The Astrology for the Week Ahead: April 7th to 13th — Venus and Mercury Turn Direct!

Hey everyone. This is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology [https://nightlightastrology.com/]. Today we are going to take a look at the astrology for the week ahead. That is April 7 through the 13th. There are a number of significant events this week. We have a Full Moon in Libra. Venus is turning direct. Mercury is turning direct. Also today, Venus is conjoining Saturn in Pisces. That's a pretty important transit. So we're going to take a look at all of these things today.

I will be doing a little bit of horoscopic work for the mutable signs, because you guys have the Venus-Saturn conjunction, as well as Venus turning direct in Pisces. So that's going to hit the angular houses for the mutable rising signs. I will include a little bit of that at the end. And we'll also spend a little bit more time focusing on Venus and Saturn, since that transit is happening today.

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So Monday, April 7—I'm going to roll through the transits that we're going to be looking at this week. We have Venus conjoining Saturn in Pisces today. So the start of the week is a Venus-Saturn kind of start to the week. May not be the easiest start to the week, but we'll talk about that. I'm going to circle back around and talk about that in greater depth, since that is happening today to start the week here on April 7.

The other thing that's happening today is Mercury is also stationing to turn direct. So if we take a look at Mercury right here, you'll notice the little "s" underneath Mercury in Pisces. That means that Mercury is stationed and is thus finishing its retrograde and turning direct at the tail end of Pisces, in the conjunction with the north node of the moon, at least by mean node measurement.

So those two events open us up here at the start of the week. Tomorrow, Venus will sextile Uranus. So Tuesday, April 8, we can see that the sextile between Venus in Pisces and Uranus in Taurus is there. That's a nice little connection between those two planets that can really soothe or just add a little bit of energy and momentum to the Venus-Saturn conjunction, which is still active.

We'll talk more about that when I come back around to talk about Venus and Saturn. But essentially, it's, you know, Venus and Saturn—things can get a little weightier or heavier. But add in a sextile to Uranus, and you might be able to free up some of the stuck or heavy energy, because Uranus is very good at making things lighter or breaking through Saturnian boundaries and/or barriers.

And notice that Uranus is also sextile to Saturn. Now, on April 12—kind of going into the weekend, at the very end of the week, on Saturday—we will see a full moon in the sign of Libra. Now, let me just move this forward a little bit so you can see the exact degree. It's going to be at about 23 degrees of Libra, right here.

So a Libra full moon, while Venus, the ruler, is turning direct, exalted in Pisces, in a conjunction with Saturn. That is very interesting. That certainly suggests that we're at a critical turning point with respect to Venus's cycle. And the full moon is very much an expression of Venus concluding its retrograde. So that will be something we'll dive into for sure at the end of the week.

The other thing that's happening is, on the same day, of course, as I just pointed out, Venus stationing and turning direct. So the full moon, ruled by an exalted Venus who's turning direct, still in that conjunction with Saturn. So you can see that the theme of the week really is Venus and Saturn, as well as the two planets turning direct. And there's a little bit of help from Uranus in the mix.

So that is what we're going to look at now. And we'll start by going back to the beginning of the week, where we are today, and we'll look at April 7. So that's our Venus-Saturn conjunction. And remember, Venus already met Saturn in a conjunction in direct motion a little bit ago. So let's take this back in time.

I'm actually going to eliminate everything from our perspective right now, except for Venus and Saturn. That will make it a little bit easier to show you the dance that these two planets have been doing. All right. Oops, oops, oops, okay, where are we? I just totally—ah, here we go. Sorry about that. My screen share got goofed up.

All right, let's go. Here we are, Monday, April 7. Okay, sorry, guys—put it back up on the screen. All right, so Venus and Saturn conjoining today. But if we go backward in time, what I want to show you is that, prior to the retrograde, Venus was in Pisces and made the conjunction with Saturn. This was—and you can see the two planets coming together right here at the 16th degree of Pisces on around January 19.

