This Month in Astrology – April 2023

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:

You're in a more confident, open, and personally powerful chapter of your life, dear Aries, although your attention to home and family is also strong in April. You’re making your opportunities by putting more faith in yourself and your capabilities. Mars does challenge you from your sector of home, family, and self-image. You're still in a powerful position this month, as you're "owning" your life and ready to take charge. You simply have to jump over some hurdles to get to this positive headspace at one hundred percent.

The most significant area of passion and possible upheaval this month will likely involve your private world, family life, and home matters. You’re ambitious about these things now, desiring to make great changes that will last. There are bigger emotions at home than elsewhere, and tempers may be prominent. The trick is to avoid impatience and impulsiveness—strategize for best results.

You may want to rule the roost now, which can be successful if you’re a gentle leader! Mars energizes you to deal with problems or stagnation in your domestic life all month. Family, and possibly your own struggles with self-image, can sometimes conflict with your plans.

While you’ll be pursuing personal interests and craving more independence this month – and you’re pretty successful on these fronts – this can also be an important time for house cleaning of some variety, which can be on figurative and/or literal levels. Home renovations or minor improvements are possible now. Acknowledging and resolving problems with family or people you live with can be in focus. Look for the root of issues instead of seeking cosmetic fixes. There can be more considerable demands on your time and energy on the domestic front.

The Full Moon on the 6th brings an epiphany that helps you learn your heart's desire and brings more clarity after the moment's emotions settle. While the nature of a Full Moon is emotional, this lunation is suitable for seeking harmony. Getting there may involve some ups and downs.

More often than not, however, you're in the driver's seat with the Sun in your sign until the 20th. The changes you make in April seem to have visible, quick results.

Ideas for boosting business, your reputation, or your income can emerge. If you’ve been undervaluing yourself or your talents, you now want to make things right. Difficulties can arise if you get the feeling that others are not respecting you or your things.

Venus into your solar third house on the 11th finds you more sociable, connected, and curious. It's a great time to happily explore interesting topics. Others appreciate your words, ideas, and involvement.

The Solar Eclipse on the 20th is powerful. It occurs in the very last degree of your sign, and it can push you to leave something in your past in a big way so that you can begin anew. It helps pave the way for personal changes in the coming weeks and months. It's a time to reinvent yourself, such as with a new way of expressing and presenting yourself. Consider putting your best foot forward, as you are getting noticed and making a strong personal impression on others. You are braver and more adventurous, seeking out new experiences, and even if you aren’t consciously trying to find them, experiences will find you! Aim to get in touch with what you truly want.

Note that last month's New Moon was also in your sign, and this time, you can feel an urgency to make a sweeping change. You can be quite impulsive and filled with energy, but you need to pace yourself to make the best use of this time. Express yourself enthusiastically, without apology, and mindfully.

Your focus shifts further to practical affairs as the month progresses. Even with a Solar Eclipse in your sign just behind you, you strive for more predictability, comfort, and security in the last week of the month.

Keep in mind that Mercury is retrograde in your finances sector from the 21st forward, and it makes sense to look back before moving ahead with money matters. Still, you might discover new ways to improve your practical affairs, and you’re exceptionally resourceful with your time and energy. New ways of interacting with loved ones can yield surprisingly good results.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus:

You're getting attention in April, dear Taurus, but a good part of you is turning inward as you wind up a solar year. It's not an ideal time for manifesting, as you have a lot of inner "work" to do this month. New beginnings and significant real-world action can wait until you get yourself sorted, which involves reviewing and processing. There will surely be an attitude, path, or project that is now a burden to you somehow, and it's a good time to recognize this in preparation for Jupiter's move into your sign next month when you'll be far more outgoing.

The major challenge to your need for extra rest and meditation this month is Mars in your communications sector, which can often leave you feeling mentally wired. Your daily life, projects, and learning endeavors can threaten to interfere, but in truth, you can come to some form of balance if you put the effort forth. Watch carefully for alienating others through harsh words or speaking prematurely of matters better left alone for now, especially after Mercury's retrograde in your sign from the 21st.

