April is a meal of a month, and not all of it will be easy going down—but at the very least, your determination to get your cake should supersede all. The combined impact of a Mercury Retrograde and an eclipse in your fifth house of hobbies, creativity, and children means that ultimately, joy is your priority, and you might need to rearrange some things in your life in order to pursue the most generative expression of your life force. Between April 8 and 10, the solar eclipse is accompanied by the Mars-Saturn conjunction, and that’s when problems at home spur you to make a change. Perhaps you’ll be forced to move out of that apartment that stifled your creative energy anyway, or maybe you’ll have to make some housing decisions with the needs of your kids in mind. If divine intervention lets you break your lease early, will that free you to go frolic in another country for some time?
“Getting free” is very much a part of this whole sequence of events, and in your case, it might directly involve your health or your job responsibilities. The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction on the 20th sets you up for a big jailbreak from your cubicle (remote life anyone?), a sudden upgrade for your wellbeing, and/or deep, internal shifts related to how you understand your responsibilities, your debt of service to the world, and even the patterns of misfortune in your life.
Capricorn Rising
Your brainchild is just about ready to be born, but you might have to go through some labor pains to fully bring it into the world. This April, there are traffic jams, communication breakdowns, and written drafts getting crumpled up on the way to your big debut, but try not to see that as a setback—for whatever reason, these friction points are adding the missing ingredient to whatever you’re cooking.
Your living situation, family ties, and ancestry is also playing a loud role in all of this. From April 1st through 25th, Mercury will retrograde through your 4th house of roots. On April 8th, a solar eclipse punctuates the same place in your chart. There might be a move in your near future, or perhaps just a deeper, braver confrontation of your family history than you’ve been capable of in the past. Guided by a Mars-Saturn conjunction on the 10th, this bungee-jump of healing is perhaps instigated by problems that are manifesting with friends, siblings, and extended family—or maybe it’s not that deep, and you’re literally just moving because you can’t stand your commute. Either way, a new lease on home provides a new lease on life, and perhaps a less avoidant relationship with your past.
About that brainchild, though. As the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction perfects on the 20th, you, too, will be ready to pop with a creative genius that’s perfected and made more whole because of everything that’s been coming up for you this month. Maybe the original version of whatever you were working on was like the first pancake, and your initial frustration with it made the end result better. Maybe this has very little to do with a tangible creation, and more to do with your expanded relationship toward pleasure of all kinds. You are your ancestors to some extent, but you don’t have to live under their glass ceiling of happiness. Break generational curses by choosing your own joy.
Aquarius Rising
Not all who wander are lost, and in your case, being divinely rerouted by circumstances beyond your control might be the very thing needed to put you on the fastest route to your destination. Yes, this is probably about any ongoing sagas around your money and housing situation, and yes, that doesn’t mutually exclude the inroads you’ve been taking into deeper relationship with some of your closest kin. The question this April is: which stories merit rewriting, and where can returning to what’s familiar put you back in touch with the truth?
