At this point, you’ve made it through the chaotic and intense month of March — and live to walk the garden path of April.
The month begins mere days after Neptune — our planet of dreams, drugs, art, and imagination — moves into the fire sign of Aries, a shift from the nebulous to the infernal that could feel both jarring and vitalizing.
On April 7, trickster planet Mercury finally ends its retrograde. The clouds will part — and what once felt like impossible drudgery will soon switch to a feeling of calmness.
Midway through April, the Full Pink moon in Libra coincides with Venus stationing direct after a 40-day retrograde.
Full moons are always a point of cumulative release and revelation — but this one is mighty, highlighting relationship dynamics and facilitating the stitching back together of the frayed and fraught edges of the human heart.
From there, Mercury moves into the blunt and bold sign of Aries, making communication more direct.
Then, Mars moves out of the passive-aggressive puddle of Cancer and into the regal fires of Leo — encouraging leadership, creative initiative, and a need to be seen and heard.
Continuing through April, as the sun enters Taurus season — there is a summons to honor the body, and prioritize pleasure.
As April ends, the new moon in Taurus is a prime time for dirt magic — under this influence, we are more capable than ever of turning our wants into haves.
Here’s to firepower and desire, the winds of change and the way forward.
Read on for both your sun and rising sign April 2025 horoscope.
Happy return of the sun to you, Aries!
In a recent documentary about actress, power muse, and fellow Aries Anita Pallenberg, her son Marlon remarked that Pallenberg’s ‘desire to not be a victim saved her’ from the depths of a devastating drug habit.
Sober but no less electric, Pallenberg went full Phoenix in the second half of her life, living full and free and precisely as she pleased.
As the sun highlights your first house of the self, I encourage you to adopt a similar defiance: no matter who you’ve been, the cape you’ve worn, and the role you’ve played — refuse to be anyone but the storied, well-dressed hero of your own epic saga.
Upon the death of his wife, English poet, painter, and fellow Taurus, Dante Gabriel Rossetti leased a new home and filled its garden with exotic animals, including but not limited to a pair of wombats and a toucan whom he dressed in a cowboy hat.
Was it grief or freedom that inspired this passion for nature?
Perhaps, there is no difference as both create space, an opening in the world to explore. As the sun in Aries highlights your 12th house of endings, I encourage you to welcome the limitlessness of such emptiness and think of the delicious and absurd ways you can fill your own proverbial garden.
A Mongolian proverb holds that “100 friends are more valuable than 100 pieces of gold.” As Aries season highlights your 11th house of community and collective energy, Gemini — how do you conceive of and invest in those around you?
If time is our true currency, are you spending it well and spending it with those who enrich and inspire? If not, it may be time to dig deeper.
Ahoy, Cancer! For the bulk of the month, Mars — our planet of war and winning, will be rounding out his tour of duty in your sign.
The lord of war is ill at ease in the sign of Cancer, yet I think there is an important lesson to be learned in this final push.
If you will allow a domestic metaphor, consider that every action is a stitch, and the quality of the quilt is directly proportional to your ability to be both visionary and pragmatic.
The sun in a fellow fire sign lights up your ninth house of expansion and inspiration, Leo.
A little lesson in nature for you: rather than hibernating deep in water sources like many of their species, wood frogs freeze themselves solid to endure the long months of winter. They bed down on the forest floor and cease to breathe, move, or even generate a heartbeat.
No one knows what ignites the wood frog’s heartbeat after this extended spell of suspension. But it might be that the frog thaws from the inside out, alongside the land and much earlier than their water-dwelling brethren.
I offer you the wood frog as an example of what can be gained by slowing down, standing still, and working with your elemental nature and the cycles of your own spontaneous ignition.
It’s widely known that the glory of a pearl is born from grit, irritation, and violation, Virgo.
Yet, as you embark upon Aries season, highlighting your eighth house of sex, death, resources, and regeneration — it feels pertinent to note that the word pearl comes from the Latin for leg.
This is thought to be a reference to the shape of the oyster itself, but in the interest of poetry — I suggest it says something else: the gift of grit allows us to stand tall and step forward. All pain is a preparation, every setback is a new start.
Hello, Libra. The sun in Aries sets fire to your seventh house of partnerships.
I recently read that female gladiators routinely fought in ancient Rome. Unlike their male counterparts, these women did not fight to the death but rather to the draw.
Coming from all backgrounds, they took up the sport of sparring to strengthen their bodies for childbirth, make money, and be buoyed by the roar of the crowd.
I hope you consider these ancient athletes as you navigate your relationships this month, Libra. Remember that conflict is a conduit, and there is usually a way for everyone to win.
Recently, over coffee, a favorite Scorpio of mine detailed his latest marathon attempt. When I asked him if he would run the course again, he said, “Of course, I have to take my revenge on it.”
I suspect you can identify with the sentiment.
As the sun in Aries activates your sixth house of daily habits, I encourage you to adopt a motivational ritual that pushes you forward. So be it if spite is what moves you.
I recently read a short story about a woman who gets an erotic thrill from listening to the recorded sound of irregular heartbeats. As Aries season highlights your fifth house of pleasure, play, love affairs, and creative endeavors, Sagittarius — I encourage you to find something that arouses a similar feeling.
I invite you to listen closely and keep a wide eye fixed on wonder as you explore not just what beats strangely in others — but what sings to the source in you.
The focus for you this month, Capricorn, is the ties that bind and the roots that hold. The sun in Aries burns a hole in the front door of your fourth house of origins and ancestry.
Rather than be bogged down by all that came before, I challenge you, in the spirit of spring and the onset of a new year, to be emboldened by it.
My older sister (every inch an Aries moon) keeps this reminder taped to her refrigerator: “You were forged in the fires of divinity, soul-bathed in the waters of immortality, kissed by the Gods, earth rooted by ancestors. Trust yourself.”
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In his song “Renewed Ambition,” rapper and Aquarius king Kevin Gates explains that he, like all geniuses, talks to himself.
As the sun in Aries casts its light on your third house of communication, I urge you to take a page out of KG’s playbook.
Orate your life and give voice to the questions, qualms, ideas, and all that ails and avails you. Talk to yourself like every answer is built into the echo because, of course, it is.
As we conclude a trying Venus retrograde in your sign this month, Pisces, I feel compelled to share a message with you.
My favorite Pisces recently had me over for a screening of her favorite film, 1971’s “Harold and Maude.”
Towards the end of the movie, Harold confesses his love for his older paramour, and she responds by saying, “Oh, that’s wonderful! Now go love some more.”
Whomever you are pining for or recovering from Pisces, think of them as kindling for a future fire.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
