What’s Happening in April 2025 (and Through 2028!)

Partial Solar eclipse New Moon happening soon!

This is the third New Moon of 2025, and the fourth in a run at the 10th degree of their signs. These were the culminating degrees of their respective social and emotional levels of life. Having attained a form of mastery the past month, we now get to see the Light of why some things have to end, and why it’s good to take a different view of the meaning of what arouses us emotionally. Be resilient in the face of goodbyes and hellos.

This Lunation introduces a new focus wherever we have 10 Aries, a degree of reinterpreting personal imagery and giving it new meaning. Because it’s an eclipse, some imagery will be left behind, while others will be understood in a different light. As we continue to have a huge Pisces presence, keep saying goodbye with grace and allowance, blessing the passages and welcoming the future which will come after a slight delay in early April.

Due to where the inner planets are now, the focus of activity these next 4 weeks (and almost 4 years!) is in the 15+ degree span which includes Saturn at 25 Pisces, North Node at 28 Pisces, Venus retrograde at 29 Pisces, Neptune at 30 Pisces, Mercury retrograde at 1 Aries, and the Lunation at 10 Aries, the same degree Mercury went SRX! As you can see, it’s a very crowded situation wherever we have late Pisces and early Aries in our chart.

An Overview of the New Moon

Today we’ll do an overview of the Lunation and some of its primary qualities. In part 2 we’ll cover Sabian Symbols, aspects, distributions, and patterns.

This forward looking, initiating, productive and “fork in the road of destiny” Solar eclipse New Moon at 10 Aries occurs at 3:58 am PDT on March 29. It will bring illumination to many things we’ve been reviewing during Venus and Mercury retrograde in Aries, and prove remarkably stabilizing thanks to the powerful Mars trine Saturn and Neptune and sextile Uranus, itself in an exact sextile with Saturn.

Even though we can expect losses over the next few years, ultimately this eclipse will prove beneficial to planets we have in the late degrees of the Earth and Water signs. Mars trine Saturn helps us practice resilience in the face of a flow into the unknown, and Aries reinforces this strengthening of Self in the world.

The retrograde Venus and Mercury show we need a degree of strength and perseverance as things take their usual step back, step to the side, and step forward retrograde process. Suspending judgement while reconsidering what has been in a new light will be most beneficial.

We now are in a time of no non-Lunar oppositions until the next opposition of Mars and Pluto in late April. We are completing three Mars oppositions to Pluto; the first was in early November when Mars opposed Pluto from Cancer to Capricorn. The one in early January was from 1 Leo to 1 Aquarius. The next one in late April will launch all which has been held back since November.

At this time of year the Sun shines a light on all of us in our Aries sector, allowing us to see the next stage of furthering the larger Aquarian emergent energy. This New Moon eclipse will jumpstart Aries energy wherever it falls in our chart, whether through new initiatives which will remove the remains of the past we no longer need, or whether through new perspectives on old personal images which need to be understood in a different light.

So What Rules the Lunation?

This New Moon in Aries has Mars in Cancer as its worldly ruler, and Pluto in Aquarius as its spiritual ruler. As Aries, is in the axis of the Archetype of the Lover/Relator, we enter a time of old ways of relating to others ending while other, more elegant and elevated and refined forms come forth. Again, this eclipse will have effects which manifest for almost 4 years, so settle into a future of reinterpreting many things which used to have personal meaning and importance. This is the Light of divine relationships where we learn how to be elegant in our dances with others, balanced and fair and reasonable while being authentically ourselves.

So the Lunation/eclipse is ruled by Mars in Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon in Aries, which puts them in a Mutual Reception, a very powerful self-reinforcing “closed circuit” of energy. Mercury and Venus are in Aries, which is ruled by Mars in Cancer, which is ruled by the Moon. Jupiter is ruled by Mercury, Saturn is ruled by Jupiter, Uranus is ruled by Venus, and Pluto is ruled by Saturn.

The mutual reception rules all the other planets except Neptune, which occupies its home sign continuing as a long wave “standalone” dispositor of itself, ruling the fogs and mists of the current collective consciousness. You can find out more about dispositors in general, chains of dispositors, and mutual reception by going to dispositors and Mutual Reception at the link.

Who Leads the Light?

At this time, the “gateway to the light” is Mercury at 1 Aries. This indicates the “entry to illumination” involves an awareness of what we recently emerged from and now requires a re-immersion before we can move forward. Mercury will continue to be the gateway to the Light until it conjuncts Neptune, after which Neptune will be the gateway to the Light.

