Libra Monthly Horoscope
{Monthly Horoscopes 2023}
A horoscope guide to the month ahead for Libra Sun and Libra Ascendant.
April 2023 Horoscope: Predictions for Libra
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We divide our 2023 monthly horoscopes into 3 groups (or decanates/decans) per sign for more accuracy. Remember that if you know your Ascendant, read forecasts for both your Sun sign and your Ascendant sign. If you know your birth time, but don’t know your Ascendant, be sure to see How to Obtain Your Astrology Chart here or use Cafe Astrology’s Ascendant Calculator.
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Overview for this Month: Libra (All)
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
April puts the focus on your relationships and special interests, dear Libra. Circumstances are such that you see the value of joining forces, compromise, and balance. Possible themes include consultations, public relations, partnerships, and sharing. Working with others rather than competing against them is in focus. Equality and harmony are even more important to you than usual. People can mirror issues that you haven't yet recognized or acknowledged. Even conflicts with others tend to teach you something about yourself. Aim to be open to this possibility.
Major focuses this month are your relationships, companionability, and intimacy. Even so, it's one of your more ambitious months of the year. Your competitive, enterprising nature comes to the fore, and you readily throw yourself into pursuing your goals.
Important agreements are likely this month. But if you've put so much energy into making things possible for other people that you forget your own needs, the Full Moon in your sign on the 6th will help to restore some balance. You can have an epiphany at this time.
While there's a strong focus on partnering and compromising, another trend with you is independent and involves your career or relationship with those in authority. This energy is sometimes at odds with your otherwise compromising nature this month. Ambition is stirring with Mars at the top of your solar chart all month. Or there can be a surge of motivation and energy for developing a life plan. You're goal-oriented. You may want to go it alone on some level, even though you are also strongly attracted to joining forces with someone, and this can cause a few problems. Follow your ambitions, but be as considerate as possible to those around you, and on the other hand, avoid pushing yourself so hard that you burn yourself out.
You bring more energy and innovation to your working life this month. You're self-motivated and prefer not to answer to others. In the process, you might arouse opposition or generate competition. You have more courage to get something off the ground, and you're up for a challenge. It's a time when you don't accept stagnation, so take advantage!
The best version of yourself tends to shine forth when in one-on-one situations and partnerships. A partner or someone special often brings out the best in you! Whether or not you are aware of it, you attract people and situations that benefit your personal growth. It's a time to believe in your ability to contribute much to a partnership. Someone can have an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you. Aim to address any need that might arise in a current relationship for growth and development rather than wait for matters to force themselves.
There can be power in teaming up and combining your talents with someone this month. Conversations and musings about private, personal, or otherwise "not talked about" matters can be rewarding. Release through music, writing, or discussion can be healing. It's an auspicious time for discovery and insight.
From the 11th, your ruling planet, Venus, moves in harmony with your sign. It's an excellent time to discover what you truly value and which projects will benefit you the most in the long run.
On the 20th, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your partnership sector. It's the first of a set of eclipses in your sign and opposing sign, and it's a set that will stick around for the coming two years. This one can be considered the first cosmic push to take charge of your relationships. You'll explore issues surrounding independence and togetherness, and today's eclipse brings a charge of energy to your partnership sector. Relationship needs awaken, and unusual impulses can overcome you now that push you into a new beginning. This can be about ending or starting a partnership, redefining an existing one, or defining what you do and don't want from others.
On the same day, the Sun enters your solar eighth house, starting a month-long cycle in which you have more power to make personal transformations. It's a more introspective, deeper, intense period of the year.
Still, on the 21st, Mercury turns retrograde in your intimacy sector, and there can be minor complications with money, sharing, intimacy, and dependencies. It can be a time for reassessments or waiting for answers on financial and relationship fronts, but it can also give you the opportunity–in the form of a blessing in disguise–to better pace yourself.
Even with some focus on the past, you're growing and improving. New insights can be intensely revealing, particularly about money, love, or intimacy. It's essential to feel inspired by what you're doing–if you have that, you can move mountains.
