You are coming into a new season with new wings, Aries. There is a new relationship with partners, also with security and finance, that stems from your own deep center. The time for action has arrived with the springtime, but it is not superficial action that you crave right now, involving merely monetary motivation. You are still hesitating in your forward plunge and for good reason. Partnership continues to move you mightily, but again from the standpoint of a deeper calling that integrates all your diverse parts. You will succeed in this more complete sense only when you combine worldly endeavor with the mystical power that consistently underlies and supports the physical.

As the month begins, you are no doubt still feeling the pull of the Pisces New Moon from the middle of last month. This strong concentration of intuitive energy taking place as it did in your sector of dream imagination has spiced up your unconscious life just as your ruler Mars has reappeared in a forward-going mode of operation in a more extroverted part of your chart, giving you a taste of both outer and inner worlds. You are taking these fresh stirrings of your deeper understanding forward into the springtime and your birthday time of the year.

These various currents of thought and feeling may come to a head early in the month, at the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th. This marks a time when you are feeling a definite collision between what you are trying to accomplish in the world and the way that you proceed to do it. Partners come into the picture as mentors if you look at the situation in a positive way, and, if you don't, as burdens to the glory of your independent achievement, so that there are adjustments that continue to be made in this and other areas. A sense of wisdom is arising from your deeper centers and it helps to recognize this and remain watchful for its emergence.

With the Aries New Moon of Wednesday, April 14th, you are feeling your oats and tending to start jumping ahead willy-nilly into action. The polarization of the times might however come up for you as for everyone else and bite you unawares. It helps to remain sensitive to the third possibility that somehow manages to center itself between the horns of the dilemma.

The week of the First Quarter Moon, taking place on Wednesday, April 21st, is also likely to be somewhat stressful. For one thing, Mercury is now retrograde in your sector of resources and you might need to re-think current priorities perhaps revisioning grandiose schemes that have recently been floated- by you mostly - and which might need to be scaled back somewhat. It's a natural time to conserve financial energy and not such a good time for new contractual arrangements which are better made earlier in the month. Once the deal is in progress you can just coast through these last two weeks.

With the Full Moon of the final week of April, taking place on Wednesday, April 28th, you are settling down into an entirely different sort of energy, one of contemplation and slugging away at any and all obstacles to growth. This is a terrific time for journaling and for getting your priorities straight, and also for hanging in with your vision that the road is always basically upward.

Taurus   (April 19 - May 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

You are rejoicing in the spring with all your heart, soul and mind, Taurus, but not in your usual celebratory fashion. It is your inner goddess that you are honoring this time around. At the time of the Pisces New Moon from the middle of last month you got the idea of what life could be like if you would only allow it to happen. Now, in the wake of that visionary moment, you are entering a new and more introspective phase. Later in the month, as you review and re-think your past and re-shape your potential future, partners help to inspire you as you continue your evolutionary unfolding.

As the month begins, you are in the midst of a period of visioning new realities for yourself. The future is looking if not rosy at least attractive and all your ducks are in a row to move forward gracefully into a new way of being and doing in the world. Only, there are obviously many issues to be worked through in order to get to point B and, as they say, the devil is in the details. You will notice that much of your motivation at this time is coming from a sense of deep process that is not very popular in this world today of superficial concerns and sound bites over substance.

At the time of the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, you might find yourself questioning everything. There are difficulties that will inevitably come up for you at this time, but equally, creative sparks can fly which illuminate your rocky road forward and lend import to the climb. A subtle shift in perspective can open doors that were previously closed. You might be forced to admit that not everything that you contemplated recently will work out the way that you envisioned, but it is important to recognize all that you have gained by trying. You are thinking your way through to a new reality for yourself and it starts with mental conception that precedes actual advancement into grounded accomplishment.

