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Here’s what’s up with our organization and the Astrological forecast for April.
What’s Coming in Our April Presentation
This presentation is not to be missed! Our April 19 talk features the return of Ray Grasse, who will lead us on a discussion of his new book In The Company of Gods. As you know from his previous visits, Ray is always profound, entertaining, and opens up thought provoking discussions in the zones where astrology and spirituality overlap.
I have no doubt it’s going to be another excellent discussion, and we hope you will join us for this event, since “what one astrologer misses another catches.”
As usual, the admission for the March event is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. You can register at https://azastrologers.org/.
Future Programs Down the Road
Stay tuned, since we have more good presentations on the way in 2025!
Our May 24 presentation features a return by Tony Dickey who will give us what promises to be a great class on “The Gilded Age – Astrological Parallels with Current Times.” There are obvious parallels between the previous age of Plutocrat dominance and our current world, so this will be a great talk!
Our June 28 presentation is TBA.
Our July 26 presentation features Professor Robert doing a forum on various factors in reading charts. I will lead through an examination of 4 horary charts:
“How and When Will Christ Return?” and “What Does Christ Returning to Earth Mean?”, “What is the Source of and Solution to Evil in the World?”, and “What Is the Future Destiny of Astrology?”
We’ll examine these charts from a variety of angles using multiple methods. I will share my take on each of these using the astrological factors in the charts. And if I come up with any other horaries I’ve done which I think might be of interest, I’ll bring them as well.
Consider this another advanced class in chart analysis, as the techniques I’ll offer can be used in many different ways, whether you’re looking at the chart for a person or an event or a question.
I have no doubt it’s going to be another excellent discussion, and we hope you will join us for this event, since “what one astrologer misses another catches.”
As usual, the admission for the presentations is $10 for members, $15 for non-members. You can register at https://azastrologers.org/.
For the rest of our 2025 talks on August 16, September 27, October 25 and beyond, I’ll post them here as soon as we set them up. In the meantime, mark your calendars! We look forward to seeing you at our high-quality astrology talks offered by some of the best of the best in the field.
A Look at Some of Our Recent Presentations
Our September 28 presentation featured Lynn Koiner who gave us a fascinating look at Regressing Your Chart Into Your Parents’ Past. This is a technique where you can see key points in your parents' lives before you were born. This has been professionally edited and is available for a charge.
Our October 26 presentation featured yours truly, Professor Robert discussing Transmuting Squares and Oppositions to Good Effect. Based in concepts I wrote about in Horoscope Magazine we covered how to work constructively with our natal and progressed afflictions and how to transmute frictional aspect to good effect. Learning this we can become Masters of Our Destiny and bring order out of chaos as we flow through life. This has been professionally edited and is available for purchase.
Our November 23 presentation featured Andrea Gehrz speaking about Teleology: Hellenistic Astrology’s Missing Philosophy. She took us through many traditional tools of the craft and what the ancients thought about how planets and signs worked, and we had a great discussion about determinism versus infinite potential.
Our December 14 presentation was a free roundtable, where we examined the Solstice chart and some other interesting astrological subjects like the Mercury retrograde themes for the past several years and the next two.
Our January 18 event was our yearly Predictions for 2025 talk featuring predictions from astrologers and other forecasters all over the world. I assembled input from several dozen sources, and a great time was had by all.
Our February 22 event had Craig Hayenga giving a class on The Centaurs: Chiron is Not Alone. It was a fascinating discussion of the astronomical, mythical, and astrological dimensions of Centaurs in general, as well as the relationship of Chariklo and Chiron.
Our March 29 event hosted Ray Couture speaking on The Transpersonal Level of Astrology. We explored the spirituality from a heliocentric view, planetary fields, new ways of seeing the spirituality of individual lives within an astrological framework.
Many of our talks are available for purchase. Prices vary by length of the talk. The are all recorded on sound files which we then send to your email, but your box must be able to accept large sound files, like Hotmail, Outlook, Gmail, and a few others. Then you can download it to a file on your desktop. As it was an outstanding presentation, please consider getting your personal copy today and support the efforts of AAZ!
