Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Astrology with Alice. I'm
your host Alice Bell in today's Monday, April twenty eighth.
Happy Monday, everyone, I hope you all had a good
new moon in Taurus. I am recording this ahead of
that new moon, but I just want to say how
much I love Tourist season. It's truly the best zodiac season.
It's the time of the year where I'm the most present.
I love life. I feel like I spend the remaining
eleven months out of the year just waiting for Taurus
season to come back around, and I'm so jealous of
everyone who has a birthday at this time of year
because it's just so beautiful outside. I also love how
it's the time of the year where you really get
to indulge a bit more and experiment with creative outlets
or fashion, Like I find I just put more effort
into how I dress, and that's really fun for me
as an outlet for waste express my personality and my
personal taste. So yeah, maybe the new moon even intensified
this a bit more. But feeling more present, feeling like
you're observing the beauty around you more than you normally
would and maybe feeling a bit more creatively inspired than
you have been recently. Looking ahead to this week in
the coming days, we are coming off of that intense
Mars Pluto opposition that went exact this past weekend, So
looking ahead, hopefully there is less irritation, anger, or controlling
tendencies if that was something you encountered at the end
of last week, and I would say there's more of
an opening to fully relax or patiently work on something
and maybe not feel this need to control the outcome
so much or put so much of an intensive energy
into anything, just chilling out a bit. The main event
for this week will be Venus changing signs on April thirtieth.
So Venus is finally leaving Pisces, getting out from under
Saturn there and as it enters Aries, it's going to
be retracing the steps it took in February and early
March when it was in Aries before its retrograde began,
and then in the first half or so of its retrograde.
So if you think back to what was grabbing your attention,
what were you interested in pursuing, Where were you finding
creative inspiration throughout February and early March, and if those
interests got put on the back burner or just slowed
down a bit after that time period, maybe they're coming
back around again this week into the next several weeks
because Venus is in aries until early June, so throughout
the entire month of May you could be exploring those
interests a bit further and calling back themes that were
relevant to you earlier on this year. Mars is also
wrapping up its post retrograde shadow fay, finally moving beyond
six degrees of Leo this week. So six degrees of
Leo was where it started its retrograde back in early December,
and it's just now coming back to that degree marker
and moving past it for the first time since the
summer of twenty twenty three. Mars was last in these
later degrees of Leo in June and a little bit
of July in twenty twenty three, and then it moved
on to Virgo Libra in the second half of that year.
So this is a Mars cycle we actually haven't seen
in a while, and this is kind of like the
full wrap up of whatever you had insecurities about or
confused or frustrated about last fall. I know people in
different hemispheres listen to this podcast, so I want to
get more specific with the months, like September, October, November, December.
Now it's kind of like that full coming circle, closing
out of that chapter and having a lot more clarity
and certainty about how to move forward in whatever was
causing you stress or confusion back then. So really, with
these movements of Venus changing signs, Mars, moving past that
post retrograde shadow phase, this is a week of moving
on from topics that have concerned you and occupied all
of your mental energy for a while. Now it's finally like, Okay,
onto something new. I'm so bored talking about this stuff.
Let's move on to that next new chapter for the
rest of twenty twenty five. Okay, just some quick announcements
before we get into the breakdown for the week ahead.
I'm sending out a substuct for paid subscribers over the
next couple of days some point this week on figuring
out the best times to schedule launches, outreach, or make
major announcements mainly related to career or your own business
by looking at transits to your chart and seeing the
best time to do so, and also cycles of the
moon cycles of Mercury to look at, and then at
the end, I've given key dates over the next two
months of when you might want a time launches or
announcements around. That's just an area I get repeatedly questions about.
I feel like every single week, it's like, when is
the right time to launch this? When is the right
time to announce something? And I just wanted to do
a whole newsletter on that very topic. And also a
new benefit I recently introduced for paid substock subscribers is
exclusive access or just like priority access and discount to
the in person events that I'm beginning to do in
New York and maybe hopefully in other cities in the
near future. So I'm doing my first event coming up
on May six on Saturn Transit Stories, and it's similar
to the format I do here on the podcast. That's
what I'm trying to accomplish with these in person events,
but it fosters this sense of community where people are
able to come up to the mic and share their
chart with everyone in attendance. And so that's another thing
you get as a paid subscriber, like first access to
book a ticket, and this time around, they all sold
out before I was able to open it up to
everyone else, so that was really exciting and I can't
wait to meet some of you. If any of you
who booked the ticket also listen to this podcast, but
I am going to try to do an episode on
Jupiter Transits to Jupiter Transit Stories because we do have
Jupiter moving into cancer right on the heels of Saturn
moving into aries. And also stay tuned for a bonus
episode coming on Thursday of this week. I'm going to
be talking about the astrology of identity shifts, reflecting on
the retrogrades that just happened, and just chatting about recent
astrology in general and maybe transits that I'm looking forward
to throughout the rest of this year. And that'll have
a YouTube component to it as well. I'm Astrology with
Alice on YouTube too, so if you want to see
all the diagrams and more visuals for what I'm talking about,
I would listen or watch that episode on YouTube. Okay,
with that being said, let's get into the week ahead. Okay.
