“Aries plays to win.” – Astrologer Steven Forrest, The Book of Fire
If it feels like we’re finally getting flagged back onto the racetrack, that’s Aries season’s stellium of planets shoving Pisces aside and taking the wheel for the Spring lap of 2025. Some of us may be stuck in the pits, others will hold pace while revving our engines, and a few will prepare to pass the leader on the outside when we get the green.
With the Equinox eclipse corridor fading into the distance behind us, the temptation to burn rubber toward our highest timeline is real. Exercising caution and getting tactical as we encounter concrete choice points is the remedy for finding the direct route—of least resistance—to Solstice in July.
Energetic Traffic Jam is Clearing, FFS
Aries season’s top headline is Mars meeting Neptune and Saturn in Cardinal Fire under a shifting Uranian Big Sky Story. What these transit opportunities lack in patience and security is paid off in fuel supply and sheer velocity. The collective and individual are afforded a transcendent ticket to sustainable grace if we tap into the highest expression of the energy signature’s switch from the yin to yang polarity. If we unconsciously submit to the lower octave—aggression, violence—hold onto your butts. Here, intention is everything—this moment is the astrological zero point of inception, of initiation. It is go time.
Saturn & Neptune: Catching Martian Fire
Saturn, the zodiacal timekeeper, and Neptune, the transpersonal dreamer, both ingress Cardinal Fire’s house of self this Spring, after bidding a bittersweet goodbye to their respective tours of Mutable Water’s house of spirit. This speaks to the budding of a dream long in the making, nurtured through dense fog, now emerging as a visible and viable light to follow, to live by, to fight for.
Saturnian cycles are shorter than Neptune’s; the greater malefic planet gives rise to the so-called seven-year itch and the notorious Saturn return every 29 years. Neptune is slow AF—this outer planet’s been working wonderful, powerful magick in Pisces since 2011—rewriting our natural twelfth house narratives around spirituality, addiction, and media illusions. Such a combination of planetary influences under Martian rule makes generational matters quite personal, with the potential of propelling us into fertile fields and war zones alike.
Journey into an Age of Air: Uranus Gemini
Transformational Pluto is finding radical social footing in Aquarius, primed by Jupiter Gemini to fully juice up in Uranus Gemini. Expect massive movement by the end of April; think of Mutable Air ignited by Cardinal Fire as lighting a flame in high winds—hard to catch at first, then instantly a recipe for wildfire. With Pluto’s Fixed Air sustaining the flames, there’s an option for ideas to lift-off almost instantly, as well as the possibility for devastating burn-out.
Transpersonal astrologer Richard Tarnas speaks of Uranus’ electric shocks in our nativities at individual aspect intervals—conjunctions and oppositions—and also for the collective’s energetic innovations. Gemini rules the frequency of communication and Aquarius rules the field of consciousness, don’t be surprised if access to ancestral, angelic and even galactic transmissions shows up as a gift during Uranus transit of Gemini through 2033.
Full Moon Libra Tension Point: Delayed Judgements
April 12th’s full lunation in Libra, the natural seventh house of partners, is activating the next twist in a karmic plot seeded over the last two years, when the South Node was in Cardinal Air. Chiron and Eris in Aries are in an oppositional conversation with the remnants left by last month’s partial Solar Eclipse in Mars’ home.
Folks born between 1968-1977 are experiencing a Chiron return, which began in 2018 and will end in 2027. This transpersonal transit of the Wounded Healer is a marker overlapping with Pluto Libra placements activated by this Aries season’s full moon—ouch.
It’s giving Prometheus energy, the infinite punishment of a trauma never allowed to fully heal from repeated injury. Look for Gen X’s so-called slackers to disrupt bonded contracts within consensus reality, leaning into Eris’ vigilante streetfighter vibes, and dismantling institutional structures already under review by Pluto Aqua.