See also This Month in Astrology.
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Libra (Born September 24 to October 3) and Libra Ascendant 0 to 10 degrees Libra:
April 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
April 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until April 20th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar seventh house--your partnership sector. This can be a time of much learning through the mirror of close relationships. It's not the time to push your agenda or personal plans forward; rather, it's a cycle in which you are at your best when you recognize the need to form alliances, to give back to a special someone, and to compromise in order to find some balance in your life.
It's a strong period for putting yourself into another person's shoes and to better understand him/her. You may be meeting with someone strong and assertive by nature now, or a partner is more assertive and needy of attention. There may be some competitive feelings between you and a significant other now. Focus is on reconciliation, forming or cementing bonds, diplomacy, consultation, one-on-one interactions, and negotiations. You may feel a little drained physically now, temporarily.
From April 20th forward:
The Sun energizes your sector of transformation, change, sexuality, personal growth, regeneration, others' money and resources, addictions, and taxes. As a result, this is not the most gregarious of months for you. You take a step back, focus on intimacy with a partner, or simply retreat a little from the hectic pace of life. This is an excellent time to create a budget or financial plan, or to rid yourself of bad habits that undermine your sense of personal power and self-mastery.
All that is deeply personal comes into focus now. Intimate matters are especially important to you during this cycle. Just how well you are handling your life comes up for inspection. Your self-mastery skills and psychological predisposition matter to you more than usual. This is the time of year when you are most desirous of change on a deep level. Clearing out psychic "junk" or ridding yourself of bad habits may be part of the picture now. You are more willing than usual to explore life's secrets.
This cycle brings greater in-depth understanding and an inclination to delve beneath the surface of matters to get to the bottom of them. Research uncovers new material that allows you to develop a better overall picture of the year's events. This is an especially introspective cycle during which you have the chance to truly uncover your personal strengths and talents. On a more practical level, you may be dealing with joint finances and shared resources now more than usual.
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 seventh house, suggesting a new approach to dealing with others is in order. A new set-up in existing partnerships or a new relationship altogether may be formed in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your one-to-one relationship skills.
This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of the need for someone significant to lean on or to rely on. You may also begin a consulting position or you could enjoy an increase in clients if you already work with people one-on-one.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort, Pleasure
Until April 10th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eighth house during this period. You are attracted to the deeper elements of relationships and social interactions now, rather than what you meet on the surface. Mysteries fascinate you and you could be looking for others' motives for doing and saying what they do. It's a good time to feel supported by others, whether it's financially or emotionally. It's also a strong cycle for discovering your own hidden talents as well as fascinating things about a partner.
From April 11th forward:
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel. You have a taste for the exotic now that can show up in many areas of your life--who you are attracted to, what you buy, the kind of art or entertainment you enjoy, and so forth.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
From April 3rd forward:
Mercury transits your solar eighth house. You are more intuitive now than usual, picking up all of the hidden cues from people around you and reading between the lines. This is an excellent cycle in which to do some financial planning and strategizing.
Research is also highly favored. It's easier for you to approach sensitive, intimate, and personal matters with rationality and logic. As such, this is a great time to open up conversations about topics that normally might cause waves, such as those revolving around the sharing of power, intimacy, and finances.
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications involving legal affairs, travel, and education, as well as communications about the past, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. With Virgo ruling your twelfth house sector, somebody might be deceiving you or working against you, or nagging issues from the past may crop up and demand attention. Put off making solid travel plans if possible.
Occurring in your solar eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
All month:
Mars continues to energize your solar tenth house now. You bring much energy, enthusiasm, and drive to your career or to directing activities in your life during this cycle. You may be quite competitive during this period, preferring to achieve and accomplish things on your own. This attitude can, in some cases, be seen by others as an instigating or otherwise offensive energy, so be aware of that possibility.
This is a strong time for directly pursuing your goals, and, if you need that extra push or oomph to get a plan going, particularly a professional one, or to assert your desires, then this is the time. You are self-motivated, and your enthusiasm can be harnessed if you so choose.
