TRANSCRIPT Ep. 284 (3.31.25)
Venus Meets Mars in a Heartfelt Swoon!
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Hi there, Invisible Good friend, April right here, and the date at the moment is March thirty first, 2025. Welcome to Episode 284 of the Large Sky Astrology Podcast. This week, Mercury and Venus retrograde revisit the North Node in Pisces for a second take a look at previous concepts and relationship alternatives. Mars and Saturn join with Uranus for sparks of the surprising and of inspiration. The Most cancers First Quarter Moon is the right second to implement these Aries New Moon Eclipse plans. Search for fortunate breaks when the Solar sextiles Jupiter. The week ends on an expensive observe, as Venus and Mars meet in a romantic trine. And I reply a listener query about retrograde shadow and storm durations.
Venus conjunct the North Node (April 1, 2025, 1:39 am PDT)
Mercury conjunct the North Node (April 3, 2025, 11:53 pm PDT)
Venus, nonetheless retrograde, makes a conjunction with the Moon’s North Node on April 1st at 1:39 AM Pacific Time. Retrograde Mercury additionally makes a conjunction with the North Node on April third at 11:53 PM Pacific Time. Venus final visited the Moon’s North Node on February 1st, and it’ll attain it once more on April twenty third.
The North Node actually represents what it’s that we’re aspiring to in life. And when Venus is making a conjunction to the North Node, we’re impressed by love or by magnificence or by want to chase after an elusive aim – and typically, we discover that it’s not fairly as out of attain as we thought it was.
And Mercury comes alongside so as to add recent perception about methods to obtain these North Node wishes. And that’s presumably with the assistance of some data that’s linked to Mercury’s final conjunction with the North Node, which was on March 1st earlier than it turned retrograde. It’s going to revisit the Node once more on April tenth after its direct. However in the intervening time, let’s maintain our eyes and ears open to new connections, to individuals reappearing from the previous, and to seemingly random feedback or previous concepts that resurface to spark a want to maneuver in a brand new and promising path
Saturn sextile Uranus (April 4, 2025, 9:20 am PDT)
On April 4th at 9:20 am Pacific Time, Saturn sextiles Uranus at 24º55’ Pisces and Taurus. It is a actually attention-grabbing mixture of planets that symbolize very various things, however once they come collectively this week, you would possibly discover that the authority figures in your life represented by Saturn can shock you, and would possibly even open up an surprising alternative for brand new experiences – particularly when you’ve got planets in your chart close to 24º55’ of Pisces or Taurus. You would possibly discover that the world is all of a sudden able to embrace your individuality, that you’re lastly seen for who you’re feeling you actually are…by most everybody a minimum of, however presumably not your self. Saturn has this fashion of bringing out our deepest insecurities and our worry of failure. These are type of inner struggles that may actually weigh closely on us. However I like to see Saturn come along with Uranus as a result of Uranus transits provide an opportunity to interrupt free from our self-imposed limitations, and infrequently that’s what they’re: self-imposed.
Throughout this time, you would possibly be capable of start to think about residing a life with out this fixed shadow of doubt and worry. In case you’ve been doing the type of interior work that Saturn asks us to do, when Uranus comes alongside, it could possibly actually show you how to break by way of to the subsequent part of your life. You’ll understand that you just maintain the important thing to your personal jail door and that you’ve got the ability to maneuver ahead.
Saturn’s Sabian image on the sextile is 25 Pisces, The purging of the priesthood, and it appears to say one thing concerning the significance of rooting out no matter is just not true or genuine. Even when intentions begin off pure, corruption can ultimately creep in, and typically one of the simplest ways to maneuver ahead is to simply wipe the slate clear. It’s an invite to refresh your mindset and to rid your self of unfavourable ideas that may be holding you from rising.
Uranus’ Sabian image, then again, is 25 Taurus, A big, well-kept public park. It speaks to the ability of neighborhood and collective motion, and it reminds us that working collectively and sharing duty with others for collective initiatives can propel us towards better success, better success. These are energies which can be creating an ideal alternative to resume and refresh and to maneuver forward with a brand new sense of function.
Mars sextile Uranus (April 4, 2025, 4:05 pm PDT)
Additionally, on April 4th at 4:05 pm Pacific Time, Mars sextiles Uranus at 24º56’ Most cancers and Taurus. When Mars and Uranus come collectively, we are able to all the time count on a certain quantity of volatility. Mars is in Most cancers and that may be a actually emotionally charged water signal, and this sextile can actually fire up a whirlwind of feelings.