When we have a list of all the talks which are available, we'll lists them on this site. You can purchase a copy by either sending an email to astrologyarizona@gmail.com to let us know, or you can go to the paypal button on our website and make your donation which will generate an email to us.
How To Attend Our Events
This is the era of Zoom. We do all our presentations online at this time. If you would like to attend, please make sure you’ve downloaded the latest Zoom update so you don’t have to deal with it when you’re trying to get into the talks. If you go to the site, just download the latest software. They release new versions often, so please upgrade in advance. Details are provided in our two AAZ alerts in the two weeks prior to the presentation.
To anticipate a question, no, you don’t have to have a camera or microphone to attend a ZOOM webinar. All you need is internet access and speakers. If you’re interested in attending the webinars, please contact us at astrologyarizona@gmail.com and we'll put you on our mailing list to notify you in advance of the presentations. You can make your donation for membership and admission to events by going to https://azastrologers.org/donate Admission fees are usually $10 for members, $15 for non-members.
Please Drop By Our Facebook Page!
There’s always something going on at our Facebook page, with articles to feed your astrological imagination. To find out more, come on over to our Facebook page where questions, comments, and discussions are most welcome! You can find us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/111582320851163and we hope you’ll join the social media initiative going on there.
Calling All Members!
If you haven’t already joined our group, please consider visiting our site at https://azastrologers.org/ and becoming a member. For $36 a year, you get a discount on admission to all talks and many other benefits, including free advertising for your business on our website, access to the awesome documentary Changing of the Gods, as well as a discount for audio copies of our talks as they become available.
For two people living at the same address, both can become members for $54. Don’t delay, renew today! We prorate your dues so that all subsequent renewals will occur in January. Of course your donations are always welcome.
As a member, you’ll continue to enjoy the full version of our newsletter sent directly to your email. An abbreviated version is available at our website homepage at the above link.
Who we Are - Contacts
We are an astrology group based in the Phoenix area dedicated to the art and science of Astrology. Our organization is a New Moon double Aquarius trine a Gemini Ascendant, affirming a wider Aquarian intention and a welcoming Aquarian vibe for all who come.
We encourage your suggestions about potential speakers and topics. We envision our 21st century group being a point of light to help students of Astrology who want to know more in the emerging 20 year Aquarian Era
If you have questions about who we are and what we do, or want to suggest a topic for a future program or apply to speak, please direct all correspondence to one of these current AAZ Board members:
Bill Nastasiak (Vice President and Education Director)
Robert Wilkinson (President and Editor of AAZ Newsletter)
laughingcat51@hotmail.com
Mary Katherine Kracht (Treasurer)
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AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF April 2025
by Robert Wilkinson
(This column is an abbreviated version of what we send to members at the beginning of each month. If you want the complete overview, please join our organization.)
In 2025, the month of April continues to put the focus on the late Pisces and Aries sectors of our chart. We’re now firmly in the Pluto in Aquarius era through 2042, and this month marks the beginning of the Neptune in Aries era which will last through 2038!
The month is “overshadowed” by the Solar eclipse of late March at 10 Aries, showing many things will be shut down by “the cosmic recyclers” in the house where we have 10 Aries. We’re already getting signs and signals about the themes of “reconsideration of past images” and finding new ways to interpret what once inspired us in the past.
April kicks off with Mercury and Venus both retrograde in late Pisces, with both making Inferior conjunctions with the Sun in early Aries in late March. Those fusions of “Life and Mind” at 5 Aries with “Life and Likes” at 3 Aries shows initiatives to begin after a delay, a final review, and a new resolve to leave the past behind.
This is important because Neptune will go stationary retrograde at 3 Aries, the “avatar” degree in early July, spreading the Venus/Sun conjunction theme far and wide this Summer. That announces the future appearance of new world leaders, and new players on the various stages of life. As Saturn also enters Aries in late May and goes SRX at 2 Aries in July, beginning a time of learning objectivity through finding the humor in things, it’s easy to see we have a LOT of activity going on in our late Pisces and early Aries sectors of our charts.