Overview Horoscope:
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
April puts the focus on your relationships and special interests, dear Libra. Circumstances are such that you see the value of joining forces, compromise, and balance. Possible themes include consultations, public relations, partnerships, and sharing. Working with others rather than competing against them is in focus. Equality and harmony are even more important to you than usual. People can mirror issues that you haven't yet recognized or acknowledged. Even conflicts with others tend to teach you something about yourself. Aim to be open to this possibility.
Major focuses this month are your relationships, companionability, and intimacy. Even so, it's one of your more ambitious months of the year. Your competitive, enterprising nature comes to the fore, and you readily throw yourself into pursuing your goals.
Important agreements are likely this month. But if you've put so much energy into making things possible for other people that you forget your own needs, the Full Moon in your sign on the 6th will help to restore some balance. You can have an epiphany at this time.
While there's a strong focus on partnering and compromising, another trend with you is independent and involves your career or relationship with those in authority. This energy is sometimes at odds with your otherwise compromising nature this month. Ambition is stirring with Mars at the top of your solar chart all month. Or there can be a surge of motivation and energy for developing a life plan. You're goal-oriented. You may want to go it alone on some level, even though you are also strongly attracted to joining forces with someone, and this can cause a few problems. Follow your ambitions, but be as considerate as possible to those around you, and on the other hand, avoid pushing yourself so hard that you burn yourself out.
You bring more energy and innovation to your working life this month. You're self-motivated and prefer not to answer to others. In the process, you might arouse opposition or generate competition. You have more courage to get something off the ground, and you're up for a challenge. It's a time when you don't accept stagnation, so take advantage!
The best version of yourself tends to shine forth when in one-on-one situations and partnerships. A partner or someone special often brings out the best in you! Whether or not you are aware of it, you attract people and situations that benefit your personal growth. It's a time to believe in your ability to contribute much to a partnership. Someone can have an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you. Aim to address any need that might arise in a current relationship for growth and development rather than wait for matters to force themselves.
There can be power in teaming up and combining your talents with someone this month. Conversations and musings about private, personal, or otherwise "not talked about" matters can be rewarding. Release through music, writing, or discussion can be healing. It's an auspicious time for discovery and insight.
From the 11th, your ruling planet, Venus, moves in harmony with your sign. It's an excellent time to discover what you truly value and which projects will benefit you the most in the long run.
On the 20th, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your partnership sector. It's the first of a set of eclipses in your sign and opposing sign, and it's a set that will stick around for the coming two years. This one can be considered the first cosmic push to take charge of your relationships. You'll explore issues surrounding independence and togetherness, and today's eclipse brings a charge of energy to your partnership sector. Relationship needs awaken, and unusual impulses can overcome you now that push you into a new beginning. This can be about ending or starting a partnership, redefining an existing one, or defining what you do and don't want from others.
On the same day, the Sun enters your solar eighth house, starting a month-long cycle in which you have more power to make personal transformations. It's a more introspective, deeper, intense period of the year.
Still, on the 21st, Mercury turns retrograde in your intimacy sector, and there can be minor complications with money, sharing, intimacy, and dependencies. It can be a time for reassessments or waiting for answers on financial and relationship fronts, but it can also give you the opportunity–in the form of a blessing in disguise–to better pace yourself.
Even with some focus on the past, you're growing and improving. New insights can be intensely revealing, particularly about money, love, or intimacy. It's essential to feel inspired by what you're doing–if you have that, you can move mountains.
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 general trends for Libra in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Libra Horoscope.
Libra (Born October 4 to 13) and Libra Ascendant from 10 to 20 degrees Libra:
April 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
April 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
All month:
The Sun illuminates your seventh house. At this time of year, you have a greater need than usual to be with a partner. Bouncing ideas off someone helps you to better understand yourself. A partner provides a mirror for your own self-discovery. Now is the time to realize your own potential through a significant other. During this cycle, you focus on balancing your personal interests and objectives with your social life, or with those of a partner. The emphasis is on "us" rather than "me".
