Restructuring Your Ego with New Moon in Taurus: Weekly Astrology Forecast for April 21 - 27

The astrology this week is lighter and more liminal than the last several weeks. It invites a re-enchantment with life, especially in matters of your heart. This week's astrology includes:- Venus moves into Aries on Wed 4/30: An energizing initiation of fresh energy around relationships, love, beauty, healing pursuits, art, creativity. You may feel a readiness to move forward now, especially on relational themes that were on your heart in February and March (since Venus was already in Aries in Feb 5 – March 27 as a part of its retrograde process).- Venus conjunct Neptune in Aries: Both Saturn and Neptune have been an integral part of this Venus Retrograde this March – April. The conjunction becoming exact this week symbolizes a further re-enchantment of your capacity for love, union, and enjoyment. There’s potential for full immersion into relational or creative things . . . as well as possibilities for enmeshment, blurring of boundaries, or illusions to arise. Neptune often helps us see our idealizations first by experiencing them unconsciously (i.e. being “in it” first). Over time we get to see people and situations as they are (rather than how we want them to be). There’s beauty in the ideal as well as the reality when we hold it softly.- First Quarter Moon in Leo on Sun 5/4 at 6:52am PT: This point in the lunar cycle marks a crossroads for decisions. You may feel drawn to focus or reorient your energy toward what is most pressing right now. This First Quarter Moon in Leo emphasizes your relationship to giving and receiving affection, attention, and your magnetic pull on others. It provides opportunities to embody your inner spark. This First Quarter Moon also punctuates the dissipating Sun-Mars-Pluto t-square, so there may be additional insights or clarity around your autonomy, power, and control.- Pluto Stations Retrograde: This is a subtle component of the astrology this week. Pluto (along with the other outer planets) is retrograde about half the year. It’s retrograde means that over the summer and fall, Pluto will slowly and slightly shift back a few degrees in the zodiac to about 0 degrees Aquarius. This symbolizes a concentration of Pluto in this place, meaning that any transits to Pluto will be more concrete, slow, steady, and take time to integrate.- Sun-Uranus in Taurus opposite Vesta-Juno in Scorpio: Bringing light, liberation, and awakening to the things that you are devoted to.Reflection Questions: 1.   What is your heart telling you now?  2.   How do you tend to idealize people or situations? 3.   How can you embody both strength and flexibility?Wishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week's astrology deepens some themes we've been experiencing over the last week and month. The astrology symbolizes a process where we continue to encounter shadow (unconscious parts) of ourselves. This is a process of allowing more of yourself to come forward. This process is a rebirth - possibility involving labor pains, relief, existential contemplation, and release into the unknown of a new beginning . This week's astrology includes:- Sun-Mars-Pluto t-square: Further clarifying and amplifying patterns of power, autonomy to act, control, deep healing that can unfold via conscious awareness of these issues- Sun in Taurus square Pluto in Aquarius: Restructuring ego, identity, and relationship to what masculinity means to you, composting what may be false identity- Mars in Leo opposite Pluto in Aquarius: Empowering your righteous rage, exposing new parts of self that are connected to your enthusiasm for life, and your boundaries- New Moon in Taurus on Sunday, April 27 at 12:31pm PT: Planting new seeds in your psyche around what you need/want to live, grow, exist with security and stability . . . something new is pushing thru the soil- Venus conjunct Saturn & North Node in Pisces: Considering relational agreements, boundaries, and non-negotiable qualities in relationship. Also contemplating your values and how you connect with beauty, love, and pleasure in your life. North Node brings an open portal of possibilities.- Venus-Saturn in Pisces trine Juno in Scorpio: Opportunities for assistance and protection when you assume an internal experience of your worthiness.- Pallas Athena in Aquarius trine Jupiter in Gemini: Opportunities for strategic thinking that leads to hope, optimism, or more options.Wishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week's astrology focuses on how we can reclaim parts of ourselves that have been disowned or distorted via unconscious processes. There is a strong theme of action, enthusiasm, expression, and also strong activation. This week's astrology includes:- Mercury moves into Aries (and will conjunct Neptune in Pisces & sextile Pluto in Aquarius): Quick thinking, inspired talks, rapid insights, a shift in your perception around issues that have been uncertain or ambiguous for the past month or two. Watch for changes in your dreams, thoughts, & daydreams - and what they may be saying to you now.- Mars moves into Leo (and will oppose Pluto in Aquarius & trine Neptune in Aries): Excitement! Enthusiasm to act, share, express, and be creative in ways that are deeply meaningful to you. Possibly compelled to get something off your chest. Connecting to your power, vitality, courage, and desire to fight for what's important to you.- Sun moves into Taurus: Conscious focus on rooting in, developing and stabilizing. Finding meaningful experiences via the material and sensory world.- Sun-Mars-Pluto t-square: This is a dynamic, energizing, and enlivening combo! It may be quite activating and spur you into action or bring up strong emotions. Possibility for unconscious patterns to arise around power, manipulation, shame, or control. Notice what activates you and give your feelings space to exist. Also symbolizes things like occultism, deep emotional healing, and underworld journeys that bring you closer to your true self.