Rick Levine s April 2026 Forecast Why This Month Has the Most Momentum All Year

Welcome back to the Astrology Hub podcast. I'm your host, Laura Orcutt, an astrologer and head of operations here at Astrology Hub. If the last few months have felt like a slow build, get ready because things are about to shift. According to Rick Levine, April carries the most momentum out of any month this year, thanks to a powerful pileup of planets in Aries. With all that energy, we can expect a surge of thrust, enthusiasm, and forward motion. That's exactly what Rick and I discuss in today's April forecast. So, let's dive in. All right, Rick. So, last time we were here, we talked about the astrology of March, and you talked about it being a threshold month with Jupiter stationing direct, amplifying, things of sorts. We're recording this on March 16th, so we're only halfway through, but how is it looking from your end? Is this threshold playing out kind of as you would suspect it would, or does it look different? Well, it looks different only because things are always different than as we expect them to be. But energetically, as much to my disappointment, it's right on target. I mean, things are unfolding kind of the way one might have expected, and that's good news, bad news. It's good news for astrology and astrologers. It's bad news because April's going to follow in suit, and it's going to be another pretty intense month. You know, I think the first half of March is a bit more rugged than the second part, and I think actually the transition of going from March into April has some potential that I'm enthused about, but I'm also aware that we humans don't take the potential that we're offered. And so, yeah, so I think that April is going to be an incredibly interesting month, and for everyone who thinks that things are moving fast now, I mean, I'm tired of saying, hold on to your hats, fasten your seatbelts, make sure your luggage is stored beneath you, because we are on a flight, and it is definitely taking off and in progress and gaining momentum. Yeah, and last month you talked about the Aries new moon in April being a big one as all of the kind of planets are building up to that moment. So why don't you walk us through April and let us know when the gas pedal's going to get hit? Well, the gas pedal's been hit. The question is how far through the floor can we continue to keep pushing it and the vehicle still keep accelerating? That becomes, I think, the deeper issue. I mean, we start off the month with the sun in mid-Aries, and although Venus has moved off into Taurus, which is kind of like a hopeful solidity off in the future sometime, as all the planets, or the faster-moving planets, will eventually move from Pisces and Aries into Taurus, on April 1st we still have Mars and Mercury back in Pisces, along with the North Node. And so even though there's thrust, the sun is in Aries, along with, of course, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction, which is widening. But I mean, on the 1st of April, that Saturn-Neptune is about three and a half degrees from exact. And if you saw that in someone's birth chart, you'd go, wow, that's a conjunction of Saturn and Neptune. And so we still have that whole feeling of what's real, and it's beginning to settle in on so many levels of how do we process this ending of one dream myth awareness that's not just about the last few weeks or last few months, and not even the last several years or decades. In some ways, this is about who humanity is for the last 5,000, 6,000 years. That's how big this process is we're going through. And it's not all aimed at March or April or even May or even 2026, but it's certainly a threshold year. And April has, I think, more momentum than any other month this year. And that momentum comes from the fact that as Mars moves into Aries and it does that on April 9th, that's going to be Mars at home in its domicile and on home field. And the Sun, of course, is already in Aries and the Sun is exalted in Aries, meaning in traditional astrology, if the Sun isn't at its home sign, Leo, it likes being in Aries better than anywhere else. So we'll have the Sun and Mars on April 9th in Aries. And then on the 14th, Mercury, which had been retrograde, now moving direct, Mercury will move into Aries on the 14th. And so by the 14th, we already have this crazy pileup of Mercury, Neptune, Mars, Saturn, Eris, Chiron, the Sun. And on top of that, on the 15th, the Moon swings into Aries. Now, you got to understand, as there's so much planetary energy now in Aries, and I say now, I mean by April 15th, there's so much planetary energy in Aries with Venus and Uranus and Taurus, that within two signs, we have Mercury, Neptune, Moon, Mars, Saturn, Eris, Sun, Chiron, Venus, and Uranus. That's 10 planets within 60 degrees. That means there's no squares, there's no oppositions, and the focus is on what? It's on Aries, which is thrust. It's blind enthusiasm. You know, the word enthusiasm, the etymology, it means with God, because theos, like theology is the theos, and enthusiasm really means with God. And it's like when the ego steps out of the way and you're just channeling the whatever, that's where the word enthusiastic or enthusiasm comes from. And that's good news, depending upon which God you're channeling. And of course, right now, we are in a, you know, theocratic war of the gods that we've been fighting for at least a few thousand years, maybe longer. I mean, this war may go back to a battle between monotheism and polytheism some four or five thousand years ago. But the wars that we are fighting right now, whether it's in the United States, the Christian nationalism becoming a political entity from a religion, or whether in much of the world, whether it's radical Islam becoming a political statement from a religion. And so, enthusiasm isn't necessarily a positive thing. It just depends on how we manage it. And so, this really is where April is going. And again, we still have to keep in mind that even though by mid-April, as these, you know, as we're approaching the new moon, the new moon is on April 17. Actually, at 4.51 a.m., that would be Pacific Daylight Time. So, that would be Watt plus eight hours. That would be 12.51 p.m. in Greenwich Time or Universal Time. But what we're getting also is still the push from