We enter May under the ancient fires of Beltane, the threshold of fertility, vitality, and the full flowering of spring. May 1st marks a turning point in the season — a moment when life is no longer emerging but expressing itself with confidence and presence.

April opens with a sense of movement already underway, as though the season has crossed its threshold and now demands participation. The fires of Aries are active, the pace quickens, and we find ourselves no longer contemplating change — but living within it.

The 20th of March brings the Vernal Equinox, the beginning of the spring season, as the Sun exits Pisces and enters Aries at 10:46 AM EDT to commence the astrological new year. The Stellium in the Cardinal Fire Sign is further strengthened by the Sun joining Venus, Saturn, and Neptune in Aries. Also on the 20th, Mercury ends its three-week retrograde cycle at 3:33 PM EDT, though it remains in the shadow of that retrograde until April 9th, when Mercury reaches the degree at which it turned retrograde back on the 26th of February.

March opens with a restless mood, a quiet impatience to move beyond winter’s long weight. Tradition says March comes in like a lion, yet this year the beginning feels more like a bedraggled cat — weary, irritable, and dissatisfied, sensing change but unsure how to claim it.

February begins under the illumination of the Leo Full Moon on the 1st, as the Sun opposes the Moon at 5:09 PM EST. Creative energy runs high, and there is a strong impulse toward self-expression and personal fulfillment.

The calendar New Year arrives with January. With 2025 ending a nine-year in numerology indicating completion of a cycle, 2026 begins a new nine-year cycle with this being a one-year that signals initiation. Yet stepping into a new cycle does not guarantee immediate clarity. The mind may drift toward worry or second-guessing. But this moment, if used consciously, can redirect our thoughts toward the emerging possibilities of the new nine-year arc.

Winter begins on December 21st at 10:03 AM EST, when the Sun leaves Sagittarius and enters Capricorn, marking the winter solstice. The longest night of the year in northern latitudes, daylight contracts to its thinnest thread; from this point on, light begins its slow, steady return.

December arrives with a distinctly lighter tone, lifted by the Sagittarius Stellium. With the Sun, Mars, and Venus all moving through the sign of the Archer, curiosity expands, horizons widen, and optimism begins to rise. The collective mood feels more adventurous now — less preoccupied with shadows, more inclined to look outward and upward, confident that something promising lies beyond the familiar.

We enter November with heightened emotion, sharpened intuition, and a renewed can-do confidence that seems to arise from somewhere deeper than personality — as though soul memory itself is stirring.

October begins with the autumn equinox kite pattern still echoing in the heavens, the three transcendental planets — Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto — highlighted as if holding the stage lights on transformation itself. Intentions may be strategically laid out and, with the help of technological tools and streamlined methods, capable of being set in motion.

As the wheel of the year turns and daylight yields to twilight, Autumn 2025 begins with a breath both crisp and uncanny.  The season opens on September 22nd, when the Sun enters Libra [2:19 PM EDT], marking the autumn equinox.

The way forward this September is ascension in consciousness, even when the road feels anything but direct. This is not a month for simple answers or straightforward paths.