Neptune will continue to be the gateway to the Light until Mercury goes direct in April and conjuncts Neptune at 1 Aries, when Mercury again becomes the gateway to the Light until the Sun conjuncts Uranus in mid-May, when it becomes the gateway. So really we’re in a period of time of different planets, including Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Mercury and Jupiter each taking a shift at being the entry to the Sun for many months. The study of which planet leads the Sun is a crucial but often overlooked part of understanding how the planets work in sequence.

The Sun/Moon Sequence and Its Shifts

There are two patterns: one with the Sun in the same sign as the Sun in the following Full Moon (New Moon between 1-15 degrees of a sign), and one with the Sun in a different sign than it’s in at the following Full Moon (New Moon between 16-30 degrees of a sign). I term these the “Natural” pattern and the “Alternate” pattern, since the Natural pattern shows a continuity of the Light, whereas the Alternate pattern bridges the Light across two signs. Each pattern has its importance in the Soli-Lunar sequence, and at the end of each period of the Natural pattern we shift into a pattern which “bridges the Light” across two different Light signs in the Lunation cycle.

We are now at the tenth New Moon in many months where the Sun sign of the New Moon is also the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. A few months back we finished an era when the New Moon Sun sign was different than the Sun sign of the following Full Moon. This month’s Solar eclipse New Moon Sun is at 10 Aries, and the coming Full Moon Sun is at 24 Aries. This indicates that we’re in a time when the illuminated seed forms of the New Moon are the same energies which will find fulfillment at the Full Moon.

The New Moons and Full Moons are “God’s footprints in time.” Each shows the next in the 12 phases of how things come to be each year. The cycle could be described as follows: Life energy is initiated in Aries, substantiated in Taurus, explored in Gemini, grounded in Cancer, renewed and creatively expressed in Leo, refined and ordered in Virgo, balanced and made pleasing in Libra, purified and focused in Scorpio, expanded in Sagittarius, organized in Capricorn, solidified into a vision in Aquarius, and ended/perpetuated in Pisces.

Eclipses Effects in Play

The 2023 and 2024 Solar eclipses have been removing parts of our lives where we have 20 and 30 Aries, and 11 and 22 Libra. We now care about other things, have a new focus, and can join with others for mutual strengthening. We continue to eliminate old ways of self-expression and equivocating in relationships, and now have eliminated old associations to create space to join with others to overcome “seasonal impotency.” We are now freed of many old ideals and areas we used to work within. All of these eclipses ask us “What is the purpose to what you leave behind and what you’re moving into?”

The recent powerful Total Lunar eclipse at 24 Virgo/Pisces will remove many things from that sector for the next 6 months. The Lunar and Solar eclipses in March 2025 are the last with Neptune in Pisces, as Neptune will be in Aries for all future eclipses.

Jupiter and Saturn

A new era began at the 22 Taurus Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in April 2024, launching a new 13 year adventure into new lives. That conjunction theme is about us seeing “the white dove flying over troubled waters” which promises that our ordeal is completed and we are or will see a sign from Spirit announcing a new day, a new land, and a new life wherever we have 22 Taurus. Mars activated that energy right before it conjuncted Uranus at 27 Taurus in mid-July. This will become clearer beginning May 2025.

Jupiter is in Gemini and in direct motion, resuming its passage through mid-Gemini on route to entering Cancer in June. It will then make the third square to Saturn from 2 Cancer to 2 Aries. The first square was in mid-August is from 17 Gemini to 17 Pisces. The second one happened Christmas eve from 15 Gemini to 15 Pisces. The third one is next June and falls from 2 Cancer to 2 Aries.

In this chart Jupiter promises us a new vision or new message, whether one we must spread or another spread to us. Many ghosts of the past are still being left behind, and this eclipse begins a purification process which won’t be completed until January 2026.

Saturn is extraordinarily important in this New Moon eclipse because as it is septile Pluto and conjunct Venus. We now begin to finish our lessons related to faith, forgiveness, compassion, and the willingness to be responsible in how and when to let go. This is the emergent septile to Pluto, indicating the larger Aquarius era has now hit a major “fork in the road” with hard edged, non-rational events in play. The final turning of the wheel will be in December.

We’re now solidly in the next stage of our life renewal as we experience “non-local awareness” with our Spiritual Sisters and Brothers within the One Life. We have “walked with our Wisdom” and found the nourishment we need at the end of some labor. This is the time to learn “physical awareness and enlightenment,” finding hope in new feeling discoveries. Saturn in Pisces certainly tests our compassion for everything and everyone! Still, if we have faith in something and it's true for us, our patience can see the object of faith made manifest.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Because Saturn now draws near its end of sailing the open seas of Pisces, we can use the spiritual maturity, patience, and compassion to demonstrate our understanding of the power of blessing the passages as we prepare to leave the seascape of the collective feelings of all humanity over all time. We’ve all been through a powerful restructuring of spiritual force wherever we have the middle and late degrees of Pisces in our chart. Saturn has taught us a Master Class in compassion and forgiveness practices, and learning a sober view of the collective human condition.

