The Cosmic Story: Late April Astrology, Earth Day, Taurus Solar Eclipse

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Pink Full Moon 2022

Before we turn to the energies of May and Taurus, I want to recap what’s happening at the end of April. And of course, Earth Day on April 22^nd.

The April 16^th Libra/Aries (Pink) Full Moon was squared by Pluto in Capricorn, which is slowing down to turn retrograde on April 29^th which makes its energy of death and rebirth/evolution even more powerful. This Full Moon was all about POWER and who welds it. In a perfect world, this would be about how we each use power to work with others, and includes self-empowerment (Aries Sun conjunct Eris, the warrior of the heart) as well as empowering others (Libra Moon). 

 

OR, as we’ve seen on the world stage in Ukraine, it is about how the old order uses power to dominate, kill and control others. It’s important to understand that this is the year when the OLD will try to take over and smash all that is new and free. In Russia, instead of excommunicating Putin for pursuing an unjust war, his Russian Orthodox patriarch, along with Putin’s buddies, condone this war: “in reality, we embody the forces of good in the modern world because this clash is metaphysical…. We are on the side of good against the forces of absolute evil…. This is truly a holy war that we’re waging, and we have to win it and of course we will because our cause is just. We have no other choice. Our cause is not only just, our cause is righteous and victory will certainly be ours.”

This ‘battle between good and evil’ is also being played out by the American religious right wing. They are working to take over our government on local, state and national levels, to bring us back to a ‘moral, Christian country’ where we’re not allowed to use contraception or have abortions and where we’re not allowed to talk about our individual rights. While my fellow astrologers have talked about last week’s Jupiter/Neptune conjunction in Pisces as a time a great spiritual awakenings and visions, they didn’t concentrate on the religious fanaticism that could – and did – arise with it. The Religions of the Book – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – all think that their God backs war and murder if it’s in their cause. Shame on them! This is the default setting for all of the wars fought in the last 2,000 years. These religions have become death religions instead of the life-giving ones they were meant to be.

These are the people who believe we’re living in the End Times (which in some ways we are, except not as they see it – we’re at the end of the Piscean Age and at the beginning of the Age of Aquarius). For them, the End Times is a time of being Chosen and of judgment and punishment – of the battle between Good and Evil. That’s also why they aren’t bothering with climate change because they actually believe that Jesus is going to rapture them away to heaven, so why take care of the Earth! (Also check out The Doomsday Clock – how scientists see nuclear and environmental threats in the world.)

 

 Lancelot crossing the sword bridge

We each are being called upon to walk the ‘sword bridge’ – that narrow blade that symbolizes the Mind and how we use it. Can we balance what is going on in the world with our own values and beliefs? Can we look at what is going on without falling into fear and despair? Can we think for ourselves and stand up for our values, even when it gets painful? (it’s the sword’s sharp edge Arthur’s knights had to walk on.)

I was listening to a climate podcast called Climate of Change with Cate Blanchette and Danny Kennedy where they quote Mary Robinson (who has her own podcast on climate change called Mothers of Invention) who quotes Desmond Tutu saying “We are prisoners of hope!”

Can we be prisoners of hope – staying positive in the face of seemingly hopeless circumstances.

While our individual work is to shine our light into this dark work, we are also called to action. What can you do to stand up for the Light? Start in your local communities and your state. Go to school committee or town council meetings and see who is running your town and what they want to do with your tax money. The only way we’re going to change our world for the better is to collaborate with like-minded people. Find your people and work together to bring about change from the ground up!

 

April 22, 2022 is Earth Day. With climate scientists chaining themselves to government buildings to protest the fact that governments are not taking climate change seriously, we the people need to step up the pressure. If governments can shift their economies to wartime needs as they did during WWII, why aren’t we being asked to sacrifice some of our personal habits for the good of the world? Why aren’t we transitioning to sustainable models of life that no longer include conspicuous consumption? Hint: Because our corporate overlords don’t want us to – they already own land that will keep them safe while the rest of us suffer the hardships of climate change.

I can’t get to Washington, D.C. for the climate protest on Saturday April 23^rd, but I can gather my sisters to dance for Mother Earth – to dance in our hopes and blessings. Please take time on Friday to acknowledge and bless our beautiful, wounded planet and its people.

Now back to Pluto turning retrograde. 

