April 2025 Recap: After the Flood
April 2025 marked Neptune’s ingress into Aries, an epochal shift pulling the veil from collective illusions and stirring spiritual restlessness. Neptune, now in the sign of raw fire and initiation, begins a long campaign to ignite dreams or dissolve them in the heat of ambition. The Pisces stellium last month—housing Venus, Saturn, Mercury, the North Lunar Node (Rahu), and at times the Moon—created a deeply transitional tone, steeped in endings, spiritual fatigue, and the longing to transcend.
But transcendence was hard-won. The crowding of the skies in Pisces, along with the distorting influence of Rahu, brought on a period of deep confusion—both personally and collectively. Market volatility surged in response to abrupt tariff announcements, while global negotiations became mired in ambiguity, backtracking, and conflicting interests. This haziness has echoed through everyday life as well, where conversations looped in circles, intentions were misread, and direction was hard to come by. The undertow of planets in Pisces invited dreams but delivered distortion, making it difficult to distinguish insight from illusion.
Venus and Mercury have now stepped into Aries, drying off the indecision of Pisces and sharpening their focus. Saturn trails behind, moving slowly but inevitably toward the same terrain. With only the North Node remaining in Pisces, the emotional fog begins to lift. For many, this shift will feel like the return of willpower after a long drift—an emerging impulse to act, to clarify, and to make real decisions after weeks of feeling underwater.
Themes in May: Crossing the Threshold
May 2025 is a threshold month. We’re witnessing the final stages in a rare sequence of outer planet transitions: Pluto into Aquarius (November 2024), Neptune into Aries (April 2025), and Uranus into Gemini (early June 2025). Any one of these ingresses would mark a turning point; occurring within months—and in some cases, weeks—of one another, they signal a deep structural shift in the collective timeline. This kind of convergence hasn’t been seen in centuries.
And yet—May begins with an odd, unsettled calm. All seven classical planets are now moving direct. Mars has regained forward momentum. Mercury and Venus, no longer retracing their retrograde paths, begin to pick up speed. But the sense of clarity remains provisional. What we’re entering isn’t stability—it’s transition. The emotional tangle of April begins to unravel, only to give way to a sharper, faster, and more fragmented terrain. The mood is drier, louder, more reactive.
Don’t confuse motion with resolution. The gears of change are turning, yes—but they’re doing so against a backdrop of static and noise. What felt murky in April now feels scattered in May. This month there is an opportunity to find signal in the noise as the future assembles itself, with its architecture of feedback and friction.
May 1–20: Clearing the Decks, Setting the Stage
May 2 – Venus conjunct Neptune in Aries
Venus catches up with Neptune in the early degrees of Aries, offering an important glimpse into how its long-term transit may begin to shape art, fashion, aesthetics, and desire. This conjunction won’t be dreamy as we saw with Venus meeting Neptune in Pisces over the past 8 years—it’s more of a flickering mirage on scorched terrain. Aries brings heat and immediacy to Neptune’s diffuse presence, blending idealism with impulse. In the cultural sphere, this could serve as a moment of stylistic or artistic foreshadowing: the rise of bold new forms that are more provocative than polished, more instinctual than refined.
Individually, this alignment may stir desire without direction. Romantic cues may be misunderstood, leading to impulsive actions or misplaced affections. It’s a moment when fantasy moves faster than clarity—when something seems obvious in the moment but unravels on closer inspection. Creative breakthroughs are possible—if one can separate inspiration from illusion.
May 12 – Full Moon in Scorpio
The Full Moon rises in Scorpio, drawing attention to what simmers below the surface—power plays, emotional entanglements, unspoken desires, and cycles of release and renewal. Scorpio Moons often bring a sense of quiet intensity, and this one is no exception. It illuminates not what is easily seen, but what has been hidden, repressed, or protected. The mood is private, potent, and potentially transformational.
Mars, the ruler of this lunation, is now striding forward in Leo—bold, theatrical, and eager to assert. No longer bogged down by retrograde inertia, Mars in Leo expresses its will with flair and confidence. From this fiery perch, he casts a harmonious trine to Venus in Aries. The effect is unexpectedly tender: the sweet acknowledgment of courage, the symbolic rose tossed before the hero’s feet after a daring act. Venus, herself in a sign of action and autonomy, responds not with softness, but with admiration.
