PLUTO STATIONS RETROGRADE IN AQUARIUS 2 MAY 2024 After just over a three-month stay in Aquarius, Pluto stations retrograde at 02°06’ Aquarius (antiscion 27°54’ Scorpio) and will backtrack until 11-12 October when the planets stations direct at 29°38’ Capricorn. The planet will remain at 29° Capricorn the “all-or-nothing” degree from beginning September to mid-November this year.
MARS ENTERS ARIES 30 APRIL 2024 …no stopping me now! Mars will enter its home sign of Aries giving us all a hands-on, get-out-there-and-do-it energy.
VENUS ENTERS TAURUS 29 APRIL 2024 I’m sexy and I know it… Venus the planet of love, comfort, finances and self-worth enters one of her home signs. Taurus is a sign known for its down-to-earth practicality and love of tactile sensations. It’s a Fixed, Earth sign which is very steadfast, stubborn and unable and unwilling to accept change and for the above reasons Taurus is known as a very dependable sign always arriving at its prefixed goals with its slow and steady attitude. Venus in Taurus also endures romantic situations that most others would have already abandoned.
MERCURY STATIONS DIRECT 25 APRIL 2024 Time to move forward again Mercury stations direct at 15°58’ Aries (antiscion 14°02’Virgo) on the 25 April. Interesting to note that Mercury was the term ruler during the recent Solar Eclipse at 19°24’ Aries and thus activated the eclipse degree on the 4th March, 16th March (R) and will do so again on the 5th May.
FULL MOON IN SCORPIO 23-24 APRIL 2024 There will be a Full Moon at 04°18’ in the Fixed, Water sign of Scorpio (antiscion 25°42’Aquario). The dispositors of the Moon in Scorpio are Mars (traditional) and Pluto (modern). The lunation is in a separating T-square with modern ruler Pluto. A T-Square in the Fixed signs with a Pluto apex indicates that our head (Sun - leaders) and our heart (Moon - people) are both pulling in opposite directions and Pluto squaring both these planets implies a dilemma between the wilfull desire to obtain the desired goals through sheer force (our leaders) [...]
JUPITER-URANUS CONJUNCTION 20-21 APRIL 2024 This present article is an extract from a longer talk on Jupiter in Taurus that was presented at the annual general meeting of the Association of Professional Astrologers International (APAI) in April 2023. Jupiter and Uranus have been in a continuous orb of each other (max 10°) since late July 2023 and will continue to be so until Jupiter enters Gemini on 26 May 2024. However, the two planets will conjoin only once at 21°50’ Taurus (antiscion 08°10’ Leo) on the 20-21st April (less than 1° away from the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at [...]
SOLAR ECLIPSE IN ARIES 8 APRIL 2024 There will be a New Moon and a total Solar Eclipse at 19°24’ of Aries (antiscion 10°36’ Virgo), a Cardinal, Fire sign on the 8th of April. The Sun, on its exaltation degree in Aries, is particularly strong.
VENUS ENTERS ARIES 4-5 APRIL 2024 love at first sight.... Venus, the planet of values (what WE value and desire), love and finances, enters the sign of Aries on the 4-5th of February (depending where you find yourself in the world at that moment).
MERCURY STATIONS RETROGRADE 1 APRIL 2024 …slowing down is a must After a period of retrograde journeys in the Earth signs, Mercury starts its first retrograde period of the year in the Fire sign of Aries at 27°13’ (antiscion 2°47’ Virgo) and backtracks to 15°58’ Aries (antiscion 14°02’Virgo) where it again stops in its tracks on 25th April to station direct.
FULL MOON/PENUMBRAL ECLIPSE IN LIBRA is it “me” or “we” time for you? Only a few days after the Spring Equinox there will a Full Moon/Lunar Eclipse occurring at 05°07’ Libra, a Cardinal, Air sign ruled by Venus. Equinoxes are by themselves important times of change and Aries as a Cardinal sign marks new beginnings.