With the New Moon of Wednesday, April 14th, there is a tremendous impetus to move forward, and tons of idealism and even escapist fantasy available to you, but you also must consider the inherent caution of your situation in the real and physical world. One part of you says "go" and another "stop and reconsider," and the stronger force will always be the one that moves you onward. You are making important adjustments to your vision of your highest purpose for yourself and mustn't let your internal naysayers get you down.

Then a few days later, Mercury stations in your sign and begins its backwards movement that lasts for five weeks or more. This period is finally over on May 28th, when you take the period of the retrograde shadow into account. Mercury stations again - changing to direct motion - on May 11th, but does not regain its lost Zodiacal ground for another two weeks. This period of time when Mercury is retrograde or still wobbly is a great time for reflecting on your circumstances and your life goals, or for journaling, not so good for making radical departures from existing plans.

The First Quarter Moon of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, April 21st, is an important moment of tension within this period. You could be inclined to dispute your fate at this time, or to argue with family members, or feel out the places where what you are up to does not pan out with the inner reality of your situation.

The Full Moon that comes along on Wednesday, the 28th, is another chance to balance self and other. This could also represent a time of intense introspection, as you try to figure out the ultimate meaning of things, and yet also a time of increasing confidence and centering. You win when you keep your head about you, and witness all that happens with relative equanimity, staying alert to all your possibilities.

Gemini   (May 20 - June 20)  Air.  Ruling planet Mercury.    Top

This is the first month of the rest of your life, Gemini. At the time of the powerful Pisces New Moon of last month you were clearly entering a new phase, and now this is even more obvious. At mid-month you have the opportunity to re-think your life plan yet again and mold it nearer to your true heart's desire. This involves deep process and many false starts before you get it right. It's a long and winding spiral path to the new you and no one said it would be easy. But you really have no other way to go but forward. You're making an important start and that's enough for now.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave from the amazing mid-March New Moon in your career sector, when multiple ideas for new adventure came at you like a flock of seagulls. You have likely changed course several times over the past two weeks. Even though these changes in life direction are thrilling and threaten to unmoor your ship of state, something also keeps you firmly anchored in the here and now. These expansive moments and these conundrums continue into the present monthly cycle, with perhaps even greater intensity.

The April 6th Last Quarter Moon highlights this crucial testing time, when you are busy finding yourself amidst the storm of circumstance. It is a essentially a spiritual mission that is implied by your current set of changes and challenges. What you are up to involves massive and thorough-going transformation of not only your outer world presence but also the way that you do intimacy with others as well as your relationship dynamic in general.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, April 14th, is a call to arms and an impetus for fresh action in planning out your further future. There is actually a small window of time of only a few days, after this New Moon, and before your ruler Mercury turns retrograde, and this time is optimum for making plans and visioning your next phase. It is said that whatever you can concretely imagine during this New Moon time you can accomplish, provided that your ideas are in alignment with your highest purpose.

On Saturday, April 17th, Mercury retrogrades in your sector of dreams and you may well find that you are in a more internal state of mind. Mercury stations direct on May 11th but this retrograde period lasts until almost the end of May when you consider the period of the retrograde shadow, the days when Mercury is regaining its lost Zodiacal ground. Since the entire retrograde period takes place in your sector of dream imagination and internal process, it is quite likely that you will find yourself operating in a far more internal mode during these last two weeks of April and the majority of May. This is a great time for journaling, reflecting on where you are headed and close communications with friends regarding life direction; it is not such a good time for departures from an existing plan.

The First Quarter Moon of Wednesday the 21st is one crux of this period brings up the potential conflicts and drawbacks in what you are attempting to pull off during this current lunar cycle for re-evaluation.

The days surrounding the Full Moon toward month's end, on Wednesday, April 28th, constitute another crucial time period when you are enjoined to think deeply about where you are going with your life right now and why. Although final answers are not to be forthcoming you are getting anidea of the questions and that is an important first step.