So sometimes it helps, if you're the type of person who likes to do a little memory work and track the transits over their longer processes. It can help to look back at mid-January to see what was happening around that time. Once you've done that, then it becomes a lot easier to perhaps notice what's happening now and how it connects to other relevant timelines or stories in your life.

So again, go back to about January 19—what was happening? Look at that whole-sign house of Pisces in your birth chart, perhaps. And then, if we bring it back, here's what Venus is doing today. So Venus, through its retrograde, now coming back into conjunction with Saturn. I like to think about this combination of Venus and Saturn as carrying themes that are both romantic and epic and full of gravitas—a kind of weightiness or seriousness and a fullness and a kind of maturation that Venus and Saturn will often express when they come together.

I've used this image before, but Venus and Saturn is a bit like the kind of wine that takes 70 years to reach its peak when you put Venus and Saturn together. At its worst, you have an expression of relationships that will part or end or reach their natural expiration. Saturn, as a planet, was associated with winter and death and old age and impermanence, decay, entropy.

So among other things, right? We don't want to get too narrow with the way we think about any planet, but Saturn does represent those natural qualities. It's a part of life. Here I'm in Minnesota—our winters are pretty severe at times. So when Venus, the goddess of love, relationships, harmony, beauty, and aesthetics, comes together with the planet that represents the natural process of death, you will often see expirations in relationships.

Which means that you're going to part ways with someone. Someone you work for, someone that you employ, or someone that employs you might let you go, or the job may be given to someone else, or you may finish one stage of your work because you're being promoted to another. Doesn't mean it's not difficult to say goodbye to the department you've been working for and all your friends because you're moving to another part of the building.

Or any way that you think about the natural endings of relationships can be expressed by Venus and Saturn. Venus and Saturn coming together can represent that final moment of release. I'm reminded of this story—I looked back, and it happens that there was a Venus-Saturn transit in the sky when I broke up with my high school sweetheart.

You know, it's like your first real girlfriend or boyfriend. We were together for three years, and it was the craziest thing. But I look back, and there was a period of about three weeks where neither of us reached out to talk with the other, which was really bizarre. Like, we talked every day, and then all of a sudden, we were in college, and we just got busy with our own lives, and all of a sudden, three weeks or so had passed, and it was like it hit us both.

Because I called her, and I remember her saying, "Oh, I was going to call you," you know, and before we went out to dinner, we talked, and it was like, "I guess this is it. We just grew apart." But it was a natural place of conclusion. It felt like, "Why fight this?" You know, like, "We're not even talking, and we've just kind of grown in different directions." It was bittersweet—very Venus-Saturn dynamic—and it was in the sky at that time too.

Venus and Saturn will say, "You know what? You've just grown apart," or "You have irreconcilable differences." Saturn is the lord of the opposition, as the aspect of the opposition in astrology. So when Venus comes together with Saturn, oppositional tension can reach a place of resolution, which also means that different kinds of conflicts in relationships can reach a place of resolution, completion, healing, because both people become mature enough to hold their differences in a way that's unified.

So Venus-Saturn can be about the maturation of a relationship because you've been able to handle and work through certain kinds of core conflicts. So it's a funny thing, because you'll see Venus-Saturn conjunctions when people get married, when people get engaged, when people make a serious commitment to someone or something, when people decide that, despite our differences, I am committed to this other soul—very Venus-Saturn.

It can be about the maturation of love and the deepening of commitment. But on the other hand, when certain oppositional tensions reach a place of natural departure where you say, "These differences just don't make sense—to keep trying to be together just doesn't make sense," and so the natural point of departure of a breakup or the ending of a contract or something like that—those are usually the hardest parts of Venus and Saturn.

But isn't it interesting that this is coming at the very end of Venus's retrograde? It is as though, from the beginning of March all the way through now, we've been carrying a process of release and transformation around certain relationships in our lives. And the conjunction with Saturn, as Venus finishes her retrograde and turns direct by the end of the week with a full moon in Libra, speaks to this place of balance or reconciliation, or of reaping what's been sown, or of a karmic point of departure or resolution within certain key relationships.

