APRIL 2018 - ARIES astrology notes

April 2018 begins under the influence of the March 31 Full Moon which has lots of baggage on board - and will flavour the whole month up to the April 30 Full Moon

Aries is associated with the head-butting forceful Ram

Aries energy rises up from March 20/21 and is in effect until April 20

When the Sun is in Aries the often too pushy, too raw and immature Mars energy is on display in the realm of interacting with others.

Volatile energy noted as arising in March persists through April - this encompasses keywords like fiery, explosive, aggressive, combustible, destructive

• complicating matters is the collection of planets all contributing to the theme of relating
• [Mercury, Saturn, Uranus Pluto all in Cardinal signs Aries and Capricorn, Full Moon in Libra]
• The War and Peace aspects have to be handled skillfully
• Saturn is strongly modifying the March 31st full moon and will arise as either lessons in restraint -realised after the fact [eg after the argument] or the opportunity to avert conflict by slowing down the high speed energy that otherwise risks an outright showdown
• This amount of emphasis and complexity is set to deliver a lot of showdowns, confrontations between the hot headed sometimes ruthless Aries energy and the need to modify, pull back and show greater Capricorn-style mature self discipline. This can occur within a person's own contradictory warring nature or between 2 opposing people eg in a work or domestic environment - or as in a Police [authority figure] versus angry armed man [Aries].
• whatever the context it is a battle between two energies that need to be resolved and the way forward is the calm, mature resolution otherwise fatalities are very likely in worst case scenarios.
• all this intensity is imbedded in the linked planets at the end of March full moon but the themes are sustained on particular days in April. Dates are Universal Time or GMT so need adjustment in some time zones.
• April 2 has the Aries energy magnified, along with Leo adding to the natural forces of fire and heat in the environment and people. Best to avoid high risk encounters or situations where arguments, accidents assault or injury could occur
• April 5 Heated relating dynamics high risk. Need to restrain anger, cool down heat, put out fire, soothe burns if on the receiving end of a volcanic outburst.
• April 9-10 risks due to speed, accidents
• April 11-26 especially April 18 a two week period beginning with angry assertions changing the quality of relationships and during which power-seekers [political and private-life] will really feel like rattling their swords - displays of power or threat in order to seek control. The 18th is consistent with angry minds, survivalist drives seeking power/control, sudden aggression/violence/accidents.
• [news update: high profile event on April 18 involving a woman partially sucked out of a plane after a window exploded ]
• The 26th is difficult with a sharemarket/assets/financial impact..a mood of confusion..sober reality challenges naivety/confidence

scroll down for more related news reports & updates

    More personal effects 

• April 11 Love versus possession is a theme in relationships dealing with power issues, control, anger, jealousy. Issues of delayed or deficient emotional development lay beneath and need resolving. Energy of mass death activated
• April 16 New Moon - from the 14th issues begin arising re appropriate/inappropriate behaviour, immaturity versus acting like an adult, being selfish versus being in a guiding supportive role. Anger /aggression could arise in encounters where such issues arise for discussion/argument. Stay off the alcohol if things are about to blow.

• April 26 two sets of planets are adding to the stress and frustration levels. Best to aim for the high ground and not sink to the level of your adversary. Violence is elevated in certain people with the Pluto-Mars killer theme in effect
• Take a deep breath before the next full moon on April 30 sustains the challenging themes related to love, possession and the pressure to function as an adult.

The Environment

• Environmental effects bringing ongoing intensities in natural forces are sustained in relevant locations during this forecast period especially during the first 10 days of April eg tropical cyclone developing near Fiji March 31st
• A full or new moon has typically a full lunar month of influence, effects being emphasised on days when other planets align. Often events with very relevant energy will happen exactly at full/new moon but equally common are events in the few days of build-up [waxing phase] or the days after [waning phase] 
• Unless otherwise stated forecasts are globally relevant. Environmental and seasonal variability across the globe means that normal local patterns need to be the context when extreme weather is indicated eg cyclone if in a cyclone zone, snow in a snow zone. 

news updates reflecting content forecast

April 18-19 was definitely accident energy for some, [see update in text] intense energy activations for others

April 13 update re Fiji extreme weather:
2 tropical cyclones hit Fiji in the alert period of the first 10 days of April -TC Josie and TC Keni. multiple fatalities, strong winds and severe flooding after torrential downpours - video Fiji Met Service report on Keni

