While the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your career sector, things are not only a lot less clear cut this year, but with a lot of water having passed under the bridge before he even returned on the March equinox and a huge amount still to develop over the coming months. The Sun’s return in March is the point when the solar spotlight will always shift onto your career and professional situation, matters and options, with Venus and Mercury usually returning at around the same time. Instead, Venus had returned in early February for what is normally a 24 day visit and Mercury two weeks later for what is normally a 14 to 15 day visit. This meant that both should have been gone by the end of February or by early March at the latest, but instead both were still here when the Sun returned. Instead, a retrograde turn kept both here and Venus only left on 27th March and Mercury on 30th March. Because they left by retrograding back out, they will return for a do over, Mercury on 16th April and Venus early next month. This mirrors what Mars has been doing, for having already spent two months in your income sector, he retrograded back out in the New Year and on 18th April will return for a do over, with a lot of water having passed under the bridge professionally by then. This includes returning to find that in the closing hours of March Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returned to your career sector for the first time in 150 years and apart from a few months later in the year, is here until 2039. Meanwhile, Venus and Mercury had retrograded back into your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery before Neptune left and in time to capture the dream. Venus will turn direct on 13th April but will not only spend the rest of the month here, but will be here to welcome the asteroid Juno, when she retrogrades back into a playful and creative part of your chart on 15th April. This is helping to maintain the right work/life balance in what is a powerful month on both sides of life’s fence.
In an unusual coincidence Venus, Mercury, Mars and the asteroid Juno are all leaving and retrograding back into areas they have left, returning for do overs and all within the space of just a few months and all with romantic implications. Venus, the planet of love who had left an adventurous part of your chart in early February retrograded back in late last month, followed by Mercury a few days later. This has given Venus a chance to resume her mission to bring the spirit of romance and adventure together, with Mercury returning to keep heart and mind on the same page. Mercury will remain in retrograde motion until 7th April and Venus until 13th April, holding the doors open to the past and second chances. They have also returned to find Mars still in Cancer, where he returned for his own do over in January, with the planets of love and passion able to connect. Mars will leave on 18th April, but not before the asteroid Juno, who had left your romantic sector in February, retrogrades back in for her do over on 15th April. This is two days after Venus turns direct and with Juno remaining in retrograde motion, this will not only keep the spirit of romance, adventure and nostalgia alive but will continue to hold the doors open to the past and second chances. The Moon will move through your romantic sector from 14th April to 16th April, with romantically charged lunar vibes kicking in during Venus’ first full day in direct motion and in full effect when Juno returns on 15th April. In the heart of the month, these won’t just be some of the most romantically charged days of April but of the year. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity in your relationship sector, the Moon’s return from 19th April to 21st April will be a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged and aware. A friendly aspect to the South Node in your communication sector as it moves through will also make this a good time to get the communication lines open.
It is in the second half of the month that things are set to become a lot more interesting, but also when the balance of power or at least your attention will start to be drawn from one side of the financial fence to the other. While there is rarely any planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence until around July and August each year, 2025 not only began with Mars in your income sector but at odds with Pluto, who was settling into the early months of what will be a 20 year visit to your financial sector. At what was already the most active point in any year for your financial situation and money matters and with Mars in retrograde motion, he wasn’t able to make much headway, so he retrograded back out. On 18th April Mars will not only return, but start over from the beginning again, this time knowing what you didn’t then. In the over three months that Mars has been gone, a parade of planets has moved through your financial sector, Pluto is back on his own and slowing ahead of a retrograde phase early next month that will see money matters pull back and go into review mode. While there might be some initial tension Mars returns to declare war on glass ceilings, roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined as he gives you the drive to fight for what you deserve, but that will quickly pass and as the warrior planet of the cosmos, Mars is going to use this as motivation. The Moon will make its last visit to your income sector before Mars returns from 6th April to 8th April, with a chance to sharpen your nose for money and gain some situational awareness before he returns 10 days later. Meanwhile, the Moon’s return to your financial sector from 21st April to 23rd April will be the last before Pluto turns retrograde and before the side of the financial fence where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have is going to stand back in order to let the income side have its turn. Fortunately, by then the professional conditions will be ideal.