Aires   (March 20 - April 18)  Fire.  Ruling planet Mars.    Top

A very different and enlarged sense of Self is rapidly emerging in this monthly timeframe, Aries. Playing chutes and ladders you just started reaching for the top. This is an exciting time as you sort through your possibilities and find new ways to express Spirit inside as an important component of future plans. Developing a compassionate life arrangement is occupying all your time these days, at one level of your being or another. The outlines of some previously hidden patterns of personality begin to emerge, the more so as you keep your steady gaze upon them in spite of all the temptations to look away.

As the month begins, you are feeling the pull of the important relationships in your life, and how they directly impinge upon your own growing sense of self. There is a difficult passage that you are in the midst of that will take you through to another way of thinking and even seeing, new lenses on your dark glasses. This comes to you as a serious commitment, but you take full advantage of your movement toward wholeness when you access the light-hearted and playful energy that is also available to you, perhaps waiting to emerge, inviting you to the dance.

Following the Monday Full Moon in your opposite sign that leads you toward others, an introspective life experience comes upon you in this first week of the month, leading you down and into yourself more deeply.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday the 10th is a time of challenge, when you will want to find out for yourself what makes sense for you over-all, the viable solution amongst the mix of energies, or which seeds will last through the cycles of change and which need to be discarded. Your worldview is shifting at this time and you benefit when you strive to pay the most careful attention to everything that is happening around and to you.

The New Moon in your sign that comes along mid-month, on Tuesday the 17th, represents a time of increasing change and of communicating your deepest nature to others around you. There may be a form of tension between the interior nature of your feelings at this time and the pressure of those around you to be more forthcoming. But when you share your darkest secrets with another, you open the potential for a healing touch that makes those dark places lighter, and which has the power to make the world around you seem to feel lighter as well.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are coming more fully into the here and now, Taurus, celebrating yourself at the surface layers, but it need not keep you from experiencing other levels simultaneously. You are entering into a thoughtful and powerfully transformative period of time, productive of great changes in attitude, life circumstance and ultimately values. As you seek a more compassionate approach to business, taking the best of the past into account and transcending the residue that no longer serves you, you resemble a spiritual warrior. You are striking a blow for the future, and for freedom, and it may just turn out to be yours.

As the month begins you are in a unique position of strength, both in yourself and for your highest purpose. You are in some sense re-inventing yourself in the current timeframe, and your goals may be changing rapidly. A sense of compassion is an important component in everything that you say and do right now, inspired by an underlying feeling of compassion and oneness with all creatures in this physical plane, although that feeling may obviously not be entirely practical at times.

The Full Moon of Monday April 2nd really speaks to you, and when it does, if you really tune your ears to listen, it whispers of the unseen world beyond this one. You are exploring that world with your mind and with your heart, even as you remain very aware of the ordinary mundane structure of life here below and your place within that structure.

The Last Quarter Moon that comes along on Tuesday April 10th puts you at the crossroads of awareness, as you must choose your belief system to match current conditions. Fortunately it is not a case of either a or b.

The New Moon of the following week takes place on Tuesday April 17th, and you will find all the indications that something is struggling to be born in you that has more to do with your deep inner process than with outer achievement although these are necessarily linked.

The First Quarter Moon a week later serves to remind you that although change must inevitably come into your life, change does not come easily. You are grappling with your public presentation, where you are headed in this world and how you show up when you finally get there, and as well the unseen dimensions of what really counts for you, all at the very same time. All through this month you are in the midst of a powerful mandate for transformation that may shake you to your emotional roots.

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

The time has come to get serious, Gemini. After weathering the storms of a series of changes in life perspective and career choices, this month you are finally ready to be off and running in the direction that absolutely serves you both inside and out. That feeling of inner certainty is one that you can trust, this time. You are setting your sails right now for the rest of your year, as long as you have the discernment to determine where your heart is taking you and the courage to go there. The hints come faster and become more insistent as the first half of the month unfolds.