This is a moment where desire meets performance—where the need to act, to claim, or to reveal is colored by emotional depth and a desire for recognition. But the setting is still Scorpio: what’s exchanged may be private, what’s felt may remain unspoken. For some, this lunation culminates a deep internal process; for others, it opens a door into territory that must be navigated quietly, even secretly. The applause is real—but it echoes in a darkened theater.
Saturn–Neptune in Aries: Forging the Logos Through Fire
The upcoming conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in Aries is not just rare—it’s foundational. These two slow-moving planets will meet at 0° Aries on February 20, 2026, the very first degree of the zodiac, which the ancients viewed as a kind of cosmic ignition point. Saturn brings form, enforcement, and boundary; Neptune diffuses, dreams, and mythologizes. Together in Aries—a sign of action, war, and assertion—they forge the archetype of visionary struggle: a pressure to embody ideals through direct action, often with revolutionary consequences.
Past conjunctions in Aries show this pattern:
594 BCE – Solon’s Reforms in Athens
A prime example of ideals (Neptune) being codified into law (Saturn) through a bold restructuring (Aries). Solon rewrote the Athenian legal code, canceled debts, and laid the groundwork for democracy—not by retreating from crisis, but by confronting social collapse head-on. This moment canonized equality and justice as foundational civic ideals.
91 BCE – The Social War in Rome
Italian allies of Rome demanded citizenship and legal parity. When diplomacy failed, war erupted. The ideal of shared identity and civil rights (Neptune) met the violence of exclusion and boundary enforcement (Saturn in Aries). The war ultimately led to a legal restructuring of the Roman state to include broader participation—an imperfect, but lasting change born through fire.
232 CE – Rise of Theological Codification in the Roman Empire
Under pressure from internal fragmentation, religious schools and councils began to crystallize competing visions of spiritual authority. The church began moving from mysticism (Neptune) toward formalized doctrine (Saturn), a shift from diffuse belief to institutional theology, often under the threat of imperial enforcement.
555 CE – Justinian’s Building of Hagia Sophia and Religious Expansion
The Byzantine emperor launched a sweeping campaign of sacred empire-building, fusing architectural grandeur (Saturn) with a mythic vision of divine rule (Neptune). This was also a time of plague and control through religious orthodoxy—a form of centralized power under the guise of spiritual purpose.
1380 CE – Turning Point in the Hundred Years’ War
The war between England and France intensified, but this moment also saw the emergence of national myths, such as the early rise of Joan of Arc’s precursors and internal reform movements. It reflected Neptune’s ideal of divine destiny merged with Saturn’s hard limits of blood, land, and sovereignty.
1703 CE – War of Spanish Succession & Founding of St. Petersburg
As Europe contested the Spanish throne, the geopolitical map began to reshape. Meanwhile, Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg, a utopian imperial capital built by decree and labor—an enduring monument to the fusion of vision and discipline, Neptune’s ideal city built by Saturnian force.
Each of these moments reflects a critical mass of dream and directive—times when the world was asked not just to imagine a new order, but to build it, enforce it, and fight for it. In 2025–2028, as this conjunction returns in Aries, we can expect a similarly combustible merging of myth, law, and will—both individually and collectively.
Looking Ahead
As Saturn and Neptune begin their slow march through Aries, we enter a paradoxical time—one that demands action, yet confounds clarity. The impulse to move forward is strong, but the terrain is shifting beneath our feet. This isn’t a time of triumphant vision—it’s a forge where ideals are tested, stripped down, or dissolved entirely. We may feel driven to defend what once gave meaning or to impose form on dreams that refuse to take shape.
On the world stage, we’re already seeing this pressure unfold. Nations seek to reclaim material sovereignty, re-shoring/near-shoring production and attempting to reassert control over value chains that have long drifted into abstraction. Identity—national, ideological, spiritual—is becoming something to defend, not merely define.
What we’re witnessing isn’t just economic realignment; it’s the hardening of narratives, borders, and belief systems under existential stress.
