Energies of the Week April 14–21✨💫🦋
Mercury in Aries, Sun in Taurus, Mars in Leo
The first Full Moon of the astrological year has risen, and Libra’s scales have shown us what is out of balance, what has hurt us, what we’ve outgrown, and what now needs to be re-adjusted, healed, or released with awareness and love.
Under the waning, healing light of the Full Moon and with greater clarity about what we want, what brings us safety, harmony, deeper connection, and is worth keeping and strengthening, the Universe this week supports our most authentic choices and brings opportunities for grounding, creation, and manifestation.
Following Mercury, Venus now gradually goes direct, finally giving the green light for relationships and plans that were on hold to move forward and find their natural rhythm again.
As three planets change signs this week, a new wave of energy arrives, shifting our frequency. With Mercury and Mars in the fire of Aries and Leo, this is a time for action, courage, and authentic expression.
✨🦋After its enlightening retrograde journey through Aries and Pisces, Mercury enters Aries triumphantly on Wednesday, April 16. This is not a time for delays, doubts, or endless overthinking. It’s a moment to make decisions, speak with honesty and clarity, and begin manifesting the ideas and intentions that were pending or under revision.
When the cosmic messenger moves through fiery Aries, your voice becomes bolder, stronger, and more confident. Thoughts and words are impulsive, open new paths, and push you toward bold, even risky action. If you’ve been wanting to take initiative, start conversations, launch projects, or negotiate with confidence, this period until May 10 is ideal, especially if you have placements in fire or air signs.
✨🦋On Thursday, April 17, Mercury meets the mystical Neptune for the third time—but this time their conjunction occurs in Aries ♈at the critical 0° degree, where every beginning holds a seed of creation.
A portal of completion opens for something that began on March 2, when the two planets met in Pisces before Mercury went retrograde. Now their connection rekindles new ideas, making us eager to seek a different meaning and purpose, and view reality through new filters.
This alignment favors creative, spiritual, and artistic work. It ignites the flame of inspiration, enhances emotional intelligence, and invites us to pursue dreams and visions, not through logic, but through intuition, with passion and imagination.
However, it’s not a time for hasty decisions, as illusions, misunderstandings, and inflated expectations may lurk, and what you see or think may not be clear or practical just yet. Therefore, give space to the vision but wait for the right time for major moves.
✨🦋On Friday, April 18, Mars re-enters Leo ♌for the second time, after its first entry back in November. Following its retrograde in Leo in December, which “froze” creative plans and paused forward movement, and its transit through Cancer that brought emotional introspection and contact with deeper wounds, Mars’ return to Leo brings renewal and fresh momentum.
This dynamic influence reconnects us with something left unfinished since the fall and, over the next two months, it raises energy levels, boosts confidence, and reignites the desire for boldness, creation, and risk-taking. It’s a time when optimism, generosity, and passion for action and authentic expression return. We can once again showcase our personal gifts, reconnect with joy, play, fun, and fight for what’s worthy in our personal, social, and professional life.
However, as Mars approaches an exact opposition with Pluto in Aquarius on April 27, those with early degrees in Fixed signs (Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, Scorpio) may face intense challenges that will test their limits. Yet, from this pressure, a significant inner transformation begins.
✨🦋On Saturday, April 19, the Sun enters Taurus🎇♉ initiating a month that urges us to dedicate on what we hold dear and remember that the sacred resides in the simple, the everyday, the tangible.
The Sun in Taurus blesses us with patience and endurance, directing our focus toward the practical aspects of life, our possessions, sense of security, financial and emotional investments, providing grounding and the stability we need to feel safe and supported.
It’s time to slow down, to find fulfillment and tranquility in simplicity, in daily pleasures, in what we already have, and in our connection to the senses and nature.
✨🦋On Easter Sunday, April 20, Mars in Leo forms a powerful trine to Neptune in Aries at 0°, igniting a new spiritual fire that humanity hasn’t experienced in over 160 years. This is a cosmic influence that births new myths, healing creativity, and revolutionary faith.
It marks the beginning of a spiritual renaissance, awakening the Warriors of Light. An energy that unites inspiration with courageous, proud, and passionate action, helping you heal through creation and turn dreams into reality, especially if you belong to the early degrees of fire and air signs.
This is a cosmic invitation to fight for something higher, sacred, or artistic. To express yourself creatively, to defend those in need, or surrender to a sacred romantic experience that transcends the physical and touches the soul.
On the same day, Venus forms a sextile with Uranus at 25° Pisces-Taurus, giving a refreshing and unexpected jolt to matters of love, values, and creativity. This is a transit for soulful love, for connecting to something new, surprising, yet deeply aligned with who you are. And to do so without attachment, without pain-based bonds or fear of loss.
If you belong to the third decan of water and earth signs, open your heart to what is coming to help you evolve. Create with your soul and embrace the surprise. This is your moment to break free from old patterns and attachments, renew emotionally, shift your aesthetic, and engage in innovative artistic or financial ventures.
The sextile between Mercury and Pluto on the same day at 3° Aries-Aquarius brings major revelations and insights that transform your entire perspective. Your thinking becomes deep, investigative, magnetic. Words carry more weight, and superficial answers no longer suffice under this influence. You may receive a key message, have a pivotal conversation, or encounter something that triggers profound inner change.
Collectively, this aspect flirts with radical ideas and revolutionary visions, promoting transformation through shared ideals and technological progress, though manipulative communication tactics may also be at play.
On a personal level, if you are in the affected degrees, you can harness this energy for healing conversations and honest confessions. You may radically shift how you think and communicate and gain new clarity, stripped of illusions. Just beware of harmful obsessions or the need to always be “right.”
On Monday April 21st, the Moon enters its Third Quarter Phase 🌗 at 1°12′ Aquarius♒, in conjunction with Pluto, in opposition to Mars in Leo, and square to the Sun in Taurus and Lilith in Scorpio.
This lunar phase brings closure to the cycle that began with the New Moon Solar Eclipse in Aries on March 29th, activating a rebellious spirit and calling for release from whatever no longer works.
The Grand Cross formed in the Fixed signs foretells inner and outer crises and pressures, bringing to the surface wounds, passions, anger, and repressed emotions.
Yet, it does not ask you to choose a side, it asks you to stand at your center, where pain, truth, and catharsis become one.
This is a time for deep emotional cleansing, to break the chains of past attachments and take a leap toward the future.
In the process, something within you is crucified so that it may be resurrected in another form — and you may need to lose a part of who you were in order to find who you truly are.
This lunar phase is a secret warning before a storm, where the soul, sensing what is to come, may now seek purification or refuge.
It is a time when all the forces that will be involved in the upcoming Mars-Pluto opposition on April 27 are being activated: passion, power, control, the need for emotional truth, security and freedom.
It is a ritual before the earthquake, a psychic seismograph, and if you can see, feel, and cleanse something now, what is coming will be a liberation, not a destruction.
Wishing you a blessed week ahead
a peaceful and joyful Easter to all who celebrate!✨💫🌸🕊☮
With love💓💓💓
Sofia Semeli