Aries Spring Festival Full Moon, Passover, Venus Direct & Palm Sunday!
What an upcoming weekend we will have! Five festivals all at once – astronomical, astrological, esoteric, Jewish and Christian! These are actually religious festivals, each a developmental stage for humanity. When all these festivals converge, it tells us that the new Aquarian religion, a magical religion, is forming. All of them unifying and synthesizing.
Saturday April 12, 2025 is the big day – the full moon, Aries spring fire festival, Passover and Venus stationing direct. This is followed by Palm Sunday, the World Teacher (Christ), having learned in the 40 days in the desert (metaphor) how to use the body of Jesus, emerged into the public and set His eyes to Jerusalem (City of Peace, yet to be) which then begins Passion Week (next week) – all events are symbolic of the path of the Disciple.
Venus stationing direct. We desire for all that is separated to come to a state of unity, to learn to love one another (once again). Venus is our desire and aspiration, our values, resources and finances. Slowly they move forward again.
The Aries Festival, the first of the Three Spring Festivals, occurring at the full moon (timing mechanism), anchors into the lives of humanity a new rhythm for the new spiritual year (which Aries inaugurates). It is a fire festival, a fire that rests within the atoms and cells of each of us. This fire is stimulated at the Aries Festival.
We are at the beginning of a new spiritual year, the high point of the year. We are ready to inaugurate a fresh round of labor, having a new approach to life, a new surge of creativity. Aries inaugurates a new cycle of spiritual impulses, new ideas from the Mind of God. While standing in the golden light of Aries, we realize the need to recover and rebuild our moral and psychological natures. Our will is poised and focused in this endeavor.
We call forth these Aries spring energies to strengthen the hands of all workers. So we may all take right action, have more thoughtful sharing and be more determined and courageous to do what is right. There is a massed intent to rebuild freedom in our world. The Forces of Restoration will help us as they stream in during the Aries Festival…with fire in their wings!
ARIES: In past weeks as you internally initiated project after project (your spiritual task), something always hindered your progress. As this begins to ease, you realize how tired you’ve become and wondered about your motivation and skills. They are intact. However, care for yourself as if visiting a monastery, a spa – able to tend to body, emotions, mind, spirit and the eating of pure holy food.
TAURUS: You are a leader, a teacher needed in groups and classes of seekers, providing instruction for the plans, actions, nurturance and sustaining of humanity’s future. Your mind is being impressed from higher realms on how to prepare for, create and secure the new era. The information comes step by step, day by day, night after night, unceasingly. You could easily become exhausted. Solitude, swimming, walking, exercise, pure foods and more sleep are most important to maintain health.
GEMINI: You might wonder what your real work is in the world? Because you go from this to that, wandering here and there, up and down, each day is different. Do you at times feel impractical? It’s important to realize that Gemini is like a bird, a firefly, a blue dragonfly, a golden butterfly in a field of poppies, sipping nectar here and there, gathering the ambrosia (information) needed for humanity. This is how you relate and it’s your primary task. You can’t stop anywhere for long. There’s a door here opening for you. Do you see it?
CANCER: You work well with Taurus. Taurus offers you a resting place for your emotional brooding waters. And you offer Taurus a flowing perspective, ever changing. You could also get angry with Taurus, thinking they are stubborn. However, they provide information humanity needs now, and you add a nurturing setting (food, resources, table) so that helps everyone be nourished and thrive. While Taurus provides the Light, you take that illumined Buddhic light and “build the lighted house” where everyone can “therein dwell.”
LEO: Are you concerned, disappointed or confused about finances and resources? Is there some sort of dilemma and reason for worry? Perhaps It has something to do with the past? it’s just a matter of time for hidden wealth to be uncovered, which may or may not be money. It’s resources. When we are concerned about money it’s time to take action, a certain action called tithing (giving to those in need). When we give it’s returned to us in gratitude, ten-fold.
