April 7
7:35 pm PT – Full Moon at 18° of Libra
2020 made its intentions known from day one. Beginning with an eclipse and a Saturn/Pluto conjunction, the omens signaled a year that would make its mark. Challenging aspects (like a conjunction) between Saturn and Pluto tend to intensify themes of repression, restraint, and the inadequacy of our overarching financial systems. Of these times, in Cosmos and Psyche, Rick Tarnas writes “An atmosphere of gravity and tension tended to accompany these … periods, as did a wide-spread sense of epochal closure: ‘the end of an era’, ‘the end of innocence,’ the destruction of an earlier mode of life that in retrospect may seem to have been marked by widespread indulgence, naivete, denial, and inflation.” The last time these two made a conjunction (1981-84), the identification of AIDS was made.
This is era-defining astrology. The kind that you look at with decades in mind, not just the day, week or month it happens within. The planetary patterns that have and are occurring are events that astrologers pay attention to. They are red flags telling us that the power dynamics in play are more likely to be foul; the difficulties faced by entire populations exaggerated; that illness is to be expected, and downturns are a given.
With first Saturn and now Jupiter passing over Pluto in Capricorn multiple times from the top of the year until the end of it, our collective fate demands that we travel through the underworlds of grief, loss, and letting go of a world we knew. Capricorn demands we get grounded if nothing else.
Saturn represents the structures we live in, restriction and the bounds we can’t transgress. In Capricorn and in Aquarius (where it currently is until July when it returns to Capricorn for 6 months), Saturn is unabashedly itself. It tells us no, it cuts us off, it is denial, it is quarantine, it is deprivation, and it demands that we mature through the harrowing experience of being an adult.
Saturn can crystallize our fears, but only in the hopes that we find the strength and wisdom within to move through them. As a keeper of time, Saturn speaks to the finality of things.
Mortality is the greatest equalizer and Saturn is always willing to remind us of our inevitable end.
Pluto is the deity of the underworld, death, and buried treasure. Pluto’s domain has its own rules. Corruption and abuse fester here. Hidden gems, reserves of energy, and sources of power also live here. Long-lasting transformations take place when we have to venture into and out of Pluto’s palace. We can never come to understand the full impact of this planet’s transit the moment it is made. Pluto’s movements are part of a long arch of our collective unfolding. Pluto asks for everything. Every shielding that we have required in life is rendered useless when this planet is at play. Pluto demands that we dig for something much deeper. Nothing superficial stands the tests of these times. Each one of us is now asked to go below the façade of our roles and props. Below what we have and what we give.
Down to the core of who we are.
Pluto tends to amplify, deepen our awareness of, and pronounce whatever it touches. First, it was Saturn and now it is Jupiter. Currently, Jupiter and Pluto are in exact conjunction at 24° of Capricorn, holding true to 2020’s themes of endings, loss, grief and, possibly, a process of renewal.
Jupiter in Capricorn is in its fall, meaning that the usually good-natured, bounty-bringer is now deficient in funds and good feeling. Brought to its knees, Jupiter doesn’t get far on its charm and optimism alone. In Capricorn, Jupiter works overtime to get ½ the results. Jupiter conjunct Pluto (a transit that occurs every 12 years or so) always asks us to examine the core beliefs we adhere to. If they are able to withstand the toughest of times, we will know we can lean into them with even more of our weight. If they are faulty, we will be left empty-handed and in need of a new way to frame the challenges we face.
Tuesday’s Full Moon in Libra squares the Jupiter/Pluto conjunction. A normally light-hearted, socially-minded, and good-natured lunation gets deep. Pluto brings us under the surface of things and here is where we are asked to dwell right now. Having been socially isolated for a minute (a situation that is anti-Libra in practice and sentiment), we are collectively feeling the burden of distance from each other. We are in this together-alone. Having this concentration of time with ourselves makes us more intimately aware of what is always awaiting us just below the business of life. Our defenses have fewer accomplices. Our vulnerability has more to teach us. As our layers peel off, exposing the things we buried, tucked away, or refused outright, we get a better understanding of our general operating system. Pluto’s skin-shedding influence on this year and this Full Moon is non-negotiable. There is no more time to borrow. There is only this moment and sinking deeply into it. There is only wondering what it might be like to be present to life instead of demanding it be as we think it should. Wondering what it might be like to embrace the inevitability of death as a way to fully live life. Wondering, dreaming, and imagining what it might be like to exchange status for sincerity, rugged individualism for interconnectedness, and corporate capitalism for communal care. Pluto’s caves and caverns are the deepest; moving through them means getting to the root. Working with this planet is radical because it falls for no flirtation. It wants us to know, more honestly than ever, that at our core we have the wisdom needed to meet this situation and feel our way towards its solutions. Inch by inch and a little at a time we will come to trust ourselves, our intuition, and creative responses to this moment. More and more coming to understand that we are in control of none of it, but in relationship to all of it.