We are starting the week off on Monday, April twenty eighth.
The moon is still in Taurus. We are coming off
of that new moon that just happened the day prior.
On the twenty seventh time zones ahead, this will all
be pushed a day forward for you, Like the new
moon is going to be on your Monday, but maybe
the moon and Taurus is still going to be happening
on your Tuesday. So anyways, there's not a lot of
visibility to the moon quite yet because it is still
so close to the Sun and Taurus. I wouldn't expect
a lot of energy and activity to be going on
at the start of this week. But still note how
new opportunities, new projects, partnerships, or habits begin to form
in the coming days, because starting on the mark of
that new moon, it's like things start to take hold
pretty quickly, even if they're not becoming totally visible or
ready to be launched or announced quite yet. And see
how a new start or a new chapter is coming
through with the themes related to the Taurus ruled house
of your chart. So I just want to give a
general rundown of what different rising signs can expect in
those themes. But for fire sign risings, this new moon
probably brought up greater activity with career and work and
being productive and making more money and then for Earth
sign risings, this time period is more about leaning into
your personal creativity, developing self confidence, exploring new interests and
hobbies for yourself. And then for Air sign risings, this
time is more about rest and prioritizing your mental health,
focusing more on personal life matters or what's going on
internally with you and maybe making improvements there. And then
for Water sign risings, this would be a more social
time of year, whether that's related to dating an existing relationship,
or just seeing your friends a lot more and forming
business partnerships as well. Later in the day on Monday,
the moon will move on to conjunct your Honest and Taurus.
So at that point we're talking late Monday afternoon Monday evening,
you may feel a bit more anxious or kind of frazzle,
like you're being pulled in a lot of different directions.
So this is where it becomes very important to lean
into Taurus themes. So find ways to connect with your body,
whether that's like gentle exercise, being more present in the
everyday tasks that you have in front of you, try
to get off technology a bit more if you can,
and engage in a craft, a hobby, cooking, spending time
in nature that would be ideal for Monday. Then we're
moving right along to Tuesday, April twenty ninth. The moon
leaves Taurus and moves into Gemini right around two thirty
am in the morning Eastern time, so time zones ahead,
maybe noting when that would be for you, and seeing
a shift from feeling super slow or not as much
as happening to suddenly having this boost of energy and
wanting to connect with people or having people reach out
to you and feeling a bit more social in that way.
The moon will be in Gemini throughout all of Tuesday
and Wednesday, So themes to keep in mind throughout the
middle of this week would be engaging in learning of
some sort, picking up a useful skill, spending time reading
or it's not like super in depth learning, but it's
a little bit like dabbling in several different topics at once,
Like maybe you're picking up something useful from a TikTok
that you viewed or a quick article you read online,
and in turn, you may come up with more ideas
for writing content or meetings that you have at work.
In addition, outside of like productivity and that type of
thing you could be more in communication with friends, colleagues,
or the people around you throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, and
you could just want to be around others and share
ideas and have stimulating conversations. So Tuesday and Wednesday would
be great days to plan some type of outing or
meet up with a person. The downside to the Moon
and Gemini transit is definitely overthinking everything and feeling unable
to relax mentally, having racing thoughts or getting easily distracted,
like I said, like learning a bit from this source
and that source. It could be like information overload or
just an inability to focus on one specific task. So
that's something to just be aware of. Okay, moving on
to Wednesday, April thirtieth, Again we have the Moon and
Gemini all day, so very similar themes carry into Wednesday
as well. All of what I just said apply it
to Wednesday, but I do see Wednesday as being a
bit more fun because the moon is sex styling Mercury
and it'll be conjunct Jupiter, so interactions with people or
communication based war that you're trying to accomplish may flow
even more easily. Or you could have a surge of
ideas for content you want to create or ideas you
want to share with people. And there's also this hopeful,
optimistic energy when the Moon connects with Jupiter, or a
desire to have more knowledge. So how I said, Tuesday
might be learning like kind of random skills, random facts
of information here and there. Maybe on Wednesday there is
a desire to go deeper with something or think more
in bigger picture terms about a conversation or your overall purpose.
