The System
Venus in a conjunction with Saturn (April 7, 2025, 4:01 am PDT, 25º15’ Pisces) generally believes there’s a formulation to like that, if adopted precisely, will yield the specified outcomes -and that formulation is, “Work onerous, sacrifice, and grit your enamel via the onerous bits.” Typically, this method is like forcing a foot into an uncomfortable new shoe; sure, you may be capable of stretch out the shoe, however you may also find yourself with bunions.
Subsequent month, I’ll have a good time 32 years of marriage to the identical particular person. Nobody makes it via greater than three a long time of marriage with out appreciating Saturn’s best qualities – dedication, perseverance, willingness to do the work. However Saturn alone doesn’t make for a satisfying relationship. I believe most of us have recognized somebody who pushes themselves right into a tight-fitting shoe for years, enduring relationship like jail, till in the future one thing snaps; after which the shoe goes flying off, and the connection breaks, scary and onerous, like a femur.
Venus and Saturn are in Pisces at this conjunction, reminding us that at its greatest, a long-term relationship advantages from tolerance, kindness, and the dedication to see the easiest in one another. Joyful companions share a secret language, inside jokes, and hopefully in any respect, a enjoyment of each other. However as this conjunction’s Sabian image 26 Pisces, A brand new moon that divides its influences suggests, now we have particular person work to do as effectively, and a superb accomplice helps and encourages that work. On this context, engaged on a relationship may look much less like barbells, and extra just like the mild yielding to a different’s form and tempo.
Suspension suspiciousness
Mercury stations direct (April 7, 2025, 4:08 am PDT) simply in time: our outdated automobile is making a suspicious clunking, whooshing sound in its suspension. (Venus continues to be retrograde via Saturday, and we assume it’ll price a small fortune for our mechanic to eradicate the suspension suspiciousness; nothing ever appears to be low cost when Venus is concerned.)
I’m no slave to Mercury’s retrograde durations, but when I can maintain from doing one thing to a automobile or a pc or a chunk of software program throughout these instances, I do. However it stops there. I’m not extending my warning out to retrograde storms or shadows; if I did, there could be treasured little time all 12 months for caring for enterprise.
However that is the type of factor I’ve lengthy noticed about Mercury: he’s a trickster, and he delights in pushing us right into a nook in order that now we have little selection however to take care of the very issues we’d desire to keep away from throughout his retrograde durations.
A few of your individual “transfer forward” actions could have been postpone since March 14, when Mercury turned retrograde. They might, in truth, have had their origins in that point interval. For those who’d wish to play it additional secure, wait till April 26, when Mercury reaches 9º35′ Aries, the diploma the place it turned retrograde, prior to installing that new software program. But when the stakes aren’t too excessive, go forward and make the leap this week.
Tasks and Serenades
Retrograde Venus varieties a sextile side to Uranus this week (April 7, 2025, 9:48 pm PDT) at 25º05’ Pisces and Taurus. In addition to the completely different natures of the planets concerned, the Sabian symbols for this sextile give considerably combined messages. Venus is on 26 Pisces, Watching the skinny moon crescent showing at sundown, completely different folks understand that the time has come to go forward with their completely different initiatives, and Uranus in on 26 Taurus, A Spaniard serenading his senorita. Are we to go in separate instructions, or woo the thing of our passions?
That is the second of three Venus-Uranus sextiles (the primary on Jan. 26, the final on April 20) that taken collectively, inform a narrative about how relationships, dominated by Venus, flourish when every accomplice has their very own pursuits and independence, qualities prized by Uranus. Discovering a wholesome stability between romantic aspirations and the necessity for freedom is commonly troublesome, however the sextile, fashioned between planets in indicators of complementary components and modalities, presents a powerful probability of success.
Imbalance
Full Moons generally, and Libra particularly, are intently related with one-on-one relationships. What we’ll take into account at this week’s Libra Full Moon (April 12, 5:22 pm PDT, 23º20’ Libra) is whether or not {our relationships} are truthful, harmonious, and in stability. Does what we’re placing in to a relationship really feel equitable to what we’re getting again?
Apparently, the Moon’s Sabian image depicts imbalance – 24 Libra: A 3rd wing on the left aspect of a butterfly. Typically the important thing to sustaining stability in relationship is to be prepared to say our personal, distinctive, imperfect self. Solely our true selves entice the type of companions that create stability.
The Solar, Moon and Mars type a high-action T-square configuration at this Full Moon, by which two planets oppose one another and each sq. a 3rd. It’s a configuration that introduces ardour, but additionally brings potential for battle in shut relationships. If issues get a bit of too contentious, the important thing to regaining stability is Capricorn, the one cardinal signal not concerned within the T-square. The Sabian image for twenty-four Capricorn is A girl getting into a convent. So when the going will get robust, retreat to a quiet place for contemplation, and have interaction in Capricorn work reminiscent of drafting methods and future plans.
The Automobile, the Lawyer, and the Tattoo
Having been retrograde since March 1, this week Venus lastly stations direct (April 12, 2025, 6:02 pm PDT, 24º37’ Pisces). For those who’ve been holding your self again from initiating main purchases, large relationship selections, and everlasting beauty procedures, your astrologer is about to open the gates and set you and your bank card free.
However maybe you possibly can see the worth of getting waited? The monetary panorama has been extraordinarily unstable right here within the U.S., no less than, within the time Venus has been retrograde. That may influence the economics of every thing from shopping for a automobile, to hiring a divorce lawyer, to getting a celebratory tattoo. And that’s saying nothing of the emotional problems.
Truthfully, I’d wait one other couple of weeks earlier than giving Venus free rein. The strain will start to elevate, however surprises should be ready within the wings. Maintain off just a bit bit longer, and also you’ll be much less prone to encounter residual Venus retrograde issues.
Writing and pictures © 2017-25 by April Elliott Kent
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