- Last Quarter Moon in Aquarius: Emotional connection to the deeper more intimate parts of yourself and your authentic nature. Deciding what you want to focus on now that is most important to you.- Juno Asteroid (retrograde) moves back into Scorpio: Reconnecting with your inner resilience - especially around issues of intimacy, bonding deeply with other people, and how you move through the varied challenges of long-term commitments. Juno in Scorpio is about the dance between distance and closeness in relationships; and how we can feel safe enough to be vulnerable and depend on others.Wishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week's astrology involves a bit of mystery and some initiations (actions which lead you to a new path). There are a lot of themes involving healing, relationships, and how you perceive things. This week, you may be reflecting on how you respond to a variety of situations. There may be changes in how you connect with others that has far reaching effects. This week's astrology includes:- Full Moon in Libra: Culmination, celebration, seeing the results of things, especially around relationships, values, self-concept, money, sexuality, enjoyment, beauty, and affection. Chiron opposite this Full Moon adds themes of healing, learning, tending to your vulnerabilities, and balancing care of yourself with care of others. Mars square this Full Moon shows that your anger, agitation, or inflammation may be a catalyst for change.- Venus Stations Direct in Pisces: A pause and shifting gears in how you've been reflecting or doing behind the scenes activities. This is a shift in the tides in connection to Venus themes (relationships, beauty, enjoyment, finances, self-concept). Venus conjunct Saturn in Pisces shows there may be a sense of reality, results, or seeing what is sustainable in those Venusian issues. Venus' station direct marks the completion of Venus retrograde that began on March 1st.- Mercury Stations Direct in Pisces: Also here, another pause around reflections and behind the scenes activities. In this case, it's a shift in your inner dialogue, communication, intuition, imagination, sensory experience, and possibly even negotiations, contracts, or learning & teaching activities.- Jupiter in Gemini square Ceres in Pisces: Being called to explore something new, this may involve a separation or letting go (either internally or externally). There is also a theme of allowing others the space to have their own journey, and this frees you to have your unique path as well. Wishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week's astrology brings themes of empowerment from the inside out. We're still in this eclipse and retrograde-y portal of unexpected transformations with many reflections on the past. Make the most of this period by allowing yourself to reflect; and wonder what's being called forward from within you. This week's astrology includes:- Mercury & Venus conjunct the North Node in Pisces: increase in your introspection on relationship dynamics (yes, even more of this!), deepening into your values and how you validate (or not) what's truly important to you, expansive growth when you slow down to think & feel what is true for you right now, more synchronicities, connection with ancestors and spirit support, energy cleansing & brightening- Mars in Cancer trine Mercury, Venus, & North Node in Pisces: enthusiasm, emboldening, invigorating, & vitalizing your passions, boundaries, and righteous anger"learn to read symptoms not only as problems to be overcome but as messages to be heeded" - Gabor Mate- Saturn in Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus (aspected by Mars in Cancer): subtle opportunities to find your empowerment and sense of agency thru advocacy (for yourself and others), action, initiative, enthusiasm, boundaries, or anger- Sun in Aries sextile Jupiter in Gemini: advantageous opportunities to give and receive, share your gifts, and being open to share experiences with others- Sun in Aries sextile the asteroid Pallas Athena in Aquarius: allowing your creative nature to come forward, being strategic with how you channel your energy and how you share, give, and receive your very precious time and energy- First Quarter Moon in Cancer: finding a direction of focus for what you're moving toward, creating, or building in your lifeWishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In this week's astrology, we have a several themes around igniting your passion and enthusiasm for life (Aries) as well as falling into flow states that may be delightful or confusing (maybe both at once!) (Pisces). This week's astrology contains a mixture of themes. Many of them circle around something new emerging when you connect to your Self. This week's astrology includes:- Neptune in Aries: collective changes in the arts, music, film, etc., as well as spirituality, religion, and our relationship to states of consciousness, also themes around flow states, union with self/others, the unseen, illusions, enmeshment, and subtle extrasensory experiences- New Moon Partial Eclipse in Aries: initiations, new beginnings, rapid change, resets & regeneration, re-connection to yourself in unexpected ways, planting seeds of passion & renewal of insight- Sun conjunct Mercury in Aries: mental & logical renewal, or re-imagining your inner voice, your inner voice's wisdom comes forward, hearing your inner Self more clearly thru your body, mind, actions, external events, or dreams- Mercury & Venus move back into Pisces: remembering past experiences or patterns (especially in relationships), slowing down to see what you notice, being in the micro & macro simultaneously- Mercury & Venus conjunct Neptune in Pisces: flow states, experiential understanding involving beauty, connection, or enjoyment, possibility for feeling diffused or confused- Mars in Cancer square Chiron in Aries: your boundaries, protective instinct, anger, or agitation may bring about a healing experience or connection to your inner wisdomWishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In this week's astrology involves a dramatic shift from Pisces season to Aries season in the midst of this transformational month of