Today I am joined by my friend and colleague Alex Amorosi. We're going to be breaking down the astrology of April for you guys. Some big transits are coming up this month that we're excited to dive into.
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Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today I am joined by my friend and colleague, buddy Alex Amorosi. We're going to be breaking down the astrology of April for you guys. There are some big transits coming up this month, so I'm really excited to dive into it, and I'll call Alex on in just a second.
Before we get into it, as always, don't forget to like and subscribe. Share your comments in the comment section. I'd love to hear what you guys are thinking about some of the astrology of the month ahead. You can find a transcript of today's talk on the website, which is nightlight astrology.com. By the way, if you have any good stories about Saturn entering Pisces, Pluto into Aquarius, Mars into Cancer, or any of the big stuff we've been looking at lately, don't forget to use the hashtag grabbed and then tell us which transit you're talking about. And then tell us your story. I'll be gathering those for a storytelling episode again soon. All right. Well, on that note, I'm excited to have Alex with me to talk about the astrology of April. Hey, Alex.
Alex Amorosi
Hey, Adam. How's it going?
Adam Elenbaas
Good. Welcome back. For people who don't know Alex, you can find Alex's work at Alex amorosi.com. Or on Instagram, you can also find his work, Alexamorosihealing. He puts out great regular content on astrology and offers a variety of services, including astrology readings, so be sure to check that out. And I'll plug his plug your website again a little bit later. But first of all, just to check in like an astrological wellness check. How are you doing after Saturn into Pisces? Pluto into Aquarius?
Alex Amorosi
Um, I would say, all right, Saturn into Pisces; in the first few days, I was just like, Whoa, man, where are we, you know? I feel like we had like such a structured Saturn for five years, you know, very orderly structured Saturn and earth and air and rulership. And no, it was always all of a sudden, like, you felt like you went on a trip for a couple of days. Like, just like, what the hell, but not in a bad way. It was just, it felt like all of a sudden, everything diffused, and it was like less, I was less able to sort of get that sort of structured, easy thought. And it was just kind of swimming in emotions for a few days. And so that was interesting. How has it been treating you?
Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I mean, I would say that Saturn into Pisces thing I'm still like, I want to get to know it now that the Mercury-Mars or the Mercury Neptune Sun triple conjunction square to Mars is sort of passing because that may have been clouding or sort of coloring my initial impressions of Saturn into Pisces, it was a really dramatic series of transits in my life anyway, and I felt deeply drained mentally and emotionally by that. Although I, you know, I have my like you, I have my, my bag of tricks that I reached into to take care of myself and, and I was able to, like, get through it, but like, wow, that, to me, that was like that was a really challenging series of transits. So I feel like I want to get to know Saturn and Pisces in a little different space this month, you know?
Alex Amorosi
Yeah, yeah, I totally hear you. And I think, you know, I was reminding clients, and when I was doing some Instagram content that, you know, we had a real pile up, and Pisces is not just Saturn in that there's a bad head, especially with Mercury there. It's been sort of difficult to sort of suss out what's actually Saturn in Pisces because there's just been like, is this Mercury as the Sun? Is it Neptune? What's going on with that?
It's interesting. I mean, I feel like the other thing that I've noticed with Saturn in Pisces and has been with a couple of friends and colleagues, too, as I feel like I've gotten a little bit more serious about how I structure my spiritual, emotional life and feeling like I'm like making a few more decisions about like, how do I want to work In the spiritual realm? It just feels like a cohesion of, like, different types of very Pisces types of ideas or like diffuse more abstract ideas around spirituality. It feels like Saturn has really been helping me to; what do I really want to do? And how do I really want to be within that world? That's been happening very strongly the last couple of weeks.
Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's really nicely said. Well, I think it'll be like we have a ton of really good astrology in April to look at today. Actually, I say a ton. There are some big transits. There are actually, April is one of the quieter months of the year in terms of the number of transits. But they are big ones. And there's an eclipse this month, so yeah. Are you ready to dive into it?
Alex Amorosi
Let's do it.
Adam Elenbaas
It has a totally different vibe to it. So this is on the screen. We have April 1, depicted here. And the month really gets started on April 3, astrologically. We go a couple of days into the month, and right away, we have the entrance of Mercury into Taurus, getting out of the fire sign of Aries and into an earthy Venusian feminine sign that's fixed. So Mercury's stabilizing significantly. And that's, you know, that that ought to be, I think, for a lot of us, that's going to feel really good.