These 2 events confirm the significance of the extreme weather forecasting method used by this website
April 12

April 11
Mass death activated by Sun-Jupiter-Pluto in synergy -Algerian plane crashes with 257 deaths

Tweets from the US President reflect the energies of war and peace typical under Aries-Libra influence and with the extra pressure of the influences noted for April 11

April 10
As noted in the main report for April: severe weather effects were anticipated due to related energies building during the first 10 days - and April 10 saw significant events across New Zealand and tornadoes in Fort Lauderdale Florida US

New Zealand suffers storm effects including high winds the occasional tornado, snow, hail and thunderstorms - with lots of tree damage report
report#2

Astrological aspects of severe weather
As reported repeatedly on this site the methodology for identifying severe weather -called 27-12 - was used in this prediction. Uranus at 27-28 degrees, lunar nodes at 12-13 degrees prevailed from the start of April and were effective at the prior full moon of March 31 -meaning that the building forces were in process for over a week before Venus reached 12 degrees on April 10. The Moon also would have reached 12 degrees on that day - demonstrably providing all the necessary triggers for the existing forces. Note: the mathematics rule - ahead of qualities relevant to zodiac signs

March 31
Perfectly timed for the Aries-Libra full moon of March 31 was the Joshua-Parker heavyweight boxing title match in the UK. Both fighters had strong activations but Joshua born with Saturn in Capricorn was having his Saturn Return - a time when all the hard work can pay off -or not. But going by Anthony Joshua's highly successful boxing career it was more than likely this match would be his.

Many expressed frustration the referee [Saturn] controlled [Saturn] the fight too much, slowing [Saturn] it down. No surprise that the eenrgy of Saturn in Capricorn angled at 90 degrees was strongly impacting the Aries-Libra full moon when the fight occurred.

Aries is signified by the warrior, the battler, the aggressor, the soldier and so any adversarial encounters especially where weaponry is used are typically more prominent in periods of Aries energy as well as when it's related planet Mars is in a strongly activated position.

In people who are not Aries [Sun] or lacking any planet in Aries, the typical combative energy can also be expressed by the opposing zodiac sign Libra or in anyone who has planet Mars emphasised. 

March 31 Full Moon -Fatal shooting of armed man [NZ]

 GAZA Israel-Palestine conflict -16 dead, hundreds injured:

Tropical cyclone hits Fiji 4 fatalities, severe flooding

Who's Who ? Zodiac Roulette at the White House

Gemini Trump is the House

All the rest are merely players

And many there are

Too many to fully know

But a cast of characters is required to let the opera be staged

Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury inside the Trump White House delivered a dazzling ensemble 

of Who's Who at a certain point in time

 in this swiftly moving feast. 
Updated notes will be compulsory 

in order to keep abreast of the dizzying pace

 of cast alterations due to those who have jumped ship or been turfed overboard - 
but more importantly to those readers 
outside the Beltway

 a Gallery is of use to show at least most of those
 who got most mentions in FFITWH 
[which untangles as WTF!? ] 

plus a few recent cast members who have arisen 

after the book's publication.

March 17 2018

In the photo panels below

• A Large Red X indicates either resigned fired [ or dead in the case of Roger Ailes] 

• Possibly of no use at all is that where known, the zodiac sign of the character is used as their forename. 
• [in 3 instances forename Secret applied where birth date not freely available] 

As A Serious Astrologer, mere Sun signs are not the usual diet of The Profiler - but they can identify basic compatibilities or the reverse - as seen when Aries Tillerson [clashing with Trump's Cancer planets ] was fired and replaced by a more compatible Capricorn Pompeo.]
In fact this cast of characters does not feature one Cancer -but all other signs have come or gone.

Going by the cast of prominent characters the most politically oriented sign Capricorn still has the edge in this fraught environment - and Gemini is of course looked upon with some degree of grace.

Of course author Virgo Wolff has to be brought to task for stating in Chapter 13 that :
"So when they did win, by the fluke alignment of the stars for Donald Trump..."
as there are no fluke alignments. 
An accurately timed birth chart is all that is needed to trace the rises and falls over a lifetime.
Confusion over Hillary Clinton's birth time and mixed indicators for both her and Trump made it impossible to make a strong prediction in 2016. As it turned out both had "wins" but January 2017 having transit Saturn capturing a lot of Trump's energy was consistent with the new level of responsibility -which manifested and was set in stone at the Inauguration.
Without top quality data, politics is too complex for an astrologer to call consistently well.