On the other hand, this Mars transit is robust for enthusiastically pursuing special topics, learning, studies, and connecting. Even with the focus on winding down this month, Mars keeps you from idling. In fact, you might often be meditating in motion. There can be intellectual competitiveness or a strong desire to implement ideas. Finding ways to move at your own pace or work independently is best. You can quite effectively use the power of words to attract what you want for yourself.

With the Sun's position in your privacy sector and Mars in your communications sector, you might sometimes give off a "leave me alone" energy. While you prize time to yourself, it might be a good idea to let key people in your life know that it's not about them. Helping you along in this respect is Venus in your sign until the 11th. Your image improves, and people love your style.

All month, at least one major player is in your sign, so you are never without special attention and initiative in April. Still, catching up emotionally with recent events and circumstances is essential.

The 5-6 can bring difficult situations to a head related to work and chores or, perhaps more aptly, overwork. You're awakening to the need to improve your work-rest balance by paying more attention to your need for order in your daily life.

You want to make peace with the past and live a more emotionally empowering life. Certainly, there can be benefits to some level of solitude or moments of reflection this month.

The Sun emerges in your solar chart on the 20th, and a personal new year begins, but just before it does, a Solar Eclipse occurs in your privacy sector. This lunation gives a powerful nudge to put the past behind you in a significant way. It's the first in a set of eclipses occurring in the coming two years that will change your attitude toward work, service, and physical and mental health. While you're focusing on the past and how it has helped and hindered you, the Sun's move into your sign reminds you that life goes on! You're more noticeable, and this new Sun cycle encourages making an impression.

Mercury in your sign most of the month ensures you're busy and engaged, although sometimes too "on" for your own good. Take opportunities to clear your head from time to time. The retrograde period from the 21st forward may help with just that — it's a time for catching up. There can be times during the retrograde when you feel life is as slow as molasses, but you can make some excellent refinements.

As such, around the 20th, you may strongly desire to end something to begin anew. Something from deep within can emerge, and there can be sudden decisiveness about a matter that has kept you in a state of limbo for some time. Yet there are mixed signals with Mercury's retrograde turn, and perhaps some more thinking to do! It's important to feel and observe rather than jump into action.

Even with Mercury's retrograde, the last week of the month is strong for exploring your many interests. You're enthusiastic and likely to put special energy, effort, and time into learning endeavors, projects, personal interests, and life path or career goals. You can be particularly motivated to challenge yourself mentally. You're also moving into a personally powerful month. It's a time to nurture your independent spirit. You recognize opportunities where you may not have seen them before.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Gemini:

April brings a social theme to your world, dear Gemini, but you also pay more attention to your inner world and practical affairs this month. It's a fine time for networking, connecting, and sharing, which are not only satisfying, but they can bring benefits to your life. Money and friends can be a risky mix this month. However, very beneficial connections can occur through work and networks.

April can be a time of a deeper connection with your faith in happiness plans and goals. Opportunities to improve your links with friends, groups, and networks will likely emerge. It's a great time to set new goals and resolutions that reflect these desires for more involvement or connectedness.

With Mars in your resources sector all month, you are capable of quite a bit of work if you can foresee an improved financial position or a more secure state of being. While you might be in a position to defend your values, possessions, or money, this energy can instead mean you're working exceptionally hard to improve your life. Watch for possessiveness while building your resources for the best results.

The Full Moon on the 6th can push a sudden decision to break out on your own, away from a friend, or into a new relationship. A rush of unavoidable feelings can prompt a turnaround.

Until the 11th, you may be looking back rather than enjoying the present or looking forward to the future on romantic levels. You might often find yourself as a supporter, helper, and confidant.

However, the 11th begins the yearly transit of Venus in your sign, bringing more clarity. You're more confident about your ability to attract the right circumstances and people into your life, your affections and needs are much more apparent, and others are truly "seeing" your attractiveness. It's a cycle of making peace with people and yourself, putting fears behind you, improving your image and appearance, and sharing your happiness with others.

Venus in your sign enhances your image and acts to showcase your more lovable qualities. It's a time to attract positive attention.

The 10-11 is excellent for making a friend, thinking in big terms, expanding a project, and making long-range plans. It's a good time for making connections through networking or group associations.

