Choose a Course and Ground It!
A buddy delights in telling the story of a automotive journey with a Libra driver. At one level they reached an intersection with an indication marking a number of instructions to select from, and the driving force froze with indecision and barely averted operating straight into the signal!
Properly, Mercury in Aries (April 15, 2025, 11:25 pm PDT by Might 10) is actually the alternative of Libra. Libra rigorously weighs its choices and involves a cautious resolution. However when confronted with a fork within the highway, Mercury in Aries decides in a flash which strategy to go and places the pedal to the metallic. Is it the proper path? Who cares? Who can know, in only a second? However you possibly can all the time change path later. For now, simply choose a path, and flooring it!
Extra issues in Heaven and Earth
Mercury conjoins with Neptune this week (April 16, 2025, 9:11 pm PDT, 0º38’ Aries), initiating a brand new chapter of their ongoing (if very completely different) quests for readability.
Mercury tends to really feel that reality is discovered within the thoughts, in what will be noticed with the senses and analyzed with logic. Neptune is aware of that it’s not as straightforward as that, that a lot of what’s true and valuable can solely be skilled with the guts and soul. As Hamlet mentioned, “There are extra issues in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
At this conjunction, Horatio offers himself over fully to Neptune’s realm of instinct and the invisible. Mercury in Aries prefers to maneuver quick, however for a few days, let your thoughts wander a bit. Tune in to the static between frequencies. Let your thoughts soar the tracks of earthly logic and swim within the waters of creativeness.
Lead with Attraction
Mars has been in Most cancers since January 6, and I don’t assume the planet of open warfare has particularly pleased there. Mars is designed for exhibits of pressure and shows of overt sexual attraction, however in an indication as mild as Most cancers, it’s apt to smile sweetly and ignore that seagull swooping in its path, no less than till it will get shut sufficient to present it a pinch.
However, Mars in Leo (April 17, 2025, 9:21 pm PDT – June 17, 2025) has no drawback by any means with making an enormous noise and displaying others who’s boss. It leads with appeal and charisma, and often these weapons are sufficient to get Mars in Leo what it desires, or to maintain him secure. If these weapons don’t disarm its opponent, Leo lets free with a terrifying roar, which is sort of all the time efficient. However Mars in Leo additionally has enamel and claws, simply in case you didn’t get the purpose the primary two occasions round.
Whereas Mars is in Leo, consider threat and want rigorously. At all times lead with appeal, and keep away from deploying the sharpest weapons so long as attainable.
Cleansed or Baptized?
The Solar enters Taurus (April 19, 2025, 12:56 pm PDT, 12:56 pm PDT) on the Sabian image 1 Taurus, A transparent mountain stream. Taurus season represents a recent, cleaning transition from the hectic tempo of Aries month; it’s nearly like a baptism.
Once I was small, we used to journey over the river on Sundays to a park in southern Illinois, the place we’d have a picnic in the identical bucolic setting. Almost each time, there have been baptisms happening within the small stream operating by the park. I bear in mind desirous to wade within the stream on one among as of late, and asking my Taurus mom, “If I do, will I get baptized?” “No, you must ask for that,” was her wise reply.
Once we stroll into Taurus’ stream, will we get cleaned up or baptized? It’s a fairly down-to-earth signal, however this yr’s Taurus season opens on the identical day Mars in Leo makes a trine facet to Neptune in Aries (3:52 pm PDT), and our hearts (and presumably the remainder of us) rush within the path of all issues religious.
Will we get cleaned up or baptized? I suppose the reply is… each? We will do our spring home cleansing, however there’s the possibility for just a little religious sprucing up as nicely. All we’ve to do is ask for it.
