Weekly Astrology Forecast, April 2-8: Slowing Down And Finding Balance

This week welcomes a slowing down of our minds and a reconnection to our bodies as Mercury enters Taurus and the full Moon takes place in Libra.

Mercury enters Taurus

Mercury is a quick-moving planet that represents the mind, communication, intellect, and learning. It generally doesn’t spend any length of time in any particular sign, mimicking the speed and movement of our minds from one thought to the next.

While in the grounded earth sign of Taurus, however, Mercury will begin to slow down. On April 3, Mercury will enter Taurus before it begins its second retrograde of the year from April 21 until May 15. It will remain in Taurus until June 11.

Taurus is methodical, purposeful, patient, and enduring. It is productive and stable, loyal to its vision, and in no rush. It reminds us to recognize the beauty in the journey and asks us to savor each step along the way as much as our arrival at the destination.

When Mercury meets Taurus, we are gifted time, space, and a slower pace. We are invited to challenge our tendency to override information by going too fast. Instead, we are asked to linger with whatever we may be thinking, learning, or communicating.

This means being with our thoughts piece by piece, spending time with them, and letting them sink into our bodies where they can be felt experientially. With the influence of Taurus, it’s not just about the words being shared or received or the information being learned. It’s also about how they make us feel, what senses they enliven in our bodies, and how we can patiently integrate them into our realities.

Following the quickened pace of Mercury in Aries these last few weeks, this will be a beautiful opportunity to take the many ideas that were sparked in March and begin to ground them through practical planning and application.

Full Moon in Libra

Full Moons are moments in the lunar cycle when something peaks, when the expression of energy is at its fullest so that we may clearly see it and be with it. Just as the light of the full Moon cannot be ignored at night, neither can all that it illuminates within us.

This week brings a full Moon in Libra. Represented by scales, the air sign reminds us that we cannot come into a place of balance if there are spaces within us that we cannot touch, witness, acknowledge, tend, or accept. Like the full Moon, all of us will be on display this night—the parts that we embrace, the parts that we accept, and the parts that we are still learning to acknowledge.

Libra connects us with one another. It is love, partnership, collaboration, and companionship. Under this full Moon, love is the medicine that softens our armor, inviting us to tend to any hurt hiding beneath the surface.

Relationships hold the very keys to our healing. Sometimes it is only within another where we find the words we are ready to hear, the softness we are ready to receive, and the perspective we are ready to accept and allow us to crack open. And sometimes it is only within offering love to another that we gain access to it ourselves.

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Your Invitation

As we allow the insights of the astrological transits this week to settle within us, we are asked to heed the themes of slowing down, returning to the body, regarding love as medicine, and healing in partnership.

We are gifted with the invitation to ground our ideas, inspirations, and desires into a journey that not only allows us to create and manifest those realities, but also to enjoy and savor each step of that process.

We are handed the scales to cultivate balance in our lives. As Taurus invites us to enjoy the building process as much as the end result, Libra reminds us that a balanced life requires integration of both action and rest, giving and receiving, work and play, integration and application.

We are invited to soften. Both Taurus and Libra are ruled by Venus, our planet of love, beauty, receptivity, art, harmony, and beauty. How can you bring these energies into your day? How can you allow them to support your dreams? And how can you enable them to be your most healing allies?

Learn more about the influence of astrology in your life, including astrological events the Moon cycles, your Sun and Moon and rising signs, how journaling can help you connect with the current influences, and more with Jordane Maree at Girl and her Moon.

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