VIRGO: Are you busy with interactions with others? Are you involved with others on deep spiritual levels? Do you find perhaps you have goals that seem conflicting? It’s possible you’re very serious right now. Saturn in your house of others (intimates, partners, etc.) could make you feel less than valuable leading to Virgo’s nemesis, self-criticism. Do not allow this. Replace criticism with praise. Lots of work in relationships may be needed. Ask yourself what you love about those around you. And how do you love them?
LIBRA: So many areas of responsibility you focus on – all things practical, everyday tasks, your work and especially health, your service to others and even perhaps a new pet is in the mix. With all these daily tasks there can be overwork and worry. You need a dream and vision to get you through the coming days and nights and weeks. You need hope, too and imagination. To create these, do a storyboard. It’s like a vision quest with images, sketches, paintings, graphics and words. It’s your story that you visualize and plan with. Then it appears in real life!
SCORPIO: At some point soon the needed strength will appear, helping to restore your hope and confidence in day to day living. Many have been feeling too exhausted to move beyond daily comforts and needing to retreat. This will shift as a new Aries creativity emerges, but not before an ending of things no longer needed also takes place. Some Scorpios are experiencing too much water, liquids dripping, flowing, spilling everywhere. You’re not the only one whose mind is transforming. It’s not time to take chances. Caution in everything.
SAGITTARIUS: Communication can become obscured with understanding buried under overwhelming responsibility and self-protection. Tend to family, friends and co-workers with loving care and understanding. Realize nothing is or should be moving swiftly. Go slowly each day. Honor deep familial and psychological foundations within self and others. We are to tend, care for and at times, deeply sacrifice for loved ones. You are doing so for your family. You will not drown in the deep waters of serving and saving. Grace holds you.
CAPRICORN: The most important consideration is communication. With the many planets in the deep waters of Pisces, you could feel overworked, drowning, exhausted and misunderstood. There seems no time for anything more. Too many jobs are calling you. It could feel confusing, mysterious, as if you are hidden by ferns. All of a sudden fish and flotsam and jetsam are floating to the surface. Soon obstacles will be removed. The garden is where you learn and feel comfort and where you’re most interested (and interesting to others). Be careful of other drivers. Maintain your car(s). Or buy a new one.
AQUARIUS: You’ve become more and more practical and disciplined while pondering many possible futures. You are able to make practical decisions in all areas of life, especially concerning money and finances, family, friends and relationships. Do secure the safety of your money. You seek closeness with others and make choices based on love and care. Remember to thank everyone who cares for you. Do this at the end of each day. Then see that the day was good. When you extend gratitude to life, harmony is created in your life and for the entire world.
PISCES: You have gained independence over these many years, able to express and offer unique talents without limitations or hindrances. You’re coming to a cross roads in terms of what talents to offer, how to use the precious hours of each day. Examine where your gifts are needed in the future. A change of heart has occurred. There’s somewhere you need to be that is comforting and supportive. This impacts decisions and allows you to go forward where previously you feared to tread. Your life will be enhanced and enriched. Soon, rest.
Shadow: Although Mars is moving forward, the red planet remains in its retrograde shadow until the beginning of May! So, we, too, here on Earth, move ever so slowly – from inward looking (for 2 1/2 months) to outward looking. It’s a contemplative process.
Mars is action, activity, desires, aspirations, hopes, wishes and dreams (skillful means). It is also the physical body and blood, anger, frustration, fanaticism and inflammation. During the Mars retro we may not have known what our desires were, we may not have been hungry and our bodies may have hurt. Slowly this shifts, changes and dissolves away.
Sunday is rather veiled, mysterious and mystical (Mercury/Neptune). Monday Mercury leaves the watery depths of Pisces to enter fiery Aries. Communication becomes animated, forceful, passionate and heated, initiating new ideas! Tuesday
is Mardi Gras under the golden Taurus Moon. And on Wednesday, the season of Lent begins; our foreheads marked with a cross of ashes. We understand this.
And so, life moves one and we happily sail along with it. We realize life is a party, a joy ride, a car festival, a garden in bloom, a tree of mysteries. And looking around, we see the kingdom is colorful!
