Four planets change signs in the span of about 72 hours. Mercury, Mars, Venus, the Sun: all of them, in a row, switching costumes between Sunday and Wednesday. None of this is a chill little pivot. By Thursday you will look up from whatever you were doing on Sunday and feel like someone changed the channel on your life. Different show, different cast, different lighting, different mood. You're still in your living room. Everything else is new.

Key moments of the week:

• Sunday, May 17: Mercury enters Gemini (6:27AM)
• Sunday, May 17: Venus in Gemini sextile Chiron in Aries (2:03PM)
• Sunday, May 17: Mercury conjoins Uranus in Gemini (8:09PM)
• Monday, May 18: Mars enters Taurus (6:26PM)
• Monday, May 18: Venus enters Cancer (9:05PM)
• Tuesday, May 19: Mercury in Gemini sextile Neptune  ...