and Relationship

It may feel as though your mind is playing tricks in the short term, there appear to be a lot of mixed signals coming your way, and some of the actions happening around you are not completely in your favour either. There’s no indication of direct challenge, but be aware that this is a month of grit in the cogs, the itch you can’t scratch and the accompanying frustration that can really get to you if you let it. Better to look at things, wait for a bit, sigh, and then come back to them in a week or two when things will work out a lot easier.

Business and Finance

So you suddenly find that you’re in the middle of things that are actually little if anything to do with you at all, and it can be very easy indeed to get so mixed up with other people’s stuff that you lose sight of your own objectives and even your own identity. Yet you can’t get away from it all either, there seem to be intractable problems in front of you that simply must be dealt with. So melt and become slippery, find the cracks and work your way under, around and subtly through.

Health and Spirit

After the seemingly mad times at the end of last month, you’re suddenly emerging into a much better space where you can both lick your wounds and begin to make more realistic plans for the future. Don’t try and suddenly relaunch yourself, and neither brood about the past. Stay internally composed and slowly but steadily recharge your mental, emotional and physical batteries so that as the end of this month evolves you can begin to re-insert yourself into the world in a warm and welcoming way.

Sagittarius Strangely sane amidst a sea of uncertainty and confusion, it seems as though all the main outside areas of your life, such as relationships, home and family issues, professional situations etc etc are all playing up as though there’s no tomorrow, yet in the middle of it all you remain an island of calm and repose, not buying in to almost anything that’s going on around you if you’re sensible. It would be easy to go over the top and get caught up in other people’s dramas, but what’s the point? Your involvement would escalate things, and you’ll probably also get the blame, so why bother getting involved at all? Better to stand by the side in the short term and watch from a distance.

Romance and Relationship

With Venus in your opposite sign for most of the month, and Mars smiling beneficially on you at the same time, this month is a great time to put yourself out and about a bit more, you’ll find that your popularity levels are up and that you can be the life and soul of the party without embarrassing yourself. If you don’t take the chances that come your way during May then you’ll lose nothing, but if you do go looking for opportunity then the potential rewards will be better than normal. It’s a good month, use it or lose it.

Business and Finance

There seems to be low level flak coming in at you from a number of different directions, so keep your shields up and when considering movement forward think in terms of inches rather than miles. This is a month to make sure that your existing structures are all working well, a kind of thorough systems check in a way that’s going to bring a sense of flowing well and effectiveness that hasn’t been there for a number of months. You’ll feel better for a good tune up, and then you can consider growth.

Health and Spirit

Much of April is caught up in a mess of treacle and quicksand in one form or another, and no matter what you do it’s very difficult to get out of the sticky stuff. But as the end of the month approaches, and particularly around the Sagittarius full Moon on May 27th, you can begin to take direct action that may grate a bit with others but won’t antagonise or alienate them. You may have to play the fool to get others to laugh – but then, that’s not really a problem for you, is it?

Capricorn If you’re trying to keep the same degree of recent stability that you’ve become used to in recent times then you’re going to find that many situations are going to become increasingly brittle. However, at the same time as this potentially inflexible fragility there is also the capacity for new ways of thinking, involving different opinions, attitudes and perceptions. Sometimes it’s not the situation or thing or person that needs to change, it’s your way of seeing things. And now you’re in a good space to turn your mental energies inward and find deep within some type of new intellectual pattern which brings modern and better thought processes.

Romance and Relationship

There’s an itch that is simply not scratchable at the moment, as though there’s a bit of grit somewhere just out of sight and just out of your ability to do anything with, and this niggling irritation can spill over into your personal life if you’re not careful in a way that brings frustration and even anger at what seems like everybody else doing everything they can to upset you. Of course it’s not like this, it just seems to be, but in the short term, until next month, just grin and bear it for three weeks?

Business and Finance

I know that the rest of the world is in a mess at the moment, but that doesn’t mean that you have to follow. You seem to be outstanding at the moment in that you’re not overstretching but neither are you undercutting yourself, and your natural intuitive capacity for knowing when and when not to act is sharper and stronger than it normally is. So to a larger extent than normal, trust your gut feel no matter what stimulus comes from the outside world and you won’t go too far wrong.

Health and Spirit

A lot of the planetary influences over this month are working in a way that suggests more internal developments rather than external. Karma, like re-incarnation and angels, is conveniently unprovable. But if karma does exist, then you can put a lot of karmic energy into the bank this month by helping others close to you. Don’t give up on your own growth, but do allow others to hitch a ride and even put your brakes on a bit to let others catch up. Share now, benefit in the future. Simple.