Just from Mercury going through, you know, the conjunction with Neptune all the way to through the conjunction with Jupiter in Aries that we experienced. I mean, there's just a lot, there's been a lot of very volatile, heated emotional, dynamic Mercury energy, so to see Mercury entering Taurus kind of slowing down a little bit.
Initially, when it enters, the first thing that it does before it sort of settles in. So Mercury will be square to Pluto. Right away, as the month opens, I do like this Mercury better in terms of just not being quite as volatile, and a fixed square, to me, is more about challenging, deeply entrenched ideas and thought patterns. And it's a little bit like having to lift and move a very heavy couch in a room to a different area of the room. You don't just do it willy-nilly. And it's a little slower and bulkier to deal with the transformation of Mercury square Pluto and fixed signs. So this could be like deeper, heavier processing and sort of rearranging of thoughts and ideas. That's what comes to my mind right away. But what do you think of when you think about the square?
Alex Amorosi
I think Mercury has been on a wild ride. This is a sort of culmination point of that wild ride, and it also sets up something I know, we'll get to demand of Jupiter's entrance into Taurus to it, everybody's sort of paying the toll as they entered, you know, enter Taurus here and go through the square to Pluto. I actually like it, you know, Mercury and Pluto can be, you know, deeper, darker areas of thought and communication, messages that feel dark or that come like sort of, you know, feel challenging in some way. But I actually feel like this is more of Pluto's cathartic elements in this.
Given the context of where Mercury is coming from, a really, you know, soupy ride through Pisces and then really hopped up in Aries. This feels like some sort of culmination point to me that I think we can often forget with Pluto, the cathartic element of it like the sort of like, and now this is released, and then Mercury can stabilize as it moves a little bit deeper into Taurus. Also, with the presence of Venus, the host in Taurus at that time, I think that the sort of the Yin and the feminine comes along very quickly to sort of soothe Mercury for the first few days, it definitely hits that sort of moment with Pluto, but I really feel it more to be catharsis rather than sort of a, you know, big Plutonian drama, so to speak.
Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, I agree. I like that word of catharsis of Mercury. I mean, Mercury is going to retrograde this month as well. So this could be really the beginning of a re-reconfiguring of thoughts. It also makes me think that you know when you have Venus copresent, Uranus is there. Mercury's in a Venus-ruled earth sign fixed and so forth. Even though Pluto is so airy, it's almost like, Okay, here's an ideal. And here's the, here's the raw material that I'm working with, you know, it's like, here's the embodied sensual, feminine dimension, here's the sort of airy, ideal, geometric masculine dimension, and they're trying to work something out. And it seems to me like this moment starts Mercury down a road that is, sort of, you know, it looks like enlightening, and Mercury is going to be making some changes. And those changes are going to be probably quite impressive considering that it'll go through the conjunction to Uranus going across the North Node retrograding.
Mercury's got big plans this month, and I wonder how much Pluto might be sort of giving Mercury the blueprint, and it says like, Okay, here's this big picture of Pluto and Aquarius of transformation that we want to enact this month, and you go through the conjunction Uranus later in the month, you turn retrograde, you go do it. And so I wonder about this as more of a moment of download than, like, you know, implosion or explosion, really?
Alex Amorosi
Yeah absolutely. And I think, you know, one of the great blessings of Pluto is that Pluto gives you access to information you didn't see at; first, it opens you up into a realm, you know, the underworld realm, which I think is can often be taken as like that's bad or dark. It doesn't have to; it can just mean hidden something that was hidden, and maybe an ideal in that sense or a structure that was not available to Mercury is moving through Pisces, and Aries begins to find that in the square with Pluto and also sets Mercury up for so you know, Mercury is gonna pull station retrograde right next to Uranus. So, innovation on beginning with Pluto and Aquarius, right, that sort of innovative Aquarian detached perspective that begins with Pluto is amplified by the stationing next to Uranus later in the month.
Adam Elenbaas
That immediately feels like Pluto, although it's so airy and potentially sort of spacey that it's immediately getting in touch with, you know, Mercury in an earth sign. One of the things that I mentioned was that, you know, we are really seeing the beginning of a process where now Pluto and Uranus are configured one and to one another again by a whole sign square as they were in Aries and Capricorn.
