Your Guide to the Week of April 25th 👁️

This week's main events are the solar eclipse in Taurus and Venus conjunct Neptune. [View this email in your browser]( [CHANI logo] Your Guide to the Week of April 25th [Six of Pentacles Tarot Card]( How to make the most of this week 🎯 … With a solar eclipse in Taurus as the main act, this week is sure to be a catalyst for change. Eclipses are big news. As our luminaries flicker off and on, they reveal all that lurks in the shadows of our personal and collective lives. They are power surges that jumpstart a turning point. Keep track of what begins, and what ends, over the next couple of weeks. This eclipse is especially interesting because it’s ruled by Venus who’s in a very cozy set up right now. Forming two heart-bending conjunctions: first with Neptune on April 27th, then Jupiter on April 30th, Venus is primed to make a couple dreams come true. This is one of the lushest (and most romantic) moments of the year. Except, eclipse season. Perhaps this is a new story emerging about what real luxury is — and isn’t. Let yourself enter incubation mode. Always, but especially with eclipses, rest is your medicine and the most opulent gift to give yourself. The breakdown 🔮 … - April 24th: - Mercury sextiles Neptune at 3:37 pm PT - April 26th: - Mercury sextiles Jupiter at 10:11 pm PT - April 27th: - Venus conjoins Neptune at 12:12 pm PT - April 28th: - Mercury trines Pluto at 5:05 am PT - April 29th: - Pluto stations retrograde at 11:38 am PT - Mercury enters Gemini at 3:23 pm PT - April 30th: - Solar Eclipse in Taurus at 1:28 pm PT - Venus conjoins Jupiter at 2:14 pm PT - May 1st: - Venus sextiles Pluto at 3:37 am PT Tarot card of the week 🃏 … The Six of Pentacles is this week’s tarot card because it corresponds to the second decan of Taurus (part of the zodiac), where the solar eclipse is happening. This card is generative and invites us all to do the difficult work of learning how to receive. The myth of the self-made person is embedded so deeply in capitalism that many of us regard generosity with suspicion. The truth is, the act of giving heals and uplifts the benefactor as much as the receiver. Gifts create sacred ties of intimacy and keep the honey flowing. This card begs the questions, in what ways is your cup currently overflowing? How can you share your excess? What are you learning about asking for and receiving the help you need? Affirmation of the week 😌 … Synchronicity is always afoot, and true wealth is being in awe of this mystery. What to read and listen to 📚 … Your horoscopes for [Mercury]( and the [Sun in Taurus]( as well as [Venus]( and [Jupiter in Pisces]( your reading and guided meditation for the week. How this Solar Eclipse in Taurus is impacting you 🌑 … Aries & Aries Rising: This solar eclipse in Taurus may pull the breaker-switch on rigid narratives around survival that you’ve unconsciously carried thus far. Sometimes it’s easier to live always bracing for the sky to fall. Trusting in a cosmos of benevolence can set us up for disappointment, but hypervigilance wages a much longer battle on our nervous systems. What if the sky was a reminder of the laws of flux? The Sun always returns, and no cloud is ever stuck. Allow yourself to be hungry for a new, more generous story. Taurus & Taurus Rising: As the Sun goes dark during this week’s eclipse, you may sense “lights out” on a cellular level. The animal inside you is sensitive to energetic shifts, and your body may require extra nurturance now. As you sit with the stirrings (and hunger pangs) that eclipse season brings, it’s ok to not have words to describe the awakening that is occuring now. Remember that you will begin again, and again — and in-between, you rest. Gemini & Gemini Rising: The solar eclipse’s message is fairly straightforward: surrender to your appetite for rest. Embrace whatever burrow, nest, or pocket you can sink into. The time-lag between our mental leaps and our body’s processing is real — and deserves to be honored. Allow the world to do its worlding beyond your lair, and connect the shifting dots in your psyche instead. This is where the treasures are. Cancer & Cancer Rising: As the Sun is swallowed during this week’s eclipse, certain community ties may feel like they’re power-surging, or on the fritz. Since our networks can feel like extensions of our hopes and dreams, it can be hard to deal with anything that threatens the gossamer webs we’ve woven. However, the jolts that eclipse season brings have a way of revealing the wounded parts of self that are in need of love, rest, and attention. These shadowlands can be a potent reminder that as much as you want to show up for others, you also need to be your own best friend. Leo & Leo Rising: This week’s solar eclipse in Taurus reveals — in dazzling clarity — the lay of the vocational land before you. Quantum leaps seek you out with this power surge and it’s your job to steady yourself to receive them. Ground yourself in the knowledge that there is no right or wrong choice to make, there are only lessons to learn and growth edges to lean into. Virgo & Virgo Rising: As the Sun slips beyond the veil during this week’s eclipse, you are being given the opportunity to rethink a path forward, course of study, or a guiding philosophy. Flashes of insight are meant to shift your perspective now, and if that means making a 180, worry not. In this light, life looks different. In these shadowlands, what used to scare you may seem silly. What concerns have you given too much credit to, and what would be possible if you put them in perspective? Libra & Libra Rising: The solar eclipse may have you yearning for a new story in terms of collaboration and energetic exchanges. Libra is a sign that yearns for connection, and it can be hard to practice discernment — but it’s far from impossible. It’s just a skill to hone and carry with you. This week’s eclipse wants to help you separate the energy vamps from those firmly in your corner. Remember that the latter will never lead with the hard sell, or make you feel lesser than. Scorpio & Scorpio Rising: As the Sun confronts the void during this week’s solar eclipse, you may find yourself doing the same. Longing for the acceptance, praise, or affections of others has you peering into the bottomless cup of wanting . This is a wholly human desire, one that shouldn’t be problematized in and of itself. However, it is a desire that benefits from being balanced with a healthy heaping of giving zero f’s. Since this eclipse directly impacts your committed partnerships, take note of what you are ready to revolutionize in your unions, and what unhelpful habits you are ready to break up with. Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising: This solar eclipse brings cosmic pivots to your workshops, projects, and production lines. You may sense certain habits, rituals, and routines are ready for a systems update. Follow that impulse. The yearning for a workflow that keeps your fire fully stoked is a wise one. Burnout culture is beyond basic. Use this moment to consider what a thriving, diverse, and self-correcting ecosystem would look like, feel like, and provide for you and yours. Capricorn & Capricorn Rising: As the Sun surrenders to the velvet dark during this week’s eclipse, you may sense a stirring in the wings of your pleasure centers: the rustle of changing costumes, and a hectic clamor in the orchestra pit. Perhaps certain delights have tarnished and others are piercing your heart anew. At this point, there is nothing to do with all this movement but know that if you feel it, it’s worth investigating. Trust your hunger for self-expression, trust the power of the creative genius that moves through you, and trust that what enchants you has a wisdom all its own. Aquarius & Aquarius Rising: As the Sun performs its vanishing act during this week’s eclipse, your heartstrings twang toward home, your lineages, or whatever feels like anchorage. Something as simple as a candle intentionally placed on your altar can pay homage to all those that got you here. So can making your grandmother's soup or playing the card games of your youth. As family patterns become all the more apparent, notice your hunger for healing and rootedness, and consider how you can find comfort in even a temporary nest. Pisces & Pisces Rising: This solar eclipse pulls focus on your communications. Does the cat have your tongue or does this moment find you screaming into your pillow? Maybe it’s time to start writing morning pages, bad poems, or the first fumbling drafts of your masterpiece? Perhaps it’s plucking up the courage to state your needs in ways that are sure to revolutionize your relationships. 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