Cancer   (June 21 - July 21)  Water.  Ruling planet is the Moon.    Top

This is a big month for you, Cancer, in the midst of an important year. Perspectives shift and with these changes the world opens up to you anew. This is a time for you to make inroads into the future self that you will soon inhabit, a departure from your present self in many ways and yet a continuation also. For the first half of the month the seed is forming and for the second it is growing, and all the while you are conscious of the shift that is taking place. You are a stronger stand for yourself than ever you realized; that much is becoming readily apparent.

As the month begins, you are feeling the pull of the recent and powerful New Moon from the middle of last month, which took place in your sector of higher mind. This ushered in a time when a great many ideas were being floated by you and by everyone, and when you in particular might feel that your belief system is shifting in its tracks to yield to a new way of being in the world. Along with a plethora of new ideas, what is changing mightily for you at this time are your plans and how you think your way forward into an imaginable future. From April 1st onward you are feeling your way out of past patterns into a brave new world of your own making.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, you are coming into a crucial time when you might wind up questioning many of these new-found goals. This is a time of revision and major decision-remaking that involves important partners in your life as well as yourself. These individuals might seem disruptive at first glance, but a closer look reveals that they are in fact helping to see your way through. It is a difficult highway that you are putting yourself on right now, and these persons are acting as catalysts for your own process of growth and change.

The New Moon that comes along a week later, on Wednesday, April 14th, gives you plenty of energy for your development and gives you the impetus to leap tall buildings in the pursuit of your ideas for what you want to accomplish in this world.

A few days later however, as Mercury retrogrades for the next three to five weeks, you are entering an interesting period of time when you have plenty of go-power, and yet when also Mercury is retrograding through your sector of group affiliation, causing you to rethink plans and commitments in this area. This sector also symbolizes wishes, hope, and plans for the future. The retrograde period lasts until nearly the end of May, with highlights on April 21st, 28th, and May 11th, when it stations direct at the beginning of Taurus. This is a period when everyone is more reflective and introspective, and in your case, a time when all your vibrant and active energy has no effective real-world outlet. You must be content to watch and wait, and refrain from pushing the river until at least mid-May.

The Full Moon of Wednesday, April 28th, is a powerful time when all these contrary forces are brought to a head, and when you will be thinking earnestly about your future. Although stymied in your progress, you continue to imagine worlds within worlds of possibilities for yourself, going forward.

Leo   (July 22 - August 21)  Fire.  Ruling planet is the Sun.    Top

Things aren't as bad as you were thinking, Leo. You are turning a deficit into a blessing. The mid-March New Moon might have knocked your socks off but your brain and heart are still intact and that's what counts. This month you are not only taking an emotional departure in stride but even coming to some new conclusions concerning where you stand on life and love and how to get to the next stage. That evolutionary step will be slow in coming but well worth the wait so stay tuned. It helps to keep a watchful eye on everything that happens to you and draw your conclusions in keeping with your highest intention.

As the month begins, you are feeling the undertow of the powerful New Moon from the middle of last month that lit up your sector of intimacy and personal transformation. You may well have felt like you were being shot out of a cannon into a new and different world. This moment of insight has provided inspiration for outer world events such as personal initiative and career moves, and also sparked a revolution in terms of inner work.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, marks the crux of an intense period of readjustment, following the storm. This is a time when tensions rise as things do not entirely work themselves out as planned and when you must take in all possible wisdom from the misses as well as the hits. You are gaining ground on deciding what it is that you must do, going forward, to get yourself out of existing ruts and dilemmas in a way that is uniquely yours and yours alone, and that operates in your life in spite of any and all opinions to the contrary from helpful others.

The New Moon a week later, taking place on Wednesday, April 14th, gives you plenty of energy but not necessarily the direction to apply it in. You are focused at this time on trying to figure out what your security needs are, and on business ideas that may or may not prove fruitful.

