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April 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Leo
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Overview for this Month: Leo (All)
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
April holds diverse themes of mental exploration and growing ambitions, dear Leo, with strong showings in both your sectors of spirit and responsibility. You're open to exploring, expanding, and experiencing new things, but you're also checking in with your longer-term goals and paying particular attention to your work, obligations, and reputation this month. Work and career matters can thrive with your enterprising ideas.
With Mars in your hidden sector all month, you're not jumping to assert yourself. Planning and tying up loose ends seem more suitable. There can be some bottling up of anger or desires and possibly a solid reason for working behind the scenes. It can be a good month to tidy up the past in order to begin anew later when Mars transits your sign (Mars will be in Leo from May 20th to July 10th). Parts of you are on a symbolic retreat, which is good for you. If you've been overdoing things, you recognize and feel it deeply now.
Your daily, mundane routines can seem exceptionally dull for now as you seek broader horizons and different experiences. Life's bigger questions intrigue you more than usual. Before you feel free and released, you still have some cleanup and inner work. Focus on healing yourself and dealing with self-limiting fears and attitudes.
The Full Moon on the 6th reminds you to pay your daily affairs their due attention, particularly if you've been focusing too heartily on everything else! There can be an epiphany about your everyday life, mobility, studies, general mental outlook, and communications.
The 10-11 is a beautiful time to expand a project, your knowledge, or your worldview. Promotion, publishing, education, communications, the law, and travel are in positive focus. Success has much to do with your visionary, optimistic approach. You might make beneficial long-distance connections.
Venus works magic on your reputation, career, or relationships with elders, bosses, or parents until the 11th. It's a good time for a better image, support, or sponsorship. There's more enjoyment of your professional life and responsibilities.
The Sun moves into this same area of your chart on the 20th, putting you in a more ambitious phase of the year. But just before it does, on the same day, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your spirit sector, and it's potent. You break from the past in some manner, which will help clear the path for a new beginning.
This eclipse is the first in a set of eclipses to occur over the coming two years that fall along your communications, learning, and transportation axis. As a set, they'll prompt you to make important changes in how you connect, learn, promote yourself, and get out and about.
Still, you close the month quite focused on professional and worldly concerns--you want to shine for what you do and contribute.
Consider that Mercury is retrograde from the 21st forward, and rethinking some of your goals or waiting on information can figure strongly. You may need to backtrack over work that you thought was complete. This review can eventually work to your advantage, as you'll be better prepared to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. The key now is to draw upon your progressive and inventive side and do things just a little differently.
Venus in your social sector from the 11th forward ensures you find plenty of moments to enjoy yourself. In fact, you're in great shape for appeal with friends, partners, or groups. You are a little more courageous about seeking the people you value most.
See also This Month in Astrology.
Leo (Born July 23 to August 2)
AND Leo Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Leo:
April 2023 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
April 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until April 20th:
The Sun continues to shine its light on your solar ninth house now. This is a cycle in which you seek to expand your experiences and awareness, whether through philosophical thinking, higher education, travel, or simply activities that take you away from your everyday routines. You may feel a little restless if you don't find ways to explore.
It's an excellent period for looking at your life from a different perspective--a broader one--whether you initiate this process or you make contact with others who stimulate you to think about your circumstances differently. Your energy is strong, open, and friendly right now, you come across well to others, and you are a little bolder and adventurous than usual.
From April 20th forward:
The Sun illuminates your career and reputation sector. More than any other time of the year, your focus is drawn to your "place" or standing in the outer world, and your reputation. This is the time when you are more interested in, and focused on, accomplishing something important. Your competency is something that you are especially sensitive to during this cycle.
You want to shine! Your vision is practical right now, and you want to see tangible results for your efforts. More contact with authority figures is likely during this period. Recognition is likely to come your way whether you ask for it or not, and the responsibility that comes right along with it! Do what you feel is right, keeping in mind that you are at your most visible during this period in the year.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on April 20th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar ninth house, suggesting that a new approach to the way you expand your horizons, be
they physical or mental (or both). New travel plans, education goals, or adventures may be formed in the coming months, and a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your ability to expand your personal world is a
strong potential.
