Yearly Astrology Trends Calendar
Cafe Astrology’s mega Astrology Trends Calendar contains daily overviews as well as dates, times, and descriptions of New Moons and Full Moons, Eclipses, Planetary Stations (retrograde and direct dates), Planetary Ingresses (planets and other bodies changing signs), and more.
The calendar is displayed below in the yearly list accordion format. For the Monthly Calendar Page and Monthly List formats that include daily overviews, see Astrology Calendars.
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The FILTER EVENTS option can be useful for showing only the lunations (New and Full Moons) during the year, for example. See also Monthly Calendars page and Astrology Calendars page for a closer look at daily trends as well.
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Monday, MARCH 18 With today’s Venus-Uranus quintile, we notice and appreciate the more unique elements of people, situations, and projects. Mercury aligns with the true North Node of
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Monday, MARCH 18
With today’s Venus-Uranus quintile, we notice and appreciate the more unique elements of people, situations, and projects.
Mercury aligns with the true North Node of the Moon today, and learning, teaching, and communicating figure strongly. We might make valuable contact with people who share our intellectual interests or introduce us to new ideas that help us grow, improve, and expand. Or, we connect with information that similarly moves us forward and challenges us to grow.
But with the Moon in Cancer all day, we’re looking for safety, familiarity, warmth, and sustenance. This transit encourages us to center ourselves and let go of overthinking. We crave a stronger sense of belonging. With a Mars-Vesta aspect also in play today, we more easily direct our energies into meaningful activities.
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Tuesday, MARCH 19 The Moon continues its transit of Cancer until 3:33 PM EDT, harmonizing with the Pisces Sun not long before the Sun moves on to
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Tuesday, MARCH 19
The Moon continues its transit of Cancer until 3:33 PM EDT, harmonizing with the Pisces Sun not long before the Sun moves on to Aries. We seek calm and cooperation. Home, family, and familiar settings or situations appeal more than usual.
The Leo Moon from 3:33 PM forward is more outgoing, direct, and performative. The Sun forms a semi-square with Jupiter, suggesting some overestimation of our energy or motivation levels. We want to grow, improve, and expand, and it may be necessary to push some boundaries now, but it’s best to do so gently.
Tonight, the Sun enters pioneering Aries, marking the time of the Spring equinox and the start of the astrological New Year. The Sun will transit the sign of Aries until April 19th. We’re enthusiastic and spontaneous during this cycle, and we can be motivated by the desire to conquer, initiate, or pioneer. We are impulsive, and we want to come first and innovate. Aries is a sign that bounces back quickly and is often without pause for regret. We are direct, brave, and relatively uncomplicated in our needs, but we can also be short-sighted or impatient.
The Moon is void from 2:52 PM EDT, with the Moon’s last aspect before changing signs (a trine to the Sun), until the Moon enters Leo at 3:33 PM EDT.
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Sun enters Aries Sun is in Aries from March 19-April 19, 2024. In Aries, the Sun is enthusiastic and spontaneous. We are motivated by the desire to conquer. We are more impulsive and have the
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Sun enters Aries
Sun is in Aries from March 19-April 19, 2024. In Aries, the Sun is enthusiastic and spontaneous. We are motivated by the desire to conquer. We are more impulsive and have the urge to initiate.
Aries is a sign that bounces back quickly–there is little in the way of shame with Aries. It is brave and pioneering, and somewhat innocent. We are direct and rather uncomplicated in our needs, but we can also be short-sighted and lack the desire to plan ahead.
The Sun enters Aries on March 19, 2024, at 11:06 PM EDT, which is also the Vernal Equinox.
Aspects the Sun makes while in the sign of Aries in 2024
This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of the Sun are in bold.
- Mar 21, 2024 4:03 PM Sun 1 Aries 42 sextile Pluto 1 Aquarius 42
- Mar 25, 2024 12:01 PM Sun 5 Aries 30 semi-square Uranus 20 Taurus 30
- Apr 2, 2024 10:41 PM Sun 13 Aries 50 semi-sextile Saturn 13 Pisces 50
- Apr 3, 2024 12:11 AM Sun quintile Pluto
- Apr 4, 2024 6:10 PM Sun 15 Aries 38 conjunction True Node 15 Aries 38
- Apr 8, 2024 3:10 AM Sun 18 Aries 57 semi-sextile Jupiter 18 Taurus 57
- Apr 8, 2024 2:28 PM Sun 19 Aries 24 conjunction Chiron 19 Aries 24
- Apr 10, 2024 12:00 PM Sun 21 Aries 16 semi-sextile Uranus 21 Taurus 16
- Apr 11, 2024 7:03 PM Sun 22 Aries 32 conjunction Mercury 22 Aries 32
- Apr 17, 2024 9:31 PM Sun 28 Aries 31 semi-sextile Neptune 28 Pisces 31
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Wednesday, MARCH 20 Today’s Leo Moon brings a burst of determined yet playful and creative energy to our lives. We can’t help but take pride in our
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Wednesday, MARCH 20
Today’s Leo Moon brings a burst of determined yet playful and creative energy to our lives. We can’t help but take pride in our accomplishments and feel ready to shine.