Between 2018 and early 2023, Saturn taught us to be more spiritually effective within a group work than we were before that period. We’ve used those skills since then in our Capricorn and Aquarius areas to achieve closures, helping us prepare for the new era coming when Saturn enters Aries in May of 2025.

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A Look Back - The Great Compression of 2020 in Capricorn Still Affects Us

We’re now at the beginning of the sixth year of a long term focus wherever we have late Capricorn and early Aquarius in our charts. In the first 90 days of 2020, we had a “Great Compression” of planets involving Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto all making conjunctions in the last decan of Capricorn, setting off a number of Saturn cycles, one of which will last 33 years! We then began an accelerated phase of our collective spiritual evolution which will take us from the threshold of the Age of Aquarius into the Age itself.

You can find out more about the very powerful Sun, Mercury, and Saturn's conjunctions with Pluto by revisiting The Great Compression of January 2020 – Mercury, Sun, Saturn and Pluto all Conjunct in Capricorn. That lays out the long wave patterns set into motion then.

Because of the Capricorn conjunctions set in motion in 2020, we reorganized our lives wherever we have late Capricorn in our charts. These cycles will impact all of us for some time to come. Especially with three Jupiter conjunctions with Pluto that year, it’s easy to see that for better or worse things were “expansively purified.”

When Mars conjuncted Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, it set a cycle into motion which began to expand into a global system at the December 2020 Grand Mutation on the same degree. That Jupiter/Saturn conjunction launched both a new 20 year Aquarian cycle AND a new 200 year era of Jupiter/Saturn conjunctions in Air signs. That means less materialism than the past 200 years, with more focus on our commonality and ability to share ideas over the next 200.

Saturn in Aquarius led us to understand a more timeless role to play to help create a better world. Since then we have deepened with Saturn in Pisces. As always, Saturn in the harvest signs at the end of the zodiac challenge us to ask “What is our purpose? What structures and self-disciplines do we need to fulfill the ideal of that purpose?”

Neptune in Pisces and Chiron in Aries

In this chart, Chiron is direct at 23 Aries, a degree of carrying things through to completion. Since its retrograde station of 2024, we’ve had doors open to “concentrated doses of spiritual energies.” Chiron is said to help us “heal into our Higher Self” and the themes of 24 Aries promise “good fortune upon the putting forth of effort.” Be receptive to higher energies, as they’ve been blowing through our mind-windows for many months!

Chiron involves mentoring or being mentored, assisting or being assisted related to these themes. This will help us focus our potency or move us toward our potential. Chiron is now moving us forward in the level of social or emotional potency.

This continues our adventure related to Chiron’s healing and mentoring energies in the last half of Aries. We now have two major Chironic themes in play: one was set into motion when Mars conjuncted Chiron in Aries in 2024, which I explained in Mars Conjunct Chiron at 23 Aries. The other major Chironic cycle was set into motion when Chiron went stationary direct in late December, which I wrote about in Astrology Healing Cycles in 2025 - Chiron Stationary Direct at 19 Aries.

So Aries continues to dominate the Mars/Chiron cycle, with a new long wave Chironic pulse added at the Jupiter/Chiron cycle which began at 15 Aries in March 2023. This began a new cycle of “the expansive healer,” “opportunities to mentor and be mentored,” and "healing and teaching through humor." The last Jupiter/Chiron conjunction happened in late Aquarius in 2009, and this one lasts through 2036 when they meet again at 17 Gemini. This is an important cycle which will help us “heal into our Higher Self” at crucial points over the next 13 years.

Neptune now approaches the end of its depth immersion in its home sign of Pisces, and now is in its long term stay in the last decan, ruled by Scorpio with an added dose of Mars. This is “the end of the end” of the 360 degree “Whole Cycle,” and so encompasses all of the ghosts and unfulfilled mysteries of this past 150 year cycle since it was last here. It also allows us to purify and forgive much of the past and move into a deeper compassion regarding suffering humanity.

This New Moon eclipse shows Neptune at 30 Pisces, the dream degree discussed in many articles on this site. Things will continue to dissolve at the end of this long era as we face forward and move into the new Neptune in Aries era which begins shortly. We stand at a threshold where the future is just around the corner, so be clear about what you want to see made manifest in the next era.

