What sets April apart from other months is the musical chairs that the planets on the relationship and financial fronts are playing. As you move into the new month planets that had long since left your relationship sector are back and Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams who had been here since 2012 is gone. At the same time, the planets that until just a few days earlier were in your financial sector are gone, but with a promise that they would return and you are waking up to having Neptune in your financial sector for the first time in 150 years. It is Venus and Mercury who are going backward and forward between the two and not just once, but twice. Venus will normally spend 24 days in your financial sector and Mercury normally 14 to 15 days. However, by the time Venus, the planet of money left on 27th March she had been here for nearly two months and by the time Mercury left three days later, he had been here for six weeks. Both left before Neptune returned, but with Mercury returning on 16th April and Venus early next month, they will catch up with him then. Until then, Venus has left you with the motivation and Mercury the smart head for money and hindsight, what with the Sun in your financial sector until 20th April was always going to be an advantage, but definitely with Neptune bringing you to a whole new financial era. This has seen Venus take off her planet of money hat and put on her planet of love hat as she returned to your relationship sector to take over from where Neptune left off. Until he turns direct on 7th April, as the planet of communication Mercury will be focused on giving the past and unsaid words a voice. Mercury won’t stay around long after that, leaving and returning to your financial sector on 16th April. This is a day after the asteroid Juno, the queen of commitment will retrograde back into your communication sector to continue from where Mercury leaves off. Venus will turn direct on 13th April but will stay in your relationship sector for the rest of the month.
By the time the Sun left your relationship sector last month, something that on the March equinox each year takes the solar spotlight off your relationships Venus and Mercury, the planets of love and communication had already moved through. The Sun also left behind Neptune, who has been in your relationship sector since 2012 and Saturn, who has been here since March 2023, along with the dwarf planet Ceres making her first deep dive into your relationship needs and priorities in four years and the North Node. This was quite a team while bringing you to a point where things will normally stay the same until the Sun comes full circle next year. Except by the time you move into the new month everything has changed. After 13 years Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams is gone and Venus and Mercury, who had already moved through are back and all within the final four days of March. Venus and Mercury had both left in February yet had returned before Neptune left and in time to capture his hopes and dreams for the future. With Saturn and Ceres both leaving your relationship sector next month, Venus and Mercury have returned to help with Saturn’s focus on doing whatever it takes for as long as it takes in order to turn dreams into reality. Until he turns direct on 7th April and as the planet of communication, Mercury will be putting his focus into giving the past and unsaid words a voice. However, with the asteroid Juno retrograding back into your communication sector on 15th April, she can continue what he can start. Until she turns direct on 13th April, Venus will be focused on making the most of the doors open to the past and second chances. Mercury will leave on 16th April, but Venus is here for the rest of the month and will be here when the Moon moves through from 23rd April to 25th April. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity in your romantic sector, the Moon’s return from 19th April to 21st April will be the most romantically charged days of the month.
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your financial sector, the solar spotlight is always on your financial situation and money matters at this time of year. However, it was at the end of last month that everything changed. When the Sun returned to your financial sector on the March equinox and the solar spotlight shifted onto your financial situation and money matters, the only thing outside the norm was that while Venus and Mercury were here and you already had heart and head in the game and on the same page, they were both in retrograde motion. From the start, Mercury’s smart head for money came with 20/20 hindsight and Venus was focused less on new and more on untapped financial potential. It was a week later that first Venus and then three days later Mercury retrograded back out, while an eclipsing New Moon took advantage of no longer having the brakes on to start moving things forward. However, it was while the Moon was still here and before it left on 31st March that Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams returned to your financial sector for the first time in 150 years. As you move into the new month, this is something that you are still getting a feel for, but apart from a few months later in the year, Neptune is here for the next 15 years, giving you plenty of time. The Sun will leave your financial sector on 20th April, with Mercury returning again on 16th April with a chance to get your head back in the game and with a chance to use his smart head for money to focus on more mundane money matters. Once back, Mercury is here for the rest of the month, with Venus returning early next month. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity in your income sector, the Moon’s return from 11th April to 13th April was always going to be a valuable chance to sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger. However, it is the Full Moon here on 13th April that could lead to a breakthrough while energising things across the income, work and career fronts.