The April Astro-Report
Finding your Footing in the Winds of Change
Over the last month we have had some BIG astrology, and I’ve personally been trying to catch my breath as the waves have crashed, to digest its “big-ness” in order to share it with you. This last month took me by surprise and reminds me that sometimes no matter how prepared we are for life and its big events, it can still take us by storm. Even when we are the ones steering the ship, even when we have our destination in view, the route in between can take its toll. And when the path to our destination has unexpected factors to navigate that demand our total focus, so many things can fall out of view. It’s then in the aftermath where we can begin to regroup, refocus, take more into view, pick up the pieces, offer compassion where we can, and slow tend to what needs repair. So, although this article arrives after the heat of April’s astrology, let it be a digestive, as it certainly is for me!
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Since we last spoke, we’ve moved through a New Moon in Aries, a series of conjunctions with Saturn and Neptune in the early degrees of Aries, Uranus’ major ingress into Gemini, and a Full Moon in Scorpio. Wowza! So much to digest. So let’s begin with our appetizer: the New Moon in Aries, as it set the tone for 4-course meal. The New Moon in Aries arrived on April 17th with a sharpness that pierced the heart, stirring up wounds that felt impossible to ignore. This New Moon closely involved Chiron, the teacher of medicine who carries his own scars. With Chiron influencing this New Moon in Aries, old wounds were brought to the surface. Wounds we survived but now under this lunation, we got a raw view of what we’ve made of them. Have we found medicine of our pain, allowing them to integrate and inspire our life or have they lingered, hardened into something more painful, and become the poison that rottens our day-to-day outlook? This New Moon revealed just how committed we are to our stories and how much we’ve allowed them to direct the unfolding of our lives. Have we let them take the driver seat, directing us only toward misery. Or have they become the fuel for our passion to persevere?
This New Moon was compounded by the many conjunctions with Saturn and Neptune in the early degrees of Aries, echoing both the harsh realities of the world and the internal landscapes we must navigate in response. It called attention to how we meet conflict: they ways in which we react, respond, and cope with the atrocities at large and small. Mars, the planet of conflict and assertive action, made conjunctions with Neptune and Saturn on April 12th and April 19th, respectively, pressing us to respond to what reality was on our doorstep with either courage and integrity, or with avoidance and self-doubt. Saturn and Neptune have been shaping this story since their conjunction on February 20th, asking us to reckon with a new reality, one that may have felt both sobering and disheartening. In April, the inner planets of Mars, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun moved through this terrain, illuminating the vast layers of our interpersonal dynamics, emphasizing a momentum and urgency to reconcile what landscape we find ourselves in and to figure out what we need to mobilize into the new chapter that began to unfold in late February. When Mars made its conjunctions, it was time to put our money where our mouth is, to rise to the moment, to mobilize, and to respond with integrity… or to fall back into familiar patterns that keep us stuck and ultimately dishonest to the path that is calling. A humbling moment indeed…
Shortly after Mars made it’s conjunctions with Saturn and Neptune, Mercury followed suit. Mercury, the planet of communication, is represented by Hermes, the messenger God who appears in Greek myth to introduce new information, new perspectives, and motivates a solution on the path forward, especially in moments of disorientation or despair, where a solution feels just too far out of reach. As Mercury moved under the influence of Neptune and Saturn on April 16th and April 20th, grief and a more sobering view of life could easily have taken hold, overwhelming the senses and making hope or inspiration feel distant. But in Aries, and under the close influence of Mars, our grief has purpose and is ultimately temporary. It highlights the underworld journey that grief can be and how essential it is to initiate the next chapter. Without it, how would we know what needs to be honored and what needs to be rectified?
These conjunctions, alongside the New Moon in Aries, are signaling the beginning of a new chapter, one that quietly took root on February 20th, but has come into clearer, more tangible view throughout this Aries season. While Mars propelled us into action, initiating our first steps forward with vigor, Mercury gave us the language and courage to articulate and express our dreams, to strike while the iron is hot, put ourselves out there, and begin calling in the opportunities we so deeply aspire to. All of these events in Aries ultimately set the stage for Uranus to enter Gemini on April 25th. Uranus, the revolutionary, the change maker, will now move through Gemini until 2033! Gemini is the mutable air sign that begs for expression, new ideas, and innovation, and with Uranus, the atmosphere is buzzing like a live wire.
From 2018 to 2026, Uranus had a lengthy residency in the fixed Earth sign of Taurus, that often felt restless, yearning for change while simultaneously being constrained by environment and circumstance. Throughout this cycle, we faced MASSIVE changes in our environments both large and small, and yet, for all that changed, there was a lingering tension that the changes we yearn for are not happening at the rate we request. This test asked us to wait, to endure, to build something steady in the face of the uncomfortable unknown and uncontrollable. And now, Uranus is moving into Gemini, a mutable air sign that is primed for movement and change, however not every change is meant to be made or to last, making discernment essential. With so much in flux as Uranus establishes itself in Gemini, the wise will call upon the lessons of discernment, stability, and reliability that we learned through the chapter of Uranus in Taurus. To carry the grounded wisdom into the winds of change, without losing ourselves, to keep our destination in view, while simultaneously allowing the path ahead to evolve. To know when and how to move forward, when to adapt, and when to allow for surprising new ideas to infiltrate your heart. And above all, rooting our values in every step we make as the ground beneath us shifts into a whole new shape…
We concluded the month of April with a Full Moon in Scorpio on May 1st, that served as an off ramp for our exhausting endurance, strength, and effort that was required to make such leaps and bounds in the feisty and trying month, where chapters were both beginning and ending. The Moon is strained in Scorpio, and perhaps even more so now, having witnessed its opposing sign, Taurus, under the pressure of Uranus for the past 8 years. With this Full Moon arriving just days after Uranus has finally left Taurus, don’t be surprised if you collapse with exhaustion and grief that leads to a necessary unraveling. Scorpio is a deeply internal sign, one that can hold the weight of the world and then some. When the Moon is Full in Scorpio, the excessive pressure that has been building beneath the surface finally pushes past its limits, and the structures that once held it begin to give way. And of course! Of course the dams are breaking. It’s time to release what is no longer yours to carry. To shed the burdens of past chapters. To let go of the excess pressure so that you can step into this new chapter lighter, freer, and more responsive to what’s being asked of YOU. So shed, let go, allow the break down so that something new can break through. Release the structures that are no longer working, and in doing so, reclaim your peace and preserve your dreams. Look at all that you endured in your journey and yet you still arrived at your destination. Incredible! You won’t believe where you are headed next! See you there :)
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