Moving Train
Life seems to function most interestingly with a balance of order and chaos, conformity and anarchy, form and dysfunction. The relationship between Saturn and Uranus in your birth chart tell us a lot about how you’re wired in this regard. A smooth aspect between them, like a sextile or a trine, suggests you are able to integrate these sides of your nature happily, seamlessly. A hard aspect, like a conjunction, square, opposition, or quincunx, suggests a struggle to reconcile these warring tendencies, with pressure building into occasional explosions.
The first of three sextiles between transiting Saturn and Uranus arrives this week (April 4, 2025, 9:20 am PDT, 24º55’ Pisces and Taurus). Throughout the coming year (the other sextiles are on Aug. 11, 2025 and Jan. 19, 2026), the heavens and earth reflect an opportunity to integrate these qualities, and produce advancements that depend on both structure (Saturn) and innovation (Uranus).
Saturn and Uranus most recently formed sextiles in 1996 and 1997, and saw technological advancements (Uranus is closely associated with technology; Saturn with the corporations that develop it) like the first smartphone, the Nokia Communicator; the first commercial internet browser; the introduction of Hotmail; the launch of Google; the creation of the first Wi-Fi; and the launch of eBay.
What will the two bring our way this time around, what will it mean for our daily lives, and how will we respond? And are you a Saturn-Uranus type who likes to jump on the moving train of technology at full speed, or who would prefer for the train to slow down and glide into the station before you adopt something new?
Tsunamis and Debris
Sometimes, we have to get good and angry before we’re willing to make a change. This week, when Mars and Uranus come together in a sextile aspect (April 4, 2025, 4:05 pm PDT, 24º56′ Cancer and Taurus), that change just might be coming. With Mars in the emotionally charged water sign of Cancer, and the First Quarter Moon in Cancer, expect a tsunami of emotions crashing onto the shore—while Uranus, in steady and stubborn Taurus, creates the ground-shaking energy that destabilizes things further.
Be cautious—this planetary combination can trigger impulsiveness and recklessness, especially in extreme situations. It’s a time when changes to your usual patterns could lead to accidents, so step lightly and avoid unnecessary risks. Be mindful on the road, and keep emotional reactions in check. Once the world has been shaken up, it’s easy to trip over the debris that’s left behind.
The Claw
Ideas conceived at the Aries New Moon can go by so blindingly fast that we might forget about them just as quickly as they occurred to us. But at the Cancer First Quarter Moon (April 4, 2025, 7:15 pm PDT, 15º33’ Cancer) about a week later, it’s time to reach out a claw and grab on to one of them. Just choosing an idea is a powerful first step toward achieving it. And once Cancer has gotten ahold of something, it won’t let go easily.
This First Quarter Moon is fairly close to Mars, and Cancer won’t just grab on – it’ll hatch a plan for making this idea viable. Mind you, the path ahead might be a tad oblique. Emotions might flare along the way. But if your idea or plan has a whisper of a chance to succeed, this First Quarter Moon will let you know.
The More the Merrier?
There is an allure to knowing exactly what you want and how you want to go about getting it. It feels clean, unequivocal. But what if there’s an opportunity to have something more, something you might never have thought of, if you’re willing to take a detour?
Let’s say you’ve decided to take a trip to Rome. You’ve determined the perfect time to go, evaluated the flights, and investigated hotels. Over coffee, you tell a friend about your plans. “Oh, I’m planning a trip there two weeks later!” she says. “Wouldn’t it have been super to share a room and take some day trips together!”
Well, as a matter of fact… You actually could go a couple of weeks later. You haven’t yet booked anything or put in for vacation time from work. And while you love traveling on your own, this person is good company, makes friends easily, and even speaks some Italian.
Should you suggest traveling together? If you don’t, there’s no harm done; your friend will never know you entertained the idea. But if you do, you might just have a lot more fun.
The nature of a sextile aspect is that it’s an opportunity – you can choose to say yes to it, or let it pass by. When the Sun in Aries sextiles Jupiter in Gemini (April 6, 2:44 am PDT, 16°50’ Aries and Gemini), it could be a case of the more, the merrier. And if you choose to go on your own, singular path, that’ll be fine, too. The choice is yours.
Kismet
When Venus is floating along in enchanted Pisces, it’s not always to figure out exactly what it is that we want. We may second-guess our desires; do we want that tempting thing, or this other one?
But every now and then, someone arrives on the scene who not only intuits our desires, but shares them, and is willing to stick around and partner with us to attain them.
This sort of kismet is likely under the influence of Venus trine Mars (April 6, 2025, 5:13 am PDT, 25º29’ Pisces and Cancer). And Venus last made a trine to Mars in the same signs on January 25; did something – or someone – fall on your radar then but seem a little bit out of reach? Take another look now, because the timing might be better.
Writing and images © 2017-25 by April Elliott Kent
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