LIBRA FULL MOON OPPOSITE ARIES SUN/CHIRON & SQUARE MARS: YOU’VE WOUNDED US & WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!

Astrologically Speaking with Sheri

https://www.karmicevolution.com/astrologically-speaking tune into this week’s Astro News You Can Use podcast with Sheri Horn Hasan discussing this past week’s astro-influenced events & what’s yet to come, including the results of Mercury & Venus’s stations direct!
Astrologer Sheri Horn Hasan first looks back at how the April 4 first-quarter “crisis in action” waxing monthly lunar cardinal square of the Cancer Moon to the Aries Sun spurred people into action under the mantra of “Hands Off!”
If you’re a regular podcast listener, you’ll have heard on this podcast before the statement that when enough people are affected personally, that’s when they will take to the streets in large numbers. Well, that’s what an estimated 5.2 million of them did—old, young, and in between—to tell the current U.S. Government “hands off” my medical care & research, my social security, my educational opportunities, my job, my civil rights, right to bodily autonomy, and so much more.
Meanwhile Mercury’s station direct in Pisces on April 7 seems to have proven what Erin Sullivan says in her book “Retrograde Planets, Traversing the Inner Landscape,” which is that it marks a time to “engage in observation and begin to pay attention.” Well, hard not to pay attention to U.S. President Trump’s on-again off-again tariff threats against ALL U.S. trading partners—that resulted in putting the U.S. stock market--& by association global markets—into free fall this past week.
Trump is a Gemini Sun/Uranus, which in its lowest manifestation is far more than “mercurial”--& as has been proven throughout his time in the presidency--to be erratic & mayhem-oriented.
So, the whipsaw like back and forth on tariffs during both Mercury & Venus retrograde periods should really be no surprise. (This podcast highlights how the recent Mercury retrograde period triggered an important T-square in Trump’s chart, so give it a listen!)
What’s changing now, however, is how undeniably obvious this has become as well as how potentially disruptive to both the U.S. & global trade & economy. With Mercury now direct, however, we’ve seen yet again additional changes in plans from the U.S. Government vis-à-vis tariffs.
What’s becoming more and more obvious, however, to even the average news absorber, is that Trump’s assumption that his tariffs will succeed when they’ve been historically proven to weaken America’s dollar, lead to losses for American companies, & create turmoil in the financial markets, is their complete unworkability.
We approach now the April 12 Libra Full Moon, which occurs at 23’20’ Libra in opposition to the Aries Sun conjunct wounded healer Chiron, while they all form a cardinal T-square to Mars in Cancer. Less than an hour later Venus stations direct in Pisces, telling us it’s time to check in on the status of our partnerships.
Can you spell "F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N?"
As both Venus & Mercury begin to gather speed in their forward trajectory, we can see more clearly the results of how these astrological energies are currently playing out, at least here in America. This lunation highlights that we have here a “wounded king/ruler/autocrat wanna-be” facing opposition from the “people,” who desire to be more partnership-oriented with the rest of the world rather than less.
In essence, this lunation—which has the Libra Moon reflecting back to the wounded Sun its own light—asks us to release any tendencies toward an “it’s my way or the highway” type leadership that leads only to opposition, and to begin to negotiate & compromise. This becomes difficult, however, since what’s wounded the Aries Sun is its lack of ability to back down in the face of having proactively made disastrous decisions.
We look forward now to Mercury reentering Aries on April 16 or 17, depending on your time zone, and Mars reentering Leo April 17/18. Will Trump double down on his losing proposition to impose 145% tariffs on Chinese imports as China ups the ante by raising its tariff rates on U.S. goods to 125 percent on April 12?
Especially when economists already know that this kind of trade war will result in higher prices for American consumers. “China’s factories produce more than those in the United States, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Britain combined, and many of the products imported to the United States come from China,” according to the New York Times.
And that’s not mentioning how the U.S. House of Representatives managed to pass a continuing budget resolution on April 10, as we waxed toward the Libra Full Moon, that will keep Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for billionaires & cut trillions from government services. This passed 216 to 214, with zero democrats voting for it & two republicans jumping ship to side with the democrats.
This podcast discusses the arduous task ahead for Congress to rectify the House & Senate versions of this bill, along with how it will result in growing opposition by an ever-enlarging group of those who’ll be personally affected by such cuts. Especially those who don’t believe their elected officials promises not to cut government funding for Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, federal jobs, disease research, veteran’s benefits, and so much more…
Tune in to https://www.karmicevolution.com/astrologically-speaking for all of this, plus more Astro News You Can Use, including how this Venus retrograde period has resulted in seriously impactful partnership re-alignments & weakened America’s reputation as a financially stable & reliable partner. And, a deeper discussion of the greater meaning of this year’s future Mercury retrogrades through the fire element & how we can use this energy to our advantage moving forward. See you later! Namaste…
IBRA FULL MOON OPPOSITE ARIES SUN/CHIRON & SQUARE MARS: YOU’VE WOUNDED US & WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!