Now the degree-based square is not going to perfect, right but as we know, ancient astrologers paid attention to those whole sign aspects. But then what's interesting is that you hit like 2025 and six when Uranus starts moving into Gemini, and then the two planets trine one another. I looked back for a really important moment in rock'n'roll history. Recently in another episode I did recently, which was on July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan went electric. He plugged in and went electric. Have you ever heard that story before?
He was an acoustic folk singer, right, and he decided to get in like five days earlier; he had released Like a Rolling Stone. And so he goes electric at this Folk Festival, he plugs in with like a Stratocaster, and he got just rain down boos. But it was Pluto and Uranus conjoin squaring his natal Venus. And so it was just a moment of just total artistic reinvention. At first, people really rejected it and didn't like it. But then, him going electric was part of what would end up defining the next whole chapter of his career success, which took them to even greater heights.
So I use that in this episode we did recently about the fact that we can't just think about Pluto and Aquarius; we have to think about the fact that it's starting to be configured to Uranus again. And this month seems to me to embody some of that combination of Venus, Uranus, Pluto because of the implication of Uranus being in a Venus-ruled sign, Venus being there, and Mercury retrograding around with Pluto in the Sun. Jupiter are about to enter the Venus-ruled sign in May. That going electric was aesthetic, as well as it was artistic as well as technological.
He's using a totally different kind of technology. There's something very Uranian about that. And there's this, you know, an upsurge of releasing like pent-up material that hasn't gotten to express itself yet. So this feels to me like it could also be the moment of, like, a very, like an aesthetic revolution. Almost like, here's a new, here's a new Yeah, like an interior designer, giving you the layout for a new space. It's going to be really aesthetically rich and pleasing and very sensual and embodied. But it's in the blueprint phase at the moment.
Alex Amorosi
Yeah, that's beautiful. I had no idea that that was going on. He was the pioneer of that. That's really interesting.
Adam Elenbaas
Well, I mean, he was, you know; obviously, lots of people were playing rock and roll and going electric. But in the folk scene, it was pretty much acoustic guitars, you know, so for him to break from that, the folk music scene like hated it, but he was fusing folk and rock together at that moment, in a sense, so yeah, so as you can feel, it's just like, to me that's like such anyway, I'm just saying that there's something of that like that little archetypal imprint that I found to be interesting around this moment as well.
Alex Amorosi
Yeah, and I think you know, it'll be fascinating to see too, Adam, to see what Mercury what it looks like to have Pluto and Uranus now configured by square in a fixed sign. Yeah, how that changes that, you know, the practicality of, you know, earth and air have in common that sense of practicality and rationality, and you know, the uses and I could see it being something very aesthetic and also very like you said, interior design, like something very practical, useful, or, you know, the obvious is technology. But it reminds me too of there's a violinist named Vanessa Maya, who I really like. She makes a lot of classical music, but it's done to like rock or techno beats. And she played, and it has that sense of, like, there's something traditional, and that's supposed to stay the same that gets totally thrown out the window. And she makes an incredibly innovative, very structured approach to, like, just the Four Seasons are pieces that people really know really well. It would be really interesting to see how Venus things music and design are, the way we create art, and what art is that begins to change with technology; all really interesting to look at.
Adam Elenbaas
The next major transit of the month comes on the sixth, with the full Moon showing up in Libra. I'm just gonna; I'm not getting the hours exactly right here. But you can see, here's the Full Moon in Libra opposing the Sun. The Full Moon in Libra is pretty close to an opposition with Jupiter as well, which means that we're getting closer to that moment of the Sun conjunct Jupiter in Aries, which is also a huge transit of the month as well. What do you think about I'll let you lead off with this one, what comes to mind with the Full Moon in Libra for you?
Alex Amorosi
I could say, but you know, my whole sign square Mars, but I think it is generally a nice airy, full moon. You know, there's nothing too complicated about this one. Venus is in rulership as the ruler of the Moon, which is really lovely to see. I could see this definitely being a time of finding some harmony and balance; there might be issues of justice that come up, but I could definitely see that with all that's going on in Aries right now. But there could be ideas around justice and fairness or combination points around those ideas of keeping things in harmony.
