Taurus
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of May in Taurus, whether your birthday was late last month or it is yet to come, this is your birthday month and the launch of a new solar year. This year is going to feel different and for three main reasons. The first is that while the Sun will always return at the same time each year, held back by retrograde phases, Mercury and Venus are yet to return, meaning that as you move into your birthday month and new solar year you don't yet have heart and mind in the game. Yet at the same time, even though Venus will be the last to return and won't return to Taurus until 6th June, there is already a sense that this year, it will be more about following your heart.
That is because Uranus, who has been in Taurus since 2019 and has helped to keep you on your true path since then, will begin the month at a friendly aspect to the South Node in a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart. This will peak on 2nd May but they will remain tight until 13th May, well into your birthday month, making this the second significant difference this year. The third is that Uranus is getting ready to leave in July and while you have always had next year to circle back to, the planets of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected is making this the year you have been leading up to for the last six years.
Mercury will return to Taurus from 11th May to 26th May, giving you a chance to get your head in the game, ideas on the table and the communication lines open, but it is not until Venus returns next month that your heart will become fully engaged. Meanwhile, a major month for all aspects of personal and professional networking, friendship and relationship building will have its epicentre in the heart of the month, when a Full Moon in your relationship sector on 13th May will bring this to its peak. At the same time, in his last full month in your income sector Jupiter will be joined by the Sun on 21st May, by Mercury on 26th May and with a New Moon on 27th May have able to light a fuse under what, by then will the final weeks of a 13 month quest for income growth and expansion.