This is a phase when you will be especially busy initiating new projects or activities that expand your mind, feed your spirit for adventure, and stretch your imagination. You may feel renewed by a new perspective on your life, something philosophical or spiritual that you read or learn, or an adventure that takes you away from the mundane routines in your life.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until April 10th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From April 11th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From April 3rd forward:
Mercury transits your solar tenth house. You are likely thinking a lot about your career and business matters, or your career requires more communication than usual during this cycle. You speak with authority during this period, and you are more accountable than usual for what (and how) you communicate. Your ideas may come into public view now.
Use the power of words to influence authority figures. This is an excellent period for developing career and professional plans or strategies. You may be turned to for advice or for your opinion on important matters. Although approachable and ready to communicate, you are less inclined to chat about frivolous matters now.
You tend to think about your position or standing on a professional level more frequently during this cycle. You are likely doing some multi-tasking regarding career and business matters. Negative use of this influence would be to worry unnecessarily about your reputation and responsibilities.
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar tenth house this time, extra care should be exercised when communicating with the public, superiors, and co-workers. You may find that communications with bosses and co-workers, and concerning professional matters in general, can be tricky during this cycle. Strive to be as clear as possible so that you are not misunderstood when dealing with the public. Put off making definite career decisions as much as possible for the time being. You may be re-thinking matters regarding your life path, which is a good idea, but it's best to think rather than act for now, as your judgment may be compromised. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with authority figures during this cycle; or, better yet, take this time to rethink concerns and grievances before talking about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar twelfth house now. While Mars occupies the twelfth house, asserting yourself in a direct and straightforward manner can be difficult. This is largely due to a feeling of not being in touch with what it is you want or desire just for the time being as you reassess your goals and needs.
This lack of direction and self-knowledge should prompt you to look within to learn about your desires. It is likely that you will be much clearer when Mars reaches your first house. For the time being, take some time for rest and give your ego a break.
Overview Horoscope:
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
April holds diverse themes of mental exploration and growing ambitions, dear Leo, with strong showings in both your sectors of spirit and responsibility. You're open to exploring, expanding, and experiencing new things, but you're also checking in with your longer-term goals and paying particular attention to your work, obligations, and reputation this month. Work and career matters can thrive with your enterprising ideas.
With Mars in your hidden sector all month, you're not jumping to assert yourself. Planning and tying up loose ends seem more suitable. There can be some bottling up of anger or desires and possibly a solid reason for working behind the scenes. It can be a good month to tidy up the past in order to begin anew later when Mars transits your sign (Mars will be in Leo from May 20th to July 10th). Parts of you are on a symbolic retreat, which is good for you. If you've been overdoing things, you recognize and feel it deeply now.
Your daily, mundane routines can seem exceptionally dull for now as you seek broader horizons and different experiences. Life's bigger questions intrigue you more than usual. Before you feel free and released, you still have some cleanup and inner work. Focus on healing yourself and dealing with self-limiting fears and attitudes.
The Full Moon on the 6th reminds you to pay your daily affairs their due attention, particularly if you've been focusing too heartily on everything else! There can be an epiphany about your everyday life, mobility, studies, general mental outlook, and communications.
The 10-11 is a beautiful time to expand a project, your knowledge, or your worldview. Promotion, publishing, education, communications, the law, and travel are in positive focus. Success has much to do with your visionary, optimistic approach. You might make beneficial long-distance connections.
Venus works magic on your reputation, career, or relationships with elders, bosses, or parents until the 11th. It's a good time for a better image, support, or sponsorship. There's more enjoyment of your professional life and responsibilities.
The Sun moves into this same area of your chart on the 20th, putting you in a more ambitious phase of the year. But just before it does, on the same day, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your spirit sector, and it's potent. You break from the past in some manner, which will help clear the path for a new beginning.
