The mythical figure of Zeus/Jupiter is not exactly the same as the pattern-essence referred to as Jupiter in the Western Tradition of astrology, but they are nonetheless relevant analogues.
If you need Zeus to do you a solid, you might ask him at the pool party, when he’s in a good mood and has got a bit of a shine on.
Zeus does not party near some chlorine-filled heresy of the healing power of water. Zeus invites you to a kingdom of epically spacious aquamarine tide pools, gently dazzled with sunlight and shade, where many kinds of fish and other sea life, and you, are offered sanctuary.
The horoscopes that follow contain directions to the pool party.
You can listen to audio versions of these horoscopes here.
Anne Vallayer-Coster, (Detail with sea change) Panaches de mer, lithophytes et coquilles. 1769
May 3 thru May 20, 2021
Mercury → Gemini May 3 (thru July
Venus → Gemini May 8 (thru June 2)
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. / I would like to see you living / In better conditions. ― Hafiz
Dark Moon: Taurus May 11
Jupiter → Pisces May 13 (thru July 28, part 1 of 3)
Sun → Gemini May 20
What begins to happen after the 13th will likely be revisited and subject to revision.
♀ TAURUS and TAURUS RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
This chapter: “money moves.” It begins now and extends through early Summer. The time and the money progress in all directions, including backwards and thru “past lives,” which is a misleading euphemism for a thing that your DNA contains, and, in a different way, that your subconscious contains. Also involved are material possessions and/or food. Talk amongst the two selves who reside here, as that’s what this realm for you always requires. The dark moon in Taurus is an opportunity to first pote1ntially unravel any fears around letting your freak flag fly, no matter what the neighbors might think, and to take necessary precautions to protect the future of going on with your bad self. Pretty much everyone—your friends, colleagues, followers, etc.—RSVP’d to the pool party at the duodecannual convention of your friends, hopes and dreams.
☿ GEMINI and GEMINI RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
A full personal brand audit is beginning, and things are probably going to get weird. They might get confusing, but lean in and listen. At least they won’t get boring. At least your M.O. is permeated with sweetness for a while. At least you might be able to get a leaden airship’s worth of reading, writing, learning, praying or meditating accomplished. Thank god meditation isn’t something that you accomplish anyway, its something that you experience, and if you sit down and experience the built in modulation control panel of your own breath, you might be able to “accomplish” those other things by “merely” experiencing them as well. I think I am just saying this because I need to hear it. I’m your eternal self. I appear when you manage to be still for two seconds. The pool party is at your achievements.
☽ CANCER and CANCER RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
A lot of thinking about your invisible problems. Sumptuousness of resources within your light-handed relationships and also your close ones. A lot of beauty in your invisible problems, or perhaps something about love and beauty and luxury is hidden, with themes about how you undermine, how you are undermined and how you undermine yourself, with potential for light breezes of confusion. The dark moon in Taurus will ask what preventative and protective measures you might take around engagement with community, so as to more thoroughly experience the benefits on offer here. A strange buzz of opportunity is available through an extra moody, and forceful version of you spiraling around some unexpected collective innovation. Your entire map of reality, physically and philosophically, is the pool party. Barb and Starr would call it a “soul douche.”
☉ LEO and LEO RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
A lot of thinking about community and your followers, with potential for a lot of charm and light breezes of confusion…about being interested in their thing that they do and their interest in your thing that you do. The dark moon in Taurus suggests you unravel any lingering fears around career weirdness, and then take routine preventative measures to protect its future. Questionable clarity around who-you-are-publicly glitters at the bottom of a clear blue pool, so you dive in. As you swim, a strange and colorful creature tells you, in a psychic download you’d get in a dream, that you are at a party, and your current location is shared resources and collaborations. You wonder whether or not to believe her. It’s a low-key gathering, but those can be really nice. Extreme symbolic illustrations for the sake of example include: debt jubilee, mergers and acquisitions, lavish gifts for you or from you, lavish creative partnerships. Sometimes these things pan out in a small way that you aren’t likely to notice until Hindsight shows up to the party fashionably late.
☿ VIRGO and VIRGO RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
A lot of movement, thinking and talking about your career. Like, A LOT. Later, some things are going to be warped and reworked, and your attention is valued throughout. Now, there is a happy dose of beauty and sweetness professionally; lean in and don’t get confused, which sounds laughable. Fortunately, this is a wonderful time to laugh. This is also a wonderful time to get A LOT of knowledge work or other work done. Or perhaps research. Also a nice time to concretize professional commitments, should an appropriate context reverse-evaporate. All this energy around your public life makes it difficult to invest in home/family/private life, so if things aren’t going great totally amazing at home, you’re not doing it wrong, that’s just the quality fo the time until late in the year. The pool party is someone—possibly everyone—very close to you.
♀ LIBRA and LIBRA RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
A lot of thinking and talking and movement and attention on philosophy, if you have it, travel, if you do it and spirituality, if you have/do it. Any warping or glitches that arise later are opportunities to refigure your base reality and release updates to the game logic. The pool party is at work. Like, not your career and reputation, which is right now more of a bloodbath, but your _work_, like, your part-time job, or maybe just in getting things done, upkeep and admin, Cinderella things, and health. The party favor table is run by the little water Fairy in Hyrule who gives out the life-giving heart containers. It’s not the world’s funnest location for a rejuvenating pool party, but every area of life deserves a time of gentle medicine.
