Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope for April 20, 2023

It will be useful for you to have some observable metric of how fast time is passing. Take a look at some old photos, say, from the very beginning of your Facebook. Take out an old journal and flip through the pages, or maybe your high school yearbook.

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Aries (March 20-April 19) — You have a second chance to start over — to take hold of your time, your resources, and your physical space. This arrives after many months of feeling bogged down in circumstances you didn’t understand, most of which had their roots in your own lack of mental clarity.

Yes, it’s often difficult to see such a condition, though this is why it helps to have reality checks. These are points of orientation. It will be useful for you to have some observable metric of how fast time is passing. Take a look at some old photos, say, from the very beginning of your Facebook. Take out an old journal and flip through the pages, or maybe your high school yearbook. Find your oldest tee-shirt and try it on. We live on board a whipping star, where time is the essence of our fleeting experience.

Therefore, learn to use time to your advantage. Recognize that it’s your most precious resource. And borrowing a line from Walt Whitman, remember there is no more youth nor age than you have today.

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If you don’t cling to the shore or strand yourself on a rock, you will be in the flow. This translates to flexibility, and as I referenced last week, having a center and a point of focus — but making sure that it’s movable.

Taurus (April 19-May 20) — The Sun enters your sign on Thursday, with the gust of a total solar eclipse behind it. That is emphasis, and it’s a running start. However, you don’t need to make any effort to move quickly, only to stay in the stream of the events that are taking place.

If you don’t cling to the shore or strand yourself on a rock, you will be in the flow. This translates to flexibility, and as I referenced last week, having a center and a point of focus — but making sure that it’s movable. Uranus, the planet of unpredictable changes, has been in your sign since 2018, and that has come along with all kinds of shifts and changes you (seemingly) never could have imagined. However, as a diversity of planets make conjunctions to Uranus, you’re going to feel its effects more noticeably.

This, in turn, is tapping into an energy source deep within you, which often has a difficult time finding its way into the world. Yet at this point, that’s an inevitable development. And your main role is sculptor of that power.

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Under digital conditions, most people have lost all sense of their inner life. Even if that has been true for you in the past, it’s not true today. Yet you must keep coming back to yourself, and expressing yourself from within, informed by your inner awareness.

Gemini (May 20-June 21) — The recent solar eclipse and sign-change of the Sun feels like one of those warp-speed special effects from Star Trek. The quality of movement is exponential, and a release from ordinary time, space and gravity. Yours is the sign that (for the whole zodiac) represents immediate surroundings.

However, your current orientation and frame of reference is internal (focused in Taurus) with external expression (Venus in your sign). This is the perfect description of the outgoing introvert. Under digital conditions, most people have lost all sense of their inner life. Even if that has been true for you in the past, it’s not true today. Yet you must keep coming back to yourself, and expressing yourself from within, informed by your inner awareness.

What is going on around you matters less than your ability to navigate your own thoughts and perceptions. And from that point, you will be able to make decisions that can have an effect on the outer world of people, places and things.

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There are certain individuals who make it known that you can count on them, and they come through when asked. There are those who count on you, and at the same time, there are people who make sure you can be stable and reliable. This does not include everyone.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) — The emphasis of your chart is shifting rapidly to your place of orientation — the family of people whom you consider your friends. You are part of them and they are part of you.

The real ones are the very ground you walk on; the reason you have even a moment of feeling safe in the world. This actually does come from you. Even in the world largely dominated by pretend friends and make-believe allies, you have cultivated loyal bonds. There are certain individuals who make it known that you can count on them, and they come through when asked. There are those who count on you, and at the same time, there are people who make sure you can be stable and reliable. This does not include everyone.

There are all kinds of self-serving bullshit artists running around, though make sure you spot them and keep them at a far enough distance that they cannot do any real harm. The sincere people will show up ready to do something useful with their time and energy, specifically following your example. 

We can recognize the effect. And you can say that the rewards outweigh the risks — of thinking you’re betraying her by doing what is right for you.

