WAXING ARIES NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE FIRST QUARTER & NEPTUNE IN ARIES: THE TIDE BEGINS TO TURN!

Astrologically Speaking with Sheri

JOIN SHERI HORN HASAN for this week’s Astro News You Can Use podcast @ https://www.karmicevolution.com/astrologically-speaking which covers how, as we’re now at the first quarter monthly lunar square of the Cancer Moon to the Aries Sun April 4, a major shift is reverberating through our global collective consciousness.
This podcast starts with a recap of the effects of eclipse season & what’s taken place between March 13 & now--including notable accidents, fires, natural disasters, and other events of a physical nature such as military bombings, & the incarceration of those who protest war.
For example, in addition to the devastating storms that raged through the U.S. after the March 13/14 Virgo Full Moon lunar eclipse, and just before the Aries New Moon Solar Eclipse on March 29, we learned of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar. The massive destruction there has now left 3,455 people dead, another 4,715 people injured, and 341 missing, according to Myanmar’s military-led government.
We discuss also what’s occurred between the inferior conjunction of the Sun in Aries to Venus retrograde on March 22 and its heliacal rising circa March 29, which echoes the themes of this eclipse series--with the addition of the fall from grace of prominent people. This theme was mirrored in last night’s removal by the high court of the South Korean president after he instituted martial law back on December 12, 2024, and may represent a harbinger of the future elsewhere.
Here in America, there are plenty of people losing their positions, such as unelected billionaire Elon Musk who’s responsible for major labor cuts and funding throughout the federal government that’s just now beginning to take effect by touching peoples lives personally. An object of American & Canadian anger, Musk is reportedly due to step down as a "special government employee" who's head of the Department of Government Efficiency sometime in May. However, he will remain an advisor to President Trump.
But the real news is that the tide is beginning to turn as voters in Wisconsin elected a democrat to the state's supreme court on April 2, reducing GOP influence in a swing state that voted overwhelmingly for Trump last November. And, although two GOP House representative won their special elections in deep red regions of Florida, the turnout there severely alarmed GOP operatives as the percentages of those wins dropped drastically from last November.
In addition, the democrats in Congress show signs of beginning to wake up and fight back since this Aries solar eclipse & as we approach the waxing cardinal first quarter monthly lunar “crisis in action” square on April 4. Even some hardcore GOP members of Congress are now objecting to Trump’s massive tariffs on nearly all foreign nations that trade with America. These eclipses, combined with Mercury’s retrograde period starting on March 14 at the lunar eclipse, have included a review of trade contracts & agreements.
Between the combination of Venus retrograde from March 1 through April 12 & Mercury’s retrograde cycle from March 14 through April 7, we’ve seen the weakening of global partnerships (Venus) with America mainly through the issue of trade (Mercury.)
And, as the U.S. continues to maintain its isolationist “us versus them” stance on trade and its expansionist threats against its partners, retaliation is threatened by these partners (Aries)—again. Fingers crossed that mercurial unpredictable President Trump will come to a final conclusion on his tariff threats, due to go into effect on April 5, by the time Mercury stations direct again on April 7.
Such threats have already tanked the financial markets, alarming many, even though the jobs report today was a positive one. But the federal worker cuts have not hit the unemployment stats yet, and we have not yet felt the full brunt of economic effects based on the increase in prices of goods imported into the U.S. Economists’ estimates this will cost the average American between $1600 & $3,800 per year--which essentially amounts to a rise in taxes.
As people begin to wake up to all of this and how it will affect them & those they love personally, attitudes are beginning to shift in alignment with the post Aries New Moon solar eclipse energies. In addition, Neptune’s ingress into Aries on March 30 is slowly allowing the birth of a new consciousness around the world’s current predicament to arise and events indicate now that action will follow.
Looked at symbolically, NY Senator Cory Booker’s record breaking 25+ hour speech on the Senate floor on April 2 that excoriated Trump, Musk, and others for their careless, callous edicts & actions (here’s lookin’ at you Pete Hegseth & Mike Waltz), represented the birth of a new political awakening & retaliatory defiance.
In addition, a new era is heralded by Neptune’s entrance into Aries for the next fourteen years until 2038. Since Neptune rules the natural 12th House of gestation, and Mars-ruled Aries the proactivity necessary for the act of birth, we’re witnessing now the birth of consciousness within the collective that the old order is falling away and a new one will eventually mature into adulthood.
While we’re still a long way from that phase of Neptune in Aries, we know that Neptune will be joined soon by Saturn in Aries on May 24. And that this CAN herald a time of greater psychological understanding within the national collective. Why? Because we’ll be able to overcome any egoic blockages (Saturn) by bridging the gap (Aries) between the rational conscious ego and the irrational intuitive waters that lie deep within the unconscious (Neptune.)
After all, it’s Neptune that intuitively understands that we are all brothers & sisters under the skin, AND that in Aries, we’ll be willing to fight for our freedoms based on that simple truth.
Check out this and more Astro News You Can Use details starting today at https://www.karmicevolution.com/astrologically-speaking as we look closer at the astrological influences currently in play, including next week’s April 12 Libra Full Moon square to Mars in Cancer! See you later! Namaste…