What are your actual responsibilities based on what you actually control? Be honest.

Do something with me. Try to describe what is happening in the world that you live in with me. That’s the point of a horoscope column, no? We’re looking at the events of the skies. And we’re trying to decipher the passage of time here on earth.

Describe what’s happening in your own words. When you do that, you’re going to find that your observations aren’t just thoughts. Your observations are going to be the responses that you have to what’s going on around you. There’s things that are happening that are causing you to feel things. Your emotions don’t just live in your body. They live in the political systems that govern your life. Describe those systems. Describing the political systems that govern your life is a way of describing your emotions.

As you describe what is going on, you might find that you have responsibilities. You have responsibilities in this world that you live in because you have control over your own actions. What are those responsibilities?

Then, if you want, you might notice what you don’t control. You can’t control whether your sister finds a job. You don’t control other cars on the road. You don’t control the weather. If you don’t have control over it, then it may not be a personal responsibility.

Yeah, a lot of things are happening. A lot of decisions are being made. Bombed kids and starving babies. Dictators running on ketamine and people getting disappeared. Mars has been in Cancer too. Maybe you’ve been feeling like you’re between screaming and crying randomly every moment of the day. All winter, I’ve been feeling the panic in my bones.

And you know what? Trump and Elon Musk are just people. They don’t control everything. They can’t control the weather for example. That’s a pretty big one. They don’t control their emotions and they also don’t control your actions. They’re just people and they might be abandoned just like anyone else. They become powerless when they are collectively abandoned just like anyone else. When you look back on history, you might find that a lot of working people have simply abandoned their rulers when those rulers are too corrupt. People have walked away from cities, divested from economies, and built some new distribution networks. This usually happens at great cost but it has happened.

There’s been protests everyday, big ones, that not many networks are reporting on. Does that mean that they don’t matter? No. They do matter. Protests aren’t just about media visibility. Protests give people control and they teach you responsibility. You meet people when you protest. When you meet more people, your responsibilities tend to grow because the amount of control that you have also grows. One person may not control the weather but a whole society? Yeah, our lifestyles and habits have an impact on our weather.

What are your actual responsibilities based on what you actually control? Be honest. It’s Aries season and Aries is a straightforward sign.

In April, Mars finally leaves Cancer and enters Leo at the tail end of Aries season. That means that Mars is going to start to move faster now. All winter long, it’s been trapped in Cancer where it’s prevented from direct action. No more. Mars gives strength to troublemakers and healers. As soon as it enters Leo, it starts to receive a push from the Sun in Taurus. The Sun in Taurus gives Mars something heavy to push against.

It’s time to move forward. It’s Aries season. Mars in Leo is about using your strength. You’ve rested enough. It’s time to use the strength that you have accumulated because you can always rest again later and build up more strength. Mars pushing against the Sun will be like pushing against your own personality. My favorite way of finding self control is to simply do something challenging. You feel empowered when you try something challenging whether you succeed or not because you tried.

Before Mars moves into Leo, Mercury and Venus do this weird dance in Pisces. They never quite make it to an exact conjunction. Both are retrograde and then both go direct. They get very close but they don’t touch. Usually, when a planet that is in fall aspects a planet that is exalted in the same sign, the planet in fall receives support from the exalted planet. That’s Mercury and Venus in Pisces. However, they don’t touch. That’s a little weird. Even though they don’t touch, they both start to move forward.

Is there anything in your life that doesn’t feel like a finished story right now? Guess what? You don’t have to complete everything to just keep moving on. Move on! You don’t have to feel like you’ve solved every childhood regret to try something new. You don’t have to learn everything about the history of your fear response to learn new ways of fighting. You don’t have to answer for every mistake you’ve ever made just to form new relationships.

Life isn’t linear. That means that you don’t need to feel finished to keep living. Sometimes, you don’t have answers. But you move on.

And who knows? Maybe you’ll come back later. The nodes of the moon are in Virgo and Pisces now, putting pressure on Jupiter in Gemini. Virgo and Pisces are the signs that deal with work that never ends—caretaking, repair, and compassion. Jupiter in Gemini is the transit of redirection.

The time for nostalgia has ended. Move forward. Redirect. Make choices that empower the control you do have. You have control over your own life and you have taken responsibility for this control.

Aries

Happy birthday. You can’t deal with people who are apathetic right now because you need real attention. Direct attention. True attention. People who are really willing to look at you and tell you what you’re doing when you’re doing it right or wrong. You don’t need sweet accolades or elitist dismissals. You want someone who is ready to be on the same page as you.