While some of our discoveries, musings, and conversations may be slightly uncomfortable with a Mercury-Chiron alignment today, we’re open to the opportunities for learning and healing that they bring. We may find ourselves desiring to talk or think through our feelings, sensitivities, issues, and concerns, and our intuitive understanding is heightened.
This transit encourages us to embrace new perspectives and learn from one another and our circumstances. We are incredibly open to new ways of looking at problems or life in general, and we’re more attuned than usual to communication nuances.
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Mars enters Pisces Mars is in Pisces from March 22-April 30, 2024. We tend to feel less motivated to go after traditional goals, and more motivated to pursue spiritual or emotional drives during this cycle.
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Mars enters Pisces
Mars is in Pisces from March 22-April 30, 2024.
We tend to feel less motivated to go after traditional goals, and more motivated to pursue spiritual or emotional drives during this cycle. While Mars in Pisces, we dislike confrontation.
Our output is variable, and our energy is similarly up and down during this trend. We may put others’ needs ahead of our own, and our more idealistic side comes to the fore. During this cycle, going after what we want becomes less straightforward and more complicated!
However, we are motivated by compassion while Mars is in Pisces. We can be spiritual warriors, or we achieve our goals intuitively and with faith. We can be chameleons, adapting to the current situation quite expertly, although we can also be escape artists, preferring to avoid than confront. We can be passive-aggressive, or we fight through confusing or placating our opponent.
Aspects Mars makes while in the sign of Pisces in 2024
This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Mars are in bold.
- Mar 23, 2024 2:20 PM Mars 0 Pisces 36 semi-square True Node 15 Aries 36
- Mar 25, 2024 1:58 AM Mars 1 Pisces 45 semi-sextile Pluto 1 Aquarius 45
- Mar 27, 2024 1:51 PM Mars 3 Pisces 42 semi-square Chiron 18 Aries 42
- Mar 28, 2024 9:39 PM Mars quintile Jupiter
- Apr 3, 2024 6:22 AM Mars quintile Uranus
- Apr 6, 2024 3:47 AM Mercury 26 Aries 09 semi-square Mars 11 Pisces 09
- Apr 10, 2024 4:36 PM Mars 14 Pisces 41 conjunction Saturn 14 Pisces 41
- Apr 11, 2024 9:04 PM Mars 15 Pisces 36 semi-sextile True Node 15 Aries 36
- Apr 13, 2024 4:55 PM Mars 17 Pisces 01 semi-square Pluto 2 Aquarius 01
- Apr 16, 2024 10:45 AM Mercury 19 Aries 09 semi-sextile Mars 19 Pisces 09
- Apr 17, 2024 10:53 AM Mars 19 Pisces 55 semi-sextile Chiron 19 Aries 55
- Apr 19, 2024 11:28 AM Mars 21 Pisces 30 sextile Jupiter 21 Taurus 30
- Apr 19, 2024 7:55 PM Mars 21 Pisces 46 sextile Uranus 21 Taurus 46
- Apr 27, 2024 8:36 AM Venus 27 Aries 36 semi-sextile Mars 27 Pisces 36
- Apr 29, 2024 12:31 AM Mars 28 Pisces 53 conjunction Neptune 28 Pisces 53
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The Moon is Full in Libra on March 25, 2024, at 3:00 AM EDT. This is a penumbral Lunar Eclipse.
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The Moon is Full in Libra on March 25, 2024, at 3:00 AM EDT. This is a penumbral Lunar Eclipse.
A Full Moon occurs when the Sun in Aries forms an opposition to the Moon in Libra. The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. Certainly, it can be an emotional time – a time of romance, fertilization, and relationships.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 5 degrees and 7 minutes of Libra opposite the Sun at 5 degrees and 7 minutes of Aries.
It’s the third eclipse in a set of six occurring along the Aries-Libra axis from April 20th, 2023, to March 29, 2025. The first one was a Total Solar Eclipse in late Aries. While we’ve been focusing on building our independence and working on assertiveness since April 2023, this March eclipse in Libra prompts us to consider healthy relating and how it affects the process.
This eclipse serves as a prompt, nudge, or push to make improvements in Aries- and Libra-ruled areas of life in our charts, and feelings of discontent can magnify. It’s a time to resolve matters, strike a balance, take a lesson, and move on, but take some time with this–eclipses can temporarily hide a part of our lives for us to focus on another. Ultimately, we should be striving for a balance.
