April features some of the most significant astrology of the year. There is a lot of pretty significant astrology this year, – the Mars retrograde in the second half, Jupiter changing signs in the middle of the year (like he just can’t wait to get into Aries), the eclipses in fixed signs that activate the epochal Saturn Uranus square, which is still in play.

But April features the Jupiter Neptune conjunction in Pisces. Jupiter conjunct Neptune is not rare, but not frequent. It happens every 40 years or so, but the pair’s meeting in Pisces hasn’t happened in Pisces since 1856.

On a personal and collective level, Jupiter and Neptune in combination in Pisces raise the following themes:

• Collective emotion, collective sympathy, the momentum of a mood or feeling on a masse scale

• The influence of collective thought forms

• Dreams, visions, fantasies, desires

• Illusions that seem beneficial

• Mystical experiences

• Escape from the mundane

• A burst bubble, deflated dream, disintegration of a vision

• Powerful, profound intuition

• Expansive awareness

• The promise of a savior, the ultimate freedom of liberation

• Soul level freedom

• Adventure, beauty, grandeur of travel and foreign lands

• Mysticism, magic, and things not of this realm

The last time Jupiter and Neptune were conjunct was in July and December of 2009. During July 2009, there was a public memorial service for Michael Jackson. In December 2009, Avatar was released in theaters, a grand imaginative visionary cinematic production that was partly about the destruction of a beautiful off world alien planet and the way of life of its inhabitants.

While the qualities of this conjunction strongly color April, its influence really spans the whole of the year. Jupiter will be moving in and out of the end of Pisces through the end of the year, and Neptune is a slow moving planet, making this a motif that drapes itself over all of 2022.

April’s astrology in general features a couple of thematic swings. Early in the month, Mars and Saturn are conjunct, and remain co-present in Aquarius through mid April. This can be a harsh energy that can feel harrowing, applies pressure, and is a very “cutting” energy, meaning there may be some difficult decisions about things coming to an end.

But after mid April and through the end of the month there is some truly brilliant astrology. Jupiter, the planetary pantheons’ blessings dealer, is in great shape in Pisces, with the power and ability to open doors, create cohesion, and offer upliftment. Venus is in Pisces from April 5th, bringing her own brand of blessings to all Venusian topics, and to the Pisces part of all of our charts. These two planets together in the same sign are balm for the very Saturnian first quarter of the year. Make the best of it by thinking in more expansive ways for yourself and others, praying more for others, praying more for world peace, setting your sights and your most closely held dreams and actually going for them. (When Jupiter enters Aries and Mars follows in May – action really picks up – but make sure to dream first – dreaming lays down the foundation in the astral).

In the meantime, at the time of this writing, Mars is approaching an exact meeting with Saturn. The keyword there is discipline…. Not flashy, not fun, but it gets results…. But if its tough and you have to fall apart (so much Pisces energy is about disintegration), there’s plenty to escape into. But know that the other side of whatever you’re going through exists! And is waiting for you. Lots of love…. <3

Ichrak