And with Mars and the Moon each in Most cancers throughout this transit, there’s emotional depth that’s heightened even additional. It’s a bit of bit like a tsunami, an awesome surge of feelings which can be crashing on the shore. This units the stage for the approaching Most cancers First Quarter Moon, which is actual only a few hours later when the Solar is in Aries and Mars is in Most cancers.
It is a time of motion, and it’s pushing us to make daring strikes. First Quarter Moons all the time have that nature of initiating change and taking decisive motion, however with a lot emotional volatility within the skies, stability is type of not on the scene.
The vitality right here is uncooked and unsettled, so it’s a perfect time to take motion, in a method, as a result of we don’t hesitate. We don’t work simply from our minds. We work from our instinct and our emotions. It is a transit that prompts a extremely deep intuition for self-preservation. In case your primary wants are met and you’re feeling fairly protected, that is a side that may awaken your aggressive spirit. Perhaps there’s an opportunity for a promotion at work and you’ll actually be pushed to show your value, whether or not it’s in technological developments, as we would count on with Uranus, or interpersonal expertise. We’ve got the power to adapt and present our strengths.
With a side like this, it’s actually essential to keep away from taking pointless dangers. Be aware when you’re out on the highway. Don’t get into highway rage incidents. Maintain your reactions in verify. When the world feels actually shaken up, it’s straightforward to journey over the particles that’s left behind.
Most cancers First Quarter Moon (April 4, 2025, 7:14 pm PDT)
And now it’s time for the Moon report. And we start as typical with the week’s main lunation. This week it’s the First Quarter Moon in Most cancers at 15º33’, on April 4 at 7:14 pm Pacific Time. The Solar, after all, remains to be in Aries and it’s very sturdy. It’s within the signal of its exaltation, and the Moon is in its rulership, being on this nurturing signal of Most cancers. Each of them are in fairly comfy positions, and this simply means neither certainly one of them actually needs to compromise an excessive amount of.
The distinction between these two cardinal indicators is that the Solar in Aries is type of fearless. It by no means met a brand new path that it didn’t need to observe. The Moon in Most cancers is enormously involved with security, so getting issues finished or making issues change at this First Quarter Moon implies that these two have to seek out an strategy that satisfies each.
That’s why the Quarter Moon phases are so dynamic and motivating: the Solar and Moon are in a sq. facet to one another. Every of them has its equally sturdy perspective that’s fairly totally different from the opposite’s. Mars can also be nonetheless in Most cancers, as we talked about a short while in the past, and it continues to create circumstances for emotional outbursts or for frustrations. That, mixed with this First Quarter Moon in Most cancers, may imply emotional meltdowns are fairly simply triggered throughout this time, so it’s essential to pay attention to how simply tempers can flare and folks can react impulsively to battle.
This lunation marks the First Quarter Moon following that Aries Photo voltaic Eclipse that occurred on March twenty ninth. First Quarter Moons are thought-about the second to take motion on no matter we had been formulating on the earlier New Moon. First Quarter Moons are propelled by that sq. between the Solar and the Moon, and so they push us to maneuver ahead with a function, whether or not or not we actually have a transparent image of what’s coming subsequent. We’re supposed to simply act on what seems like the perfect plan of action.
Now it is a notably good Quarter Moon for tackling essential issues round your own home as a result of the Moon is in Most cancers, and since we nonetheless have Mars in Most cancers. And given the considerably grumpy emotional local weather, it could be greatest to give attention to some initiatives that you are able to do by yourself, organizing your area, diving right into a artistic challenge, engaged on one thing private.
Lunar Part Household Cycle
That is the First Quarter in a lunar part household cycle that started on the New Moon on July fifth, 2024, at 14º23’ Most cancers. So the concepts that had been in improvement at that New Moon, which you would possibly be capable of keep in mind by discovering the place 14º Most cancers falls in your delivery chart – in what home? In facet to what natal planets? – as a result of now’s the time when ahead movement is feasible.
The Full Moon on this lunar part household cycle is on January third, 2026, at 13º01’ Most cancers. That is once we get a a lot better perspective on what we started at that July fifth New Moon in 2024, what it’s taken to get thus far and what we are able to fairly count on to must do to be able to get to the end line with these initiatives.
The Final Quarter Moon on this cycle comes on October third, 2026, at 10º21’ Most cancers. The Final Quarter is one other motion level within the lunar part cycle, however this one asks us to look again and with the good thing about hindsight, to know the place issues may need gone off the tracks a bit of bit, or how we might must readjust and to be able to full what we started at that New Moon on July fifth, 2024.