So, find yourself in the world. Pay attention. That dandelion that sprouts up between two concrete blocks like a living thing that fights infrastructure? That’s you. That trusty screwdriving that gets the job done no matter how rusted and tired it looks? That’s you too. That hot curry that burns your mouth and all the way down because making people sweat is a special type of pleasure? That’s you as well.

If you want to feel truly seen, then you have to look. You have to look at the world you live in and you have to find the things that make you come alive. In April, Mars finally leaves your fourth house of the past and enters your house of freedom. No more studying your past, not until Cancer season. Now, you look anywhere you want.

Go out. Leave your home often. There’s oxygen out there and sunlight too. Let it fall on your face. Winter is over and life is worth living again.

Questions for Aries for April 2025:
When you look around you, what do you see?
What else do you see?
One more time, what else do you see?

Taurus

You’ll be staying at home a lot in April. I don’t know why. Maybe something happened and you need to lay low. Maybe you overdid it in March and you need to chill for a while. Maybe you’re just in some kind of healing period. So, take your time. Lay low. Chill out. Heal.

You can make your home a little nicer. It doesn’t really matter. Healing is nasty work. You get all snotty, your body might even burn from a fever, and you shit weird and smell weird for a while. It’s fine. That’s normal. That’s just part of the healing process. You sweat out infections, you excrete toxins, and you start to feel better after a while. It’s not very romantic, healing. It’s just something that your body does when you need it.

So, in April, just heal. Get all nasty. Don’t feel embarrassed. Let someone come over if you trust them enough to sleep near them. You’ll know if you do because your body can only fall asleep next to people who you find somewhat reliable. You’re not obligated to see anyone you don’t want to see, especially when you’re feeling raw and open and healing.

And remember to sleep a lot. Go to bed on time. Get a long night’s rest. Keep your circadian rhythm somewhat regular and adjust as you need.

Questions for Taurus for April 2025:
What reminds you that your body knows how to heal?
What reminds you that your psyche knows how to heal?
What reminds you that your environment knows how to heal?

Gemini

Emotional control will never solve the need for political control. I just feel like there’s so much bullshit floating around about how to manage your feelings, don’t you? Worksheets about naming your feelings and infographics about positioning your feelings. Exercise culture. There’s all of these workshops about releasing control but what about being part of a population who is losing political control en masse? Why should we soothe ourselves as we lose more and more power?

There’s no such thing as emotional control. You can’t control your emotions. You can change your habits to some extent. You can quit things, try building projects, and you can make different decisions but you can’t change how you feel through sheer will. You have to change your circumstances to change your emotions.

Trying to manage your emotions without believing that you can change the world you live in is like trying to talk yourself out of hunger when you really just need to eat. Trying to manage your emotions without making real decisions is like trying to get along with someone who is exploiting you.

I guess what I’m trying to say is….be a bitch when you need to be. There’s going to be certain circumstances in life where you need to show people just how little control you have over your emotions. You’re not here to be a safe space for everyone in the world. There’s going to be moments in your life when only the bitch living inside of you knows exactly what you need to do.

Questions for Gemini for April 2025:
What is one memory that makes you grateful for your inner bitch?
What does your inner bitch teach you what you can control through that memory?
What does your inner bitch teach you what you can’t control through that memory?

Cancer

In April, love arrives to you in the form of a brutally honest friend. The trouble with Cancers is that everyone thinks that you want them to be soft with you and hold you with these velvet gloves when you just really want to be seen. You want people to understand you and you can handle searing honesty because getting read out in the open is a sign that someone has really been paying attention to you.

So, let it happen. Let people who care enough about you to pay attention to you see you. It’s been a hard winter. I’d say that, astrologically speaking, this has been one of the harder winters. Winter is over.

You can handle more than people think you can. Doesn’t that thought just fill you with joy? People think that you get overwhelmed but you don’t. You know your emotions. You express them and you don’t detach from them. That’s why you cry and scream sometimes but, when shit hits the fan, you actually have a handle on things that more repressed personalities admire.

And if a brutally honest friend doesn’t randomly come out of the woodwork and right at you, then maybe you are that honest friend for someone else. Imbue your relationships with ferocity this month. You’re not afraid of people.

Questions for Cancer for April 2025:
What reminds you that you’re not afraid of people?
What impresses you the most about your emotional strength?
What are you no longer afraid of after having lived through this winter?

