Aries Overload pt 2 Sign-by-sign

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Something about this week feels bigger than personal mood swings, and the astrology matches it. We’re moving through an intense Aries-heavy stretch, and the transit I want you to watch most closely is Mars conjunct Neptune at 2° Aries. Mars brings heat, speed, and action. Neptune brings longing, creativity, spirituality, and a serious lack of clarity. Put them together and you get a mix of genius inspiration and impulsive choices that can land hard once the fog clears.

I go sign by sign using your rising sign first (then sun or moon for extra context) so you can pinpoint where this energy shows up in your chart. For some of us it hits identity and appearance. For others it stirs mental health and the need for rest, shakes up friends and communities, or creates confusion at work. I also flag the places where relationship intensity can masquerade as certainty, where health and substances need extra care, and where money, debt, and spending deserve a firm pause button, especially with Mercury about to add even more haze.

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Transcript

Welcome And A High-Pressure Week

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Hello and welcome to Pisces Moon Astrology. I'm your astrologer, Kate Leonard, and I'm excited to explore the stars with you. Hi everyone, welcome to part two, which is the sign by sign for April 12th through April 18th. This is a big, big week. I hope you listened to the general information that I put out in episode one. It's really important to get that information because there's a lot going on this week. It's all intense. And we're leading into actually on the 19th, one of the most difficult, big, yeah, big periods of maybe this year. It's it's a big deal that we're living through right now. And I think if you listen to the news, if you're listening to any credible news, you probably know that we're in a real, you probably don't need an astrologer, right? To tell you that we are in a really big period. So I want to give you the sign by sign for the week. Do make sure you listen to next week's episode because boy howdy wow. Um, I also want to say this is officially episode number 91. We are cruising quickly toward 100, and I'm so grateful for all of you. Thank you for making this possible, appreciating my work, sharing it, all of that stuff. I really honestly can't tell you how grateful I am. And even with that, I would love to get the numbers doubled by the time we get to 100. I know that that's really sort of a crazy goal because episode 100 is coming so quickly. But if you could rate and like and comment and share and do all of that stuff, I would really be grateful because, hey, a girl can dream, right? Anyway, let's get into the sign by sign. And what I'm gonna focus on, like, you know, it like I said, if you listen to the first episode, you know there's a ton of stuff going on. There's that giant stellium of planets happening in Aries. So the Aries area of your chart is just crazy active. Now, the other thing to remember is that most of those planets rule one or two other signs. Mars rules Aries and Scorpio, Saturn rules Aquarius and Capricorn, the Sun rules Leo, um, the moon rules Cancer, Mercury's coming in, he rules Gemini and Virgo. You get what I'm saying? So while the intensity of the energy is in Aries, I'm telling you, like everything is involved because all of those planets are there, and what's going on for them also has some impact on the houses they rule. It's a lot, y'all. It's a lot. I don't I haven't even gone into the fact that all of this is squaring Jupiter. It's a lot, it's it's more than I can even touch on, right?

Mars Conjunct Neptune In Aries

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So, with all of that said, for this sign by sign, I am only going to be talking about the Mars conjunction with Neptune in Aries. Okay, they are both happening at two degrees Aries. And even that, even that is already a lot. So let's just

Which Sign To Listen To

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get started. Now, as I always tell you, listen to your rising sign. That is going to be the most impactful, the most accurate. You are your rising sign. If you don't know it, listen to your sun sign if you have a day chart, listen to your moon sign if you have a night chart. For day people, the moon sign will be more internal and subjective. If you want to get the most comprehensive, listen to all three. All right, let's get into it.