When Mercury retrogrades through your career sector a few days later, beginning on Saturday, April 17th, you might find yourself rethinking your priorities in this area. Of course the usual kinds of communication mishaps and mechanical breakdowns can be expected with Mercury retrograde, even more so for a Tenth House transit such as yours. This period lasts five weeks or more when you take into account the time of the retrograde shadow, after Mercury turns direct but is still making up its lost Zodiacal ground. The highlighted days for this period are the 17th, the 28th, and May 11th when it stations. On May 28th Mercury comes out of its shadow and returns to clear sailing. This is a great time to journal and to mull over your situation, but not such a good time for sudden departures from existing plans.

The First Quarter Moon in your sign that punctuates this period, taking place on Wednesday, April 21st, represents a moment of tension in your process and a time of seeing the bigger picture of what you are about right now.

Then The Full Moon of the final week of the month, taking place on Wednesday, April 28th, provides you with even more fodder for reflection as you mull over where it is exactly that you thought were going. It never pays to despair. This monthly cycle and the next one too have their aspects of tension and of forced adjustment to changing circumstances, but on the whole they lead you further into the very places that you need to go in order for important integration of your disparate parts to begin to take place.

Virgo   (August 22 - September 21)  Earth.  Ruling planet Mercury.   Top

This is an exciting and perhaps contradictory period for you, Virgo. New beginnings come around to the same old thing unless nurtured, and relationships only take you as far as you are able to figure out the directions for yourself. In the present month there are spirited initiatives to be followed up to the extent that you can find yourself willing to embrace them. You must prioritize; fortunately the last half of April is great for that, with your ruler Mercury retrograde in your sector of higher mind. You benefit when you take everything that happens as it comes and continue to believe that the implicit lessons will reveal themselves to you, in time.

As the month begins, you are still reeling from the effect of the powerful New Moon from the middle of last month in your relationship sector. This has therefore been a time perhaps of rapid-fire adjustments in order to keep your feet under you as you navigate the changing tides of partners and your own nascent personality upheavals.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, finds you in the mode of reinventing yourself yet again, as you sort through the previous three weeks and try to make sense of the changes that have gotten you this you're your perspectives shift and with them the basics of who you think you are becoming. This also affects how you feel you are connected to significant others in your life. You are sure that you are going for it, you just aren't sure where it is or how to reach it, but like the hub of a wheel or an open doorway you might have to be content for the moment to define yourself by what is not.

The New Moon of the following week, coming along on Wednesday, April 14th, provides you with further energy for your on-going transformation. Partnerships in your life are especially important now, and feed your own quest for self-knowledge. These last two weeks of the month are also the beginning of a Mercury retrograde period of time, when you will likely be spending more energy mulling over your opportunities than actually acting on them.

Mercury retrogrades on April 17th for about five weeks when you take the period of the retrograde shadow into account. Mercury stations on May 11th, turning to direct motion, but it will not regain its lost Zodiacal ground until May 28th. Meanwhile it's a great time for journaling and for reviewing where you are and how this cycle affects the arc of your life's development. Following through on existing plans is a better idea than forging new ones, although research into new possibilities is specifically recommended. Mercury is retrograding through your sector of higher mind, and you could be thinking about going back to school in some fashion, or further mental preparation for what engages you currently. Travel plans might alter over the course of this five-week period, and are likely to change again after the end of May. You are in the midst of a major shift, and the full force of what is going on inside you might not flower until the middle of June. Meanwhile it pays to be alert, to observe carefully and to take everything that happens as it comes.

The First Quarter Moon of Wednesday, April 21st, brings a moment of tension to your inner work and emphasizes a spiritual element, as old patterns of relationship interaction surface for the purpose of recognizing them and moving past them. You are in the process of becoming more aware of how this part of yourself can be accepted by you rather than shamed.

The Full Moon of Wednesday, April 28th is another important turning point within this reflective and even introspective timeframe, and is a time when you might begin to accept in a new way the point of view of others and the information that flows from them, incorporating these more gracefully into your own perspective.