For Love or Cash
Venus sextiles Uranus (April 20, 2025, 11:20 am PDT), the final of three such facets and the conclusion of a narrative that started on January 26th and was repeated on April 7. This closing facet is the conclusion of a narrative about how, in any sort of relationship, it’s necessary to take care of our private freedom, our personal associates, our personal pursuits, and our personal cash (Venus additionally guidelines funds). Venus connecting with Uranus could herald sudden windfalls or sideswiping expenditures, comparable to an enormous tax invoice. And it might ask us to reevaluate our most necessary relationships as nicely, particularly whether or not they make us really feel extra free, or much less.
Uranus likes to stir the pot, and when it stirs the pot of relationships and cash, we actually have to judge how necessary sure issues and persons are to us. Is the effort and time we’re placing into incomes cash, or being in a relationship, finally an excellent worth?
The Decided Sleuths
As alert readers will recall from final week’s column, our venerable Mazda had began making a sound that was a sort of loud CLUNK mixed with a SWOOSH, which on-line sleuthing had advised was an issue within the suspension. When Jonny’s concentrated efforts and substitute of assorted components failed, he volleyed the issue to Mark, our mechanic of a few years, for extra perception. Mark poked and prodded ceaselessly for a few days – and, he confessed, within the wee hours of the night time, as he turned over the issue in his thoughts – with out success.
In the end, he introduced Jonny to the storage so the 2 of them may mix diagnostic forces. And ultimately, they cracked the code. As a result of, you see, neither of those males will admit defeat. A puzzle unsolved will value them sleep and peace of thoughts; giving up merely isn’t an choice.
And so it’s when Mercury, planet of the mind, sextiles Pluto, planet of obsession (April 20, 2025, 2:39 pm PDT, 3º46’ Aries and Aquarius). Mercury in Aries has good instincts, particularly about mechanical issues, but it surely’s usually impatient and doesn’t essentially keep on with issues. Put it along with Pluto in tech-savvy Aquarius, although, and between the 2 of them, they’ll skip lunch and dinner so long as it takes to finally work out that there’s a damaged baffle within the gasoline tank.
Maintain Transferring
The Solar squares Mars this week (April 20, 2025, 6:34 pm Pacific Time at 1º12’ Taurus and Leo), and just a little Mars motivation isn’t the worst factor on the earth for the Solar in Taurus. It’s energizing; and if Taurus has a flaw, which I’m not ready to concede, it’s that it could actually get just a little caught in a rut. So, just a little Mars might be a fairly good factor for Taurus each on occasion.
In fact, it is a risky mixture of planets, too. It may be tough, underneath a Solar-Mars sq., not take issues personally, or to disregard somebody who’s being smug or egotistical – traits which are Mars in Leo’s shadow aspect, and that the Solar in Taurus actually, actually dislikes.
Mars in Leo, being a fireplace signal, has just a little little bit of a brief fuse, whereas the Solar in Taurus may be very sluggish to anger. However each of them are fastened indicators, and as soon as they get mad, they’re unlikely to again down. They usually can actually maintain a grudge. That is very true with Mars approaching an opposition to Pluto on the similar time.
The important thing to navigating this transit is to maintain shifting. Bodily exercise is what retains Mars on a good keel, and it’ll assist preserve the main focus off what different persons are doing, and on what we have to do as an alternative.
Reconnecting
On the Aquarius Final Quarter Moon (April 20, 2025, 6:36 pm PDT), we is likely to be craving a way of belonging, and eager for social connections that really feel vital and impactful. The Aries overload of current weeks – the Solar in Aries, Neptune shifting into Aries, a Photo voltaic Eclipse in Aries – has emphasised an individualist strategy to issues, and maybe you’re starting to really feel just a little lonely out on the prairie alone.
This Easter Sunday guarantees to be probably the most high-energy day of a tumultuous week, and just a little bit contentious, too. However this Final Quarter Moon in sociable Aquarius encourages us to get out and reconnect with others. It completes a cycle that started with a Photo voltaic Eclipse, which says huge change is afoot, and we felt referred to as to take care of these adjustments alone. However now, we start to marvel how we’d work with others to satisfy a promise we made to ourselves on the Aries New Moon?
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