Leo

Do you know why you’re so mad these days? I’ll tell you why. No, there’s nothing wrong with you. You’re not acting or emoting irresponsibly. You’re mad these days because you look around and you can see with exceeding clarity what is happening. You’re not delusional at all. You see it and you understand how to analyze it. That’s why you’re so mad, because what’s happening is really fucked up.

All winter, you’re been dealing with your self protective tendencies. Sometimes, you just want to close up and hide yourself away. That’s fine. April changes things up. If you really want to protect yourself and the people who you love, you’ve got to hold firm. Give nothing away.

I want you to let yourself get mad in April. Everything that happens in April, let it come. Let your anger build up. Your anger is a direct connection to all of the collective rage around you and it will save you from apathy. You’re mad because you love, because your mind is honest and hides nothing from you. Anger is the thing that gives you energy when you’ve rested enough and you still need some kind of push.

If you’re not mad, then get mad. If you’re mad, then stay mad. Use it. Find your strength and your sharpness. Yes, you’re not afraid because you know how to heal.

Questions for Leo for April 2025:
What makes you mad?
What makes you strong?
What makes you sharp?

Virgo

You are not other people. You’re not the same as other people. You don’t have the same needs or desires as other people. You dream of different things and you are willing to take different risks. You have skills that are unique to you because you’re not everyone else. You’re one person specifically and that person is you.

Don’t get too swept up in the politics of belonging. Belonging is overrated. You don’t need it for everything. I know that you have a personality where you like to be alone a lot and people who like their solitude can sometimes develop ideals around what belonging is supposed to be. But belonging is just a thing. It comes and goes. It’s not idyllic. It has its flaws and its paradoxes.

You don’t have to feel like you need to become your idea of Other People to be a part of society. Never fight the part of you that knows how to stand out. You have to be different to know where you stand. You have to sever relationships to value them. You have to share your heart if you’re going to protect it. You don’t need to become a movement to participate in one.

A lot of people, including me sometimes, are afraid of collective work because we’re scared that we’ll get swept away and lose our sense of self. I know that you have things that you want to do with other people. I also know that you have what it takes to be yourself when you’re doing things with other people.

Questions for Virgo for April 2025:
What is one need that you have that is slightly different from people you know?
What is one thing about your relationship to risk that is slightly different from people you know?
What is one skill you have that is slightly different from people you know?

Libra

The people who love you want to see you act selfishly. Did you know that? That the people who love you don’t want you to just try and become whatever it is that you think they might want? That they want to see some selfishness from you because your selfishness gives you grit, gives your relationships some nice friction, and tells your lovers that you know who you are and what you want.

People who want you also want to feel chosen by you. That’s why they want to see you making selfish choices, so that they know that when you choose them that you really mean it, that you’re not just going along with whatever in life but that you really mean it when you choose to spend time with them. They want you to do selfish things because they want you to do all of the impressive things that you can do but just need time for yourself to do. People need you to be selfish because they need to be around a you who lives for yourself in addition to everything else you love.

And they know that you’re capable of it. You’re capable of selfishness and that’s beautiful. You know who you are and what you want.

April is for wanting what you want. Get your spunk back. It’s been a long winter. You’re not detached from life and you’ve never been bland. Show it. Bite back.

Questions for Libra for April 2025:
When are you selfish?
What is the right time for selfishness?
What becomes possible when you live for yourself?

Scorpio

It’s a great time to change any long term plans that some past version of you set up for yourself way back when. Because guess what? You have changed and you get to change as a person.

The energy that you’re going to draw from that will help you redo your plans is really just from your recognition of all of the work that you have been doing. When you get involved, when you really get into things, you learn all kinds of lessons about how you work and what you are good at. You learn things about what you want to improve and where your motivation actually is. That’s why it’s completely appropriate to change your plans after you start a thing. You don’t really know what’s driving you until after you start.

Use all of the knowledge that you have accrued by doing the work that you do to change your plans. Recognize that you have been doing a lot. Take the time to realize everything that you have learned. Remember that the work that makes up your life is always half done and that you can always improve on something once you make up your mind to do it. You just have to set aside enough time.

That’s what April is really about—setting up your time. What have you been spending time doing? What do you want more time for? Based on your answers to those two questions, what might you plan for?

Questions for Scorpio for April 2025:
What have you been spending your time on?
What do you want more time for?
What do you want to plan for?

