When after 13 years Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams and your ruling planet left Pisces and returned to your income sector in the closing hours of March, nothing was clear cut and there was no clear dividing line between the two and that is thanks to Mercury and Venus. This is purposely so, for it was on 27th March that after nearly two months in your income sector, Venus retrograded back into Pisces in order to capture Neptune’s final days and she will remain here for the whole of April. Yet three days after Venus retrograded out of your income sector and back into Pisces, Mercury did the same, but not before leaving you with a smart head for money, 20/20 hindsight and the promise that he would return on 16th April. The planets that have prepared you for Neptune’s return to your income sector and got the Sun’s month long visit off to an empowered start are back in Pisces, this time working with Saturn, who in his final month here is giving you the discipline to turn Neptune’s hopes, dreams and aspirations for the future into the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes. However, Venus is also the planet of love and with Mars leaving a fun, playful, romantic and creatively charged part of your chart on 18th April, she will be working to make the most of their reunion, having come together earlier in the year. This will see Mars return to your work sector for what will be his own do over and spending his early days back at a friendly aspect to Neptune in your income sector, this will kick off some powerful months on the income and job fronts. While the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment will retrograde back out of your career sector on 15th April, not before spending two months refining your professional resolutions. However, Mars and Juno will have met up a few days earlier, for she will spend her early days back in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery at a friendly aspect to Mars, in his final days in a playful and creative part of your chart.
While Mars will leave your romantic sector on 18th April and this will leave it empty, this not only won’t be the case for long, but the most romantically charged months of the year are still in front of you. Mars shouldn’t even be here at all, but as he is making April one of the most romantically charged months of the year so far and with it a chance for a do over. Mars has returned for his first visit to your romantic sector in nearly two years in September 2024 and this should have seen him leave six weeks later, not to return for another two years. That Mars is still here as you move into April 2025 means that something has disrupted the normal pattern. That something was that while Mars did eventually leave in November 2024, a retrograde turn saw him return in the New Year and where, nearly three months later he still is. Mars is back in direct motion and getting ready to leave on 18th April, but at the end of last month Venus, the planet of love retrograded back into Pisces for her own do over. The planets of love and passion will begin the month closely aligned and with both back for do overs and having already connected in January, this is a reunion that is going to create sparks. However, this begs the question, why are the planets of love and passion not only reluctant to leave but have come back together again? The answer is that this is all preparation for something even bigger, with Jupiter returning in June to begin your biggest year for love in over a decade. Until then, some of the most romantically charged days of this month will be when the Moon moves through your romantic sector from 4th April to 6th April, just as Venus and Mars will be most closely aligned. Venus will turn direct on 16th April, two days before Mars leaves but will remain back in Pisces for the rest of the month. Meanwhile, while there is less focus on your relationships, the Moon’s return to your relationship sector from 9th April to 11th April will be a valuable chance to check in and become more emotionally engaged, while there is communication support all month.
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your financial sector, the solar spotlight is always on your income situation, matters and options at this time of year. However, from the start, it will be clear that there has been a major shift, even if this is something that you are still getting a feel for. The Sun will always return to your income sector on the March equinox and this is the point when the most potentially lucrative months of any year will begin. This year, things got off to an early start when in early February Venus, the planet of money returned for what is normally a 24 day visit and two weeks later, Mercury returned for what is normally a 12 to 14 day visit. Venus and Mercury will usually return with the Sun, Venus to bring the laws of attraction into effect and Mercury with the smart head for money needed to get your head in the game and to think on your feet. Instead, returning this early, both were forced to wait and when the Sun returned last month, Venus and Mercury were both still here, though in retrograde motion. Venus retrograded back out on 27th March and Mercury three days later. Both will be back, Mercury on 16th April and before the Sun leaves on 20th April and Venus early next month, but in between everything has changed. It was less than 12 hours after Mercury left that Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returned to your income sector for the first time in 150 years, and here now until 2039, this is the start of a major new chapter. Neptune will use April to settle in, knowing that not only will Venus, planet of money, desire and attraction return next month, but Saturn as well. The Moon was in your income sector when Neptune returned late last month and will come full circle again from 25th April to 27th April, something that can sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger. It is two weeks earlier that with no planetary activity on the other side of the financial fence, the Moon’s return to your financial sector from 11th April to 13th April will be a chance to check in on money matters. It is the Full Moon on 13th April that could trigger a breakthrough.