You need the energies, companionship, and support of other people, and they may also seek out your support and companionship. It's important to include others rather than to go solo for the time being. However, bending too much to the will of another is not advised either. Social interactions of a personal, one-on-one kind are emphasized. Circumstances are such that your diplomacy skills are required. Your popularity is increasing, and is reinforced by your own ability to cooperate and harmonize. Your ego and pride are tied up in how you relate to others now. This may be an especially busy time for people who consult or work with clients one-on-one.
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 seventh house, suggesting a new approach to dealing with others is in order. A new set-up in existing partnerships or a new relationship altogether may be formed in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your one-to-one relationship skills.
This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of the need for someone significant to lean on or to rely on. You may also begin a consulting position or you could enjoy an increase in clients if you already work with people one-on-one.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
Until April 19th:
Venus continues to move through your solar eighth house during this period. You are attracted to the deeper elements of relationships and social interactions now, rather than what you meet on the surface. Mysteries fascinate you and you could be looking for others' motives for doing and saying what they do. It's a good time to feel supported by others, whether it's financially or emotionally. It's also a strong cycle for discovering your own hidden talents as well as fascinating things about a partner.
From April 19th forward:
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel. You have a taste for the exotic now that can show up in many areas of your life--who you are attracted to, what you buy, the kind of art or entertainment you enjoy, and so forth.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
Until April 10th:
Mercury continues to transit your solar seventh house. You can be especially aware of your "audience" in your communications now, which tend to be diplomatic and respectful during this cycle. You may be encountering an especially chatty or communicative partner, or meeting youthful, talkative people.
At this time, you love to hear others' opinions and perspectives, and it's an excellent time to do so. Others can spur on your own thinking and decision making processes now, simply by offering another perspective. You are thinking a lot about others, a partner, and relating in general, and in some cases perhaps worrying over these things.
From April 11th:
Mercury transits your solar eighth house. You are more intuitive now than usual, picking up all of the hidden cues from people around you and reading between the lines. This is an excellent cycle in which to do some financial planning and strategizing.
Research is also highly favored. It's easier for you to approach sensitive, intimate, and personal matters with rationality and logic. As such, this is a great time to open up conversations about topics that normally might cause waves, such as those revolving around the sharing of power, intimacy, and finances.
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 eighth house this time, extra care should be exercised regarding any financial initiatives that involve shared resources. Delays are very possible when it comes to receiving support, loans, and taxes. It may be better to side-step arguments with loved ones that revolve around intimacy and sexuality just for now, or approach these matters with more sensitivity if they can't be left for a better time. Investments made now may not go the way you want them to, particularly those involving joint finances. It may be hard to rely on the input of your partner now, and money you were counting on may not be forthcoming. It's best to budget rather than spend during this period, and in fact it's an excellent period for review. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with financial officials and intimate partners; or take this time to re- examine issues rather than communicating about them prematurely.
Mars this Month: Energy, Drive, Courage
Until April 13th:
Mars continues to animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
From April 14th forward:
Mars animates and energizes your solar tenth house. This transit stimulates your ambition and/or your desire to be recognized for your accomplishments. Whether it's professional or personal, you are likely to have an increased desire for others to notice you. This can be a good time to become self-employed or start a business if other factors (and Mars itself) are favorable. Conflicts with those in authority are possible now. You may pour more energy into self-promotion or business/career activities.
Overview Horoscope:
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
April puts the focus on your relationships and special interests, dear Libra. Circumstances are such that you see the value of joining forces, compromise, and balance. Possible themes include consultations, public relations, partnerships, and sharing. Working with others rather than competing against them is in focus. Equality and harmony are even more important to you than usual. People can mirror issues that you haven't yet recognized or acknowledged. Even conflicts with others tend to teach you something about yourself. Aim to be open to this possibility.
Major focuses this month are your relationships, companionability, and intimacy. Even so, it's one of your more ambitious months of the year. Your competitive, enterprising nature comes to the fore, and you readily throw yourself into pursuing your goals.