From the 20th, life is a little quieter as you find more time to slip into the background to enjoy private moments and times for rest and reflection. New opportunities can emerge that turn your attention behind the scenes.

Still, on the same day the Sun moves into your privacy sector (the 20th), a Solar Eclipse occurs in your social sector. Events and circumstances clear the path for new beginnings, perhaps by ending one path, friendship, or group association. For example, you might decide to finish a project and/or focus on a new one. Now in the spotlight are goals that involve networking, connecting with others, joining or strengthening ties in a group project/activity, and nurturing goodwill. You'll be reworking your platonic and romantic connections over the coming two years, and this is the first cosmic push to make changes!

Your ruler, Mercury, turns retrograde on the 21st, pointing to a need to review, reflect, and perhaps redo or return to old projects and ideas. There are lessons and possibly a few gems involved with this backtracking.

Money matters, special care of personal possessions or valuables, and ownership issues can be in focus and good favor in the last week of April. Unique and fresh business or money management approaches emerge, or you learn something new about the past that helps you move forward. At the same time, winding down and paying special attention to your need for emotional refreshment and rest is in pleasant focus.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer:

April is likely to be busy, notable, and connected for you, dear Cancer. You attract attention, and energies are sometimes hectic but high with Mars in your sign all month. For best results, aim to tame impatience and impulsiveness, as they can only be pushed so far, while tapping into the courage and assertiveness of this fiery planet. While you can make benefits that truly benefit you, and people can sponsor or recognize you, Mars in your sign all month can sometimes interfere with these benefits if you're channeling its brusqueness instead of its energy. Otherwise, it's a powerful time to build confidence in managing and taking charge of your life.

Sharing thoughts can be helpful, and advice coming in now can be very useful. While you enjoy your independence and will do what it takes to keep it, recognizing the power of the group is essential this month and the next. You have a strong showing in your solar sector of community, friendship, networking, dreams, and happiness goals, and these themes are in focus. Working cooperatively with others or contributing your ideas or expertise can be beneficial.

The Full Moon on the 6th can bring sudden awareness of family and domestic needs. While it can initially feel inconvenient, it's a great time to "unbury" problems and deal with them. Revelations about your personal life or a strong need for support and comfort can be in focus around this time. Certainly, the outside world tends to dominate the month's themes, but this Full Moon reminds you that your support system is fundamental and needs special attention.

April is intense for learning, connecting, and collaborating. Your ambitions are firing up, but while you have a strong sense of the rules, the enterprising side of your nature emerges powerfully, and you could find yourself challenging the tried and true. As long as you are determined to make the most of this period, it's an excellent time to stand up for yourself and for new initiatives that require action and courage more than deliberation. You can't force confidence – confidence builds as self-mastery skills increase. This is why genuinely confident moves have wonderful results now, and rash or pushy moves seem to have consequences.

Taking off some of the edge of Mars in your sign is the transit of Venus through your social sector until the 11th, Mercury in this area of your solar chart all month, and the Sun from the 20th. You naturally gain approval from others now. You're independent but wise enough to value the group and the input of cherished people in your life.

From the 11th forward, you're in a more private period for your love life or affections. There can be benefits from working behind the scenes or unique enjoyment of solitude and periods for extra rest and healing. You may see a relationship in a new light, perhaps through a more spiritual lens.

Opportunities for personal growth or business expansion can arise, and transits can stir your desire to improve and excel. Others may recognize or acknowledge you for your abilities and efforts.

The Solar Eclipse on the 20th is the first of a set of eclipses shaking up your vision of your life path. You become especially aware of your career or overarching life-plan goals. Getting the balance right between worldly and personal goals will be a big theme in the coming two years, and this eclipse brings the first cosmic push towards defining who you are, what you do, and how you contribute. Going forward, it will be a good time for developing new business plans and goals. It's a time to rework the elements of your personality that you are projecting to society if they need updating.

On the same day, however, the Sun heads into your social sector, and friends and happiness goals are a strong theme. You can gain some forward momentum and motivation from long-term projects that invigorate and excite you. Personal opportunities can emerge through friends, networks, or groups.

Consider that Mercury turns retrograde in this sector on the 21st, and looking back or reconnecting with past friends or projects can be in order before moving ahead.