This eclipse is the first in a set of eclipses to occur over the coming two years that fall along your communications, learning, and transportation axis. As a set, they'll prompt you to make important changes in how you connect, learn, promote yourself, and get out and about.
Still, you close the month quite focused on professional and worldly concerns--you want to shine for what you do and contribute.
Consider that Mercury is retrograde from the 21st forward, and rethinking some of your goals or waiting on information can figure strongly. You may need to backtrack over work that you thought was complete. This review can eventually work to your advantage, as you'll be better prepared to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. The key now is to draw upon your progressive and inventive side and do things just a little differently.
Venus in your social sector from the 11th forward ensures you find plenty of moments to enjoy yourself. In fact, you're in great shape for appeal with friends, partners, or groups. You are a little more courageous about seeking the people you value most.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
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See also 2023 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2023 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 3 to 12)
AND Leo Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Leo:
April 2023 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
April 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now.
A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself. The only caution with this cycle is that you could lose touch with managing everyday affairs and important details.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on April 20th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar ninth house, suggesting that a new approach to the way you expand your horizons, be
they physical or mental (or both). New travel plans, education goals, or adventures may be formed in the coming months, and a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your ability to expand your personal world is a
strong potential.
This is a phase when you will be especially busy initiating new projects or activities that expand your mind, feed your spirit for adventure, and stretch your imagination. You may feel renewed by a new perspective on your life, something philosophical or spiritual that you read or learn, or an adventure that takes you away from the mundane routines in your life.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until April 19th:
Venus continues to transit your solar tenth house. Relationships with authority figures, superiors, and with the public are in focus during this cycle. It's a strong period for diplomatic relations, although a negative expression of this position could be bending over backwards to please rather than positive, friendly relations. It's a time when being a team player reaps the most rewards, and you may be mixing business with pleasure now. This may be a time when you are especially enjoying your career or position and making the most of it.
From April 19th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until April 10th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar ninth house. During this cycle, you are especially fond of exchanging ideas with others, particularly your personal philosophies. You are inclined to take a broader look at things now, rather than concentrate on the details. You are communicating with more persuasiveness, enthusiasm, and optimism at this time.
From April 11th:
Mercury transits your solar tenth house. You are likely thinking a lot about your career and business matters, or your career requires more communication than usual during this cycle. You speak with authority during this period, and you are more accountable than usual for what (and how) you communicate. Your ideas may come into public view now.
Use the power of words to influence authority figures. This is an excellent period for developing career and professional plans or strategies. You may be turned to for advice or for your opinion on important matters. Although approachable and ready to communicate, you are less inclined to chat about frivolous matters now.
You tend to think about your position or standing on a professional level more frequently during this cycle. You are likely doing some multi-tasking regarding career and business matters. Negative use of this influence would be to worry unnecessarily about your reputation and responsibilities.
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar tenth house this time, extra care should be exercised when communicating with the public, superiors, and co-workers. You may find that communications with bosses and co-workers, and concerning professional matters in general, can be tricky during this cycle. Strive to be as clear as possible so that you are not misunderstood when dealing with the public. Put off making definite career decisions as much as possible for the time being. You may be re-thinking matters regarding your life path, which is a good idea, but it's best to think rather than act for now, as your judgment may be compromised. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with authority figures during this cycle; or, better yet, take this time to rethink concerns and grievances before talking about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until April 13th:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
From April 14th forward:
With Mars moving through your solar twelfth house, this is the time to research and reflect upon your goals. It can be a time when past actions catch up with you--and this is not necessarily a bad thing!
It could also be a time when much of your energy is channeled into private matters, or when you prefer that others not observe what you are doing. This is natural--you may just as well do your best work alone for now. Unconscious behavior patterns could influence the way you assert yourself.
Some may experience insomnia during this phase, especially if they are not allowing themselves the chance to recoup and if they are not letting their intuition serve them. Others may enjoy a more active dreaming life (this includes day-dreaming), and, if allowed to run free, the imagination can serve them very well, especially with regards to goals and new concepts.