As the month begins, you are in a rare state of mental intoxication, with grand schemes and dreams percolating through your awareness. The Full Moon of the 2nd may bring you to a new sense of self and the effectiveness of your creative output.

A week later, with the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 10th, you are likely to be both conflicted and uplifted in your search for new horizons. This is a very potent time for you, and what you concretely vision between now and the end of the month has enormous power to transform your life, utterly, from the inside out. You are very outer-oriented at this time, perhaps gathering brothers and sisters to you as you forge the links of a new social contract with the world at large. A new feeling of compassion may be dawning, which is really in the nature of a re-claiming of a lost part of your understanding that has been lying in wait for you to make the proper discoveries that would allow it re-entry into your worldview.

The New Moon of the following week forms the centerpiece of your visioning, and demonstrates once again the power of positive thinking in your life. What you focus your attention on at this time will absolutely come true, so be careful what you wish for. Significant partnerships in your life are helpful to your cause at this time, and may also provide the impulse for necessary changes.

With the First Quarter Moon of the 23rd and the days following, you are descending into the darkness of your inner world to some extent, even as you maintain an active real world presence. The darker parts of your nature are also in attendance in the mix of energies that surround you at this time and do not want to be left out. Helpful relationships in your life may serve to keep things light as well as cosmically serious. Remember that the gods enjoy laughter a much as you do.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

Your public statement is very much on your mind these days, Cancer, as well as managing your financial returns in a way that remains consistent with your highest purpose for yourself going forward. Your work in the world right now depends entirely on the deep contemplation of your soul-level understanding. It makes sense: where you provide value the marketplace will reward you, and value depends on your own sense of what is right for you and for everyone else into the bargain. You win when you trust the universe to take care of the details and simply allow your puzzle pieces to fall into place.

As the month begins, the Full Moon in your home and family sector may bring some painful issues to the fore, perhaps places that you have thought were part of the long-settled past but which are after all not fully healed. You are balancing issues of where you stop and someone else begins, and of taking care of yourself first and foremost with an expanded viewpoint that includes a service orientation. Flashes of insight keep coming your way all month in the most unexpected of places and may serve to keep your mind open to exotic viewpoints.

At the time of the Last Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, April 10th, you may find yourself wondering whether you had it right after all, as circumstances force you to question the impulse which originally defined this period of time, beginning with the transformative moment of the Solar Eclipse from last mid-month in your higher mind sector. You are coming to a renewed awareness regarding where you are headed at this time, and what it may take to get you all the way there.

At the next crux of meaning for you, the New Moon taking place on Tuesday, April 17th, you may find the synthesis that you have been seeking, or at least you are likely to experience a shift, and the First Quarter Moon one week later will be a time of potential trial for you when the viability of that shift gets tested, and when new plans may become actualized.

There are implications in this latter half of the month for both your work in the world in the sense of how you do your day-to-day activity and also how you show up to be counted, what people think of you in a professional sense, and the way that you exteriorize your inner world in terms of outer activity that suits you. So often these days there is that disconnect between who we are and what we do, and this may be one sense of the wound that you carry and that is going through a healing phase in the course of this month's transitions.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

A recent period of tremendous change is followed this month by more quiet contemplation. Stabilizing your notion of yourself takes work and the full participation of your powers of perception, both external and internal, and perhaps a compassionate feeling for the minds of others that so closely mirror your own. Spiritual masters tell us that there is really only one of us here, and in the coming weeks you may begin to perceive this message as more than just a concept. Toward the middle of the month comes a new burst of understanding. Not an answer, just no need of answers.