♂ SCORPIO and SCORPIO RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
This chapter could be called “money moves,” and it’s narrated by some jaunty underworld tour guide who will later try to trick you, and it’s also an audit in disguise. Your collaborations and shared accounts of all kinds will be assessed, thought about, talked about and rearranged a few times through early summer. Something enduring about your foundation, where you live or where/of whom you’re from, could show up as helpful to this story arc right now. In other news, if you are either at uni or are some sort of preacher, your evangelism probably isn’t working out right now, although there’s an opportunity to make your moody forcefulness more constructive through the wierdness of someone special, who might also hurt your feelings, and that’s okay, the feelings don’t have to last forever. The pool party is wherever you would imagine the world’s most marvelous pool party. Wherever it is, there is probably an access-your-inner-child station where you can make something like a glitter-macaroni collage alongside real cartoon fish, and there is also probably an adults-only section, containing fun and safe versions of whatever, and also know that from time-to-time some adult activities result in actual real children, who if relevant might also be hanging out in an appropriate area of the celebration; everything or just a small part of this could apply. …All this being the divine game logic of wherever you imagine the pool party.
♃ SAGITTARIUS and SAGITTARIUS RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
There is now and throughout early summer a lot of movement, talking and thinking with other people in your life. This mostly applies to people close to you. If you’re married, this is that place. Recently this may have been a place of conflict. It gets better and is maybe even particularly sweet during this time, but later in the season things might become warped and glitchy. It’s like, all the scares, then treat and then tricks. Your mind might play tricks on you, or someone else’s mind might play tricks on them, which is all okay: your attention to whatever is going on is valued. It’s a time to be a good listener, to others or to the overall situation at hand. The dark moon in Taurus invites you to shore up anything that needs it the realm of your health, your processes of upkeep and admin, your employment, and your animal caretaking, and also to preserve and protect any weird innovations around these discoveries, so that you might continue to experience benefits. P.S., You are Zeus and the pool party is at your place!
♄ CAPRICORN and CAPRICORN RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
A lot of thinking, talking and movement around work. Not so much your career, but definitely the place where you get things done, and also around your health. There’s an easy confluence here with duty and obligation in financial matters that allows for the completion of a leaden airship’s worth of knowledge work. There is a light-and-heavy vibe between these two realms; also fun / not-fun; also accord and commitment. The dark moon in Taurus invites you to feel into and unravel any lingering fears or apprehensions around fun, art, pleasure, sex, pregnancy, creativity or children. The freshly waxing moon then asks you to take routine preventative measures to protect the future, just as the Sun always asks around this time of year. Right now material security in the realm of pleasures/fun/children makes constructive contact with the far reaches of your constantly regenerating sense of self. The pool party is your neighborhood and daily rituals and your neighbors and siblings are Zeus.
♄ AQUARIUS and AQUARIUS RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
There’s going to be a lot of movement, talking and thinking about fun. Or your art, or sex, or pregnancy/children, your own or in general. Or all of the above. Details and ideas will be revised, and revised again; there might be some confusion to navigate a little later. For the next couple of weeks, use of your creative energy in whatever form will just sail forward busily, and it is likely to be quite enjoyable. One of Stephen King’s mentors once advised him to “write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” The dark moon in Taurus brings its silence to your home and private life, and invites you to batten down the hatches—not because of anything specific, but because that’s what the Sun brings your awareness to every year around this time. The swimming pool is full of your own cash.
♃ PISCES and PISCES RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
Things are nice at home, where you live and where/of whom you’re from. Later they might get weird or confusing, and that’s okay, that’s a really good time to listen and process. Recently this may have been a place of conflict. It gets better and is maybe even particularly sweet for the next few weeks, but later in the season things might get all warped and glitchy. All of this action happening at home, for the most part, rewards investment of any kind, and also makes it difficult to see much benefit from investment in career. The energy just wants to be at home or with family, in your private life. The dark moon in Taurus invites you to unravel any fears you might still harbor about volatility in your schedule, or surprises from siblings, or around communication, or the unexpected in your neighborhood. Then you can take any needed precautions to protect what innovations you’ve made within that field, so as to continue to experience benefits. You are Zeus and the pool party is you. Grant wishes…
♂ ARIES and ARIES RISING • May 3 thru May 20, 2021
A lot of movement, talking and thinking about movement, talking and thinking…and your neighborhood, your schedule, your regular information diet, and your siblings, everything visited and revisited, assessed and reassessed now and throughout early summer. Take advantage of the next month or so, which offers potential for added magnetism, from you or from others, or from the neighborhood, or maybe just some beauty and luxury to be found within your daily rituals. The dark moon offers quiet space to unravel any fears around volatility/weirdness of your resources, and suggests space is made to take routine precautions against the effects of future lightning storms—because that’s where your awareness has landed this time every year—or just to maintain the strange and positively-charged innovations around your approach to your own cash and material things. The pool party is in your subconscious, and all your enemies are invited. It’s a really weird place for fun, but also it’s fun in really weird place… Spiritual healing, of course, isn’t always fun, but before you go to sleep tonight, you could ask your dream for a favor…