Transit calendar · Asteria

Collective transit calendar · 2016–2032

Ingresses, stations, eclipses, and moons. No chart required.

April 2016 · UTC

April 2016

19 events

A retrograde turn pulls things back for review, and 4 sign changes shift the collective tone, the lunations mark the month's open and close, a slow outer-planet aspect colours the backdrop.

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Upcoming transits · the agenda

5Apr · Tue
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Sun trine Saturn
aspect
Sun trine Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Sun trine Saturn perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context New Moon in Aries
4:09 PM
5Apr · Tue
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Venus enters Aries
ingress
Venus enters Aries.
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Venus enters Aries, shifting love, money, and what you are willing to keep in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context New Moon in Aries
4:50 PM
5Apr · Tue
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Mercury enters Taurus
ingress
Mercury enters Taurus.
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Mercury enters Taurus, shifting speech, contracts, and timing in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context New Moon in Aries
11:09 PM
6Apr · Wed
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Sun square Pluto
aspect
Sun square Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Sun square Pluto perfects, pulling identity and visibility into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context New Moon in Aries
8:13 PM
7Apr · Thu
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* New Moon in Aries
lunation
New Moon in Aries: plant one real intention around initiative and heat.
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The sky goes dark in Aries, and that is not emptiness. It is the month's reset around initiative and heat. New Moons are the inhale: the seed is underground, but the body already knows.
This New Moon asks you to start what you have been circling. Do not renovate your whole life overnight. Pick one sentence you can repeat for two weeks and let the feeling arrive before the spreadsheet does.
Deep dive
Think of the body that moves first. That image is the architecture under the mood. New Moons in Aries reward honesty about desire, not performance about ambition.
Gravity and hope: if the intention still matters at the Full Moon, it was real. If it fades, you just saved yourself a longer detour.
11:23 AM
9Apr · Sat
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Uranus Cazimi
aspect
Uranus Cazimi: heart-of-the-Sun clarity around rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
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Uranus meets the Sun in Cazimi, seated in the heart of the solar fire where a planet is briefly purified instead of burned. This is concentrated weather for rupture, invention, and the plot twist, not background noise.
Claim one clean truth and act on it before the window closes. Cazimi rewards backbone, not spectacle.
Sky context New Moon in Aries
9:27 PM
12Apr · Tue
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Mercury sextile Neptune
aspect
Mercury sextile Neptune: the sky shifts.
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Mercury sextile Neptune perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with dream, myth, and what dissolves.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
9:40 AM
12Apr · Tue
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Venus trine Mars
aspect
Venus trine Mars: the sky shifts.
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Venus trine Mars perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with drive, conflict, and heat.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
7:16 PM
14Apr · Thu
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Mercury trine Jupiter
aspect
Mercury trine Jupiter: the sky shifts.
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Mercury trine Jupiter perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with growth, belief, and scale.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius
3:27 PM
17Apr · Sun
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Mercury trine Pluto
aspect
Mercury trine Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Mercury trine Pluto perfects, pulling speech, contracts, and timing into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius; Pluto stations Retrograde in Capricorn
9:23 AM
17Apr · Sun
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Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius
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Mars stations Retrograde. Perfect the process, not the panic.
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Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius, and the engine of will turns inward. Anger becomes editing; urgency becomes refinement.
Spend energy on the fight that is actually yours.
Sky context Pluto stations Retrograde in Capricorn
12:14 PM
18Apr · Mon
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Pluto stations Retrograde in Capricorn
station
Pluto stations Retrograde. Collective power goes underground for review.
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Pluto stations Retrograde in Capricorn, and the deep renovation of community, technology, and belonging turns inward. Systems reveal fault lines before they repair.
Watch what institutions expose under pressure. Your job is clarity, not cynicism.
Sky context Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius
7:26 AM
18Apr · Mon
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Venus trine Saturn
aspect
Venus trine Saturn: the sky shifts.
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Venus trine Saturn perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with limits, duty, and what must be earned.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius; Pluto stations Retrograde in Capricorn
2:37 PM
19Apr · Tue
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Sun enters Taurus
ingress
Sun enters Taurus.
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Sun enters Taurus, shifting identity and visibility in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius; Pluto stations Retrograde in Capricorn; Full Moon in Scorpio
3:29 PM
19Apr · Tue
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Venus square Pluto
aspect
Venus square Pluto: the sky shifts.
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Venus square Pluto perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with power, depth, and what will not stay buried.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Mars stations Retrograde in Sagittarius; Pluto stations Retrograde in Capricorn; Full Moon in Scorpio
8:51 PM
22Apr · Fri
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* Full Moon in Scorpio
lunation
Full Moon in Scorpio: depth and transformation reaches the surface. Look without flinching.
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The Moon fills in Scorpio, and Full Moons do not whisper. Whatever you built around depth and transformation is visible now. You may get clarity, or you may get the bill for what you kept semi-dark on purpose.
Use this Full Moon to separate completion from theater. Celebrate what is actually ripe. Release what only looked finished because you were tired of carrying it.
Deep dive
Keep the truth under the polite version nearby. Full Moons in Scorpio expose where you stayed loyal to a version of the story that no longer fits your spine.
Illumination is information, not indictment. What you integrate now becomes usable strength by the next New Moon.
5:23 AM
22Apr · Fri
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Venus conjunction Uranus
aspect
Venus conjunction Uranus: the sky shifts.
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Venus conjunction Uranus perfects, pulling love, money, and what you are willing to keep into contact with rupture, invention, and the plot twist.
Work with the aspect, not against it.
Sky context Full Moon in Scorpio
9:00 PM
28Apr · Thu
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Mercury stations Retrograde in Taurus
station
Mercury stations Retrograde. Words, contracts, and timelines need patience.
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Mercury stations Retrograde in Taurus, and the message layer wobbles. Delays, reversals, and second thoughts are normal, not personal sabotage.
Read twice. Send once. Back up what matters.
5:20 PM
30Apr · Sat
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Venus enters Taurus
ingress
Venus enters Taurus.
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Venus enters Taurus, shifting love, money, and what you are willing to keep in the collective chart.
Notice what changes flavor this week.
Sky context Mercury stations Retrograde in Taurus
12:36 AM