You know, and definitely amplifying a very, I don't mean this in a bad way, but a very bombastic aspect between the Sun and Jupiter that's coming up, you know, that's a really big, dramatic power packs very archetypally, masculine type of aspect. And you have this, you know, airy Venusian Moon of sort of like finding, I almost wonder, Adam, if like, this Full Moon actually helps the Sun and Jupiter kind of, like, come down off themselves a little bit, find a little bit of balance between them, letting the balance between Aries, which tends to want to jump forward being a little bit like, Yeah, well, let's jump forward. But let's check that all parties involved are on board with that. First, there's a sense of, like, it helps you kind of, you know, mitigate a little bit.
Adam Elenbaas
I can't help but notice that there's this interesting connection between the Sun and Jupiter in the sign of Mars and Mars in the sign of the Moon. And so it almost feels to me like mediation, trying to mediate between the differing needs or demands of our own psyches or within like groups or families or within, you know, a marriage where there's, there's some very demanding and important like high need items with Mars in Cancer, the Moon is very attuned to that by virtue of being the ruler of Mars and Cancer and those needs are also being expressed through Mars has rulership over the Sun and Jupiter, and then the Moon opposes.
So I get this feeling of almost like a like marital counseling, you know, or like, you almost get the feeling of like needing to get an agent to help you negotiate a deal because you couldn't do it on your own. Like, I wouldn't know how to get a real estate deal done. So you need a real estate agent or whatever. So I think it to me it. There's a sense of, like, there are some volatile and strong needs, like high need items that are a little tricky to navigate. And the Moon is doing its best to represent everyone fairly at the moment.
Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I agree. I think you know; to that point, Adam, I love that it's the gravity well of this configuration; I look at the Sun and Jupiter, that's where you're sort of going to be pulled towards that Aries impulsive, my way, we're doing it now that sort of idea. And I really feel like the Moon and Mars in the Moon sign. The Moon and Venus sign we've talked about this in other configurations before; the goddess can be really helpful here, the whole space, and the ease that the Yin can provide of just being receptive, or being open or being open to a third An option which Libra can be really good at that idea of like, okay, well, you know, we don't have to jump forward, let's just check that we're all on the same page with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Adam Elenbaas
Well, that brings us to the next major transit, which is the Sun conjunct Jupiter. And that transit is perfecting right around April 11. We can see them coming together here. And what's interesting about this is that as they are coming together, starting to go through a little bit of a last quarter moon at that time, this is a reset moment for Jupiter; it's like a kind of like, considered to be like the rebirth of Jupiter.
Not long after this, we will talk about this later, but we get, you know, on the 20th, we get a solar eclipse in Aries, and then, not long after the solar eclipse in Aries, the Sun enters Taurus and immediately squares Pluto. So it's like setting up for a very explosive, mid to late part of April. It all starts really with maybe the full Moon being even earlier, but the Sun-Jupiter conjunction is huge. The first thing I'll say about it, and then I'd love to hear your thoughts too, is that when you have these two planets coming together, the potential for the heroic and sort of impulsive and powerful or domineering qualities to be super exaggerated is there.
So you know, it's like, the hero archetype blown up 20 times bigger, a little too self-serious, I've got to save the world. Now, on the other hand, you could have the feeling of very, you know, like a strong sense of what I ought to do, taking action rooted in a sense of the moral or virtuous thing sort of Jupiter exalted Sun.
That doesn't have to be all bad; it could be very courageous and action-oriented virtue concerned with virtue and doing right and all that. But you also do have the potential for this to be almost like the Emperor card reversed in Tarot or King of Wands reversed where it's like the elements of like tyrannical power hungry, domineering, overly, you know, like too aggressive, like those qualities could be probably the shadow of this combination. What do you think about this one?
Alex Amorosi
Oh, absolutely. You know, the word that comes to mind with this one is strutting; I'll start there is like, you know, there could be a lot of chest pounding. You could see leaders, I, you know, Jupiter in the Sun, two planets that are very much associated with leaders, you know, big, dramatic, bombastic words that are, you know, that are kind of being thrown back at each other or, stature, or what's the word I'm looking for? Sort of attitudes that are coming out, you know, I could see a lot of that.