Nevertheless, it's a time to strengthen your relationship with your community and the quality of your life. You're paying more attention to your dreams and wishes, happiness goals, and social aspirations, and it's a beneficial focus.

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.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo:

You're easily absorbed in your private life this month, dear Virgo, but also quite connected, ideally finding a good balance between the two themes. While an inward turn works well for you, as long as you have enough time to pursue your interests independently this month, your involvement with a group, friend, or team can be motivating and encouraging. Happiness goals and pursuits are exciting for you in April--your enthusiasm for your plans is great.

Venus moves in harmony with your sign until the 11th, boosting your appeal. This transit also stirs your taste for the exotic--you're looking elsewhere for things that intrigue you. You might thoroughly enjoy cultural activities, studies, debates, and sharing your ideas with others.

New technology or inventive ideas can figure strongly. Endeavors that are progressive and unique hold much appeal. It can also be a strengthening month for close relationships. You're clearer about who you care about and who has your back.

The Full Moon on the 6th can bring surprises with money and relationships. Ownership, sharing, power, and money can be at the root of challenges, or the need to make changes becomes evident. Look for ways to innovate, update, and improve for the best results. Getting to know your own capabilities, limits, and worth is a healthy part of any exploration of dependencies on others or outside sources, and it's what this lunation is about.

April is a resourceful month for you. Support systems can open up, finances can improve, and you may expand your mind and experiences with a special person. Self-improvement efforts can be rewarding. Do detective work - investigate and research, as long as it's empowering rather than hurtful - and learn more about the subjects you love or things that benefit you rather than focusing too intensely on dead issues or something out of your control.

You might have good reason to reconsider a health or work goal with more positivity. From the 11th forward, your relationship with higher-ups improves, your reputation gets a boost, and your enjoyment of your duties increases.

You're craving more from life on a mental level than you usually do in April. You can be enthusiastic about projects, ideas, and plans. There can be an attraction to someone surrounding their beliefs or opinions. Towards the end of the month, you are more obviously outgoing and adventurous. The Sun moves into your sector of spirit and the higher mind on the 20th, and you set your sights higher. It's a good time to explore, discover, and expand your mind.

Just before the Sun makes this move on the 20th, a Solar Eclipse brings powerful energy to your intimacy sector. It's the first in a set of eclipses falling along the axis of your solar chart that rules your resources and those things shared with others. In the coming two years, you'll be getting your financial affairs and relationships in order. Leading a more empowered life does not necessarily mean fewer dependencies, but it does mean eliminating unhealthy support systems. Bad habits may become glaring, and the desire is now strong to put them behind you.

Because a New Moon occurred in the same sector of your chart in March, the process began last month. However, you're more determined now--perhaps even fed up--and it's an excellent time to make resolutions to clear up excess debt, both material and psychic, and to get rid of excess baggage in general.

You close April in a forward-looking cycle that brings you into stronger touch with your need to expand your horizons. Consider that Mercury turns retrograde in your solar ninth house on the 21st, indicating the need to slow down or pace yourself and reconsider some elements of your plans, programs, or ideas.

It's a time to break out of past patterns, yet Mercury's retrograde also encourages you to take care of unfinished business.

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.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio:

Your routines, work, health, and habits are in strong focus in April, dear Scorpio. It's a great time for self-improvement efforts that put you in charge and in shape. You can improve your skills, learn new things, take on new projects, and discover ways to heal and strengthen. However, it's also a strong month for relationships. More and more, you're turning to others for feedback and company.

You're focusing on flaws and problem areas in your life, ideally to improve things, and your faith is strong in your work, routines, or services. You enjoy a surge of optimism and confidence about self-care, particularly through efforts to upgrade your daily life. Events or epiphanies this month can increase your commitment to, or excitement about, making positive changes. The Solar Eclipse on the 20th brings all these things together.

First, the Full Moon on the 6th reminds you to balance work with rest, especially if you've been overdoing work efforts. You might also learn of a secret or otherwise hidden information that significantly affects your life.

You’re particularly motivated to do a good job and might thoroughly enjoy helping others. You’re more conscientious and take pride in solving problems, acquiring or honing skills, and handling business.

