April is a transitional month.   Our vital forces are back at play thanks to Mars once again being in forward motion.  However, the universe is always asking us to refine and calibrate our lives and several outer planetary retrogrades will compel us to take some of our issues inward for reflection.  On April 7^th, Pluto (planet of power, self-regeneration and soul growth) moves retrograde for the next six months.

Saturn (the energy of commitment, consolidation and maturity) also moves backward the following day.

A healthy use of the current climate is to get clear on what is most important to our personal development and understand that we are each facing a very pivotal moment in our lives.  We’ll get a glimpse of our new direction come June.

Mercury retrograding in Taurus on the 8^th , will have us reviewing some of our security, emotional,  as well as financial needs.  Use this beautiful month to explore what makes you tick and vow to manifest more of your true self in the season ahead.

ARIES

After the brilliant fiery start in March, you may feel that you’ve reached an impasse mid-month. Understand it is only temporary and illusory.    Your guides want you to clear out emotional space so that come June you will move into your rightful professional place.  Dynamic forces ask you to get your health and spiritual habits in order, vetting those behaviors that undermine you.  Go to spirit, that is where the action is!

TAURUS

You’ve been working hard at expanding your spiritual and philosophical views.  Now, you get the opportunity to integrate them more fully into your psyche so that you not only talk it, you live it.  The current retrogrades release you from constant pressure to express yourself in conventional terms.  Hang out with new and exciting friends and let their attitudes and energy infuse you with new ideas and inspiration!

GEMINI

You’re in the process of a total re-invention of self. This includes looking back to the past and seeing where you were led astray by religion and family.  You get a chance to make peace with your history and let it go.  In the future, you are the innovator and the one with the brilliant ideas.  Retrace steps for the last time so that you are clear for takeoff in September!

CANCER

It’s probably an understatement to say there has been tumult in your personal relationships.  Well, you get a reprieve starting mid month.  Partners get off the warpath and you are free to explore your personal and spiritual path.  As powerful people will enter your life for many years to come, take the summer to eliminate any remaining vestiges of self-doubt about your intelligence and ideas.  Your unique take on things is your ticket to personal and professional success!

LEO

No doubt every aspect of your daily life has been up for review these last few years.  This includes you relationship with your body and your emotions.  The next few months offer you the chance to allow healing modalities to do their magic.  And, even if you feel insecure about your talents and marketability, be clear that there are many who are dying to work with you.  The opportunities exist with one or more partners, in work and in love, so if you’re comfortable with yourself, you’re golden with others.

VIRGO

You have been learning about yourself through your relationships these last few years.  Some of the continuing education is subsiding.  It is important to realize that you crave deep attachments, but they must have a practical value, as well as an emotional one.  As always, it starts with you and this last final sweep of Saturn through your first house allows you to see your true worth.   In doing so, you can stand up to and with the exciting partners that will be entering your life next fall.

LIBRA

While you’d rather revel in the beauties and pleasantries of life, these last few seasons you’ve been dealing with uncomfortable emotional depths.  This has most likely taken the form of addressing the toxicity of your familial programming.   You can relax a bit, after a possible blowout or compromise this month.  With all the retrograde planets in your emotional houses, the focus should be on bringing the old stuck energy out into the light.  There’s nothing to fear and everything to gain from a total liberation from the past.

SCORPIO

Your mind has been going through a total renovation, since 2008.  You’ve deepened your thought processes and made the proper connections between how you were raised and how you think.  Most likely, you have decided that your family’s views are not helpful to your personal evolution.  Your genius lies in your total independent self expression and events over the next year will prove once and for all that you are not who you used to be.

SAGITTARIUS

Even if life is still throwing you curveballs, they are more of the wiffle ball variety compared to the last decade.  Right now, you are beginning to make the connection between self-worth and your financial situation.  No worries, you are poised for success on both fronts.  Some temporary slow downs in the work world give you the time to access your inner emotional landscape.  Here, is where the revolution is taking place and by year’s end, you will see the results in your personal and financial life.

CAPRICORN

The next few years are pivotal to your coming into your own.  You have a natural inner authority that no one, except yourself, would ever question.  This season, spend time clearing out old religious and spiritual ideals around what you deserve.  You’ll find, in many cases, that guilt is a culprit in your holding yourself to a strict and impossible standard.  Let go and allow that very innovative and future-oriented mind to manifest a new self and life.

AQUARIUS

Much of the changes in your life are going on behind the scenes.  And, that is where the action remains for the next few months.  Some of the issues revolve around old family stories about money and others include restrictive consensus views on sexuality and relationships.  You get a chance to write a new script and with the lord of karma in your spiritual house for years to come, any unnecessary fears and anxieties will be permanently dissolved.

PISCES

Your social arena is expanding and will continue to do so for years to come.  The soft-spoken Pisces is no more.  Over the next month or so, make sure to shine a light on erroneous feelings of lack of skill, intelligence, or deservedness that will have no place in the future you’re sprinting towards.  You are the awakened and the awaken-er and the world will duly note this before long.