Mercury & Venus Station Direct: April 7 and April 12 --Phew!

 

April 7 & April 12.   Mercury & Venus.  

In a few days Mercury will turn direct having been retrograde since March 14.    Mercury is traversing Aries and Pisces which is driving our brains to think about going our own way, being a pioneer fighting the good fight (Aries) then to observing things that are tender, which make us go ‘ahh’ and also noticing stories that are unfair or sad reminding our brains that only by “the grace of god goes I” (Pisces).  

 

Mercury stations direct on April 7 and we will no doubt feel relief from any confusion and miscommunication which are the usual hurdles that come with retrograde.    While Mercury has been in Pisces our intuition could be strong and now with it direct, we have clarity around any intuitive hits.   Mercury will leave Pisces on April 15 and re-enter Aries and the brain will be back to considering how to be more independent and where to be ready for a battle or where and how to bring force.  Our intent will get juiced up.   On April 26, Mercury will leave the shadow ending the shadow that began at the end of   February.      

 

In addition to Mercury, it has also been a couple of topsy turvy months since Venus went into its shadow on January 28.   The energy spiked on Feb 3 when Venus entered Aries, and it got all the way to 10 degrees of Aries.   Then on March 1, it turned retrograde.   Since that time Venus has been churning up the energy in Aries and Pisces which it re-entered on March 27.   When in Aries, Venus understands the power of anger and finds value in force, independence, bringing energy and going to battle.   In Pisces Venus finds her tender.  Venus notes the soft and the gentle.   People doing something kind has meaning in the Venus in Pisces heart.   There is also a connection to sadness and ennui of friends, family and the world.  Venus finds the humans in humanitarian stories.   In my own case, just as Venus was heading to conjunct the North Node earlier this week, I had a conversation with friends who are seeking social security and what has happened to them in the landscape of the current administration has been breathtaking.   For people who were born between 1955 and 1963 many have been waiting to retire in the year 2025 for a long time and now are being told they will have to continue to wait because there is no one to process their forms.    My friends who retired last year filed and one month later they got their first check.   Now these friends who delayed retirement are being told they should expect a 4 month wait and of course they wonder if the money will even be there and for how long.    Venus is values.  Values include art, beauty, love, heart stuff and money.   Today’s USA tariff trade war launch looks troublesome .  More to be revealed on that front, for sure.    

 

On April 12, Venus stations direct and we will begin to process our values and what we have learned since January 28.  Some of our learning may include themes we have experienced in the spring of 2017, 2009, 2001, 1993, 1985 and 1977.   Are you revisiting anything?   After April 30, things may get heated, and we act on stuff when Venus returns to warrior Aries.  She will revisit the stuff we all may have wanted to act upon but were not ready to do before the retrograde.   Now the energy could such, especially on matters we feel in our hearts that it is time to ‘do something’.    On May 15, Venus clears her shadow and then we finally get a fresh Venus in new territory. 

 

Between now and the time Mercury and Venus exit their shadow, there will be several aspects with inner and outer planets.  Feelings could be strong.  Give yourself permission to feel whatever you feel.   You may want to note any period in this cycle that feels rough or extra good and see if it aligns with these aspects: 

  

  

4/1                 Venus conjunct North node (27 Pisces 21)

4/ 3                Mercury conjunct north node (27 Pisces 17)

4/ 7                Venus conjunct Saturn (25 Pisces 15)

4/7                 Mercury station direct (26 Pisces 49) 

4/10               Mercury conjunct North Node (27 Pisces 23)

4/12               Venus station direct (24 Pisces )

4/15  Mercury re-enters Aries (third time at zero Aries)  

 

4/16               Mercury conjunct Neptune (00 Aries 38)

4/20               Mercury sextile Pluto (3 AQ)

4/23               Venus conjunct North Node (26 Pisces 54)

 

4/24               Venus conjunct Saturn (27 Pisces 13)

4/26               Mercury exits shadow 

4/30               Venus re-enters Aries (third time at zero aries)

5/ 2                Venus conjunct Neptune (1 Aries 08)

5/ 6                Venus sextile Pluto (3 AQ) 

5/15               Venus exits shadow

Once Mercury and Venus clear their shadows we will all say, “sigh”. 

Round 1: Saturn Sextile Uranus April 4

 

Image: Today Show

Saturn & Uranus:  The Perk 

 4/4    Saturn sextile Uranus (24 Taurus 55) 

8/11   Saturn sextile Uranus (1Gemini 12

1/20   Saturn sextile Uranus (27 Taurus 33) 

 

 

While we have all the strum and drang of the outer planets and zero Aries, we also have a perk.   Slow moving Saturn and Uranus have been heading to a sextile for a while and finally their first contact occurs on April 4.   If anyone has a planet at 24/25 degrees of Taurus or Pisces this is a nice opportunity for changes that bring fresh new support.   Saturn is always looking for practicality and sustainability.    It invests in anything long term.   Uranus likes new, it is innovation.  When these two planets come together in a harmonious aspect, we can expect a period of respect between that which is old and that which is modern.   They are finding common ground.     There will be three exact hits with the first and the third sextiles in Pisces and Taurus and the second one in the summer will be in the signs Aries and Gemini.   The Saturn Pisces Uranus Taurus sexiles brings practicality to the unworldly matters.  Perhaps it is spirituality, faith, our woo-woo side that we can’t quite put a finger on, but it is something we feel.   Uranus in Taurus provides a ‘solution’ to what we are feeling.   Young and old find a space to support each other.    With the sextile in the summer the emphasis is on innovative support that strengthens independence and self-agency.    We will take the Saturn sextile Uranus as perk and the world will need it, no doubt.   

