April 30 – May 6

Entering a New Stage

What to expect: Creative expression
What to watch out for: Inner resistance
What will it affect? Leadership, soul growth, creativity

“There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.” – Erik Erikson

The beginning of this week (on April 30th), Ceres will meet up with the North Node and the Sun will square them both.

The symbol for Ceres in astrology is a sickle. A sickle is a hand held agricultural tool for harvesting crops. And that is what Ceres is all about. She is the goddess energy of agriculture and nurturance. Called a goddess asteroid by Demetra George, Ceres has gone through many transformations from planet to asteroid to dwarf planet. She has lived many different incarnations and as such her lessons are also that of transformation and of letting go. In the sign of Leo, Ceres focuses on the energy of courage, risk, leadership and self confidence. As she meets up with the North Node, she asks us to let go of reliance on the gang or group of friends and mindlessly going along with their rebellion. What do you stand for? We are thrust in front of an audience, a spotlight is cast upon us. What do we do when we have the centre stage? Who are we and what do we stand for? Feeding our soul at this time involves finding our inner muse and unleashing our creativity, no holds barred.

The Sun in Taurus will square Ceres and the North Node and there will be parts of ourselves that will want to hold on to the tried and true status quo and all that represents security and stability. This energy may even show up in the form of a person who pooh-poohs at the risks you are taking.

Why? Sun Square Ceres, Sun Square North Node, Ceres Conjunction North Node

 

Being Seen

What to expect: Love through words
What to watch out for: Filling the silence
What will it affect? Confidence, self-confidence, self expression

On May 2nd and 3rd, Venus will sextile the North Node and Sextile Ceres. Venus is the planet linked to relationships and money, but at her heart, she is all about worth. After all, worth has a lot to do with what, how and whom we attract in the realm of love and money. Venus is currently in Gemini, where she is chatty, curious and full of money-making schemes. She makes a fortunate sextile to Ceres and the North Node. This energy is one that can slip by. We need to consciously take advantage of it and this is definitely energy you want to embrace. If we channel it properly, we can make money from the love that comes from communication. In fact, this is wonderful energy if you are a coach or therapist. Don’t forget that loving communication also includes listening. Tending and encouraging self expression and creativity through listening, reframing and validating. You don’t need to fill the spaces with words or unnecessary dialogue. In fact, you might be freaked out by the money you make by just having a good listening ear!

Why? Venus Sextile North Node, Venus Sextile Ceres

Grounding Into Spirit

What to expect: Channeling the divine
What to watch out for: Forgetting to ground
What will it affect? Guidance, creativity

On May 6th, the Sun will sextile Neptune. The Sun is in Taurus and Neptune is in Pisces. This combination creates a tactile spirituality. You can use this energy for grounding with Mother Earth and connecting with the universe above which may allow you to access something from beyond. From this deep grounding and higher connection, we can tap into creativity, divine guidance and channel music, poetry and messages. This is the kind of energy that if you’re a busy kick-ass entrepreneur, you’ll feel resistant to. You may even imagine that to take advantage of this energy is a waste of time. Go out into nature, find a large tree to sit in and an opening for the sun to shine on your face and enjoy this one! It will teach you something deeply productive about stillness, silence and just being.

Why? Sun Sextile Transiting Neptune

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April 23 – 29

Passion and Inner Significance

What to expect: Finding inner meaning
What to watch out for: Offending our partnerships
What will it affect? Work, passions, values, relationships

On April 24th, the Sun trines Vesta and sparks our passion! We are looking for what gives us meaning plus stability and authority. Venus will go into Gemini and make a sextile to Chiron. This starts the discussion in our partnerships and out will come all the things we are dissatisfied with, including the areas where we lack passion and meaning. Venus in Gemini values conversation, exchange of ideas and debate. It is extremely curious and its curiosity often leads the Venus in Gemini into trouble when it comes to partnerships. When Venus makes a sextile to Chiron the same day, we are faced with questions about our loyalty. The lyrics of the Tegan and Sara song “I’m not unfaithful, but I’ll stray” comes to mind. But it’s not just love relationships. It’s any partnership. The real question is, are we giving each other enough space? Do we need others to give us meaning and fill our cup or do we find our own inner significance? Chiron in Aries wants us to start valuing the independent individual and make us realize that having curiosity and outside interests don’t always spell out disloyalty to our partnerships.