This eclipse affects people with personal planets and points at 0 to 10 degrees of the Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn) most significantly.
Lunar Eclipses are about relationships and polarities. With the Aries-Libra axis involved, this Lunar Eclipse presses us to look more closely at our needs, lacks, and wants concerning the balance between Aries-ruled and Libra-ruled areas of life.
The contrast between fiery, direct, confrontational Aries and logical, tactful, balance-oriented Libra comes full bloom. The energy of the Libra Moon is the awareness of the need for relationships and all that comes with maintaining them — compromising, negotiating, graciousness, and balancing. The Aries Sun, on the other hand, is self-assertive, leading, and personally courageous.
This Full Moon urges us to strike a balance between meeting our personal needs and attending to the needs of a significant other, and between independence or autonomy and dependence or companionability.
The Libra Moon is diplomatic, equality-minded, and fair-minded. The Aries Sun, however, values authenticity over tact, and is energized by independent efforts. The Full Moon illuminates this conflict.
Neglecting either end of the Aries-Libra axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do.
This Full Moon is about emotional declarations. Something has been building inside of us, likely of a personal nature, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out. Over the coming months, we will discover what this declaration means for us. For now, it’s difficult to sit on our feelings. We need to express them.
The Full Moon Lunar Eclipse illuminates the conflict between “me” and “you,” and between autonomy and sharing.
With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic “illumination” occurs in our own lives. However, these new feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as there is a sense of emotions bursting forth into our consciousness. It’s time to express ourselves, and to let things out of our systems. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is new and not particularly rational as yet.
This eclipse is about awakening to the need to enjoy and appreciate our partners or significant others in our lives and to connect with our desire for companionship.
Emotions, feelings, and revelations in the weeks following this eclipse are pivotal–they lead to resolutions.
This is a rewarding Full Moon eclipse, ripe with possibilities and learning experiences. However, it can take some time before we get the whole picture.
A crisis of sorts (which can be a crisis of consciousness) or sudden awareness of a lack in our lives provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs within the context of the house polarity where the eclipse occurs in our natal charts.
Relationships may be challenged, broken, or strengthened at this time. Our discovery is emotionally charged and dramatic–everything feels big and larger than life at this time. Epiphanies are likely as we become acutely aware of our lack. This understanding can propel us into affirmative action, although there can be some initial level of chaos.
This is a time to work on clearing up past patterns that have been holding us back from relationship fulfillment.
Revelations coming in can be blown up and dramatic but not discountable since they come from real feelings. With eclipses, we get a strong emphasis on one area of life but a blackout in another area, and it makes sense to wait to make big decisions for when we can see the whole picture.
This Lunar Eclipse can have a way of bringing dysfunctional areas of our lives to our attention. Emotions and realizations feel big. Plans can blossom.
Through events, circumstances, and epiphanies after the time of this eclipse, we learn that we need to get in touch with our needs for a stronger connection to others. To feel fulfilled, we need to acknowledge and embrace our need for others, for balance, and for compromise.
We become aware of where we have been overdoing our independence or “me” focus where it’s come at the expense of our perspective, companionability, and relationships.
Full Moons are always helpful for magnifying pre-existing problems so that we can see where to bring back balance. Our larger work should focus on reaching a good balance. Enlightenment in the weeks following the lunation provides us with a golden opportunity to explore our emotional needs, ultimately leading to positive actions and decisions.
This Lunar Eclipse is part of a set of eclipses falling along the Aries/Libra sign axis from April 2023 to March 2025:
- Annular Total SOLAR Eclipse 2023 April 20 0:12:19 at 29 Aries 50
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2023 October 14 13:54:56 at 21 Libra 08
- Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2024 March 25 3:00:05 at 5 Libra 07
- Total SOLAR Eclipse 2024 April 8 14:20:37 at 19 Aries 24
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2024 October 2 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 March 29 at 9 Aries 00
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Mercury now turns retrograde at 27° Aries 13′. Mercury is retrograde from April 1, 2024, at 27° Aries 13′, until April 25, 2024, at 15° Aries 59′. In other words, Mercury
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Mercury now turns retrograde at 27° Aries 13′.
Mercury is retrograde from April 1, 2024, at 27° Aries 13′, until April 25, 2024, at 15° Aries 59′. In other words, Mercury stays in Aries while retrograde for almost 24 days.
Mercury Retrograde Cycle from April 1 to 25, 2024:
- On March 18, 2024, Mercury enters the Retrograde Zone at 15° Aries 59′
- On April 1, 2024, Mercury stations and turns retrograde at 27° Aries 13’Rx
- On April 25, 2024, Mercury stations and turns direct at 15° Aries 59’D
- On May 13, 2024, Mercury leaves the Retrograde Zone at 27° Aries 13′
The year 2024’s second retrograde Mercury cycle occurs from April 1st to 25th. Technically, the first retrograde ended on January 1st, 2024!
