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This lunation chart was drawn up at the exact moment of the Sun / Moon conjunction on April 27, 2025, it gives the “general” astral trends for the coming month mainly based on the Aspects and Signs of the zodiac.
This study must be nuanced by bringing it closer to your birth chart, and to your Transits and Progressions for Forecasts.
Think, to help you, to read my interpretation article of the New moon and Full moon in houses.
Main signs impacted during the lunation:
All 1st decans are more strongly affected by the month’s various influences.
Strike while the iron is hot
The last full moon in mid-April may have been particularly energetic, as we saw in the previous lunation, allowing important unblocking of things that may have been stuck even for the medium term (several months), and with this new moon at the end of April, we’re still in the midst of an integration phase of this.
My advice at this time of year would be to strike while the iron is hot, as many phases are “open” and you won’t have to put up with any retrograde motion for a while, and this can apply to both personal and social dynamics.
The transit of Mars in Leo, like the transits of Venus and Mercury in Aries, will help to bring the necessary Fire to this, and to facilitate the overall projection of oneself onto the world (so try to accept to go out or to form invitations, to dare new encounters, to try new projects, to express one’s creativity, there are overall good energies for this for almost everybody).
It seems that this new moon at the end of April is more conducive to letting go, to enjoying the senses, thus exacerbating all the springtime dynamics and energies of renewal it may represent…
Much will depend on what happens at the last full moon of April 13, 2025 in everyone’s birth chart (especially for 1st decans Fixed), because we’re in the midst of a period of relaxation after this dynamic!
And we may need more lightness, to work on some calming, on the forces of acceptance or detachment, and the first half of the lunation seems the most propitious for this (especially if we’ve lived the last few weeks under pressure).
The full moon of May 12, 2025 very directly highlights the transit of Uranus in 3rd decan Taurus and can have quite nervous energies, we can also see that the transit of Mercury has also passed into Taurus to form a Grand Cross with Pluto, Mars and the Black moon (thus reviving the same pattern as at the last full moon but less tense).
So watch out for certain conflicting forces that may mark a few days before and after the full moon, and which may reflect certain disputes or confrontations.
We may be in the midst of power struggles, facing an authority person, someone or some situation trying to form a domination, and which doesn’t necessarily date from yesterday either (Mars retrograde motion between Cancer and Leo has already been insisting on opposition to Pluto in the medium term since the end of 2024! And we’re only just beginning to break out of this retrograde loop).
This medium-term background configuration is gradually unraveling, but we need to give it time, and not rush things. In this case, we may be constrained by legal or moral commitments, and not everything depends on us either, so we have to deal with it patiently, but we’ll get there in the end…
The end of the lunation will be very useful for feeling greater freedom and emancipation, as Venus and Mars tighten their trine and are conducive to various forms of relational and emotional harmony.
Note that at the very end of the lunation, around May 25, 2025, Saturn’s transit passes through Aries for about 2 and a half years and begins to meet Neptune’s transit very directly, a conjunction which will be important in 2025, and which I’ll come back to later!