Your Monthly Horoscope​
for April

House, Apartment, Homeland, Hometown, Family, Household

On April 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th you will experience another change – you have already had two unforgettable changes since 2008 – affecting your ideas about home. About family. About the household, your town or country (perhaps) and certainly about where you feel your roots are. Pluto conjuncts the South Node in Capricorn in the Fourth House of your chart. Pluto is actually a process. It depends where you are at in the process. Is this the empowerment and new ‘promotion’ in influence and control, of someone who never had it before? Perhaps. Sometimes teenage girls acquire this when they find a rich boyfriend. Perhaps you are experiencing a downfall, demotion or departure in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps this is the end of a chapter. This often happens when there has been an imbalance in power or control, somewhere along the line. It is as if the universe cannot allow it to go on, so everything transforms. There are profound questions here about how power is to be shared. How a compromise can be made to work. How control, influence, clout, responsibilities and rights are to be divided up. Sometimes this is about greedy high-rise apartment developers. Sometimes it is about your mother-in-law. There is often a story with Pluto that someone has been sidelined, ignored or not taken seriously. The situation is always corrected on this transit. The South Node is a sure sign of repetition from the past, so the themes, events or experiences of 2000, 1981, 1962, 1943, 1924 or 1905 are absolutely present. Perhaps your house was built then, or a family milestone took place then. Libra, we then go to the end of the month and find Saturn conjunct the South Node on the 30^th of April. Again, there is a sense of karma at work, or the wheel of time turning backwards all the way to 2000, 1981 and so on. Been there, done that, seen it all before. Nothing new under the sun. Saturn describes long and demanding learning experiences with a solid outcome. You will see that solid outcome from the first week of December this year. In 2020 you will have profound solutions and sweeping answers. For now, you need to wait. I am sure you feel you have waited long enough, with the house, apartment, family, household, home town or homeland question. Take heart: the cycle is two-thirds over. And Jupiter’s change of sign is only 8 months away when answers appear.

Lifestyle, Workload, Body

You have been in a holding pattern since February with your daily routine, lifestyle, workload, housework and particularly your body, if your health, energy levels, strength or fitness has been affecting your ability to do your duty. Now, you find that everything comes around again for final closure. You can sign off on this thoroughly confusing episode just after April 18^th when Mercury Retroshadow ends. You are being taken back to March or February, particularly with plans or promises made then in the context of your job, or even your doctor, diet, healer, personal trainer and so on. You need to be mindful of the potential for muddle and mess on April 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and again on April 9^th, 10^th, 11^th. If you feel that you are in over your head, then you need to rethink the rules. This is about the calendar and the clock. It is also about boundaries with your boss, colleagues, staff, lecturer, classmates, clients and so on. There may even be a feeling of mess and muddle with the dog or cat, who come under the rulership of the Sixth House of your chart. The overall aim, Libra, should be to preserve the bubble you usually inhabit. It’s quite a nice bubble to float around in, offering you a total escape from the real world, and you have been drifting along now for quite a few years. Occasionally the bubble gets thrown around by strange currents and February through mid-April was/is strange. Later on, in April, as you get towards May, think about creating a new, improved bubble. One that is more contained and controlled. I daresay you have been in this space for so long you don’t even realise how utterly out of the ordinary and everyday it is for most people! Another little tip: avoid drug, prescribed drug or alcohol overload at the Mercury-Neptune conjunction on April 2^nd and the Venus-Neptune conjunction on April 11^th. Neptune was discovered in the year that ether was publicly pioneered and although Comfortably Numb is an excellent Floyd song, it is not where you need to be for clarity.

Your Former, Current or Potential Partner. Your Enemy, Opponent or Rival

Libra, this is the beginning of a new era, for or with this person. He or she, on the other end of the scales, is the face you are concerned with on April 4^th, 5^th, 6^th when there is a green light and fresh start. This will be put to the test on April 18^th, 19^th, 20^th so from New Moon to Full Moon. This is the famous lunar cycle known to the ancients and you will see it yet again delivering an important new beginning, and then a passing test, to see what shape your first decisions are in. This is way more than it first appears. You have Chiron and Salacia, two slow-moving horoscope factors, trawling your chart together. Thus, the future is really being set up, no matter if you are divorcing, signing off from a feud, dating someone new, or making a decision as a couple. Professional and business partnerships may also begin, change or end at this time. Chiron is a teacher, guru, guide, mentor or unlikely lecturer. He is often described, mistakenly, as a wounded healer. He was no such thing. He knew herbal medicine and yes, he was wounded – but he was essentially a foster father figure and educator. He knew a bit about a lot of things. Music, primarily, but also herbalism and hunting. If you are eligible you may fall in love with someone like this now. The business of being educated about what is possible, legal, practical, permitted and all the rest is now in front of you. This is the time to stretch your imagination and set aside any limiting ideas about what used to be beyond the pale, or unthinkable, or out of the question. Actually, Chiron would like you to consider all that. Salacia is Neptune’s wife. A Trans-Neptunian object recently discovered, ignored by mainstream astrology, and extremely important in your chart. The situation with this person, be it love or war, is not only an education, it is also an escape from the real world. It exists in its own sphere, a long way away from what most people would call the real world. Just see the above notes on keeping it real at work, and in your daily routine. You really don’t want to be so far out that you end up not waving but drowning. That is a fair thing to say when we see Salacia in your Seventh House of former, current and potential partners – and enemies – and her husband in your lifestyle zone.

The Wild Card – Uranus in Taurus

Marriage and mortgage. Sex and money. Family and property. Legacy and inheritance. Bank and customer. Which will it be? The known world is over on April 21^st, 22^nd, 23^rd and although it was hinted at in May 2018, by all the laws of astrology, the Uranus-Sun conjunction will be a shock. The new world, seven years, hence, meets the known world right now. Unless you actually work with a bank, with the treasury, on the markets – it won’t be so personal. If you do, please search ‘Uranus in Taurus.’

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