Why? Sun Trine Transiting Vesta, Venus Entering Gemini, Venus Sextile Transiting Chiron

Deep Inner Work!

What to expect: Transformation
What to watch out for: Holding on to the past
What will it affect? Learning, communication, the past, power

Between April 23rd and 26th, Mars meets up with Pluto, which has recently gone retrograde. The two make a sextile to Jupiter which is also retrograde.

This is amazing energy, however, the retrograde energy of this connection turns the energy inward. In this particular aspect with Jupiter in Scorpio and Mars and Pluto in Capricorn, we are reflecting on our ambition, drive and need for power. How do we use power? Is it used for a good cause and in good ways or is it used inappropriately, even if it is inadvertently inappropriate? This energy is a good time for working with coaches, counsellors, and self-help books to help us understand our inner workings. This is also a good time for checking out your astrology chart. Astrology is one of the best tools for going inward and examining our inner landscape. Jung did it, as Bernadette Brady recently published book on Carl Jung outlines in The Astrological World of Jung’s Liber Novus.

Caution: Mercury is still in its shadow period and covering old ground. We’ve been here before just weeks earlier. It will trine Ceres and the North Node in Leo between April 25th and 27th, making us nostalgic and longing for the days of old. However our inner journey may not be a completely smooth road. On April 25th, Mercury will square Saturn bringing us down a bit. We may come across as negative and skeptical. We are being asked to let go of the so called “glory days.” In fact we may have rose coloured glasses as Neptune also makes a square to Pallas. All we may see is the security we had and the stability it offered. But was that really true? Was it ever really there? Facing the truth can help us move past our negative thinking. Time to move on!

Why? Mars Sextile Jupiter, Mars Conjunction Pluto, Mercury Square Saturn, Mercury Trine Ceres, Neptune Square Pallas, Mercury Trine North Node

 

Full Moon in Scorpio

What to expect: Powerful connections
What to watch out for: Abuse of power
What will it affect? Relationships, community, use of power, direction

The Full Moon is on April 29th in Scorpio. The Sabian symbol for the Full Moon is “A fellowship supper reawakens unforgettable inner ties.” The Full Moon puts the focus on community. More specifically it puts the focus on exclusive community or in some cases “secret society.” One of the more recent secret and interesting societies is nicknamed Circada 3301. It’s an internet society based around a puzzles and alternate reality games. It’s said to be linked to cryptocurrency and speculated to be founded to recruit intelligent code breaker types. This fits with the energy of this Full Moon. It speaks of power, money, emotional intensity, transformation, extremes and the secrets or mysteries of life. The Full Moon squares the nodes in Leo/Aquarius, so will bring about a new direction or possibly a call to a mission “if you so chose to accept.” Many of us feel called, but back down when asked to step into our leadership or to claim our inner strength. Face this Full Moon like a child. Remember how your innocence and lack of experience allowed you to take risks and to believe you could do anything? We are being asked to approach this full moon with that kind of childlike courage. Thankfully, we get some help from Saturn, now retrograde in Capricorn. It’s making a trine to the Sun and sextile to the Moon. This helps to ground our decisions in common sense. Therefore even if we approach our decisions with childlike courage, we skip any childlike stupidity, which promises to keep us out of any childlike trouble! The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the link to Saturn also helps us with the required discipline to complete tasks and bring us to the next level.

There is, however, one tricky energy pattern at the Full Moon. Chiron makes one of its first aspects since its arrival in Aries last week. It will conjunct Juno the marriage asteroid. Earlier in the week it connected with Venus for similar relationship energy. We are in the early days of Chiron in Aries, and its energy may well show up as a hurtful situation. For example, our partner’s criticisms can paralyze us as they call up similar old inner wounds, or they can send us into battle as we try to defend who we are. However, combined with the energy of the Full Moon, we may find that this angry and hurtful energy is needed to help us find our truth and direction. We are challenged to have the courage to be who we are in our relationships, without hurting or destroying them.