Mercury’s shadow period begins on March 18th and ends on May 13th. Note that the shadow period begins before Mercury turns retrograde–when Mercury first passes over the degree that Mercury later returns to in retrograde motion. The shadow period ends when Mercury again passes over the degree at which it first turned retrograde. The shadow period is different than Mercury’s storm period in astrology, which refers to the period when Mercury is moving especially slowly.
Note that Mercury’s post-retrograde shadow is generally better for new long-term endeavors than the pre-retrogrades shadow. For new enterprises in the pre-retrograde shadow, the venture’s secondary progressed Mercury will turn direction (retrograde) in the coming years, which may not be ideal.
Also consider that things are most wonky on and around the days of the stations whether Mercury is turning retrograde OR direct (the start and end dates of the retrograde cycle) as the shifts occur, after which we grow more accustomed to the energy.
Mercury is retrograde approximately three times a year for approximately three weeks each time. As such, retrograde Mercury is a fairly common occurrence (Mercury is retrograde approximately 18% of the time).
As the planet of communication, Mercury retrograde tends to breed a certain level of confusion. Mercury rules our “lower” mind–how we perceive and interpret information that we receive from our environment, and how we relay that information to others. Mercury has rulership over such things as speaking, negotiating, buying and selling, listening, formal contracts, documents, travel, the mail and shipping, and so forth. All of these areas of life are affected when Mercury is functioning in a sluggish state. Decision-making is challenged during Mercury retrograde.
Needless to say, it is not advised to sign contracts, engage in important decision-making, or launch a new business. Delays and challenges are more probable with Mercury retrograde. It’s a time when being careless with money, our personal information, or paperwork can be costly.
While Mercury is retrograde, we may be rethinking a previous opinion or idea. Looking to the signs and houses it transits can give clues as to what we may be reconsidering. In Aries this time, we might look at past decisions and ideas from a new, possibly enlightened perspective. This is a time for reconsidering an initiative or venture. It’s strong for returning to an old project or pursuit.
It can be a time of tension, however, as Mercury in Aries wants immediate answers and retrograde Mercury can point to delays and indecision. The shortness of Mercury in Aries communications is magnified, making it necessary to be especially careful with our choice of topics and wording. The chances of sharp or brusque comments doing some damage run high.
While Mercury is retrograde in the sign of Aries, we may be returning to past projects and refining or tweaking them. We can find usefulness in old or past ideas and recycle them in new ways, even though Mercury in Aries prefers the new to the old. We might consider renewing past ventures where we may have had false starts, but this should be done in a new way for things to work this time around.
With Mercury in Aries, we prefer to learn from hands-on experience rather than instruction, and not listening during this Mercury retrograde period can be especially costly.
Keep in mind that Mercury in Aries’ haste to communicate (or perhaps more accurately, to get communications out of the way) can work against us or can be more consequential during Mercury retrograde — there can be texts or emails sent to the wrong people, for example, or quick commentary that’s considered careless.
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Venus enters Aries Venus is in Aries from April 4 to 29, 2024. With Venus in Aries, love is spontaneous and direct. The chase is very exciting to us under this fiery influence.
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Venus enters Aries
Venus is in Aries from April 4 to 29, 2024. With Venus in Aries, love is spontaneous and direct. The chase is very exciting to us under this fiery influence. We are bold, fresh, and a little impatient when it comes to matters of the heart. We don’t look back with Aries energy. We are not interested in saying sorry or dwelling on the past–it’s a brand new day! It’s time to make things work right now.
Aries is known for a love of the chase and the conquest, but Aries love can be longstanding as long as it remains relatively fresh. Aries is blunt–there’s no sugar-coating with Aries. This can sting, but rarely is Aries energy mean or petty. Saying it like it is is important to the sign. Desires are strong and expressed spontaneously, enthusiastically, and directly. Aries prefers to seduce rather than be seduced, to chase rather than be chased.
While Venus is in Aries, we gravitate to Aries-like activities, pleasures, pastimes, and objects of interest. Our tastes can veer toward action, new enterprise, conquests, courageous or daring acts, and so forth. We can be somewhat impulsive with our money or entertainment choices.
Our interests can be insistent and strong, but possibly short-lived. It’s not the best time for holding onto money. We might pour our resources too quickly into new ventures or projects but tire of these things just as rapidly.
Aspects Venus makes while in the sign of Aries in 2024
This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Venus are in bold.
