Monday 7th April 2025
Venus conjunct Saturn
Mercury turns direct
11.02 Venus at 25 Pisces conjunction Saturn
11.02 MERCURY TURNS DIRECT
12.37 The Moon at 17 Leo waxing sextile Jupiter at 17 Gemini
14.31 The Moon at 18 Leo waxing trine The Sun at 18 Aries
STATE OF THE SKY:-
ALL TIMES ON THIS SITE ARE GMT.
The Sun today is at 18 degrees Aries. We remain in the the wake of an eclipse season. We are slowly adjusting to the ingress of Neptune into Aries on March 30th, there for the first time since 1875 and we are at the end of a three week period of both Mercury and Venus being retrograde. Mars is now picking up speed approaching 26 degrees Cancer. He remains in wide opposition to Pluto, peaking 3 times, Nov 3rd 2024, Jan 3rd 2025 and April 27th 2025. The Mean Lunar Node moves onwards (in retrograde direction) to meet Saturn in Pisces on April 14th 2025, a serious affair. (Saturn and Neptune apply in a 'test of faith' conjunction, dominating most of 2025 and are exactly conjunct in Feb 2026 at 1 degree Aries). Mercury turns direct today so Venus is then the only planet that is retrograde. There are 82 days to the Solstice.
MERCURY
Morning star Mercury turns direct today April 7th at 27 degrees Pisces after recent retrograde motion. He finally leaves Pisces on April 16th. He is conjunct Neptune at 1 degree Aries for a 3rd time and final time on April 17th. Mercury sextiles Pluto a final time on Easter Sunday, April 20th. Mercury leaves his shadow on April 26th and sextiles Jupiter on May 5th.
Mercury retrograde periods ahead.
Jul 18 to Aug 11, 2025
Nov 9 to Nov 29, 2025
Feb 25 to Mar 20, 2026
Jun 29 to Jul 23, 2026
Oct 24 to Nov 13 2026
VENUS
Venus turned retrograde on March 2nd at 11 Aries. Venus's retrograde phase is from March 2nd to April 13th, fully in the eclipse season. Venus slipped back into Pisces as a morning star on March 27th. Venus is conjunct Saturn today and she sextiles Uranus tomorrow. After turning direct on April 13th at 24 Pisces she sextiles Uranus a final time on April 20th. She is conjunct Saturn a final time on April 25th before re-entering Aries on April 30th. She is conjunct Neptune on May 2nd.
MARS
Mars since Jan 6th, has been back in Cancer. (Mars entered Cancer on September 4th, and so began a long story. The story is one of homecoming.) Mars left Cancer and entered Leo for the first time on Nov 4th 2024. He turned retrograde at 6 Leo on Dec 6th, slipped back into Cancer on Jan 6th 2025. Mars turned direct at 17 Cancer on Feb 24th and finally leaves Cancer for Leo on April 18th 2025. During this period Mars trines Saturn 3 times (Sept 30th, Feb 9th and April 5th), harnessing great effort, sextiles Uranus 3 times,(Oct 25th, Jan 23rd and April 4th), invoking originality, trines Neptune 3 times (Oct 28th, Dec 1st and April 19th), summoning inspiration, and most importantly, opposes Pluto 3 times, Nov 3rd, Jan 3rd and April 27th), invoking dominating power and transformation. (The Mars in Cancer residence turns our focus to defence, security, homemaking and economy. This is a time to 'put aside' and store. Issues of domestic improvement, community care, national identity and consumerism will be dominant.)
JUPITER
Jupiter entered the sign Gemini on May 25th 2024, opening up a new flow of information, communication and new technology. He made the first of 3 'tackling problems head on' squares to Saturn on Aug 19th 2024. Jupiter squared Saturn a second time on Christmas Eve 2024. Jupiter leaves Gemini for Cancer on June 9th 2025. He makes his final square to Saturn from Cancer on June 15th.
