Astrodharma Transit Report: April 2022

By Hunter Reynolds, on March 28th, 2022

IDENTITY TRANSPLANT

April knows what success looks like: personal guts dancing with mystical surrender. Ready to “get funky” on the ashes of a crumbling society? All planets are direct and the floor is yours.

Here’s a quick overview of April:

Against a backdrop of continuing world chaos (Saturn/Uranus Square), we receive a new vision (Jupiter/Neptune conjunction), break it down into steps with a timeline (Nodal T-Square with Saturn) then launch ourselves into to a new role in the world community (Saturn/Mars/Venus conjunct in Aquarius).

Right on cue, the month begins with a heroic, death-or-glory New Moon in Aries on April 1st. With one swing of the sword, Aries slits the throat of our survival fears, spits in the face of our prayerless funk and commands us to finish our Bodhisattva homework. Yes, obstacles persist. Periods of sprinting are punctuated with calculated crawl. “So what,” says Aries. “Deal with it. It’s show time.”

As we move closer to April 12th, the alternating gas/brake energy fades. With Venus and Mars now free of the inhibiting influence Saturn, Jupiter celebrates by falling into a swoony, 10 week embrace of Neptune in the sign of Pisces.

This is a big deal. The last time these two locked eyes in the sign of Pisces was more than 150 years ago (1856). On the plus side, the veil is thin. Signs and symbols speak louder than usual. A sublime time to begin a new spiritual practice. Jupiter/Neptune restores our faith in life, reveals our soul-path and blesses us with miraculous manifesting abilities.

On the down side, look out for the God complex: the “spiritual knower” trampling the Tao of what’s graceful and ripe to be said. Faith in life twists into magical thinking, foolish risk-taking and “escape travel” during a time when we need to ground and prepare.

Impressed by a spiritual teacher? Time to ask:

Do they embody the heartbreak and the joy, the sobriety and the intoxication of being human, even as they are awake to the One?

Or are they employing dry-eyed concepts and charisma to sell “escape travel:” an “awakeness” that has no ego-wounding price of admission?

My advice: go for the heartbreak and you’re ripe for some serious revelation: otherwise known as, “Identity Transplant.”

On April 16th the Full Moon in Libra is square Pluto, embedded into a sublime kite formation involving a grand trine with Mars and shadow-friendly Lilith. If the superpowers get shrewd Plutonic negotiators- capable of “saving face” for the leaders on both sides- this could signal a breakthrough. If not, the window of opportunity closes. Prepare for prolonged conflict.

The second half of April (16th-30th) asks, Do your Piscean visions make Taurus business sense? Considering the way the dreamy stellium in Pisces slides into a second stellium in pragmatic Taurus, there’s a better than average chance that they do. The question is,

Is this a natural next step in a disciplined trajectory? Or are you reaching for the stars in some kind of “escape travel?”

Keep the manifestation “pedal to the metal” until the April 30th Solar Eclipse in Taurus. With Pluto freshly retrograde, the line between do-able dreams and escape travel should be clear now, as we break the vision down into smaller, more humble steps in preparation for Mercury retrograde (May 10th- June 3rd).

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