We are in a time which is a prelude to a new collective mindset coming in mid-2025. We began an acceleration in this “disintegration” energy when Mars conjuncted Neptune at 29 Pisces in late April. The end of Pisces allows us expanded “non-local knowing.”

Summing Up - The Big Picture

The Capricorn conjunctions of early 2020 continue to condition the long wave cycles unfolding since then even as we simultaneously build a new Aquarian social-spiritual ideal. Jupiter raced through Pisces and Aries at perihelion after its time in Aquarius and opened infinite potentials to be actualized over the next 20 years. What Jupiter opened in 2021, Saturn crystallized in 2022, and the promise of fortunate endings made when Jupiter was in mid Pisces February-March 2022 is now being made real by Saturn.

We’re now at a stage where we have been flowing into our mastery, our archetypal Self, and our part to play in the bigger picture of our spiritual journey. With Saturn in Pisces, while endings may feel heavy, the immediate lightness which follows helps move us into a new life adventure.

We are now solidly in the dawning of the emergent Pluto in Aquarius era, with new work to be done and new lands appearing. This is a turning point in our relationships, so express your heart, your play, your creativity, and see how all of these are related to relationships in the past. We are now on a new adventure, so enjoy the clarity of Uranus trine Pluto coming this Summer. We are learning how to stabilize and express the dawning Plutonic seeds of the emerging Aquarian era, so things will be very “transitional” from now through 2025.

Summing Up – The Immediate Picture

We are now moving forward into the transition between an old way and a new life, finishing up old duties and responsibilities while fearlessly embracing a new dedication and a new world of experience. With Mars in Cancer trine Saturn in Pisces, continue to stabilize sources of supply and practice resilience in the face of uncertainty. This should be an effective month for those who go with the established flow, eliminating what they need to as they begin to turn toward a new life which came forth in March.

Keep finding ways to direct energy to what is already speeding up and taking preliminary shape. We’re going to be reinterpreting many things, finding new meaning in old images. While there may be memories of past times when things “fell apart,” this is just a purification exercise so we can use our creative imagination “to dominate circumstances” beginning mid-April

The trines from Mars to Saturn and Neptune are very stabilizing and favor organized flow. Because of the strong Pisces, this can be a time of “dreams come true” if what your imagination dreamed was in fact true for you. Let go of “nightmares of collective ghosts” by purifying your mind and letting things flow down the time stream. Your intuition should be in good shape this month if you’ve cultivated it these past several months.

Follow the flow while eliminating all you no longer need. All of it is taking us into the New Era promised when Mars ultimately trines Neptune from 1 Leo to 1 Aries in April, setting fire to the new Neptune in Aries era.

The October eclipse is already helping us release old superficial ways of relating to others, and enable us to see how to assists and teach from a different perspective. While hard adjustments and sacrifices will be evidence the next 5 years, be kind to yourself and communicate truths the best you’re able in a balanced elegant way.

Use vision, insight, and a sense of the bigger picture to flow into a new way of relating to self and others. Focus on the positive possibilities, and in spite of the fogs of Pisces obscuring our vision, remember the wisdom of Nelson Wilbury, “If you don’t know where you’re going any road will take you there.”

Final Thoughts

In 2020-2022, Capricorn helped us to find new forms of social power, while Aquarius took it into a much vaster context of a greater good. As you journey into the “new lands” promised by the April Jupiter conjunction with Uranus, remember enlightenment is a verb, not a noun, and our connection with the World Soul allows us to act in harmony with “All That Is.”

Because of our total immersion in Aquarian energy in 2021-2022, we’ve received innovative ideas and know who our spiritual allies are. In the past 4 years we’ve broken away, broken free, and broken through whatever used to block our flow. We approach a new cooperative era, and we’re now in a time of new initiatives!

We’re still becoming more conscious of our interrelatedness within the spiritual field and moving through an immersion in a new sensitivity to the generic human condition. The new era dawning will show us that we are in fact individual sparks of Light within an infinite ocean of Light. We are not separate from any other thing, since all things are Light and therefore we are one with All.

This is the beginning of the beginning of a new 200 year era. The powerful forces being released at times may be chaotic, violent, intractable, and irrational, but there is power in our unified vision of a better future. Stay clear about what your vision is, and let go of all which prevents you from flying free with your Spiritual Brothers and Sisters into a better future. Keep the course steady despite the compressed tensions of this time, and know we’re on our way into the future together!

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See you soon with part 2, which will cover Sabian Symbols, Jones patterns, element distribution, and a whole lot more!

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