 

One important note, this Uranus/Saturn perk is also an entrée to the big perks we will have later this summer.  Between August 21 and September 15 Uranus is at 1 degree Gemini and Neptune is 1 degree Aries and Pluto 1 degree Aquarius.  For 26 days these planets are in harmonious trine & sextile which will be our astro landscape off and on for the next four/five years.   These planets providing these beautiful aspects in these signs has by all reports never happened in history until now.    Another fact to this extraordinary era that we are in. 

 

Astrology for the Week of April 1 - 7

 

Crescent Moon Phase

April 1, 2025

11:16 pm PST

 

 

Focus on: What are you learning that is super practical?  What are you learning about your money?   How are you getting informed about investments?   What are you learning about your property and your possessions?   

 

 

Special Focus

4/3   Mercury conjunct North Node (27 Pisces 17) Finding purposeful thinking that connects to our inner mystic.  Tapping prayers and humanity. 

4/3   Moon square Neptune (00 Aries 09).  Observe this fresh aspect to Neptune now in Aries.  Emotions versus independence? 

4/4   Saturn sextile Uranus (24 Taurus 55) Beautiful opportunity to break out and have practical results.  Inspired creativity that is purposeful. 

4/4   Mars sextile Uranus (24 Taurus 56).  Actions that are creative, fun, unique, break us out of old stuff.  

4/4   Mars trine Saturn (24 Pisces 58) Actions that line up with practicality.  Faith and actions support each other.   Helping family.  Helping church or humanity. 

 

 

 

First Quarter Moon 

April 4, 7:14pm PDT 

 

 

 

Focus on:   What actions are you taking that protect family?  What actions are you taking that tap your childhood?  What actions are you taking that rely on emotions to motivate?   How are you tapping your memories? 

  

 

Special Note

4/6   Sun sextile Jupiter (16 Gemini 50) Sparks of Joy.  Fun, creativity is spiked along with spirited conversations.  

4/6   Mars trine Venus (25 Pisces 29) Joy, love beauty, money, values feel in alignment and actions take place that support that close to the heart. 

4/7   Venus conjunct Saturn (25 Pisces 15) structure, support for our values is strong. 

4/7   Mercury station direct (26 Pisces 49) see above 

4/7   Venus sextile Uranus (25 Taurus 05) Joy, fun, creativity, love, money get a boost, perhaps out of the blue or in unusual manner. 

My Treasure Map Presentation in Los Angeles at the Philosophical Research Society.

 For those of you who are thinking about making a Treasure Map and want more details on their history and why they work.    Also, if you want to hear examples of various maps and the results and how to make one and when to do it, you will find everything you need at this presentation which I did at the end of February at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Feliz (LA).   

There is a $10 fee.    I crammed a lot of information into the presentation ;) 

Here's the link

Neptune in Aries. The Second Installment of Our New Era

 

Neptune in Aries 

 

3/13/2025         Neptune enters shadow 

3/30/2025         Neptune enters Aries

7/4/2025           Neptune retrograde (2 Aries 10)

10/22/2025       Neptune re-enters Pisces

12/10/ 2025      Neptune station direct (29 Pisces 22) 

1/26/2026         Neptune re-enters Aries

3/31/2026         Neptune exits shadow 

3/23/2039       Neptune enters Taurus 

 

As discussed by every astrologer on planet Earth, we are in an extraordinary period of big planetary changes in 2025/2026.  Installment number one was Pluto entering Aquarius in November.   Now we are at installment number two; Neptune entering Aries.  

 

Since it takes 164 years for it to go around the sun, humans will never live long enough to experience Neptune transit all twelve signs.   Instead, we get Neptune transit for about five or six signs in an average lifetime. 

On March 30, Neptune enters Aries.   It is impossible to overstate the significance of this move by Neptune.  A new era comes with Neptune in the first sign of the zodiac and where it will be until 2039. 

 

The last time Neptune was in Aries was between 1861 and 1874.   

 

In preparation for big planetary move, I’ve been researching various seminal events that took place the last time Neptune was in Aries.  Neptune is of course one of the creative, artistic planets and Aries is the sign of war, battles, independence, breaking free.   It is no surprise that the Impressionist movement of art launched in 1872 during Neptune’s trek in Aries.  Artists who were independent thinkers and creators breaking free from the established ‘acceptable’ style of art.   Also baked into these renegade artists is the fact that during the 1860s France and the early part of Neptune in Aries, France was at war with various countries and many of the men who would become Impressionists artists were conscripted (drafted) into military service.   This time impacted their art.  In fact, Claude Monet who was sent to North Africa as a soldier said later that the vivid colors of Algeria, “contained the gem of my future researches.”  It would be Monet’s painting “Impression of Sunset” at their exhibition that would launch the word “Impression” for the whole movement.  