Aries And Taurus Behind The Scenes

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For Aries, I mean, what do I say, Aries? This is happening in your first house. This is tough energy. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna joke about it. On the good side, let me give you the good of it. Mars is passion and fire, and Neptune is dreaming and creation and creativity and all of that kind of thing, spirituality as well. So you may be really fired up in one of those areas, you know, to really make go through some deep transformation. And for you, because it's happening in the first house, it'll be really personal. This will be deeply organic for you. But the truth of it is, I don't like this aspect for anybody, and especially not for you in the first house, because it is so personal. Mars is fire and moves fast. Mars is impulsive, especially in Aries, which is an impulsive sign, right? And Mars is in power here because he rules Aries, and Neptune is the opposite of that. Neptune is slow and floating and wants to go deep and take things as they come. And so this is kind of like a push-pull. Uh, I want to go, but I'm acting impulsively on things I'm not seeing clearly. So this week, don't change your hair. Like, don't cut it off. I mean, it'll grow back. Don't worry if you do, right? Don't go out and do some weird cosmetic procedure on yourself this week. Please don't, because you're gonna regret it. I promise you, you're gonna regret it because you're gonna see it differently later. Give yourself time. This is a good time to journal about stuff and you know, make plans and start to imagine what's possible. The problem is Mars is not gonna wanna stop at that. So get ready. Get ready for a push-pull, get ready for impulsivity. That's gonna be about how you present yourself in the world, how you see yourself, all of that. Okay. Try not to jump on those impulses, but Mars is gonna make that difficult. Taurus, I hope you just listened to Aries because you're another sign where it's tough. This is all happening in your 12th house. The 12th house is a difficult house all by its own self. This is behind the scenes. So the good for you is that you may be getting inspired ideas. Mars, right? Fire and energy, Neptune, visionary stuff. However, not necessarily clear vision, right? But still creativity, spirituality, all of that. And this is going to be happening for you, like kind of behind the scenes planning. The problem is Mars wants to go, right? Mars has that impulsivity. And so when you should be working sort of in quiet space, in solitude, um, in a retreat kind of environment, which is 12th house, Mars is gonna want to deliver. And you may be trying to launch things before you should. You may be putting stuff out there before you're seeing it clearly, before it's really well designed and ready for public consumption, whatever that is. The other thing that worries me about this in the 12th house is mental health issues could be coming up for you. So if you're prone to depression, if you're prone to kind of retreat kinds of things where you get depressed and you want to hide under the covers, those things could be up. But also there's a kind of, and I'm not diagnosing anyone or trying to plant any seeds. I'm not using this next term as a diagnosis, more as a metaphor. Okay, do you hear that? I am not a therapist, I am not diagnosing, and I'm I don't want to plant the seeds as of this as like a mental health issue. But Mars, Neptune is a kind of bipolar feel to it, right? They are opposites in a way. Mars is fire and wants to go. Neptune is emotion and wants to go deep and slow. And so this sense of having this internal psychological or mental or even spiritual sense of just being torn in two directions could be up for you. I'm gonna say this, not because this is gonna apply to everybody, but if you need support, please know that this is all real and you should reach out and get it, whether that's reaching out to friends, spiritual advisors, therapists, whatever it is, take care of yourself, okay? And again, I don't want this, it's not, everybody's not gonna have some kind of weird mental-emotional collapse. It's just that the energy is there for it. So take care of yourself to prevent it, right? Take care of yourself to prevent it, get exercise. But for you, give yourself rest, give yourself alone time, do meditation, yoga, those kinds of things, okay? Time in nature. Super useful for you, Taurus rising people. All right, let's go to Gemini.

Gemini And Cancer Group Work Tension

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Gemini, this is happening in the 11th house of your tribe, your friends, your group identity. So expect shake up there. For you, I'm guessing there's gonna be some emotional, that's Neptune, emotional tug of war in some group that you're involved with. This might be between friends, this could be a work group, a political group, a community group. Somehow you and your tribes, I think you're gonna be going through some kind of push-pull. Avoid impulsivity if you can. Try to sit with things, and I mean that on both in both directions. Like before you go spouting your stuff that everybody needs to hear because you're all fired up. Take a minute, take a minute, and by a minute, I mean like a week or two, okay? But also if your feelings get hurt, because remember, everybody's got this happening somewhere in their chart. So if your feelings are hurt, if people seem to be acting impulsively, try not to strike back, try to give it a little minute, okay? The good for this is new ideas, new plans can be um sort of uh set in motion, or at least the pre-planning can be done about things you want to do with your friends, with your community group, whatever. So there is good. I just think that this is a difficult transit. Okay, and for cancer, this is happening in your 10th house. So this is all going on at work. What's the good for you? The good is that you may be really fired up to start a passion project. You want to propose that new idea to the boss, or if you're your own boss, you want to launch that new creative idea you've got. And again, like for everybody, I'm just gonna say take it a little bit slowly. It's probably not ready yet. You're probably not seeing it exactly clearly yet. So give it a little bit of time. And I'm gonna say again, for this one, by time, I mean more than a minute. Okay, because we've got mercury is gonna come on into the scene, and that's our minds, our thinking. That's also business. So for you, cancer, this is especially important. Mercury's gonna come in, and business matters could get murky as well. So when I say give it a minute, I mean give it a couple of weeks, do the pre-planning stages before you try to launch. Okay. The other thing is just be careful with interactions at work, expect misunderstandings, expect that you might lash out impulsively, other people might, and just try to take a breath if those things