Even so, you’re also committed to exploring beyond your routines, and if opportunities don’t naturally arise to do so, you’ll create them! For all your efforts towards tightening your day-to-day affairs, Mars in your adventure sector encourages you to broaden your horizons. Restlessness can sometimes pull you away and distract you, but try not to feel ineffective in the process. Instead, look for ways to balance your life.

Strong energy is with you for partnering and negotiating this month. The 20th pulls the Sun into your partnership sector, heightening your attention and focus on relating.

It's a great time to get others into your corner. You’re diplomatic and accommodating and might often be in the position of mediator in April. Finding a companion feels natural.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Sagittarius:

The month holds good energy for highlighting your sense of fun, dear Sagittarius, but you're also paying due attention to your inner world, routines, and duties. It's difficult to find you in a state of boredom in April. You're expressive and often happy to be the center of attention, but once Venus enters your partnership sector on the 11th, you're also very accommodating and perfectly willing to let someone special take center stage.

Even with a strong emphasis on your sector of romance, play, entertainment, children, and creativity in April, Mars is intensifying your emotions and turning your attention to the hidden or deep elements of your life. It's a vital process that mustn't be rushed or undervalued, but it can sometimes slow the process of coming out of your shell. Nevertheless, it's undeniable that you're gearing up for some fun. The goal is to be yourself with fewer inhibitions.

With a Solar Eclipse and the Sun meeting Jupiter in your solar fifth house this month, you're motivated to pursue your heart's desire or heartfelt endeavors, passions, and loves. If you are doing something creative, it's bound to be spirited. Self-expression, personal magnetism, and confidence are themes. You might awaken to hidden or dormant talents.

Of course, there can be some complications as part of you seeks intensity, and another part only wants to enjoy the moment. But the inspiration to create, share, and even perform comes naturally. You are energized and inspired creatively.

The Full Moon on the 6th can shed light on your hopes and wishes, and perhaps some dissatisfaction. Friends and lovers can be part of the picture or catalysts for feeling like you do. You are opening your eyes to areas of your life that are not working to your benefit, and it's an excellent time to begin making plans on how to change them.

You can come to an excellent balance between work and play in April, and you can feel quite empowered and confident as a result. You're also in a solid position to do research and analysis. Insight into health or work methods can be quick and clever. You might find yourself drawn to push the usual boundaries, which can be profound in healthy ways but could lead you down the wrong path if you aren't mindful of your limits.

With the Solar Eclipse on the 20th, new beginnings can come of endings, and it's a powerful time to set your goals and intentions with pursuing your joy, love, romance, children, and creativity. If you've been holding on too tightly to attitudes or projects that have kept you from expressing your true self, this is a time for making meaningful changes.

Good experiences on the job are likely this month. You are finding new ways to get along with others, and people are valuing your services. The Sun heads into your solar sixth house on the 20th, Mercury is there all month, and Venus until the 11th. It's a time of abundant ideas to improve your health or work attitudes and efforts. You take more pride in your work, and as a result, your performance improves.

The last week of the month is solid for taking charge of health, healing, and work matters. Mercury's retrograde from the 21st forward suggests a need to backtrack, reassess projects or launch dates, and redo or rework specific tasks. Information clogs can make this a waiting period. Still, it's a great time to do edits and focus on works in progress. You're thinking up wonderful ways to improve, develop, and refine routines or drawing more explicit boundaries that separate work and rest to your benefit. While looking forward to a brighter future, you also look to the past for answers and solutions.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn:

You're connecting with your needs for a solid, happy base of operations in April, dear Capricorn, with a strong focus on your solar sector of heart and home. The month also spotlights your creativity, hobbies, pleasures, and love life. Improvements to your living conditions, family relations, and leisure time can figure strongly.

You're in fine shape to attend to your needs for security, wholeness, and inner wellness. Watch for over-pampering now, as there is an inclination to get very, very comfortable! Moderation is always best. The 10-11 is an opportunity period for family relationships, good news about home or real estate, improved living arrangements, and personal magnetism. You're thinking about growth and expansion and might take steps toward improving your life from the ground up. Whatever you're building, you're putting your heart and soul into it, maximizing its chances of success.