eclipse season. This mid-week shift may feel more energizing and renewing. There are gifts to receive when you listen to your inner world. This week's astrology includes:- Sun conjunct Neptune in Pisces: lots of synchronicities, seeing thru the veil of material reality vs. unseen reality, mystical or charmed experiences, more dreams (or waking inspirations if you don't remember your dreams), reconnecting with your vitality in new ways, taking the past into the present- Sun in Aries: conscious focus on initiating new things, taking action, creating movement, leaning into your desire to do something (!), overall an energizing effect- Equinox: equal days & nights, transitions, finding balance, balancing as an ongoing practice & art, taking a moment to pause and reflect on how far you've come in your life- Sun conjunct Venus in Aries: renewal of your heart (could be a renewal of your relationships, joy, pleasure, play, self-worth, and/or finances), contemplating your ego-self and how you show up in relationships, seeing into the depth of relational dynamics, beauty, or self-concept- Sun-Venus in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius: opportunities for healing, growth, and going deeper- Last Quarter Moon in Capricorn: mid-point of eclipse transformation period (month of March), release and making peace with how you want to spend your time, energy, and resourcesWishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

In this week's astrology, we're moving into the eclipse time of year where there are beginnings, endings, transitions, & transformations. There's a feeling of flux in the air. This particular eclipse is a Full Moon of illuminating what has been hidden and seeing how the past informs the future. This week's astrology includes:- Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo: culmination, completion, allowing the full presence of something to be seen, transformation, endings & beginnings, portals into potential possibilities- Full Moon Eclipse in Virgo themes: healing, discernment, care of self & others, prioritizing what's immediately next, viewing the specific in context of the future, ideals & idealization, finding your path forward- Full Moon Eclipse conjunct South Node themes: reconnecting with familiar strengths & gifts, themes of the past or what feels like knowing from another lifetime, letting go of patterns that once served you but no longer are working well- Full Moon Eclipse opposite Saturn themes: safety, security, boundaries, limitations, containment, thresholds, confidence, your ability to have an impact on your life conditions (or not), coping with limitations/marginalization/restrictions, experiencing external or internalized criticism- Mercury conjunct Venus in Aries: healing or repairing your thought process & inner narratives, having healing conversations, thinking about relationship dynamics, especially long past situations, contemplating your values and relationship to beauty, creativity, and pleasure - Mercury stations Retrograde in Aries: introspection around your ambition, independence, and autonomy to action from inspirationWishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week's astrology heavily emphasizes the relational component of life, and how you think about things. This may involve not only evaluating your concept of relationships, but also how you view yourself and your idea about what is valuable or desirable about you. Mercury's emphasize this week also correlates to a playful or trickster type vibe. This week's astrology includes:- Mercury moves into Aries: expediting of thinking & communicating, lifting the veil of cloudiness or uncertainty, realizing what you want to do- Mercury with Venus in Aries: communicating or thinking about relationship dynamics, values, self-concept, and how you enjoy life- Mercury in Aries sextile Pluto in Aquarius: discovering new insights about your relationships or how you are yourself (or not) in the presence of others- First Quarter Moon in Gemini: moving thru an inner or outer conflict to find broader perspectives or possibilities- Sun in Pisces trine Mars in Cancer: energized or called into action, or possibly agitated into action, feeling drawn to engage, protect, defend, or be a guardian for yourself or othersWishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This week's astrology involves an exploration of your fluctuating state of consciousness. There are correlations around new beginnings with your intuition and how you can tell the difference between an intuitive knowing vs. illusions. Overall, this week brings many of the planets together via aspect and this may feel like a lot of inner integration over the next month as this New Moon cycle progressed forward thru the month. This week's astrology includes:- New Moon in Pisces: new beginnings involving many areas of life! especially around your state of consciousness, perceptions, intuitions, and experiences of fear or illusions. This New Moon is in aspect with Saturn (structure), Mercury (thought process), the North Node (personal development), Neptune (the mystical), Jupiter (generosity), and Mars (passion) - many planets (inner parts of yourself & external situations) are involved in this monthly initiation. It may feel like a lot of psychological sorting and synthesis throughout the month.- Mercury conjunct Saturn in Pisces: a mental focus or communications about the practical matters, meeting limitations, and negotiating boundaries- Mercury in Pisces sextile Uranus in Taurus: a subtle but unexpected opportunity or chance meeting sparks insight- Mercury conjunct Neptune in Pisces: thinking about what is real vs. an illusion, possibly encountering new ways of thinking about limitations or fears- Venus stations Retrograde in Aries: over the next couple of months, a reconnecting with your heart & values, as well as thoroughly considering topics of relationship dynamics, self-worth, beauty & style, sexuality & sensualityWishing you a week of ease, security, and safety 🦋* LINKS *Find out more about me and my work ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.