Remember the Venus retrograde is from 11 Aries back to 25 Pisces, and Mercury’s retrograde is from 10 Aries back to 27 Pisces, with both going stationary direct between April 7 and 12. So late Pisces will be highly active this month, with Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and the North Node all in that sign most of the month and only Mercury slipping back into Aries in late April. As Saturn moves across those SD points in Pisces, the cosmic timekeeper will begin the clock on those themes being crystallized into form between now and February 2026.
Because Jupiter’s in Gemini, it gives a Gemini backdrop to planets we have in Sagittarius and Pisces, as well as the houses where these signs are on the cusp. Jupiter in Gemini brings new information and perspectives to those things it rules. It now begins its occupancy of the second half of Gemini, showing there is going to be a lot of sharing of information and perspectives this month.
Saturn went SD on a degree of showing courage as we focus our spiritual will. We are now almost at the end of our time of Saturn in Pisces, as it will be in the first 2 degrees of Aries in June, July, and August, giving us a dress rehearsal for what we can expect in 2026. We’re in a time of purification, doing our own thing in our own way, using creative imagination to shape our world, and enjoy our abundance as things fall apart.
These themes will be back for our scrutiny between September and February when we’ll launch into a new life and a new world of activity. Abundance is promised for all of us by early 2026, and with both Saturn and Neptune headed for Aries, we have a new collective atmosphere on the way!
The Spiritual Field
We continue to be blessed by the closest Neptune sextile with Pluto in 30 years, joined by Uranus creating a “three note chord” last Summer, extending into 2025. With Uranus in Taurus, Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto now in Aquarius for years to come, we have an out of sign but powerful “double sextile/trine” which should favorably impact all planets we have in late Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces. The Spiritual Field represented by these outermost planets has stabilized our late Earth and Water sectors in the spiritual sectors of their signs.
This is preparing us for an entirely new experience of Spirit and Life in 2025 as these Spiritual powerhouses shift out of Earth and Water into Fire and Air. This will be Life and Spirit expressed as a new inspiration, joined by Saturn when it enters Aries crystallizing the preliminary Fire and Air harmonic consciousness. That means 2024 and 2025 will spiritually harmonize planets we have in late Earth and Water signs, while in 2025-2026 they will do the same for planets we have in the early degrees of the Fire and Air signs.
Uranus will occupy the third decan of Taurus through early July 2025. This is a Capricorn sub-influence with an added dose of Saturn, so there’s more structure and discipline and less micromanagement of details. The Cosmic Awakener promises us a new life and a “genuine rejuvenation” and life renewal as a result of what we went through in August and September.
We’ve been moving through an individual and spiritual awakening which marks the beginning of a long term regeneration and renewal wherever we have late Taurus. This is the next step of the new 2 year cycle where we have 27 Taurus in our charts resulting from the July Mars/Uranus conjunction.
Neptune at “the end of the end” of Pisces is giving us all a sense of vast feelings and finality. We’ve been in a review of “our dream to come” these past few months, and now move forward into a “dream of abundance” as we enter the new Neptunian field in Aries. With Mercury, Venus, and Saturn still at the end of Pisces, keep dreaming the future you want to see become manifest. This year we begin to finalize our experience of the vast unifying field as we prepare to move into a more fiery collective energy in 2025.
Pluto in Aquarius puts us on the cusp of historic change. Its last RX station at 3 Aquarius began a wild ride into a time of defiance, rebellion, with many refusing to follow what they believe to be authoritarian control systems. As it is on its coming SRX degree in April, open to your latent “healing powers,” or abilities to restore a natural harmony to circumstances. Be fearless in making the decisions you need to make.
We also have several long wave Aries cycles in play. Jupiter launched a major healing and mentoring cycle when it conjuncted Chiron at 15 Aries on March 11, 2023. That began a long wave Chiron cycle which will last until the Summer of 2036. And we just finished a 2 year Mars/Chiron cycle and began a new one at 23 Aries.
Not all Chiron cycles are the same length. When Chiron transits between Aquarius and Gemini, it moves relatively slowly and has conjunctions with Jupiter about every 13 years. However, it can take 19-20 years for the next conjunction after Gemini or Cancer. That means once the conjunction at 16 Gemini happens in the Summer of 2036 we won’t have another conjunction of Jupiter and Chiron until the Spring of 2056 in Aquarius, which will launch another long term “expansive healing/mentoring” cycle.