I also think too, you know, like you were saying, you know, one of the things I think that gets lost with Aries a lot is its sense of noble purpose, its sense of noble mission. And, you know, with Mars in Cancer ruling, you know, the Sun is the exultation ruler of Aries, which I think helps the first part of the month, but Mars in its fall in Cancer ruling, this conjunction, there seems to me to really be a delineation of like, where do I need to take that noble action, maybe on behalf of those who are experiencing some kind of violence, or experiencing some kind of adversity that are not able to stand up for themselves as a very Mars in Cancer type of idea? And where am I taking that on as my ego that it's my job to do that, and only I can do it. And you know, I think that full Moon we just talked about can be actually really helpful in that regard is a lead up to this and Libra just being like, is it just me, or do I need to call in other resources here? Is it just me, or do I need to see if others can come in and assist me in a way where I could do it because it could be very easy to just kind of jump on your horse and ride with this?
Adam Elenbaas
I get a little bit of the like; Mother slash martyr vibe from the because you got Mars and Cancer and Jupiter in the Sun as I would, you know, I had, you know, my father's mother. So my grandma, my, I guess, my paternal grandmother. She was someone who was a Cancer. And actually, I was born on her birthday, which is interesting. But she had more planets in Cancer than I do, if I remember correctly.
Anyway, she would suffer silently and sort of fall on the sword constantly. To the point where I personally think that's part of what led to her getting cancer and dying. And I think that this has one of the dark sides of this would be, like, I'm going to show my worth or almost like an overcompensation for not feeling valued. So I'm going to give 110% to others. So just like the subtle ways in which we might be trying to manipulate or gain attention by being overly sacrificial, that could be one thing that kind of comes up around this time.
The other one, though, I think, to give it some credit, would be like what you were saying were, who can't stand up for themselves, the mama bear that protects the young or the innocent, or, you know, someone who's standing up to domestic abuse or violence, you know, like the image of like a women's shelter or something like that.
So those kinds of images, like, you can kind of go in either direction. I also, frankly, think that the environmental advocacy around water or the oceans could also be coming up. We have Mars kind of configured to Saturn in Pisces. I just think it's interesting that Saturn was entering Pisces; there was also this big piece of legislation that was passed about the protection of the waters or something like that. So that's a kind of a random thing, but they are all sort of interrelated.
Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I agree with it, and I also think, you know, on that point, you know, we look at Venus is in a nice trine to Pluto, nice airy trine to Pluto. Right at that time and, you know, there's so there's some nice structured air elements in the air to no pun intended, that I think can no fire and I know having a lot of fire in my chart and water which is a combination here can be very emotional, very intuitive, very go with your gut very, you know, and one of the things I think is nice to have this air trine in the mix here is that there's a rational idea based approach that is in the background and you know, again, Venus trying to include on maybe getting to the root of or underneath two ideas or ideals or Aquarian innovation that may not appear immediately on the in the immediate emotion of the Sun and Jupiter and Mars all in fire and water. Those are some ideas for that.
Adam Elenbaas
It's almost like there's the saving grace might be that in the midst of what could be some very intense emotional convictions. The desire to act more impulsively, emotionally that you have this Venus, Pluto trine, and air signs that somehow hold back and say, Wait, wait, wait, just, you know, sort of look at the bigger picture. Or almost like harness whatever level of the desire body is acting more recklessly or impulsively. That's really interesting. I like that it's coming through, although, in a few days after that, Venus in Gemini will then square Saturn in Pisces, which I feel like that's interesting because then we have a meeting between maybe Venus in a more rational headspace and Saturn in Pisces, which is Venus is exultation. So there's some, there's some recess, a little bit of like reception there. But comparatively much more dramatic emotional space. And the two are immediately squaring off after that moment, which is interesting.
It's an interesting sequence that follows behind Jupiter-Saturn, or that Jupiter-Sun conjunction with Mars in Cancer. So it almost seems to me like it's giving it more evidence that the head and the emotional, the sort of mental rational, and emotional faculties are having some pretty intense conversations. I could see someone just as easily being like don't be too rational; use your emotional intelligence, what are your feelings and your instinctual body tell you, and you should just you should be acting based off from that. Mars in Cancer is always trying to tell us that is, I mean, that's just Mars, and Cancer is like, don't you discount my feelings? Like, you know, I'm not allowed to make decisions based on my feelings. You know, what are you, the logic police? You know, like, right. And so Venus and Venus square Saturn would seem to bring up the same combination of voices.