As the month begins you are uniquely situated to come to a fuller knowledge of yourself and where you are headed in this life. Flashes of inspiration may come to you at this time that will rock your world. Important structures of your life are in transition, and your relationship dynamics also may reflect the seismic shifts that are taking place within you at this time. You are very other-oriented during this monthly period, and yet also entirely focused on the evolving structure of your life, entering into a crucible for new development that only becomes more poignant as the month unfolds.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 10th may represent a time of increased consciousness concerning your situation. This is a time when tension may mount between the impulse for change and the potential for holding back in all that ways that your habitual mode of behavior conditions you to. Although there may be trials to endure, these may also serve to bring hidden factors in your relationship dynamic to light.

The New Moon of April 17th brings you to yourself in some new and different ways and may serve as a bridge over troubled waters that can synthesize conflicts and allow you to rise above. The resistance to change is your biggest challenge right now, and openness is your friend. Otherworldly viewpoints must be absorbed or they will continue to haunt you without your conscious participation in the process. This is paradoxically a time of letting go and surrender on the one hand, and taking a stand for yourself in a major way on the other, a stand that allows no outside influence to dilute your purpose.

The First Quarter Moon of the following Monday, taking place on April 23rd, is another time of potential trials, when you are fully engaged in nurturing the young shoot of your current aspirations into life, and begin to wear them around town.

This is also a time when you may come across a few bumps in the road of your progress. You are at this point in time attempting to fully show up in the world of manifestation with the fruits of your cognition more or less intact, not sheltered from the ravages of the world but nourished by these. As a famous philosopher once so aptly stated, way back in the nineteenth century, "what doesn't kill me makes me strong."

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

Welcome to the oceanic field of one-ness, Virgo. You are finding important transformation during this monthly cycle by following your heart, and tuning in to the deepest part of yourself that knows no boundaries. Others in your life are continuing to participate strongly in helping you to create your vision, and in your finding the way to begin putting your feet on your own unique path. Your ordinary waking life goals will also likely change as a result. After all, the world seems a very different place from this perspective, not so threatening, more open to extreme possibility.

As the month begins, you are riding a new wave surprising and deeply informative events that show you just how much the significant relationships in your life impact you, and perhaps also how self-imposed structures in this and other areas may be holding you back from the full experience of your possibilities. Your values and how you see your available resources are part of this pattern of change. You are beginning to reorganize your viewpoint on past events in your life and how to take the structures of your life forward with less cramp and more freedom.

The time of the Last Quarter Moon in the second week of the month, taking place on April 10th, may be the crux of these musings and a time to recognize the places within you where you have shut yourself off from a broader connection with the universe at large. There may be patterns of service to others from a feeling of necessity and martyrdom, rather than aid freely given, that begin to demand a different form of attention from you and where you can make great progress on healing yourself and your relationships with others around you. You win when you can face these parts of yourself and just allow them to be what they are, without trying to stretch them into any preconceived image.

The New Moon of the following week, on Tuesday the 17th, is a fresh start and a new chance for seeing and therefore doing things differently as you ease into a more vibrant future.

Another important time of potential tension and also the chance for resolution arrives with the First Quarter, on Monday the 23rd, traditionally a time of action, when the viability of your current arc of development gets tested. The key is acceptance of past situations without blame, either of yourself or others, and yet with a willingness to see into the very heart of the situation without looking away either.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are getting more and more solid regarding future plans, Libra. It's only partly due to your increased interaction with the significant others in your life. That focus this month on partnership comes naturally to you, but the real gold is on the inside. In the mirror of relationship you can see your hidden places more clearly, and forming a better connection with these walled-off parts of yourself may inform the true meaning of this period of time. Self-criticism can come all too easily while a cheerleading squad may be celebrating somewhere inside your head and you're not even paying attention.

As the month begins, the Full Moon in your sign has you concerned even more than usual with issues of self and other. You are transforming in the way that you reach out to others at this time, and finding your own uniqueness in the process. The future is solider than ever for you as you explore a vibrant communication style that tells more of the whole truth of your situation. You are entering into a wholly magical and powerfully life-changing time right now, especially if you are ready to let go of your attachment to old wounds to your self-esteem on the way to a more heart-felt participation in the events of your life. Your compassionate presence in the world right now has the power to heal not only yourself but others as well if you will let it.