Libra   (September 22 - October 22)  Air.  Ruling planet Venus.    Top

This is a time of turning, Libra, and characteristically this involves significant partners in your life as well as plumbing your own deep center. In your quest for truth, you are just beginning to get the idea for your path alone and undivided and then suddenly significant partners are brought once more into the picture. It's a spiral path that you are engaged in traversing, both alone and with others. You are progressively ascending the ladder of your destiny one rung at a time, and in spite of the company you crave to share your quest, slowly recognizing the places where you must stand all on your own.

As the month begins, you are busily focused on doing your own thing independent of others around you, although you are also getting better at letting in the input and the point of view of others, without allowing these influences to entirely swamp your own boat. This lunar cycle that is currently completing, which began with the New Moon of the middle of March, has initiated a new vision for you of how you do your soul work in this world in a way that represents your own unique contribution. In this current month you are still on that track but also working on your ability to profit from and to integrate the input and feedback of others, particularly that of important partners in your life.

This is because partnership is emphasized for you at this time and because your ruler Venus is traversing through your intimacy sector along with Mercury, ruler of your sector of higher mind. It's an entirely new ballgame in the relationship department, a department where you thrive and find much of your life's meaning. The pleasant situation that now arises for you is that while others are important, as they always are, especially at this time of the year, their influence is now nicely placed in perspective in a way that includes as primary your own arc of development.

The Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, traditionally symbolizes a time of increased consciousness of where your earlier assumptions break down and where wisdom arises thereby. This is even truer this time around, for you. This configuration and the days immediately surrounding it represent a time when there is a way that your internal workings are encouraging you to take the next step in terms of your own personal evolution. This moment of relative tension in your process signals that things are changing and that you have also the opportunity to yield gracefully to necessity. If you go kicking and struggling like a child who is not at all ready for his bath, holding onto the stairway balusters at every turn, you will obviously suffer more than if you accept the reality of your situation and choose to "go with the flow."

The New Moon that follows a week later, taking place on Wednesday, April 14th, is a time of fresh vigor for your own process and also for that of your relationship dynamic which is fully energized. You are seeking by means of active partners in your life to make a change consistent with the insights of the past cycle, and also finding that part of yourself opposes new phase with a conservative move to hold onto the unchanging past. It is a tug of war but there can really be only one winner, since forward motion is a characteristic of the life force if you are to continue to grow.

The last two weeks of the month, and on into May, constitute the period of the Mercury retrograde, a time when you will be mulling over your choices in a big way. As you attempt to make sense of them it helps to remember that that universe has its own agenda, in concert with yours but also different, so that it pays to place your requests on the table and then to accept what happens as a further and more fully appropriate working out of a higher plan.

With the Full Moon at nearly month's end, on Wednesday, April 28th, you might begin to see a resolution forming.

Scorpio   (October 23 - Nov 21)  Water.  Ruling planets Mars, Pluto.   Top

It's big adventure and big fun for you right now Scorpio, with a sense of responsibility thrown in. A brave new beginning to the spring is unfolding just as it should. You are engaged in discovering what your most fundamental plan for yourself has to offer in this season of change, and everyone is included. This is a recipe for success in the real world as well as in imaginal realms of your own choosing. All these energies funnel into the mix that swirls around you in something like harmony. Balance is the key. With luck you can conduct a symphony of dedication that takes inner as well as outer considerations into account.

As the month begins, you are exploring the many ways that there are to be you. There has been an ongoing adventure in consciousness taking place for you ever since the potent New Moon of March 15, and this continues into the present month and flavors your current process as subtext. The first two weeks of April seem to be about relating with all kinds of partners, both business and personal.

This period is punctuated by the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, which represents a powerful time when you are getting clearer on relationships in your life and how you are present in the world both with them and without them. It is your communicative outreach that keeps you connected to your circle of acquaintance. This might also be a time when you tune in to writing goals that you have had for some time now. During this entire year the area of writing and communicating has been changing for you in subtle ways.

