april horoscopes:
feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you
A month is a disturbingly long time. It hides within the folds of the weeks and days too many innumerable mini dramas that take place, resolve, or dissipate into background noise.
Within the space of the last month, I think about where did the texture of reality fall short of the ways I desire beauty, connection, harmony? Where are the pressure points where expectations, obligations, beliefs in “should” and “should not” meet and rub against the reality of the body and the reality of joy?
In the last month, did you find escape and healing love? I found them in novels, Korean dramas, fantasizing about strangers on the subway, in mountain hikes and giant ocean waves, … and in conversations with friends, who remind me that in this world of disconnection, we are blessed to find people who want to create a different world together.
Aries New moon, 04/01
Sun-Chiron-mercury Cazimi 04/02
This new moon carries an especially heavy feeling, especially as Mars approaches Saturn. You may feel frustrated not being able to fight or move as quickly as you want to. The moment calls forth a place of grief and loss, of felt inadequacy or failed agency, of actions that could not be taken, or were taken too quickly and impulsively. Make time to reflect on this moment, what it teaches you about your tenacity, bravery, and fight to survive and for your life to make sense.
Week 1 April 4 - 10
Mars conjoin Saturn April 5
Venus enters Pisces April 6
Mars also finally conjoins Saturn, beginning a new cycle of looking at one’s challenges and frustrations. Don’t be too hard on yourself this week and remember to take one step at a time.
Venus entering Pisces initiates a period of sweetness, emotional and spiritual connection, and romantic gestures.
Week 2 April 11 – 17
Mercury Enters Taurus 11th
Jupiter conjunct Neptune 12th
Mars in Pisces April 15th
Libra full moon 04/17 – square Pluto
Mercury already finishes its quick tour in Aries and now enters Taurus. Since the ruler of Taurus, Venus, is in her exaltation, there is a lot of possibility for poetry, beautiful language, writing, sensual exchanges in communication, travel into nature. Sweet treats, gifts, singing.
Really big all throughout this month is the exact conjunction of Jupiter and Neptune, which comes exact this week. These planets conjoining begins a new cycle around fantasy, spirituality, relation to the esoteric in the world. There can also be increased deception and illusionary things. Although this can manifest positively, even in visions of the supreme divine or rapture by angels, one must be careful of Neptune. If you have placements in late Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces, and have been under a hard Neptune transit already, this placement can exacerbate the sense of being lost, adrift, or confused.
Mars also enters Pisces now, warming up the arena of dreams, emotional connection, and spiritual journey. In this area, things transform from a sensual buffet of dreams and visions to a movement, a striving towards something.
The full moon in Libra is a dramatic one. There is a confrontation of something revealed in a social beauty and harmony, that whether it knows it or not it influenced by new insights and experimentations. At the same time, this revelation is in relation to a deeper broiling, a witnessing of power currents that underlie the situation. This full moon seems both extremely beautiful in a fragile, in a special moment in time kind of way, and kind of aggressive.
Week 3 April 18 – 24
Mercury in Taurus conjunct Uranus sextile Venus in Pisces 18th
Sun squares Pluto April 19th
Sun enters Taurus April 20th
Saturn square nodes April 21
Mercury square Saturn April 24th
This week begins as a full moon hangover, and then switches abruptly into Taurus season. As it moves into the new sign, we stand clearly in eclipse season. Saturn is square the nodes, and so we are surrounded by the heavy stench of responsibilities and obligations.
Week 4 April 25 - 30
Mercury sextile Neptune April 25th
Mercury Sextile Jupiter 27th
Mercury Trine Pluto 28th
Venus conjoin Neptune 28
Mercury enter Gemini /Pluto retrograde 30th
Eclipse season begins end of month with Taurus New Moon at 10 degrees – Venus in Pisces conjoin Jupiter, sextile Pluto
Mercury in Taurus branches out, connects the dots between many of the brewing poetry and spells lying around. Then Venus, naturally, in the still active sextile, moves through similar movements, conjoining Neptune, and Jupiter and then sextile Pluto. There is a big web being spun of healing, radical self-confrontations and large movements of forgiveness and compassion. All together finding its way in art, dreams, love, relationships.