Now, the trick to finding out which relationships those are will typically have to do with the whole-sign house placement, in this case, of Pisces in your birth chart. Look at the topics of that house. If you were a Gemini rising—like this, you know, random chart is on the screen—it would be in your 10th house. So something in the career, relationships in that sphere of life might be reaching a point of great maturation, deepening commitment, or departure.

So that's how I would recommend looking at this. But it is a heavy transit that, even though it's happening today, is active all week. Look—I'm going to advance this one day at a time. Tuesday, it's still at the 25th degree. Wednesday—right? It's at the 24th degree. Venus is but less than a degree off from the conjunction to Saturn.

Take that forward all the way through the end of the week, when Venus stations and turns direct. And Venus is just a little over a degree apart from Saturn but is now going to turn direct, moves faster than Saturn, and so we'll catch Saturn again. Look, if I just speed this up a touch, notice that Venus will move through the conjunction with Saturn again on the 24th and the 25th of April.

So this is a process that doesn't just conclude this week but follows through for much of the rest of April as Venus continues its path through direct motion and yet one more conjunction with Saturn. So this process may be a process of gradual refinement, of gradual endings, of gradual departures—a place that will carry a lot of weight and significance in your life.

But it could be that this first meeting with Saturn is only part one of a two-part process with Saturn that comes later in the month. So kind of keep that in mind. This is a month that really speaks to the Venus-Saturn dynamic. And for most people, that will mean certain relationships are maturing and bearing fruit—that represents the labor that's gone into making the relationship something special—while others may reach a natural point of departure.

And some of that can be painful with Venus and Saturn. But there's also—you know, Saturn is often talked about as the god of necessity. So whatever's happening, there's a sense of fatedness, of necessity to it. Like those three weeks when I was in, you know, my freshman year of college, or whatever it was, it was like, "I guess we're not—we haven't talked for three weeks. I guess this kind of means we're breaking up." And that was it.

It was like—it was painful, but it's like, who's going to fight the tide? You know, it's got an intelligence of its own. And you sense that when Venus and Saturn are together, that things are happening that are necessary. Saturn brings the weight of necessity, of fate, of destiny to bear on things. So, you know, just like we're all bound to die someday by necessity—that's Saturn.

And necessity is intimately connected, for ancient philosophers and mystics, to the reality—the inescapability—of death and impermanence. That's a part of the contract that we have in all relationships, in all areas of life. This will end at some point. And how do we face those endings? And some endings are really the endings of certain kinds of immaturities or conflicts.

Saturn returns can be just devastating, and then they can also be these wonderful initiations into a fuller expression of adulthood. I'm talking about the first Saturn return, of course. Anyhow, so the other thing that's happening today, on April 7 here at the beginning of the week, is Mercury is turning direct in Pisces. So let's add Mercury back in.

As soon as we add Mercury back in, we're going to see—I'm going to back this up just a little bit here. Get us to—here we are. So April 13, that's Sunday at the end of the week. You're gonna see that as Venus turns direct—oh, whoops, where am I? No, Venus is turning direct on Sunday. Sorry, that's my bad. Oh my gosh. This is what happens when you go on vacation. You just—I'm just back from vacation, and I'm forgetting how to do everything.

Okay, back to the beginning of the week. Here on Monday, you can see Mercury changing directions. So Mercury in Pisces stationing there to turn direct—that happens today. Notice Mercury is also in a conjunction with Saturn within a degree. So there's definitely—when Mercury turns direct, you're in—any planet turns direct, you're generally thinking about improvement in the expression that it brings into our lives, whatever that may be.

It's different for every person, but the expression generally brings—like, Mercury turning direct usually means that, in that area of your chart, if there have been slowdowns, delays, changes of direction, that now forward momentum—after a period of revision, reflection, inwardness, delays, setbacks, reversals, or changes of circumstance—now things are ready to move forward again.