Leo Virgo Libra Big Leaps

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happen. Leo, this is happening in your ninth house of spirituality, higher education, publication, foreign cultures and foreign travel. And so for you, this is a little bit less difficult if you are a student. This could be happening in your school environment. If you're involved in any kind of organized spirituality, this could be happening in that group. But in general, what I would like to say is in however this plays out for you, I don't see it as being as um, I don't want to say dangerous, that seems so dramatic, right? But I don't see it as being so, yeah, dangerous. I'll say that, as it is in some of the other houses. I would just say that you might be really fired up for like, I'm gonna start this new educational program, I'm going to get my doctorate, but you don't even have your bachelor's degree yet. Or I'm gonna get all into my spiritual practice. I'm gonna go to yoga seven days a week and um go move to whatever country and live on the guru's ashram. Yeah, maybe just that's cool. That's cool. All of that sounds good, but give it a bit, right? Don't move yet, don't sign some sort of billionaire contract. I'm looking at you, you know what group does that. Don't maybe sign up for the doctorate yet, maybe take a workshop. Just give yourself a little bit of time, okay? But for you, I think the snafuos that come up could be a little bit less life-crushing, okay? For Virgo, Virgo, this is happening in your eighth house. Now, while this house does involve trauma and fear, and so I do think for you, some of those issues, your fears, your long-standing traumas could be coming up. And again, like I said, for Taurus, if you feel like you need help, if you feel like you're just under it and old traumatic wounds are sort of open again, get help. Reach out to your friends, your spiritual advisors, your therapist. Okay, don't muscle through. This is Mars is gonna wanna muscle through, and you're gonna go wanna tell that person who did you wrong in the past. And I am not saying that to make light of that, but you're gonna wanna just go lash out and get this thing solved. I know that is gonna seem like a good idea for some people. Make the plan, talk with an advisor, get it all lined up, but don't act yet if you possibly can hold off, okay? Because you'll have some regrets. I promise you will. The other thing though, for you, Virgo, this is the house of joint finances, investment, debt, all of that kind of stuff. Mercury rules the market, okay? This is not, let me just crazy repeat, this is not a good time to jump in to any kind of investment, change in your portfolio, getting into crazy debt because you've got this great plan about how that's all gonna work out. Give this some time. Not only are you not seeing things clearly right now when Mercury comes into the picture, the markets on a mundane global level, the markets are expected to go wack-adoo. So be careful with your money, your debt, your investments, all of that. All right? Libra, what can I say, Libra? This is happening in your seventh house of one-on-one relationships, primary relationships, marriage, love partners, those kinds of things, right? This is gonna be one of those times when you're gonna be having that Neptunian dreamy I love you, let's soul bond kind of thing. And Mars is gonna be there, like, yeah, I feel the passion. Let's get married, let's run to Vegas. You are my soulmate. Stop it, stop it right now. Give the keys to the car, to a trusted friend, and then and tell them, do not allow you to drive to Vegas. Do not drive to Vegas. I'm not saying this person isn't the one and you're not gonna soul bond. I am not saying that. I'm just saying any, you're not seeing it clearly right now. Uh, you are not seeing it clearly. That doesn't mean you're not, this is not your soulmate, okay? It just means there's a lack of clarity so that Mars needs to go fast. And in the seventh house, you know, that's sexual passion. That's like we're so into each other, blah, blah, blah, right? It's like slow down, slow down, don't drive to Vegas, all right? Again, it doesn't mean you're not gonna go to Vegas eventually. Just don't go this week, all right? Maybe not next week either. Take a little bit of time so you can see through the Neptunian stuff, all right?

