Message for April 2025

Quiet.

Stillness, quiet and tranquility are so often overlooked these days. Well, maybe unnoticed is a better description, as the noise of life is overwhelming, chaotic and rambunctious, filling the spaces between the spaces with noise. There are times when it feels almost impossible to step away, or to turn down the volume, because the 24/7 nature of life conditions us to let the noise take over and to carve out the shape of our lives.

Yet, silence and quiet still exist, they are with us always, we just need to shift our awareness and consciousness a little. It’s a bit like those ‘magic eye’ pictures that make absolutely no sense until you relax into the dots and an image appears. When we let go and breathe, we can feel the silence all around and within.

Silence isn’t a void, it’s not a vacuum or an empty space, it’s a space where we can truly hear the sound of the universe and feel a deeper connection to life once again. In the silence, we can sense everything, but nothing, at the same time, we can feel the macrocosm and microcosm, and intuitively we sense how entwined we truly are. In many ways it’s the noise of modern living that isolates us, it’s a lack of time for rest, quietness and contemplation that is missing from so many lives. Yes, life may be stressful and busy, but it only takes a few moments of conscious breathing, and we can start to feel centered again.

It’s only when we breathe into the silence that we realize how loud silence can be! Yes, this sounds contradictory, but intuitively it makes sense as when we connect with the silence, it fills our hearts and souls with the sound of the universe. Yet, many fear this and avoid it, preferring to fill up their lives with noise, busyness and keeping on keeping on. The avoidance is understandable, after all, those of us who have dived into the silence, have come face to face with the full volume of ourselves. There’s nowhere to hide in silence.

Of course, silence brings wisdom and insight, but it can also bring context, as without it, nothing truly makes sense. After all, every word, piece of music, and sound is shaped by the silence at its edges. Within the silence we can open up to the sound of the universe and this can inspire us to find our own notes, our truth and our gifts. It could be a walk on the beach, playing some music, or simply sitting in quiet contemplation; we each have our own doorways into stillness.

For most of us, these journeys into silence are fleeting as the noise of the world stifles the sound and can leave us feeling out of tune with life. Of course, so many of us strive to fill up our lives with stuff, distractions and noise, but this can leave little room for the spaces within the spaces to breathe. It seems so important now to find ways to embrace quiet, to find peace in the stillness and to let go of feeling awkward with the absence of words, conversation or noise. Start noticing more, start connecting more and have the courage to turn down the volume.

This isn’t to say that we should ignore the world around us, simply a reminder to seek out balance and stillness as well. So, instead of becoming consumed by noise, we can seek out a more enriching way of living and being. We each have our unique note in the universal orchestra, it’s only when they all play that the beautiful melody emerges. If we don’t allow our notes to flow, we can feel disconnected.

Someone once said: ‘To appreciate good music, you need to understand what silence is’. I often think about these words as they sound almost paradoxical, but I wonder if it’s actually the notes that make the music or the silence? Maybe it’s both? In other words, silence is precious, and unless we step consciously into the stillness, how can we truly ever know our note? How can we hear the song of life or the universal orchestra?

So many of us spend lives fidgeting in uncertainty, trying to juggle the noise and doing our best to avoid the silence, but it’s our willingness to embrace the uncertainty of silence that can bring us back into balance once again. It’s the quiet that can bring us into the present moment in order to live more wholeheartedly and more consciously. Whilst we can’t completely switch off the noise (and why would we want to?), it’s good to shape life around the quiet rather than the noise of 24/7 living. When we put the phone down, switch off the TV and sit quietly, we can begin shift awareness, re-centre and feel free…

As always, I wish you all kinds of wonderful.