Overview Horoscope:
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
April holds diverse themes of mental exploration and growing ambitions, dear Leo, with strong showings in both your sectors of spirit and responsibility. You're open to exploring, expanding, and experiencing new things, but you're also checking in with your longer-term goals and paying particular attention to your work, obligations, and reputation this month. Work and career matters can thrive with your enterprising ideas.
With Mars in your hidden sector all month, you're not jumping to assert yourself. Planning and tying up loose ends seem more suitable. There can be some bottling up of anger or desires and possibly a solid reason for working behind the scenes. It can be a good month to tidy up the past in order to begin anew later when Mars transits your sign (Mars will be in Leo from May 20th to July 10th). Parts of you are on a symbolic retreat, which is good for you. If you've been overdoing things, you recognize and feel it deeply now.
Your daily, mundane routines can seem exceptionally dull for now as you seek broader horizons and different experiences. Life's bigger questions intrigue you more than usual. Before you feel free and released, you still have some cleanup and inner work. Focus on healing yourself and dealing with self-limiting fears and attitudes.
The Full Moon on the 6th reminds you to pay your daily affairs their due attention, particularly if you've been focusing too heartily on everything else! There can be an epiphany about your everyday life, mobility, studies, general mental outlook, and communications.
The 10-11 is a beautiful time to expand a project, your knowledge, or your worldview. Promotion, publishing, education, communications, the law, and travel are in positive focus. Success has much to do with your visionary, optimistic approach. You might make beneficial long-distance connections.
Venus works magic on your reputation, career, or relationships with elders, bosses, or parents until the 11th. It's a good time for a better image, support, or sponsorship. There's more enjoyment of your professional life and responsibilities.
The Sun moves into this same area of your chart on the 20th, putting you in a more ambitious phase of the year. But just before it does, on the same day, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your spirit sector, and it's potent. You break from the past in some manner, which will help clear the path for a new beginning.
This eclipse is the first in a set of eclipses to occur over the coming two years that fall along your communications, learning, and transportation axis. As a set, they'll prompt you to make important changes in how you connect, learn, promote yourself, and get out and about.
Still, you close the month quite focused on professional and worldly concerns--you want to shine for what you do and contribute.
Consider that Mercury is retrograde from the 21st forward, and rethinking some of your goals or waiting on information can figure strongly. You may need to backtrack over work that you thought was complete. This review can eventually work to your advantage, as you'll be better prepared to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. The key now is to draw upon your progressive and inventive side and do things just a little differently.
Venus in your social sector from the 11th forward ensures you find plenty of moments to enjoy yourself. In fact, you're in great shape for appeal with friends, partners, or groups. You are a little more courageous about seeking the people you value most.
See our Time Line Forecast report for a personalized forecast for the year ahead.
Get your unique Personalized Horoscope for the year ahead—over 100 pages long—for a detailed guide to your best days and your most challenging days for attracting love, career success, communication, and more.
Know More About Yourself and Others
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
birth chart reports, relationship reports, future forecasts, and more.
Love & Romance Forecast Report
Love outlook for the year ahead. Try our Love & Romance Forecast report.
Romantic Compatibility Reports
Try Cafe Astrology's in-depth
romantic compatibility reports, including the Synastry and Love Ties reports.
See also 2023 Leo Preview Horoscope and the detailed 2023 Leo Yearly Horoscope.
Leo (Born August 13 to 22)
AND Leo Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Leo:
April 2023 Leo Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
April 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until April 9th:
The Sun continues to highlight your solar eighth house. Your attention turns inward, as well as to close personal relationships on a deeper level. Personal transformations, personal power, and intimate matters fulfill you most during this cycle. There may be a strong focus on other's money, such as the resources of a partner, inheritance, banking and loans, or taxes.
You are more intense in your mood and disposition, and perhaps even secretive, at this time of year. You are more in touch with the deeper and even primal elements of your own personality, and more able to see these things in others. This can be a determined and personally powerful time of year if you apply the energy of this transit constructively.