 

On Friday, April 29^th Pluto turns retrograde at 29* Capricorn and will back track to 26* Capricorn on October 8^th. The Sabian symbol for 29* Capricorn is: A Woman reading tea leaves. This is a call for each of us to sharpen our intuition and vision. To see the archetypal energies at play in the world. Can we envision a better world?

This retrograde also means the U.S. Pluto return will be revisited. It was just after our first Pluto return hit on February 22, 2022 that Putin invaded Ukraine. While horrific, this invasion showed the world that America’s experiment with democracy did work. That the people of the world will fight for their freedom when under attack by the old order.

So with Pluto retrograde, each of us is asked to take a stand for our freedom. What are we willing to do to create a better world? A free world where each of us is valued? A world where we no longer seek to dominate and control others, but where each of us takes responsibility for ourselves as a member of a free community.

It might seem as if we are far from the horrific war in Ukraine, but here in America, as well as all over the world, the autocrats and corporations want to dominate us. As the old order dies, it is fighting back. So we have to start taking a stand for our values – that’s what this Taurus season with the lunar nodes in Taurus is all about.

Taurus Solar Eclipse April 30^th

Partial Solar Eclipse

The Sun enters the sign of Taurus on the evening of April 19^th here in the U.S. and on April 20^th in the rest of the world.

As Aries is the Fire of Life, so Taurus takes that fire and makes something of it. Taurus is the builder of the zodiac, the energy that takes the fire of life and grounds it and grows it.

Taurus is the sign of embodied spirit.

Taurus is the Garden, the world of Nature that is beginning to blossom now in the northern hemisphere. The green force of Life here on Earth is awake and wants to grow into something of value and worth. Like its ruling planet Venus, Taurus wants to awaken our senses to the beauty and goodness of life.

Venus bestows beauty and truth on new life and asks us to value it. So during this season of Taurus, we’re asked to examine our values. Are we living by them or are they just ideas that we forget to manifest in our lives?

Venus is the Goddess of Love – and love takes work. As the poet Rilke says: There is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. That it is work, day labor, day labor, God knows there is no other word for it. … So whoever loves must try to act if he had a great work: he must be much alone and go into himself and collect himself and hold fast to himself; he must work; he must become something! (Rilke On Love and Other Difficulties)

If we love our world, our children and our people, then it is time to take up the work of Love. If we value love and connection, compassion and peace, we have to do the work. No matter how difficult. The future is counting on us!

The lunar nodes, which create eclipses, are moving through the signs of Taurus and Scorpio. With the south node in Scorpio, we have to leave the trauma, betrayals and emotional wounds behind us. They’re to teach us about life, but we tend to hold onto them rather than learn the lesson and let them go. Scorpio is the sign of shared values and I see it as the sign of psychological growth, because it’s the sign where other people impact our souls. So for the next year, our assignment is to let go of these old traumas and accept, as Caroline Casey says, our beautiful, dangerous assignments.

The north node in Taurus asks us to re-discover our own values, to honor Earth’s creative genius (lots of new technology for healing climate devastation is based on Earth’s natural systems), and to remember that we are temples of spirit. So we have to learn, once again, to honor our body, to own our instincts and intuitions, and to follow our heart’s desire, since Venus rules here. For too long, our patriarchal culture has either degraded love into pornography or elevated it to ridiculous romantic proportions.

Work on Love and see what you find.

The Taurus solar eclipse occurs on Saturday, April 30^th (the beginning of Beltane) at 1:28 pm PDT/ 4:28 pm EDT/ 9:28pm GMT. This is a partial solar eclipse.

 

The Sabian symbol for this solar eclipse at 11* Taurus is: A woman watering flowers in her garden. This is a symbol of cultivation, the need to attend to what we want to manifest. And of course, it needs to be beautiful in all ways – sight, smell, touch, taste and sound. We need to pour our love into the life we want. But we have to pay attention!

 

Solar eclipses are extra powerful New Moons. The Moon and Sun come together in a sacred marriage, uniting our conscious self with our unconscious Self. What do we want to plant for this year? What will we take the time to water and cultivate? With the tumultuous energies of change this year, start with grounding into your home, your group, your family – this is not about your work in the world, but your work as a soul.

This solar eclipse New Moon is conjunct the North Node and Uranus in Taurus – opening us to new experiences of life. Uranus in Taurus aligns us with Earth’s creative genius, so expect the unexpected, allow yourself to be surprised by joy. And perhaps if your computer (Uranus) suddenly acts up, leave it inside and go out into Nature. That’s where all the juicy new ideas will come from.

