
Bring on Mars! Your May horoscope does just that, Aries, bringing a much-needed energy boost your way as Mars and Venus transit your sign together like a belated birthday gift.
But there’s a far more important turning point ahead that you can circle on the calendar or write on your wall: Oct. 29, 2009. That may seem a distant date, but it’s really a short time in the overall pattern it points to. Keep on keeping on until the fall, and all the plowing and planting and weeding and tending of the last 14 years will start to make sense. The things that you could have sworn you had earned but that you haven’t seen materialize will start to be there for you. Welcome to the Saturn cycle.
In February 1996, Saturn entered Aries, adding gravity and limits to first one area of your life and then another as the taskmaster planet moved through your own sign and the five that follow it. If you’ve worked hard and kept learning while Saturn made this six-sign sojourn, you should see a satisfying harvest beginning this autumn and lasting through the 14 years beyond, when Saturn completes the cycle with a tour through the other six signs.
You’ve probably been working especially hard since Saturn went into Virgo Sept. 2, 2007, and you could be feeling mighty worn out. Take care of yourself and hang in there. It’s a long strange trip through the Saturn cycle, but you’ve just about got the tough part licked.