This Month in Astrology
The following are astrological synopses of the month, updated in the fourth week of the previous month, including the month’s highlights, horoscope overviews, monthly aspects timeline, and Void of Course Moon monthly tables.
This Month in Astrology – April 2024
April 2024
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This Month’s Highlights
Inner Planets
Horoscopes for the Month
Void of Course Dates this Month
On April 1st, Mercury turns retrograde. Mercury is retrograde in the sign of Aries from April 1st to 25th. This retrograde cycle is strong for reviewing our initiative, courage, and independence. We look at projects, items, situations, problems, and even people in new ways. There can be information clogs that push this new perspective–as we wait, we become more resourceful and creative! On April 11th, the Sun and retrograde Mercury meet, allowing the Sun to catch up with Mercury as Mercury was ahead of the Sun by degree since late February. Symbolically, we may have been overthinking and getting ahead of ourselves, but we’re now beginning to feel caught up. Mercury turns direct on the 25th, when information begins to unclog.
On April 8th, a New Moon total Solar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Aries, stirring a new beginning and prompting us to start fresh. This lunation is a total Solar Eclipse, and it’ the fourth in an Aries-Libra set of six eclipses and the third Solar Eclipse in the series. Note that the Aries-Libra eclipse set occurs from April 2023 to March 2025.
This Solar Eclipse can highlight and challenge our issues surrounding independence and personal courage. We might take steps towards self-mastery and self-empowerment by tackling things that undermine our confidence or autonomy. Circumstances nudge or encourage us to see where we haven’t been true to our authentic selves. Ultimately, we better position ourselves to understand that changes or endings are necessary for our own growth, and that we can handle these things.
It’s a powerful time to re-evaluate our relationship with ourselves. The New Moon aligns with retrograde Mercury, and it’s hard to see our path, but our discomfort with the past can be very real now, motivating new beginnings. As well, Mars, the ruler of Aries, is coming into alignment with Saturn, suggesting the determination to overcome obstacles.
On April 20th, Jupiter aligns with Uranus. Note also that Jupiter is parallel Uranus in early May. With this strong influence, we’re ready to discover, explore, and innovate. This transit is exciting, futuristic, and original. The need for progressive change becomes glaringly apparent under this influence. It’s a time when we’re itching to update, refresh, and renew ourselves, projects, circumstances, and connections.
We might take risks (perhaps, but not necessarily, foolish ones) for the sake of freedom during this transit. We could too easily avoid taking responsibility for things that truly matter, or we could feel exceptionally restless.
We’re open to new energies, approaches, and attitudes under the influence of this transit. Fortunate events occur as a direct result of our willingness to entertain the unusual and to think outside of the box. We are feeling brave, positive, and optimistic. Enthusiasm runs high, the desire for freedom from restrictions is strong, and thirst for adventure is with us.
On April 23rd, a Full Moon occurs in the sign of Scorpio, bringing sudden awareness to our lives, particularly of areas that require more balance. It challenges us to face what needs to go in our lives so we can move on in a healthier manner, as well as the responsibilities and debts we have to others. This Full Moon reminds us of the need to consider, recognize, and appreciate others’ support, contribution, needs, wants, and input.
Date | Time (ET) | Event | Position |
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Apr 1 | 6:14 PM | Mercury Retrograde | Mer 27 Ari 13'Rx |
Apr 1 | 11:14 PM | Last Quarter Moon | 12 Cap 52' |
Apr 5 | 12:00 AM | Venus enters Aries | Ven 0 Ari 00' |
Apr 8 | 2:21 PM | New Moon SOLAR Eclipse (Total) in Aries | 19 Ari 24' |
Apr 10 | 7:15 PM | Jupiter semi-sextile Chiron | Jup 19 Tau 32' semi-sextile Chi 19 Ari 32' |
Apr 15 | 3:13 PM | First Quarter Moon | 26 Can 18' |
Apr 19 | 10:00 AM | Sun enters Taurus | Sun 0 Tau 00' |
Apr 19 | 10:59 PM | Saturn semi-sextile True Node | Sat 15 Pis 38' semi-sextile Nod 15 Ari 38' |
Apr 20 | 10:27 PM | Jupiter conjunct Uranus | Jup 21 Tau 50' conjunct Ura 21 Tau 50' |
Apr 21 | 10:58 PM | Juno Direct | Jun 6 Vir 18'D |
Apr 23 | 7:49 PM | Full Moon in Scorpio | 4 Sco 18' |
Apr 25 | 8:54 AM | Mercury Direct | Mer 15 Ari 59'D |
Apr 29 | 7:31 AM | Venus enters Taurus | Ven 0 Tau 00' |
Apr 30 | 11:33 AM | Mars enters Aries | Mar 0 Ari 00' |
(See the full table for 2024)
See also: This Week in Astrology week to week for more detail.
This Month’s Overview Horoscopes
The following horoscopes outline how the above astrological influences might affect each individual sign.
Overview horoscopes fill in here as I write them, ideally during the week before the month begins. It is not unusual to see some signs temporarily missing as I write the twelve of them over the course of a few days, starting with the featured sign of the month (birthday month).
AriesApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries: April is a powerful month for personal presence, dear Aries, but it's also a month when you're slowly coming into your own--it's not an instant process! You host the Sun until the 19th, Mercury all month, Venus from the 5th to 29th, and Mars from the 30th forward. As such, there's a tremendous focus on you, your personal goals, and new beginnings or fresh starts in April. However, several factors suggest you're not entirely ready to push ahead. For one, Mercury is in your sign all month but is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th. So, while you're mentally engaged and want to express yourself, there can be some delays and information clogs—perhaps even misunderstandings—until the 25th. For another, Mars is behind your sign until the 30th, and while you're visible and in the spotlight, some plans, motivations, and drives are in limbo or not quite ready. Finally, a Solar Eclipse in your sign occurs on the 8th. This eclipse is all about you, your independence, and your autonomy, but there can be initial feelings of being overlooked or depleted of energy that will ultimately drive new beginnings. It's a process, and you can be doing quite a bit of soul-searching or meditation in motion this month! Another April headline: Jupiter and Uranus unite in your resources sector, and it's an electrifying and progressive influence. This could lead to unexpected financial gains, the discovery of hidden talents, or even a significant gift. It's a time of sudden changes in your financial position, new money-making ideas, and deeper insights into your self-worth. You might now view money for its value as a tool used to achieve more freedom in your life. It's a time to invent, innovate, and make progress, especially with your things and finances. On a psychological level, too, you can feel as if a burden has been lifted from you, and you feel freer to enjoy yourself and more confident of your worth and value. |
TaurusApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus: The month ahead is powerful for getting your bearings, working on healing, and reconnecting with your motivation, dear Taurus. A Solar Eclipse occurs on the 8th, and it nudges you forward with your efforts to come to a better work-rest balance. The "push" at this point in the eclipse season is toward the "rest" component of this axis. It's a time to improve your life by boosting your ability to rest, meditate, clear up lingering problems and traumas, work on karma, and detox. In other words, using your downtime well is the goal now! However, the Solar Eclipse doesn't necessarily steal the month's headlines for you, as Jupiter and Uranus align in your sign-- a rare event. It's electric, progressive, and exciting energy. A sudden windfall or opportunity is possible, such as an inheritance, debt relief, career advancement, or reputation boost. Jupiter rules your sector of emotional or material support and others' money, and Uranus rules your career, reputation, and responsibility sector. As these planets meet in your sign, there can be an unexpected turnaround that improves your life and helps you grow. Besides these more overt opportunities, this transit raises your spirits. The need for progressive change becomes glaringly apparent--you feel the need to update, refresh, and renew yourself, projects, circumstances, and connections. It's a powerful time for freeing yourself from limiting circumstances and burdens, and it's quite a positive change. The Sun enters your sign on the 19th, and your ruler, Venus, does the same on the 29th. These shifts signal you're moving ahead, coming into your own, and making an impact. |
GeminiApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Gemini: Your sense of community, feeling of belonging, and need to share and contribute are in focus in April, dear Gemini. You're also connecting with your more worldly ambitions and, later, your need for personal time away from the daily grind. It's a powerful month for improving your social life while also attending to your responsibilities. But with your ruler, Mercury, retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, it's a good idea to take things easy in a general sense, mainly related to decision-making, health, and friendship or networking matters. Aim to listen to your intuition around the total Solar Eclipse on the 8th. It's a time for breakthrough ideas that are bound to bear fruit down the road. The need for a fresh start in friendship can become apparent. Certainly, you're in a great position to network, connect, and share. People are bringing opportunities into your life, and your unique charm is helping this along. The Sun heads into your privacy sector on the 19th, and Venus does the same on the 29th. These point to a general slow-down that benefits you. You begin to see the world a little differently, and you find more time to decompress, detox, and heal. As well, Jupiter and Uranus align in this same area of your solar chart this month, and it's an exciting time of surprises on an emotional level. There can be sudden benefits or a breaking free from burdens. Intuition heightens, particularly regarding matters that have held you back from growing or letting go of outdated behaviors. Secretive elements to a relationship are possible and can be stimulating or motivating. Private or behind-the-scenes studies and topics of interest are appealing, and they can emerge in your life suddenly. |
CancerApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer: April's focus can often be on your responsibilities, long-term plans, life path goals, or career and performance, dear Cancer. It's a powerful time for setting or adjusting goals and plans, but not necessarily for locking things down due to Mercury's retrograde and the flux of an eclipse. These events indicate the need to process, learn, understand, and adjust before pushing ahead. But even if the month can sometimes feel slow-moving, Mars in your spirit sector almost to the end of the month ensures you're also paying attention to your need for adventure, mental refreshment, discovery, and spontaneity. The total Solar Eclipse on the 8th calls further attention to career and life-plan goals, and you can be especially sensitive to your “place” in the world. Circumstances now can ultimately push you to set goals, make plans, and take charge. Getting the balance right between worldly and personal goals has been a big theme since last year and will continue to be in strong focus until next March. This is about defining who you are, what you do, and how you contribute. If your reputation or professional image needs some work, this is a powerful time for making some important changes and edits. In the coming weeks, you are likely to be working towards new goals for self-mastery and self-discipline. For some, there can be some initial drama or a bit of chaos involved. Jupiter and Uranus come together in your friendship sector, bringing exciting surprises to your social life. As such, April can be a time of sudden benefits, happy improvements, and surprising changes with happiness goals and pursuits, friendships, networking, community involvement, and group associations. A person or group association that is more creative, visionary, unusual, or unconventional can figure strongly in your life now. It can also bring opportunities to advance your work or connect with someone who encourages you to improve your health. |
LeoApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo: Your spirit to discover, explore, and share is in the spotlight in April, dear Leo. In fact, you're connecting with the ways you feed your spirit and need for mental refreshment, a vision, or a change of scenery this month. It's a time to develop more hopefulness, faith, and optimism. The total Solar Eclipse on the 8th is another prompt to enrich your life experience beyond your usual bounds. Circumstances are such that you recognize the need for a change of pace in your life, whether it's through trips, learning, publishing, sharing, or other forms of adventure. Opportunities to broaden your horizons can present themselves in the weeks ahead of this eclipse. However, Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, and taking things slowly makes sense. You may be waiting for information, and as you do, you're likely to find creative workarounds. Jupiter's alignment with Uranus on the 20th is powerful, touching the entire month. This rare combination occurs at the top of your solar chart, boosting your career, performance, ambitions, or reputation in sudden, unexpected, or unusual ways. A surprise promotion, change of direction, or recognition can be in store. Others are especially attracted to your visionary and confident approach. This excitement can also relate to your relationships, as Jupiter is your romance ruler and Uranus is your partnership ruler, and they’re coming together at the top of your chart. A relationship can make a splash at this time. Certainly, as April progresses, you take your goals and ambitions more to heart. Setting new objectives can be in focus. |
VirgoApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo: April brings a powerful focus on support, focus, attachments, and passion projects, dear Virgo. It's a time to connect with your need for or to give support and explore your attachments and dependencies. Prominent themes include debts owed or due, emotional and material support, intimate relationships, and power dynamics. Circumstances around the time of the Solar Eclipse on the 8th can prompt you to take charge of your financial or intimate affairs. It's a time to better manage shared resources, pour yourself into a special pursuit, or grow an intimate relationship. But even with this rather intense inward focus, there's a simultaneous theme of exploring, sharing, learning, and gaining some mental refreshment that keeps you coming up for air. The focus is very often on others and relationships this month regardless as Mars is in your partnership sector, shaking things up, until the last day of April. The Jupiter-Uranus alignment can point to a wonderful and perhaps surprising boost to your domestic plans, home, education, work, or health. As this rare combination comes together in your sector of spirit and the higher mind, it can be about exploring new experiences and ideas. This is a period of exciting insights, changing beliefs, and eye-opening adventures or extracurricular activities. Doing work or home life a little differently can also be in the cards, and it's rewarding and even invigorating. |
LibraApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra: April brings a special focus on your one-on-one relationships, dear Libra, and puts the spotlight on achieving a better balance or sense of harmony in your life in general. At the same time, the month holds strong energy for getting your daily affairs in order or improving your personal routines and health or wellness pursuits. Circumstances around the time of the Solar Eclipse on the 8th encourage you to connect with your relationship/partnership goals and needs. Events at this time can surprise you, pushing your need for others to the fore in unusual ways. This can be about ending or starting a partnership, redefining an existing one, or defining what you do and don't want/need from others. However, with Mercury retrograde in your opposing sign from the 1st to the 25th, it's a good idea to mull things over and observe, as information isn't yet at your disposal. Pay special attention to the rare and progressive alignment of Jupiter and Uranus in your work and health sector this month. This unique event presents a golden opportunity for growth and advancement in your professional and personal wellness pursuits. This exciting alignment occurs in your sector of intimacy, attachment, personal psychology, and self-empowerment. Developments with the financial or emotional support you receive, whether through loans, resources of a partner, or other types of help, are quick and surprising. You might find yourself sharing or pooling your resources with a partner, for example, and it's a big change. Alternatively, this can be a time of sudden insights and opportunities for emotional renewal or healing that give you a sense of self-mastery. Sudden, new, and surprising desires can take hold at this time. |
ScorpioApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio: Work, health, wellness, and personal routines are strong focus this month, dear Scorpio. While there can be some backtracking or delays involved with these matters, you're also connecting with your need for more order or attention to your daily affairs. Rearranging your life in important ways to accommodate these needs can be in the spotlight. The total Solar Eclipse on the 8th is a powerful one and can motivate you to take care of unfinished business related to work and health matters. Circumstances around this eclipse can prompt you to take charge of your health, start a new fitness or wellness program (slowly but surely is best), or organize your daily affairs, including your work. It’s not always easy to keep things in order these days, but you’re learning that creative touches help. But while your everyday affairs are often strongly on your mind, you also have some interesting social developments happening in April that keep things lively. For one, Mars spends almost the entire month in your sector of joy and creativity, and you're pursuing your joy! For another, your partnership sector is growing in relevance as the month advances. In fact, the month features a powerful planetary alignment: Jupiter meets Uranus in your partnership sector, and others can surprise you! Alternatively, relationship needs come on suddenly, and you connect with desires or cravings you never knew you had. Increased benefits, possibly with money, can come through others. A surprising circumstance or sudden change of attitude can occur and jolt you out of your usual patterns of relating to others on a one-to-one level. An alliance with an old family friend can also stand out now. The Full Moon on the 23rd happens in your sign, pulling up feelings that are now impossible to deny! Your newfound discoveries or epiphanies can help redirect you in meaningful ways now. |
SagittariusApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Sagittarius: April is powerful for exploring your needs for expressing and enjoying yourself, dear Sagittarius. It's an important month for arriving at a better understanding of your social or romantic connections, special projects, and personal objectives. Circumstances around the Solar Eclipse on the 8th may clear the path for a new start in a romance or with a creative project, and possibly even a new creative field or direction. Trust your intuition, showcase your work, share your ideas, and connect with people you want to spend time with. However, don't be in a rush to lock things down since Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, and eclipses are known to obscure some matters. Even with this exploratory, playful theme in strong focus this month, you also have interesting developments with work, health, routines, daily life, and home. There's a growing theme of attention to your everyday life and wellness pursuits. Your planetary ruler, Jupiter, aligns with Uranus in your sector of work, health, wellness, habits, and daily routines, and these are areas of life where you can enjoy sudden benefits, happy improvements, and added excitement. This can be about your day job. A wellness program or method that might be a little outside of the box could be appealing and encouraging. It's also an electrifying influence on your personality—you feel more open about expressing your unique qualities, particularly in the context of your everyday communications and in your work or services. |
CapricornApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn: April holds a strong domestic theme for you, dear Capricorn. You tend to pour more heart into your home life, living conditions, nesting, or loved ones this month. Your instincts are strong in these areas! The Solar Eclipse on the 8th can ultimately prompt powerful new initiatives, major new long-term projects, and possibly family and home-related affairs. Circumstances surrounding this date can awaken stirrings inside you that help you see where improvements are needed. You'll want to pay extra attention to getting and giving nurture and connecting with your need for familiarity. Because Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, however, it also makes sense to take things slowly. It's a good time to develop creative ways to improve your personal life, but not ideal for brand new beginnings. April's energies are certainly strong for nesting and centering yourself, but as the month advances, you're drawing on this newfound security and pouring more of yourself into sharing. The Sun and Venus move into your sector of fun, creativity, joy, recreation, heartfelt pursuits, and romance on the 19th and 29th, and a Jupiter-Uranus alignment occurs there. These are the areas of your life where you'll find excitement, sudden benefits, and happy improvements. Another possibility is that a past love or project can re-emerge in your life. Certainly, you are more inclined to take chances on creative or romantic levels. Something might inspire you to try out a new creative hobby or adventure altogether. |
AquariusApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius: April can be a mentally busy month, dear Aquarius. It features much communication, daily activity, learning, and connecting. In fact, you have a stronger desire than usual for mental engagement and movement. It's possible siblings, relatives, or neighbors play a more vital role in your life, or your curiosity and need for variety can lead to a busy pace. It's a strong month for learning, particularly self-taught or home-learning endeavors. The Solar Eclipse on the 8th can call into question a particular mental pursuit or project. There can be new channels or platforms for self-expression in the cards, and these can be more imaginative, creative, and, ultimately, more fulfilling. For now, however, Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, and easing into any new beginnings makes sense. Retrograde Mercury can bring on some delays, obstacles, or slowdowns, but there is much to enjoy and learn, even if (and perhaps because) you're waiting. There is much to deal with in the short term, but you can also find time for long-term vision and planning this month, especially with a Jupiter-Uranus alignment. In fact, this rare combination can boost your optimism. This exciting energy occurs in your sector of home, family, and nurture, and it's a powerful time for upgrades, improvements, and sudden benefits in these areas. Excitement on the home front is brewing, which leaves you feeling freer, lighter, and happier. |
PiscesApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces: The month has wonderful potential for settling in and enjoying yourself, dear Pisces, but also for building something important to you. You’re more interested in security and long-term endeavors than you are in the excitement of the moment. In effect, you have more patience to draw upon, and it’s powerful. In the days around the Solar Eclipse on the 8th, you might realize the need for a fresh start or new approach with money, income, valuables, self-esteem, or comfort matters. You might consider taking a new path, and after a period of reorientation, you will ultimately feel more in control. You may not know exactly where you’re heading, but you are putting more faith in the universe and your own intuition to guide you in the right direction. Consider that Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th in the same sector where this eclipse occurs, and it makes sense to look to the past for ideas before pushing ahead with brand-new plans! There is a stronger focus on communicating and connecting as April advances. A rare alignment occurs on the 20th, but it is strong enough to influence the whole month: Jupiter meets with Uranus in your communications zone, bringing sudden opportunities, surprises, and changes to learning, studies, communication, transportation, siblings, your neighborhood, and personal interests. You could receive good news or read something that inspires you to change your learning focus. Instead, you might write about a topic you hadn’t considered before or through channels you have never tried, for example. With this electric, confident energy, you are more open to communicating about subjects or feelings you have previously kept to yourself. Aim to pay special attention to ideas that seem to come out of the blue, chance meetings, or unexpected communications, as significant opportunities can arise through these things. |
Detailed Monthly Horoscopes are here.