- Apr 6, 2024 1:45 PM Venus 1 Aries 57 sextile Pluto 1 Aquarius 57
- Apr 8, 2024 4:54 AM Venus 3 Aries 57 semi-square Jupiter 18 Taurus 57
- Apr 10, 2024 1:20 AM Venus 6 Aries 15 semi-square Uranus 21 Taurus 15
- Apr 16, 2024 8:53 AM Venus quintile Pluto
- Apr 17, 2024 10:52 AM Venus 15 Aries 22 semi-sextile Saturn 15 Pisces 22
- Apr 17, 2024 2:46 PM Venus 15 Aries 35 conjunction True Node 15 Aries 35
- Apr 19, 2024 4:59 AM Mercury 17 Aries 32 conjunction Venus 17 Aries 32
- Apr 21, 2024 7:49 AM Venus 20 Aries 09 conjunction Chiron 20 Aries 09
- Apr 22, 2024 6:25 PM Venus 21 Aries 56 semi-sextile Uranus 21 Taurus 56
- Apr 23, 2024 2:03 AM Venus 22 Aries 20 semi-sextile Jupiter 22 Taurus 20
- Apr 27, 2024 8:36 AM Venus 27 Aries 36 semi-sextile Mars 27 Pisces 36
- Apr 28, 2024 9:13 AM Venus 28 Aries 51 semi-sextile Neptune 28 Pisces 51
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The Moon is New in Aries on April 8, 2024, at 2:21 PM EDT. This is a New Moon total Solar Eclipse that occurs at 19° Aries 24′.
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The Moon is New in Aries on April 8, 2024, at 2:21 PM EDT. This is a New Moon total Solar Eclipse that occurs at 19° Aries 24′.
This eclipse is the fourth in an Aries-Libra set of six eclipses and the third Solar Eclipse in the series.
Its effects can be felt for up to six months after the actual date of the eclipse. In the sign of Aries, this eclipse puts matters related to personal plans, courage, independence, and self-assertion in strong focus. It’s about new beginnings regarding any of these issues. Long-term changes are in the works!
This phase of the Moon occurs at 19 degrees and 24 minutes of Aries.
A similar Solar Eclipse (at approximately the same degree of Aries) occurred on April 8th, 2005. Before that, it was April 9, 1986. An eclipse set along the Aries-Libra axis most recently occurred from 2013-2016. Before that, it was from 2004-2006.
Note that this eclipse is opposite the October 2023 eclipse in Libra.
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 us.
Circumstances nudge or encourage us to see where we haven’t been true to our authentic selves. Ultimately, we are now in a position to understand that changes or endings are necessary for our own growth, and that we can handle these things.
This is a good time for focusing on some of the constructive traits of the sign of the Ram–enterprising, straightforward, sincere, brave–and consider how to positively incorporate these qualities into our lives. Aries New Moons are generally good for taking action – trying something new and innovative, and going at it with gusto and confidence;. It’s a time to be assertive, take charge of our lives, start a brand new project, and discover our own personal courage.
It’s a powerful time to re-evaluate our relationship with ourselves. With this potent Aries energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and thus a New Moon in Aries is especially ripe with opportunity for new beginnings. We might consider acting on a constructive impulse and following a hunch or taking a risk. Aries learns through experience and action, so we might treat ourselves to a little adventure now.
It’s also a good cycle under which to discover the benefits of expressing ourselves with authenticity – expressing ourselves as we are, without putting on airs. We might also find ways to learn how to rely on ourselves and to be happy about doing so – it will go a long way towards finding inner happiness when we know that we can be self-sufficient without blaming others for not helping us out. It’s a time to revitalize ourselves through experiences that break the routine and that involve doing something new and fresh.
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.
With this eclipse, we might experience a strong urge to act on impulse. However, it will be important to avoid jumping to conclusions and asserting ourselves without considering others’ feelings and reactions. There is a big difference between asserting ourselves from a place of healthy confidence, and asserting ourselves brashly and blindly, which can give us a false sense of confidence or bravery.
With this potent Aries energy, we have the chance to make important changes in our lives that will benefit us well beyond this Moon cycle. For some of us, circumstances are such that we need to pay more attention to these matters.
Flaws in an important system in our lives reveal themselves in the wake of the eclipse, prompting us to redo or to start fresh. Something ends in order for something else to start anew. We may be called to give up something in order to move forward into a new chapter in our lives. Although the “new” may be unrecognizable, it is important to allow the necessary surrender to the unknown.
An eclipse occurs close to the nodal axis, and this eclipse is closer to the North Node of the Moon. While we’re heading into unknown territory in some ways, we have a good sense that we’re doing so to our advantage.
Major developments in the personal areas ruled by Aries in our charts are likely to occur over the upcoming months.