Returning to the theme of overthinking or being very mentally
stimulated with the Moon and Gemini having Jupiter here too
could amplify that a bit more. So, really try to
use Wednesday to find productive outlets for your thoughts. Like
I said, would be a great day to learn something
useful or that's grabbing your attention, connect with a friend
and how have an interesting conversation, Maybe carve out time
to accomplish a writing related project or journal. I would
also say Gemini is big on variety and exploration, same
with Jupiter. Both Jupiter and the sign of Gemini are
just linked with wanting to explore, wanting to broaden your
horizons in some way. So Wednesday could be a good
day to try out a new place in your city
or kind of attend something that feels a bit more
educational if you have time outside of work. That is
also happening on Wednesday is that Venus is finally leaving
Pisces and moving into Aries, and Venus will be in
Aries until June sixth. As I mentioned in the intro,
it was already in this sign and therefore the Ares
worldhouse of your chart in February in early March when
it prepared to station retrograde in the early days of
its retrograde. So as an exercise, it could be interesting
to reflect back to what interests or creative influences were
in aspiring to you back then, and now that Venus
is direct and retracing those same steps, you could be
finding a new approach to these topics or these areas
of your life, and you could find that it's much
easier to go further and develop them more fully than
you were able to in the past couple of months.
But just looking at Venus and Ares, themes in general
that everyone will want to keep in mind over the
next five weeks would be about being more active about
reaching out to people or possibly dating, and not having
fear and wanting to put yourself out there more in
addition being more direct about what you want in a relationship.
It's interesting Ares is definitely a trickier sign for Venus
to be in because Ares is so much about the self,
and Venus is naturally about partnership and compromise. So there
could be this recurring theme over the next month or
so about how can you stay true to yourself and
what you want for just you while also showing up
in these close friendships or dating situations or long term
partnerships and honoring your commitments to other people. So there
might be this tricky balance you're trying to achieve of
self versus relationships. In addition, it could be that you
want to act on creative impulses, not sit around and
plan things out really that extensively. It's more like, let's
just do that now and think and plan later. It's
better just to get something out there and get it going,
and then we'll figure out how it may need to
be edited down or tweaked a bit once it's already
out there. And also when it comes to the finances,
the money side of Venus could be that Venus and
Ares has you spending money more impulsively but check the
Ares worldhouse of your chart to see what area of
life you may be finding greater balance in where beneficial
parts partnerships might be forming, or where you could be
injecting your creative point of view into So like in
my chart as a Leo rising and for all Leo risings,
like Venus is now entering our ninth house, so finding
ways to I don't know, finding enjoyment and boosting creativity
when you're engaging in learning and furthering your education on
certain topics, or maybe travel is a booster to you
having a new perspective and new creative ideas spinning in
your head. And then we are to Thursday, May first.
The moon moves into Cancer a little after three am Eastern,
so time zones ahead. This might be closer to your
mid morning or afternoon, even the nighttime on Thursday May first.
And by this point in the week, the moon will
be in its waxing crescent phase. It's now sextile to
the Sun in Taurus. So Thursday may feel less social
because there's not that element of the Moon being and
Gemini connecting with Jupiter there, but you could still be
getting more done and noticing how projects and relationships are
really beginning to pick up momentum with the moon and cancer.
You may quite literally be tending to activities around your
home or with your family at the end of this week,
and even if it's not something that obvious or significant,
still notice how maybe you are reflecting a bit more
on your living situation or how you decorate your home,
or a conversation that you need to have with a
parent or your sibling, and how those types of things
are more of a focus at the end of this week.
I'm actually flying back to Nashville on this very day
to see my sister's twin babies, my niece and nephew
for the first time, so I'm really excited for this.
But other Moon and cancer themes could be that you're
more emotionally sensitive and things are affecting you more than
they usually would. And another reason for this heightened sensitivity
and maybe more emotion being brought out on Thursday and
also carrying into Friday, is that Venus will be conjunct
Neptune and Ares on these days. So this brings in
this desire to have more meaningful, almost spiritual connections with
people where it just feels deeper and that you're connected
on not more of an intense level, but just more
of a I really know what this person is about
and I feel very connected to you. This can also
be a pretty romantic transit, but it may make it
harder for you to see a relationship for what it
really is. And there could on the one hand, there
could be this desire to be more compassionate and giving
and extending your energy and your help to other people.
But on the other hand, there is this need to
be wary of who are you giving your energy away to.
Are you giving too much of yourself away to other
people and not recognizing when you need to give that
same love and compassion back to yourself. So I would
say those are the downfall of this transit, and also
just having venus and ares a sign it doesn't thrive in.
It could be that there is like this miscommunication or
confusion that briefly comes up in a relationship at the
end of this week, and also in terms of money,
that same confusion or uncertainty regarding finances that may come
up on Thursday and headed into Friday too, So maybe
try to hold off on doing shopping on these days.