Full Moon blessings,
C
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Aries & Aries Rising
It’s always there. It never leaves. It never waivers. It lives in the moments where you haven’t yet arrived at the next thought, place, or pause. It exists just outside your direct line of vision. Past the peripheral. Just far enough away that you can’t make it out. Its borders stay dulled until you can receive its clarity. You stay numb to it until you can withstand its power. Hazy about it until you can witness the clear reflection it provides.
In moments like this you catch your truth.
With little else now in the way, you are being granted access to parts of yourself that you rarely bear witness to. Try your best to move past your initial reactions to it so that you can access the deeper wisdom held within it. Get underneath the familiar monologue you usually tell yourself and get to the reason why you lean so heavily on this defense or that one. Just under your weaponry lies the truth about your softness, your sweetness, and your need to be witnessed for it.
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Taurus & Taurus Rising
Try not to explain your feelings away. Try not to find solutions to the grief that visits. Try not to trap the joy that stops by.
All states of being are fleeting. No feeling is permanent. No story that your mind drums up is the only one that’s true. No single day can define you.
Your work is to watch yourself encounter each state without being attached to what it might mean. Watch each emotion, each thought, each scenario enter your awareness, linger, and leave.
Keep your eye on what remains. Keep your focus on the part of you that observes each scenario. Keep coming back to the truth that you are worth watching.
As April’s Full Moon highlights our collective need for connection, it pulls focus on all the little ways in which you find healing, a sense of well-being, and maybe even moments of hope. You get to see how to lead in new ways, break with tradition in your career or profession, and make the kind of noise that helps direct attention to what most needs it now.
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Gemini & Gemini Rising
If you stay curious, the clues and cues will find you. If you stay playful, the ideas will meet up with you somewhere in the sandbox. If you go where there is energy and allow yourself to rest when there is none, you will know what to create next.
In the meantime, let yourself dream. Let yourself revel in any and all pleasure. Let the couch call you for an afternoon nap. Let the plants teach you about slow growth and steady shedding. Let the sunlight show you how to light up a room.
Let yourself howl underneath this Full Moon.
Follow the untamable within you. Let it teach you something about freedom. You may be stuck indoors, but your spirit never forgets how to soar.
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Cancer & Cancer Rising
There’s more than one side to your past. There’s more than one truth when it comes to your relationship dynamics. There is more than one way to rebuild your foundations. The more open you are to all the avenues, the more you benefit. The less rigidly you hold onto your stories about what happened, the more validation you’ll find for your own experience.
As the Full Moon in Libra senses the weight of each side of your life’s scale and tale, it will let you know where the imbalances are and how to accommodate for them. Occurring in the part of your chart that has to do with your home, family, roots, traditions, and inner-life, it helps you to witness a part of your self-care system more clearly. Knowing what was lacking, what it made you believe about yourself, and how to counter that belief now is what this lunation is after.
You don’t want to excavate aspects of your past simply to stay fixated on the pain they caused you. But you do want to turn the soil of your life over so that you can get a better understanding of what happened and what meaning it may hold for your life now. This way a richer, more complex integration of the good, the hard, and the impossible parts of your past can happen.
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Leo & Leo Rising
April’s Full Moon shines its light on your ideas of healing and regeneration. It helps you to understand the importance of communicating the knowledge that you have thoughtfully curated based on what you’ve experienced, lived through, and survived.
Communal knowledge is a bank account that we can always withdraw from and contribute to. Your communities may need your input a little more now, but don’t forget to turn the question back to the group when you get stuck, need support, or need to take a breath. Don’t forget to stay human. Don’t forget that you aren’t supposed to have all the answers and take note of any voices inside you that say you do.
The Full Moon in Libra also wants you to remember to put beauty, pleasure, and romance back in your day to day life. Even in quarantine. Even in times of decay. Even in moments of great despair. Don’t let the grief get everything. Give it space but don’t give it the right to every corner of your being.
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Virgo & Virgo Rising
Anxiety is a lousy pilot. It forgets where it was going, flies around in circles, and thinks that a wild goose-chase is a noble mission. Anxiety will try to grab the steering wheel of your life so that it can drive you into ditches of self-doubt and despair. It will try to convince you that it has a more pressing agenda to follow. It will try and get your attention so it can tell you every possible scenario that could go wrong but that has not yet happened and most likely never will. To have anxiety is to be a human (especially in the midst of global change), but to believe every story it tells is too hard on the system. Be softer with yourself than you think you need to be. Gentle encouragements go so much further than orders and directives. In moments that are so unsettling, we need to know that there are places that will be welcoming. Be that kind of home for yourself.
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Libra & Libra Rising
We are so used to taking action to solve a problem. We make external success our main focus. We let all the gorgeous distractions of the world shield us from going deeper.
But our defenses are rendered powerless in these circumstances.