Leo (July 22-Aug. 23) — You ultimately have to take the step that nobody can take for you. You can wait for it to happen — or for someone, or some circumstance, to push you. That is not where you’re at. Rather, you’re at the place where you are being called to step into your authority over your affairs, your reputation and your responsibilities. This is the real business of being an adult.

It is the line beyond which you may succeed or you may fail, and it’s on you. This is a big step for many people, though you’re here — or here again. However, at this time, the step itself is less significant than the underlying material: some thought form that has prevented you from doing some, or many, or all, of the things you want to do — but that your mother would consider “too much” or “too bold.” It’s material for a year of therapy, but this is astrology: we can call it what it is.

We can recognize the effect. And you can say that the rewards outweigh the risks — of thinking you’re betraying her by doing what is right for you.

You are about to enter a review, where you have the opportunity to question and re-learn material that you’ve explored and encountered the past few months. There’s been plenty, and the question now may center around its relevance.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) – Sometimes truth is experienced as an approach-avoid situation. Some days, you can handle more than others. Other days, you can handle less. Yet the deeper issue would be your capacity for adapting to what you know. This is better done as an ongoing process rather than in massive bursts. Think of discovery as a habit of thought.

This involves phases of new learning and then phases of review. You are about to enter a review, where you have the opportunity to question and re-learn material that you’ve explored and encountered the past few months. There’s been plenty, and the question now may center around its relevance. This is not a matter of whether something has value, but rather of what that value is. You may find, and I would suggest you consider, that the information is relevant only in its actual use.

Many people “pack in” learning, or what they call research, and do very little with it. It’s saved for some upcoming rainy day, which may never come. I suggest you think of learning and knowledge as a bowl of fruit.

Part of what has been stolen is the necessity for an orientation based on physical reality rather than on concepts, theories and wispy illusions. This has thrown people into chaos.

Libra (Sep. 22-Oct. 23) — True bonding with another person is based on trust. And trust is one of the very rarest qualities in the world today. Most people are convinced that most other people are scamming them, or want to. In its current form, the radical lack of trust that the world is experiencing is an effect of the digital environment, which is indeed a crime scene.

Part of what has been stolen is the necessity for an orientation based on physical reality rather than on concepts, theories and wispy illusions. This has thrown people into chaos. Under current influences, I would propose that trust is about grounding your relationships in the physical world, by which I mean in the same room, at the same time: actual meetings.

Reality is not limited to the physical body, but on the physical plane it’s the starting point, and the focal point. There are many reasons for this, though the bottom line is that if you are grounded in your body, you can get anywhere from there. And little else will give you the reassurance and sense of presence that you know you need.

The challenge is truly understanding yours, and then having an understanding of where others are coming from. This you can only learn through honest exchanges and some life experience.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22) — The Sun’s entry into your opposite sign Taurus will help you see the human landscape around you more clearly. Remember that it’s not where you used to live. Most people do not conduct themselves like they did in the past.

Their attitudes and values have changed. Yet if you look, and more accurately listen, you will find individuals who share common ground with you. Ground is what you stand on; what holds you up; and what feeds you. So that is where to look for the commonality. Relationships are functional and thrive based on shared values. It is that simple, and that complicated. The challenge is truly understanding yours, and then having an understanding of where others are coming from. This you can only learn through honest exchanges and some life experience. In any situation you find yourself, it’s essential that you state your truth and express what you want or need.

Then you have to observe and see what happens. It’s easy to project your ungrounded expectations onto others; that will not help in this quest, so notice when you’re doing it.

You know you’re on the brink of a relevant discovery, maybe a major breakthrough, though the retrograde is suggesting that you scan your life for unfinished projects and tasks, and wrap them up.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 22) — Cosmic activity now shifts to Taurus, the most productive angle of your solar chart — the 6th house. The Sun is now there, and Mercury in Taurus is about to station retrograde.