The above chart is excellent for seeing the fundamental influences and chart pattern of this New Moon. The chart below adds more details with additional points. Click to enlarge:
This Solar Eclipse is part of a set of eclipses falling along the Aries/Libra sign axis from April 2023 to March 2025:
- Annular Total SOLAR Eclipse 2023 April 20 0:12:19 at 29 Aries 50
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2023 October 14 13:54:56 at 21 Libra 08
- Penumbral LUNAR Eclipse 2024 March 25 3:00:05 at 5 Libra 07
- Total SOLAR Eclipse 2024 April 8 14:20:37 at 19 Aries 24
- Annular SOLAR Eclipse 2024 October 2 14:49:02 at 10 Libra 04
- Partial SOLAR Eclipse 2025 March 29 at 9 Aries 00
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The Sun enters Taurus Sun is in Taurus from April 19-May 20, 2024. The Sun enters Taurus on April 19, 2024, at 9:59 AM EDT. In Taurus, the Sun is methodical, sensual, and receptive. The
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The Sun enters Taurus
Sun is in Taurus from April 19-May 20, 2024. The Sun enters Taurus on April 19, 2024, at 9:59 AM EDT.
In Taurus, the Sun is methodical, sensual, and receptive. The Sun in Taurus is most active when it is defending or resisting! As the Sun moves through Taurus when plants take root, our determination and security needs are strong.
Taurus is loyal to all that is familiar and values longevity. The shadow side of Taurus is possessiveness and bullheadedness.
The Sun in Taurus is the connoisseur and sensualist. It’s patient, stubborn, earthy, stable, and rooted. The Sun-in-Taurus cycle is a good one for maintaining or building, as well as enjoying and appreciating what’s already in place.
While the Taurus Sun is slow to warm up, it’s stable and persevering once it does. We value what’s long-term, strong, and lasting during this phase.
Aspects the Sun makes while in the sign of Taurus in 2024
This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of the Sun are in bold.
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- Apr 20, 2024 1:40 AM Sun 0 Taurus 38 semi-square Saturn 15 Pisces 38
- Apr 21, 2024 1:02 PM Sun 2 Taurus 05 square Pluto 2 Aquarius 05
- May 3, 2024 7:50 PM Sun 14 Taurus 01 semi-square Neptune 29 Pisces 01
- May 5, 2024 6:21 AM Sun 15 Taurus 24 semi-sextile True Node 15 Aries 24
- May 7, 2024 1:42 AM Sun 17 Taurus 10 sextile Saturn 17 Pisces 10
- May 11, 2024 7:42 AM Sun 21 Taurus 16 semi-sextile Chiron 21 Aries 16
- May 13, 2024 5:13 AM Sun 23 Taurus 06 conjunction Uranus 23 Taurus 06
- May 18, 2024 2:45 PM Sun 28 Taurus 18 conjunction Jupiter 28 Taurus 18
- May 19, 2024 6:45 PM Sun 29 Taurus 26 sextile Neptune 29 Pisces 26
- May 20, 2024 7:27 AM Sun 29 Taurus 56 semi-square True Node 14 Aries 56
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The Moon is Full in Scorpio on April 23, 2024, at 7:49 PM EDT. A Full Moon occurs when the
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The Moon is Full in Scorpio on April 23, 2024, at 7:49 PM EDT.
A Full Moon occurs when the Sun in Taurus forms an opposition to the Moon in Scorpio. The Full Moon is a time of culmination and the promise of fulfillment of that which was started at the New Moon. It is an emotional time – a time of romance, fertilization, and relationships.
This phase of the Moon occurs at 4 degrees and 18 minutes of Scorpio, affecting people born with personal planets and points at approximately 0 to 8 degrees of the Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius) most significantly.
The Taurus-Scorpio polarity deals with the balance between all that is mine (Taurus) and all that is yours (Scorpio). It also emphasizes the concept of form (Taurus) versus transformation (Scorpio).
While Taurus deals with matter, personal values, material goods, possessions, and security, Scorpio rules the destruction of form, shared possessions, change, and transformation. The Sun in Taurus encourages happiness with the simple, tangible things in life, while the Scorpio Moon draws our attention to complexities, intangibles, and mysteries.
Neglecting either end of the axis will surely backfire on us. Ideally, a balance should be found between the two energies, and this is what the Full Moon invites us to do. This Full Moon is about emotional declarations. Something has been building inside of us, likely of an intimate nature, and now is the time when the energy of the cosmos fairly demands that we let it out.
Over the next two weeks, we will discover what this declaration means for us. For now, we can’t sit on our feelings — we need to express them. The Full Moon illuminates this conflict between collecting and sharing. With the Moon full and bright in the sky, symbolic “illumination” occurs in our own lives.