Scorpio And Sagittarius Health Fun Heat

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Scorpio, this is happening in your sixth house of physical health and day-to-day routines. Again, for you, I'm not quite as worried as I am for how this is going to play out in some of the other signs. I do think you may get some health scares, but remember that you're not seeing anything clearly. So don't over or underestimate any health issues that come up, specifically around things like infections, um, inflammation, things like that. See your, I'm not saying don't see your doctor, see your doctor, just realize that right now nothing's exactly clear and give yourself some time. Now, here's where I do see the worry. If you have substance abuse issues, watch out. Neptune rules substances and Mars rules overdoing it. Okay. So the only thing that worries me, and this is just gonna be for a very few of you, but watch out that you don't let your substance issues get out of control, that you don't take too much, drink too much, do whatever. This might be a good week to like go on a cleanse, right? Or do something that sort of helps you keep those substance things in check. Okay, because I'm telling you, they are not good this week. All right, they are just not good this week, Scorpio rising. Okay, the other thing is this is a good week to sort of sample physical activity. You'll probably get all involved. Like, I'm going to go try rock climbing, and now I'm going, I've done it two days. It's my thing, and now I'm going to go climb Mount Everest. Okay, don't sign up for the thing for Mount Everest because in a couple of days, you're gonna probably go want to be a hula dancer or something. And yeah, but it is a good week to go explore health routines and physical activity, new ideas and stuff like that. Just don't sign up for the two-year plan. Okay. Good, good week though, to sample. Go vegan for a day, do a juice cleanse, go climb a rock. You know, it's a good week to sample and kind of just don't sign up for the long term. Okay, Sagittarius, this is in your fifth house of creative expression, fun, sex, leisure activities, and also children. Parents, just watch out for impulsive responses with your kids. That's all I'm gonna say about that. The rest of you, um, and parents who are also creative and have sex and like to go have fun, all the rest of you. This is gonna be a time when you're probably like, again, this is just an area where you won't be seeing things clearly. You know, you're gonna have this great idea for your new book, painting, stage play, screen, whatever it is. Yeah. Um And you're just gonna wanna take it, pitch it, you know, get it out there right now. Again, do the pre-work. It doesn't mean it's not a great project. I just wouldn't pitch yet. You're not ready, it's not ready, I promise you. The other thing, there's gonna be probably a lot of like, um, I wanna go to an island and have wild, passionate sex with my new soulmate. All of that's fine. All of that's fine. Go do those things and have fun. But don't expect for how it feels this week to necessarily be the final, the final plan, right? The final way it's gonna be. So the problem here is you may be feeling like, yeah, this person that I'm having this wild, passionate time with, we're doing this. This is happening because of our deep soul bond. Maybe, maybe not. You're another one. Don't drive to Vegas. Let it be fun, let it be frivolous, know that things are