Saturn and Vesta in Aquarius are squaring the nodes at this eclipse, so look at what goals are out of line with the needs of the present state of the world. Saturn transits test our maturity and our staying power, even as they slow things down and limit us in some way. Vesta says, let collective needs inspire your choices. (She the goddess of the village hearthfire.) What do we need to feel stable and secure in these turbulent times? Saturn in Aquarius says find your team, your tribe, your community and they will help you stay safe and secure, as well as work with you to bring in a better world. Aquarius is a group enterprise.

Since the Aries New Moon, we’ve switched from fire and air to earth and water energies. We have our Taurus lineup in earth, and we also have 4 planets in watery Pisces – Mars, Neptune, Venus and Jupiter. This energy in the collective unconscious can help us open our hearts to the real suffering in the world – perhaps suffering we ourselves aren’t experiencing.

With Venus and Jupiter exactly conjunct less than an hour after this eclipse, expect some blessings and spiritual insight into your life. Get out your paints and pencils, move your body and create ART to help you grow your Taurus seeds of life.

The Sabian symbol for Venus and Jupiter at 28* Pisces is: A fertile garden under the Full Moon reveals a variety of full grown vegetables. Here’s another image of gardening and harvest. This conjunction can bring us a big harvest and abundance. So watch for it.

At this New Moon, Mercury in Gemini is squaring the asteroid Juno, the goddess of relationships. What do we need to do about our relationships? Make them stronger? Let them go? Come clear on who you are (Chiron in Aries) and who they are and see how you can change the dynamics by talking to each other. Telling your truth is a necessity in a good relationship. Even better, write a letter – not an email – so partners can re-read what their ears couldn’t hear. We enter the Mercury retrograde shadow on April 24-25^th getting ready for the Mercury retrograde starting on May 10^th. More about that in the May newsletter.

As this Solar Eclipse occurs on the evening before Beltane, this is your chance to ground in the powerful energies of Spring with self-awareness, cooperation and joy. 

 

See you in May! 

The Cosmic Story: April 2022

 

The Cosmic Story for April 2022

April Showers Bring May Flowers 

 

 

The Power of Beauty

This old rhyme may seem like a stereotype, but I like it because rain showers are so magical. How can they not give rise to the concrete magic of beautiful flowers in May?

I’ve just returned from my first trip to Hawaii – to both Maui and Kauai – and it was moist and juicy – almost too much so, since both tropical storms and winds, and strong tides kept us out of the water. But the colors! – the blues and greens, golds and oranges – filled our eyes, whalesong/birdsong filled our ears and soft, warm winds caressed our skins. Hawaii opened me to my senses.

 

Virgo Full Moon setting over Maui before Sunrise.

               Sunset off Maui

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hawaii was certainly a precursor of Spring in New England. All that beauty – the colors, the water and wind, and the green fertile Earth – belongs to the Goddess of April, whom the ancient Romans worshiped as Venus or Aphrodite of the Greeks.

After the lushness of Hawaii, I ended up with friends in Las Vegas, where one day the humidity was 19% – and where we went out into the desert to Tacopa for the hot springs on the first weekend to hit 90*+ The heat and the harshness of the desert has its own beauty, but it isn’t the beauty of April showers.

So now back in Rhode Island, I find today’s rain showers to be quite a gift. What a wondrous, magical world we live in. The sky showers water down upon us like blessings. Rain is a blessing and an awesome delivery system. The sky brings us water – it brings us life. What would the western deserts give for a few of these April showers!

Going to other places in the world, seeing Nature in her different aspects, helps remind me to bless and thank the April showers that come to us here in the Northeast as the Sun begins to warm the Earth. (My part of the country has gotten cloudier with climate change, so it’s easy to be annoyed at clouds and rain. But the reality is that it’s such a blessing in a world where our waters are often scarce and polluted.)

Without a doubt, the showers bring us new life, the new green appearing on limbs and branches, in the rich soil and in the seas and lakes, ponds and streams. Our animal relations also bring new life into the world in Spring, and sounds and sights of new life delight our senses. And that new life is always Beautiful – whether a newborn human or animal baby, or a sprout pushing its way up in the soil, ready to grow and blossom and become. 