With the New Moon of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, April 14th, you are filled with fresh energy for your process. There is a way of being and working in the world that is uniquely yours, so that you are getting a better grip on this throughout this monthly cycle. The energy of this mid-month time might take you further down this path of discovery.

The last two weeks of the month that this New Moon ushers in are also the time of the Mercury retrograde period which is one of research and reflection rather than of breaking new ground. This lasts for about five weeks, until nearly the end of May, when you take into consideration the period of the retrograde shadow. Since Mercury is retrograding through your relationship sector for this entire period, you might spend this time in rethinking and redefining some aspect of your partnership dynamic,. It is also a good fit for this timeframe to be journaling or communicating to close friends regarding the nuances of your situation.

The First Quarter Moon of Wednesday, April 21st, that punctuates this period is an excellent time for looking more deeply into all these issues. With the advent of this configuration, there is a fundamental polarity in your nature that you will likely expose to the light of day. Relationship with others comes into the picture as well. In all this it is important to keep your head up and your faith about you as you explore your possibilities.

With the Full Moon in your sign of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, April 28th, you are coming to a more balanced understanding. This is one highlight of the Mercury retrograde period so that you are likely to be looking more deeply into both relationship issues and also your own developmental cycle apart from others.

Sagittarius   (Nov 22 - Dec 20)  Fire.  Ruling planet Jupiter.   Top

Your domestic urges this month, are nicely balanced by your need to get yourself out there, Sagittarius. A fundamental instability at the level of your psychological roots opens a doorway that allows you to glide forward into new territory. The mid-month New Moon represents a major turning point when you will be making a stand for not only what you believe you can become but also what you know you have to work with in order to get yourself there. You are gathering all your strength and all your wisdom into one ball that you can roll forward into an uncertain and yet creatively exciting future.

As the month begins, you are no doubt still reeling from the very powerful mid-march New Moon that took place in your sector of home and family concerns and root psychological issues. A fundamental instability at the very core of your being might have been revealed to you at this time, but this is also an opening to new worlds if you look at it right. This type of discontinuity might indeed be just the very thing that you need to move forward in a new way with your life; to enable you to jump the existing tracks and find a path that is more entirely suited to your present stage of evolution.

A crucial turning point, the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th might give you pause. This configuration represents a moment of tension in your process when you will have cause to doubt somewhat the current arc of your development, and when your resources and your values - which are going through something of a revision - might be called into question. All through this current monthly cycle you are thinking your way through to a new sense of purpose as you navigate this physical world; and this in a way that must be consistent with a deep inner sensibility which you are only now able to more fully understand.

The New Moon that follows a week later, on Wednesday, April 14th, gives fresh energy to this process. This is a powerful time of becoming, when loads of energy is available to boldly put yourself out there in a novel way, so that it would be a shame to miss the train as it leaves the station to stay behind basking in past glories rather than forging new ones.

The Mercury retrograde period of time which follows a few days later, beginning on Saturday, April 17th, in some sense puts a damper on your revolutionary spirit of change but the river of your progress continues to flow almost as though underground. This period of Mercury's retrograde motion, lasting through most of May, is a time when you will reflect on both the arc of your own development and how to forge new pathways forward into wholeness, and as well on the significant relationships in your life which might be poised to help you to get there. Other points of view can be quite helpful in solidifying your own, and can serve as foil and testing ground for your ideas.

The First Quarter Moon of Wednesday, April 21st will be particularly important in this regard. This is a time when you will be reviewing and reflecting on everything that is currently happening and attempting to discern the wheat from the chaff.

The Full Moon of April 28th marks the full flowering of ideas that have been percolating since mid-month, and signals a time for further reflection on where it is exactly that you are going. This final week of the month is an excellent time for journaling and for communicating to others around you about relevant concerns. You are moving through an important period of time that will change you in ways as yet unforeseen, so it pays to move carefully and yet with a certain sense of abandon, cherishing the past but allowing your inner process to reinvent the future.