You know you’re on the brink of a relevant discovery, maybe a major breakthrough, though the retrograde is suggesting that you scan your life for unfinished projects and tasks, and wrap them up. If you find some that you don’t want to complete, put them on the shelf in good condition; you might come back to them at some point. You will feel good clearing your agenda and freeing up bandwidth for the next wave of projects, which will start to pick up momentum later in May.

As you wrap up old business, you’re likely to have new ideas — which you will forget if you don’t develop them a little and write them down, or sketch them. Give each one a sketch and a one-paragraph treatment, and leave it where you can come back to it when the time is right. You are communicating with your future self; leave coherent artifacts.

The rewards seem to be at the end, and there is nobody to make you do the work. And the lack of gritty urgency can make you feel like you’re wasting your time by doing things that you take pleasure in.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 20) – The exit of Pluto from your sign one month ago may have you feeling a little adrift. This is a known effect of Pluto: you miss it when it’s gone, no matter how challenging it was. Those challenges gave you focus and a reason to get up every day.

Now, you must give yourself those reasons, and you may have to reach further for what you want than you do for what you need, or what must urgently be done. The emphasis of your solar chart is shifting to Taurus — earth-sign to earth-sign — which is your 5th solar house. Mercury, the Sun, Uranus and an important minor planet called Albion are all in this area, which can offer you an abundance of creative ideas and opportunities. Yet these are not self-activating. You must extend yourself to make them real. That takes the kind of discipline that gets people to learn to play an instrument.

The rewards seem to be at the end, and there is nobody to make you do the work. And the lack of gritty urgency can make you feel like you’re wasting your time by doing things that you take pleasure in. Yet if Pluto through your sign represented an evolutionary necessity, so too does developing what you love, for its own sake.

For Aquarius this is more difficult than it is for most other signs, because the translation from thought to action requires changing your mind. This calls for unlearning and relearning, perhaps the things most challenging for you to do without having an anxiety attack or feeling like you’re losing control.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) — The world is still vibrating with the effects of Thursday’s solar eclipse, and it will be ringing like a bell for a while. The eclipse occurred right on the delicate line where you proceed from plans to action; from a vision to a tangible accomplishment.

For Aquarius this is more difficult than it is for most other signs, because the translation from thought to action requires changing your mind. This calls for unlearning and relearning, perhaps the thing most challenging for you to do without having an anxiety attack or feeling like you’re losing control. Astrology is giving a hint: this hesitation involves something you inherited from your dominant parent; in our time, most likely your mother. And the rare alignment that took place there may have taken you past a tipping point where you can actually overcome your hesitancy and self-doubt. This is a psychological problem, not a practical one.

And the only way to test whether it’s true is to give it a push. That is to say, do something you might have avoided, and see what happens. Note carefully any guilt you may feel, and proceed anyway — that was the whole problem all along.

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They also have a way of shaking up the known order (of one’s thoughts, and sometimes of one’s surroundings), especially if you do that rare thing and try them out. You have just experienced an eclipse on the line between your financial house and that of your concepts; and this in turn is about transacting business.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)  — You must have faith in your ideas. This can feel like a wild ride through the dark at times, because ideas light up what was previously in the shadows. Then you get to see what was there. So ideas have several effects, and I don’t blame most people for not liking them very much.

They also have a way of shaking up the known order (of one’s thoughts, and sometimes of one’s surroundings), especially if you do that rare thing and try them out. You have just experienced an eclipse on the line between your financial house and that of your concepts; and this in turn is about transacting business. The overall message of your charts is this: you need to try entirely new ideas. You need the shock that real thinking and actual experimentation can bring. And while

Mercury is retrograde for the next three weeks, I suggest you go on a hunt for things you thought of in the past, maybe scribbled down or sketched, or recorded, and forgot about. Declare your life an archeological dig; for that which is new, rather than what is old — though you will find gems in either case. Then, take the ones you like a step or two further.

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