From April 10th forward:
This month, with the Sun spotlighting your solar ninth house, your focus turns outward, away from the more personal concerns that have occupied your thoughts in the last months. More than any other time during the year, you are feeling most adventurous and willing to take a leap of faith. This is a cycle in which you seek a higher meaning to your life, and/or seek out new experiences that take you beyond the here and now, and beyond the mundane details of day-to-day life. Anything that broadens your experiences attracts now.
A lack of superficiality finds you straight to the point, interested in the truth of things. It would be wise for you to consider scheduling a vacation, adventure of sorts, or a course that expands your mind. These don't have to happen now, but taking the time to recognize your needs for escaping the daily grind, taking a few risks, and feeding your spirit for self-expression through some form of adventure or higher learning, will help you to feel good about yourself. The only caution with this cycle is that you could lose touch with managing everyday affairs and important details.
Eclipses
A Solar Eclipse occurs on April 20th:
A general rule of thumb regarding eclipses is to avoid major decision-making in the week before and after an eclipse. This is because new information that could change our perspective often is revealed in the week after the eclipse. There is absolutely no need to suspend projects already in progress. Essentially, it's better to take in right now--to observe and get in touch with feelings.
The Solar Eclipse marks a new beginning for you. Letting go of the past is necessary in order to move forward. This eclipse occurs in your solar ninth house, suggesting that a new approach to the way you expand your horizons, be
they physical or mental (or both). New travel plans, education goals, or adventures may be formed in the coming months, and a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your ability to expand your personal world is a
strong potential.
This is a phase when you will be especially busy initiating new projects or activities that expand your mind, feed your spirit for adventure, and stretch your imagination. You may feel renewed by a new perspective on your life, something philosophical or spiritual that you read or learn, or an adventure that takes you away from the mundane routines in your life.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
From the 2-28:
Venus graces your solar tenth house now. During this cycle, you are most charming and well-received on the job. Your responsibility and authority are likeable qualities now, making this a favorable period overall for schmoozing with those in a higher position than you, as well as for negotiations or social activities related to business. Venus is charming, friendly, and affectionate, and her presence in your career and reputation sector brings social opportunities to your career. You are coming across well at work now, and romantic opportunities, or simply more chances to socialize and network, are likely. You are socially ambitious right now, and success may come through your good managerial qualities or some form of artistic talent, or, indirectly through your marriage partner. People who turn your head during this cycle are those who come across as especially competent.
From April 28th forward:
Venus graces your solar eleventh house now. Forming harmonious, warm social friendships, possibly related to group activities within a club, can figure now. You may meet someone through such group activities; consequently, your interests will be shared. Whether or not you do, the bottom line is that sharing interests with someone is what makes you happy during this cycle. Venus here enlivens your friendships and group associations with charm and grace. You are more peace-loving than usual and slightly detached on a personal level. If a romance were to begin during this time frame, it would be characterized by a strong feeling of camaraderie, but it could also be rather impersonal and perhaps lacking in depth and intimacy.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
This month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar ninth house. During this cycle, you are especially fond of exchanging ideas with others, particularly your personal philosophies. You are inclined to take a broader look at things now, rather than concentrate on the details. You are communicating with more persuasiveness, enthusiasm, and optimism at this time.
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of personal finances, as well as communications with friends or groups, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. Major financial initiatives should be avoided. Remember that friends don't mean what they say and don't say what they mean, and take what you hear with a grain of salt. Group meetings may be delayed or cancelled.
Occurring in your solar ninth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding travel or education plans. Delays or complications are very possible in these areas. Go over applications carefully before submitting them and make sure you understand instructions clearly. Expressing your opinions now might come across in entirely the wrong way. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with professors and lawyers as well; or take this time to re-examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
This month:
Mars continues to activate your solar eleventh house. You take a more direct approach to realizing your dreams now, rather than simply hoping and wishing.
You might find that you have more energy and enthusiasm for spending time with others, but arguments now may be with or on behalf of friends. You can be especially effective at encouraging others now, as well as at leading or organizing a group.