Aquarius After what seems like six months of struggling, it finally appears that your determination and perseverance in dealing with others over recent times is beginning to yield results. By the middle of June the emphasis on one to one interactions that has taken so much of your time since last October will be over, but until then it’s time for action. Words are basically done; it’s time for decisions and action in a way that should make you very clear with both yourself and others as to where you stand with them, right across the board. If you keep your boundaries both invulnerable and transparent, you’ll negate the challenge from elsewhere and be seen by others as a person of honesty and integrity.

Romance and Relationship

A combination of both Venus and Mars is making for your levels of interaction with others at the one to one level to be entering a phase of considerable opportunity. This is a time where you should be out there in the world taking your chances and making things happen for yourself, because at the moment almost everything is going your way as far as one to one relationships go. Of course, you can stay on your aloof shelf if you wish, but why? There are chances now to really mix in with others, chances that should be taken.

Business and Finance

You may get tempted by the fact that there seems to be no opposition to move forward or to take chances. Don’t. If it’s working, don’t fix it, and the current climate is conducive to holding your own ground but not expanding. There’s simply too much uncertainty and miscommunication around to get a clear and reliable picture of eventual outcomes, there’s still water to flow under the bridge. It’s not until at least next month that you get a degree of clarity, so stay still and take your time.

Health and Spirit

You’ve learnt a great deal over the last twelve months or so, and finally you’re in a position to summarise and as a result make permanent decisions for the medium to long term future. It’s just that the decisions now are very different to what they would have been a year ago. Reason being, you’ve become a lot more sensitive and subtle, so your wants and desires have also become a lot more refined, and only now is the clarity needed for the long term available.

Pices As both Jupiter and Uranus move towards the end of your sign, there can be a degree of over extravagance or opulence about your life that can produce both excess and uncertainty if you continue on your headlong rush forwards. It is only those of you born after the 13th who can still take big steps forward. But Chiron has just entered your sign – symbolically suggesting that after the manic and frenetic times since 2003 a new energy of integration, assimilation and self acceptance is coming in. Sounds corny, but these are essentials on the path to personal development, and you’re increasingly in a good space to close down old areas of life in preparation for rebirth of the new.

Romance and Relationship

It could all get just a little bit out of control if you’re not careful this month, at least during the first three weeks. The danger is in taking things too literally – don’t believe everything that you’re being told now, not because there’s lies or deceit, but simply because things can be overstated or made out to be much larger than they actually are. So keep things ticking over at the day by day level and all will be fine. The only problem will be if you suddenly go from zero to overdrive in any way, so all things in moderation.

Business and Finance

For many of you this coming month or two is a time of examination and test of the last two or three years work, and if you’ve taken short cuts or overstretched yourself in any way then the bubble is about to burst. But if you’ve taken your time and done things diligently and with a degree of transparency and structure then you should find that the short term future offers chances to build on this in a way that can set you up for the long term future. Take your chances. It’s a solid bet.

Health and Spirit

Just because you think that you’re lucky doesn’t mean that you are – or at least, that’s what I normally tell my friends and clients. Thing is, right now there is an element of fortune about you that suggests that if you take one third of the chances and opportunities coming your way at this time then you’ll be able to move forward at a faster rate than you normally do. You make your own luck, but Lady Fortune could be said to be smiling on you this month. Play your cards well and all will be good.

About Steve Judd

Steve was born near Southampton in southern England in July 1955. After leaving the army at twenty, Steve found his first astrological book in 1980, and spent the next years buried in books studying astrological basics, leading to his first consultations in 1982. He is totally self taught. Over the next fifteen years, he expanded his ability by doing 4,000+ chart readings.

In 1994, after many years working at the Glastonbury Festival Green Fields, Steve was a founding members of the Big Green Gathering and is currently on the Board of Directors. Since 1998, Steve has increased his astrological career many fold, starting when he began work for the astrological phone lines. He wrote for Jonathan Cainer, as well as contributing to Jon's web site and column in the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail. During 1999 and 2000 Steve worked as a real-time internet astrological consultant for World International Television. He now works solely for himself.

In the last seven years, Steve's number of consultations has increased to the point where he now has records of over 20,000 horoscopic readings, with a loyal client base, many of whom return for monthly and yearly updates.

Steve has considerable experience of dealing with different media. He has appeared on local radio stations in Cornwall, Bristol, Hereford, Stevenage and the highlands of Scotland amongst others, on local TV in the HTV and GMTV areas, and has national TV appearances to his name. He has his own brand of idiosyncrasies which endear him to his many clients and fans, which coupled with his bohemian and sometimes direct attitude makes him a unique individual.

In September 2003, Steve began studying for the Master of Arts Degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the Sophia Centre, Bath Spa University. He was awarded his Masters Degree on July 22 2005.

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