As there's no likelihood of getting a full set of data for the transient cast only the chart for the boss himself is included for reference.

 Gemini Trump

Born 14 June 1946 at a total lunar eclipse full Moon with strongly eccentric, unpredictable Uranus and Big Confident Hyperbolic Jupiter attached.
Mars rising at dawn provides the Fire Fury and Theatre
Saturn shows the Family Boss persona
Gemini is the Messenger of all those synergised forces.
Born to Tweet often, angrily and with a very individualistic perspective.

Noted Players in Fire & Fury and Subsequential Characters

A Large Red X indicates either resigned  fired

 [ or dead in the case of Roger Ailes]

Surnames below each panel provide a background link

Flynn  Walsh  Spicer Priebus Comey Bannon Yates Hicks

Cohn  Tillerson  McMaster  Powell  Sessions Mueller Conway  Pence

Ailes  Murdoch   Ryan  Mattis  Kelly  Lewandowski Kushner  Trump   Pompeo   Haspel

Rosenstein   Kissinger   B Mercer   R Mercer

Manafort    Barrack     Scaramucci   McCabe

updated extra resignations in 2018 include Capricorn Sessions, Capricorn Haley, Taurus Kelly and Virgo Mattis

UN Ambassador Haley
Now that the Capricorns are joining the ranks of the leaving it seems all bets are off in the who might endure the longest ? category
Perhaps even a new flag is appropriate for the White House under Trump
One Star & Lots of Crosses

Casualties specific to the Trump Administration

Business Insider keeps a running tally of those fired or those who resigned. At the March 13 2018 update there were 4 Fired -starting from Preet Bharara and 16 resignations starting from Katie Walsh

McMaster's fate has been declared by some but reports are contradictory.

Speculations of further heads on the block -Vanity Fair

content will necessarily be updated

related reading:
Who's Who in the Russia Trump Enquiry led by Special Prosecutor Mueller

Who's Who - BBC special report

Pressure mounts for FBI to shut down Trump-Russia enquiry

March 22 2018 Trump lawyer John Dowd resigns

March 2018 astrology - volatile forces dominate before mid-month

Astrology notes for March 2018

An uncomplicated March, mostly dominated by the sensitive and compassionate energy 

of Neptune is not on offer in 2018.

Only within the first week does the Pisces/Neptune energy dominate – Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune all in Pisces – but the full moon on the 2nd has Jupiter in Scorpio merging with Mercury and Venus.

Jupiter in Scorpio is such difficult energy to rein in that it typically expresses in serial offending of a sexual nature or a drive for power that can be boundless and annihilating. A person needs advanced self management to channel that extreme capacity into something bearing the energy of healing rather than abusing.

Within 2 days of the Pisces and Scorpio themed full moon former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found in a critical condition suffering from suspected poisoning.

Death or considerable transformation from the effects of toxic chemistry is well signposted by the Jupiter in Scorpio connection to the Pisces planets as noted at full moon.

Latest: 

The Skripals were poisoned on March 4.
On June 30 two further people found poisoned in Amesbury near Salisbury - believed also to be the nerve agent Novichok

updates appended -scroll to updates section
 for further detail

Scorpio isn't always lethal but it is often very controlling, suspicious and jealous energy.

The month of March began with Mars sitting adjacent to Pluto, then moving quickly to nudge up alongside Jupiter sequentially gathering all the necessary fuel on board to launch a killer hit.

Cardinal energy courtesy of Saturn already in early Capricorn at the start of March along with Mercury and Venus entering Aries before the end of week one  - adding to the fiery Aries style of Uranus late in its transit of that sign –bolstered as well by Mars in Sagittarius in the weekend of March 10-11. Pluto too is in cardinal Capricorn, effectively at 20-21 degrees all month

This amount of highly activated cardinal energy promises that things will begin –and end, things will be established – and fall apart, things will move at speed – and be stopped in their tracks –much much more action than under a lunar month with dominant Pisces energy.

Mid March looks especially intense.

• Fire [fire literally as well as anger, aggression and high energy] is expressed through 4 planets and the north lunar node from the end of week one and this grouping carries through to the New Moon on the 17^th
• Mars then entering Capricorn joins the cardinal division, soon joined by the Sun at the March 20/21 equinox - entering Aries – adding to Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Pluto – now a total of 6 energies in high activity cardinal signs which hold sway until the end of March.
• The action begins to build from the 11^th when Sun and Pluto link up at the same time as Mars and Uranus and Saturn with Mercury. 

