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Key April Phenomena: Mercury turns Retrograde on 4/1/24! The Total Solar Eclipse occurs on 4/8/24. It’s the last such eclipse visible in the continental US for another 20 years (8/23/44). Jupiter and Uranus conjunct in Taurus on 4/20/24 (a once every 13 yr. event). Mars enters its home sign on the last day of April! Fasten your seat belts, we’re being shaken and stirred.
Quote of Note: “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.” – Seneca
**A note about aspects. The following list gives you the day the aspect is mathematically exact, but effects are often felt a day before or a day after. With very strong aspects, such as Stations or Eclipses, we may see events several days before exactitude and later when other planets re-trigger those marker degrees. Aspects affect you personally the most if they connect closely to planets or points in your chart. Contact your astrologer for personal interpretations.
1. 4/1/24 – April Fool’s Day! – Mercury in cardinal, fire 27 Aries Station Retrograde @ 6:14PM EDT. Quite an April Fool’s joke. Mercury is feisty in Aries and this degree is exactly square the USA Pluto, 27 Capricorn. There’s likely to be a strong message concerning the structure or foundation of the country, its financial system or the application of the rules we live by. Personally, locate where these retrograde takes place in your chart. That’s where you need to review and reconsider your thinking, your options and your new plans. Resist starting something that is brand new, rather, dig deeper and spend your time preparing for launch once the retrograde is over or, finish existing projects. Mercury turns Direct again on 4/25/24 @ 16 Aries. Those eleven degrees between 16 and 27 are retraced three times. Mercury entered the so-called “shadow” of the cycle on 3/19/24, when it first reached 16 degrees.
-- Fourth Quarter Moon 12 Capricorn at 11:15PM EDT. – At this Last Quarter Moon we are asked to organize, complete or finalize what we began at the New Moon 20 Pisces on 3/10/24. The test is for integrity. If you were beguiled and realized a pursuit has fizzled out or evaporated, this Fourth Quarter Moon asks you to get back to basics and secure your foundation.
2. 4/3/24 – Venus in mutable, water Pisces conjunct Neptune/Pisces @ 27deg. – Once a year, these two planets end their cycle of engagement and begin another one. What impressions, dreams and imagination have you absorbed this past year? What new dreams are you pursuing? This aspect can part the veils of intricate imagination, illumination and/or spiritual enlightenment. There’s a sweet surrender and compassionate understanding. You have the opportunity for a mystical blending with your beloved. The other side of this combination could be secrets revealed or feeling that your sensitivities aren’t reciprocated or you may feel betrayed. Idealism is high and we may not reach their full flowing but pursuing the ideal is always worthwhile.
3. 4/5/24 – Venus enters cardinal, fire Aries (until 4/29/24). – An Aries cluster of planets is forming. The Sun, Mercury Retro and now Venus are together in Aries and passion is
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