Of course, you can't deny your need to fulfill duties to the outside world, and the Full Moon on the 6th reminds you of this. There can be a call to take the lead, recognition, or a need to attend to a responsibility. It's best not to rush into action, but connecting with your feelings is a good idea.

In the last week of March, Mars moved into opposition with your sign, stirring up passions, not always comfortably. It continues to do so this month. While there can be conflicts with a partner or best friend, it's a good time to actively improve relationships. Mars wants relationships that have been overly restrictive, tense, dull, or negative to improve. A partner could be pushy, cranky, or simply taking the lead. Someone in your life may encourage you to connect with your desires, courage, or confidence, whether directly or indirectly. Or you're putting more energy into your relationships than usual.

The best way to use this Mars transit is to allow others to inspire and motivate you. Team up and take action so that excess energy turns outwards. It can be a passionate, revealing time.

You can bring remarkable creativity and warmth to your personal life in April. Creativity soars, and relationships may reach a whole new level. New long-term endeavors might get their start now. You thrive on connections and brainstorming sessions. You feel more powerful and confident in your romantic relationships or with your creative projects. You're also braver about sharing your ideas and creations.

The Solar Eclipse on the 20th clears the way for new beginnings and might mean letting something go, particularly a situation that has held you back. Plans to reorganize, remodel, renovate, or improve your home or living conditions are in the works. This eclipse is the first in a set, spanning two years, that encourages you to find a better balance between your personal and public life. This first eclipse in the series spotlights improvements you can make to your inner world, sense of security, home, and close relationships. It's a great time to consider ways to improve your home base.

The Sun's move into your romance and creativity sector on the 20th is quickly followed by Mercury's retrograde the next day. Your social life is busy and active. Leisure time is particularly satisfying. Even so, backtracking is likely in these areas of life. You may not always get the words right, but you're bound to find different channels for expressing yourself, and creative mediums seem your best bet. It's a time for patience – building lasting connections and projects is highly favored since brand-new endeavors may not get off the ground.

You're taking charge of your need for satisfying channels for enjoyment and self-expression. Finding ways to let off steam and detox is important as you close the month.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius:

There is special emphasis on communicating, connecting, and learning this month, dear Aquarius, and your sector of home and family is also gaining importance. You're curious, sharing more, making contacts and connections, learning new skills, and discovering or indulging personal interests.

It can be a good time for news or information that positively redirects you. New ways of communicating, connecting, and getting around can open up for you. Your mind is more willing, open, and curious than ever, and you might gain a new appreciation for things in your daily life that didn't pop for you in the past. Others appreciate your writing, insight, work, or advice. You gravitate to information that brings benefits to your life.

You're also inspired to step up your daily routines, work, and health programs in April, and you feel in charge of these areas. Problems can certainly rise to the surface, but as they do, you're ready to handle them and clear the air. You'll acknowledge if there have been difficulties with workload or excessive demands on you. You're also stopping at nothing to improve on past performance. You tend to want to set your own pace and goals, thriving on the challenges you create for yourself now.

Make the most of this energy by tidying your life, starting with the small things. Aim to eliminate clutter and waste that interferes with your work and health pursuits.

A potential issue this month is nervous tension, as you can have so much on your plate and so many projects going on that it can be difficult to truly rest your mind and body. There can be multiple visits, messages, short trips, and errands. While you're rarely bored, you need some downtime.

The Full Moon on the 6th can remind you of the importance of emotional or mental refreshment. You can experience a sudden desire to depart from your usual routine or do/learn something refreshing, meaningful, and life-affirming. With quite a bit of recent attention to your daily or mundane affairs, you now feel an immense desire to think and live bigger! It becomes apparent to you that you need to find the time to fit extracurricular activities into your day.

There can be a lot to talk about, discuss, and sort through with and about family, home matters, and loved ones. It's a busy time in the home.

