Libra Monthly Forecast

While this is a month where there are some major themes and especially on the job, relationship and financial fronts, these are both familiar for this time of year but also a lot more empowered. While the Sun will always leave your work sector on the March equinox, you will often move into April with at least Venus or Mercury still here, tying up loose ends before things shift back to a more long term mode. This year you not only move into April with Venus still here but with Mars having returned for the first time in two years late last month. While Venus will leave on 5th April, with Mars here for the rest of the month her final days are all about giving the warrior planet of the cosmos something that he can keep fighting for. It is then that Venus will join the Sun and Mercury, the planet of communication in your relationship sector. Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your relationship sector, the solar spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year. However, with the North Node here and the South Node in your relationship sector, there has been a policing of a balance between your personal and relationship needs since they returned last July. It was having them here that turned a Full Moon in Libra last month into a lunar eclipse and a New Moon this month into a total solar eclipse, each time putting a balance between your personal and relationship needs to the test. The Moon will move through to create that eclipsing New Moon from 7th April to 9th April, returning just two days after Venus, the planet of love's return on 5th April and when, after his retrograde turn on 2nd April, Mercury is on hand to not only give your emotional responses and relationships a voice but the past and unsaid words as well. The Sun will leave on 20th April and Venus on 29th April, but Mercury will stay on while Mars will return in the early hours of May to keep the focus on your relationships. This will see the Sun and Venus join Jupiter in your financial sector, just as he will be moving into the final weeks of his 12 month quest for financial growth and expansion.

Because the Sun will always spend the first three weeks of April in your relationship sector, the spotlight is always on your relationships at this time of year, though with a lot more moving parts this year. This is due to a number of factors but mainly because you have the North Node in your relationship sector and instead of moving through in just 14 to 15 days, a retrograde turn will keep Mercury, the planet of communication here all month. Mercury returned earlier last month and should have left shortly after the Sun returned on the March equinox. Instead, Mercury begins the month still here but also at a near standstill ahead of a retrograde turn on 2nd April. Not turning direct until 26th April, Mercury will spend the majority of the month in retrograde motion, where his focus will be more on giving your relationships, the past and unsaid words a voice. This couldn't be more timely, for as well as having the North Node in your relationship sector, with its partner the South Node in Libra, their 18 month policing of a balance between your personal and relationship needs is now under the spotlight. It began when having the lunar nodes policing a balance between your personal and relationship needs turned an ordinary Full Moon in Libra late last month into a lunar eclipse. This will also turn the New Moon on 9th April into a total solar eclipse. The Moon will be here from 7th April to 9th April and with Venus, planet of love returning on 5th April, she will be here when this brings an opportunity for major new beginnings. Mercury will also be in retrograde motion by then and with the South Node on the opposite side of the sky in Libra also being impacted, he will be on hand to keep the communication lines open. Meanwhile, minding his own business is Pluto, with the planet of change and transformation making the most of his first full month on his own in your romantic sector. This will get a boost when the Moon moves through from 3rd April to 5th April. These romantically charged lunar vibes will be the perfect warmup to Venus, the planet of love's return to Aries on 5th April.