Important agreements are likely this month. But if you've put so much energy into making things possible for other people that you forget your own needs, the Full Moon in your sign on the 6th will help to restore some balance. You can have an epiphany at this time.
While there's a strong focus on partnering and compromising, another trend with you is independent and involves your career or relationship with those in authority. This energy is sometimes at odds with your otherwise compromising nature this month. Ambition is stirring with Mars at the top of your solar chart all month. Or there can be a surge of motivation and energy for developing a life plan. You're goal-oriented. You may want to go it alone on some level, even though you are also strongly attracted to joining forces with someone, and this can cause a few problems. Follow your ambitions, but be as considerate as possible to those around you, and on the other hand, avoid pushing yourself so hard that you burn yourself out.
You bring more energy and innovation to your working life this month. You're self-motivated and prefer not to answer to others. In the process, you might arouse opposition or generate competition. You have more courage to get something off the ground, and you're up for a challenge. It's a time when you don't accept stagnation, so take advantage!
The best version of yourself tends to shine forth when in one-on-one situations and partnerships. A partner or someone special often brings out the best in you! Whether or not you are aware of it, you attract people and situations that benefit your personal growth. It's a time to believe in your ability to contribute much to a partnership. Someone can have an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you. Aim to address any need that might arise in a current relationship for growth and development rather than wait for matters to force themselves.
There can be power in teaming up and combining your talents with someone this month. Conversations and musings about private, personal, or otherwise "not talked about" matters can be rewarding. Release through music, writing, or discussion can be healing. It's an auspicious time for discovery and insight.
From the 11th, your ruling planet, Venus, moves in harmony with your sign. It's an excellent time to discover what you truly value and which projects will benefit you the most in the long run.
On the 20th, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your partnership sector. It's the first of a set of eclipses in your sign and opposing sign, and it's a set that will stick around for the coming two years. This one can be considered the first cosmic push to take charge of your relationships. You'll explore issues surrounding independence and togetherness, and today's eclipse brings a charge of energy to your partnership sector. Relationship needs awaken, and unusual impulses can overcome you now that push you into a new beginning. This can be about ending or starting a partnership, redefining an existing one, or defining what you do and don't want from others.
On the same day, the Sun enters your solar eighth house, starting a month-long cycle in which you have more power to make personal transformations. It's a more introspective, deeper, intense period of the year.
Still, on the 21st, Mercury turns retrograde in your intimacy sector, and there can be minor complications with money, sharing, intimacy, and dependencies. It can be a time for reassessments or waiting for answers on financial and relationship fronts, but it can also give you the opportunity–in the form of a blessing in disguise–to better pace yourself.
Even with some focus on the past, you're growing and improving. New insights can be intensely revealing, particularly about money, love, or intimacy. It's essential to feel inspired by what you're doing–if you have that, you can move mountains.
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 general trends for Libra in 2023 and the full 2023 Yearly Libra Horoscope.
Libra (Born October 14 to 23) and Libra Ascendant from 20 to 30 degrees Libra:
April 2023 Libra Horoscope: Love, Career, & General Trends
April 2023
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until April 9th:
The Sun continues to spotlight your solar sixth house. This is a busy period that finds you tending to many different details of your daily existence--your work, various projects, organization around the home and office, your daily routines, and health matters. Your ego may be especially tied up in the work you do, so that you are proud and more creative than usual in your job. You may be in the position to take charge in your work, or to take charge of your health and diet. Sometimes this cycle relates to increased activities involving pets. You seek to perfect your skills or methods now, and you focus on the parts that make up the whole now in order to improve your daily life. As a result, you can be more critical than usual, but this process is necessary for you to sort out what works for you and what doesn't.
From April 10th forward:
The Sun illuminates your seventh house. At this time of year, you have a greater need than usual to be with a partner. Bouncing ideas off someone helps you to better understand yourself. A partner provides a mirror for your own self-discovery. Now is the time to realize your own potential through a significant other. During this cycle, you focus on balancing your personal interests and objectives with your social life, or with those of a partner. The emphasis is on "us" rather than "me".