Capricorn   (Dec 21 - Jan 19)  Earth.  Ruling planet Saturn.   Top

Information comes to you in many forms these days, Capricorn, and only some in the language of the familiar mundane world. All the varieties of collective wisdom that surround you now will prove helpful as you launch yourself forward into the spring along both internal and external roadways. On the one hand it is business as usual that beckons and yet when more closely examined this turns out to be an entirely different type of animal altogether, one that is based on deeply felt emotional realities and yet reaches to the very skies. It is truly said that for you right now the way up and the way down are one and the same.

As the month begins, you are coming into yourself in some very new and different ways. There is a revolution going on inside you, at the very core of your being, and it is slowly expanding to include every aspect of your life. Your work in the world continues to be a primary focus for you right now, but with a difference in that you are incorporating new ideas into the same old same old, so that it is no longer any question of merely business as usual. You might feel somewhat at sea or adrift in a haze of forgetfulness, but it your true self that you are trying to remember.

In the midst of these musings and the quiet mulling over of your situation, the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th might come as something of a shock. You are liable to become obsessed with your goals and simultaneously discouraged by the lack of more concrete progress, as you are forced to reevaluate everything that is currently happening to you in the light of this new information. It might be that the very failures of completion that seem unreasonable are actually angels in disguise that are taking you further along the track intended by goddess or the universe - or your higher self.

The New Moon of the week following, taking place on Wednesday, April 14th, provides plenty of energy but no immediate solution to your current dilemma, in case you were primed for immediate answers. You are still trying to handle the logical conundrum of your existence, which might be of the soul variety that can only be resolved by acknowledging the paradoxical nature of all deeper realities. The intensity of this comes in waves. At one point, your mind unwinds and everything feels just fine; then the logical questioning begins again. There is nothing wrong with this system, since you live in many different worlds simultaneously. It is only the failure of your mind to recognize the true facts, not any other mistake or malfunction.

With the Mercury retrograde period that begins on the 17th and continues for three to five weeks in various stages, things are both simpler and more complex. You are more likely to find success in reviewing and reinventing your self-conception than in striking out in new directions, at least until mid-May. This period of time is very good for journaling and communicating with others regarding life direction, not so good for radical departures from existing plans.

The Full Moon on the 28th of April is one milestone of this period and the station of Mercury on May 11th is another. By the time you push through to the other side you will be further along in spirit if not in concrete physical factors also.

Aquarius   (Jan 20 - Feb 18)  Air.  Ruling planets Uranus, Saturn.   Top

This is your moment, Aquarius, a period when you will be re-energized regarding both your values and your wider cultural perspective. Things slowly adding up over time suddenly click; the tumblers line up and the previously locked door opens wide. Close relationships are important now and help you to transition, as does also the depth research into your own motivations that you are more completely engaged in as the month unfolds. Changes in attitude that educate and enlighten precede depth awareness that further opens you to outer presentation based on the standpoint of your inner life. This circulation in the end actually enables a more complex and fully realized presence in both worlds.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave of changes from the powerful mid-month New Moon of last month. These two weeks have been an interesting proving ground for new ideas and even for new ways of being in the world as you continue your meditation on resources and values. Perspectives that have been altering slowly over time have gotten a jolt and will continue to morph in this current month in unexpected ways as you integrate a wider circle of understanding into your fundamental beliefs. Bringing this awareness into contact with others of your circle is key for you at this time, as you enter into the first full week of April.

With the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, your communicative outreach hits a snag or two. This is a time when the effort to connect and to stay connected must yield to the silence within your soul and when you feel closer to your true destiny in this life because of it. It might also be at this time that you feel that some of your original impulses from the mid-March period of time have gone astray that you never had what you thought you had. Instead you have this realization.

