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Libra horoscope for April 2024
While this is a month where there are some major themes and especially on the job, relationship and financial fronts, these are both familiar for this time of year but also a lot more empowered. While the Sun will always leave your work sector on the March equinox, you will often move into April with at least Venus or Mercury still here, tying up loose ends before things shift back to a more long term mode. This year you not only move into April with Venus still here but with Mars having returned for the first time in two years late last month. While Venus will leave on 5th April, with Mars here for the rest of the month her final days are all about giving the warrior planet of the cosmos something that he can keep fighting for.
It is then that Venus will join the Sun and Mercury, the planet of communication in your relationship sector. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year. However, with the North Node here and the South Node in your relationship sector, there has been a policing of a balance between your personal and relationship needs since they returned last July. It was having them here that turned a Full Moon in Libra last month into a lunar eclipse and a New Moon this month into a total solar eclipse, each time putting a balance between your personal and relationship needs to the test.
The Moon will move through to create that eclipsing New Moon from 7th April to 9th April, returning just two days after Venus, the planet of love's return on 5th April and when, after his retrograde turn on 2nd April, Mercury is on hand to not only give your emotional responses and relationships a voice but the past and unsaid words as well. The Sun will leave on 20th April and Venus on 29th April, but Mercury will stay on while Mars will return in the early hours of May to keep the focus on your relationships. This will see the Sun and Venus join Jupiter in your financial sector, just as he will be moving into the final weeks of his 12 month quest for financial growth and expansion.
Love & Romance
Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your relationship sector, the spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year, though with a lot more moving parts this year. This is due to a number of factors but mainly because you have the North Node in your relationship sector and instead of moving through in just 14 to 15 days, a retrograde turn will keep Mercury, the planet of communication here all month. Mercury returned earlier last month and should have left shortly after the Sun returned on the March equinox. Instead, Mercury begins the month still here but also at a near standstill ahead of a retrograde turn on 2nd April.Not turning direct until 26th April, Mercury will spend the majority of the month in retrograde motion, where his focus will be more on giving your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice. This couldn't be more timely, for as well as having the North Node in your relationship sector, with its partner the South Node in Libra, their 18 month policing of a balance between your personal and relationship needs is now under the spotlight. It began when having the lunar nodes policing a balance between your personal and relationship needs turned an ordinary Full Moon in Libra late last month into a lunar eclipse.
This will also turn the New Moon on 9th April into a total solar eclipse. The Moon will be here from 7th April to 9th April and with Venus, planet of love returning on 5th April, she will be here when this brings an opportunity for major new beginnings. Mercury will also be in retrograde motion by then and with the South Node on the opposite side of the sky in Libra also being impacted, he will be on hand to keep the communication lines open. Meanwhile, minding his own business is Pluto, with the planet of change and transformation making the most of his first full month on his own in your romantic sector. This will get a boost when the Moon moves through from 3rd April to 5th April. These romantically charged lunar vibes will be the perfect warmup to Venus, the planet of love's return to Aries on 5th April.
Business & Career
While the Sun left your work sector last month, something that will always take the solar spotlight off your work situation and job matters on the March equinox, it was just a few days later that work and job matters caught their second wind when Mars returned. While Mars returned three days after the Sun left, the month that it had spent here had helped to create a baseline or a starting point as the warrior planet of the cosmos returned for his first chance in two years to really fire things up. As you move into the new month Mars has been here for just over a week and to begin with, the focus is more on Venus.Until she leaves on 5th April, Venus' focus is on giving your heart a voice and as the planet of money, desire and attraction, she will be working to raise the bar on your expectations, attract opportunities and to steer things in the right direction. With Mars spending the whole of April in your work sector, this is not only likely to be one of the busiest months of the year but where you can gain the most progress. That Venus is spending her final days aligned with Neptune, the planet of dreams, is making the early days and throughout the first working week of the month all about having a dream and listening to your heart.
There will be a chance to regroup when the Moon returns to your work sector from 5th April to 7th April. The Moon will return just after Venus leaves and due to spend the first weekend of April here, this will be a valuable chance to regroup and shift gear, but it is the following week that will see Mars and Saturn align here for the first time in three decades. This will give you the power and the resolve to move mountains if you have to, as the focus shifts from knowing what you want to making it happen. It is a week later that the Moon will move through your career sector from 14th April to 16th April. As well as fuelling your professional instincts and imagination, as the Moon moves through it will connect with all three planets in your work sector, making these pivotal days on both fronts.
Money
While Jupiter won't leave your financial sector until 26th May, knowing that his quest for financial growth and expansion will be over by the end of next month, is giving you the motivation to pack as much into his last full month here as possible. This is also the month when things are likely to start coming together, thanks to a combination of the push that Jupiter himself will be bringing, a long awaited alignment with Uranus and the return of the Sun and Venus to help bring things home. Long before Jupiter returned last May Uranus, the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected has been in your financial sector since 2019.Uranus can trigger unexpected, serendipitous or eureka moments, but his main job is to keep things real. From the start, Jupiter had a long way to go before he was going to catch up with Uranus, something that will finally happen from 18th April to 22nd April. With the planet of luck and expansion and the planet of surprise, synchronicity and the unexpected aligned, anything is possible and especially with Jupiter about to move into his final weeks here by then. It is while Jupiter and Uranus are aligned that the Sun will return on 20th April, something that will always turn the solar spotlight onto your financial situation and money matters at this time each year.
It is when Venus returns on 29th April, the same day that Jupiter moves into his final month here that this will bring the planets of luck, money and synchronicity together. While for Jupiter this is a 12 month quest for financial growth and expansion, the last month is going to be the luckiest for money matters. Before then, the Moon will make its monthly visit from 9th April to 11th April, something that can sharpen your financial instincts and ensure you are emotionally and intuitively engaged. Meanwhile, with no planetary activity on the other side of the financial fence, the Moon's return to your income sector from 24th April to 26th April can sharpen your nose for money and act as a trigger, during what by then will be Mars' final days in your work sector.