You need the energies, companionship, and support of other people, and they may also seek out your support and companionship. It's important to include others rather than to go solo for the time being. However, bending too much to the will of another is not advised either. Social interactions of a personal, one-on-one kind are emphasized. Circumstances are such that your diplomacy skills are required. Your popularity is increasing, and is reinforced by your own ability to cooperate and harmonize. Your ego and pride are tied up in how you relate to others now. This may be an especially busy time for people who consult or work with clients one-on-one.
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 seventh house, suggesting a new approach to dealing with others is in order. A new set-up in existing partnerships or a new relationship altogether may be formed in the coming months, as well as a sense of renewal and reinvigoration with regards to your one-to-one relationship skills.
This is a phase when you have an increased awareness of the need for someone significant to lean on or to rely on. You may also begin a consulting position or you could enjoy an increase in clients if you already work with people one-on-one.
Venus this Month: Love, Romance, Social Life, Comfort
From the 2-28:
Venus graces your solar eighth house now. During this cycle, a financial boost is possible, or you may gain financially through your partner. A deep and intimate connection made now could be revitalizing and even healing. You are more inclined to want to smooth over differences in a partnership concerning the sharing of power, intimacy matters, finances, and other emotionally-charged topics. Intimate relationships are intensified now. Either you or your partner want a deeper union.
From April 28th forward:
Venus graces your solar ninth house during this period. A taste for the exotic takes hold during this cycle. Routine affairs simply don't seem to satisfy. You receive pleasure from anything that expands your horizons, both physically and mentally. Foreign people and places may particularly appeal now. You tend to be expansive and generous when it comes to love. A love interest who attracts you during this cycle may be somebody who you previously wouldn't consider attractive, or someone whose cultural background is very different than yours. You have a taste for the exotic and the spirit to match. Public relations work, promotion, and other such endeavors are favored now. It is more about how you express yourself than the specifics of what you are saying that helps sway others to your position. There could be especial rapport with foreigners and with women if you are traveling during this period. You are all the more attractive and charming with this position, which increases your popularity. If a romance were to begin now, it is more likely to be with someone of a different background or educational level, or someone you meet through travel. You have a taste for the exotic now that can show up in many areas of your life--who you are attracted to, what you buy, the kind of art or entertainment you enjoy, and so forth.
Mercury this Month: Communications, Learning, Connections, Transportation
This month:
Mercury continues to transit your solar seventh house. You can be especially aware of your "audience" in your communications now, which tend to be diplomatic and respectful during this cycle. You may be encountering an especially chatty or communicative partner, or meeting youthful, talkative people.
At this time, you love to hear others' opinions and perspectives, and it's an excellent time to do so. Others can spur on your own thinking and decision making processes now, simply by offering another perspective. You are thinking a lot about others, a partner, and relating in general, and in some cases perhaps worrying over these things.
Mercury is retrograde from April 21st to May 14th:
All Mercury retrograde cycles particularly affect you in terms of communications involving legal affairs, travel, and education, as well as communications about the past, because Mercury rules these areas of your life. With Virgo ruling your twelfth house sector, somebody might be deceiving you or working against you, or nagging issues from the past may crop up and demand attention. Put off making solid travel plans if possible.
Occurring in your solar seventh house this time, extra care should be exercised when it comes to negotiations and one-on-one communications. Be as non-judgmental as you can with a partner. There may be the need to revisit old issues in a partnership, or there could be some communication problems with a partner. An ex-partner may resurface during this cycle. Misunderstandings with your partner now can do some damage if you (or your partner) focus on the choice of words instead of the meanings behind the words. If you need to talk through problems, try not to over-react to what your partner has to say. Mixed messages coming from a partner, or a disappointment, could occur now. You may not be as adept at mediating disputes for the time being, but it's a good cycle in which to reflect upon your negotiation skills with the goal of improving them. Re-thinking a partnership arrangement is possible now, but you should avoid jumping to any premature decisions. It would be wise to be especially clear when it comes to communicating with partners; 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 animate and energize your solar ninth house. Your energy levels and sense of timing are good during this cycle. You are strong and bold in your beliefs and convictions as well, and others tend to naturally follow your lead. You actively seek out new learning experiences and have a strong desire to set out on new adventures, however big or small. Others find you easy to be around, even inspiring and energizing, and are attracted to your assertiveness and courage.