With love,

Sarah-Jane

Aries
♈

As you continue to find ways to connect to your creative and courageous spirit, there is a sense that you are beginning to look beyond the boundaries of your everyday life in order to contemplate your true priorities and dreams. You have spent so long trying to be the person you’ve felt you needed to be, and the result of this has seen your sense of self fade slowly from view, and this has reduced the fire within your heart and soul to a gentle glow. Intuitively you already know what you need to do to re-ignite your inner fire as you have both the energy and innovation to transform the embers into vibrant dancing flames; you just need to be open to the process. This may sound like a strange comment, but you have given so much of yourself to others, it almost feels alien to shift the focus onto yourself for a while. Yet, you matter, and it’s time now to become more aware of your true essence in order to make more sense of the intricate workings of the universe that reside within your heart and soul.

Trying to work out what makes you tick is an important step on the journey towards living a richer and more fulfilling life, as self-awareness can bring you more balance. Whilst life will always feel complex, and there will always be imbalances and incongruences, this doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t still try to live your very best life. Reaching a place of acceptance helps the self-judgement subside as you stop feeling as though you should be more, do more or be better. Take a deep breath, dive deeply into your heart and soul, and re-connect with every ounce of your being. When you feel connected, the flames (your creativity and essence) start to dance, inspiring you to explore new terrain on every level of your life…

Taurus
♉

As the tapestry of your life continues to weave into new directions, there is a sense that you are beginning to feel like more of an active participant in the tapestry rather than watching it unfold from the sidelines. Of course, this is your tapestry, so you will always be in it, but life has been challenging, and this has seen you shrink back a little in order to cope. So, being on the sidelines feels quite apt, as you do sometimes feel as though you are looking in on someone else’s life as the wheels of your own life are usually turned by the needs, wishes and whims of those around you. Yet, you seem more than ready to take back the helm in order to contemplate what you truly want in life. The tapestry threads weave and flow, but in what areas are you ready to grab the needle and make some life-affirming stitches? Sometimes, having an idea as to where you want to head is enough, but more often than not, there’s a need to cement the process (sewing some stitches) by declaring an intent. Similar to a goal map or having a clear vision, building up an ‘inner knowing’ helps to shape and focus the direction of your life. This isn’t a guarantee that things will end up as you want, but unless you try, how can you know?

You are a wise and deeply intuitive individual, and as you continue to explore the nooks and crannies of your soul, you are finally gaining more understanding as to why you are the way you are. April looks set to illuminate the light of self-compassion and self-determination to help inspire you to gather together some new threads in order to create a brand-new, vibrant tapestry. It’s a blank canvas and you have the threads to either build upon what you have now or to start something fresh and new…

Gemini
♊

Your perspective is quite unique as you have always seen the world through the ‘bigger picture’. You see the intricate dance of life, and this can bring you enrichment and wonder as you explore previously undiscovered terrain as you try to make sense as to why things are the way they are. Of course, whilst such a vast perspective is a gift, it can also bring frustration and overwhelm at times, as it can sometimes be hard to know quite what to do with it. Of course, it enriches your life, but when you’re knee deep in paying bills and keeping on keeping on, there can seem little point in watching the magical bigger picture dance of life. Intuitively you sense the need to go with the flow, but your mind likes more structure and understanding, and so often gets in the way of your flow. Yes, your mind is a part of you, but it often pulls away from your intuition and creativity, rather than towards it.

April looks set to be an important month for you to begin the process of inner unification, as you bring together your head, heart and soul into a more cohesive whole. Instead of trying to make sense of everything, take a deep breath and listen to your intuition to guide you. In many ways, this is a powerful period of ‘letting go’, but it’s also a significant time to gather up all the different facets of your being in order to find a new way of living. Letting go but being more in the process. This may seem paradoxical as your focus naturally flits back and forth across space and time, but this doesn’t have to feel splintered or fragmented, it can feel exciting and uplifting as well. In essence, it’s time for you to channel your gifts in a new direction that cultivates a new flavor in your life, one that sees you thrive…

Cancer
♋

As you continue to explore your inner world, you have become increasingly more aware of your tendency to give yourself a hard time. Your belief that you need to do more, try harder or be more all seem driven deeply into your consciousness and these have shaped and defined the essence of your journey through life. You are a wise and intuitive soul, so you know that beating yourself up isn’t a good strategy for long-term success or happiness, but you continue to push yourself, being very unforgiving when it comes to the choices you make. This is an internal dialogue though as you wouldn’t dream of talking to others the way you talk to yourself. It’s hard to fully articulate the reasons for this. In part, you are driven and motivated to try hard and do your best, but the issue comes when you rarely feel as though your best is good enough. This is the area that needs more exploration now, as it’s time for you to let go of past beliefs and ideas that you’re somehow not good enough or not trying hard enough.

