Taurus Horoscope for April 2015

This is another powerful month for you, Taurus, in a series of these, taking you forward in ways not always completely anticipated. You could feel lately like you are moving through molasses. You are heading toward an unknown future that beckons you, through a combination of idealism and fond illusion. These first few months of this year have been revolutionary and eye opening, especially referring to your inner eye, as your mystical journey continues. Partners continue to have a strong role to play, perhaps serving as catalysts to your own development. Your very identity is shifting, including your worldview. You might sometimes feel as though you are stuck on the verge of breakthrough. Your progress is subtle and yet nonetheless profound, and the ultimate outcome will be longer lasting and more greatly stabilized within you as a result of this longer term in your process of getting there.

As the month begins, you are feeling energized by the presence of Mars, your relationship sector ruler, newly entered into your sign. This implies that there is a connection between your sense of identity and what important partners, or the potential for relationship, might bring into your life during a complex monthly cycle in which you are also getting a better handle on who you are and how to fit yourself into the patterning of what you see around you. You might be able to recognize as you contemplate the world outside of yourself a growing sense of what you need to do in terms of inner development and life plan that corresponds in a quite powerful way to what you and only you can supply to it. There is a way that important persons in relationship with yourself are facilitating the furtherance of this growing understanding of who you really are, including inner realms of your psyche that are becoming more familiar, and of what you need to accomplish out in the world that is in closest alignment with this ideal.

Your ruling planet, lovely Venus, is currently traveling through your sign, so that you are experiencing a comfortable feeling of being at home in your sense of self. You are also likely to be feeling a heightened focus on feeling secure, financially or otherwise, perhaps emphasizing your love nature and appreciation of the senses. At the dramatic New Moon solar eclipse of March 20th, which set the tone for the current cycle, Venus made a near exact inconjunct aspect to Saturn in your sector of intimacy and personal evolution, so that the changes that you are currently going through could be difficult to easily integrate and also have long-term implications for the future. Any blocks that might exist for you in your sexual life, or as well in your ability to move through your cycles of change with willingness and momentum, are likely up for you right now, to examine. Saturn imposes limitations, and while this process might be confronting, it is a worthy cause to lean into the discomfort and to start looking at where you need to place boundAries, or where you are being required by the cosmos to expand beyond your comfort zone. If you have not placed adequate attention in this area, it could mount into frustration, which could provide the fuel needed to step up and face things more squarely.

Jupiter is prominent this month, as well, still located in your sector of home and family, and stationing to direct motion on April 8th. This area of your solar chart also signifies the foundation of your root psychology. There is tremendous focus all through the early part of the month on what is going on beneath the surface layers of your psyche. You tend to live on the surface and to acknowledge the deeper layers of your psyche in brief spurts of at all, but this month rather than more obvious interactions and events there is energy in your stars for much greater focus on the undercurrents, what is going on deep within you. Since your home environment is the setting and the symbolic equivalent of your inner world, and is also symbolized by this configuration, you could also find that you are encouraged by discovering just how much your home environment affects your overall attitude and mood; you could be pouring extra love and attention into cleaning up, clearing out and beautifying. And there is an organizing principle as well going on beneath the surface.

Because the Uranus-Pluto square, still less than a degree from exact, is activated this month, most notably in the timing of the Full Moon eclipse of April 4th, you have further impetus to make meaningful changes over the course of this cycle in those areas of your life occupied by these powerhouse planets. With Uranus conjunct the Sun in your sector of hidden depths, interacting with transformational Pluto in your higher mind sector, you could be on the receiving end of many surprising insights and epiphanies. If you allow yourself to tap in to dreams, intuition, felt senses, or any other signs from the universe, such as tarot; you could find your insights aligning with these in striking clarity. While the course of the transformation you are undergoing is far from finding its full resolution, your progress this month could be remarkable, and you also might find that you benefit greatly when you can stop steering, and simply surrender to your process.