Alex Amorosi
Yeah, I agree. I agree. And I feel like also with Saturn and Venus is exultation too; there could be sort of like that. Like you've been saying a lot of your videos that melancholic aspects, you know, that sort of like the yearning or the poet, you know, the I, just be the yearning for poetry, or like impressionist art or something like that. That's never quite done, and Venus in Gemini coming along and, like, get it together. You know, the painting, just write the song. Just put down the poem. You know, like there's a much more or like, that's, that's a very quick Venus in Gemini in a very sort of, you know, very good with moving through multiple ideas at the same time, which might feel for Saturn and Mars both being in water at this time it might feel like whoa, okay, I actually got to somehow get this into a tangible idea and out onto paper, it can't just always stay in like the emotional realm of my own psyche, that sort of idea.
Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, and the other thing that it brings up for me is back to this idea that there's a blueprint in mind this month, Venus, Saturn, Venus in air Saturn in water feels a little bit to me, like, you know, how do I make space for different things, and diverging interests and feelings, but I'm looking for their order their structure. And remember the beginning of the cycle; Mercury is squaring Pluto, and now Mercury is coming close to a conjunction with Uranus and is going to station and turn retrograde. And Venus is ruled by that Mercury, and they're in mutual reception with one another.
So it makes me feel like this meeting between Venus and Saturn may also continue a conversation about how to structure some kind of ideal image or an aesthetic or a creative vision. And we're running into questions about how to formalize and make more concrete. But these are some very interesting; we're not just trying to make concrete an idea or an image; there also is the need to incorporate different emotional needs and feelings somehow.
Alex Amorosi
He was, I think, a lot about, like, the romantic style of music, you know, the mid later 19th century. There's some really love that's like Wagner and Mahler and Bruckner, and these like very lush, big sorts of works and symphonies and operas. And if they're not structured, well, you can't follow it; it doesn't make any sense. And then if you're talking about, you know, sometimes, you know, four hours of music and story and so like, there's something here about, like, if you're writing opera and working with that sort of idea, like just singing like Wagner or something like that. You have to also be able to structure the story with the music so that it makes sense to the audience. Otherwise, it just falls apart. You have to have some sort of rational order to how everything is progressing forward, even in the middle of this big, lush, extremely romantic, emotional type of music.
Adam Elenbaas
Yes, something has to pull it all together. Did you ever see The Big Lebowski?
Alex Amorosi
Oh, God, not for years.
Adam Elenbaas
Remember, the dude is like obsessed with this rug because he says that the rug pulls the whole room together. And then somebody steals it. And he's like, trying to get his rug back, man, because it pulls the whole room together. Right? Yeah. Yeah, it's like that. April 28. There's a solar eclipse in Aries. And then, literally on the same day, the Sun moves into Taurus and squares Pluto.
You know, and then, on the next day, Mercury is stationing at that time, and on the next day, in very pretty close conjunction to Uranus, Mercury turns retrograde. And isn't it interesting that we're the month started with mercury square Pluto, it ends with the major astrology of the month ends with a solar eclipse, and then the sun square Pluto and then Mercury turning retrograde. That's quite a sequence between the 20th and 21st.
Alex Amorosi
Also, then the Moon moving into, I believe, the Moon being in conjunction with Mercury and Uranus when Mercury goes retrograde or two. So you have that which has the eclipse the Sun and ruling the, you know, and in mutual reception with Mars, which is really the eclipse. I mean, it's just fascinating; there are a lot of these in April and May. Quickly, like these quick little bouts of intensity and sort of odd placements that then kind of stabilized as they go forward.
Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, that's a good point. And I mean, for me, the 29th anaretic degree of Aries suggests or along with Jupiter, ruled by the fall in Mars, and then a sun Pluto square. To me, that is a very cathartic moment. One of the more cathartic transits of the year, you know, just right up there with the Pluto and Saturn ingresses, which in some ways may not even be as cathartic because those are, those transits are process-oriented, and you don't necessarily feel them like the day of but this one more likely to experience it as acute events on the actual day or just in a couple of days after, because of the concentration of events.
Solar eclipse in the anaretic degree with Jupiter, Sun square, Pluto, Mercury stationing and retrograding all that the eclipses posted by a fallen Mars. To me, this is potentially about emotional outbursts, anger, and mood swings; these are the kinds of things that like almost like a boiling pot of water. Yeah, the sense here of the 29th degree being like a transition. But a transition that happens through strong, powerful, fast-acting forces that force a quick transition, or that imply, like explosive events that have a real emotional, complicated emotional dynamic behind them that may be rooted in things like family or tight emotional bonds or the need for security. That's going back to Mars being in Cancer, and then the square to Pluto further emphasizes the idea of needing to make large sweeping changes and things coming up for us to look at that are not necessarily easy, but we have to, we have to accept and then Mercury turning retrograde in Taurus on the 21st. Immediately followed by the need to implement or revision of some kind, a change of plans, or a reversal of priorities or something.
