April 8-May 7, 2024

We now get more courage and drive to step into a new beginning that we have been trying to get to since 2020. It is a bit hard to do at first, because we are still held back by things from the past we haven’t fully resolved and old, unhelpful ideas of ourselves that no longer apply. However, we now have the strength to work through these old things so that they don’t hold us back. As a result, we are able to step into a new and better experience of life. Unexpected luck and Divine help occur to make this a reality — which for many people, will take the form of new money sources, skills, and sense of self (or improved money, skills, and confidence). This is wonderful. However, we still feel anxious about these good things that are happening, like it is too good to be true or will backfire. We then feel like we need to do more than we have to in order to bring this better chapter together (which is useless). They will occur in their own time and way. As a result, we learn that we need to stop trying so hard, simply allow these good things to happen with very little effort on our part, and relax (which is harder than it sounds).

Explore this lunar month’s four major moon phases below.

New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries

Overcoming blockages to a new beginning

April 8-15, 2024

We are now getting more courage and passion to act on some new chapter in life we have been trying to get to since 2020. We still run into blockages this week (mostly in the form of things from the past that haven’t fully been resolved, and an internal perspective that is based on the past). However, we don’t let that get the best of us, like maybe it has before. Instead, we are able to get a different perspective on our blockages and work through them better to start a new chapter.

First Quarter in Cancer

Grounding a new chapter with unexpected help

April 15-23, 2024

We are now more ready and able to step into a new chapter in life and make it more grounded and permanent. Not only that, but unexpected Divine help begins to step in to encourage and lead us into this better path in positive ways. As a result, we may experience good luck and positive insights that point us towards new (or better) money situations, and new (or better) skills, or opportunities that support our skills and confidence. However, we still feel anxious about this experience, like something is wrong, and might have difficulty receiving the good things. We are going to have to learn to stop fighting against these good things, or feeling like they have to be hard, and to instead just allow them to happen and let them be the good things they are.

Sun enters Taurus (April 19, 2024)

Full Moon in Scorpio

Learning to allow this new chapter (with less anxiety and effort)

April 23-May 1, 2024

We gradually stop fighting against these good things that are happening in our lives and just allow them to be what they are (and receive them). This is wonderful, giving us a lot of positive clarity, insight, and confidence. However, it still feels weird that good things are happening with very little effort on our part. We are not sure how to behave as as result.

Mercury direct in Aries (April 25, 2024)
Venus enters Taurus (April 29, 2024)

Third Quarter in Aquarius

Adjusting our vision of the future to be different (and better)

May 1-7, 2024

Because good, unexpected things are happening to propl us into a new chapter of life in a positive way, our ideas of ourselves and our future are changing significantly to encompass these new things. It still feels weird and uncomfortable for life to be so different. We are still having to learn to relax and allow what is happening to happen, with little effort on our part. We are also still learning to detach from any negative emotions about the situation (because the situation is a good one).

Pluto retrograde in Aquarius (May 2, 2024)

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In order to bring a new and better experience of life together, it is not about doing more or working harder. It is actually about doing less and being more open to receive whatever life has in store.

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Planetary Guide

Mars

The Warrior

Mars rules the sign of Aries. It represents the primal force of energy, drive, and assertiveness within us. It governs our desires, passions, and how we take action to pursue goals, making it key to motivation, courage, and determination.

Questions for Reflection

You can answer these questions to yourself, in your journal, or in the comment section.

1. What old things in your physical experience do you still have to finish up or release before you can move forward?
2. How can you finish or release these old things?
3. What old ideas of yourself are still stopping you from moving into a new experience?
4. How can you let go of these old ideas?
5. What new good things do you hope will manifest in life — especially in the form of money, your skills and talents, your sense of self, and your confidence?
6. What do you feel you need to do in order to make these good things manifest?
7. How can you cut the list in half that you wrote for the question above, or do WAY LESS in order to make these good things manifest? They don’t need as much effort as you think they do.
8. How does it feel to do way less than you think to make good things manifest in your life? Good or bad? Why?
9. How can you stop yourself from trying to do more or over-complicating the situation?