Geese in a Row

I blundered off to open an account at a brand new financial institution and located that issues had modified fairly a bit since I final did this. All of it appears affordable in hindsight, nevertheless it hadn’t occurred to me that I’d should schedule an appointment, unfreeze my credit score report, and supply varied types of ID. Evidently, I quickly discovered I’d should do some homework and are available again one other day.

These are the type of hijinks that accompany Mercury retrograde in Aries (April 1, 2024, 3:14 pm PDT, by way of April 25). I had merely leapt impulsively into the automobile with nothing greater than a few checks to deposit and plenty of assumptions. After I received my geese in a row and confirmed up for my appointment the following day, all went easily and pleasantly.

Astrological lore holds that something we do when Mercury is retrograde, we’ll should do (no less than) a second time. My trainer, in truth, used to say that you must attempt to do belongings you get pleasure from when Mercury is retrograde, since you’ll should do them repeatedly.

However that’s quite a bit much less seemingly, I believe, if you happen to do your homework the primary time round.

The Regretful Part

There’s essential enterprise to resolve at this Capricorn Final Quarter Moon (April 1, 2024, 8:15 pm PDT, at 12°52′ Capricorn). It’s enterprise that has its origins within the March 10 Pisces New Moon, and it immediately impacts the Capricorn and Aries parts of your chart.

The Final Quarter Moon is the section within the lunar cycle for taking inventory. You might have another probability to take motion towards your New Moon targets, this time with extra information and expertise than on the First Quarter section, the opposite motion level within the cycle.

The Final Quarter could be a regretful section; we should be haunted, held again by, or recovering from what was initiated in the beginning of this Lunar Part Gestation cycle – the Capricorn New Moon of Jan. 2, 2022. Nonetheless, you made a promise to your self then to achieve a cherished purpose, and eventually, you’ve received the vitality of the Solar in Aries– and the tenacity and ambition of the Capricorn Moon – to push you over the end line. Don’t quit now!

Too Good to be True

What do you really need? When Venus makes a conjunction with Neptune (April 3, 2024, 6:10 am PDT), you’re in all probability not completely positive. You might have idealistic visions of what is likely to be good, however you don’t know for sure.

In a relationship, Venus mixed with Neptune can deliver something from bliss to catastrophe. Is that individual as miraculous as they appear? Or will you discover, beneath a harsher Venus/Neptune facet, that you’ve got been deceived?

Most likely, it’s one thing in between. No mere human is ideal, regardless of how ardently Neptune tries to persuade us in any other case. However affordable flaws needn’t condemn them to the garbage bin, both.

The conjunction of Venus and Neptune merely says you possibly can’t inform precisely what’s true, not but. Similar goes for cash, additionally dominated by Venus; take care earlier than charging into investments or making essential purchases. If one thing appears too good to be true, you possibly can wager that it’s.

Preamble to the Photo voltaic Eclipse

On this week between eclipses, the Solar conjoins the North Node (April 4, 2024, 3:10 pm PDT). Consider this as a preamble to the April 8 Photo voltaic Eclipse. Eclipses solely happen at New or Full Moons near the Lunar Nodes; they characterize a shake-up that strikes us from the familiarity of the South Node into the wealthy, untapped wellspring of the North Node. The Solar on the North Node shines brightly on a promising path.

At this conjunction, evaluation final week’s Libra Lunar Eclipse, the higher to arrange for the upcoming Aries Photo voltaic Eclipse (April 8). These eclipses ask for examination of the steadiness between self-determination and cooperation that these two indicators demand. How do you say goodbye with grace and kindness? And what’s the brand new frontier that lies earlier than you?

It’s the Getting

Venus enters Aries this week (April 4, 2024, 9:00 pm PDT, by way of April 29). One in every of astrology’s few main female symbols, Venus is ill-at-ease, we’re advised, within the very masculine signal of Aries. However possibly ease is just not all it’s cracked as much as be. Venus in Aries symbolizes the type of robust, pioneering, warrior-spirited girls whose ardour makes a distinction.

Venus is in her detriment within the feisty, warrior signal of Aries. However that doesn’t imply she’s weak right here – removed from it. Like all planets within the signal of their detriment or fall, her efforts to specific herself in an incompatible signal normally make her extra distinguished in a single’s character, not much less.

Born with Venus in Aries, actress Elizabeth Taylor, greatest identified for her many marriages, is almost as effectively remembered as a ferociously loyal defender of shut associates like Montgomery Clift and Michael Jackson, and because the face of White Diamonds fragrance (diamonds are dominated by Mars and the birthstone of April, Aries’ month). Venus in Aries loves passionately, nevertheless it savors the chase most of all. As Taylor as soon as mentioned, “It’s not the having, it’s the getting.” Spoken like a girl who married eight occasions!

She additionally confirmed Aries grit by overcoming adversity repeatedly – well being issues, failed marriages, ups-and-downs on the field workplace. When requested how she saved going, she mentioned, “You simply do it. You drive your self to stand up. You drive your self to place one foot earlier than the opposite, and rattling it, you refuse to let it get to you. You combat. You cry. You curse. You then go concerning the enterprise of dwelling. That’s how I’ve achieved it. There’s no different method.” I couldn’t have mentioned it higher.

The New, Daring Factor

As Venus in Aries sextiles Pluto in Aquarius (April 6, 2024, 10:45 am PDT), it’s on the Sabian image 2 Aries, A comic entertaining a bunch. Few types of present enterprise appear scarier than stand-up comedy, and I can solely think about the fun when it pays off and the viewers rewards you with amusing.

Over the course of my very own profession, I’ve discovered that I’m happiest once I’m a bit of bit scared. The problem of reaching for the brand new factor, the daring factor, no matter I haven’t achieved earlier than, makes me really feel absolutely awake. Not realizing precisely what you’re doing or the way it will end up forces you to attract on each reserve of innovation and braveness.

Venus in Aries loves that thrill. And Venus in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius is precisely like plugging into an influence station. While you’re awake and alive, doing what you actually love, the forces of energy within the universe reply that decision with validation. It’s a high quality you possibly can’t pretend, and that’s precisely what Pluto is looking out for – the true, unadulterated you.

Writing and pictures © 2017-24 by April Elliott Kent

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