Capricorn Aquarius Pisces Home Words Money

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gonna change. All right, for Capricorn, this is happening in home and family. Don't sell the house. Okay, don't put the house on the market yet. But this is one where you might be getting really inspired ideas about changes you want to make in your living situation, where you want to live, with whom you want to live, how you want your house to look, all of that stuff, and you're gonna be all fired up. Like, let's tear down the front wall so that we can expend. Don't tear, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't tear down the front wall. Don't end your lease, don't put a down payment on anything. It's not saying that you're not gonna move, make changes, do all of that stuff. In fact, I think you probably will. Not not right now. You're not seeing it clearly yet. I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but that's the problem. We're gonna have the passion to act, and we're not seeing it clearly yet. And I actually know how this one feels. I am a sun sign Capricorn, so we know we are our rising signs, but our suns are important. I got I've got a stellium in Capricorn, and I am kind of wanting to burn down my house. Burn, and that's I've used that language. I don't mean it literally, you know what I mean? But I'm ready to just level this place and move on. You know, that feeling, that's the exact feeling Capricorns are gonna be having. A lot of Capricorns are gonna be having in the fourth house, where it's just like, I'm done with this as it is, and I am ready to go. Look at the language that I just metaphorically use. I'm gonna burn it down. That's Mars. Mars is fire, and I'm gonna move on. Yeah, on, on to where? That's Neptune lack of clarity. Okay, be warned. Don't burn it down, metaphorically speaking, of course. Okay, Aquarius, this is happening in your third house. This is siblings, local community, and communication. It's also the communication involves things like writing and stuff like that as well. So you can apply this watch out for outbursts and you know, yeah, eruptions going on with your siblings, with community members. Watch out for things like, you know, blowing up at the grocery store checker or, you know, rage, road rage, that kind of thing. Okay, it could do that, but I'm more concerned about it in the sense of communication. Why? Because Mercury's very soon going to be in this picture. Mercury also has to do with communication. So for you, I want you to anything that you're writing or you know, like um creating in that linguistic sense, podcasting, YouTubing, marketing, um, all that stuff, but also just communication, like you're giving a talk or you're getting together with groups of people where you're gonna be talking. Watch out for um just kind of having rose-colored glasses on on one level, but also impulsivity. So, like you're thinking everybody's just gonna kumbaya agree with you. And then when it doesn't go quite as planned, you strike out or get really hurt or whatever. Watch out for the lashing out. Also, if you are doing communication as like a career or side hustle or whatever, don't launch too soon. The impulse is gonna be there, the the urge is gonna be there to get it all out in public. Don't launch too soon. And finally, for Pisces, this is happening in your second house of personal finance. This is your money. So, again, like I said, for Virgo, they've got it happening in their eighth house, you've got it happening in your second. The markets are gonna get wack-adoo when Mercury comes into the Aries. Take care of your finances, don't spend impulsively. And I think for you guys, because this is really your personal finances, I think that's what you're gonna wanna do, right? I think it's gonna be like, oh, I've got this great idea uh for my new business, my new YouTube channel, my whatever it is, right? I've got this great idea, and I just need to go buy all that equipment. I need the camera and the this and that, and I'm gonna buy a business full-blown. Somebody's selling their whatever it is business, and it's gonna be great. Rose colored glasses in the area of money. So I'll just take out a loan, I'll put it on my credit card, I'll this, that, and whatever the other. Don't do that. Make business plans, make uh plans for purchases. It may not even have to do with business, right? Like I hate all my wardrobe and I'm changing my personal style, so I need to go just buy a whole bunch of stuff, right? Whatever it is, it doesn't matter what area of life, make the plans, get it all, you know, thought through and all of that, but give yourself time to revise because Mercury's coming in and things are gonna go even a little nuttier for a while. But that Mars impulsivity is gonna be there. Go put your credit cards in a safe deposit box or let a friend know, don't give them to a friend who knows where they're being impulsive. Hide your credit cards. That's what I'm telling you, Pisces. Hide your credit cards.

Slow Down And Send Requests

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All right, so we've gone through all the signs, and I know there's just a whole lot of warning in this one, but I'm telling you, it's not that this is bad energy, a whole lot of good imagination, passion, creativity, spirituality. It's all there. It's just that Mars is gonna want to act on it all too quickly. That's the warning, okay? But Mars is fired up in Aries, and that too quick action could be really, really not good. So do all the planning, you know, get into that Neptune creativity, soul bonding, all that stuff. Just cool it down as much as you can and and just delay or slow down. I hope this was all helpful. I've had a couple of requests. People want me to do episodes a little bit more on the political, it's called mundane astrology about the world. If you think that would be a good thing that you're interested in, I'm happy to do that. I'm always saying, like, oh, this is gonna do war and this and that, but I'm not gonna talk about it. If you want me to do episodes where that is the focus, I'm happy to do that. Just let me know, okay? And with all of that, thank you all for being here and sticking through this. And go out and seize the energies of the stars. This is my wish for you always, and I will talk to you on the other end. Bye.