Overview Horoscope:
April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra:
April puts the focus on your relationships and special interests, dear Libra. Circumstances are such that you see the value of joining forces, compromise, and balance. Possible themes include consultations, public relations, partnerships, and sharing. Working with others rather than competing against them is in focus. Equality and harmony are even more important to you than usual. People can mirror issues that you haven't yet recognized or acknowledged. Even conflicts with others tend to teach you something about yourself. Aim to be open to this possibility.
Major focuses this month are your relationships, companionability, and intimacy. Even so, it's one of your more ambitious months of the year. Your competitive, enterprising nature comes to the fore, and you readily throw yourself into pursuing your goals.
Important agreements are likely this month. But if you've put so much energy into making things possible for other people that you forget your own needs, the Full Moon in your sign on the 6th will help to restore some balance. You can have an epiphany at this time.
While there's a strong focus on partnering and compromising, another trend with you is independent and involves your career or relationship with those in authority. This energy is sometimes at odds with your otherwise compromising nature this month. Ambition is stirring with Mars at the top of your solar chart all month. Or there can be a surge of motivation and energy for developing a life plan. You're goal-oriented. You may want to go it alone on some level, even though you are also strongly attracted to joining forces with someone, and this can cause a few problems. Follow your ambitions, but be as considerate as possible to those around you, and on the other hand, avoid pushing yourself so hard that you burn yourself out.
You bring more energy and innovation to your working life this month. You're self-motivated and prefer not to answer to others. In the process, you might arouse opposition or generate competition. You have more courage to get something off the ground, and you're up for a challenge. It's a time when you don't accept stagnation, so take advantage!
The best version of yourself tends to shine forth when in one-on-one situations and partnerships. A partner or someone special often brings out the best in you! Whether or not you are aware of it, you attract people and situations that benefit your personal growth. It's a time to believe in your ability to contribute much to a partnership. Someone can have an unusually encouraging and positive effect on you. Aim to address any need that might arise in a current relationship for growth and development rather than wait for matters to force themselves.
There can be power in teaming up and combining your talents with someone this month. Conversations and musings about private, personal, or otherwise "not talked about" matters can be rewarding. Release through music, writing, or discussion can be healing. It's an auspicious time for discovery and insight.
From the 11th, your ruling planet, Venus, moves in harmony with your sign. It's an excellent time to discover what you truly value and which projects will benefit you the most in the long run.
On the 20th, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your partnership sector. It's the first of a set of eclipses in your sign and opposing sign, and it's a set that will stick around for the coming two years. This one can be considered the first cosmic push to take charge of your relationships. You'll explore issues surrounding independence and togetherness, and today's eclipse brings a charge of energy to your partnership sector. Relationship needs awaken, and unusual impulses can overcome you now that push you into a new beginning. This can be about ending or starting a partnership, redefining an existing one, or defining what you do and don't want from others.
On the same day, the Sun enters your solar eighth house, starting a month-long cycle in which you have more power to make personal transformations. It's a more introspective, deeper, intense period of the year.
Still, on the 21st, Mercury turns retrograde in your intimacy sector, and there can be minor complications with money, sharing, intimacy, and dependencies. It can be a time for reassessments or waiting for answers on financial and relationship fronts, but it can also give you the opportunity–in the form of a blessing in disguise–to better pace yourself.
Even with some focus on the past, you're growing and improving. New insights can be intensely revealing, particularly about money, love, or intimacy. It's essential to feel inspired by what you're doing–if you have that, you can move mountains.
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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.
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