Planetary Illuminations for April 2015 now posted

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I will be writing a separate article for the New Moon Eclipse coming up on April 4th, but here is a synopsis of the major events for the month of April.

Although Uranus and Pluto are beginning to separate from the intensity of their challenging square, soothing the intensity of the push for change of the past five years, the Eclipse on April 4th will trigger these two monsters of enforced transformation one more time.

Two planets change direction this month;  Jupiter turns retrograde on April 8th and Pluto turns retrograde on the 16th. Both planets have slowed down to a crawl (a “station”) in preparation for its change of direction.  When a planet is stationary its influence becomes more powerful and this will be particularly true if Pluto is affecting your own chart right now.  As Lord of the Underground Pluto forces our attention into areas where we might otherwise not care to venture – the dark underground of the psyche, of emotions, of secrets.  Pluto demands that we surrender those aspects of our life which we know we have outgrown, and if we don’t follow his instructions he can become rather ruthless. Stationary Jupiter has a milder effect, especially when the experience occurs under a Pluto influence.

Still – the planetary intensity of the past few months is beginning to lessen and April brings mostly smaller cycles of the faster moving planets as we pick up the pieces of our lives after the tornado of the Uranus/Pluto square which has created so much upheaval since 2010.