And we're getting that in a big way in the whole-sign house of Pisces. We're going to do some horoscopes later in the week for everybody. I'm going to mention the mutable signs today, but everyone will get horoscopes later in the week for this series of events taking place in Pisces. The point being that Mercury is now going to move direct, and it's still in Pisces where, you know, it's a little misty.

It's a Mercury—when you think about the rational and intellectual dimensions of Mercury, that is not normal in Pisces, right? It's mystical, it's imaginative, it's romantic, it's emotional. Mercury in Pisces can be about emotional intelligence, and it can also be about a kind of conflict between the mental, rational, and emotional, sensual, and imaginative qualities—such that, you know, sometimes Mercury in Pisces lacks grounding, or it lacks a kind of reason that will help it navigate through certain kinds of fantasies or illusions.

But it's also a very fluid, watery Mercury that, you know, in a conjunction with Saturn, might be coming to some deep but relevant emotional truths right now and getting ready to take what we've learned and move forward. When Mercury hits Aries at zero Aries, which is right around April 16, once we are back with Mercury in Aries, you're going to see that whatever has been—whatever the emotional, mental connection was with Mercury in Pisces—will reach this point of departure.

It's like, "Okay, we're not in watery territory anymore. We're in the ignition phase of zero Aries," where, you know, the mind's ability to process, receive, work through some of the foggy, murky waters of Pisces will change in its expression. You'll see the foot hitting the gas pedal and accelerating mentally and wanting to put ideas and words into action.

So, you know, the gestational quality of all of these planets in Pisces here at the beginning of April really does shift as the month goes on. If we take this forward just a little bit more, you know, Venus and Saturn will conjoin late April, and then once Venus hits Aries, which is happening at about—on about April 30—then we have both planets in Aries. And by the end of May, Saturn will leave Pisces and enter Aries.

So you'll see that that watery space starts to fade away, and the fiery space starts to be amplified. That's just kind of a big-picture thing to keep in mind for the month of April in general. Anyhow, so Mercury turning direct at the beginning of this week—for most people, should be experienced as perhaps the return of some degree of mental clarity or greater ease in communication, or of sorting things through, or of understanding something, making sense, or communicating—all things like that should improve a little bit as Mercury does turn direct today.

Okay, so that's, you know, kind of an intense early part of the week, starting today. Tomorrow, what I love is that Venus will sextile Uranus. So if we put the planet Uranus back in, let's take a look at this now. You'll see that Venus in Pisces hits the sextile to Uranus, which is also really helpful—is that Saturn is also sextile to Uranus.

The reason that this is important is because—think of that gravitas we were just talking about with Venus and Saturn. It's the natural consequence of time in relationships. What have you built? You're going to reap what you've sown with Venus and Saturn—in love, in sex and marriage, and friendships, and colleagues, coworkers, any kinds of relationships.

Well, isn't it nice that Venus and Saturn are both contacting a sextile? Sextiles are of the nature of Venus, so harmony—a harmonizing contact with Uranus in Taurus, Venus's sign, while Venus is also exalted. This suggests that whatever weighty, natural point of departure or conclusion is in front of us, that it's probably a good one that's going to free up time, energy, space, make things flow a little bit better.

You know, there's been times in my life where, you know, we've had people—when we ran a yoga studio—that worked for us that were fantastic, and then they had to leave. There was a new phase of life unfolding. And all of a sudden, it was like, "Oh God, we're losing an employee. We have to find a new one." But then, in the process of looking for someone, we might have found someone who had new skills and talents that was going to provide brand-new things for the yoga studio.

And all of a sudden, what felt at first like a difficult ending became an opportunity. This happens all the time, right, to all of us—that a door closed, you know—what is it? "When one window closes, the door opens," however that goes, you know. So look for the door opening at the same time or simultaneous to something closing.

