On April 20 your Ruling Planet the Sun enters the zodiac sign of Taurus. This will bring immediate relief as the past couple of weeks have been full of unexpected twists, surprise upsets, and more than just a couple of rude awakenings. The good news about the Sun in Taurus is that life will calm down immediately. Taurus is an earth sign and the effect of earth on fire is to reduce the heat and volatility. You’ll be able to answer the phone again without fear of hearing about a new crisis or an impending fiasco.
Taurus rules the heart of the spring season and this is the time of year when new growth is bursting forth. It’s a good time for business and career matters as you will be looking at things with a fresh perspective and a blooming confidence. But new growth, as every gardener knows, comes with weeds that threaten to choke the life out of projects and ventures in their infancy. Thankfully the Sun/Saturn trine on April 29 will help you to rout them out. This could require deft handling of sensitive matters, a refusal to accept manufactured excuses, and a willingness to dig deeper for the answers you seek. You will surely have to get your hands dirty as you pull threatening situations out by the roots, but the end result will be a plot of land bursting with life. Employers will see you as the person who transformed an empty lot into a fragrant garden.
Jupiter in that part of your solar chart that pertains to home and hearth can be a wonderful transit. You’ve been enjoying its influence here since last October and in the past few months you may have moved, purchased a new home, inherited a piece of property, or been approved for a loan to expand or remodel. And everything would have been moving along swimmingly until Jupiter turned retrograde last March. Jupiter retrograde often pulls the plug on all the good fortune that you were experiencing when it was moving forward in the sky which means that in the past few weeks you may have learned that your new neighborhood isn’t so great, your home has some serious problems, that piece of property came replete with hidden costs, or the construction you were planning will take longer and cost more than what you were led to believe. These things are to be expected, of course, but your faith in yourself (and your choices) will be severely tested on May 8 when Jupiter will be opposite your Ruling Planet. Now you could go back the way you came but it’s highly doubtful given how much time and money you’ve already invested. Thankfully a Sun/Neptune sextile occurring around this time will help you to secure the funding or to lock in the resources you need to get the job done. You’re not out of the woods yet, but at least you can see the forest for the trees.
On May 11 the Sun will trine Pluto. This is a very subtle planetary aspect and one that you need to pay close attention to. Pluto is named after the Roman god of the Underworld. He rules over things that are buried beneath the surface of the earth like bodies, bones, relics and fossils. Pluto also rules over seeds. Nobody knows why a seed will begin to sprout after a long period of dormancy. It’s just one of those mysteries of time and nature. Something just impels that dark blind seed to push up through the soil and to snake its way towards the Sun. The same thing is going on with you right now. There’s this deep and abiding sense that you are ending one chapter of your life and moving on into another. It’s a passage of sorts. And like I said it’s subtle and something you need to focus on because on May 15 Uranus, the planet of revolution and change, will begin its seven year stay in that part of your solar horoscope that pertain to your career. This is bound to shake things up in your life and throw you for a loop. Whether this results in a breakdown or a breakthrough all depends on your outlook. If you rely on status symbols to define who you are then you could be in for a shock to the system, however if you can dig down deep into yourself and draw strength from your dark rich soil then you will find that not only do you have what it takes to get through this passage but you will emerge stronger and more confident than you ever were before.
Meanwhile your Sun changes zodiac signs on May 20. You’ll want to check back here then to see what that means for you.