Take a pause and a deep breath in order to realize that none of this really matters in the bigger scheme of things. Instead of what you’ve achieved, yet to achieve, or don’t achieve, what matters most is this moment. Instead of focusing on what you’re not, embrace all that you are and realize that the true measure of happiness and contentment comes from how you feel, not from what you do. When you focus on the gaps between where you are and where you feel you need to be, this can leave you feeling depleted and overwhelmed. April looks set to be a change in direction as you turn towards self-compassion and give it the space to flow freely into all of the nooks and crannies of your heart and soul. Love yourself, be yourself and breathe…

Leo
♌

As you continue to explore, re-align and re-shape your thoughts, beliefs and dreams, there is a sense that you are beginning to step back a little to see the true ebb and flow in your life. You are a creative and intuitive soul, and your essence is effervescent and bubbly, yet you often keep it corked up within as you can struggle to know quite where to let it flow in your life. You dam up your fizz and creativity, to get on with the business of keeping on keeping on, not wanting your sparkle and shine to ‘get in the way’. Of course, this is a simplistic view as it’s far more complex than this; you don’t deliberately dam up your essence, but your desire to try to be everything to everyone, with things to do, people to see, places to go, and things to achieve, there is very little time or energy left over to connect to your effervescent heart and soul.

Intuitively, you already sense the need for change, as you know that your vibrant and energetic essence needs to flow freely in order for you to feel balanced and content. It’s your fizzy interior that brings you momentum, courage and inspiration, so instead of damming yourself up and energetically constipating yourself, take a deep breath and set yourself free. Your gifts have the power to transform every aspect of your life, including everything you do for others, enabling you to support those around you without sacrificing your own needs in the process. Once you are feeling a stronger sense of inner freedom and release, your creativity will start to bubble up bringing you some innovative new ideas as to how to move closer towards your hopes and dreams. Dancing with your true essence isn’t self-indulgent, it’s a vital step on your pathway towards living your best life…

Virgo
♍

As you continue to step into new terrain on all levels of your life, your intuition is beginning to take you beyond your familiar boundaries and towards a more enriching and fulfilling way of living and being. April looks set to be a month to step back a little to re-align your head, heart and soul in order to bring your thoughts and beliefs into sync with your life. It’s time to once again ask yourself some important questions in connection to your true priorities: what enriches you? What depletes you? What do you truly want? None of these questions have clear-cut answers as they all entwine and intermingle with each other, and it seems the harder you look for clarity, the muddier the waters become. Yet there is still a need for you to dive into your heart and soul in order to find some clarity when it comes to knowing what you truly want, as this seems to be the key that has the power to unlock your vision and creativity, enabling you to see clearly the journey between where you are and where you want to be.

In essence, when you let your intuition guide you, it opens up a new pathway that brings you fresh perspective and innovative ideas to step beyond the four walls of your everyday life. It can be hard to take a leap of faith when you thrive on trying to make sense as to why things are the way they are, but when you listen to your intuition, you step beyond logical thinking and combine your heart, head and soul together allowing you to ride the waves of your intuition with courage and prowess. This doesn’t always bring clarity, but it can bring you a sense of peace in not knowing. It’s time to believe in yourself and to know that you absolutely have what it takes to live your very best life…