However, these new feelings and revelations are emotional ones, as emotions burst forth into our consciousness. It’s time to express ourselves and to let things out of our systems. Of course, we might want to exercise some care while doing so, knowing that what is coming out of us is new and not particularly rational as yet.
Full Moons are about exposing or illuminating issues that are already there, but that have not yet been dealt with. Where does the Full Moon fall by house in your natal chart? Read more here.
We have conviction and tenacity, and we are willing to make necessary changes, but there can be some tension and perhaps paranoia or resistance involved with our revelations now with the lunation’s square to Pluto.
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Mercury now turns direct at 15° Aries 59′. Mercury’s retrograde lasted from April 1st, 2024, at 27° Aries 13′, until April 25th, 2024, at 15° Aries 59′. Mercury Retrograde Cycle from April
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Mercury now turns direct at 15° Aries 59′.
Mercury’s retrograde lasted from April 1st, 2024, at 27° Aries 13′, until April 25th, 2024, at 15° Aries 59′.
Mercury Retrograde Cycle from April 1 to 25, 2024:
- On March 18, 2024, Mercury enters the Retrograde Zone at 15° Aries 59′
- On April 1, 2024, Mercury stations and turns retrograde at 27° Aries 13’Rx
- On April 25, 2024, Mercury stations and turns direct at 15° Aries 59’D
- On May 13, 2024, Mercury leaves the Retrograde Zone at 27° Aries 13′
The year 2024’s second retrograde Mercury cycle began on April 1st and lasted until now, April 25th. Mercury’s shadow period began on March 18th and ends on May 13th.
Note that the shadow period begins before Mercury turns retrograde–when Mercury first passes over the degree that Mercury later returns to in retrograde motion. The shadow period ends when Mercury again passes over the degree at which it first turned retrograde. The shadow period is different than Mercury’s storm period in astrology, which refers to the period when Mercury is moving especially slowly.
Mercury’s post-retrograde shadow is generally better for new long-term endeavors than the pre-retrogrades shadow. For new enterprises in the pre-retrograde shadow, the venture’s secondary progressed Mercury will turn direction (retrograde) in the coming years, which may not be ideal.
Also note that things are most wonky on and around the days of the stations whether Mercury is turning retrograde OR direct (the start and end dates of the retrograde cycle) as the shifts occur, after which we grow more accustomed to the energy.
Mercury is retrograde approximately three times a year for approximately three weeks each time. As such, retrograde Mercury is a fairly common occurrence (Mercury is retrograde approximately 18% of the time).
As the planet of communication, Mercury retrograde tends to breed a certain level of confusion. Mercury rules our “lower” mind–how we perceive and interpret information that we receive from our environment, and how we relay that information to others. Mercury has rulership over such things as speaking, negotiating, buying and selling, listening, formal contracts, documents, travel, the mail and shipping, and so forth. All of these areas of life are affected when Mercury is functioning in a sluggish state. Decision-making is challenged during Mercury retrograde.
Needless to say, it is not advised to sign contracts, engage in important decision-making, or launch a new business. Delays and challenges are more probable with Mercury retrograde. It’s a time when being careless with money, our personal information, or paperwork can be costly.
While Mercury is retrograde, we may be rethinking a previous opinion or idea. Looking to the signs and houses it transits can give clues as to what we may be reconsidering. In Aries this time, we might look at past decisions and ideas from a new, possibly enlightened perspective. This is a time for reconsidering an initiative or venture. It’s strong for returning to an old project or pursuit.
It can be a time of tension, however, as Mercury in Aries wants immediate answers and retrograde Mercury can point to delays and indecision. The shortness of Mercury in Aries communications is magnified, making it necessary to be especially careful with our choice of topics and wording. The chances of sharp or brusque comments doing some damage run high.
While Mercury is retrograde in the sign of Aries, we may be returning to past projects and refining or tweaking them. We can find usefulness in old or past ideas and recycle them in new ways, even though Mercury in Aries prefers the new to the old. We might consider renewing past ventures where we may have had false starts, but this should be done in a new way for things to work this time around.
With Mercury in Aries, we prefer to learn from hands-on experience rather than instruction, and not listening during this Mercury retrograde period can be especially costly.
Keep in mind that Mercury in Aries’ haste to communicate (or perhaps more accurately, to get communications out of the way) can work against us or can be more consequential during Mercury retrograde — there can be texts or emails sent to the wrong people, for example, or quick commentary that’s considered careless.
Now with Mercury direct, slowly but surely, information unclogs, and we can move on. Ideally, while Mercury was retrograde, we had the chance to catch up, refine details, and change our minds if needed.
