by Robert Wilkinson
As the editor of the Arizona Society of Astrologers newsletter, I compose an overview of each month. Today we take a look at the primary factors for the month.
Sorry for the slight delay in posting this, but at the beginning of the month I was swamped with the articles on Mars conjunct Saturn and the Solar Return. In May I’ll resume posting the overview near the beginning of the month.
This year the month of April kicked off with Mars conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius, jump starting the Aquarian pulse of evolution which activates the future Grand Mutation of late 2020, ushering in both a new 20 year AND a new 200 year Era! Yes, we’ve begun to leave 200 years of Earth energy and are moving into 200 year of Air energy, since all the Jupiter conjunctions with Saturn will be in Air signs for the next 200 years!
We’re still under the influence of the recent Mercury SD degree indicating we’re all “graduating into a new realm of Being,” which is obviously happening with the global pandemic. As an aside, we should see major developments one way or another by early May when Mars transits the end of Aquarius.
Mars in Aquarius this month shows us the initial pulses of what Jupiter will expand within Saturn’s structures in 2021, so take note, since much of what we’ll be doing next year has its genesis in April. Pay special attention when Mars squares Uranus between April 4-10, since those areas will be under major stress next January when Jupiter and Saturn square Mars and Uranus from those signs.
The numerous conjunctions involving Mercury, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto activated in January and March began a year of major reorganization in our lives, with new responsibilities to accept and new group work to embrace wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. Of course, it’s still a very crowded house wherever we have late Capricorn through early Taurus in our chart, since there are EIGHT planets in that narrow span. And between April 14-22, we’ll have nine, since the Moon will also be in that span!
April continues the very favorable Venus trine Mars, this month from Gemini to Aquarius, favoring all planets and points we have in the first half of Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. The entire month gives us valuable information about what will slow down or bring returns as Venus slows to go retrograde in mid-May. The period from April 11-22 should be extraordinarily productive due to the “three note chord” of harmony between Mars in mid-Aquarius, Mercury in mid-Aries, and Venus in mid-Gemini. Seems many parts of us as well as our society should be getting on the same page in productive ways!
Saturn is still the Master of center stage, both in Capricorn and Aquarius, and this month it begins to crystallize long term visions of a greater good, so use the coming weeks to get a sense of what you’ll be dealing with in 2021 and 2022. On April 6 it will begin to occupy its stationary retrograde degree, promising future “cosmic visitations” which will “galvanize us to action through spectacular developments liberating us from adverse conditions.”
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Since I also include this in the newsletter, I’ll offer it to you here:
PLANETARY MOTIONS IN APRIL 2020
SUN – 12 Aries through 11 Taurus
MERCURY – 16 Pisces through 5 Taurus
VENUS –28 Taurus to 19 Gemini
MARS –1-22 Aquarius
JUPITER –25-27 Capricorn
SATURN –1-2 Aquarius
URANUS –6-7 Taurus
NEPTUNE –20-21 Pisces
PLUTO – 25 Capricorn (all month)
TRUE NORTH NODE –3-1 Cancer
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SIGNIFICANT ASTROLOGICAL OCCURRENCES IN APRIL 2020
VENUS ENTERS GEMINI – April 3
VENUS ENTERS SHADOW ZONE – April 9 at 6 Gemini
MERCURY ENTERS ARIES – April 11
FULL MOON; April 7; Sun 19 Aries, Moon 19 Libra
SUN ENTERS TAURUS – April 19
NEW MOON – April 22; Sun and Moon at 4 Taurus
PLUTO STATIONARY RETROGRADE – April 25 at 25 Capricorn
MERCURY ENTERS TAURUS – April 27
© Copyright 2020 Robert Wilkinson
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