Libra
♎

As your creativity continues to seek out new and unchartered terrain, there is a sense that you are beginning to see the correlation between how creatively fulfilled you feel and how content you are with the status quo of your life. This may sound obvious, but it’s easy to keep on keeping on, never really paying attention to how you feel, flourish or thrive. You are a creative being, and this is channeled into all areas of your life. When you feel stifled or tethered, you can begin to feel confused or overwhelmed with even the simplest of decisions; this isn’t indecision, it’s more of a disconnection with source (your heart and soul). When you pause, take a deep breath and re-centre, your intuition kicks back in, and you instinctively know how to re-connect. Your life has been something of a whirlwind lately, so the storms have carried you in some new, and sometimes challenging, directions, but although you feel windswept, there is an unmistakable air of excitement as you can feel every single cell and atom of your being awakening and emerging like a beautiful flower.

You are certainly going through a phase of transformation, but this feels multi-faceted and multi-levelled, as though you are re-writing the storybook of your life, and new ideas and dreams are flowing freely once again. What once felt out of reach now feels tangible as dreams move closer and within your reach. Try not to over-think and over-analyze this process as there is too much that’s unknowable and beyond comprehension, but instead of this bamboozling you, try to find peace in not knowing and joy in the mystery of it all; sometimes when you let go, the answers fall into place. Intuitively you know that you are heading in the right direction, so trust the process and let your heart and soul guide you. Let go, breathe deeply and set yourself free…

Scorpio
♏

April looks set to be a month of inner revelation and self-discovery as you look beyond the surface of your life and dive into the depths in order to re-connect to your true essence. There is an air of anticipation as you seem eager to feel balanced once again, a feeling you haven’t experienced for a while as the ebb, flow and storms of life have caused dishevelment and discombobulation that have reached right into the core of your being. Yet, despite the storms, clarity is beginning to surface as you are beginning to find yourself and feel free; it’s hard to articulate, but you seem more connected than ever before. You spend so much time trying to be everything to everyone, trying to be the person you feel you ought to be, that you so often forget to be yourself and this makes it hard to find ways to express your true essence. However, with the tides shifting, you are looking beyond the corners and edges of your life, towards the world beyond with fresh perspective and new hope.

Dreams that once felt out of reach, now feel closer, and obstacles that once thwarted your path now seem to be fading. It’s hard to articulate the intensity of the shifts occurring as they are flowing in and out with great speed, but this feels like something of a joyful tickling of your soul as new ideas and energies dance around you, bringing insight, inspiration and possibility. As life shifts into a kaleidoscope of colours and possibilities, open up your heart and soul as they guide you towards unchartered terrain. The storms of life come and go; some of them enliven you, some of them exhaust you, but each one has brought you to this moment, As the clouds clear, and the sun begins to shine, take a deep breath and open up to a new way of living and being…

Sagittarius
♐

Having the courage to believe in yourself looks set to remain centre stage throughout April as you contemplate how to get from where you are to where you want to be in life. You spend a lot of time hovering on the periphery, in-between here and there, uncertain as to where you are and why. Yet, intuitively you do know where you are, it’s just that you feel adrift and unable to gain a sense of perspective. Your spirit longs to dance freely through the currents of life, but the rest of you finds it somewhat harder to let go and dance. It’s as though your head and heart are not working together and pull against each other, so it can feel as though every time the anchor is released a new one appears. The anchors are your beliefs, and they can weigh you down as you often try to out-think the process. There is no question that you are wise, intuitive and innovative, but there are times when you need to trust these qualities and let them lead the way.

The free spirit within you wants the room to stretch, dance and wiggle to give you the space and confidence to let your gifts flow freely once again. You are a vibrant and creative spark and when you freely express these gifts, you feel more centered and balanced in all areas of your life. It’s easy to get bogged down with the humdrum of daily life, but let your free spirit dance and you will begin to see the bigger picture once again. Self-belief takes courage, but it’s time now as don’t you owe it to yourself to live your best life? You’re ready to step beyond the doubt and uncertainty and find confidence and joy in being yourself. This isn’t about what you do or achieve, it’s about how you feel and thrive…