The Last Quarter Moon of the following week may present a few bumps in your road to a new way of being, as you begin to really settle into the path of your own self-creation and perhaps run into some conflicts between what suits you as your own way of doing things versus the demands of others. You may find that some of what you are trying to accomplish will have to yield gracefully or otherwise to what your circumstances in their essence requires, but looking under the covers to find the deeper meaning of your situation is one of the gifts of this period of time for you.

The New Moon that comes along in the following week, on Tuesday, the 17th, represents a fresh start and a time of growth in understanding. Especially the effect of others in your life is up for serious revision and review or perhaps you have done your work so well in these past few years that there are no great surprises there or need for adjustment.

With the First Quarter Moon of the 23rd, sometimes called the "crisis of consciousness" regarding what exactly you are attempting to accomplish here, there will be further challenges to your ultimate progress, and opportunities also. All through this month you are faced with the more or less unlimited possibility for your life to change, only held back by your own habitual mode of operating and you ability to remain flexible. Yoga is great for you at this time, for you body and for your mind also, since stretching is the key.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

The flight of your plane is beginning to straighten out while still ascending, Scorpio. You are continuing to embody an important time of transmutation as this monthly cycle unfolds. Having been through a difficult period these last few weeks, you deserve a break, and you're getting it, but that doesn't mean that you can abandon the insights that you've gained. As you enter into a phase of confident self-expression and outer-world success, you are finding increased commitment of service to the larger collective, based on your understanding of your own internal dynamics. What glitters for you is no longer the fool's gold of mere consensus thinking.

As the month begins, you may be feeling introspective and internal. You are reaching for a peak of success these days, but lately you find yourself drawn to a softer and more spiritually sensitive mode of operation, creating a certain tension. By the end of the first week of the month, you will be getting out there with greater verve and pizazz.

Your finances are essentially fortunate at this time, especially as relating to money made in partnership. Concepts of service to others drive you at this time, and encourage your reaching out to others around you. You are finding a degree of difficulty and also a great deal of comfort in your work, which provides stabilization the midst of the whirlwind that surrounds you, as unexpected shocks continue to rock your universe and how you show up in it. Your creativity is high right now, but it does not always blend easily with the demands of the world. Big-business attitudes may have to yield in favor of the unexpected compassionate solution, or else harden in the face of that countervailing tendency.

The New Moon of the 17th presents you with financial and other challenges and realignments of your most basic values. In the following week, further tension may arise with the First Quarter Moon of the 23rd, as you seek to balance your own unique path and self-interest with the demands of relationship with significant others in your life. The strain
of competition must sometimes give way to a higher synthesis.

Over the course of this month, you are moving closer to understanding the deeper meaning of why you took on these particular challenges, this time around, and how the entire arc of development that you have been engaged in recently serves you long-term. Although it comes with little fanfare in the still of the night, this is no small victory, and you do well to sit with it for a while, perhaps write something down for yourself in order that you remember these ideas later on, when similar circumstances arise. The universe is always beckoning you onward and yet still allows you to fully choose your time and place of meeting it halfway.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

Your cycle of change continues, Sagittarius, although more gracefully. Shifts of consciousness have been part and parcel of your transformation for these many weeks and this month is certainly no exception. You are reaching for a new self-concept and a higher-mind perspective to match, and entering into a period of time that is both thoughtful and productive of new insights as well as positive achievement. You may find yourself walking a delicate path between cynical despair and renewed faith in the universe to simply sustain you, and there may be some dicey moments, but in the end, faith will triumph. Why else are you here?

As the month begins, you are feeling the contrast between an open-minded attitude and a closed one. You are in an essentially fortunate circumstance at this time with a few surprises in your living situation or your family dynamics to contend with but otherwise cruising. You are very serious in your commitment to higher mind matters at this time, perhaps exploring teaching and learning opportunities or widening the horizons of new travel arrangements with an eye to further integration into your life's flow. And yet, a still small voice inside your head is leading you off into some very different directions, and the mainstream may no longer be enough to satisfy you.