 

Beauty is such an intrinsic part of new life and new beginnings. The potential in new beginnings is vast, and perhaps it is the best time to experience its true beauty, because we sometimes lose sight of it as time goes on, working hard to achieve some of those potentials.

Venus, the Goddess of Beauty, attracts our love and connection so that we feel invested in this new beautiful creation. Go out into Nature as she Awakens from her winter’s sleep, and let the sights and sounds and feel of Nature awaken your senses (Venus, Goddess of Sensuality). Let your delight in the new life awakening around you see the beauty and value it. Honor it. Live it. If we begin to value Beauty now in Spring, we will embody it throughout the coming year. 

 

 

Nature wants to teach us how to live on her beautiful home. The more consciously and sacredly we engage with the energies of Spring, the easier it will be to align ourselves to Mother Earth’s biosphere and to our own innate Wisdom. 

 

 

April’s energy is all about awakening in Beauty! “Behold there is beauty all around us!... Awaken, Rejoice and Sing.” (Abby Spinner)

Thanks to what I experienced in Hawaii, I already feel April & May on the way!

Venus as the Goddess of April

The Romans¹ – (I thought I’d look into Roman practices, since so much of our modern culture has its roots there) – saw April as the month of Conception, of new beginnings, of that initial spark of life that defines the wild Aries fire.

It is said that April was named for the open season,

Because spring opens all things and

The sharp frost-bound cold gives way,

The soil thaws and is easily worked.

Venus lays claim to this month.

This most deserving goddess governs the entire world.

This queen rules a kingdom second to none.

Ovid

And the new life that appears – be it a human baby, an animal baby, or new plant life – appears in Beauty! Beauty is the initial state of life. All new life is delicate, beautiful and delightful. That’s the essence of April and her goddess.

For the Romans, Venus was an earthy goddess, the divine Creatrix, Nature incarnate. She was and still is the source of female mystery and energy, the power to conceive and bare life – whether physical or creative.

Throughout seas and mountains and sweeping torrents, and the leafy dwellings of birds and lush green plains, the Goddess Venus strikes soft love into the breasts of all creatures. She causes them to be lustful and reproduce. ~Lucretius~

Life is supposed to be desirable to us. That’s why the Goddess of Love rules here – we are seduced by and we seduce each other by the heady rush of Life! Our patriarchal religions have cut us off from our body’s pleasures, calling them sins. The reality is that these ‘sins’ are our natural response to life and if we didn’t repress them, they wouldn’t overwhelm us – especially if we don’t overdo things. Our beliefs that the Earth, women and our bodies are somehow evil have led to our mechanistic age, where we live in our heads and ‘work out’ our bodies – but somehow don’t live in them.

So April is a time to embody yourself again. April is a sensuous month, a time when breezes softly blow and the Sun warms the Earth, awakening the colors, scents and sounds of life. It is a time to be open and receptive to the sensual flow of Nature. Let yourself indulge in your senses and adorn yourself (another aspect of Aphrodite/Venus) in beauty. April, and later May, is a time to let our senses drink in the world.

It wouldn’t hurt us to honor this tradition of indulging our senses – not in the unconscious, addictive way of our society, but by actually using our senses to understand life. In our technological society, we need to awaken our bodies again from the collective sleep we’ve been in. We can do it by opening our senses and exploring our world. If we don’t feed our senses in Spring, our senses won’t be awake enough to alert us to the dangers and ugliness in our world. By paying attention to the beauty of new life returning to the world, our senses will come alive and we will walk through the world in beauty, even as we recognize and name the ugliness that is evil. (EVIL is LIVE spelled backwards – evil wants to annihilate LIFE.)

For the Romans, Venus ruled over it all. As the goddess of sexuality, beauty, love and wisdom, Venus ruled over the fertility of the Earth and women. The Romans held festivals during April to Venus, honoring female sexuality. (They recognized women’s powers!) They also honored the Magna Mater (Cybele, the Great Mother) during early April and later the goddess Ceres, the Mother Goddess who welcomes her daughter Persephone back from the underworld. At the end of April the Romans held 4 agricultural festivals sacred to Mother Earth.

So let’s celebrate Venus this April as the Sun moves through both Aries and then Taurus. It is during April that the mystical planet Neptune and the philosophical planet Jupiter meet up in Pisces. With Venus watching over them to bring Beauty and Love to the meeting.

