Esoteric Astrology as news for week May 13 – 19, 2026

Taurus New Moon Festival – the Light that Transforms

We are in our last week of Taurus Sun. Next Wednesday, May 20, the Sun enters Gemini. 

This week, Saturday, May 16, is the new moon festival (26 degrees Taurus). The moon joins the Sun and Mercury (they become One) on this new moon day. The new moon has a message. As it is in Taurus, what could it mean? Taurus is the sign of comfort and the Art of Living. In the last seven years, we have had Uranus in Taurus. And now Uranus has shifted into Gemini. 

With Uranus in Taurus we experienced a change in the financial world, a revolution actually of material values and personal security. Uranus disrupted our ways of living, our financial security, our values, banking, agriculture and investments, and it introduced the questionable cryptocurrency. Uranus is the “Great Awakener.” Taurus is famously solid, stubborn, seeking no change, thus no discomfort. However, with Uranus in Taurus, that which we found safe and secure, the status quo itself, was disrupted. 

Uranus’s transit through Taurus for seven years, was a catalyst for sudden changes that, appearing as instability, actually broke up stagnation and forced humanity into a necessary push forward, a new state of evolution. With Uranus in Gemini, the conversation changes to information technology, communication, new thoughts, ideas and new thinking. 

The Taurus new moon Saturday, amidst Uranus’s changes, acts like a calm nurturer. Taurus is the “light of illumination,” offering new inspiration to humanity, new ways to find comfort and, as it is springtime (northern latitudes), allows for the planting of seeds for long-term growth, stability, and abundance. Taurus encourages a slowing down, to find ourselves in nature, and focusing on values rather than just material possessions. These we do to find a new level of stability amidst the constant changes and chaos (which at its heart is both harmony and opportunity). 

Taurus shines a light through those who love humanity. When walking out into the world, with this light shining through them, everything and everyone is touched, transformed and uplifted by this light. Notes: Sunday, May 17, a day of dedication and prayer is most important. And read more at Risa D’Angeles FB page & https://nightlightnews.org/daily-postings/

ARIES: It’s most important to act, be, dress your very professional best at all times these days. Make yourself as beautiful and/or as handsome as possible – tailored, conservative, emanating quality and value. In between professional tasks, think about traveling somewhere that provides education and pleasure. Observe carefully partner’s needs. Relationships are topsy-turvy. You can stabilize them.

TAURUS: Do you feel rather awkward, stumbling about? Are things uncertain and uncomfortable? Are you more than the usual ill-at-ease, out of your depth, self-conscious, discomfited? Things are really in upheaval this month for some signs. Don’t turn on yourself or others when difficulties arise. Use money wisely. Expect delays. Turn to art, music, good food, and the spiritual instead. Radiate goodwill.

GEMINI: All relationships, intimacies, friendships, partnerships, interactions will require on your part a greater awareness and sensitivity. Step back from being the glamorous one, the one who is brilliant, displaying and voicing your wounds. Observe others for a while to see how they are feeling – sad, overwhelmed or neglected? You will be called to repair, tend to, sustain and maintain all relationships. The reward is surprising.

CANCER: For the next year it’s good to have young people nearby, good to have a child, consider having one. For the next year there will be continual changes. They will turn to blessings. More and more you will want to explore places unknown, through the written word, videos, film or travel. Everything that occurs will make you a better, more grace-filled person. You will be guided toward a new freedom and independence.

LEO: It’s good to remember happiness and joys shared with family. If you have children or are around them, pay focused and special attention to them. It’s what both of you need. For astrological reasons it’s good to entertain now, to have friends around, sharing food, ideas, books and gifts. From now onward ‘til December, a more-then-usual rebelliousness overtakes you. Use it to create something – offering talents for the new culture and civilization. 

VIRGO: Traveling and communication, writing and teaching – many new goals and revelations will begin to come forth unexpectedly. Careful with medicines and any type of drugs. Lock doors and windows, don’t gamble. Careful with fire and hot things. Mars in Aries is out and about. Use restlessness and discontent to know it’s time to travel and move about again. Pack lightly. Don’t end anything. Not yet. 

LIBRA: A few questions. What’s occurring in your work world? Transformation? How are you holding up? What’s happening with relationships and/or marriage? Do you feel committed or uncommitted? How do you see yourself? Are you feeling like a revolution has taken hold of your body, emotions and mind? It has, love’s hard, and the world’s changing. Hold on. Love’s underlying everything.

SCORPIO: Everyone around you has become a source of support and ideas so that you can become more of yourself. New viewpoints, archetypes, even the consideration of different geographical locations shifts your worldview, tilting it from how you grew up into an entirely new vista. Take very special care of your health. Consult a medical astrologer if needed.

SAGITTARIUS: I have been writing about light beings, angels recently, citing the work at Findhorn, working with devas who build all things in form and matter. I have written we are to work with them directly in creating the new culture and civilization. In your present state of dreaming, you can actually see angels/devas if you communicate with them from your heart. Do you have roses? There are rose devas and all types of flower and plant devas. They like you.

CAPRICORN: You’re sensitive more than usual and therefore your energy may feel low to middlin’ to poor to confused and erratic. Rest is needed. Are finances and money concerning you? Do you want to discuss these issues but feel apprehensive? No matter what you do these days, the focus is upon retreat, things contemplative and quiet. You need silence and quiet to heal, actually. Rest your eyes. 

AQUARIUS: It’s a contemplative and quiet time for you, too, however different than for other signs. You are to contemplate: religious feelings, what it’s like to be behind the scenes, the fact that you gestate new ideas and so many times they’re not accepted or understood. It’s the light that emanates from your heart that sometimes gets in the way of your message. Don’t change though.

PISCES: Are your thoughts at times in the past then leaping to the future? This makes the present difficult to be present in. So many new things will occur in the coming months. Resting, contemplation, visualizing and imagining (write, draw, color, etc.) are things to do now in preparation. Make sure all responsibilities are completed with grace and goodwill. Something romantic (a dream) and creative calls you. What is it? Keep walking forward. New shoes are needed.