This Month in Astrology – April 2025

April 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries:

Even with some retrograde activity this month, dear Aries, it's a time of a personal new beginning. The Sun travels in your sign until the 19th, and you’re in the spotlight. It's a time of more visibility and special attention to your personal plans, needs, hopes, and wishes.

Until the 12th, while Venus continues its retrograde, you can be focused on past relationships rather than pushing forward socially. There can be many second thoughts and some back-spinning occurring now. This doesn’t take away from your personal attractiveness and, in some cases, may add to it as you seem a little mysterious or hard to reach! It simply suggests that you may not know what you want.

Venus turns direct on the 12th but remains in the sign just behind yours until April 30th, suggesting some natural cautiousness and reticence in the love or affection department. Things will push forward once Venus re-enters your sign, but until then, you’re processing and digesting recent experiences, and you’re not quite ready to make big decisions.

Mercury is following a similar path, although Mercury moves more quickly than Venus: Mercury turns direct on the 7th and enters Aries on the 16th. As such, on a communications and mindset level, you're coming into your own and catching up mentally sooner than you are on a heart level.

You’re in good shape for clearing out problem areas, even long-standing ones, through benefits to money matters, business, and personal things (material goods). It’s a time for practical yet innovative ways to improve your current financial state or confidence in your talents and self-worth. Meeting with someone or special information that helps you along can figure strongly as Saturn and Uranus harmonize.

Just after mid-month features some interesting shifts. By this time, Mercury and Venus have ended their retrogrades. Mercury moves into Aries on the 16th, and Mars moves into harmony with your sign on the 18th after a long hiatus. These put you in a better position to know what (and who) you want, but it’s also a good time to figure out how to get these things! Venus entering Aries on the 30th can help this theme along further.

Self-assertion is easy and natural from the 18th forward. Your romantic or creative life can heat up, although there can be some impatience in these areas. You’re seeking playful ways of expressing yourself. Slowly but surely, life feels a little more straightforward in love, pleasure, and comfort.

You’re more noticeable, connected, and engaged this month, and your personal impact is considerable. Especially with Mercury’s move into your sign on the 16th, you have more to say and share with others. When pursuing what and who you want, you’re direct, straightforward, and more confident than ever. You’re in an excellent position for decisiveness and credibility–you’re making a mark and leaving an impression. You might prefer to take the lead in mental tasks and make executive decisions.

The Full Moon in your partnership sector on the 12th prompts discoveries or epiphanies about your feelings or about a close relationship. If feelings of discontent magnify, they help motivate you to make improvements. Partnerships are changing, and this is a time when your needs for others become more apparent.

As the month advances, it becomes more and more about building your resources, manifesting results, and profiting from your talents rather than building your popularity and developing your personality.

Around the New Moon on the 27th, aim to start fresh with your money and business goals. The Sun begins its month-long transit of your resources sector on the 19th, and in the weeks following, you’re seeking a little more security and predictability than usual. It’s a good time to take stock, attend to your valuables, and better understand what you can accomplish. Your view of your capabilities is marked and realistic during this stabilizing cycle.

Pressures on the home front ease considerably from the 18th. Mars moves into your solar fifth house, ramping up your desires and animating your romantic life or creative world, and it’s a wonderful boost. This shift has been a long time coming! You’re confident and assertive and even more attractive than usual. Relationships are passionate now. You’re alert, ready to make changes, and willing to put yourself out there, and this is a winning combination. You can feel on fire with passion and creative energy, and your timing is much better than usual.

April 2025 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus:

While there can be the need or desire to restore your energy and turn inward at times in April, dear Taurus, personal attraction runs high and you have much to discover on a social level. Especially as April advances, you feel readier to share and enjoy yourself. It’s a powerful period for your plans and initiatives. You’re also going through some exciting inner changes.

The Sun spends much of the month in your privacy sector, keeping things low-profile. As well, your planetary ruler, Venus, is retrograde until the 12th. As such, you have some catching up with resting, observing, and reflecting to do. You can feel a strong need for more personal, private, or down time. You’re drawing more upon your intuition and are not as influenced by sources outside of yourself. You’re still inclined to mix and mingle, but you tend to keep a lot to yourself.

Getting in touch with your innermost needs and letting go of attitudes and circumstances that no longer serve you well can be especially helpful. Until the 12th, especially, you can be somewhat withdrawn or reserved as you take the time to revise and perhaps question some of your plans. Matters from the past creep up and demand your attention.

You might be tempted to bury your feelings in order to concentrate on other areas of life or keep your deeper feelings private. Dealing with past relationships, love triangles, or sacrifices made for a lover can figure strongly in your life. You should watch for secrets surfacing that prompt you to rethink current plans and possibly even alliances. Friendships can enter tricky territory. The resurfacing of issues and perhaps even people from the past can be a theme. It’s a time of introspection, extra time for reflection, and a reassessment of your needs and wants.

With a Saturn-Uranus influence, you are respected in your group or circle and might form alliances with people with similar grievances. Focusing on stabilizing your social life or handling outstanding or unresolved issues related to your friendships or projects can help boost your confidence in yourself and faith in the universe, giving you a sense of mission or purpose. This is an exceptional period for coming to a healthy balance of realism and spirit or independence.

There can be a scramble to get your life into better working order around the Full Moon on the 12th, and the benefits of doing so are great. On the same day, Venus turns direct after a retrograde cycle, helping to clarify your social life. As such, you're entering a period of illumination at this time.

Mars finally moves forward and down to the bottom of your solar chart on the 18th – something it’s been teasing for a while. Mind you, this is not necessarily the easiest of transits, but you do need to get a break from the mental and physical excitement/pressure it’s brought to your life in recent months. What you should watch for with this influence is allowing the excess energy of Mars to fester and do its own thing. You’ll need to apply this transit constructively by putting energy into family activities or home improvement. Or, you may decide to once and for all handle a domestic or personal problem that’s been lingering for too long.

In the second half of April, you’re heading into your personal power period with some questions and reservations, but you’ll get there! Allow your mind to catch up with your heart before pushing ahead, and you’ll be in good shape now. The New Moon on the 27th fuels you with the motivation to start fresh. You could be driven to change your image or your attitude to new beginnings. This New Moon is in your sign, signaling a period of personal new beginnings and a chance to reinvent yourself.

Renewal, coming out of the background, getting attention, making decisions, and moving forward are all strong themes as you close the month. Still, there is a less scattered or hurried pace to your life. Problems that were swept under the carpet in your domestic life begin to emerge and demand resolution. Home and family life can be busy, animated, and energetic.