Sagittarius

For some reason, when I look at the astrology of April for you I see a lot of signs of certain events putting more pressure on your partners. That could be a romantic partner, a collaborative partner, or someone at work. Just people who you partner and plan with. Why? Could be anything. Maybe you’re moving in and your partner is welcoming you in. Maybe you catch a bug and your partner picks up the slack. Maybe you’re traveling and a work buddy helps you out.

Let someone else hold things down for you. Let them take care of you. There’s something about April that works by letting someone else handle some of the pressure with you.

I think part of the reason why you’re allowing your partners to take on pressure for you is because you’re so attracted to powerful and dangerous ideas. No idea is ever solitary. It always takes more than one person. By letting someone else take on pressure for you, you’re trying to learn what it feels like to share the responsibility of risk with you. Your middle name is danger but you’re not alone at all. What is it like to share danger?

This brings us to a bigger point. When you change, you don’t do it alone. You can’t share ideas without also sharing the pressure that it takes to hold an idea up. If you can do that, then you get to keep the idea.

Questions for Sagittarius for April 2025:
What ideas are you willing to teach?
What pressures are you willing to share?
What responsibility are you wanting to share?

Capricorn

Did you know that promises can sometimes be broken? That breaking promises and communicating around that can even be a feat of responsibility? If you promise someone that you will be with them til death do we part and your circumstances change or they change or you change and you realize that you can’t fulfill that promise anymore, it’s much better to talk it out than to try to force things through.

Your duties in life change because you might change. Your sense of obligation changes. This month, Mars comes in to cut something in your house of obligations. Mars will help you sever something that you don’t need to keep trying to hold. What do you want Mars to help you cut?

You have to remember that Mars is helping us feed the springtime energy of new life bursting. You are ready to feel at home again. This month is going to be a great time for making any decisions that you need to make about home, about where you lay your body down to rest at the end of a weary day. That’s so important! Home is where you (try to) feel safe.

So, let Mars help you sever a promise this month. Try to use your knife to whittle something down in size, to cut something away, to hack your stubborn structures to pieces so that you can refit what is around you in a way that you want. Sever some of your promises so that you can rest.

Questions for Capricorn for April 2025:
What responsibilities have become overgrown in your life?
What obligations are you ready to sever?
How might those decisions help you rest at night?

Aquarius

Did you know that your actions can have a direct impact on the relationships that are in your life? As an Aquarius, you have a bit of that watcher on the wall quality. You like to keep a cool head. You prefer to stay back and watch. Other people can get up to nonsense but you don’t always allow yourself that. You’re a Saturnian. You like to stay back.

But did you know that you can participate? That you’re sometimes welcome? That people will sometimes invite you to join? I know that you’re always trying to stay in your own lane, to mind your own business but did you know that, sometimes, people invite you to get involved in their shit because they, just like you, aren’t meant to walk through life alone? And that it is possible to participate socially without getting completely absorbed because you’re allowed to say no when you want to stop?

In April, I actually want you to find the responsibilities that you have in your relationships. It is not your responsibility to become whatever someone else expects you to become. It is your responsibility to remember your own promises. It may be your responsibility to share your thoughts. That one’s tricky. You get to choose your own privacy. It is your responsibility to say no when you need to.

You can participate socially if you know your responsibilities. You are empowered to take care of your responsibilities when you allow yourself control. You don’t exist to simply give everything that you have away. You, too, get to make choices.

Questions for Aquarius for April 2025:
What is one thing that is your responsibility?
What is one thing that isn’t your responsibility?
What is one thing that might be your responsibility?

Pisces

In April, everything in your life conspires to support the power of your imagination. I’m talking about your discipline, your routine, your willpower, and your habits. You have the discipline that you need to examine and return back to every idea you find. Your routine gives you enough energy. You are driven and curious. You develop the habit of going to bed early enough to wake up with energy.

One of the most important things to you is the freedom to think anything that you want. This priority is what you’re going to be trying to support in April. It’s not easy. To think independently, you have to live in a way that makes you think all of the time.

April is going to help you get your shit together. Not get it together in a way that’s about self control for control’s sake or anything like that. You’re just driven. You know what you want to establish and, because you know, you suddenly make all kinds of little changes that help you get there. Isn’t it funny how it gets easier to live once you have a vision?

In April, be decisive. You’re not going to constrain yourself with your decision making. You have a tendency to always leave a little bit for the imagination, don’t you? So, you can afford to be decisive.

Questions for Pisces for April 2025:
What kinds of habits help you think?
What kinds of systems help you think?
What kinds of decisions help you think?