Void-of-Course Moon durations
Let’s take a look at the Void-of-Course Moon durations for this week. First is on April 1st when the Moon sextiles Mercury retrograde at 10:43 am Pacific time. It’s Void-of-Course for 2 hours and 43 minutes earlier than it enters Gemini at 1:26 pm.
Sextiles that start a Void-of-Course interval present a possibility or an invite, and this explicit Void-of-Course Moon interval presents a very nice alternative to attempt to learn to strategy essential conversations calmly and with compassion. With the Moon in Taurus, there may be this underlying emotional stability, and that makes this a time once we can keep fairly grounded. However Uranus remains to be fairly close by in that a part of Taurus, in order that stability would possibly really feel a bit of extra unpredictable than typical. Uranus has a manner of shaking issues up, however on this case, it could possibly be simply what’s wanted to spark some essential conversations. It brings authenticity to the desk and encourages actual and trustworthy communication.
Mercury, after all, remains to be in Pisces, and that lends a bit of extra of an empathetic contact to this case. It is a placement of Mercury that helps communication that will get to the guts of the matter in a reasonably light and understanding manner, and it makes it a bit of simpler to precise feelings with out creating pointless pressure.
So it is a very nice Void-of-Course Moon interval for significant conversations that prioritize compassion and connection. Won’t be too straightforward to seek out on April Idiot’s Day, we’ll see how this one goes!
On April third, the Moon in Gemini squares Mercury at 11:26 am Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 4 hours and 24 minutes earlier than it enters Most cancers at 3:50 pm. Void-of-Course Moon durations that start with the Moon squaring one other planet introduce battle or say there may be some type of blockage or barrier that you just’re attempting to beat. When the Moon in Gemini is sq. Mercury, its ruler, retrograde in Pisces, the issue is communication. It will probably really feel very scattered and disjointed. Ideas and feelings might not align as easily as we want – the Moon being extra about our emotional state, and Mercury being about the way in which we take into consideration these feelings, so we are able to get a bit of little bit of psychological chaos right here.
That is the right second to embrace the Void-of-Course Moon spirit by growing a behavior of pausing earlier than you react. Take a few deep breaths to middle your self and collect your ideas earlier than you share data. And once more, Mercury remains to be retrograde, so it’s much more crucial to take these few further seconds to evaluate and replicate on what you’re about to say. Simply having a bit of little bit of endurance and mindfulness can go a great distance in serving to us keep away from misunderstandings or miscommunications. Generally we simply must decelerate and provides ourselves area to replicate.
On April fifth, the Moon in Most cancers trines Mercury at 3:54 pm Pacific Time. It’s Void-of-Course for 5 hours, 40 minutes, after which enters Leeeeeooooo at 9:34 pm. The Moon trine one other planet because it goes Void-of-Course, says, here’s a second to get pleasure from a present or a reward.
Each the Moon and Mercury are in water indicators. It is a Void-of-Course interval when our reward comes within the type of perhaps with the ability to simply spend a bit of quiet time to ourselves or with those that we love essentially the most, having some type of enjoyable and candy experiences with them, having heartfelt conversations that aren’t too confrontational.
We’ve got to be a bit of cautious right here as a result of the Moon is type of near Mars at this trine, and that may make issues a bit of extra combative or conflict-prone. However the reward right here is to share our emotions, bond over shared experiences. This truly is usually a good time for exploring a critical romantic connection.
Solar sextile Jupiter (April 6, 2025, 2:44 am PDT)
The Solar in Aries makes a sextile facet to Jupiter in Gemini on April sixth at 2:44 am Pacific time at 16º50’ Aries and Gemini. What a good time that is to place ourselves on the market, to discover our creativity and to get a bit of well-deserved consideration.
When the Solar connects with Jupiter, we are able to see alternatives type of pop up out of nowhere and provides us thrilling possibilities to shine, to be seen. It may simply be a burst of inspiration or stroke of luck. It is a nice second to take dangers and go after what we would like. There’s no assure that this stuff will work out precisely as we hope, however normally it’s a time that enhances our confidence, makes us really feel a bit of extra common and extra like seizing the second with enthusiasm.
We do must be a bit of cautious with Jupiter, as a result of an excessive amount of of factor, which Jupiter can definitely characterize, can result in a bit of little bit of an abrupt fall. Consider the hangover that comes after an evening of partying or the crash after a sugar excessive. We will additionally threat changing into a bit of too stuffed with ourselves when the Solar particularly comes along with Jupiter. So, we do want to remain grounded even whereas we’re having fun with the limelight. And I believe perhaps on this case, Mars, which is the ruler of the Solar in Aries, being in Most cancers is usually a little little bit of a grounding affect. Simply don’t let the thrill carry you away. And keep in mind to stability your exuberance with a bit of dose of humility.