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Venus enters Taurus Venus is in Taurus from April 29 to May 23, 2024. In Taurus, Venus is naturally very sensual, content, and possessive. We seek security and value those things that are
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Venus enters Taurus
Venus is in Taurus from April 29 to May 23, 2024. In Taurus, Venus is naturally very sensual, content, and possessive. We seek security and value those things that are long-lasting. Our appetite for pleasure is strong.
The sign of Taurus values the here and now and the world of the five senses. Tangible and physical expressions of love and romance figure strongly during the Venus-in-Taurus cycle. Holding on to someone or something we love is our tendency under this influence.
The shadow side of this is excessive possessiveness and treating our partners as objects that we own or want to own.
On the financial side, Venus in Taurus looks for high-quality, solid, practical, and long-lasting items. Holding on to our possessions is more likely now. With art, tastes, and pleasures, we prefer things that are earthy, natural, and grounded. We can be somewhat indulgent at this time. Uncertainty bothers us more than usual–we favor stability over excitement in love and pleasure.
Aspects Venus makes while in the sign of Taurus in 2024
This list excludes the Moon since it forms far too many aspects to list here, and the dates of the major aspects of Venus are in bold.
- Apr 30, 2024 3:04 PM Venus 1 Taurus 37 semi-square Saturn 16 Pisces 37
- May 1, 2024 12:29 AM Venus 2 Taurus 06 square Pluto 2 Aquarius 06
- May 10, 2024 8:27 PM Venus 14 Taurus 13 semi-square Neptune 29 Pisces 13
- May 11, 2024 12:50 PM Venus 15 Taurus 03 semi-sextile True Node 15 Aries 03
- May 13, 2024 3:45 PM Venus 17 Taurus 40 sextile Saturn 17 Pisces 40
- May 16, 2024 7:43 PM Venus 21 Taurus 34 semi-sextile Chiron 21 Aries 34
- May 18, 2024 7:40 AM Venus 23 Taurus 24 conjunction Uranus 23 Taurus 24
- May 23, 2024 4:29 AM Venus 29 Taurus 23 conjunction Jupiter 29 Taurus 23
- May 23, 2024 6:50 AM Venus 29 Taurus 30 sextile Neptune 29 Pisces 30
- May 23, 2024 10:46 AM Venus 29 Taurus 42 semi-square True Node 14 Aries 42
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Mars enters Aries Mars is in Aries from April 30 to June 9, 2024. Mars feels at home in Aries, one of the signs that it rules, and therefore its power is boosted. Our energy
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Mars enters Aries
Mars is in Aries from April 30 to June 9, 2024.
Mars feels at home in Aries, one of the signs that it rules, and therefore its power is boosted. Our energy is spontaneous, forward-looking, and even courageous under this influence. Our competitive spirit is well-developed, and our goal is to win! We are active, single-minded, and confident.
Our actions are direct–we instinctively find the fastest way to get from point A to point B. The shadow side of Mars in Aries is a tendency to be impatient, arrogant, impulsive, short-lived, unreflective, and self-centered.
We pursue our goals straightforwardly, confidently, unabashedly, and directly with Mars in Aries. The same goes for expressing anger. We want to be first, come first, and do things on our own–our independence, enterprise, and initiative are well-developed.
This transit is better for endeavors that require courage and strong but not necessarily sustained passion and energy. We don’t want to look back or overthink–we only concern ourselves with what we can accomplish right now. Not inclined to beat around the bush, we confidently pursue our desires.
Aspects Mars makes while transiting Aries in 2024:
These aspects exclude the Moon. The dates when Mars forms major aspects are bolded.
- May 3, 2024 5:06 AM Mars 2 Aries 06 sextile Pluto 2 Aquarius 06
- May 10, 2024 8:22 PM Mars 7 Aries 58 semi-square Uranus 22 Taurus 58
- May 17, 2024 12:00 PM Mars 13 Aries 03 semi-square Jupiter 28 Taurus 03
- May 18, 2024 7:32 PM Mars quintile Pluto
- May 19, 2024 11:59 PM Mars 14 Aries 57 conjunction True Node 14 Aries 57
- May 21, 2024 12:00 PM Sun 1 Gemini 05 semi-square Mars 16 Aries 05
- May 24, 2024 12:23 PM Mars 18 Aries 22 semi-sextile Saturn 18 Pisces 22
- May 29, 2024 11:05 AM Venus 7 Gemini 06 semi-square Mars 22 Aries 06
- May 29, 2024 1:08 PM Mars 22 Aries 10 conjunction Chiron 22 Aries 10
- May 30, 2024 7:53 AM Mercury 22 Taurus 45 semi-sextile Mars 22 Aries 45
- Jun 1, 2024 6:07 AM Mars 24 Aries 12 semi-sextile Uranus 24 Taurus 12
- Jun 8, 2024 5:33 PM Mars 29 Aries 47 semi-sextile Neptune 29 Pisces 47
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