Sagittarius Horoscope for April 2013

This is a productive period for you, Sagittarius, in which you might find the resolution for several recent conundrums. There is a shift in the cosmic weather that presages if not exactly an easier passage, then at the very least a more fruitful one. You are in some sense being reborn in the current monthly time frame, particularly in the way that you apply your creativity. You are also, after a period of thoughtful reassessment, moving past some of the intensity in dealing with issues of self and other, working out where full-on partnership with significant others makes sense for you and where you must find your own way. You win when you allow key relationships in your life to breathe, fostering closeness and creative tension and even distance in equal measure, neither actually taking over and swamping the boat.

As the month begins, you are exploring issues of self-expression and relationship, riding out the wave from the very powerful Full Moon of the last week in March. You have been mulling over fundamental factors of connection in your life, with family, friends and close personal associates, considering the way you relate to these important others benefits you while still allowing your sense of personal identity greater scope for action. When you get caught up in personal achievement you could neglect the collaboration that is necessary for ongoing relationship sharing, and yet there is perhaps a way that full-on partnership commitment can enhance rather than limit your sense of yourself as an independent agent.

There are inherent limitations in any shared linkage with another entity, although these can be difficult at times to discern, and this concept of tuning in to what constrains you in the context of relationship is currently symbolized by your ruler Jupiter residing in your relationship sector for the first half of this year, and now in aspect to Saturn . You are transforming in this and many other areas of your life, and you sense that the limitations and restrictions, and the lessons, can be helpful in making the changes that you need to make in the way that you relate to significant others. Just as form gives shape to art, so too, your natural creativity can benefit from the constraints posited by the relationship quest with respect to different types of important connection.

With Mars and Uranus so prominent recently, the potential is there for reactivity in your connections with others; if this has been coming up, it likely stems from the undigested residue of prior trauma. There have been formative situations from your early days that must also be considered as factors, and that still contribute their influence in terms of both encouragement and trauma. The pain of old wounding is also present for you now, as indicated by the close aspect connection between Jupiter and Chiron, the Wounded Healer, located in your sector of psychological security. Cosmically speaking, you are in a good place to continue working through such issues by checking in with yourself in deep meditation, and by witnessing your internal complexes by staying as open as you can to exploring the emotions behind any reactivity that might surface.

With several planets, including Uranus, Mars and Venus, massing in your creativity sector you are also feeling into the tremendous urge just to be yourself. As you discover your desire for freedom, and for meaningful connection without compromising that important attribute, you are well aware of how you represent your own center — apart from everything else that is happening around you — and yet remain in another sense a cog in the machinery of friendship and societal interaction and of your past also.