SATURN
Saturn is direct in Pisces. Saturn in Pisces is all about endings, karma, suffering, forgiveness, massacre, peace protests, ocean and sea-going matters, mathematical discovery, imaginative art forms, renunciation and 'moving on' (as this is the last sign in the zodiac, symbolic of a chapter reaching completion). When Saturn, planet of structure and boundaries, moves through this dreamy and transcendent zodiac sign, it evokes the creation of 'distancing from the past and an embrace with what the future holds'. Things can get weird at times. The three-year Saturn in Pisces cycle, which lasts until February 14, 2026, (minus the interval 25/5/25 to 1/9/25) will morph the tangible into the virtual. As mentioned above Jupiter squares Saturn on Aug 19th 2024 and on 24th Dec 2024, (also a 3rd time in June 2025 when Saturn has entered Aries), challenging times when 'growth' manifests with compassion a little thin on the ground. Saturn in Pisces sextiles Uranus in Taurus on April 4th 2025, a positive vibration of solid progress and invention. Saturn is conjunct the mean lunar node at 27 Pisces on April 23rd 2025.
URANUS
Uranus the planet of inspiration and revolution is now direct in Taurus, the sign of enduring institution and banking. Uranus remains in Taurus from 2019 for 7 years. The last time Uranus resided in Taurus was between 1934 and 1941 and before that 1850 to 1859 the time of the Industrial Revolution.
Uranus first buzzes into Gemini on 7th July 2025. Uranus in Gemini will air trine Pluto from 2026 to 2028.
NEPTUNE
Neptune first entered Aries on March 30th 2025.
PLUTO
Pluto re-entered Aquarius on Nov 19th 2024 and will remain there till the year 2043. There will be gigantic changes brought about by this 20 year residence. The life we have known will be transformed. There will be a manifestation of the full potential of technology, a new revolution is ahead of us. We had a taste of this future (note all the fuss about AI earlier in 2023).
Pluto was last in Aquarius from 1777 to 1798.
Uranus in Gemini will air trine Pluto from 2026 to 2028. This is the most exciting time ahead, astrologically speaking.
Saturn in Aries will sextile Pluto in 2026 and square Pluto 3 times during 2028-2029.
Saturn in Gemini will air trine Pluto once in 2031 and oppose Pluto from Leo three times during 2035-2037 .
Saturn in Libra will trine Pluto once in 2041.
Jupiter will conjunct Pluto just once at 15 degrees Aquarius on April 2nd 2033.
Jupiter will oppose Pluto once on July 20th 2026 and then three times in the period 2038-2039.
There will be an Annular eclipse of the Sun on Jan 26th 2028 within a degree of Pluto at 6 degrees Aquarius.
There will be a Total Lunar Eclipse on Aug 7th 2036 at 15 degrees Aquarius just 4 degrees from Pluto.
UPCOMING ECLIPSES
Sunday Sept 7th 2025. A Total Lunar Eclipse at 15 Pisces, visible at Moonrise UK. 18.12 GMT
Sept 21st 2025. A partial Solar Eclipse at 29 Virgo visible from the far southern Pacific. 19.42 GMT
Feb 17th 2026. An Annular Solar Eclipse at 29 Aquarius visible from Antarctica.
March 2nd-3rd 2026. A Total Lunar Eclipse at 13 Virgo visible from the Pacific, North West America and North East Asia.
Aug 12th 2026. A Total Solar Eclipse at 20 Leo visible from Europe. (The Spanish Eclipse. Hopefully see you there.)
Aug 28th-29th 2026 A Partial Lunar Eclipse at 5 Pisces visible from Europe, Africa and America.
Feb 6th 2027 An annular Solar Eclipse at 17 Aquarius.
Feb 21st 2027 A penumbral lunar eclipse at 3 Virgo.
Aug 2nd 2027 TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE at 11 Leo. ECLIPSE OF THE CENTURY. ONE YOU MUST NOT MISS.
THE LUNAR STANDSTILL.
The Mean Lunar Node is now in Pisces. We have (March 2025) just past the climax of a Major Lunar Standstill. This is a period lasting for three years within the 18.6 year lunar nodal cycle. The last major lunar standstill centred on June 2006, and this new one centered in January 2025. During these years we are observing extreme northerly and southerly lunar rising and setting points on the local horizon when the Moon is in tropical Gemini/Cancer or Sagittarius/Capricorn.
OUTER PLANET ingresses
Over this next year all 3 outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have entered new signs. Pluto is now in Aquarius. Neptune has entered Aries and Uranus will enter Gemini. This mass modulation from negative to positive energy, earth to air, water to fire, will inaugurate significant changes and accelerate 21st century evolution. We can however expect 'difficult transitions' with such an intense modulation of energy, not without danger.