• With powerful forces like Pluto, Uranus and Saturn the benign potentials don’t always get a look in as a first option and sometimes the benefits of these can only be identified in hindsight as their initial disruption, annihilation or deconstruction of life is so much in your face that no other nuanced reading of what’s going on has a chance to arise in consciousness.
• The energy on the 11^th sets up potentially violent/aggressive interactions – or at least angry communications with an underlying power struggle

Jupiter and Venus then have a merging experience in Scorpio-Aries on the 13^th and 14th - at the same time as Saturn and Venus are in mutual antipathy – passionate and consensual for some but high risk and fatal for others. Saturn is a terminating force or at least creating cold, distant, rejection. Some will see the need to end their association; some relationships ended by external forces. Interaction will for many be threaded with stinging aggression on this day.  Best to stay home alone. Or experience this virtually – watching a celluloid enactment – to use up the energy.

New Moon at 27 degrees Pisces on the 17th has Uranus tagged on at 27 Aries. 27 is a known potent degree as this is the position at which the centre of our milky way galaxy rotates -27 Sagittarius – and repeated observations have led The Profiler to a proposition that when planets sit at 27 degrees they perform a step-down of those mega forces at the galactic centre – and consequences are observable in the natural forces and sentient beings here on earth.

Typically there is much disturbance of energies under these conditions –expressing environmentally as severe or extreme weather, extreme human behaviour.

Using 15 degree analysis*

The 27 degree position of any factor is resonant with any other factor at 12 degrees 

*A detailed explanation is available in this dedicated post.

The March New Moon has Venus at 12 degrees.

So Venus is strongly involved in the Sun-Moon-Uranus combined energies. 

Disrupted relationships. Sudden change in relationships.

The 27-12 formula extends to a wider orb of positions -especially  the range 25-29 degrees straddling the 27 position being considered strongly effective. This range then activates 10-14 degrees so the resonant pairings are 25-10,  26-11, 27-12, 28-13, 29-14

The March New Moon has 3 factors at 14 degrees –lunar nodes, Mercury, Neptune while Mars is at 29 degrees

In human affairs Mars-Neptune often expresses as drug/alcohol energy as well as deceitful dishonest behaviour, sexual fantasy, porn addiction. Any of these issues or related behaviour could be exposed and discussed with some drama under the lunar phase from mid March-mid April.

• Environmentally the disturbance is always about unbalanced natural forces –which cannot be separated from human imbalances and extremes as both planes of existence are in mutual feedback.
• Our behaviour towards each other is worsening our environment far more than through observable and measurable pollution.

• All four forces of nature are activated strongly in March: Fire through Aries and Mars, Earth through Saturn, Wind/Air through Uranus and Neptune influencing Water - and so where the balances are not in place then any or all of these can be eruptive, violent, excessive, destructive. 

Knowing the potential climate/weather hazards in your own environment and how to be prepared in advance for the most likely elemental risk is common sense.

• March 2018 is not a period suitable for taking chances or risks whether that is with the forces of nature or with people who are about to tip or explode.

Late in March Saturn and Mars together in Capricorn are at 90 degrees to the Sun in Aries while Venus is together with Uranus in Aries.

• The stresses and strains of relating are on high alert in all contexts not just personal and private but in business and political contexts.

• More partnerships, marriages, associations and contexts where negotiation and interaction are required are subject to sudden break-up or breakdown.

Fundamentally the cardinal signs [Aries Libra Cancer Capricorn] are all about relating – to Self to Other to those needing to be nurtured guided or managed.

The onus is on all of us to get this right and the deterioration in this fundamental familial structure has already shown us how much can go wrong in the world when we lack even basic relating skills such as empathy, support, negotiation, compromise. 

Further than this is the necessity of passing through the appropriate stages of emotional development in order to function as a balanced adult. 

This critical issue has been overlooked in a world driven by economic agendas and financial pressures but when the fundamental unit of human society, the family, fails in its purpose, we all fail.

Saturn in Capricorn for a 3 year period will raise this issue of the family-society connection.

At those periods every year when Saturn is at odds with Venus or the Sun relating issues and responsibilities will be confronted by many.  