Especially at the time of the Last Quarter Moon in the second week of the month there may be the rumblings of a divine discontent in the way that you visualize the world and your role within it. The good news is that this potentially conflicted period of time represents also a time of increasing awareness of where you may be stuck and how to begin to extricate yourself. It's surprising how much of your situation may be a function of attitude. The bard put it best with "nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

The New Moon in your sector of self-expression that comes along in the week following, on Tuesday, April 17th, may make for a fresh start that brings all these factors into sharper focus. An integrated perspective is your way forward into greater wholeness.

There will be further times of trials of course, perhaps as soon as the First Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place on Monday the 23rd. At this point you have the opportunity to consolidate your gains, and also to cut your losses if that is required, as you move on into your changes and begin to reflect on their deeper meaning for your life's journey. You are standing traditional modes of constructing your dwelling place on their head; looking to the clouds for the bedrock upon which to build your earthly temple.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

You are digging down this month to find important nuggets of self-worth, Capricorn. Internal exploration is taking up all your resources right now but the potential rewards are great. In this time of transformation you are stretched between public and private conceptions, and integration is the key. Like the iceberg, your outer world presence depends entirely on a much greater hidden mass that remains largely unseen in the eyes of the world. While getting in touch with these interior realms, you may encounter doubts as to the value of what you are doing and where you are going that can only yield to a more expansive sense of self that takes all your parts into account.

As the month begins, you are busily discovering the wounded places inside and broken off bits of your personality that you have abandoned along the way, parts of yourself that may have been lost for years. You feel as though disowned by the old familiar ways that have been so comfortable for so long that you can't remember back before they became ingrained as a habitual stance. Is this the making of a tragedy or the prelude to a greater emergence into a more heartfelt participation in the world around you?

Only time and you can tell. At the time of the Last Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place on Tuesday, April 10th, you may find that you need to make some further attitude adjustments. Your sense of what you value is shifting and may feel quite amorphous at this time, and the resources that you count on may no longer be available to you in the same way, but that shouldn't discourage you. The process of life is ongoing and only a moving stream is healthy, although while you are going over the rapids that thought can be hard to maintain. What you lose in commerce you may gain in wisdom, and after all, which will last you the longer?

The time of the New Moon that follows one week later is a time of new beginnings, when you might start to integrate new material into your act and when the messages of worlds beyond this one are very real to you. What is seeking to metamorphose within you is your attachment to the obvious; your failing to look more deeply into the heart of the matter, and that will begin to transform on it's own time.

The First Quarter Moon that follows in the last week of the month, on Monday, April 23rd, may provide contrasting solutions that face in opposite ways, although all directions point to the inside. There are several steps to take to resolve your dilemma, and not the least of these lies in the true synthesis of contrary positions, although this one may also be the most work.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

Paradise is only a motion away from you right now, Aquarius. There is a strong sense of abundance in your life, and a determination to take your best advantage with regard to future plans, but then there is also the shadow, something that keeps you away from fully experiencing and capitalizing on your inner Source. This is of course subtle and difficult to see in detail. Partnership is a very important mode of operation for you at this time, and it is partly through the agency of others in your life that you will begin to discern the dimly felt outlines of your own internal patterns. During the course of this monthly cycle a better understanding may begin to emerge.

As the month begins, you are finding that your process of communication with your peers is all-important if you are to come to better terms with yourself and with your hidden places that are perhaps crying out for the light of day.

The Full Moon that begins the month in your higher mind sector may have some of the answers or at least provide better questions. A closer knowledge of your inner dynamic is available to you now, and the accompanying shifts in perspective may border on the marvelous or even the miraculous, but there they are. A cosmic confusion suffuses your sense of self, but as psychologist Thomas Moore has remarked, "the nature of the soul is paradox." You are actively working at this time to heal the sense of separation from your own internal divine; the more so, the more you dare to dream.

