May has a strange combination of traditions: from Celtic lore, the celebration of rebirth, the spring, and sexuality, based on the tradition of The May and of Beltane. The May Queen and the Green Man make their appearances at this time, reminding us that life continues after the long winter. In modern history, May Day is a holiday associated with the rights of workers. For our purposes, this is the season of Beltane. This has not just been a long winter; it has been an astrologically intense one, marked by three inner planet retrogrades and a set of eclipses. Spring this year is a mellower season, and it's definitely time for a party. Note that at the Center for Symbolic Studies, in New Paltz, Beltane is being celebrated April 29, with a rain date of April 30.

Aries (March 20-April 19)
Profound emotional restlessness may be pushing you in all kinds of directions. Beware that your situation might be exceedingly uncomfortable for housemates or domestic partners, but that makes it no less urgent for you. This might be a useful time to get on the road, even if you can only do solo weekend excursions. Take a vacation, get a gig house sitting for someone, or spend as much time on the move as possible. Just don't take your situation out on others. In reality, it has nothing to do with them. However, if you propose an adventure, you just might find you have some company—the more outrageous, the better.

Taurus (April 19-May 20)
Just remember, if you don't set your own life into motion, the ground beneath you is going to pick up and move. In fact, it already may be doing just that, in case you're wondering why the vase on your kitchen table seems to walk halfway across the room by itself every day. But it's not just your vase that's moving: I would not be surprised if you woke up one day to find all the furniture rearranged, only to wonder how that happened—and then you remember you did it yourself when you were half awake the night before. Or was that just a dream? In any event, I suggest you look closely for the message. These and other mysteries await you this month.

Gemini (May 20-June 21)
This may be the first time you're standing on something recognizable as solid ground in a long time. You seem to have taken a long journey by houseboat. Or maybe by some other kind of boat. I hope you didn't have to swim too far, but in the metaphoric sense you've done a lot of treading water and staying afloat. Then came a kind of trial by fire, a test of your initiative, and ultimately an opportunity to recognize the potency of the beginning you're now experiencing. Then, even if it hasn't happened yet, actual land appears beneath your feet—the kind with grass sprouting and smooth rocks to step on. When you get there, call it home.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)
I've contemplated many times that there is no word for home in French. A la maison, that is, in your house, lacks the emotional sense of the English "at home"—a place where you might not literally be in your house, room, or apartment but where you feel you belong. With Mars blazing through your birth sign right now, where might that be? Looked at one way, it could be nowhere...for the moment. Looked at another way, it could be somewhere you search out after many experiences and make your own with great determination. Or, in the end, it can be somewhere you arrive, or someone into whose presence you arrive, where you feel safe, welcome, and warm: at home.

Leo (July 22-August 23)
Despite so many uncertainties in your life, the general trend seems to be in the direction of progress. Or rather, despite so much that seems to be going well, there may be that underlying sense of unease in the air. The quest of this time in your life is getting clear about what it means to feel safe. I admit, this is a monumental task for any sensitive person at this point in history, and it's nothing short of what we term "spiritual" in the most authentic meaning of the word. Is the world a safe place? Is your home safe and secure? You know that you decide these things. Now you're determining just how to go about doing that.