The natural point of resolution, conclusion, endings, and permanence with Venus and Saturn is yielding new space, a different—a freeing up of energy that comes alongside of it. I love that for this reason. So if today feels a little heavy with Venus and Saturn, just know that, as the week goes on, Venus and Saturn can gain some momentum and some of that revolutionary impulse from Uranus through a harmonizing sextile.

So really nice part of the week that will be kind of calling back into mind a few more times as the week goes on. Anyhow, then we'll spend a lot of time on this too, in relation to everything that's happening with Venus, which is the full moon. So the full moon in Libra comes in toward the end of the week on Saturday.

You can see here is the full moon in Libra, right here, and let's put it—so you always tell—the full moons are always opposite the sun, right? Most people know that. But this full moon in Libra is highlighting the Venus-Saturn dynamic. And of course, at the same time, that Venus-Saturn dynamic is picking up a positive sextile to Uranus.

So notice that Uranus is in a Venus-ruled sign. The moon is in a Venus-ruled sign at the time of the full moon. And then we have Venus and Saturn. So when you think of the full moon in Libra—the scales of balance, the scales of justice—and here the ruler Venus is turning direct, finishing its new phase of growth and evolutionary development, and in a conjunction with Saturn, this is a weighty moment.

The scales are being balanced. Old karma is being resolved. A new beginning is coming with new energy and resources available, but we have to go through this kind of burdensome moment of release now. That implied moment of karmic judgment and evaluation and harvest is implied by a full moon in the sign of the autumn equinox—the Harvest Moon. You can call it that if you'd like.

There's different ways of thinking about the Harvest Moon, you know, in our calendar year. But the Harvest Moon of Libra, to me, is the full moon in Libra each year when we're in Aries season, karmically speaking, because it is—it points to a harvesting karmically. And whatever Venus is doing during Aries season, when the full moon is in Libra, usually becomes of great significance.

In this case, Venus is exalted but having to finish some weighty business with Saturn, so the full moon is really colored and influenced by that dynamic. Again, we'll be looking at that later as the week goes on. And then, of course, on the same day as the full moon, Venus turns direct. So you can see—you can feel what kind of week it is.

So I'm not the kind of person who likes to make everyone think that every single transit, every single week, is this major, epic portal of transformational change. I just laugh. I think that it largely depends on where things are at in your birth chart. If you have planets in the late degrees of mutable signs, for example, in your birth chart, you're getting squares or oppositions or conjunctions right now from these planets in late Pisces.

And that could be more impactful for some people. If you have a mutable sign rising, that's going to have a bigger impact on you than it would if, you know, you have a cardinal or fixed sign rising, for the most part, because the changes of direction and the Venus-Saturn dynamic are happening in an angular house in your chart if you're a mutable sign rising.

Anyway, I'm going to be doing horoscopes for everybody later in the week, but let's finish off today's episode by taking a look at those mutable rising signs and what you're getting this week if you are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, or Pisces rising. Don't feel bad if you're left out of this one, because, like I said, I will be doing more horoscopes later in the week.

But I'm going to now share my screen if I can remember how to do—like, how does a cell phone work? Okay, here we go. So if you're Gemini rising—we're looking at the mutable signs, because if you're a mutable rising sign, in your whole-sign horoscope, it will mean that these major changes of direction and the Venus-Saturn contact are coming in one of your angular houses. Those tend to be the busiest and most expressive.

So if you're a Gemini rising, this is in your career house. Think about the workplace environment. Think about changes happening within your company, within workplace relationships, transitions of power, authority, relationships that are transforming in the workplace. All of this could be a pretty noticeable theme for Geminis in that 10th house.

Now, if you're—I always mention this, you know—if you're retired, the 10th house is just what connects you to the civic, social arena of life—like, outside the doors of your own home. So how do you show up in the world? What is your involvement or calling or mission with respect to the world that you live in, and your involvement in it? Clear changes in relationships in that world, or values going through a transformation.