 

In America, Neptune’s transit in Aries would change the history of the United States. The last time Neptune was at zero Aries was April 13, 1861.  The day before, on April 12, was the 34-hour battle of Ft Sumter, South Carolina which marked the beginning of the US Civil War.    While Neptune is intuitive, dreamy and creative it is also fuzzy and susceptible to illusion and delusion.    Ft Sumter is a man-made island in a harbor, very Neptune, and was built in the 1830s to protect the town of Charleston.   

 

I do not always go this deep into history, but for this event I think some context would be helpful.   In November 1860 Abraham Lincoln won the Presidential election.   Lincoln was opposed to expanding slavery into the western territories.  Southern politicians and power players saw the writing on the wall that if new states (carved out of territories) did not have slavery, then their pull in Congress would diminish which could end their right to own human beings.   Imagine that. 

 

The response to Lincoln’s win was almost immediate, South Carolina seceded from the USA a month after Lincoln’s win.   Then within six months ten other states joined the Confederacy.   In response, Lincoln authorized the Union troops to protect Ft. Sumter.   

 

On April 12, the Confederates shot the first bullet and a two-day skirmished ensued.  The Union lost the battle.   During the fight, civilians watched the battle from the shore.  If those South Carolinians took comfort in the Confederate’s quick win, they would not see their side victorious at the end.   If Lincoln and the Union thought the war would just be a few skirmishes and then they would be victorious they would get one part correct, the Union would win but it would not be a short war.   It lasted four years with 620,000 Americans confirmed dead and 400,000 missing.   It was long and bloody.    Did Neptune know any of that was our future when it entered Aries in 1861?   It remained in Aries until 1875 which then included reconstruction, industrialization, and the expansion of the West.  While slavery was abolished, civil rights were not equal among races and genders.  And of course, laborers in all areas were subjected to abusive work environments, including child labor. However, after the Civil War America became a muscular international force.    Now on this Neptune return to the Civil War of 1861 we would not be wrong to take a big gulp and be concerned about what is on our horizon.   To be clear

Neptune’s entrance in Aries does not have to be another Civil War.  It could be different type of battles.   Perhaps cyber?  Financial?  There can be a dissolving of boundaries and borders in some way.   It is hard to say but given the history between Lincoln’s election and Ft Sumter it seems reasonable to assume that whatever comes up on our horizon may not be a surprise since it certainly wasn’t a surprise to anyone in 1861.  

 

For an excellent review of Neptune in Aries going all the way back to 464 BCE check out astrologer Jessica  Davidson’s write up.   From Ancient Greek and Rome to the Peasant Revolt in Britain and the War of Spanish Succession you will see a lot of common themes.   Spoiler Alert – A lot of rebellions and uprisings but also scientific and tech breakthroughs.  

 

We will know more about our current transit by Neptune at the end of May when Saturn exits Pisces, and it too enters Aries and heads for a conjunction with Neptune which I have previously written about and will be the subject of many more posts, I am sure.  

 

 

 

A Fresh Start to a Fresh New Year and a Fresh New Moon

 

Today is Saturday March 29 and it is a new day, new moon and new year.  Today is the Aries new moon which launched at 3:58am PDT.     Whatever you felt on the first day of spring (March 20) juice that up and that's what we get on this Aries New Moon.     

I hope you will go out and do something that freshens up your psyche.    Maybe go for a walk.  Or call someone you haven't spoken to in awhile (Mercury is retrograde, you know).  Have an invigorating and fun conversation.    If someone is kind to you today, take it in.    If you see a flower in bloom take a moment to enjoy it.     Put on a movie or streamer and watch something that gives you joy or taps wonderment.       

The bottom line ....doom strolling is so last week, last month, last year.   Let's avoid it.  

  

Also it is time for a Treasure Map.    Consider making one, take a few days, see if you start thinking about your future and what you want to accomplish and experience this year.   The year starts today.  

Find your Fresh.   

Treasure Mapping on Astrology Hub

 Last week I went on Astrology Hub to discuss Treasure Mapping.  This is the fourth year we have done Treasure Maps with the Astrology Hub community.  Since last year's treasure map launch (April 2024) Amanda Pua Walsh, the founder of Astrology Hub and I have been texting each other.   We were discussing how the year seemed to be bumpy and we were trying to figure out how it tied to the maps.   I soon started to think it was eclipse related.    By the time I got to January it was clear to me that the shadow of the eclipse was definitely in play.   I discussed the idea of the maps and the deeper depth to them this last year.  The work was harder for sure but there is a more sustainability to some of the manifestations.    

Anyway, here's our discussion.   We also discuss this year's map which is a partial eclipse.  I think we will have more wiggle room in our map this year since it is not a total solar eclipse.  Thank goodness those are gone from Aries and we'll have to wait 19 years for the next one.    Which is fine with me!