The Astrology of April

March ended with the Aries New Moon which was conjunct Chiron. The Cosmos asked us to consider who we are. Are we are wounded and still struggling with collective expectations (Chiron as Wounded Healer) or are we conscious about what we learned in the initiations those wounds offered us (Chiron as Mentor)? This is the year we are being asked to resolve our individual traumas and stand up together to face the traumas shaping our world.

After watching Putin invade Ukraine, the world is faced with the choice to stand up for our values, or be shown to be hypocrites by doing nothing. Both the world and each of us have that choice to stand up. The energies of this month are going to sweep us away – either to stand together to heal the world or to tumble into fear and darkness. Many decades ago I had a vision of unicorns holding back the giant waves, keeping the land safe. Perhaps some of you are unicorns.

 

 

The giant wave is also the upcoming conjunction of Neptune and Jupiter in Pisces, which calls us to acknowledge our connection. We are not alone – we are in this together. This strong conjunction is gathering energy and as we see the results of the dominator culture of patriarchy in the Ukraine, we are offered the choice to embrace our higher Self as our identity and get on with the work of imagining and making a better world.

So let’s start with the energy of Aries. Aries is action-oriented original FIRE – think wildfire. Aries fire is the spark of creation, of conception. Life gets switched on. Beginnings, births, new life, getting the electric shock that starts the process of life. 

 

The wonderful thing about Aries is that its energy is instinctive. It’s the energy that sparks life after all, so this energy shoots out in all directions, searching for what is new so it can fill it with the spark of life.

That’s also why the energy of Aries is immediate. It’s the energy of Be Here Now! Do you know an Aries? They always want to be doing something. They can’t stand around, waiting. They instinctively listen to the energies around them and fearlessly jump into life.

That’s the Aries gift – that fearless involvement in Life. On April 12^th, Neptune/Jupiter will conjoin in Pisces, while the Sun is in Aries. The Aries Sun is the juice that powers this conjunction. So let’s finally talk about next week’s Jupiter conjunction with Neptune in Pisces, the sign they’re very compatible with.

Back a few centuries ago, the ancients only recognized the 7 planets they could see in the night sky. And so they assigned each planet two signs to ‘rule’, whose energies were compatible with the planet’s energy. Jupiter has rulership over the signs of Sagittarius and Pisces. Once Neptune was discovered in 1846, it was assigned to the sign of Pisces since Neptune was the King of the Seas. So we say that both Neptune and Jupiter rule Pisces.

The Jupiter/Neptune Conjunction of April 12, 2022

So both the rulers of Pisces are about to connect in the depths of the world ocean – or the Collective Unconscious. Pisces is the last sign of the zodiac and is referred to as the primeval ocean where we return to Source. As the Collective Unconscious, it is the World Soul, the place where all of humanity’s experiences, knowledge, fears, hopes and wisdom reside. It is where the rejected parts of our society and our individual consciousness get dumped, like the trash islands in the Pacific. 

 

 

Mythologically, Neptune is in his own watery realm and Jupiter is more comfortable on high Olympus, so we’ll give a bit more power to Neptune’s ability to transcend dimensions and realities. He’s slippery – the Old Man of the Sea who shapeshifts until you hold on long enough for him to settle into his true form. (Alot like working with the Unconscious and with the imaginal.) Watch how people are reacting to life now. Are they being sucked into delusions and fanaticism or are they navigating their life nimbly and with grace. Stay open to revelations and visions – which means take time to meditate, especially in Nature.

 

 

Jupiter in Pisces brings an expansion of spiritual insight and the creative imagination, as well as the ability to go on the quest to discover our spiritual source. Jupiter/Zeus is the god of the lightning bolt, ready to bring his power of expansion into this ocean. So you can see how rip-tides might develop. Or tidal waves – which can create a radical shift in collective consciousness. With Vesta, Juno, Saturn and Mars (until April 14^th when it goes into Pisces) in Aquarius to anchor it in, it’s very possible that our collective consciousness (Aquarius) will shift because of this powerful conjunction. We’ll see some signs of it as Venus connects with Neptune on April 27^th and with Jupiter on April 30^th, right after the Venus-ruled Taurus Solar Eclipse. Or again when Mars conjuncts Neptune on May 17-18 in Pisces and Jupiter on May 29^th in Aries. These two planets can activate some response.