Overview Horoscope:
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo:
April holds diverse themes of mental exploration and growing ambitions, dear Leo, with strong showings in both your sectors of spirit and responsibility. You're open to exploring, expanding, and experiencing new things, but you're also checking in with your longer-term goals and paying particular attention to your work, obligations, and reputation this month. Work and career matters can thrive with your enterprising ideas.
With Mars in your hidden sector all month, you're not jumping to assert yourself. Planning and tying up loose ends seem more suitable. There can be some bottling up of anger or desires and possibly a solid reason for working behind the scenes. It can be a good month to tidy up the past in order to begin anew later when Mars transits your sign (Mars will be in Leo from May 20th to July 10th). Parts of you are on a symbolic retreat, which is good for you. If you've been overdoing things, you recognize and feel it deeply now.
Your daily, mundane routines can seem exceptionally dull for now as you seek broader horizons and different experiences. Life's bigger questions intrigue you more than usual. Before you feel free and released, you still have some cleanup and inner work. Focus on healing yourself and dealing with self-limiting fears and attitudes.
The Full Moon on the 6th reminds you to pay your daily affairs their due attention, particularly if you've been focusing too heartily on everything else! There can be an epiphany about your everyday life, mobility, studies, general mental outlook, and communications.
The 10-11 is a beautiful time to expand a project, your knowledge, or your worldview. Promotion, publishing, education, communications, the law, and travel are in positive focus. Success has much to do with your visionary, optimistic approach. You might make beneficial long-distance connections.
Venus works magic on your reputation, career, or relationships with elders, bosses, or parents until the 11th. It's a good time for a better image, support, or sponsorship. There's more enjoyment of your professional life and responsibilities.
The Sun moves into this same area of your chart on the 20th, putting you in a more ambitious phase of the year. But just before it does, on the same day, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your spirit sector, and it's potent. You break from the past in some manner, which will help clear the path for a new beginning.
This eclipse is the first in a set of eclipses to occur over the coming two years that fall along your communications, learning, and transportation axis. As a set, they'll prompt you to make important changes in how you connect, learn, promote yourself, and get out and about.
Still, you close the month quite focused on professional and worldly concerns--you want to shine for what you do and contribute.
Consider that Mercury is retrograde from the 21st forward, and rethinking some of your goals or waiting on information can figure strongly. You may need to backtrack over work that you thought was complete. This review can eventually work to your advantage, as you'll be better prepared to take advantage of the opportunities that come your way. The key now is to draw upon your progressive and inventive side and do things just a little differently.
Venus in your social sector from the 11th forward ensures you find plenty of moments to enjoy yourself. In fact, you're in great shape for appeal with friends, partners, or groups. You are a little more courageous about seeking the people you value most.
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Our detailed monthly horoscopes are designed to reveal and interpret the current transits of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars in your solar chart. Because these energies or transits do not unfold neatly into any given calendar month (many transits carry forward from one month to the next), you will find some of the energies continue from the previous month.
For example, the Sun might transit the second house of your solar chart from June 21 to July 22, so that you will find a similar interpretation for this transit in both June and July’s horoscope. This is normal and expected. While new months can hold new energy, transits don’t abruptly change because the calendar month changes.
These monthly horoscopes also include an overview paragraph, as well as other energies specific to the month, such as retrogrades, eclipses, or major outer planet transits.
The Highlights section reveals lunar cycle dates. Lunar cycles repeat themselves approximately every 28 days, so it is normal to see the same lunar peaks, such as “Your Personal New Moon” and “Monthly career peak” repeat themselves from month to month, but with different dates. They serve as a helpful guide to cycle peaks in different areas of life, such as financial, career, romance, and partnership.
For easier reading, the horoscopes are divided into three groups or decanates, and the differences between the groups are subtle in parts and large in other parts. However, for those who prefer a whole sign approach to horoscopes (classic), simply read the first decanate regardless of your birthdate.
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