Alex Amorosi
Like some quick thinking that comes into it, too, like Mercury and Uranus, right? You know, I was thinking of that solar eclipse like an image I was having. I was making homemade; I was making ramen soup the other night. And it's like, I always think of Mars and Cancer as simmering water. And I didn't realize that the heat had been turned up a little too high on the stove. So it boiled over, right? That's the sort of image that I get, like, there's sort of a simmering here, and then oh, boils over. But you know what, you can turn the heat down, you can take the pot off the stove, just wipe and clean it up like there's, it's possible to stabilize this quickly. But it might feel like, whoa, that just popped out of nowhere, or it's been simmering for a while; it's been kind of under the surface. Well, you know, and it needs to be brought out in order to heal.
Adam Elenbaas
It's the popping of an emotional pimple. Right? Think of it that way. You could also think about it as like, let's say that you've been, let's say you've been dealing with, what do they call those things. Or a couple of months ago, I had a spy on my eye; you were seeing like gross little bumps that, because of tear duct or oil gland or whatever, gets plugged. So you're dealing with something that's been sort of plugged up, and you're supposed to leave it alone, like don't poke, don't because it makes it worse. Eventually, you know, it'll, it'll just, it'll pop, it'll drain. And that's what you're supposed to do. And that's really how you're supposed to treat when you're in high school. It's like how you're supposed to treat acne, but instead, you're weeded out, and then it makes it worse. There's something about this that's like, just let it happen. Because if you try to mess with it, it's it could make it worse.
Alex Amorosi
It's so true. And you know, that brings me to something I always tell clients about eclipses; it's better once the Eclipse sets in to just sit back and ride the waterslide. Don't try to put your foot in the center of the waterslide and just let the waters kind of beat you up on the way down, and just let yourself be taken for the ride. And I think you know, especially on the 29th degree of Aries, which is a really powerful degree.
Adam Elenbaas
That I think it's humbling something that, Yeah, and I think it's bringing something that wants to provide us with stability. I mean, the Sun immediately goes into Taurus with the North Node squares Pluto in a fixed sign, and Mercury goes retrograde in a fixed sign. I think we're, you know, you're seeing Mars start to cross into the second half of Cancer; I feel like maybe some dramatic energies, but things should be moving in the direction of greater stabilization. You know, I would say going forward, especially since Jupiter is also about to enter that fixed sign like, it's like the combination also Jupiter in Aries in a sense, you know.
Alex Amorosi
Setting up that entrance into Taurus in May, I think there's a lot this month that is sort of precluding that, Jupiter, next month.
Alex Amorosi
No, I'm just gonna quickly say that stabilization. I also think, like with Taurus, to whatever does come up, there are really good, solid, stable, practical solutions, like going for like, what is the practical thing I can do here? What is the stabilizing? Where can I find some stability and maybe some sense of routine and sameness? You know, for a little while, where we go back to something, it just feels really comfortable and familiar in order to sort of incubate and let sit whatever, you know, arises.
Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, yeah. This strikes me as, again, transitional because the 29th degree is moving into a fixed, you know, earthy sign that strikes me as a transitional place for an eclipse. The transition is into Venusian earthy stable Taurus. It's interesting that all of the planets are going through this moment where they enter Taurus and, as you said, have to pay the piper by squaring Pluto. Pluto gets in and says; I have the design for you. So before you get nice and comfortable, here's my plan.
Alex Amorosi
Here's my correct and well-thought-out logical scientific aquarium plan.
Adam Elenbaas
Yeah, and it will be better than where you're at right now. Because everything's better, you know? Well, that sort of rounds it out for this month. I'm really glad that we could get together and talk about this. These transits, and we'll certainly be back together again next month to discuss Jupiter into Taurus and another eclipse that's coming in May. So you know, these months of March through May are definitely busy in terms of the astrology of 2023.
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Alex Amorosi
A joy as always, Adam. Thanks so much.
Adam Elenbaas
Alright, see you later, everyone. Bye.
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