A week later on, the Last Quarter Moon of April 10th has you looking toward the past as a way of healing the future. You are fully in the groove of necessary course adjustments at this time, with only a slight pain of coming down from the ideal to the workable solution. Partnership with others is very active for you now, and beneficial of good results long-term. You are re-inventing yourself yet again, which is one of your best tricks, so long as you operate in good faith with the emotional side of your equation as well as the logical, and keep it just as firmly in mind.

When the New Moon dawns in your communication sector on the 17th you are in some sense entering a new world of your own making, and one in which the style of your participation is forever altered.

As the end of the month approaches, you will begin to test the waters with these new ideas, and to take them out on the pond with others in your life as more or less willing participants.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

You are finding your way forward into wholeness, Pisces. Focusing on the practicalities of the day-to-day experience begins to dominate your thought process this month, supplanting in part the starry-eyed approach to business and career concerns that you have been engaged in lately. Idealism still has its charm for you, although perhaps feeling a bit battered and worn from the recent weeks of defending it from the ravages of the world. It is still what is going on inside of you that really counts. Take charge in that one area, the only one that you can actually control, and all the rest follows, naturally.

As the month begins, you are perhaps feeling the pressure of public responsibility more keenly than usual. There is a powerful contrast between inner and outer concerns that will stay very real for you throughout the month.

As your ruler Jupiter slows down and seems to stop in the sky, associated with your tenth sector of career and professional life, and also with your sixth sector of discipleship to your higher purpose, you might find yourself striving to keep everything afloat. This is essentially a fortunate period of time for you, but you have to work at it. Your public statement is actually taking on a new perspective, with your own unique contribution perhaps more recognized, at least within the energy field of your own consciousness. The creative tension between who you are and how you show up in this world of responsibility brings some degree of conflict and yet also blessings in the form of terrific creative output during April.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 10th, is a turning point for you, when these issues are emphasized, and when you will be finding out what portion of your dreams and schemes from the time of the eclipse in your sign last month will be viable for you long-term.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on the 17th, represents a fresh start, when your career path may once again alter. During this whole period you may feel like you are being tested in some way, as your compassion stretches to meet real-world limitations. You are striving to find the true gold of inner knowing amidst the dross of the world's commerce, and it can be a lonely road, but the reward at the end of your journey is well worth the trouble that it takes to get there.

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Overview of the Planets this month:                                Top

The Astrology of April features a Grand Trine in Fire signs early in the month, with the Sun, Saturn and Jupiter all participating. Saturn and Jupiter are both stationing this month, making them more prominent in their symbolic influence. Jupiter changes to retrograde motion early in April and Saturn goes to direct or forward motion just after the mid-month New Moon. Jupiter in harmonious relationship with Saturn may provide some sense of relief from the rigors of our transformational passage lately, with the outer planets, especially Saturn and Neptune, all conspiring to force us to face the changes that are constantly in the making. The Jupiter trine reminds us to remain optimistic in our outlook and to imagine the positive outcome, which as everybody knows can easily become a self-fulfilling prophesy. As Jupiter stations it squares the Uranus / Mercury midpoint almost exactly, while Jupiter in square with Uranus comes on in full force during the later stages of the month and on into May and June. The dynamic interchange between these two archetypal energies occurs every three to four years and always represents a peak for innovation. We really do have to be getting on with it – as even the conservatives among us are starting to realize, since time is of the essence for our spaceship Earth and for ourselves.

The element of Fire relates entirely to getting on with it, and most of the planets are in fact to be found in Fire signs the first two thirds of the month, bringing the factor of intuitional growth very much into our energy fields. We grow through all our experiences at this time, the more so the more we can bring our awareness to our process and begin to truly pay attention to what is going on within us and around us. Neptune and later Venus in Air may help us to tune in. The other two elements, of Water and Earth, are also significant this month although under-represented. Only Uranus and Mercury, later Mars, hold down the Water element, making the occasions when the Moon comes into its own element all the more precious during April. And only Venus in Taurus embodies the Earth element for the first ten days, making the relationships in our lives more important than ever in this first part of the month.

