May 2025 horoscopes: Make pleasure your sole purpose this Taurus season

As the poets say, “What potent blood hath modest May.”We’ll spend most of the month under the influence of Taurus, the zodiac’s resident horned, horny hedonist.Etymologically, the word “hedonism” comes from the Greek “hēdonē,” meaning pleasure, and is related to the Greek “hēdys,” meaning sweet.In kind and cavity, the great lesson of Taurus is that pleasure requires presence.

You can’t have a mighty orgasm, a transcendent meal or an awe-inspiring conversation without total attention to the moment as it unfolds.In the ugly, capitalist, ‘more’ motivated world in which we live and toil, pleasure is often cheapened to a quick thrill and disappearing dopamine; fast food and a swipe right.Yet at its highest expression, Taurus refuses to rush what feels good, it’s not waiting for what’s next or consumed with what’s been — it’s hungry for right now and exactly what it already has.Dig in and stay in it, my friends.

On May 5th, petite power planet/death daddy Pluto begins his retrograde in Aquarius, calling us to question our self-sabotaging patterns and where we are settling when we could be elevating.The Full Flower Moon in Scorpio rises and shines on May 12th.

Activating the axis of life and death, rot and renewal, ingestion and expulsion, we’re all primed for a purge under the ever loving light of this lunation.Secrets will surface, feelings will be amplified and what no longer supports will need to be surrendered.Remember, folks, you can’t grow if you can’t let go.Moods and hemlines alike lift when the sun moves into the loquacious climes of Gemini.

The energy here is expressive, inspired, curious chaos.If Gemini were a mode of travel, it would be a hot air balloon, interesting, unexpected and a little unsafe.Buy the ticket, take the ride.On May 25th, stern, paternal, ‘misery makes you stronger,’ planet Saturn moves into the impulsive, punk rock hellfires of Aries.

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