Mars
Mars is now picking up speed for many months to come after going SD at 18 Cancer. It’s still moving through its shadow zone until early May, and this month re-enters Leo and makes its final opposition with Pluto. Keep establishing a consistent supply of your needs, and get ready to pick up where you left off in November!
This month Mars activates the house(s) where we have 24 Cancer through 6 Leo. April 1-17 finds Mars between 24 and 30 Cancer, creating an agitating effect on planets between 24 to 30 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. This shifts the last 2 weeks of April, when Mars will agitate planets between 1-6 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.
We have a particularly volatile period when the Sun squares Mars between April 18 and 25, followed by Sun square Pluto between April 21 and 25, with Mars opposed Pluto from April 24 through April 30. These squares and oppositions will most impact those with planets in the first 6 degrees of the Fixed signs.
As I’ve offered before, when Mars is within a degree of forming or separating from a hard aspect with a planet, slow down and show deliberation and caution in how you use force. Hard aspects to/from Mars always require that we moderate or antidote impulsiveness and impatience.
We’re Actors On A New Stage With A New Set – The Bigger Picture
We’re still in the initial years of a new era in human evolution. The Grand Mutation of Jupiter conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius began a new 20 year Aquarian Era in December 2020, as well as a new 200 year era, moving global energies out of Earth and into Air. We’ve begun to grow beyond the materialism of the past 200 years and have entered two centuries of Air emphasis, with its qualities of relatedness, receptivity, versatility, movability, lightness, and cooperative ideas, visions, and ideals.
We’re still "under the beams" of the Solar Eclipses of 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, and these “cosmic recyclers” continue to remove what we no longer need in our lives. Take note of where you have 1 Cancer, 24 and 13 Sagittarius, 20 Gemini, 10, 20 and 30 Aries, 11 Taurus, 11 and 22 Libra, and 2 Scorpio, since we’ve all had to let go of many things related to these sectors the past few years. You can find out more about Solar and Lunar eclipses by going to my site at www.aquariuspapers.com where there are numerous articles in the archives on how eclipses work.
The April-May 2023 eclipses have begun to work their magic on our Aries and Libra sectors for a long time to come. The 2023 Solar eclipse at 30 Aries and the October Solar eclipse at 22 Libra are also shutting down parts of our lives where we have those signs. We now have the Solar eclipse at 20 Aries added to the list, as well as the current Solar eclipse at 11 Libra.
As we study how successive Eclipses have affected various areas of our charts and lives, we can get a sense of the utility of these “Cosmic Recyclers” in removing what we no longer needed in those areas, creating a void which attracted new life experiences. They invite us to look back, and then forward, to see the continuity of “letting go, taking in, letting go, taking in” across the years.
Primary Action Beats for the First Half of the Month
April begins with the New Moon Solar eclipse at 10 Aries, beginning a long term period of letting go of old interpretations and finding new meaning in old images. We also see the beginning of Neptune in Aries, so pay attention to what shows up this month!
The first week of the month should prove to be exceptionally productive, with Saturn sextile Uranus, Mars sextile Uranus, Sun sextile Jupiter, and Venus trine Mars ensuring a favorable tide to anything we want to launch or do during that time. The Moon moves from Gemini to Leo during the first week; Lunar aspects are highly favorable the first week except for April 3, so make the most of it. The end of the first week brings Mercury going stationary direct and Venus conjunct Saturn and sextile Uranus, reinforcing the energies put into motion during the first week.
The second week of the month brings a series of Lunar Yods in Leo on the 7th and 8th, with some very intense oppositions as the Moon in Virgo opposes Venus, Saturn, Mercury, and Neptune on April 10. We have Sun conjunct Chiron on April 11 just before the Full Moon at 24 Aries/Libra with Venus stationary direct. That kicks off two weeks of an influx of spiritual power being expressed through a technique of social or emotional reconstruction or repair. It may involve multiple expansions through sacrifices due to the Moon being in a Yod at the Full Moon.