April 2024 Aspects TimeLine:
See also: This Week in Astrology for more detail.
See also: Table of Planetary Transits, Sign Changes, New/Full Moons, and Retrogrades for the Month
This Month’s Ephemeris:
This Month’s Ephemeris with extra points and abbreviations rather than glyphs:
Ephemerides with additional points are for Eastern Time. The North Node and Lilith are the True positions. Retrogrades are underlined. Extra points are Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Lilith. These come from the excellent software, Sirius 3.0.
This Month’s Void Moon Dates:
Using the table below: The Moon is Void of Course from the time of its last aspect listed below until the Moon enters a new sign. Generally speaking, these periods are not ideal for launching new endeavors, although they’re not impossible periods, either.
The times given below are Eastern. These should be adjusted for different time zones. For example, for Pacific Time, subtract 3 hours from the given times.
See Void of Course dates and times for the full year.
New & Full Moon Charts:
Looking Ahead:
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See also:
The Astrology of 2024 – Overview
Previous Month:
This Month in Astrology – March 2024
March 2024
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This Month’s Highlights
Inner Planets
Horoscopes for the Month
Void of Course Dates this Month
On March 3rd, Jupiter forms a semi-square with Neptune. This longer-term influence adds a thread of idealism to our lives. We’re hopeful but perhaps looking in the wrong places for inspiration. Unrealistic or inflated expectations can mislead us–people can lead us astray, too. We might gloss over important and realistic details or suffer from some disorganization. This is the final of three perfections, with the other two having occurred on July 22nd and November 5th, 2023.
On March 10th, a New Moon occurs in the sign of Pisces, stirring a new beginning and prompting us to start fresh. We awaken to the need for a spiritual vision or more magic in our lives. It’s time to revitalize ourselves through experiences that require imagination, compassion, gentleness, or that simply represent a “break” from the routine. We may put something behind us in order to begin anew.
On March 25th, a Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Libra, bringing sudden awareness to our lives, particularly of areas that require more balance. Something is exposed, magnified or illuminated, prompting us to get in touch with those things that we may have been neglecting or putting off. This is the third eclipse on the Aries-Libra axis in a set that began in April, 2023, and it may be seen as one of several nudges toward taking care of matters, forcing awareness of relationship imbalances and flaws in dramatic, pressing ways. Full Moons are always good for magnifying pre-existing problems so that we can see where to bring back balance.
Date | Time (ET) | Event | Position |
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Mar 3 | 10:23 AM | Last Quarter Moon | 13 Sag 32' |
Mar 3 | 9:58 PM | Jupiter semi-square Neptune | Jup 11 Tau 51' semi-square Nep 26 Pis 51' |
Mar 9 | 11:03 PM | Mercury enters Aries | Mer 0 Ari 00' |
Mar 10 | 5:00 AM | New Moon in Pisces | 20 Pis 16' |
Mar 11 | 5:50 PM | Venus enters Pisces | Ven 0 Pis 00' |
Mar 17 | 12:10 AM | First Quarter Moon | 27 Gem 04' |
Mar 19 | 11:06 PM | Sun enters Aries | Sun 0 Ari 00' |
Mar 22 | 7:47 PM | Mars enters Pisces | Mar 0 Pis 00' |
Mar 23 | 11:59 AM | Jupiter semi-sextile True Node | Jup 15 Tau 36' semi-sextile Nod 15 Ari 36' |
Mar 25 | 3:00 AM | Full Moon LUNAR Eclipse (Penumbral) in Libra | 5 Lib 07' |
Mar 29 | 9:18 AM | Pallas Retrograde | Pal 8 Sag 36'Rx |
Mar 31 | 6:56 AM | Vesta enters Cancer | Ves 0 Can 00' |
(See the full table for 2024)
See also: This Week in Astrology week to week for more detail.
This Month’s Overview Horoscopes
The following horoscopes outline how the above astrological influences might affect each individual sign.
Overview horoscopes fill in here as I write them, ideally during the week before the month begins. It is not unusual to see some signs temporarily missing as I write the twelve of them over the course of a few days, starting with the featured sign of the month (birthday month).
AriesMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries: You're well-positioned to wind down and tap into your intuition this month, dear Aries. It can be a time to tie up loose ends, deal with endings, bring projects to a close, and catch up on rest. You're segueing from a connected, involved period to a period of retreat and rest. You begin March with the Sun and Mercury in your privacy sector, encouraging you to consider ways to decompress and unwind. Both Venus and Mars check into the same area of your solar chart on the 11th and 22nd, and corresponding life departments require review and reflection. The 10th brings a New Moon that reinforces your conviction to deal with loose ends and clear a path forward. Consider that you begin a new birthday year on the 19th! Personal new beginnings are in store. Until then, the New Moon can serve as a gentle push to put the past behind you with solid plans, actions, or even symbolic actions. You’re tying up loose ends or dealing with secrets, private matters, and karma. It’s a time to clean the slate, and you get solid support for doing so–you’re likely to feel both inspired and determined. This month, you can feel especially excited about a behind-the-scenes project, activity, or even relationship. You may be taking an unofficial sabbatical of sorts when it comes to major decisions. While you may not blossom in an apparent sense quite yet, this is an excellent period for preparing yourself for busier times to come. Personal appeal is strong, and creative pursuits can thrive, particularly if you're doing something behind the scenes or on the last stretch of a special project. There is still much going on under the hood this month, and it's important work, as you're laying the groundwork now. Still, there is a continuing focus on your social life and happiness goals--you can make rich discoveries along these lines. There can be nice developments with friends, groups, and networks. Something interesting happens after mid-month: the Sun enters your sign on the 19th, awakening you to the start of a new birthday year, but Mars, your energy guide and planetary ruler, tucks into your privacy sector on the 22nd. As such, you're noticeable and connected, starting fresh in some ways, but you still have some processing, resting, and digesting to do before truly beginning anew. Venus, also in your privacy sector during this period, points to the need for more time to yourself and, fortunately, enjoyment and reward in the process. In truth, at the start of April, Mercury will turn retrograde in your sign, and going slowly, even with the Sun in Aries from the 19th forward signaling the start of your birthday year, makes sense. Some things will need further review. With assertive, energetic Mars visiting your soul sector from the 22nd on, you'll be reassessing your goals, needs, and desires. It's not the most decisive or energetic of periods in your life, but you find more comfort in private moments and require a little more rest than usual. If you don't recognize this need, there might be circumstances that enforce rest! It's an important cycle for discovering what you truly desire, and which pursuits may be less worthwhile for you. You're getting noticed with the Sun in your sign, but with Mars here, you don't always feel in the loop, but you may very well need a break now. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse and is in your opposite sign, drawing your strong attention to relationships. This eclipse can serve as a cosmic push toward more fully recognizing and connecting with your relationship needs. Tension now can drive you to make important changes. This eclipse is about finding a balance between your autonomy/independence and your need for a perspective, person, or companion. It brings feelings you’ve kept to yourself–or even from yourself–to the surface. Listen to your emotions, but avoid making distracted decisions. |
TaurusMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus: Your social life or happiness goals and pursuits are a strong focal point in March, dear Taurus. The emphasis is on what fulfills and inspires you. You can be more involved with contributing, sharing, and making plans. Connections with friends, networks, or colleagues assume more importance. There can be a special project you’re working on that now advances. At the same time, you haven't given up special attention to your responsibilities, reputation, and life path or career goals--there is a creative, dynamic, and warm theme surrounding these life departments continuing in March. The New Moon on the 10th speaks to your enterprising nature and to your dreams and aspirations. It can be a good time for new technological endeavors. Venus moving through your social sector from the 11th forward enhances your appeal and enjoyment of others. Friendships or your popularity can receive a nice boost. You are more willing than usual to accommodate, change, and grow in your interactions. You’re also far less likely to stick with old patterns that are no longer performing for you! Business income is in better shape, and friends are more supportive. The focus is on equality and positive energy with love. This can be a time when you're called upon to become more involved or to contribute to the group/community–you’re looking for inspiration! It’s a fine period for making connections, getting involved, sharing your ideas, and developing new goals and projects. Later in the month, a renewed interest in spirituality, rest, or relaxation is likely with increasing cosmic activity surrounding your soul and privacy sector. On the 19th, the Sun moves into your privacy sector for a month-long journey. This yearly event precedes your powerful birthday month and is a good time for examining what attitudes, circumstances, and extra dead weight you need to let go of before you begin anew. Ideally, you use this time for healing, processing, and reflecting. You might see old problems or projects in a new light. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it can motivate you to make improvements as you zero in on work, health, and routines or habits. There can be a scramble to get your life into better working order, and the benefits of doing so are great. You’re doing a lot of balancing of work/rest and emotional health and physical health with current eclipses, and realizations occurring now can push this process along. If you’ve neglected some elements of self-care, you’re now ready to correct the imbalance, and developing healthier habits can be part of this! Mercury will turn retrograde at the beginning of April, and some of the decisions you make and projects you begin in the last week of March can require reconsideration later, or there can be delays to handle. With an eclipse also occurring, it's best to observe, wait, and see rather than push something forward. But with Mars visiting your social sector from the 22nd forward and Venus already there from the 11th, you can find yourself in high demand, especially with friends and associates. You naturally take the lead in group settings. More invites could come your way, and you could actively collaborate with others in group or team efforts during this period. Happiness goals, causes, and projects energize and motivate you, and it fills you with satisfaction to contribute and belong. Fortunately, finding a balance between rest and getting involved is within your reach! |
GeminiMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Gemini: There continues to be a focus on exploration, discovery, and experimentation in March, dear Gemini, but a larger theme this month relates to connecting with your long-term goals. Whether it's about our career, position, responsibilities, reputation, need for structure, or life path, it's a time to perform, accomplish, and recognize your ambitions. Especially creative, dynamic energy is with you, particularly as the month advances, for manifesting your goals or furthering your career objectives. You're excited about a developing project or what you have to offer, and this is highly motivating! The New Moon on the 10th can give you a new lease on life. People are taking you seriously. It can be a time to connect with people who help further your career or personal interests. While the pace can sometimes be hectic, you're keeping up. You might showcase what you can do or take on a more prominent or leadership role. People readily see your charm and grace, particularly those in leadership positions or related to your career from the 11th forward. You might get the chance to enhance your reputation in March. You're selling yourself in your career this month, and you have a special influence on others. People can be quite intrigued with you and drawn to you naturally. Your intuition is powerful for what the public needs and for future trends, which helps you make better plans. All month, efforts to take charge of your career or pursue your ambitions are strong, although you may be battling a need to follow your own rules, which can stir up some trouble with someone in authority or interfere with productivity. However, you bring inventiveness and unique insight to your pursuits, and you may very well get credit for it. You readily draw upon support from behind the scenes or your wisdom and intuition. The Sun's move into your networking sector on the 19th tugs at your desire to round out your life with a stronger focus on happiness goals, friends, and associations. You're shifting your focus more noticeably now, and a better balance between work and play is within reach. There can be opportunities to achieve your goals or improve your life through groups, alliances, and networks. Courage is with you for trying new things and even for starting something from scratch through redesign or renovation after the 22nd. Nevertheless, with an eclipse on the 25th and Mercury about to turn retrograde as we close out the month, it's better not to launch something brand new. A social or romantic issue reaches a turning point around the Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse on the 25th. This lunation can usher in an important realization about a romance or heartfelt pursuit. You're in an eclipse cycle in which you're seeking your joy, and a mission to improve your life can emerge now as you embrace your feelings, which are currently larger than life. It's a good time to recognize your need to celebrate, play, and express yourself. New initiatives should wait, however, particularly with Mercury about to turn retrograde (it will be retrograde from April 1st to 25th. Watch, too, for overblowing an issue--aim to wait and see. Past friendships can figure more powerfully in your life. |
CancerMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer: The month ahead is strong for exploring new interests and options, dear Cancer. It's a good time to brush up on skills, discover different topics, and gain practical experience. March can bring nice opportunities to publish, learn, and share. At the same time, you're sure to enjoy more depth and connection with a special relationship or project. Introspection has been good for you--and you have further ruminating and strategizing to do at the beginning of March-- but now, the scales are tipping, and you're doing more participating than observing. You’ll find that moving outside of your normal bounds and routines improves your opportunities. The New Moon on the 10th can give you a new lease on life. It feels good to look forward with more optimism. New approaches to education, publishing, and recreation are in order. After this lunation, you might commit to a new line of study or more enjoyment and discovery in your life. New or revitalized interests, unusual studies, and different perspectives can lead you in different directions. From the 11th forward, Venus supports your sign, traveling your solar ninth house and bringing your feelings and affections into the light after weeks of reflection. It’s a time to embrace the moment! Connecting with others through your interests can figure strongly. This transit highlights and enhances your naturally attractive qualities. You are looking for more unique and exciting experiences and ideas. Your passion builds for a new idea, subject, course of study, or travel destination this month. This can also be a good time for competitions and athletics. You're motivated to share your enthusiasm with others. Collaborating or bonding with others, particularly friends, can figure strongly with a feeling of intuitive connection. On the 19th, the Sun heads to the top of your solar chart, pointing to an achievement or a desire to perform. The month following this ingress can be a more ambitious period of the year when you’re incredibly goal-oriented. In fact, Mercury has been greasing the wheels of this theme since March 9th. These transits give you a professional or public voice and are strong for improving your reputation. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it can be about recognizing your need for family, or it’s a call to action as your personal life needs some attention. This eclipse magnifies your living conditions or arrangements, personal life, emotional world, home, or family. Finding a better balance between your professional and personal life is an ongoing theme this year, and this lunation furthers things along. It can be a time of moving, reorganizing, or refocusing. While your focus on your life path, responsibilities, goals, ambitions, or career increases as the month advances, this eclipse reminds you that if your responsibilities have overshadowed your personal life to the outside world, it’s time to pay them their due attention. Still, eclipse energy can be draining, so take your time--breathe it all in and then wait and see. Another reason to slow down? Mercury will turn retrograde on April 1st, and some of the ideas you're playing with now might be up for reconsideration later. |
LeoMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo: You’re coming out of a connected, companionable period and moving into a more introspective phase this month, dear Leo. Your private world or a special project holds increasing appeal in March. With your solar eighth house well-represented, there can be times when you’re thoroughly absorbed in quiet activities, research, projects, or a close relationship. This is a time for going in deep and enjoying what you do. Support and backing can be in focus. While you appear ready for action from the outside looking in, much is happening inside you in March. Feelings are more intense than usual, most often comfortably so. Aiming to observe and process instead of charging ahead can keep you feeling on top of things. Self-improvement efforts can be very successful this month. You’re not interested in superficial harmony now --you want to make profound, long-lasting changes. You’re also more focused and able to concentrate. At the very least, you are harder to distract! The New Moon on the 10th can motivate you to take charge of your money or settle a matter. You receive a cosmic nudge to share, support, and explore a relationship or passion project. New beginnings with shared finances or debts are in store. A fresh start in an intimate relationship or with a special venture is also possible. Connections deepen. Your desire is increasing for more intimacy in a relationship--or in your relationships in general--and opportunities are likely to present themselves. Benefits come to finances, love, shared assets, transformational activities, and pet projects. You are shifting toward an expressive, more outgoing period of the year, and your introspection this month can be most rewarding. Still, Mercury moves into your sector of spirit on the 9th and the Sun on the 19th, and you're prepared to do some exploring, discovering, and venturing. It's a good time to broaden your horizons, whether physically or mentally. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and you can experience a revelation, or a writing or learning project can come to a turning point. Watch out for processing too much information or for sensory overload — aim to be discriminating with what you take in. Still, there can be important discoveries, ideas, and changes in your mindset or attitude. Give weight to your emotions and any epiphanies occurring at this time while taking your time regarding putting them into action. This eclipse reminds you to connect with your true feelings about what you’re learning, communicating, and sharing. On another level, recent inattention to details or daily affairs may need rectifying. This lunation can prompt discoveries related to ideas, learning, communications, transportation, and relatives, which, in turn, can motivate you to make changes and improvements. New awareness allows you to deal with whatever comes into full view head-on. You can feel a strong desire to be understood! Still, the week of an eclipse holds confusing energy as it magnifies one area of your life while minimizing another life department, and it's wise to take your time with processing it all. As well, Mercury will turn retrograde just as April begins, and slowing down makes sense. Certainly, with Mars in your solar eighth house from the 22nd forward, desires run more deeply than usual, or they seem a little more complicated! Your experiences now tend to draw out your deeper passions and desires. This can be a powerful time for behind-the-scenes efforts and attention to understanding your personal psychology. |
VirgoMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo: Energies with you in March especially support you in improving your social life and relationships, dear Virgo. Close relationships are in strong focus this month and next. Interesting developments with daily routines or on the job have been a feature recently, and further developments are likely this month. Health and fitness matters are prominent--you're busy but finding ways to get creative with your routines. The month is strong for seeing yourself through others' eyes, taking steps to improve your connections, and finding ways to bring more balance, harmony, and beauty into your life, in general. Focusing on connecting well with others can give your life a real boost. Especially from the 11th forward, others are putting their faith in you, and this, in turn, motivates you to step up your game even further! Love is gracious, and people see you in a very positive light. Existing relationships feel more peaceful, or positive and friendly people tend to enter the picture. Problems that have been plaguing a relationship can have a way of surfacing after Mars heads into your partnership sector on the 22nd. With Venus also in this area of your solar chart from the 11th, it's a time for mutually beneficial connections. You could meet with especially exciting or enticing people, or a current relationship is active and animated — perhaps a little demanding at times, but overall, contributing to your growth and a learning process. Be sure to get a word in edgewise, even if it’s an important time to consider the input of others. March is an excellent month for a budding interest in a relationship or person. You are certainly magnetizing people to you now, and you’re likely to seek out more excitement or passion in an existing relationship. Partnering up with someone can inspire wonderfully creative ideas, plans, and projects. While a special focus on relationships is active all month, finances can deserve special attention as March advances, mainly shared money and property or loans and support payments. You could benefit significantly from investigation or research. A passionate relationship or a passion project can be a strong focus! The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, furthering progress with matters related to money, resources, and sharing. Unrest or discontent has a way of nudging you to make important changes in how you make, spend, and share your money, talents, or other resources. While emotions and realizations feel big at this time, adopt a wait-and-see approach--it's better to process and observe well before taking action around the time of an eclipse. With Mercury, your ruler, heading toward a retrograde cycle that begins April 1st, there is even more reason to make decisions more carefully. You've been delving a little more deeply into your pursuits, or you're working through issues related to shared money or resources at this time. Heightened emotions surrounding money and possessions, as well as personal values and talents, can be a theme, and you're facing feelings and making changes and improvements that ultimately get you to a place of a stronger sense of security, predictability, and safety. You can have an epiphany regarding your needs and wants, helping clarify a path. Take your time before making any pivotal decisions, but aim to examine feelings coming to the surface, however raw they may be at the moment. |
LibraMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra: A creative, playful theme that emerged last month continues in March, dear Libra, but the subjects of work, routines, daily life, and wellness are strong. Even with romantic and creative excitement, you manage to get a whole lot of work done. In fact, the motivation to produce something uniquely useful is powerful this month. The New Moon on the 10th is an additional boost for shining in your work or craft and making exciting lifestyle changes. March is a potentially excellent time for discovering alternative ways to heal, mend, or strengthen. This lunation can help you start fresh with work, health, routines, wellness, and habits. Circumstances are such that you're inspired and motivated to begin anew. With Mars moving into your solar sixth house on the 22nd, you're in a fabulous position to take on challenging projects that you've either put off or that improve your lifestyle, daily routines, and sense of well-being. You're ready to apply yourself enthusiastically to strengthening your wellness and health programs, getting chores done, or producing in your job. You can be excited and motivated as you discover ways to channel your passion into productive pursuits. There could be a stronger desire to get your work "just right." Perfectionism can be a driving force and powerful motivator, but avoid taking this to counterproductive lengths! The Sun moves into your relationship sector on the 19th, turning some of your attention to partnership, feedback, and balance. There can be a friendly and spirited approach to a relationship and to your tasks, which works in your favor. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it's in your sign! Emotions, feelings, and revelations now are pivotal. It's important not to jump into something too quickly or to overstate your feelings. However, aim to pay special attention to epiphanies occurring in the week surrounding this eclipse. With this current eclipse set, you're working on making your connections stronger and happier, which starts with taking better care of yourself. You could be dealing with and managing competing feelings related to the need for freedom and togetherness. With all the emotional excitement, you could temporarily feel energetically drained as you see a relationship, someone, or your image and personal impact in a new light. The result can be that you want to make changes — even go through a personal reinvention. These feelings are real and vital, but taking your time with them is probably best. Treat this time as powerful for connecting with feelings you may have pushed to the side–now, they're unavoidable! Epiphanies occur, and your emotions come to full bloom. It might also be a time when things come to light about you, so you might prefer to keep some things on the down-low in the week surrounding this Full Moon. If you want certain things to gain exposure, this can be the time but do consider that with Mercury about to turn retrograde (on April 1st), misunderstandings can be part of this picture. Still, this eclipse ties in nicely with friendly Venus aspects, and you and your work or efforts are received well. Pursuing your daily routines or work generates positive vibes and, quite possibly, social opportunities. You may discover alternative methods regarding health, nutrition, or fitness that are exciting. Doing things differently can open doors and improve your mood and concentration. |
ScorpioMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio: With a strong emphasis on your sector of joy this month, dear Scorpio, your desire to express and enjoy yourself is a powerful theme. A feeling that you’re in sync with the world around you can figure strongly. At the same time, a continuing theme activating your home and family sector is in force, putting a special focus on your personal life. The Sun and Mercury are in your sector of creativity, romance, and entertainment as March begins. Venus heads in on the 11th and Mars on the 22nd. As a result, interesting turns of events surrounding romance, children, entertainment, and creative projects can figure strongly. Small risks, stepping out of your comfort zone, or innovations can be rewarding, especially as the month advances. A relationship or an exciting project builds. As you pour more energy and heart into romantic relationships and creative pursuits, your relationships and projects take on new life. Personal magnetism is excellent all month, but especially from the 11th forward. You attract positive attention! Enthusiasm for hobbies, entertainment, and other forms of playful expression increases, and opportunities emerge to enjoy yourself more thoroughly. You become increasingly freer of the need to stick with familiar activities or sort out family and home matters, and confidence improves. Mercury moves into your work and health sector on the 9th, the Sun does the same on the 19th, and your inner workhorse emerges. You’re increasingly focused on taking better care of your routines, body, and work. A period of a more determined focus on wellness, good habits, and your daily affairs begins. You can be quite busy and involved with getting your life into order. Nevertheless, March often finds you following your heart and your creative impulses. Romance can become heated, which can be stimulating or challenging, depending on how you handle the energy! This is a good time to bring a more lively spirit to your leisure time, hobbies, or relationships. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it reminds you of the importance of taking time to recoup, balancing attention to your physical health with the care of your emotional health, as well as balancing your attention to work and procedure with the need for rest. It can also be a time of great hunches and intense awareness of situations that no longer work for you. It’s not the time to make sweeping decisions, however. It’s best to recognize your feelings and allow a plan to improve things to unfold gradually. This eclipse does signal a time to break from overthinking, and circumstances now seem to demand that you get some downtime. The need for extra rest and quiet or personal time is paramount, even though it can feel at odds with your drive with work or health matters. Finding more meaning in your work and satisfaction in helping others is a big theme now. Consider that Mercury will turn retrograde on the 1st of next month, and slowing down, observing, and refining things before pushing forward makes sense as you close out the month. |
SagittariusMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Sagittarius: March brings strong themes of learning, sharing, and special attention to your personal life, dear Sagittarius. The month is at once busy and grounding! You're finding time to enjoy familiar and comforting activities as well as feeding your curiosity. Mercury and the Sun visit your sector of soul/home until the 9th and 19th, and Venus and Mars join along on the 11th and 22nd, respectively. These developments bring many opportunities to improve relationships with family and/or with yourself! It's a powerful prompt to touch base, center yourself, and focus on nurture. It's not only strong energy for your emotional world, it's also great for creative improvements to the physical home. Ideas for making home life more comfortable and livable are abundant. Mars in this area of your solar chart from the 22nd seems to demand action--it becomes temperamental and disruptive if it doesn't have something constructive to do! You can be laying down foundations, setting up a base of operations, or improving foundations already in place. You're thinking in terms of the long haul now. You see yourself and inner needs and desires more honestly now. As a bonus, your security and comfort with yourself can attract others to you. The New Moon on the 10th brings fresh-start energy to your domestic world. You are determined and inspired to make improvements, and you can feel a sense of mission regarding your living conditions or support system. An open and forthcoming approach with others can work in your favor, especially with family or people with whom you live or share close quarters. Family, home, and work matters can move forward pleasantly, perhaps with a breakthrough. The month's energies can even help you overcome grudges, insecurities, and resentment. From the 19th, new adventures are in store as you find ways to satisfy an itch for more expressive activities, excitement, or recreation. Heartfelt activities are in focus now. However, you're still highly focused on your home and family life. It's a fabulous time for creative projects. Putting more heart into something and feeling great about your accomplishments can figure strongly. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it furthers a theme in your life that gives you a new view of your friendships, connections, and happiness goals. You are awakening to a need for kindred spirits, more involvement with others, and self-expression through creative mediums. This eclipse turns your attention to areas of your life that have become dysfunctional or unsatisfactory along these lines. Your feelings for someone or a special project can blossom or reach a turning point. You might have powerful realizations about long-term happiness goals. Drama or exaggeration often accompany eclipses, so aim to take your time and observe before jumping into action. Ideally, dormant or undiscovered talents awaken! Even with solid attention to pursuing your joy, as you close out the month, Mercury will turn retrograde just as April begins, making it necessary to slow down, take stock, and review in-progress endeavors. |
CapricornMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn: There's an interesting combination of play-it-safe and breaking out of your shell energy in March, dear Capricorn. It's a time to improve relationships with siblings or acquaintances, and better communication is a healthy focus this month. The month brings opportunities to connect, share, and love in creative ways. You might be the go-to person for information and know-how this month. Studies and mental interests are rewarding. The desire to express yourself and share your experiences with others is powerful in March. Errands, paperwork, learning, and social contact keep you on your toes, usually in pleasant ways. A burst of energy and confidence with these matters or with transportation is with you after the New Moon on the 10th. It may be best to focus on a constructive pursuit rather than scattering your energy–less is more this month! This New Moon is about starting fresh mentally, with communications projects or studies, with mobility, or regarding a personal interest. While a fresh start might sprout from a minor letdown or disappointment, you can be excited about approaching these life departments in new ways. You could find the motivation to get going on a learning or communications project, make new connections, or get a handle on your daily affairs. Conversations are stimulating, and ideas are uniquely creative this month. You may be especially motivated to get a project started or to put the finishing touches on a project already in progress from the 22nd forward. March can be a good time to make a romantic connection, particularly through third house avenues: school, running errands, your neighborhood, your daily commute, and even the phone. A focus on your home and family sector begins with Mercury's move into this area of your solar chart on the 9th and is reinforced once the Sun visits from the 19th. You take more interest and pride in your domestic life, family, foundation, or closest ties. In many ways, this is a time for anchoring or nesting on a psychological level. It's not the most adventurous or outgoing cycle in the Sun's journey through your solar chart, but it's a valuable period for gaining a stronger sense of self. During this cycle, soothe yourself with familiar activities and step into your comfort zone for a while! It will help you meet the demands of the outside world later. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it's, in fact, an important time for recognizing your need for accomplishment and accountability. It's another cosmic push towards finding a better balance between your home and working or professional and personal life. An epiphany or realization as you discover your true feelings about a matter can figure strongly. You may be in demand now! It's a powerful time for your reputation or career matters, and you might be called on to take the lead. It's possible you discover or awaken to a dream job or path that motivates you in a new direction. Aim to acknowledge new feelings that come to the surface but sit with them before taking action for best results. Note that Mercury will turn retrograde on the first day of April, and while you might delay new initiatives surrounding home and property, reworking and reorganizing your home can be especially fruitful now. |
AquariusMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius: March brings powerful instincts to start fresh or take the lead and explore your enterprising nature, dear Aquarius, but it's also stellar for laying down roots. Enjoying some predictability or more comfort can be a goal. Later in March, communicating, learning, sharing, and venturing about is an emerging theme. Still, you're more patient as you explore your options, and life feels more enjoyable and manageable as a result! You're moving into a period of settling in, building, and planning. There is an increasing focus on developing your projects, plans, and ideas, as well as income, means, and resources. You're likely to receive gifts or happy financial news in March. The month can be quite prosperous for you as you focus on putting your efforts into producing. You want results! It's a great time to explore and put your natural talents to good use. While you can be moving projects forward, gaining momentum, doing so patiently and gradually can be most rewarding and successful with current transits. You don't want to rush through things and burn out. With a substantial showing of cosmic energy in your solar second house, this is a time to patiently apply yourself to those endeavors that mean something to you — or that spell security! While February was for setting goals, March is for pursuing them. You're a little more daring and willing to experiment with your practical, business, and financial affairs–these things can benefit from a fresh perspective. It's a generally good time for financial matters, shopping, or acquiring new things. Inventive solutions to problems are yours to discover. The Sun moves through your resources sector until the 19th, and Mars picks up the baton on the 22nd, suggesting a bolder approach to business, earnings, defending your territory, and proving your worth. Mercury and Venus spend some time here as well, increasing your opportunities for significant bonuses or gifts, job opportunities, or financial advances. Your attitude towards your practical affairs or business is proactive, confident, fresh, savvy, and positive. The Full Moon on the 25th is a Lunar Eclipse, and it's powerful for gaining perspective on a matter related to communications, connections, and your urge to truly live and experience things rather than only go through the motions. Your worldview is changing, which affects your choices, decisions, and path forward. Tension is likely, but it's motivating. Certainly, with the current ongoing eclipse season, something is stirring in you on political or worldview levels. This March eclipse generates much emotional and mental energy, and focusing all of it isn't always straightforward! It prompts you to fit more extracurricular activities into your life for mental refreshment. Aim for moderation and try to set limits and identify priorities. As you close the month, watch for a bloated schedule. Try not to overcommit to things now, especially with Mercury about to turn retrograde and a need to review and reassess a few things before pushing ahead. |
PiscesMarch 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces: March is a month for reinventing yourself and starting fresh, dear Pisces. Self-development is in happy focus, and you can find yourself quite devoted to it. All the inner planets travel through your sign at some point--the Sun until the 19th, Mercury to the 9th, Venus from the 11th, and Mars from the 22nd. People notice and want your company more than usual. You can feel more attractive from the inside out or project more warmth, sharing your personality and ideas more than usual. This is your birthday season, which is always a time for grabbing opportunities. This year, some areas get off to a slow start, but you'll find that the remainder of March compensates. In truth, this is because Venus and Mars begin the month in the sign behind yours, and you may feel a little behind and out of the loop or simply not yet up to it! But as the month moves forward, you're more decisive and crave more interactivity. It's a particularly fertile, creative time when you have great ideas and all the right motivation to put in the work to get them going. Besides, you have much to explore in your inner world and behind the scenes. It's a fine time to discover yourself. The New Moon in Pisces on the 10th positions you well to set your intentions for the birthday year ahead related to your personality, independence, personal image, and effectiveness. It's one of the best times of the year to consider making personal changes that empower you. However, it's best to avoid unnecessary tension or impatience. Your powers of attraction run high with Venus in your sign from the 11th onward. You open yourself to pleasure and love, and your affections are strong and clear. Venus in your sign brings you out of your protective shell with more willingness (and the required inner clarity) to express your feelings. It encourages your confidence in what you have to offer the world. Make time and room for improvising and enjoying yourself, perhaps letting things flow and loosening up on an issue that has kept your feelings at bay. Seek out ideas that inspire you. From the 19th forward, financial matters tie up more deeply with your pride. Income and talents or resources are more prominent themes, although you get a hint of this as early as the 9th. It can be a time when you possess the foresight and determination to tackle jobs and tasks that have long-term potential. It feels good to pace yourself. Still, just a few days later, Mars enters your sign, revving you up! This influence is energetic, excitable, and exciting. It can be a time to assert your needs and pursue what you want. With haste or impatient behavior in check, you can use this period to pursue personal goals heartily. The Lunar Eclipse on the 25th can bring dysfunctional areas of our life to our attention! While watching for exaggeration in the last week of the month is a good idea, it's important to pay special attention to the emotions that emerge. For you, this eclipse season is about ownership and sharing/ income and support. Buried or long-brewing situations can reach a turning point. |
Detailed Monthly Horoscopes are here.
March 2024 Aspects TimeLine:
See also: This Week in Astrology for more detail.
See also: Table of Planetary Transits, Sign Changes, New/Full Moons, and Retrogrades for the Month
This Month’s Ephemeris:
This Month’s Ephemeris with extra points and abbreviations rather than glyphs:
Ephemerides with additional points are for Eastern Time. The North Node and Lilith are the True positions. Retrogrades are underlined. Extra points are Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Lilith. These come from the excellent software, Sirius 3.0.
This Month’s Void Moon Dates:
Using the table below: The Moon is Void of Course from the time of its last aspect listed below until the Moon enters a new sign. Generally speaking, these periods are not ideal for launching new endeavors, although they’re not impossible periods, either.
The times given below are Eastern. These should be adjusted for different time zones. For example, for Pacific Time, subtract 3 hours from the given times.
See Void of Course dates and times for the full year.
New & Full Moon Charts:
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The Astrology of 2024 – Overview
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This Month in Astrology – April 2024
April 2024
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This Month’s Highlights
Inner Planets
Horoscopes for the Month
Void of Course Dates this Month
On April 1st, Mercury turns retrograde. Mercury is retrograde in the sign of Aries from April 1st to 25th. This retrograde cycle is strong for reviewing our initiative, courage, and independence. We look at projects, items, situations, problems, and even people in new ways. There can be information clogs that push this new perspective–as we wait, we become more resourceful and creative! On April 11th, the Sun and retrograde Mercury meet, allowing the Sun to catch up with Mercury as Mercury was ahead of the Sun by degree since late February. Symbolically, we may have been overthinking and getting ahead of ourselves, but we’re now beginning to feel caught up. Mercury turns direct on the 25th, when information begins to unclog.
On April 8th, a New Moon total Solar Eclipse occurs in the sign of Aries, stirring a new beginning and prompting us to start fresh. This lunation is a total Solar Eclipse, and it’ the fourth in an Aries-Libra set of six eclipses and the third Solar Eclipse in the series. Note that the Aries-Libra eclipse set occurs from April 2023 to March 2025.
This Solar Eclipse can highlight and challenge our issues surrounding independence and personal courage. We might take steps towards self-mastery and self-empowerment by tackling things that undermine our confidence or autonomy. Circumstances nudge or encourage us to see where we haven’t been true to our authentic selves. Ultimately, we better position ourselves to understand that changes or endings are necessary for our own growth, and that we can handle these things.
It’s a powerful time to re-evaluate our relationship with ourselves. The New Moon aligns with retrograde Mercury, and it’s hard to see our path, but our discomfort with the past can be very real now, motivating new beginnings. As well, Mars, the ruler of Aries, is coming into alignment with Saturn, suggesting the determination to overcome obstacles.
On April 20th, Jupiter aligns with Uranus. Note also that Jupiter is parallel Uranus in early May. With this strong influence, we’re ready to discover, explore, and innovate. This transit is exciting, futuristic, and original. The need for progressive change becomes glaringly apparent under this influence. It’s a time when we’re itching to update, refresh, and renew ourselves, projects, circumstances, and connections.
We might take risks (perhaps, but not necessarily, foolish ones) for the sake of freedom during this transit. We could too easily avoid taking responsibility for things that truly matter, or we could feel exceptionally restless.
We’re open to new energies, approaches, and attitudes under the influence of this transit. Fortunate events occur as a direct result of our willingness to entertain the unusual and to think outside of the box. We are feeling brave, positive, and optimistic. Enthusiasm runs high, the desire for freedom from restrictions is strong, and thirst for adventure is with us.