Venus trine Mars (April 6, 2025, 5:13 am PDT)
And on April sixth at 5:13 AM Pacific Time, Venus retrograde trines Mars at 25º29’ Pisces and Most cancers. That is type of the right day to bask in a scrumptious Sunday brunch at residence, savoring good meals and even higher firm, connecting with our family members, having fun with the easy pleasures and nurturing the significant relationships that all the time make us really feel heat inside.
Venus is in Pisces, the signal of unconditional love. Mars is in Most cancers, particularly about the way in which we love our household and people who are nearest to us. However that is additionally a really romantic mixture, Venus with Mars, and in these water indicators, it speaks of that soulful connection that we might have made with somebody.
And Venus may also be about cash, and the way it’s motivating you to work more durable – Mars – or pursue new alternatives. It could possibly be a want to chase after what you get pleasure from, go after the issues that you really want, pursue the objects of your affection. That is a side that not solely offers us the will for one thing, however the motivation to pursue it.
Listener Query: Retrograde Storms and Shadows
On this week’s listener query, listener Elliott asks, through SpeakPipe, “Hey, April and Large Sky followers. It’s listener Elliott with a Mercury retrograde query. So, I used to be born with Mercury direct, Gemini Solar, Virgo Moon. Glorious for me. Large fan of Mercury. Mercury’s retrogrades do have a tendency to look to have an effect on me greater than you realize, the typical bear.
However the query is, I really feel just like the storm durations, when Mercury actually slows down earlier than and even type of after the stations, are a lot worse than when Mercury is definitely tik-tocking alongside in its regular retrograde movement. The retrogrades have their very own vitality, positive. However I really feel like for me, I’ve seen that the storm durations and the station durations are extremely sturdy.
Is {that a} factor? Do you agree, April? What does all people suppose? Okay, thanks.”
Nice query, listener Elliott, particularly as we’re nonetheless within the throes of Mercury and Venus retrograde. For these of you who will not be aware of the idea of a retrograde planet’s storm interval, it refers to that point a couple of days earlier than it stations retrograde, after which once more within the days simply earlier than the planet is making ready to station to go direct. Storm durations can really feel actually chaotic and actually tense, however there additionally a sign to decelerate and rethink and replicate.
You’ll have additionally heard concerning the retrograde shadow durations, which occurred earlier than and after the precise retrograde. The shadow begins when the planet first crosses the diploma that it’ll later retrograde again to, and it ends when it passes the diploma the place Mercury turned retrograde. This era can carry comparable themes and energies because the precise retrograde and each the shadow durations and I believe the storm durations, provide a sign, a time to arrange, to replicate on what’s occurring with the retrograde planet.
So simply to provide a counterpoint to Elliot’s instance, I’ve acquired the Moon in Gemini sq. Mars, Pluto, and the Midheaven in Virgo. I by no means understand how Mercury’s retrograde occasions are going to have an effect on me, however on the very day that I’m recording this episode, about precisely midway by way of Mercury’s newest retrograde, the retrograde feeling is admittedly coming down on me just like the proverbial ton of bricks. However usually, I’m inclined to second your commentary, Elliott. The retrograde appear particularly sturdy within the days main as much as the precise station. I’m on report as having talked about many occasions when slower-moving planets are making ready to alter path, that that’s once we have a tendency to note them essentially the most.
And I suppose it could possibly be stated of all planets that their retrograde vibe could be felt a bit upfront of adjusting path. I’d suppose that may be very true for individuals like Elliott who’ve the planet, on this case, Mercury, distinguished of their charts or in indicators which can be dominated by that planet.
So, if Mars goes retrograde, it will presumably be an particularly sturdy affect for individuals with Mars very close to the angles of the chart, say, or in shut facet of the Solar or the Moon or the ascendant. And even with distinguished planets or factors within the Mars-ruled indicators of Aries or Scorpio.
So, listener Elliott, what I’ll say is, though I can’t declare that I’ve made a detailed private research of this, what you intend makes plenty of sense to me, and perhaps a few of us are a bit of extra delicate to sure planets going retrograde than we’re to others. I haven’t give you a tough and quick principle about it but. I do know a few of them actually appear intense and it will make sense that, particularly in these days, simply earlier than the planet goes to alter path, that we’d really feel it actually strongly.
Elliott, I hope that solutions the query, and thanks a lot for writing in. Better of luck with every little thing throughout this Mercury retrograde interval.
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