Primary Action Beats for the Second Half of the Month
The third week begins under the beams of the Full Moon, which as noted, will bring concentrated doses of spiritual energy necessitating sacrificing things from the past. With both Mercury and Venus direct, things should feel like they’re finally moving forward quickly. Mercury re-enters Aries on April 16, and immediately conjuncts Neptune at 1 Aries, launching the new Neptune in Aries era with its first conjunction cycle.
The rest of the week shows Mars entering Leo on April 17, the Sun entering Taurus and Mars trining Neptune on April 19, and a very volatile T-square coming on Easter Sunday the 20th with Sun square Mars and the Moon in Aquarius opposed Mars and square the Sun. This will create serious friction in the early degrees of the Fixed signs, so see the mystery, evaluate it symbolically, and hold the line or give way as needed. Productivity is found by Venus sextile Uranus and Mercury sextile Pluto, favoring getting to the truth of any matter.
The fourth week of April shows Sun square Pluto on April 23, Venus again conjunct Saturn in Pisces the next day, and Mars opposed Pluto on April 26. That will make for a somewhat heavy and volatile week, so find self confidence in your self-reliance and self-disciplines, see the sweetness in the responsibilities coming your way, and find a way to get around blockages using creative heart power. The fourth week ends with the New Moon at 8 Taurus on April 27.
Evolutionary Development
This is the third month of the North Node in Pisces era! We have finished a period of our greatest development being served by self-initiated activity (Aries) demonstrated through our balanced response (Libra) to an ongoing transfiguration toward an ideal. So we have grown through focused action and demonstrate it through expressing our Archetypal Self, whether in the world of inner space or outer affairs.
We have now begun a period of the NN moving through Pisces and the SN through Virgo, marking many months of growing through empathy, compassion, and forgiveness, demonstrated through our sense of service. We will grow in our “nonlocal awareness” and tuning into Neptune and Saturn while “showing what we know” wherever we have late Virgo.
Our wise friend Saturn continues to teach us through the vast feeling experiences from its time in Pisces, and now we’re seeing what is to be perpetuated into the new era in 2025. We are still learning disciplines of forgiveness and compassion, and this month we see how we’re living a higher life than before, with a need to honor our transfigured Self, listen to the inner voice, and be ready to move into the unknown, rejecting some things while accepting others as we transmute magnetism into power.
The Sun in Pisces is a time to see the Light of compassion and the universal human conditions as we bless endings and move into a new year. Here we sort through things, eliminating some and retaining others. Empathy is powerful, as is the ability to use forgiveness as a spiritual power to invoke Divine Grace to come forth.
We are now beginning our fifth year of the new Aquarian era, with a new iteration of that future-oriented energy coming in March. Jupiter in Taurus helped us get a new grounded expansive view of how to sustain the Aquarian unfoldment which is finding forms of expression while Jupiter is in Gemini. We’ve all entered a new land. Let go of the lesser, accept the greater, and the new land you’re in is going to be far more enjoyable than the old land you’ve had to leave.
Because we’re about to begin the fifth year of a new 20 year and 200 year cycle, remember a new era has dawned. Have courage and take the initiative to leave the Earth and fly free into the Air of what’s opening as the Grand Mutation expands its promise into the Divine transfigured ideal of a more just truth and future. While it may not look like that now, it’s just the beginning!
Even though the ideal is far away, we are the midwives and mid-husbands to a new way of relating to Life, Energy, Consciousness, each other, and the Earth Herself. Because our essential nature is Loving Wisdom, remember to lighten up, play a little, and be willing to explore new arenas of effective activity where you can work and play with other Light Spirits. This is the time to take heart as we navigate the dawning of the Pluto in Aquarius era.
We have now collectively transfigured into a greater vision of the one Light/Life we all are together. Continue to find your heart strength and new forms of genuine happiness appropriate for who you are now, and who you are becoming relative to just a few months ago.
We now navigate the cosmic time-space between endings and beginnings so bless and forgive much to flow down the time stream. The past is over and we all have begun our trek into a new world of new potential, new adventures, and new ways to enjoy being ourselves while doing our work of Destiny. Open to the abundance of the process of growth, since we are all on a rocket ship to the stars!
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Until next month
(or whenever we meet again, since tomorrow is never guaranteed)
Robert Wilkinson
Editor, AAZ Newsletter
http://www.aquariuspapers.com
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