On April 23rd, a Full Moon occurs in the sign of Scorpio, bringing sudden awareness to our lives, particularly of areas that require more balance. It challenges us to face what needs to go in our lives so we can move on in a healthier manner, as well as the responsibilities and debts we have to others. This Full Moon reminds us of the need to consider, recognize, and appreciate others’ support, contribution, needs, wants, and input.
Date | Time (ET) | Event | Position |
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Apr 1 | 6:14 PM | Mercury Retrograde | Mer 27 Ari 13'Rx |
Apr 1 | 11:14 PM | Last Quarter Moon | 12 Cap 52' |
Apr 5 | 12:00 AM | Venus enters Aries | Ven 0 Ari 00' |
Apr 8 | 2:21 PM | New Moon SOLAR Eclipse (Total) in Aries | 19 Ari 24' |
Apr 10 | 7:15 PM | Jupiter semi-sextile Chiron | Jup 19 Tau 32' semi-sextile Chi 19 Ari 32' |
Apr 15 | 3:13 PM | First Quarter Moon | 26 Can 18' |
Apr 19 | 10:00 AM | Sun enters Taurus | Sun 0 Tau 00' |
Apr 19 | 10:59 PM | Saturn semi-sextile True Node | Sat 15 Pis 38' semi-sextile Nod 15 Ari 38' |
Apr 20 | 10:27 PM | Jupiter conjunct Uranus | Jup 21 Tau 50' conjunct Ura 21 Tau 50' |
Apr 21 | 10:58 PM | Juno Direct | Jun 6 Vir 18'D |
Apr 23 | 7:49 PM | Full Moon in Scorpio | 4 Sco 18' |
Apr 25 | 8:54 AM | Mercury Direct | Mer 15 Ari 59'D |
Apr 29 | 7:31 AM | Venus enters Taurus | Ven 0 Tau 00' |
Apr 30 | 11:33 AM | Mars enters Aries | Mar 0 Ari 00' |
(See the full table for 2024)
See also: This Week in Astrology week to week for more detail.
This Month’s Overview Horoscopes
The following horoscopes outline how the above astrological influences might affect each individual sign.
Overview horoscopes fill in here as I write them, ideally during the week before the month begins. It is not unusual to see some signs temporarily missing as I write the twelve of them over the course of a few days, starting with the featured sign of the month (birthday month).
AriesApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aries: April is a powerful month for personal presence, dear Aries, but it's also a month when you're slowly coming into your own--it's not an instant process! You host the Sun until the 19th, Mercury all month, Venus from the 5th to 29th, and Mars from the 30th forward. As such, there's a tremendous focus on you, your personal goals, and new beginnings or fresh starts in April. However, several factors suggest you're not entirely ready to push ahead. For one, Mercury is in your sign all month but is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th. So, while you're mentally engaged and want to express yourself, there can be some delays and information clogs—perhaps even misunderstandings—until the 25th. For another, Mars is behind your sign until the 30th, and while you're visible and in the spotlight, some plans, motivations, and drives are in limbo or not quite ready. Finally, a Solar Eclipse in your sign occurs on the 8th. This eclipse is all about you, your independence, and your autonomy, but there can be initial feelings of being overlooked or depleted of energy that will ultimately drive new beginnings. It's a process, and you can be doing quite a bit of soul-searching or meditation in motion this month! Another April headline: Jupiter and Uranus unite in your resources sector, and it's an electrifying and progressive influence. This could lead to unexpected financial gains, the discovery of hidden talents, or even a significant gift. It's a time of sudden changes in your financial position, new money-making ideas, and deeper insights into your self-worth. You might now view money for its value as a tool used to achieve more freedom in your life. It's a time to invent, innovate, and make progress, especially with your things and finances. On a psychological level, too, you can feel as if a burden has been lifted from you, and you feel freer to enjoy yourself and more confident of your worth and value. |
TaurusApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Taurus: The month ahead is powerful for getting your bearings, working on healing, and reconnecting with your motivation, dear Taurus. A Solar Eclipse occurs on the 8th, and it nudges you forward with your efforts to come to a better work-rest balance. The "push" at this point in the eclipse season is toward the "rest" component of this axis. It's a time to improve your life by boosting your ability to rest, meditate, clear up lingering problems and traumas, work on karma, and detox. In other words, using your downtime well is the goal now! However, the Solar Eclipse doesn't necessarily steal the month's headlines for you, as Jupiter and Uranus align in your sign-- a rare event. It's electric, progressive, and exciting energy. A sudden windfall or opportunity is possible, such as an inheritance, debt relief, career advancement, or reputation boost. Jupiter rules your sector of emotional or material support and others' money, and Uranus rules your career, reputation, and responsibility sector. As these planets meet in your sign, there can be an unexpected turnaround that improves your life and helps you grow. Besides these more overt opportunities, this transit raises your spirits. The need for progressive change becomes glaringly apparent--you feel the need to update, refresh, and renew yourself, projects, circumstances, and connections. It's a powerful time for freeing yourself from limiting circumstances and burdens, and it's quite a positive change. The Sun enters your sign on the 19th, and your ruler, Venus, does the same on the 29th. These shifts signal you're moving ahead, coming into your own, and making an impact. |
GeminiApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Gemini: Your sense of community, feeling of belonging, and need to share and contribute are in focus in April, dear Gemini. You're also connecting with your more worldly ambitions and, later, your need for personal time away from the daily grind. It's a powerful month for improving your social life while also attending to your responsibilities. But with your ruler, Mercury, retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, it's a good idea to take things easy in a general sense, mainly related to decision-making, health, and friendship or networking matters. Aim to listen to your intuition around the total Solar Eclipse on the 8th. It's a time for breakthrough ideas that are bound to bear fruit down the road. The need for a fresh start in friendship can become apparent. Certainly, you're in a great position to network, connect, and share. People are bringing opportunities into your life, and your unique charm is helping this along. The Sun heads into your privacy sector on the 19th, and Venus does the same on the 29th. These point to a general slow-down that benefits you. You begin to see the world a little differently, and you find more time to decompress, detox, and heal. As well, Jupiter and Uranus align in this same area of your solar chart this month, and it's an exciting time of surprises on an emotional level. There can be sudden benefits or a breaking free from burdens. Intuition heightens, particularly regarding matters that have held you back from growing or letting go of outdated behaviors. Secretive elements to a relationship are possible and can be stimulating or motivating. Private or behind-the-scenes studies and topics of interest are appealing, and they can emerge in your life suddenly. |
CancerApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Cancer: April's focus can often be on your responsibilities, long-term plans, life path goals, or career and performance, dear Cancer. It's a powerful time for setting or adjusting goals and plans, but not necessarily for locking things down due to Mercury's retrograde and the flux of an eclipse. These events indicate the need to process, learn, understand, and adjust before pushing ahead. But even if the month can sometimes feel slow-moving, Mars in your spirit sector almost to the end of the month ensures you're also paying attention to your need for adventure, mental refreshment, discovery, and spontaneity. The total Solar Eclipse on the 8th calls further attention to career and life-plan goals, and you can be especially sensitive to your “place” in the world. Circumstances now can ultimately push you to set goals, make plans, and take charge. Getting the balance right between worldly and personal goals has been a big theme since last year and will continue to be in strong focus until next March. This is about defining who you are, what you do, and how you contribute. If your reputation or professional image needs some work, this is a powerful time for making some important changes and edits. In the coming weeks, you are likely to be working towards new goals for self-mastery and self-discipline. For some, there can be some initial drama or a bit of chaos involved. Jupiter and Uranus come together in your friendship sector, bringing exciting surprises to your social life. As such, April can be a time of sudden benefits, happy improvements, and surprising changes with happiness goals and pursuits, friendships, networking, community involvement, and group associations. A person or group association that is more creative, visionary, unusual, or unconventional can figure strongly in your life now. It can also bring opportunities to advance your work or connect with someone who encourages you to improve your health. |
LeoApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Leo: Your spirit to discover, explore, and share is in the spotlight in April, dear Leo. In fact, you're connecting with the ways you feed your spirit and need for mental refreshment, a vision, or a change of scenery this month. It's a time to develop more hopefulness, faith, and optimism. The total Solar Eclipse on the 8th is another prompt to enrich your life experience beyond your usual bounds. Circumstances are such that you recognize the need for a change of pace in your life, whether it's through trips, learning, publishing, sharing, or other forms of adventure. Opportunities to broaden your horizons can present themselves in the weeks ahead of this eclipse. However, Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, and taking things slowly makes sense. You may be waiting for information, and as you do, you're likely to find creative workarounds. Jupiter's alignment with Uranus on the 20th is powerful, touching the entire month. This rare combination occurs at the top of your solar chart, boosting your career, performance, ambitions, or reputation in sudden, unexpected, or unusual ways. A surprise promotion, change of direction, or recognition can be in store. Others are especially attracted to your visionary and confident approach. This excitement can also relate to your relationships, as Jupiter is your romance ruler and Uranus is your partnership ruler, and they’re coming together at the top of your chart. A relationship can make a splash at this time. Certainly, as April progresses, you take your goals and ambitions more to heart. Setting new objectives can be in focus. |
VirgoApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Virgo: April brings a powerful focus on support, focus, attachments, and passion projects, dear Virgo. It's a time to connect with your need for or to give support and explore your attachments and dependencies. Prominent themes include debts owed or due, emotional and material support, intimate relationships, and power dynamics. Circumstances around the time of the Solar Eclipse on the 8th can prompt you to take charge of your financial or intimate affairs. It's a time to better manage shared resources, pour yourself into a special pursuit, or grow an intimate relationship. But even with this rather intense inward focus, there's a simultaneous theme of exploring, sharing, learning, and gaining some mental refreshment that keeps you coming up for air. The focus is very often on others and relationships this month regardless as Mars is in your partnership sector, shaking things up, until the last day of April. The Jupiter-Uranus alignment can point to a wonderful and perhaps surprising boost to your domestic plans, home, education, work, or health. As this rare combination comes together in your sector of spirit and the higher mind, it can be about exploring new experiences and ideas. This is a period of exciting insights, changing beliefs, and eye-opening adventures or extracurricular activities. Doing work or home life a little differently can also be in the cards, and it's rewarding and even invigorating. |
LibraApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Libra: April brings a special focus on your one-on-one relationships, dear Libra, and puts the spotlight on achieving a better balance or sense of harmony in your life in general. At the same time, the month holds strong energy for getting your daily affairs in order or improving your personal routines and health or wellness pursuits. Circumstances around the time of the Solar Eclipse on the 8th encourage you to connect with your relationship/partnership goals and needs. Events at this time can surprise you, pushing your need for others to the fore in unusual ways. This can be about ending or starting a partnership, redefining an existing one, or defining what you do and don't want/need from others. However, with Mercury retrograde in your opposing sign from the 1st to the 25th, it's a good idea to mull things over and observe, as information isn't yet at your disposal. Pay special attention to the rare and progressive alignment of Jupiter and Uranus in your work and health sector this month. This unique event presents a golden opportunity for growth and advancement in your professional and personal wellness pursuits. This exciting alignment occurs in your sector of intimacy, attachment, personal psychology, and self-empowerment. Developments with the financial or emotional support you receive, whether through loans, resources of a partner, or other types of help, are quick and surprising. You might find yourself sharing or pooling your resources with a partner, for example, and it's a big change. Alternatively, this can be a time of sudden insights and opportunities for emotional renewal or healing that give you a sense of self-mastery. Sudden, new, and surprising desires can take hold at this time. |
ScorpioApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Scorpio: Work, health, wellness, and personal routines are strong focus this month, dear Scorpio. While there can be some backtracking or delays involved with these matters, you're also connecting with your need for more order or attention to your daily affairs. Rearranging your life in important ways to accommodate these needs can be in the spotlight. The total Solar Eclipse on the 8th is a powerful one and can motivate you to take care of unfinished business related to work and health matters. Circumstances around this eclipse can prompt you to take charge of your health, start a new fitness or wellness program (slowly but surely is best), or organize your daily affairs, including your work. It’s not always easy to keep things in order these days, but you’re learning that creative touches help. But while your everyday affairs are often strongly on your mind, you also have some interesting social developments happening in April that keep things lively. For one, Mars spends almost the entire month in your sector of joy and creativity, and you're pursuing your joy! For another, your partnership sector is growing in relevance as the month advances. In fact, the month features a powerful planetary alignment: Jupiter meets Uranus in your partnership sector, and others can surprise you! Alternatively, relationship needs come on suddenly, and you connect with desires or cravings you never knew you had. Increased benefits, possibly with money, can come through others. A surprising circumstance or sudden change of attitude can occur and jolt you out of your usual patterns of relating to others on a one-to-one level. An alliance with an old family friend can also stand out now. The Full Moon on the 23rd happens in your sign, pulling up feelings that are now impossible to deny! Your newfound discoveries or epiphanies can help redirect you in meaningful ways now. |
SagittariusApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Sagittarius: April is powerful for exploring your needs for expressing and enjoying yourself, dear Sagittarius. It's an important month for arriving at a better understanding of your social or romantic connections, special projects, and personal objectives. Circumstances around the Solar Eclipse on the 8th may clear the path for a new start in a romance or with a creative project, and possibly even a new creative field or direction. Trust your intuition, showcase your work, share your ideas, and connect with people you want to spend time with. However, don't be in a rush to lock things down since Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, and eclipses are known to obscure some matters. Even with this exploratory, playful theme in strong focus this month, you also have interesting developments with work, health, routines, daily life, and home. There's a growing theme of attention to your everyday life and wellness pursuits. Your planetary ruler, Jupiter, aligns with Uranus in your sector of work, health, wellness, habits, and daily routines, and these are areas of life where you can enjoy sudden benefits, happy improvements, and added excitement. This can be about your day job. A wellness program or method that might be a little outside of the box could be appealing and encouraging. It's also an electrifying influence on your personality—you feel more open about expressing your unique qualities, particularly in the context of your everyday communications and in your work or services. |
CapricornApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Capricorn: April holds a strong domestic theme for you, dear Capricorn. You tend to pour more heart into your home life, living conditions, nesting, or loved ones this month. Your instincts are strong in these areas! The Solar Eclipse on the 8th can ultimately prompt powerful new initiatives, major new long-term projects, and possibly family and home-related affairs. Circumstances surrounding this date can awaken stirrings inside you that help you see where improvements are needed. You'll want to pay extra attention to getting and giving nurture and connecting with your need for familiarity. Because Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, however, it also makes sense to take things slowly. It's a good time to develop creative ways to improve your personal life, but not ideal for brand new beginnings. April's energies are certainly strong for nesting and centering yourself, but as the month advances, you're drawing on this newfound security and pouring more of yourself into sharing. The Sun and Venus move into your sector of fun, creativity, joy, recreation, heartfelt pursuits, and romance on the 19th and 29th, and a Jupiter-Uranus alignment occurs there. These are the areas of your life where you'll find excitement, sudden benefits, and happy improvements. Another possibility is that a past love or project can re-emerge in your life. Certainly, you are more inclined to take chances on creative or romantic levels. Something might inspire you to try out a new creative hobby or adventure altogether. |
AquariusApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Aquarius: April can be a mentally busy month, dear Aquarius. It features much communication, daily activity, learning, and connecting. In fact, you have a stronger desire than usual for mental engagement and movement. It's possible siblings, relatives, or neighbors play a more vital role in your life, or your curiosity and need for variety can lead to a busy pace. It's a strong month for learning, particularly self-taught or home-learning endeavors. The Solar Eclipse on the 8th can call into question a particular mental pursuit or project. There can be new channels or platforms for self-expression in the cards, and these can be more imaginative, creative, and, ultimately, more fulfilling. For now, however, Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th, and easing into any new beginnings makes sense. Retrograde Mercury can bring on some delays, obstacles, or slowdowns, but there is much to enjoy and learn, even if (and perhaps because) you're waiting. There is much to deal with in the short term, but you can also find time for long-term vision and planning this month, especially with a Jupiter-Uranus alignment. In fact, this rare combination can boost your optimism. This exciting energy occurs in your sector of home, family, and nurture, and it's a powerful time for upgrades, improvements, and sudden benefits in these areas. Excitement on the home front is brewing, which leaves you feeling freer, lighter, and happier. |
PiscesApril 2024 Monthly Horoscope Overview for Pisces: The month has wonderful potential for settling in and enjoying yourself, dear Pisces, but also for building something important to you. You’re more interested in security and long-term endeavors than you are in the excitement of the moment. In effect, you have more patience to draw upon, and it’s powerful. In the days around the Solar Eclipse on the 8th, you might realize the need for a fresh start or new approach with money, income, valuables, self-esteem, or comfort matters. You might consider taking a new path, and after a period of reorientation, you will ultimately feel more in control. You may not know exactly where you’re heading, but you are putting more faith in the universe and your own intuition to guide you in the right direction. Consider that Mercury is retrograde from the 1st to the 25th in the same sector where this eclipse occurs, and it makes sense to look to the past for ideas before pushing ahead with brand-new plans! There is a stronger focus on communicating and connecting as April advances. A rare alignment occurs on the 20th, but it is strong enough to influence the whole month: Jupiter meets with Uranus in your communications zone, bringing sudden opportunities, surprises, and changes to learning, studies, communication, transportation, siblings, your neighborhood, and personal interests. You could receive good news or read something that inspires you to change your learning focus. Instead, you might write about a topic you hadn’t considered before or through channels you have never tried, for example. With this electric, confident energy, you are more open to communicating about subjects or feelings you have previously kept to yourself. Aim to pay special attention to ideas that seem to come out of the blue, chance meetings, or unexpected communications, as significant opportunities can arise through these things. |
Detailed Monthly Horoscopes are here.
April 2024 Aspects TimeLine:
See also: This Week in Astrology for more detail.
See also: Table of Planetary Transits, Sign Changes, New/Full Moons, and Retrogrades for the Month
This Month’s Ephemeris:
This Month’s Ephemeris with extra points and abbreviations rather than glyphs:
Ephemerides with additional points are for Eastern Time. The North Node and Lilith are the True positions. Retrogrades are underlined. Extra points are Chiron, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta, and Lilith. These come from the excellent software, Sirius 3.0.
This Month’s Void Moon Dates:
Using the table below: The Moon is Void of Course from the time of its last aspect listed below until the Moon enters a new sign. Generally speaking, these periods are not ideal for launching new endeavors, although they’re not impossible periods, either.
The times given below are Eastern. These should be adjusted for different time zones. For example, for Pacific Time, subtract 3 hours from the given times.
See Void of Course dates and times for the full year.
New & Full Moon Charts:
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Take a peek at the year ahead with in-depth Future Forecast Reports from Cafe Astrology.
See also:
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