The New Moon of the following week, taking place on Wednesday, April 14th, brings along with it tons of energy for your process. These are powerful times of growing awareness and burgeoning understanding of your true nature, as the various parts of yourself - both mentally dry and emotionally wet - come together in what is hopefully a harmony of feeling and intention. You might at this time feel pulled in different directions as you explore new intellectual horizons from the standpoint of what it does for you spiritually.

All this is complicated somewhat by the proximity of the Mercury retrograde period of time that begins a few days later on Saturday, April 17th, in your sector of home and family, and your psychological roots. You could in fact find yourself rethinking your approach to all these things. This Mercury retrograde period lasts until mid-May or even beyond when you take the two weeks of the retrograde shadow into account and its highlights will be the 17th, the 28th, and May 11th. This is a great time for remodel or for rearranging your living space, and you might discover that your family ties and your psychological perceptions are rearranging themselves in some fashion as well.

The Full Moon of Wednesday, April 28th, is one crux of this time of thought-provoking inquiry. The most important use of this period potentially lies in doing some deep thinking about the bases for your security, both physical and financial, as a facet of your spiritual purpose.

Pisces   (Feb 19 - March 19)  Water. Ruling planets Neptune, Jupiter.   Top

It's a new world that you have been born into with this new season, Pisces, and you're still exploring it. Values and security become important in ways that you had not before considered. You are fighting for what you truly believe, at gut level, and it makes for a whole new ballgame. As you come forward into possibility you might find yourself plagued by old business that remains on the table and that competes with the new impulse, and while these considerations will certainly slow you down they won't defeat you. The bull is charging but you have magic in your fingers as you seize your life dilemma by the horns and leap over.

As the month begins, you are riding the wave from the pervious month's New Moon in your sign that took place on March 15th. This was a powerful configuration filled with invigorating presence and inventive mental creativity, and you were no doubt energized and maybe even startled to find yourself riding off in some very different directions. Although this energy feels like a departure from your existing sense of yourself, it is important to realize that it also represents a logical continuation of everything that has come before it. You are feeling your way into a new future, as you have been for some time now.

In the midst of these currents of psychic attunement swirling around you, the Last Quarter Moon of Tuesday, April 6th, might come as something of a setback, more imagined than real. This configuration represents a crux of spiritual events whereby you better understand your future directions in terms of a struggle to make sense of your security needs and the resources you have at your disposal to work with them. This includes but is not limited to financial security. Part of what is going on for you right now is that you are coming to terms with a new definition of pretty nearly every factor in your life, including your finances. It is the emotional relief that financial well-being provides that is the real story, after all.

The New Moon in your resources sector comes along a week later; this takes place on Wednesday, April 14th, and when it does it provides new impetus for your process going forward. You will feel a burst of energy for financial as well as spiritual resources or at least for a fresh way of looking at them. You are entering a thoughtful period of time with Mercury retrograding through your communications sector. This Mercury retrograde lasts over five weeks when you take into consideration the retrograde shadow period that lasts from May 11th to the 28th, and is a good time for research and reflection, or perhaps for journaling about what you are currently up to and where you think you are headed. It is not such a good time for radical departures but rather for following through with existing plans. Your financial picture will change again by the end of May.

The First Quarter Moon a week later, taking place on Wednesday, April 21st, could signal obstacles you encounter in moving ahead gracefully with the changes in life direction that are part of your hidden agenda this year. This is also a time when you might recognize that obstacles are there for the sake of overcoming them.

The Full Moon at nearly the end of the month, taking place on Wednesday, April 28th, represents a peak of the Mercury retrograde period and a time when communication runs reflectively underground rather than in any overt way. This can serve you as well as others, in revealing the polarities of your situation, the push and the pull of circumstances versus future vision. Your feet are on the path and your faith guides your onward and upward. Sometimes it is necessary to just keep on truckin'.