The Solar Eclipse on the 20th is the first of a set of eclipses that span two years and activate an axis of your chart ruling your connections, learning about the world around you, getting out and about, and reaching out to others. These things are beginning to evolve, and this eclipse gets the ball rolling. This eclipse reiterates the theme of last month's New Moon but with more urgency. A learning path or project, a style of communication, or even a method of transportation, may end to make way for a new beginning. It's a time for new and improved ways of communicating and commuting! In the coming weeks and even months, you could find new opportunities for learning and sharing or avenues for self-expression.

Venus moves into your creative, expressive solar fifth house on the 11th, but your home life still holds much appeal. Life settles down somewhat in the last week of the month when home, family, and the comfort of familiar activities occupy more of your time and attention.

There are treasures to find in the past, particularly after the 21st when Mercury turns retrograde. Some projects or ideas may go on a shelf. Delays are possible, and pacing yourself makes sense now.

But this doesn't stop you from discovering ways to improve, grow, and learn. A central theme in your life is about developing your sense of security, attachments to family, and home life. You have more faith in your emotional life and the ability to grow through your experiences. Paying special attention to your house, job, routine, health, and self-care programs can bring rewards, especially if you're putting a new spin on these things.

April 2023 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces:

There's a stronger focus on predictability, security, and money matters this month, dear Pisces. Still, with Mars in your sector of joy all month, you also have more fire and passion for creating, loving, expressing yourself, and having fun. There is an inclination to impulsiveness and possibly conflict if issues of ego and attention are allowed to dominate. However, your romantic and creative worlds are exciting and engaging, and you tend to radiate more confidence and vigor in April.

It's a powerful month for earning and attracting the resources you need to live more comfortably. You're in a good frame of mind to take care of business, although you're increasingly interested in developing your skills and expanding your interests.

Mars has a way of bringing problem areas to the surface but gives you the courage and motivation to resolve them! Aim to channel excess energy into music, exercise, or dance, for example. A romance could heat up or have a competitive vibe, but if you've harbored some resentments, they can emerge with some force. Practice moderation and self-discipline while also following your heart for best results, keeping in mind that the trick to following your heart is to first know your heart. You will likely devote much of your energy to creative works, a romantic pursuit, leisure and entertainment, or hobbies. You're playing to win!

There can be competing energies between the drive for security and a need to put yourself out there. Nevertheless, you're well-positioned to gain footing, build resources, and develop your talents. The 10-11 is an opportunity period for finances, gifts, bonuses, and project ideas with long-term appeal and profitability.

As well, after the Solar Eclipse on the 20th, you can feel the fresh motivation to get on top of these things. It's a good time to take stock of where you're at in a business venture or with your finances and resources. You may even discover a resource or talent that has been dormant or left unnoticed. You're more confident about your ability to manifest your desires.

But first, the Full Moon on the 6th can pull out strong feelings and might lead to a revelation or epiphany about the need for support, whether this is emotional, moral, or financial. The balance of power in a relationship, debts, a partner's income, or other shared resources come to light. Push yourself to see what you've been ignoring or overlooking. New insight into a relationship, emotional, or financial problem can arrive, bringing about a turning point or new direction.

You're interested and engaged mentally this month. It's an excellent time for love connections, flirtations, and fun messages with people you care about. You'll also enjoy fantastic opportunities to boost your personal or family life.

The Solar Eclipse on the 20th is the first in a set that spans the coming two years. This series will prompt you to rework how you manage your money, talents, intimate life, dependencies, and support systems. With this eclipse, you're attending to your money, income, self-worth, and feelings of security. You're starting fresh with how you arrange your life to feel worthy, content, and secure. If you have been holding on too tightly to a lifestyle or financial habits that haven't served you well, you'll now see the need to make changes.

On the same day, the Sun moves into your communications sector, and your daily affairs, learning, connecting, and communicating are in stronger focus. You're keeping abreast of the goings-on around you, although you can be a little busy and unfocused at times.

Even with Mercury retrograde from the 21st, mental energy and enthusiasm run high. Improving and refining your communications, projects, and knowledge are especially important to you. You might connect with people and information that further your learning and networking opportunities, and there can be some lovely gems to be found by going over, reviewing, and editing old projects.

You're in great shape for creative learning, personal interests, romantic expression, and satisfying entertainment as you close out the month. Rewards come from activities that engage your heart or inspire you. In fact, the more motivated you feel, the better the results.