This Week’s sky - 04/29/2024
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April 29th through May 5th
You can enhance your understanding by applying the Houses these signs and Planets are falling into in your Natal Chart. I am happy to help you with figuring that out, at no cost to you— just shoot me an email!!
Venus in Taurus: Venus enters its feminine domicile and the feminine Venusian qualities become stronger. Appreciation and seeking pleasure or comfort. We want to settle into space and do so more passively like a wild horse might find a place to lay for awhile. Taureans are the type to simply come into a space and begin making themselves comfortable. With Venus in Taurus, there is also the sense to make sure others are comfortable, to make sure the energetic and subliminal space between two is feeling at ease. Venus will be here until May 23rd. This will bring wellness and goodwill to Taureans. This transit will bring a connection either supportive or requiring diplomacy to your Natal Taurean House. This will likely layer in with the growth garnered from the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction.
Pluto square Venus: This transit brings a major development from the Venus Pluto conjunction (in Aquarius) on February 17th, 2024. This transit brings real diplomatic conquest into our lives. Expect to seriously play the game. This will bring forward any hidden aspects of a relationship or see major concealing. The sense of ease, contentment, and pleasure feels the looming potential for power grabs, destruction, transformation, or invigoration. So this can be a time in which interpersonal relationships must work through problems really well, when the transgressions may be made, or when they may simply break from the stress. Although Plutonian situations are intense they are more understanding to honesty than it lets on; this doesn’t do anything for earned consequence, that is Saturn’s job.
Mars in Aries: Mars ingresses into Aries on April 30th. This is Mars’ masculine domicile and thus accentuates Martian qualities of competitiveness, boldness, courage, and authenticity into action. We feel more invigoration, discontentment, and have more energy to go after our desires as set by Venus. The Aries House in our charts will be given a sense of urgency. Mars moving through a house initiates some action toward that area of the life. So Pisces Risings with Aries in the 2nd house may experience financial stress. There will be focus and drive brought to this area of life until June 9th, 2024.
Saturn Sextile Sun: Saturn exerts its concerning and responsible energy on the Sun to ensure longevity is a priority. Confidence will be weighted down, but there is an opportunity to commit to purity and imaginative thinking when settling into our current creative vision. Whatever current project is leading your life right now feels dreamy vision or duty to goodwill like an authority figure over the shoulder. A duty to an idealistic nature. We may feel the pressure of authority coming from the ethers this week.
Pluto Sextile Mars: This transit follows up with the Pluto Mars Conjunction on February 14th, 2024. The long and short term conquest and goal driven action. There is a follow up opportunity to seek how these two are matching up in their recent renewal of intention. Pluto holds the unconscious desire as it can indicate traumas that impact what the psyche thinks constitutes as safe. Mars then takes the more acute position of self-preservation.
Pluto goes Retrograde: The collective moves into the annual phase of introspective and readjustment to Plutonian affairs from May 2nd to October 11th, 2024. We’ve made growth into the Pluto in Aquarius story with things like A.I. development, the decision to ban TikTok solely for its ability to support the voice of the people, our realization that those in power truly do not take the people’s needs into account. Our society continues to wrestle with the paradox of individualism and collectivism; for instance true freedom of expression and social programs has a direct conflict with the ability to meet everyone’s individualistic needs. During this Retrograde we will see the adjustments and reconsideration from all the collective actions taken since Pluto went direct on October 10th, 2023.
*The date ranges reflect the Moon being a majority in the given sign during a 5am-11pm EST range. It’s lovely to look at these Moon Sign Descriptions set each other up for a logical procession of life subtle developments.
The Moon in Capricorn - Apr 29-30: This Moon is more conditional. This Moon offers a good time to disconnect from the sensitivity of the body in order to be objective and productive.
The Moon in Aquarius - Apr 30 - May 2: This Moon is also more objective, but also less in tough with sentiment. This Moon invokes eccentric behavior and contradictory reactions.
The Moon in Pisces - May 2-4: Pisces Moons bring down emotional barriers and can lead to more embrace or sorrow. This can be a good time for more solitude and purification.
The Moon in Aries - May 4-5: From the womb of solitude of Moon in Pisces births the new invigorated sense for action. This Moon makes the emotions impulsive. Watch between the 4-7th of May due to Mars’ presence in Aries. The Moon meeting up will cause inflammation.
First off, with Mars and Venus both in highly operative signs there is a stronger connection between what we want and what we will do to get it. Then comes the pressure looming from Pluto, and a bit from Saturn this week. There is a stress test coming on and we just need to face it. Everything you truly need will be provided to you by the Gods, the Forces, the Universe. We often don’t know what’s best for us. We often fear the path to our desires. This is a week to reconcile comfort and ease with courage and pioneering spirit.
