SCORPIO FULL MOON OPPOSITE TAURUS SUN/URANUS MAY 12 REMINDS US: CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT! JOIN SHERI HORN HASAN

We begin by discussing all the ASTRO NEWS YOU CAN USE from this past week, how it’s played out, & what’s on the horizon as we make our way through this month’s lunar cycle which began with the Taurus New Moon square to the Mars/Pluto opposition on April 27.
Since Venus’s entrance into Aries April 30 (until June 6), we’ve seen some “let them eat cake” resistance to consumer prices heating up due to pending tariff wars begun by the U.S. Government. And the Venus/Neptune conjunction in Aries May 2 illustrated a likewise laissez faire attitude toward the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment by President Donald Trump who, when asked on Meet The Press if he agreed “that citizens and noncitizens in the United States were entitled to due process,” was less than comforting.
“I don’t know,” Mr. Trump replied. “I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” This as we waxed toward the first quarter monthly lunar “crisis in action” square of the Leo Moon to the Taurus Sun May 4, illustrating the vague nonchalance yet recalcitrance of a stubborn leader (Taurus Sun) to take responsibility for the due process rights of individuals (Leo Moon) under U.S. law. 
Keep in mind that our short-term monthly mission since April 27’s Taurus New Moon has been to plant seeds that reflect our more present-day values--as opposed to old, outdated, no longer applicable ones, like say, that trickle-down economics is the way to go, lol. Or, that corporate & billionaire money & power are more important than individual peoples’ health & well-being. You know, stuff like that… 
However, the major point of this month’s lunation is that once we discover (or rediscover) our soul’s true, lasting values, we may have to fight for them, as per the Mars opposite Pluto signature at the Taurus New Moon.
Meanwhile Pluto’s station retrograde on May 4 (until October 14) provides us all the perfect opportunity to dig deeply into our psyches to better discover our soul’s true, lasting values. In doing so, we discover our shadow sides and bring them out into the light to be forever vanquished. The end result is that of greater personal empowerment, yeah!
We look too at the upcoming entrance of Mercury into Taurus on May 10, & the already anticipated slowdown of both travel & trade. Ports on the West Coast are already reporting fewer ships docking there from places like China, a redux of the pandemic era's import shortages from only a few short years ago. Likewise, tourism to America and spending on travel within America, is down and forecast to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
As we wax toward the May 12 Scorpio Full Moon which conjoins Juno, the archetypal symbol of partnership, & opposes the Taurus Sun, Uranus, & goddess of health Hygeia, we’ve already seen a few surprising firsts. On April 8—after a surprisingly quick conclave in Rome that lasted less than two full days—the first American-born Pope was chosen to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. 
In addition to being the first American to become pope, Pope Leo XIV is also the first member of the Augustinian Order, a Catholic religious order founded in 1244. He attended St. Augustine Seminary near Holland, Michigan, and spent much of his career as a missionary in Peru.
“Peace be with you,” Pope Leo XIV greeted his new followers, & we await to see if this is, indeed, going to be true, as he will be tasked with confronting difficult decisions about the church’s direction, including the issue of greater inclusion.
In addition, the inclusion of Hygeia in this lunar equation, partnered with Uranus in the sign of the physical body (read: Taurus) may signal a rapid change in the world’s health situation. Think of the starving children in Gaza (& other places deprived of food & medical care due to war and the now defunct services from USAID), & how U.S. farmers’ crops rot in silos due to increased tariffs on importing nations.