It could just like cloud your judgment of what purchase
is actually really necessary, what would I get a lot
of use out of. But on a more positive note,
this transit could have you wanting to lose yourself in
a cultural activity or art or beauty. So could be
a great couple day period to go to a museum,
watch a film that is really inspiring to you, lose
yourself in music, or seek out style inspiration in various sources.
So that's something maybe you want to lean into a
bit more if you're feeling the more challenging effects of
this transit. And this will carry into Friday too, that's
actually the day when this venus neptune aspect goes exact.
So let's move on to Friday. Now, Friday May second,
the moon is in cancer all day, Venus is still
conjunct Neptune and arees, so Friday is very much another
day where you may be more in your emotions or
feeling extra sensitive, or you could just want to spend
time on relationships that feel more nurturing, like people who
already know you, or maybe you're finding ways to do
something thoughtful for a person that you care about, like
host someone for dinner. That's a great cancer moon activity
or catch up with someone in a more intimate way
really figure out how is that other person doing can
you be there to support them at all? And for
the earlier part of Friday, majority of your day, if
you're in time zones ahead of America, the moon in
Cancer will be squaring Mercury and aries, So this again
points to how they're may be more emotion into how
you communicate with people, and since it's a square with
mercury and aries, kind of an impulsive place for mercury
to be. I'm getting a package. Okay, sorry, my husband's
birthday present is arriving in the mail. His birthday's on
the twenty ninth, so I had to answer that. But yeah,
So this could be a great time to step back
and consider what you want to say before you blurt
something out of a strong emotion you're having, because there
may be this tendency to feel something super intensely and
then immediately react or communicate about it when maybe that
needs more time and reflection on your part. But on
the other hand, it could be a great time to
get something you're feeling off your chest and have a
more emotionally charged conversation with someone. So it's really I
guess up to you. Let's move on now to Saturday,
May third. The weekend is a completely different vibe. So
if the end of week was kind of emotional, more reactive,
on Saturday, the moon moves into Leo right there with
Mars and Leo, so Saturday I see as a day
for action. We are also reaching the first quarter moon
phase out of this whole lunar phase that's going on
this month, so there's more going on in general headed
into the weekend, and this could be the turning point
in the month where things are starting to get very
busy in the lead up to the full moon, which
will be a week from this coming weekend. So you
could have extra errands or work that you're tending to
this weekend, or you're busy organizing a gathering or an
activity or an upcoming event. I would say Saturday and
also Sunday will be more outgoing because the moon will
not only conjunct Mars and Leo, but will also tryn
Venus and Ares. So you may be enjoying meeting up
with people, putting yourself out there in some capacity. However,
when it comes to that Moon Mars conjunction, there could
be a tense moment that comes up in a relationship
or just within yourself, or you might be more easily
irritated on Saturday, So something to be mindful of. But
this would be a great day overall to put energy
towards some type of side hobby or finding happiness and
joy in those little unexpected moments in your life. So
maybe you want to think about what are fun activities
you can do just for you on Saturday. So for me,
that's admiring the flowers around the neighborhood, or treating myself
to coffee at a cafe and going for a walk
and enjoying the beauty in that way. That brings me
a lot of joy. So try to think about what
that is for you and engage in that this weekend
and really take time to relax and not push yourself
to be so productive. Like I know, I mentioned it's
picking up, it's busier, but maybe there are ways to
have more fun. And then we are to Sunday, May fourth.
Sunday is pretty similar to Saturday, but instead of the
moon conjunct Mars where that irritation may have come up
or I don't know. Sometimes I can be kind of
like a confronting or aggressive type energy. The Moon will
now be squaring the Sun and Taurus on Sunday, so
again not the most easy going aspect. There could be
some internal frustration you're feeling on Sunday or a strong
desire to act on something that you've been thinking about doing.
I see Taurus and Leo as being such creative signs,
So having these two signs emphasized by the transits of
the Sun and Moon this weekend, this is a time
where you need to allow yourself to experiment with expressing yourself.
And I feel like I've gone over this several times
throughout this episode. But find a hobby or an outlet
that makes you happy and where you can put your
personality and your creativity into, whether that's how you dress,
maybe you want to go out and take photos, tend
to a little literal craft, or find other ways that
you can bring your unique point of view into that
project or that activity. And Sunday again looks like a
great day for being social, as the moon will exactly
trying mercury, so it is trying venus on Saturday, trying
mercury on Sunday. I just see relationships flowing so much
more easily this weekend than they may have been last
weekend with the Mars Pluto opposition. I actually love this
weekend so much, and I see it as coming out
of hibernation time, like the first weekend where it feels
like people are fully coming together and fun is going
to be had. So try to enjoy yourself this weekend,
and I'm so happy that we're ending on a positive note.
But yeah, thank you again for listening, and stay on
the lookout for a bonus episode coming this Thursday, and
otherwise I'll see you back here for the forecast on Monday.