Hasiy'el

Hasiy'el accompanies the period from 1 to 5 May and belongs to the Cherubim. Its motto is «My vital energy hits the mark». In this symbolic portrait, kingship takes the form of balance and generosity: guiding without constantly having to prove you are worth more than others. With Fuwiy'el and Yabamiyah, it shares the theme of the Kings, expressed here mainly as serenity and understanding of people.

Power, wealth and career may interest you less than the quality of the life before you. Competition bores you when it merely confirms personal importance. You can feel at ease without a spectacular aim because not everything that matters needs to become a goal.

Your most useful ability is observing the motives hidden behind a project. Fear can look like caution, a need to get even can present itself as ambition, and vulnerability can hide behind a seemingly logical choice. Knowing the less obvious parts of yourself too helps you recognise these movements without being persuaded solely by the image someone presents.

You can thus identify a shortcoming, clarify a step and suggest a correction. You do not need to be at the top to make this contribution. Sometimes you are more useful helping someone's project grow than building a career of your own. Consultancy, teaching or family responsibility can become places where you balance different needs.

Justinian and Catherine II of Russia represent government, the choice of collaborators and the ability to hold different forces together in this portrait. Niccolò Machiavelli brings clarity to the analysis of leadership and power, even from a position other than that of the ruler. Karl Marx evokes a broad view of politics, society and economics. Their common point is understanding how a whole works and where its order needs correction.

You can find the same task in ordinary activities: organising a home, helping a group choose, supporting others' work or clarifying a subject for someone learning it. The confidence you spread matters as much as any single piece of advice. When you do not experience others as competitors, it becomes easier to recognise what they can do without feeling threatened.

The risk is moving away from your own perspective to pursue other people's models. You may convince yourself that you too must want a race towards success, or accept advice that takes you away from what you know well about yourself. Your independence needs careful cultivation: discussion is useful when it sharpens judgement, rather than replacing it.

In the relationship with art, this portrait favours understanding and criticism over the need to tell your own story through a work. Essays, study and observation of forms can offer a space that suits you. Your gaze seeks above all to understand and explain, rather than finding in creativity an answer to an inner lack.

In love, the same clarity can become a difficulty. You quickly see the loved person's strengths and limits, leaving little room for idealisation. You may want perfect love while immediately finding what makes it impossible. A long-distance relationship may leave more room for imagination, but does not by itself resolve your relationship with real imperfections.

Multiplying relationships, evoked through Catherine II too, may seem a way to find in different people what is missing in one. If it leads to incompatible promises and concealment, however, it risks creating anxiety at odds with your need for clarity. A relationship chosen for affinity, respect and concrete possibilities can have more substance than continual comparison with an ideal.

Hasiy'el's direction is to use your understanding of people generously, in love too. You can care for someone without treating them as a project to administer, accept their limitations without ignoring your own needs and allow closeness to include what you cannot predict. Serenity becomes fuller when clarity is joined by reciprocity.