Hey everyone, it’s been awhile! I’m trying out a new format for a monthly write up. Let me know what you think! I am hoping to fill in more details about the aspects listed below the planets, so check back for updates.
-Liz
This month all planets are direct until the 21st and the pace continues to move quickly as we start to get a feel for all of the strong energy shifts that have happened recently. We are beginning to get a grip on the new character we are developing and all of the planets are assisting in how we are evolving into it. We are holding space for our future this month, and testing different strategies for how our new character acts and responds. The Sun mooves into Taurus right after this month’s powerful Solar Eclipse in Aries, (our second New Moon in Aries this year) and as we plant the seeds for the long term, we begin to manifest on the inside new desires based on the new values we have. New doors and windows may just start to open.We are seeing the beginnings of what this transformation looks like for this new future. Hold your tone and keep the faith.
Pluto
Aquarius 0°08’-0°22’
Pluto has moved into Aquarius for the first time since 1778, and we are getting our first taste of what this new long term transformation process looks like. Pluto will move back into Capricorn later this year, signaling this change has only just begun, and in order for it to commence fully, there are still some changes that must take place in the overarching structural system. We are holding space for the permanent changes that will be occurring over the next 2 years that will take us into the new vibration that the earth is moving into. Ready or not, change on a level we have not seen since revolutionary times is on the way.
April 3 Mercury in Taurus squares Pluto
April 11 Venus in Gemini squares Pluto
April 20 Sun in Taurus squares Pluto
May 1 Pluto Stations Retrograde at 0°22’
Neptune
Pisces 25°-26°
Neptune in Pisces enters into new territory this month as it reaches 26° for the first time since 1859. This year we will be opening up to the new decisions and actions we need to take into the future with us in order to maintain the new level of faith that we achieved last year. This month we start to see what this new level of commitment to our faith looks like for the long term.
April 7 Venus in Taurus sextiles Neptune in Pisces at 25°58’
Uranus
Taurus 16°-18°
Since 2018, when Uranus moved into Taurus, we have had to carefully examine the values that we identified with and the standards that we allowed. Uranus’ squares to Saturn over the past two years have helped us to determine what values were worth carrying into the future. This year we will start to get a better vision of the new future we are creating with these new values.
This month Uranus helps us to open up to the new identity we are creating with the new faith that we have. Your daily decisions and actions are starting to reflect the standards that you hold now.
March 30 Venus in Taurus conjunct Uranus at 16°
April 29 Mars in Cancer sextiles Uranus at 18°
Chiron
Aries 15°-17°
Chiron has been in Aries since 2018 and has been working with Uranus in a semi-sextile during this time. As we recognize the healing work that must be done, we see where our values and what we have identified with have created the character we have. We have been working on how to bring this new character out into our daily lives and will have a better idea of what actions we need to take on a daily basis to maintain it over the next year and half. Remember, healing work is a continuous journey, the work never ends, it is up to each individual to determine what this work looks like and how we prefer to implement it. This month we are opening up to a new vision of what our daily life looks like based on the work we have decided to do to maintain our new character. We are getting more connected with the commitments we are making that will help us embody the new evolved character we are creating.
April 5 Sun conjunct Chiron at 15°
April 25 Venus in Gemini sextiles Chiron at 17°
April 27 Mars in Cancer squares Chiron at 17°
Black Moon Lilith
Leo 9°-12°
Black Moon Lilith is getting to the underbelly of our fears around the kind of joy that we may feel is out of reach, underserved, or unattainable. This month we are exploring the actions that we do or do not take for ourselves in order to really experience joy. You may discover some old belief patterns that were holding you back from new levels of joy you did not know you could have.
March 31 Moon conjunct BML at 9°
April 11 Mercury in Taurus squares BML
April 21 Venus in Taurus squares BML at 11°
Saturn
Pisces 2°-5°
Saturn transitioned into Pisces on March 7 and will be there until 2025/26. He will reach 7° before turning retrograde in June. Saturn in Pisces will be getting our spiritual life and world in order over these next few years and will be asking us to step up and into the new roles that we have ultimately been created for. All of the planets are in harmony, working together for each individual’s personal growth, so that the collective whole may reach a higher vibration. Pluto entering into Aquarius is the signal for the next evolutionary phase, the changes we have had to make over the past few years around our values, identity, and beliefs have been working to prepare us. The healing work we are doing with our character is also assisting us, as we find new ways of responding and reacting that are more in line with who we are now. Saturn will conjunct Chiron in Taurus in 2028, suggesting that once we have gotten our spiritual lives and world in order, and commit to a new way of responding and reacting on all levels, we will be able to manifest a new level of healing, and achieve a new level of embodiment of this new character. All of this is to say, this is a process that will take time. Saturn in Pisces can feel uncertain of itself, it is up to us to reign in our motivations and drive to find what still grounds us on the open seas. This month, we are feeling into our new commitment to our faith, gaining new insight on what this new perspective means, finding a new belonging with it, and creating a new inner vision of what we will need to do to maintain it.
