Walking into my morning yoga class, a friend asked me what was happening, astrologically. I quite honestly don’t spend my time thinking about the planets and movement of the moon and sun and nothing else. Astrological information is part of the information take in, and some days I barely consider where the Sun is or what Venus is doing or how Uranus is lining up. However, when people ask those kind of questions, it usually indicates that something is affecting people. When I came home and was doing business on the phone, I noticed I was edgy and some of the people I talked to on the phone seemed off kilter too. The bus driver was even cranky this morning, so I thought, “Maybe I need to look and see what’s going on.”
The first quarter square of the Moon to the Sun is occurring today, and that often makes us feel a bit tense and out of sorts. The Moon governs our emotional life, the tides, and a great deal of the water energy of the Earth. The Moon is in 13 degrees of Capricorn today, lending a rather heavy feeling to whatever we are doing. The Moon squares the Sun in Aries at 13 degrees, and the Moon also squares Venus and then Mars. Right after that last early morning transit, the Moon goes Void of Course until tomorrow morning. This VOC time often lends itself to a period of feeling the need to finish up old projects, to get more rest and proper nourishment, or to take a break from starting new projects or activities. Together with the square aspects to the Moon and other close planets, we may be feeling a bit out of sorts. Time to slow down, take better care of ourselves, and not push ourselves beyond the limits of our resources, energy, and time.
On April 5-6 Venus moves into conjunction with Mars in Aries. We may be attracted to more exciting and exotic ideas, people, or activities. This influence sets off sparks around those areas related to what we love to do, how we love to be, and what we long to feel. Mars signals the desire and inclination to act, sometimes rashly. We may feel more passionately about whatever area of our lives/charts Aries is hosting these two planets, the Sun and Uranus. A few days ago when Venus conjuncted Uranus, we may have felt a desire to live more freely, act more according to our desires, and take greater risks. Something may have happened to change your entire perspective on your life and how you are living it, and that may have signaled the opening of a new path before you. Venus conjunct Mars may find us feeling greater satisfaction and fulfillment than we may have felt in a great long time. Experiences of love at first sight, or an awakening of one’s true desires and events that seem to direct us toward the fulfillment of those desires, are both likely with this powerful aspect. Again, depending upon where this activates your life/chart, you are at the very least going to be feeling better and wanting to enjoy your life and work more than usual. Routines, ruts, and stagnant patterns of behavior are just disintegrating all around us right now. We see for ourselves, what is working and what is not, and we are adapting, making necessary changes, and moving forward the way the river is flowing rather than against it.
On April 6 when Neptune forms a semi-square to Venus, there may be some confusion, doubt, or self-conscious fears about new feelings and experiences. Butterflies in the stomach, or second thoughts about your feelings, are common expressions of being thrown for a loop emotionally, as can happen when we become more aware of our deep inner being waking up and connecting with that which is right in our lives. There may also areas where we become more aware of how we have been misled or how we have misinterpreted the meaning and intentions of others. From April 9-10, the doubts disappear and we get caught up in the passion of new ideas, romances, feelings, and desires.
Mercury, the planet of communications, has been in Pisces and will continue this watery transit until April 13 when Venus enters Aries. It continues to be a time of heightened intuition, creativity, as well as a time of deep awakening of the unconscious. We begin to learn more about our deepest desires as we become more open to the Universal Consciousness, the greater energies of the Universe and the deeper connections we are feeling for one another, our homes and the environment around us, and for our ability to reach beyond the limits of home to receive the gifts of what once seemed strange and distant. Still a time that is highly emotional and deeply imaginative, we are better able to express ourselves through symbols, archetypal forms, and more intuitive, expressive means. When Mercury moves into Aries next week, this energy that has been building within us, rising up from our unconscious, and streaming into our being and experiences will begin manifesting through our actions and through more outer expressions.
If we can give ourselves permission to do more than tend to the tasks at hand. Some of us overwork ourselves, spend too much time worrying, fretting, or feel that we have to “take care of just one more thing” before we give ourselves the needed rest, exercise, companionship, and pleasure we need. Our work suffers. Our relationships suffer, and we certainly suffer when we aren’t aiming for a more balanced life. Stretching ourselves to learn, to grow, to discover, and to connect in ways that allow our expansion and spiritual growth to propel us forward are necessary elements for all of us right now.
Take time to walk in the grass, dig in the earth, let the streams wash our feet and carry us with the tides that move us closer to the openness of life. It can only do us good right now. Avoid being with those who dampen your enthusiasm or who live out of fear, shame, or negativity. Shake off that which slows, harms, or drains you now. Not the time to feel compelled to give more energy than we have or to take on more than we can handle. Sort, sift, separate the archetypal shaft from the grain at this point, and select the seeds that hold the most promise. Then prepare the ground, plant the seeds, and tend the garden of your dreams as you watch it grow.
Tend to the details that require your immediate attention. Allot some time on a schedule to take care of business, giving yourself a time budget so you know your intention is connected to a specific time to handle that business, and then disconnect the mental, emotional, and physical energy and live in the present allowing yourself time to communicate, meditate, pray, dance, swim, walk, clear and clean, putter, live more beautifully, make a nice meal, and enjoy the beauty of being who you are. As one of my dear friends said to me last night, "I revel in the life I am living. "
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| Life in Bloom Catherine Al-Meten |
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