Capricorn
♑

Understanding the perplexing, paradoxical, ever shifting, and constantly evolving ebb and flow of life has always been a source of fascination for you. Sometimes it’s been frustrating, other times it’s been inspirational, however, most of the time, it just feels so neutral you don’t really notice. This observation may lack magic and sparkle, but ninety-nine percent of life’s experiences come and go like the breath. It’s usually only the one percent that have impact. Yet, this one percent isn’t insignificant as it shapes and defines every moment of your existence and it brings you context, wisdom and insight. You are an intuitive soul, and your unique perspective on life enables you to find meaning where others only see brick walls. You see beyond the obvious, but you also see within it at the same time; it’s hard to articulate as it’s a state of being that only you truly understand, but you see meaning in all of the nooks and crannies of life, and your depth of vision allows you to see in ways that few others could even begin to comprehend.

Although this is an amazing gift, you are almost slightly dismissive of it, as it can take you away from plodding on with life as there are days when you just want to sit quietly and not be unravelling the deeper mysteries of the universe. It therefore seems important for you to cultivate ways to find the peace you crave as you can adjust the volume on your insights, it’s just learning how to do it. and when. These insights don’t have to dominate, they can just tick along in the background and come to the surface when needed. Breathe deeply and let your breath take you into a space of balance. April looks set to be a month for seeking out peace and quiet in order to re-establish a deeper sense of connection to your inner world…

Aquarius
♒

As the pathways of your life continue to crisscross, zigzag, converge and diverge, there is a sense that you are beginning to see this ebb and flow with a fresh perspective. For a long time now, you have been trying to follow each pathway (thread) from beginning to end in an attempt to understand why things are the way they are. In your mind, finding the beginning and ending will help bring context. Whilst this is true, there are many many threads that have no beginning or ending, or have more than one of each. In other words, nothing truly makes sense no matter how much you want it to. So, instead of channelling your phenomenal energy and intuition towards trying to make sense of life, you have shifted the focus a little and opened up towards living more wholeheartedly in each and every moment, gently embracing uncertainty and finding peace with the inherently unknowable nature of being human. This isn’t to say that you now just drift with the currents as you don’t, you are a creator of the currents and a conductor of these threads as they weave in and out.

So, instead of focusing so much energy of trying to make sense of everything, you are beginning to go with the flow and open up to your gifts and to living as vibrantly as possible. Whilst this sounds wonderful, it’s important not to get lost in the moment as although this is all about letting go, it’s more about finding yourself. April looks set to be a time for you to think about what you truly want and then to offer these insights over to your intuition to guide you towards bringing them to fruition. Instead of over-thinking, let go and allow your inner world to come to life and gently carry you from where you are to where you want to be…

Pisces
♓

April looks set to be a month of clarity and insight for you as you start to see yourself and your life in new ways. You have spent a great deal of time keeping on keeping on, treading water and doing your best to manage the ups and downs of life. Of course, it’s not just your life, but the lives of those around you as well, as you try to be the rock and support, the guiding light and the helping hand. It’s never been easy for you to establish boundaries as you’re a fluid soul so it can be hard to know where you end and where others begin. Obviously, intuitively you know there are no clear boundaries as everything merges into everything else, but when it comes to how much of yourself you give to others, there is a clear need for you to draw some lines. There are two aspects to this need for shift, firstly a basic need to create some ‘you time’ – some space to breathe and rest in your own essence. The second need is somewhat more complex as there’s a sense that you measure your own value and worth through the things you do for others.

Whilst this is natural, there is a chance that it can leave you feeling ‘less than’ unless you are busy trying to be everything to everyone. Such a dynamic is unsustainable as it leaves you without breathing space or time to re-balance. It seems time for you to stop trying to be the person you feel you ought to be and explore ways of being yourself. Re-connect to your heart and soul, listen to your inner voice and set your spirit free to dance once again. You are a vibrant, creative and effervescent being, and your needs matter too, so turn your focus within, watch your creative passion rise up and let your intuition to lead the way…