As we move toward the Saturn–Neptune conjunction of 2026, we’ll explore each of these historical epoch-defining transits of Neptune and Saturn in Aries in more detail, examining how the cold hand of Saturn and the dissolving tide of Neptune interact in the fiery realm of Aries. What emerges from this cycle may not be something we build—but something we survive, remember, or finally relinquish.
Gemini Stellium: Defragging the Multiplicity Engine
Beginning May 25, Gemini becomes the gravitational center of the sky. Mercury returns to his home sign, soon joined by the Sun, Moon, and Jupiter. This is not just noise—it’s the quickening of intelligence. Thought, speech, signal, and story begin to flow with purpose. Where recent months have felt emotionally fogged, the closing days of May offer sharp air and agile minds.
May 25 – Mercury enters Gemini
At home in his own sign, Mercury brings clarity and adaptability. This is a favorable moment for problem-solving, negotiation, and reframing. Mercury in Gemini doesn’t promise resolution, but it does offer tools: language, curiosity, pattern recognition, and the capacity to hold contradictions without being undone by them.
May 26 – Full Moon in Gemini
This lunation gathers the Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Jupiter in Gemini. Mercury, ruler of the Full Moon, forms a trine to Pluto in Aquarius and a sextile to Saturn and Neptune in Aries—complex forces, but now made intelligible. The Gemini Moon releases data and insight, yes—but also brings the ability to metabolize it.
This marks the first Gemini Full Moon with Jupiter present in over a decade, and with Mercury ruling from his own sign, there’s real potential for breakthroughs in how we communicate, frame, and learn. Information may come fast, but this time, there’s a sharp mind behind the wheel.
May 29 – Mercury Cazimi (conjunct Aldebaran)
As Mercury enters the heart of the Sun, we reach a moment of crystalline clarity. Conjunct Aldebaran, a royal fixed star known for honor, strategy, and luminous insight, this Cazimi may bring a message that cuts through distraction. A decision, a conversation, or a piece of writing around this date may hold long-term consequence.
Jupiter in Gemini – The Home Stretch: Order from Multiplicity
Jupiter continues his passage through Gemini, multiplying perspectives and inquiries. But by the end of the month, Mercury begins to guide the process, organizing the chaos. What began as the “Trouble with Tribbles” becomes a taxonomy of ideas, sorted by detail and meaning. And as Jupiter prepares to enter his exaltation in Cancer at the start of next month, Hermes ensures those tribbles have homes—threads find their skeins, and narratives start to settle into something nourishing.
Looking Ahead to June 2025: The Crowned Benefics and The Last Shoe to Drop…
June opens with two royal arrivals: Venus and Jupiter, both entering signs of dignity, bringing grace, cohesion, and a kind of soft landing after May’s cerebral intensity.
Jupiter enters Cancer, his place of exaltation, and the expansion turns inward. What was abstract and fragmentary in Gemini now roots itself in care, kinship, memory, and nourishment. Jupiter in Cancer grows what feeds us—homes, alliances, ancestral wisdom. After the scattered winds of Gemini, we turn to the consolidation of growth and prosperity.
Venus enters Taurus, her home turf, and reclaims the throne of value and pleasure. Sensuality becomes tangible. Markets may stabilize. Beauty takes on form again. Venus in Taurus doesn’t seek attention—it draws it through presence, steadiness, and embodiment. After the jagged heat of Venus in Aries, this is a return to fertile ground.
But there’s one more move—and it changes everything.
Uranus enters Gemini.
This is the final shoe. Once Uranus crosses into Gemini, the Air Triplicity epoch—initiated by the Jupiter–Saturn conjunction in Aquarius (2020), amplified by Pluto’s entrance into Aquarius (2024), and mythologized by Neptune in Aries (2025)—fully activates. The realm of ideas, networks, and language is now charged with Uranian voltage.
Expect technological acceleration, breaks in narrative authority, memetic warfare, and the continued disintegration of consensus reality. Gemini is about to get wired—not just curious, but electric. In many ways, June marks the true beginning of what the 2020s were always building toward: a world running on code, symbols, and increasingly unstable truths.
As we step into summer, the crowned benefics offer grounding—but they won’t slow the signal storm. They’ll simply remind us what’s still worth carrying forward as the frequency shifts.
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