So you look for those things in addition to the very basic idea of it being the career house. So watch for a kind of culminating karma there. Now, if you're a Virgo, this is going to be taking place in your seventh house. So for Virgos, it's all about relationships. It's all about the changes that are happening within the realm of marriage.

I often see that this will reflect in kids' charts in their parents' relationship. That could be a thing—a theme where, you know, mom or dad are going through some kind of change, or, God forbid, they're divorcing or something. But sometimes, for Virgos, you'll see that this isn't so much about a relationship, but it's about changes happening in the lives of someone—someone that you're in a relationship with.

And so you can also think about this as, you know, "Is my spouse or partner going through some kind of significant change in their work life, in their health, in their relationships with their friends?" So sometimes it can be about that. Otherwise, I would say for Virgos, just quintessential seventh-house dynamic, right? It is your intimate personal relationships. How are they changing? What deepening commitments are showing up, or are appearing right now—like, "I'm ready to commit at a deeper level to someone," or maybe there's a way in which some relationships are reaching a natural point of departure.

We're reaping what's been sown in this relationship and realizing it's over—it's reached its natural ending. So major, major shifts in relationships or processes that have been going on in your relationships that are coming to a head or, you know, reaching a natural point of resolution. All right, for Sagittarius—our next mutable sign rising—this is all in the fourth house, the place of home and family, roots, your living environment, parental karma, your environment you grew up in.

So how are relationships in your home and family changing? Could also be whatever connects you to home and family. Maybe it's your spouse or partner's home and family. Maybe it has to do with your kids or your parenting style. Maybe it has to do with the location you live in or the actual physical layout of your home is being transformed somehow.

But whatever it provides us with a firm base and foundation to live from—which includes the private or inner sphere of life, our inner thoughts and feelings and emotions, relationships that form the bedrock of our emotional security, our family and ancestral past—there is a very strong focus on these themes for Sagittarians this week.

And then, finally, for Pisceans, this is taking place in your first house, which means that there's a process with respect to personal growth, identity, and character—character development. Sometimes in life, we go through critical stages of character evolution. It's like my sense of identity, my psychological behaviors, my constitution, my moods, my thoughts, my physical health are requiring that I change or grow somehow.

So key points of development for your personality, your sense of identity and selfhood—we could call this a process of individuation. Also, the first house is going to be, with Venus and Saturn, not only about your own identity and development of character but also how that intersects with relationships in your life.

So sometimes we go through periods in life where it becomes critical that we self-evaluate, self-reflect, and as we do so, it has a natural and immediate impact on certain key relationships. So the first and seventh house axis for Virgos and Pisces—you could say rising, if you have that as your rising sign—will be manifesting along the lines of your personal identity and the implication of those elements of personal growth and change as they are seen and reflected in relationships.

Hope that made sense. Anyhow, that concludes a little bit of coverage for all of the mutable signs. So if you're new to the channel, I recommend listening to your rising sign horoscopes, because all horoscopes are done in whole-sign format. Hellenistic astrology in the natal—in the sense of your natal chart—also originally used whole-sign houses.

So if you listen to your rising sign, you'll be listening to a horoscope that fits the exact layout of your whole-sign house birth chart. So that means you'll get the accurate placement of the transits by whole sign. If people—you're not using a whole-sign house placement, it may not be as effective to listen to the rising sign.

Most of the people who listen to this channel also align on some level with ancient or Hellenistic astrology, and so you probably do use whole-sign houses, in which case you don't need this reminder. You can also listen for your sun sign. It's just that the only way a sun-sign horoscope will actually align with the layout of your birth chart is if you have the sun in the first whole-sign house of your birth chart.

But anyway, so listen to whatever you want. You could listen to your sun or rising. So if you have a sun in any of those mutable signs, sure, you could listen. But I will be revisiting these horoscopes later in the week and giving you more insight for all 12 signs as we reach the conclusion of Venus's cycle and the full moon in Libra at the end of the week is another thing we'll be focusing on.

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