 

This important astrological event occurs next Tuesday April 12th at 7:47 am PDT/ 10:47 am EDT.   The Jupiter/Neptune conjunction occurs at 24* Pisces.  The Sabian symbol for 24* Pisces is:

On A Small Island Surrounded By The Vast Expanse Of The Sea, People Are Seen Living In Close Interaction. 

Having just returned from a very similar island, I would say that this image speaks to community, unity and co-operation.  What wonderful gifts this conjunction brings to us. 

There’s an old belief that when lightning strikes water, it forms the pearl of great price. Which is Love. So the Goddess is here as well, especially since the planet Venus will be in the sign of Pisces after April 5^th, where she is honored – Venus in Pisces is said to be exulted. So she’s very powerful here, in the ocean of her birth. Venus connects us to the imaginal realm as well as the spiritual realms and multi-dimensions. She is the Connector. This month is a great time to connect with your inner artist and mystic. Venus will lead the way with love.

It all connects – love, imagination, our Unity, Source. Rumi says,

Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul on fire.

                    The Universe turns differently when Fire Loves Water!

It’s a great time to take back our imaginations, which our media has colonized and stunted. We are all living in very harsh patriarchal ‘stories’ about what we’re supposed to do and how we’re supposed to be. It’s time to drop those outworn stories and decide what you want to believe about life. Create a story with you at the center – loved, fulfilled, compassionate, wise, satisfied, open, generous, complete. Let’s all create stories of a better life and a better world.

We need to deepen our imaginations together. What collective values do we need to cultivate and call upon so we can create a better world? Some people want to take us back to the repressive values of the past. But if this tidal wave creates a radical shift in consciousness, it will be to reconnect with the Earth and with our bodies, not with repressive religious fears.

Before we can truly enter the Age of Aquarius, when humanity will grow up into conscious beings, we need to finally embody the Piscean ideals of love, connection, compassion and the willingness to sacrifice (to make sacred) for the common good. We need to leave behind the idea of our separateness and the ideal of rugged individualism which has separated us from each other and from Mother Earth.

The Truth of Life here on Earth is that we are all one, and we’re all in this together. We need to celebrate this truth by living it.

On April 19-20^th, the Sun enters the sign of Taurus. Taurus is a fixed earth sign, the sign of Venus’ Garden home. It is Mother Earth and her Bull. It is fertility and abundant life. Taurus takes Aries’ fire and shapes it into something of value – a body, a home, a business, the mountains, trees, plants and flowers. Taurus populates the Earth with living spirit.

More on Taurus in May.

Some quick astrological notes:

Mercury moves into Aries on March 27, into Taurus on April 10^th, and into Gemini on April 29^th.

April 29^th is also the day Pluto goes retrograde, beginning the process of integrating the U.S. Pluto return that first occurred on February 22^nd. Pluto will retrograde back to it on July 12^th and going forward, for the third time on December 29^th. Let’s see what America, and the world looks like then. Will the revolutionary energy of freedom spread throughout the world, just as it spread throughout America in 1776? 

 

 

The Libra Full Moon occurs between Passover and Easter on Saturday, April 16^th. The Full Moon squares Pluto in Capricorn and involves Eris in Aries conjunct the Sun. Libra rules justice and equality. It’s another reminder that our country and our psyches need to drop the dead weight of old expectations and embrace a new world and style of life. Conspicuous consumption has polluted the Earth and benefited the wealthy. What has it done for the rest of us lately? Not much.

This Full Moon reminds us that the revolution is upon us – not only in Ukraine but in the U.S. as well. Will freedom ring? Or will our very own American Taliban impose old repressive rules on us? (There’s a lunar eclipse on the US election day this year so it will be wild. Despite wide-spread voting restrictions, people need to vote to change the system.) This Full Moon is just 4 days after the Neptune/Jupiter conjunction, so we’ll still be feeling the rip-tides of it.

Coming as it does between Passover and Easter, let’s all pray that the old repressive beliefs die out so that new life can thrive.

Saturn also squares the lunar nodes, pushing at our collective mind to wake up – not be ‘woke’ but to wake up to what the world needs and reconnect with Earth’s biosphere. We are at a crossroads and it’s choice time.

The month ends with a Taurus Solar Eclipse on April 30^th, but I’ll talk about that in May’s newsletter.

May you be overwhelmed with Beauty this month,

Cathy

¹Bernstein, Frances, Classical Living: Reconnecting with the Rituals of Ancient Rome, (New York: Harper-Collins, 2000).