Why? Full Moon at 9°Scorpio 38′, Sun Trine Saturn, Chiron Conjunction Juno

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April 16 – 22

Temptations with Money

What to expect: Tests of restraint
What to watch out for: Excessiveness
What will it affect? Money, shared resources, relationships, budgets.

On April 16 and 17th, be careful with your cash and your joint holdings. There are a couple of things happening that can really go either way. Venus, a planet associated with money, is in the money sign of Taurus. Taurus loves security and material possessions. Venus in Taurus makes an opposition to Jupiter which is also in a money sign. Jupiter is in Scorpio, the sign about shared everything, including shared resources. The problem is that when these two come into an opposition, they tend to go overboard. Jupiter expands anything it touches, so it can expand our resources or it can expand our debt. The later is more likely as the energy also causes us to lack discipline and to be excessive. Venus will also trine Pluto which can send us towards transformative experiences.

At the same time, Saturn will go retrograde. For business, Saturn retrograde has an interesting energy. Normally Saturn is the CFO, handling the budgets and bottom lines. In the retrograde motion, Saturn’s reigns loosen up a bit.

This is a time where we would be well advised to learn restraint. In fact, it may be testing our restraint.

Why? Venus Opposition Jupiter, Venus Trine Pluto, Saturn Stationary

Chiron in Aries

What to expect: Pain and Healing
What to watch out for: Social movements
What will it affect? Freedom, self-expression, any repressed groups

Those of the Chiron in Aries generation know this energy well. Chiron was last in Aries in 1968 – 1977. Before that Chiron was in Aries in 1918 – 1927. Both of these times were associated with wounds of freedom and self expression! In the 1920’s, the theme was freedom of expression for women. Think short flapper dress, cigarettes and prohibition. Think of Mae West’s famus quote, “When I’m good I’m very, very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better” and Josephine Baker’s “I wasn’t really naked. I simply didn’t have any clothes on.” Then in 1968 – 1977 the theme was wounds freedom and self expression; psychedelics, peace, love and Vietnam. The culture, the style and the attitudes all spoke of that Aries notion of “who am I.” Aries energy brings conflict, passion, bravery and the kind of leadership that comes from taking a stand or making a statement for the sake of being who you are.

We enter into this energy again as Chiron moves into Aries on April 17th. This time Chiron will be in Aries until 2027. It’s a societal energy that contains hurt, healing and expression from those who feel the wounds of “who am I.” During both previous Chiron in Aries time periods, women’s movements made advances and we’ll likely see this again. Aries represents pioneering, war, the entrepreneur, beginnings, self expression, exploration. We may see wounds and a response to the wounds in any of these areas.

Why? Chiron Entering Aries

Setting Projects on the Right Track

What to expect: New Directions
What to watch out for: Too much focus
What will it affect? Money, strategy, partnerships

On April 18th , the Sun will make its exact conjunction with Uranus, just before moving into Taurus on the 19th. We may take things in a surprising direction while all this energy is in Aries, but once the Sun moves into Taurus, it will be hard to change directions. Whatever surprising turns we take, we’ll remain committed to it. It can be a productive time while the Sun is in Taurus. We can be focused and methodical which will help us to get things done.

On the 18th , Pallas will also sextile the North Node, which will help us see the big picture and build strategy that moves us into the right direction.

On the 22nd, Venus makes a sextile to Juno currently in Pisces. Juno in Pisces helps us to achieve a relationship with the divine. As Venus makes its sextile to Juno, we can partner with someone, but the project ends up feeling like something bigger than ourselves. It is as though the energy of the divine may be working through that partnership. Take advantage of this energy if you would like to move your projects ahead in partnership. On the same day, Pluto goes retrograde. In the initial stages while the Sun in in Taurus, we may resist the transformation that wants to happen. Pluto will be going back over previous ground and will have as its mission to revamp and revitalize the structures we had previously put in place.

Why? Sun Conjunction Uranus, Sun Entering Taurus, Pallas Sextile North Node, Venus Sextile Juno, Pluto retrograde

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