Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in a playful and creative part of your chart before returning to your busy work sector, this will always be a month of two halves and with some crossover between the two. However, that crossover is not only a lot more extreme this year, but it will continue for months rather than weeks. Because Uranus, the closest of the three outer planets has been in your work sector since 2019 things never go completely off the boil, but don’t really become active until the Sun and the faster planets return. This means that while the Sun has the solar spotlight on the playful and creative part of your chart, Uranus is there keeping work and job matters on track and this year, with the help of the South Node in your career sector. Making things a lot more important on the job front this year is that Uranus is getting ready to leave in July, but held back by a retrograde phase, with Mercury not returning until next month and Venus not returning until June, there isn’t the urgency. In the meantime, while Venus and Mercury had been in a playful and creative part of your chart until the closing days of March but have since retrograded back out, in their place is Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams who in the closing hours of March returned for the first time in 150 years. Neptune is the second of the outer planets and along with Pluto, who left your income sector and returned to your communication sector in November, is part of the reason why 2025 is a year of change. Apart from a few months later in the year, Neptune is back in a playful and creative part of your chart until 2039 and with Uranus in his final months in your work sector, this is one month when there will need to be some guardrails in place from the start when it comes to a balance between work and play. Your whole work/life balance will be important, for this is also a big month for home and family matters.
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your romantic sector, the solar spotlight is always on matters of the heart and all things romantic at this time of year. As Venus, the planet of love will always return at around the same time, this will always be the most romantically charged point in any year. However, two things set things apart to the point that this changes everything and instead of bringing you to the most romantically charged months of 2025, has brought you to the most romantically charged point in a lifetime. The first thing is Venus, who is not acting as she normally would, but events in the final hours of March made it clear why that is. Normally returning at around the same time as the Sun, which means around the time of the March equinox, Venus instead returned for what is normally a 24 day visit on 4th February and she was still there when the Sun returned on 20th March. Venus was able to wait for the Sun because by then she had turned retrograde, as had Mercury who also returned in February, well ahead of schedule. Both retrograded back out at the end of last month, with the promise that they would return. Why the planet of love spent so long in your romantic sector and why she will return again to spend the whole of May here, was made clear in the final hours of March. Four days after Venus retrograded back out of your romantic sector and less than 12 hours after Mercury left Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returned for the first time in 150 years. Neptune will be here when Venus returns next month and Mercury on 16th April, but it is two days later that Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos will also return to an adventurous part of your chart and almost straight into a friendly aspect to Neptune. Helping to capture by then what will be a mix of romance, passion and adventure will be the Moon’s return to your romantic sector from 25th April to 27th April. While what is happening on the romantic front might overshadow what is happening on the relationship front, there is every reason for confidence there as well.
Knowing that once he leaves your financial sector on 18th April it will remain empty, though not for long with Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion returning less than two months later, Mars was always going to be on a mission to make his final weeks count. There is rarely any planetary activity on this side of the financial fence at this time of year, the side where it is more about what you do with and how you manage the money you have. Instead, for the last 16 years, there has been near continuous planetary activity on the income side of the financial fence, but this year when all that changed. It was a combination of Pluto, who had been in your income sector since 2008 leaving in November and Mars returning for his longest visit to your financial sector in two decades that changed that. Apart from the Moon’s monthly visits, there will be no planetary activity in your income sector until later in the year, making its return from 19th April to 21st April some of the most potentially lucrative days of the month. With Mars leaving your financial sector on 18th April, the Moon will be able to move through with no competition and with the Sun returning to your work sector on 20th April, these should be some of the best days of the month across the income, work and career fronts. Until then, Mars will be keeping the focus on the other side of the financial fence and as a visit that began in September 2024 finally draws to a close, he will be in full warrior mode, firing up your financial passions and fighting spirit as he gives you the drive to take your financial power back. Knowing that in June Jupiter, the planet of luck and expansion will return to begin your biggest year for financial growth and expansion in over a decade, this is also just the first step in something much bigger. The Moon will make its last visit while Mars is here from 4th April to 6th April, making it important to listen to your financial instincts and imagination.