April 2024

These horoscopes are specific to your rising sign. Your rising sign is the Zodiac sign that was rising on the eastern horizon at the time of your birth. If you don’t know your rising sign you can go to astro-seek.com and look up your birth chart. Your rising sign is the sign that occupies the 1st house in your natal chart.

Our ancient ancestors applied an expansive lens to the visible world. Even the cosmos was believed to have a soul. In turn, modern humans have become increasingly myopic. We use technology to look deeper into the body and further into the heavens than ever before. It is no wonder that Uranus, the first planet to be discovered with a telescope and invisible to the naked eye, has taken on such great significance in our modern age. So when Jupiter, the very visible and largest planet in our solar system, conjoins Uranus on April 20th at 21° Taurus, you can expect... well, you will just have to read your horoscope to find out!

The house listed under your rising sign is the house where the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction takes place in your natal chart.

Aries — 3rd House

You wake up motivated to get the day going! The Sun is shining, the birds are chirping, you gather your to-do list and head out the door. Oops, you left your lights on and your car won’t start. That will not stop you! You walk to the bank instead. Upon arrival you realize you forgot your wallet. By this point you are mad and frustrated. You start to run home to get it, Forrest Gump style—it feels good, like really good. Next thing you know you've picked up running as a new healthy hobby. Where in your life would a little chaos actually yield positive results?

Taurus — 2nd House

You are at the store parking lot, you look down and find a wad of hundreds. It’s a busy day with lots of people coming and going. You are perturbed, in a hurry, and the cash looks suspect. You put it in your pocket and head towards the store as you contemplate what to do. In front of the store there is an innocent-looking young man bumming for money. Something inside inspires you to pull out the cash and hand it to him. He’s shocked and appreciative, and you feel surprisingly good. Your conscience is clean and you might have just changed someone’s life! What is a belief you have about money that is holding you back in life?

Gemini — 1st House

Being meticulously focused on details is a trait you want your airplane mechanic to have. The same meticulousness aimed at yourself will probably lead to a level of neuroses that is super unhealthy for your mental wellbeing. In college I knew this guy who told me he felt completely uncomfortable walking across campus if he had on white socks with black dress shoes. Even if his pants covered up the socks he worried someone would see them. Seemed super weird to me, but hey—I don’t even own any socks! Just joking! What’s one belief you hold about yourself that if you let it go, it would change everything?

Cancer — 12th House

Studies have shown that human memory is actually incredibly unreliable. I wonder how much of the stuff that irks us every time we think about it is actually just a fabrication morphed over time into a completely made-up scenario. It didn’t happen the way you thought it did. Unfortunately, time marches on and you continue to suffer. You can never go back and see what happened from an objective viewpoint. So, here is a bold dare—why don’t you put quantum physics to the test and rewrite the past in the present? Why not? The past might not even be real! What’s one memory you could rewrite?

Leo — 11th House

You are the change you’ve been waiting for. Sounds cliché but 9 times out of 10 the wisdom you seek is actually already inside of you just waiting to come out. Clarity and illumination won’t come from another self-help book, weekend seminar, or your mother’s advice (sorry Moms). Sometimes we just need to step aside, get out of our own way, and let our best self shine through. All that glitters (within you) is gold! Where are you standing in opposition to your hopes and dreams?

Virgo — 10th House

Ever notice that people who live very public lives in the end come out as having been living another very secret life? Affairs, embezzlements, and scandals seem to be second nature to people who are in the public eye. Nobody is perfect but going around living two lives surely takes its toll. Don’t worry, I’m not talking about you here but simply entertaining the thought experiment of how we align what we think, how we feel, and who we are. So, the million-dollar question is: are you in integrity with who you want to be?

Libra — 9th House

If only life were black and white! But it’s not—it’s more of a grayish brown. The color you get when you mix all the colors in the little paint tray together. Life is messy and chaotic. A beautiful Leonardo da Vinci painting is pleasant on the eyes but a toddler’s finger painting is a more accurate representation of reality. Sometimes life is more about accepting the chaos rather than trying to control it. Where are you struggling to bring order to your life that might be better left to the finger paints?

Scorpio — 8th House

The entanglements of our daily lives are where life can produce a lot of fear, anxiety, and anticipation. These entanglements might have you feeling sticky and stuck but if you can zoom out you might just see the beautiful spider web glistening with dew in the moonlight. So Scorpio, where might a broader perspective illuminate the beauty you are missing by taking such a myopic approach to life?

Sagittarius — 7th House

The polarity of the world is ultimately what makes everything work. Light/dark, yin/yang, hot/cold, etc. So when you find yourself in a relationship that feels polarizing, maybe you could think of it as a crucial ingredient in your human experience, rather than a thorn in your side! Barring the truly toxic relationships of course—get those people out of your life now! What is a polarity that needs to be embraced in your life?

Capricorn — 6th House

If you’ve heard the phrase “white-knuckling it” and you are over the age of 16 you probably know exactly what that means. Those classic whiteout snowstorm driving experiences will make the palms of even the most experienced winter driver sweat. The funny thing is that gripping the steering wheel till your knuckles turn white is not helping your car stay on the road. It’s an overcompensation for the stressful situation you have found yourself in. If you extrapolate that metaphor out to life, then the question to ask yourself becomes: where in your life are you white-knuckling it when a lighter touch might actually yield the same, if not better, results?

Aquarius — 5th House

Chaos breeds creativity! Have you ever noticed that beautiful art is born out of the chaos of an artist’s studio or that a clean house has to get real messy before everything is put back in its rightful place? If someone walked into your house in the middle of you cleaning, they wouldn’t think you were a slob—they would think you were cleaning your house. So why do we enact the same judgment on the other projects in our lives, when ultimately they just haven’t come to completion yet? Where might a little perspective shift change how you feel about the current unfinished chaos in your life?

Pisces — 4th House

A Taoist Master once said, “Before you jump into heaven, step onto earth first.” So much of what we do as humans is about striving for those transcendent mountaintop moments. Unfortunately, those are unreliable, unpredictable, and fleeting. Where most of life actually happens is down in the valley. This is where you will find your soul—making mud pies and turning the compost. Where in your life would digging down actually allow you to reach higher?

Questions or comments? Email: adam@solastrology.com