Moving into the depths, where many mysteries exist, you are being asked to rely on different senses than you normally do. You are being asked to tap into the invisible power of our interconnectivity. You might be isolated in body, but never in spirit. You might be quarantined in your home, but never in your heart. You might experience this Full Moon as an invitation to get to know another part of yourself. Take it.
Show up to this moment with few expectations and boatloads of curiosity. Show up for discomfort with more compassion than you’ve ever known. Show up for the uncertainty with all the humor that you can muster. Show yourself the kind of understanding that you would give a two-year-old trying to find their way through a new scenario, learning-curve, or challenge. You have never been here before. You didn’t know that this is where you’d end up. You deserve as much kindness and consideration as anyone that is living in a world going through such incredible growing pains.
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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
We need stories, myths, and legends to help us make personal meanings out of archetypal experiences. In moments where life feels extreme, fear is heightened, and hope goes in and out of hiding, we need the kinds of dramas that help us remember who we are and where our power lies. In moments where the world shows its structural ineptitudes, we need fictions that tell the truth about the human condition, characters who are connected to their inner wisdom, plotlines that get to the kind of soulful sentiments that are then passed down from one generation to the next.
As the next couple of weeks roll out, you’re granted access to the fables that need to be told next. Sentences stalk you. Phrases find you. Whole chapters chime in unexpectedly. Whether you write professionally or scribble sentiments down, it’s highly recommended that you spend some time each day with your quill and ink at hand.
As we write, we make the unconscious conscious. As we write, parts of ourselves, parts of our dreams, parts of our past collide, helping us better understand the mosaic of this moment. Unearthing the truth takes the patience of an archeologist. Don’t be afraid to spend these days gently dusting off a relic you didn’t know was in you.
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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
Below your drive, below your charisma, below your uncanny ability to get up and go no matter what has already left is the truth about you: you are valuable whether you accomplish mind-boggling amounts of work each moment or not. You are worthy of love whether you win the race each time or not. Your needs matter whether you can override them or not.
In this moment of great vulnerability, you might find yourself prone to feelings that you can’t simply accomplish your way out of. Remember that this is good even if it feels uncomfortable. In these days of undoing let your softness rise to the surface. You are most likely accustomed to being used for what you can produce. You are most likely accustomed to serving systems that won’t care for you after they have gotten what they need from you. You live in a world that trains its citizens to be compliant in their demise and then call it a success.
What the world says is valuable usually isn’t that beneficial for our being or our collective. April’s Full Moon reminds you that this moment calls on your vision for community care and sustainability and that can only happen when you have your own in mind as well.
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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
April’s Full Moon lights up the part of your chart that has to do with your career, your public life, and your leadership in the world. As industries struggle, infrastructures show their inefficiencies, and the world reflects on what success actually is, so do you. Winning most likely feels different than it did a month ago. Achievement has an altered meaning than it did at the beginning of the year.
This moment gives us the opportunity to see each other, and the impact we have on one another, with a clarity hard to come by. There’s nothing like a Full Moon in Libra to remind us of just how interdependent we are.
In the process, you get to witness the philosophies that guide you. This excavation is necessary and lengthy, helping you to get to the root of why you want what you want. This time, though full of challenges, can help you reclaim any of your personal power that you projected onto a person, place, or position in life. In order to birth a new world collectively, we have to each be willing to do it individually.
Don’t be afraid to question everything you’ve been reaching for. If it’s able to withstand the tension of this moment, it’s worth every effort it will ask of you.
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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Shock absorbers are needed in order to move through the impact of this moment. Soft pads to land on lead to less fractures. Being sweet to yourself can go a long way towards finding the solutions this time calls for.
Never withhold kindness from yourself.
April’s Full Moon focuses on the philosophies that help you to center your well-being. It asks you what pleasures you may need to focus on or find for yourself. It wants to know which long-term plans still pique your curiosity and have depth enough to meet the moment.
This astrology also exaggerates the distance between your present and your past. Over the course of the second week of April, you are being given more than one example of how far you’ve come and how choosing yourself helps you show up for everyone else. No matter what family pressures were historically placed upon you, or you put on yourself, the most precious gift you can give your people is living your life as authentically as possible.
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Pisces & Pisces Rising
Moments like this one tend to unearth a truth that we didn’t have access to earlier. Slowing down helps us attune ourselves to these nuggets of wisdom. Making space for the feelings that come up is a type of labor that, if you aren’t used to it, can take up more of your resources than you have to give. It’s ok if you get tired. It’s ok if you feel uninspired. It’s ok if you feel better than ever. There is no right way to work through the issues we are facing.
April’s Full Moon reminds you that when fear starts to freely roam about the rooms of your life, you must do what you can to find a small pleasure, a momentary joy, an affirmation that reinforces of the things in your life that are working, and the rituals that help you interrupt the fast trains of a mind on the loose and looking for bad news. Be soft with yourself when the world is bringing hard truths.
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