Aries season’s arrival marks the beginning of the new astrological year, as well as the beginning of spring, and the suddenness with which our city’s flora blooms mirrors the pace of our lives and world events. This is at least partially due to both Mars and Mercury’s movement into Aries on the 9th and 14th, respectively. These two planets transiting through this brazen fire sign will intensify societal tensions in no uncertain terms. While Pisces season was marked by illusions and miscalculations, Aries season will have strategy, precision, and force. This might fill some of us with dread, while others who have been itching for a fight will embrace the boost. The full moon in Libra, a sign of balance and harmony, will occur on the 1st (April Fools’ Day!). Use this silly holiday to relieve stress with the most playful aspects of Libra. We should perhaps also take this day to reflect on the previous month and what we have learned about friendship and beauty, and the ways they can both be used to counter ugliness in our world. The new moon in Aries on the 17th will offer the inverse, wherein we will explore (or push) the limits of our personal power. The sun will conjunct Mercury, Mars, and Saturn in Aries on the 19th before entering Taurus on the 20th, and the friction we experience between what we can do for others and what we need to do for ourselves will likely reach one (or many) breaking points.
ARIES
Happy You season, Aries! This month the sun transits your 1st house, joined by Mars and Mercury on the 9th and 14th. This concentration of planets joining Saturn’s continued movement through your 1st house of core identity indicates both movement and restriction. Your impulses might be particularly strong, but your circumstances will demand strategy and forethought. Be bold but structured, and perhaps use the new moon in your sign on the 17th to check in with your emotional limits.
TAURUS
As your cycle around the sun comes to a close, the sun’s transit through your 12th house invites reflection and rest. You might feel that this last year has moved at breakneck speed, and that Aries’ fiery influence has you biting off more than you can chew. Aries’ rulership of your 12th house indicates a time to explore your shadow side that might desire a less stable, more assertive way of being. Try to embrace it without overcorrecting.
GEMINI
One of the most rewarding things about being a Gemini is a natural inclination for friendship and the social world. Even if you are introverted, you likely have a natural calling that directs your community service. The sun’s transit through your 11th house will invite you to consider how to sustain these contributions, and what levels of sacrifice you are willing to make to do so.
CANCER
The full moon in Libra on the 1st will start your month off with a sudden shift in how you feel about home, family, or safety. Libra’s rulership of your 4th house indicates that maintaining your home and the relationships therein requires tact, and this full moon could either disrupt or further harmonize your expectations in this realm. Aries will teach you how being direct can create more harmony, even if it’s a little frightening at first.
LEO
You’ve likely had a few difficult months marked by change or grief. It is not an unnatural thing to experience fear, despite your lion-hearted ways. Your bravery is an asset to your community, and the sun’s transit through your 9th house of freedom will invite you to make sure that you also benefit from your own power. Take a trip, take a bath, lift your own spirits the way you do for so many others.
VIRGO
The 8th house is a place of death, transformation, and personal resolve. As the sun, your ruling planet Mercury, and Mars all transit your 8th house this month, your capacity for strategic and self-assured movement will be tested, met, and—with any luck—expanded. The arrival of spring might coincide with a large push to change your material circumstances and commitments. Aries’ passionate energy might push you toward impulse, which could be a nice change of pace if you are usually overly cautious.
LIBRA
The lessons you started during Venus’ transit through your 7th house of relationships and partnerships last month will amplify this month as the sun, Mercury, and Mars all enter the chat. These planets are more masculine in nature than Venus, and Aries’ influence here indicates a desire for relationships that challenge you to be more assertive. Essentially, you need not backtrack on the sovereign tone you’ve likely been setting.
SCORPIO
Aries and Scorpio share Mars rulership, and therefore this season and Mars’ entry into Aries on the 9th will be vitalizing. You might feel more driven, active, or aggressive. Mars will conjunct Saturn in your 6th house on the 19th, and you might experience a significant roadblock or breakthrough on or around this day. By increasing your capacity to regulate your nervous system and communicate with others, you will be able to meet these moments with more clarity.
SAGITTARIUS
Though you may not always feel it, your position as the last fire sign in the astrological cycle comes with a spiritual authority, or at least the potential for it. Aries’ position as the first fire sign in the cycle will put you in touch with your fearsome and wild inner child, for better or worse. Better could look like dropping outdated philosophies, and worse could look like self-sabotage. Be playful! But try to stay on the proverbial wagon as best you can.
CAPRICORN
You might find that your classic Capricorn drive is primarily rooted in pure, unadulterated ambition, and sometimes it is rooted in familial wounds around scarcity, fear, and power. The sun, Mars, and Mercury’s transit through your fiery Aries-ruled 4th house will encourage you to initiate conversations that help you to resolve potential familial conflicts and move forward together with clear expectations.
AQUARIUS
The full moon in fellow air sign Libra on the 1st will occur in your 9th house of intellectual expansion, and you might find that the cardinal nature of this sign inspires sudden shifts in your belief systems. Your ruling planet Saturn will continue its transit through your 3rd house, and be joined by the sun until the 20th. You might find that this two-year transit has brought new restrictions around how you communicate, which has the advantage of also providing structure and hopefully peace.
PISCES
Hopefully your celebrations and renewals during your season last month have you settling into a fresh sense of self. Aries’ rulership of your 2nd house and the sun’s transit through it ask for stability, consistency, and self-care. You are being invited to slow down before you truly launch into this next chapter.
illustrations by Anneliese DePano
