Two planets change signs in the same seven-day window — and for Aries rising, both of them matter more than they do for most of the zodiac. Mars, your ruling planet, exits Aries for Taurus on May 19, 2026. The Sun follows two days later, on May 21. Call it the Gear-Shift Week: the sprint ends, the build begins.
Aries Rising — Week of May 18–24, 2026
- Week
- May 18–24, 2026
- Headline transit
- Sun–Uranus conjunction forming in Gemini (applying through May 22, 2026)
- Key ingresses
- Mars → Taurus May 19; Venus → Cancer May 19; Sun → Gemini May 21
- Retrograde
- Pluto (5° Aquarius, 11th house)
- Most activated houses
- 1st (Mars at 29° Aries, Saturn at 11° Aries) through May 19; 3rd (Mercury, Uranus, then Sun in Gemini) from May 21
What's Asking for Your Attention
For Aries rising — readers whose ascendant is Aries, the sign sitting on the eastern horizon at the moment of their birth — Mars is not just any planet. It's the ruling planet, the engine the entire chart runs on. As May 18, 2026 opens, Mars sits at 29° Aries, what astrologers call the anaretic degree: the final, pressure-loaded position a planet holds before a sign change. The energy is concentrated. There's a drive here that feels urgent, instinctive, almost physical — and with Saturn also in your 1st house at 11° Aries, the desire to act fast is paired with a structural demand to act well. By May 19, 2026, Mars crosses into Taurus, moving from your 1st house — identity, the body, how you initiate — into your 2nd, the territory of money, material resources, and what you're building for the longer term. The sprint doesn't disappear. It lands somewhere.