for the four weeks beginning MARCH 24, 2025
2025 CAPSOLAR (Jan 14)
Effective Jan 14, 2025 to Jan 14, 2026. For a full interpretation of the 2024 "year chart," click here.
MEDIUM-TERM (The Bridge)
Two outer planets enter new signs this month: Saturn enters Pisces April 5. Uranus enters Taurus April 7. Meanings of these sign passages can be found on the Outer Planet Sign Transits page. Eris enters Aries April 19, though we don't know enough (at this stage of research) to report what this might mean. Additionally, Mars enters Cancer, also on April 5, ending several months mostly in Gemini.
Beginning April 4, progressed Cansolar Moon opposes ingress Jupiter. Mostly, this period (which lasts until June 3) should be an unusually benevolent, bountiful time for the world (not just the U.S.). Moon-Jupiter signals growing prosperity and pride with more positive events in the news and less disaster and hurt than usual. Diplomacy, dignity, and elitism prevail.
Moon-Jupiter's core idea, though, has a potentially divisive shadow side. Its core meaning isn't "prosperity for all" but, quite possessively, a strong focus on "my people first!" While this can motivate broad collective uplifting (present at most pivotal civil rights junctures), at its best and worst it signals strong national pride, patriotism, and uplifting one's family and community, standing most strongly for those groups with which one most personally identifies. Readers likely can imagine its possible shadow expressions.
- Mar 25: t Saturn co USA p Sun
- Apr 2: t Saturn sq USA r Mars
- Apr 4: t Mars-Eris sq
- Apr 5: Mars enters CANCER
- Apr 5: Saturn enters PISCES
- Apr 7: Uranus enters TAURUS
- Apr 12: t Saturn op USA r Neptune
- Apr 19: Eris enters ARIES
- Apr 20: t Mars op USA r Pluto
Within this, the aspects are confusing and crazy. Even skipping over the "stir the pot" Moon-Eris square, we have (for example) Moon opposite Mars plus Sun conjunct Venus - reiterating the strength of both Venus and Mars. Neptune has a strong hand, conjoining Mercury (it's only 1°18' mundo) and Sun (only 2°55' mundanely). Sun-Neptune produces an easily recognizable pattern of chaotic, disorienting events that feel like an (often ferocious) maelstrom. (Probably this is why the aspect is so common for hurricanes, tornados, and earthquakes.) Mercury-Neptune indicates confusion, disorientation, and often wrong (misled or confused) choices, a time when uncertainty takes the specific form of wondering, "What's next?" or, "What happens now?" While communication and transportation routes are often compromised with Mercury-Neptune aspects, Neptune's descent on the Sun-Mercury conjunction suggests that it's Congress that's in a flurry - that it's in Congress that much of the "friend or foe" shuffle produces strange bedfellows.
The essential dynamic is clear, but the actual "on the ground" events are anything but clear. We have an avenue of conciliatory, receptive communication (Mercury conjunct Venus), of trying to woo or seduce others to join (Sun aspects both Venus and Neptune) - and yet the most-angular Venus aspects a non-angular Saturn within about 1° (mundanely) suggesting that nobody wants to look at themselves in the mirror on the morning after.
Elsewhere in the U.S., Denver gets the worst of it, San Francisco gets the most interesting month, and somewhere south of Omaha has Jupiter lines crossing Sun-Mercury signifying big, happy news perhaps concerning the world of commerce. (Is it a Warren Buffett event?) A Saturn line curves from Louisiana past Memphis and through Indianapolis and Detroit, perhaps mapping late winter storms.
ARILUNAR (Mar 30) Effective Mar 30-Apr 5 This week, some prankster wants to set off firecrackers at the Caplunar's figurative party (and knock over the punch bowl), and nobody is happy about it.
If we ignore Eris, this chart is primarily a closely angular Moon that squares Mars. On a good day, this is merely aggravating and shows the people en masse pretty irritated. But we can't really disentangle Eris from this mix. It usually brings a flurry of chaos either arising from befuddling complexity or - with stark, candid planets like Mars and Uranus - chaos intentionally stirred by a trickster.
Moon squares Eris 0°13'. Mars squares Eris 1°45'. Uranus near the horizon is 2°47' from mundanely square Eris' position on the prime vertical.
Fascinatingly, Sun's exaltation degree (19° Aries) is rising, just as it does every four years when the newly elected U.S. president is sworn in. Perhaps we have to look no further than the White House to find our pot-stirring trickster. If so, we are advised to watch for his sleight of hand: What we think we see is not what we get.
Western states are draped with benefics. The Rockies are crossed by malefics. A Mars line scrapes Miami before it cuts inland through the Carolinas, while Pluto squares Ascendant also in Miami before sliding up Florida's eat coast and angling toward Atlanta and parts northwest. (Isn't it too early for a hurricane? Maybe not this year.)
CANLUNAR (Apr 5) Effective Apr 5-12 This week resembles last week - it has the same main players - but the chaos has coalesced. The chart seems straightforward, almost "clean." It's not so "all over the place" like the Arilunar.
Uranus at Midheaven primarily means big (perhaps shocking) surprises. Possibly, explosive fits the occasion: Uranian surprises usually seem explosive psychologically. Since Moon conjoins Mars everywhere in the world within 0°09', this chart may refer to something literally explosive: It resembles charts for the detonation of bombs and other explosions. Uranian times with strong Mars elements have a blitzkreig ("lightning attack") feel. With two large wars fuming in the world (and others on the horizon), this universal, world-wide impact of the Moon-Mars conjunction surely does not calm belligerency. This week has ferocity everywhere. Within that, the week brings startling developments in Washington.
Though we can't tell it from this chart alone, this week brings a new, seemingly positive turn for the U.S. As mentioned above, progressed Cansolar Moon starts a two-month opposition to Jupiter worldwide. Concurrent indications of military ferocity and promising diplomacy are interesting to contemplate together, as if warring nations are simultaneously accelerating their attacks and seeking to negotiate their closure, i.e., to claim a win or themselves.
Additionally, Donald Trump's chart takes a positive turn this week. As shown in his new demi-lunar return, he's unusually happy for two weeks. (This isn't necessarily a good sign for the nation as a whole, but has to be considered alongside the Cansolar's Moon-Jupiter message.)
Across the U.S., that severe Moon-Mars conjunction rises through the middle of California. (Isn't it too early for fire season? Something highly inflammatory marks the week.) They square MC at about the longitude of Denver and all parts due north and south.
LIBLUNAR (Apr 12) Effective Apr 12-20 Worldwide, Moon opposes Sun (and Eris) and squares Mars. Themes of ferocity, belligerence, violence, and hurt flare everywhere. In the U.S., though, this is accompanied by Jupiter closely setting. With a concurrent Cansolar Moon-Jupiter, this looks like a victory - a big win for the country!
It isn't a clean win, though. The concurrent angularity of Neptune says that optimism now is tempting, seductive, and soothing, but ultimately is unjustified optimism. If the stock market surges now (as it often does with an angular Jupiter), we shouldn't place faith in it. Any surge now is a bubble. Mars and Pluto, splayed along the Vertex axis in azimuth, are mundanely 90° from the setting Jupiter (measured along the meridian circle). Mars-Jupiter and Jupiter-Pluto suggest something costly, a blow to our economic security.
Communication, transportation, and data systems are compromised with Mercury conjunct Saturn on one side and Neptune on the other. Commerce is impacted. The seeming win is treacherous and needs to be assessed cautiously.
That afflicted Jupiter setting line runs right along the edge of the East Coast. While this could be primarily financial in impact, it also suggests powerful storms with unseasonally great dumping of rain.