Conflicts between people over the preferencing of the Self over the responsibilities to others - the need to move away from child-like self-interest and towards an adult role prioritising support of others – one partner telling the other “you need to grow up” “you’re a parent now –start acting like it” –these are the voices of Saturn saying Times Up – definitely a hard awakening for those embedded in the Selfie era of self glorification above everything and everyone –and there are connections to the original #TimesUp calling out those who place no boundaries on their own conduct towards others. 

People who show no restraint are effectively acting like unaccountable children operating within adult bodies in adult environments. Time to work on the mismatch.

Firstly 2018 January-February-March-April all contain indicators that severe natural forces are activated in the environment and in human affairs -with the theme of structural collapse persisting in all contexts -ranging from natural structures such as hillsides, shorelines, riverbanks and vegetation to humanly built structures, human networks whether digital or social, business or political. All aspects of our lives and environments are undergoing a massive change and renewal. 
This is a very long term process and the pattern outlined and sustained in the first 4-5 months has activation potential through to August 2018. However a further cycle begins in 2018 signifying earth changes. When Uranus is in Taurus [mid May-early November 2018, early March 2019-late April 2026] the earth itself and its products and related industries, human production of goods, sources of income, our relationship to money and possessions, the physical/material in general are all likely to be expressed in new, different, innovative ways or become very changed. Miniaturisation is one of those processes -objects shrinking, the digitisation and virtualisation or other physical objects/experiences is another. Lab-food or experimental food or unusual -eg insects as food -all of these things already being floated as all collective events cast their shadow before they fully arrive.
update March 18 2018 - New Foods -The changing face of food production examined

The earth changes on the horizon from mid 2018 not only involve changes in the condition and structure of the soil [due to water imbalances like drought or flood] but also changes due to tectonic movement and so astrological analysis confirms the scientific view of locations like New Zealand being in a long term era of increased seismicity, land movement, structural land collapse and uplift. 

Effectively the warnings are already on the table for those who wish to see - certain locations are now hazard zones due to water, wind, landscape and seismic effects and long term plans are needed on a personal, local and national level to promote greater public and personal safety.

 relevant updates are appended in this section in reverse order = latest first

July 5 2018
Wiltshire Police UK confirm 2 further people found June 30 with Novichok poisoning symptoms
The initial event on March 4 -the Skripals occurred under a Neptunian full moon on the 2nd and Saturn in Capricorn linked to both Jupiter in Scorpio & Venus in Pisces, plus Chiron at 27 Pisces linked to the full moon's Sun-Neptune midpoint 12 Pisces [24th harmonic 15 degree aspects]
So Saturn Chiron Neptune plus a Scorpionic theme.

Sat 30 June was also 2 days after a Full Moon -  this time with Saturn in tight opposition, Jupiter Neptune and Venus all in close contact ..Uranus square Mercury -both in fixed signs around 2 degrees - Taurus/Leo [activating Scorpio/Aquarius too -giving nerve death signature]  ...Chiron close to 2 degrees adding strong debility. The similarities in prevailing energy seem very strong perhaps too strong to be coincidental.


 March 25 fatal fire in Russian shopping mall

March 17
Severe Cyclone impacts Darwin Australia

March 15

Structural collapse at a Miami University - pedestrian bridge collapses trapping many, fatalities being assessed

March 15

The political relationship between Russia and other major powers has soured dramatically following assessment of Russia's involvement in the poisoning of the Skripals in Britain  -followed by a vow of retaliation from Russia - and following the attempts to interfere with the 2017 US elections the US has taken action against indicated people acting on behalf of Russia

March 15 Fire at Texas chemical factory

March 15 weekend New Moon set to deliver stormy conditions for southern NZ courtesy of a large Low in the Antarctic Ocean

March 13 2018 - US President Trump is highly activated under prevailing influences such as Saturn at 8 Capricorn impacting his Mercury and Neptune - [9 Cancer, 6 Libra] He fired Secretary of State Ross Tillerson and more movements are indicated

March 8  -large fire in scrapyard contained

              Heavy rain brings flooding, landslips

March 7 Severe nor'easter impacts US East Coast

 Highly toxic nerve agent suspected in UK poisoning of ex Russian spy & daughter -report

March 5 fundraising request launched after much despair over condition of French cathedrals - call to save crumbling Notre Dame cathedral in Paris -one of many experiencing signs of structural collapse -a state of change noted in the longer term forecast for 2018 -report