April 5 Mercury in Taurus sextiles Saturn at 3°
April 14 Venus in Gemini squares Saturn at 4°
April 25 Sun in Taurus sextiles Saturn at 4°-5°
Jupiter
Aries 19°-26°
Jupiter in Aries has been expanding our beliefs in our new sense of self since last year. This month, Jupiter enters the 3rd decan of Aries, bringing a new focus on the big picture of our new character and how we wish to act and respond into the future. Once again the healing work we are doing with Chiron in Aries is being highlighted, with Jupiter allowing us to expand our vision of what our new, healed self can be. As Jupiter moves into Taurus next month, we will be taking what we have come to understand about this new sense of self, and putting it to work in manifesting the new inner life, daily life, and future that we can now achieve.
April 11 Sun conjuncts Jupiter at 21°
Mars
Cancer 3°-19°
Mars moved into Cancer on March 25 and brings a significantly different energy to our ego’s drive and desires. This month we will come to understand the self care work we need to do to maintain the new perspectives that we have, and actions we need to take on a daily basis to protect what we care about now.
April 2 Mars sextiles the North Node in Taurus at 4°
April 8 Mercury in Taurus sextiles Mars in Cancer at 6°
April 23 Mars sextiles Mercury (retro) in Taurus at 15°
Venus
Taurus 18°- Gemini 22°
Moves into Gemini 4/11
Venus entered Taurus March 16, and has helped to create more ease to letting go of the old values and taking up the new. We are decorating our inner and outer walls with the colors of our new identity and opening up to the physical aspects of what walking this new walk looks like. Venus moves into Gemini on the 11th and we start the process of opening up to our new talk.
Mercury
Aries 25°-Taurus 12°(retro)
Moves into Taurus April 3
Stations retro April 21 at 15° Taurus
Mercury begins the month in the final degrees of Aries and our minds are getting a grip on what perspective we need to take into the future for our new character. As he moves into Taurus he will begin to slow down and take account of the vision we have manifested so far around where we are going next based on our new values. Mercury’s retrograde begins on the 21st, lasts until May 15, and will cover only 10° (15°-5), a relatively short transit for Mercury. Interestingly enough Jupiter will retrograde over these exact same degrees later this year, September 4 through January 1, 2024. This certainly suggests that whatever comes up during this Mercury retrograde time will be up for a higher level of understanding and review. These degrees, 5°-15° of Taurus, are all about the perspective we have around our values and the day to day life we are opening up to manifesting with those values. This year may just bring even more reasons to stand strong in what you feel is worth protecting now.
The Nodes
North Node Taurus 4°/ South Node Scorpio 4°
As the planets progress forward through the zodiac, the nodes make their way backwards and are hovering all month at the same degree. With the North Node representing what we are moving towards, and the South, what we are leaving behind plan to spend some time determining, perhaps yet again, the basis for your new values, and if they truly belong to you, or if they are being clouded with the old you or the values of others. As the Nodes make their way towards the Aries/Libra axis we will need to be sure of the new foundations we are building, so that we move toward the new way of relating to ourselves and others that we need to have in the future. This month begins the eclipse season with our first Solar Eclipse on April 20, and event whose effects we will be seeing throughout spring as Jupiter passes through this area.
April 24 Sun conjunct North Node
Moon
April 6 Full Moon in Libra 16 12:34am EST
This month’s Full Moon is in opposition to Chiron in Aries at 15° and may bring up any areas that we have not fully opened up to for healing. If the new vision you have for your character on a daily basis is not matching up with the way you are relating with others you may be in for a strong awakening. It may become very clear how you are interacting with others is reinforcing an old behavioral pattern. Make sure you are relating to yourself appropriately in the new way, so that your interactions with others may evolve.
April 20 New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries 29° 12:12am EST
This year we have 2 New Moons in Aries (the first was March 21 at 0°), bringing a strong emphasis to the new character that we have been creating. God/Universe is asking us to step up and continue towards mastery of your new response system. With Jupiter nearby at 23° of Aries, we are getting a boost of confidence in ourselves and the new understandings we need to take going forward. This energy will continue to evolve as the Sun mooves into Taurus and conjuncts the North Node, followed by Jupiter next month. The effects of this eclipse could really extend as far as May 2028, when Saturn reaches this degree point (which of course he will retrograde back to) We are truly planting the seeds of our future through the character we are developing now.
–
Sun
Aries 11°- Taurus 10°
The Sun in Aries is shining a light on the healing work we have been doing with our character and expanding the beliefs we have about the future based on the new understanding that we have about ourselves. The Sun moves into Taurus on the 20th, very shortly after the Solar Eclipse in Aries at 29° on the same day and the need for mastery in our new character for the future is being strongly highlighted. The movement of the Sun from a cardinal to fixed sign represents a time of settling in and getting comfortable, and no sign is more capable of that than Taurus. Plan for things to feel pretty full speed ahead for the first half of the month, but once the Sun transitions into Taurus, followed shortly after by Mercury stationing retrograde on the 21st, you may start to feel a significant slow down. Think of it as sinking into the values that root you and make you feel your best self. Like reading a book in a hammock on the perfect spring day (if that’s your thing), find what grounds you, amidst whatever outer world storm might be brewing. We are holding space for what we wish to manifest next in our lives, hold your tone.
Astrology by Liz 