Real-time monitoring of world events: May 2025

Explainer: Forecast periods in global astrology

Major events in the Aquarian Age chart

Progressed Sun is parallel birth chart Mars and sextile birth chart Saturn

Progressed Mercury is parallel progressed Sun and birth chart Mars

Progressed Venus is conjunction birth chart Neptune

Progressed Mars is parallel birth chart Venus and progressed Uranus

Progressed Jupiter is conjunction progressed Neptune

Progressed Moon is conjunction birth chart Mars > end date is May 22

Major events in the United Nations chart

Progressed Sun is opposition progressed Saturn

Progressed Mars is conjunction birth chart Mars

Progressed Moon is square birth chart Pluto > end date is May 11

May 15: Progressed Moon is inconjunct birth chart Jupiter > end date is June 10

May 19: Progressed Moon semisextile progressed Uranus starts > peak power date is June 14

Major events in America’s chart

Progressed Sun is parallel progressed Mars, birth chart Saturn and birth chart Neptune

Progressed Venus is sextile birth chart Jupiter

Progressed Midheaven is trine birth chart Mars

Progressed Moon is opposition progressed Neptune > end date is May 7

May 14: Progressed Sun square birth chart Mars starts > peak power date is May 15, 2026

May 17: Progressed Moon sextile birth chart Pluto (in house 9) starts > peak power date is June 10

May 18: Progressed Moon parallel birth chart Neptune (in house 5) starts > peak power date is July 23

May 19: Progressed Moon square progressed ascendant starts > peak power date is June 13

May 31: Progressed Moon parallel progressed Sun (in house 11) starts > peak power date is August 10 (All major Sun progressions are stimulated.)

Major events in Donald Trump’s chart

Progressed Sun is sextile birth chart Mercury and semisquare birth chart Saturn

Progressed Mercury is conjunction and parallel birth chart Mars and sextile progressed Jupiter

Progressed Venus is conjunction progressed Jupiter and square birth chart Saturn

Progressed Mars is parallel birth chart Jupiter and semisquare birth chart ascendant

Progressed ascendant is square progressed Saturn and sesquisquare birth chart Uranus

Progressed Moon is semisextile progressed Mars > end date is May 10

Progressed Moon is parallel birth chart Mars > end date is July 14

May 27: Progressed Moon is parallel progressed Mercury > end date is August 12

Major in-sky astro-events

Jupiter square Neptune starts May 1 < peak power date is June 19

Mars is parallel Uranus from May 5 to May 18 > peak power date is May 11

Mars is sesquisquare Saturn from May 10 to May 29 > peak power data is May 19

Mars is opposition Pluto > end date is May 20

Mars is sesquisquare Neptune from May 15 to May 30 > peak power date is May 23

Jupiter is square Saturn > peak power date is June 15

Jupiter is parallel Pluto > peak power date is July 11

Saturn is conjunction Neptune > peak power date is February 26, 2026

Uranus is trine Pluto > from August 12 to October 27 the aspect is within one degree of perfect > it’s 7 minutes from perfect and close to peak power on September 15 

Major astro-events May 2025

April 27: Taurus new Moon cycle starts at 7.31pm GMT > Moon is square Mars (strife, war, violence, accidents and fires) and square Pluto (groups, gangster methods, coercion, division and disunity) > end date is May 27

Progressed Saturn is semisextile Sun in the Saturn cycle > end date is May 8

Progressed Saturn is sextile Neptune in the Saturn cycle > peak power date is May 8

Progressed Uranus is parallel Pluto in the Uranus cycle > peak power date is May 14

Progressed Uranus is parallel Sun in the Uranus cycle > end date is May 19

Progressed Pluto is parallel Neptune in the Pluto cycle > end date is July 10

Progressed Pluto is parallel Saturn in the Pluto cycle > end date is August 7

Progressed Pluto is semisextile Mars in the Pluto cycle > end date is August 17

Progressed Jupiter is parallel Pluto in the Jupiter cycle > end date is September 21

Progressed Pluto is parallel Uranus in the Pluto cycle > peak power date is September 24, 2026

Progressed Pluto is parallel Mars in the Pluto cycle > peak power date is September 6, 2027

May 2: Progressed Mars is square Venus in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter inconjunct Sun in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is May 7

May 4: Progressed Jupiter square Neptune in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is May 9

Mays 7: Progressed Mars is sesquisquare Moon in the Mars cycle; progressed Jupiter is inconjunct Sun in the Jupiter cycle > end date is May 12; and progressed Jupiter trine Saturn in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is May 12

May 8: Progressed Saturn is sextile Neptune in the Saturn cycle > end date is May 19

May 9: Progressed Jupiter is square Neptune in the Jupiter cycle > end date May 14

May 11: Progressed Mars parallel Jupiter and Uranus in the Mars cycle start > peak power date for both aspects is May 18

May 12: Progressed Jupiter is trine Saturn in the Jupiter cycle > end date is May 17

May 13: Progressed Saturn parallel Mars in the Saturn cycle starts > peak power date is July 13

May 14: Progressed Sun is conjunction and parallel Uranus in the Sun cycle; and progressed Uranus is parallel Pluto in the Uranus cycle > end date is May 22, 2026

May 18: Progressed Mars is parallel Jupiter, parallel Uranus and sesquisquare Neptune in the Mars cycle > end date for the parallel aspects is May 24

May 19: Progressed Mars is square Sun in the Mars cycle

May 24: Progressed Mars is inconjunct Saturn in the Mars cycle and progressed Mars parallel Sun in the Mars cycle starts > peak power date is May 30

May 26: Progressed Mars is sesquisquare Mars in the Mars cycle; and progressed Jupiter sesquisquare Venus in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is May 30

May 27: Progressed Jupiter inconjunct Pluto in the Jupiter cycle starts > peak power date is June 1

Gemini new Moon cycle starts at 3.02am GMT > Moon is conjunction Mercury (debate and controversy), sextile Neptune (investor confusion and chaos) and trine Pluto (cooperative effort and teamwork)

May 28: Progressed Mars is trine Mercury in the Mars cycle

May 29: Progressed Saturn semisquare Venus in the Saturn cycle starts > peak power date is June 16

May 30: Progressed Jupiter is sesquisquare Venus in the Jupiter cycle > end date is June 4


Author: DW Sutton

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