The huge outer planet configuration of Saturn opposed to Neptune has waned, although it will return in June, and Mercury is in direct motion and free of its shadow for the first time in six weeks or more, but there is still a lingering effect of all that recent introspection to be found in the current patterns, as Saturn opposes almost exactly the Chiron / Neptune midpoint for the entire month. Chiron, "the Wounded Healer" in combination with Neptune refers to the wound of separation from the divine. We somehow find that our spiritual center cannot hold, or that finding that center means abandoning an important part of our past, our family of origin or one component of our network of friendships, which is painful. opposed to Saturn this internal conflict becomes more poignant. There are the practical considerations, and then there are the demands of Spirit. How to choose? And having chosen, how to reconcile with all that has been left behind. Only through surrender, and faith in the ultimate beneficence of the universe, can we find total acceptance of our paradoxical situation, creatures of paradise and birds of prey all at the very same time, the contradiction and the glory of the human condition. As saints and spiritual leaders remind us, "The only thing that has to be healed is our sense of separation" from the divine. This month we may find ourselves put to that challenge and equally to that opportunity to rise above.

Current Configurations

The Full Moon that begins the month on Monday, April 2nd, is a powerful one, especially in terms of the outer planet configurations that it heralds. A stationing Jupiter trines Saturn, while Uranus begins to fully participate also and Mercury conjunct Uranus serve to remind us of what is going down. We are at the same time entirely stuck in our attempted evolution and truly breaking out of those stuck places, all at once. Following the eclipse of last month, this is our opportunity to assess the movement we have made with respect to our Spring Season resolutions and to share that progress with others around us.

The Last Quarter Moon of the following week, coming on Tuesday, April 10th, represents a time of tension in our process of growth, and is a powerful one as well, since it triggers the positions of a newly retrograde Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn is within a degree opposite the Chiron/Neptune midpoint for the entire month, and exact at this time, so we are faced with an essentially spiritual dilemma of how to connect the enormous energy of the numinous within us to our physical plane existence, something that is happening all the time on a more or less unconscious level but which our task now is to make more conscious, and to proceed on our journey from the standpoint of soul and not ego. Of course we are still in our bodies and will continue to behave accordingly, but our challenge is to attempt the mechanism of flight above and beyond this limitation anyway.

The New Moon of Tuesday, April 17th, brings some of these factors into greater relief since it almost exactly trines Pluto and the Galactic Center. The New Moon also aspects Chiron by quintile, bringing a higher vibration to this energy of pain and loss that is already in the mix with Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. The Saturn – Neptune opposition will return in June, and still lingers in the background at this time, referring symbolically to the disappointment of the ideal being brought down to the real, and yet also to the possibility of transcendence, where by grace we may rise above this apparently irreconcilable conflict to a higher synthesis that takes both viewpoints into account. We really are, as Sting put it, "the ghosts in the machine" as well as just the machine itself, grinding along.

The final lunation of the month is the First Quarter Moon of Monday, April 23rd. This traditionally represents a "crisis in action," when we must strive for the viability of what we have planted in the New Moon phase, and watch closely the tender shoot as it faces up to the world and struggles to attain maturity, and when there is likely to be a certain amount of tension in our process as a result. At this point the Sun has crossed into Taurus, and the Moon in Leo echoes the limitations and also potential for long-term growth represented by Saturn, now in direct motion there. Meanwhile a sesqui-yod from the Sun and Moon illuminates Jupiter, so the contrast between these two energies is also very present for us now. The Sun's ruler, Venus, now in Gemini, reminds us that we might just be able to think our way through, especially if we pay the most careful attention to everything that happens to us and seek always the third way, resolving polarities.


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