All of this is underpinning our first eclipse in Taurus. In that area of your chart, you are experience a new rebirth, a seed being planted, that ties together the healing of the pain of loss and deep rumblings in desire you have been undergoing since the beginning of the year, and the blossoming of new imaginations you’ve been experiencing in other parts of your life.
horoscopes (read for your rising sign)
Aries:
At the beginning of the month, you face the wound of the self, the body, the burning desire to express yourself lest you not be seen.
By the end of the month, you are experiencing in new shocking patterns the ways you attract and substantiate. What you define as yours. This is encouraged and supported by retreating into your solitude.
Taurus:
At the start of the month, you must first face the wound of betrayal, of engrossing secrets and shame that has deep origins. How does the desire to fight arise from these spaces?
By the end of the month, you are awakening in new shocking patterns the ways you embody beauty and the satisfaction and pleasure you imagine. Bathe in the waters of friendship and collective consciousness.
Gemini:
At the beginning of the month, the wound of inflammatory friendships and collective movements sears. You are haunted by the burning desire to find belonging and agency in group situations.
At the end of the month, you awaken in new shocking patterns the secrets that have been dictating your behavior all along. Bath yourself in the waters of new opportunities and embracing your authority.
Cancer:
The beginning of the month, you must tend to the wound of authority and of the ways you also seek power and mastery. How this back and forth negotiation may bring out the warrior within, but that warrior may sometimes hurt or betray you in the process.
By the end of the month, you are ushered into a totally new space and possibility of friendship alliances and collective alignments. The healing waters of new beliefs, faiths, forays, in culture, and travel aid you in this process.
Leo:
To remember all the dreams and institutions that demanded your fire but didn’t deliver their end of the promise is to revisit a space of deep vulnerability and urge to fight.
You may discover a legacy and role you can truly envision yourself in, despite all odds. This process is aided by the healing waters of intimate exchange and an acceptance of loss.
Virgo:
Bonds that were severed and burned may haunt you early April. You may think of the things that you want to hold but will nevertheless be crushed or disappear. Even as all things must end one day, in your every day life, you show the possibility of life in relation, in sharing, in walking side by side.
You are awakening in new beliefs, faiths, literature and cultural exchanges.
Libra:
Early month you face the wound of partnership and of expecting fairness in a world of difference. Conflict and conflict-avoidance present themselves as existential questions.
You are seeking new bonds and a new understanding of what type of sharing feels truly nourishing at this time. This process is aided by a reconciliation with the self, in returning to the ritual, in the quiet act of cleaning for yourself.
Scorpio:
Early April you feel the wound of the body, with its defiance of limitations. Despite its heated state, the only way out is through compassionately allowing yourself weakness. Take time to nurse yourself.
By the end of the month, you are continuing the revolutions in your relationships, whether they be platonic, romantic, collaborative etc. This is aided by the way you are dipping into waters of inspiration, creativity, romance, and children.
Sagittarius:
The beginning of April is sore, as you nurse the wounds of creative pleasure and romances that were brashly tossed through fires. You receive flashbacks of how you fought for or against these things.
You are shocked into creating rituals and ways of caring for the everyday, the body, and digestion. Part of this process is aided by the ways you are healing around your home, house, family, and private space.
Capricorn:
The beginning of the month reminds you of the wound of the home – the familial bonds and heritage and living spaces – as well as the battles to keep them from setting in and defining you.
By the end of the month, you awaken in yourself new sensations in your romantic life, your creative life, your child-bearing and rearing life, which are tied to the ongoing theme of bathing and healing in the waters of writing, music, weekend trips, and new ways of thinking.
Aquarius:
The month opens with a long hard stare at the wound within writing, within poetry, within determining the self and the mental state.
The Taurus eclipse at the end of the month awakens a new relationship to the stability of home, houses, domestic life, and your own private pleasure. This is supported by the way you are healing around themes of material security and abundance.
Pisces:
Beginning of the month, you are facing wounds around scarcity and possession, and experiencing the need to fight and battle in this arena.
By the end of the month, you are awakening new sensuality and materiality in your writing, music, poetry. This is all happening in alignment with expressing yourself freely and experiencing yourself as an agent of life force, numinous symbols, and the search for truth. If you can, take a trip to the the seaside/countryside to usher in these new changes.