Saturn moving away from its conjunction with Neptune, which as we know was exact back on February 20th. But here's the other thing that happens this month, is that as Mercury and Mars and even Venus through the beginning of the month are all moving through Aries, they're all making conjunctions with the slower moving planets. I've never seen a month with so many conjunctions. In fact, I had to go back and count there are eight conjunctions in Aries this month, which is absolutely nuts. I mean, we actually begin the month with a full moon that we haven't even talked about. And I think that that full moon is significant to set the month off because it's really the only opposition we're going to get because the full moon in Libra is on the first of the month opposing Neptune and Saturn and then the Sun, which is the full moon, and Aries and Chiron. And I know a lot of people aren't talking about the Chiron-Aries conjunction, which was exact now back on March 19th. But this is about a potential for healing old wounds. This is about Aries stirring the chaos in order to put in front of our faces the disorder of what doesn't fit in, of what's disenfranchised, and then Chiron offering the potential to teach us how we may be able to step outside of or beyond our old wounds. Now, during the month, though, we have Mercury and Mars and the Sun. Remember, Venus has already just tipped into Aries at the beginning of April. And so what we have is, we have as Mars moves into Aries by April 10th, 11th, 12th, Mars is conjoining Neptune, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, it's then conjoining Saturn even through the 18th, 19th, 20th. So, Mars is sweeping through that first, that energizing the dream, the fantasy, the illusion, and then it hitting the wall, hitting Saturn. And in fact, even as the Sun is moving through the latter part of Aries, the Sun itself will conjunct Aries on April 14th and Chiron on April 16th. But going back even prior to that, we have each of the planets, Mercury and Mars in particular, lining up first with Neptune and then with Saturn. And each time Mercury and Mars line up with Neptune and Saturn, we're going to get the dream first. We're going to get the imprint of what's real, of the imagination, of the potential vision. And visions can be positive or negative. They can be based upon love and potential or fear. And so what we're going to get is each of these planets making these alignments. And in fact, what happens is that the actual scenario is, as I said before, Mars moves into Aries on April 9th and then it joins up with Neptune on April 12th. So, almost like right away, Mars moving into Aries lines up with Neptune. This is the shapeshifter. This is the what's real, what's being conjured up. Because Mars is the physicality based upon what we imagine. And then Mercury, right behind it, moves into Aries on April 14th. Then, on April 14th, the Sun is also lining up with Eris. And this is more complications, discord, upset. And then the Sun lines up with Chiron on the 16th. And right behind that, we have Mercury now lining up with Neptune. And now our thoughts are, they're no longer Mercury and Pisces, where it was total dream. But we're getting a replay of all those fantasies. But we want to do something about it now. Because Mercury in Aries is sure of itself. It's with God. It's and that's on the 16th, leading right up to that new moon. And the new moon that occurs in Aries and the new moon on April 17th is crazy because I don't think we've ever seen a new moon with such density. First of all, the new moon will be conjoining Eris and Chiron. It'll be just past it. But that energy will be right there. Mercury will be lined up with Neptune and Mars and Saturn, all between two and seven degrees of Aries. And we're talking here thrust. We're talking about movement forward. And there is one saving grace in all of this that I am banking on that will build all the way through the month. And we're getting a flavor of it at the end of March. And that is that as these planets are moving through Aries, Mercury and Mars in particular, they're going to be making sextiles with Pluto. Now, why this is important is that, remember, we have a slower moving energy of Saturn and Pluto, which was last exactly conjoined on January 12th, 2020, which was the day that the COVID virus was announced. The first fatalities were announced and the genome for it was announced. At the end of March, Saturn, moving through five degrees of Aries, makes a sextile with that Pluto, giving us an opportunity to create a new structure or to restructure things. Now, why this is so important is that there are a couple of sextiles to Pluto on April 16th, just prior to this new moon. Mercury and Mars both make sextiles. The Mars sextile happens on the 16th, just prior to the new moon. And the Mercury sextile to Pluto happens on the 18th, just after the new moon. And both of these, I think, give us an opportunity to work with the transformations. There ain't no going back. This is what the Aries thrust is all about. I think last month I said something like, goodbye and thanks for the fish. That's the reference to the planets leaving Pisces. Well, the planets have all left Pisces. It's gone. It's done. And in fact, by the time we get to the new moon, the energy is so intense that we're on a rocket ship. The rocket ship has taken off. The environment will be different. And I know we've been saying that for a couple of months now. I say we, astrologers all over the planet. But look, it is different. We are at war in a crazy situation where, without getting too judgmental or political, no one knows what the hell we're doing, why we're there, what's going on. I mean, everyone has different ideas. But this Aries energy is still going to push us even forward faster and further. And then on April 20th, the Sun moves into Taurus. And I think that that is a bit of a relief. Also, prior to that, Mars lines up with Saturn, conjoins it on April 19th. And so this new moon is pushing us forward on the 17th. And then Mars hits Saturn. It's almost like we have to slam on the brakes or someone slams on the brakes for us. There's something that basically says this has gone on long enough. We have to control this Aries energy. And I think that that becomes then later on the 19th, when the Sun moves into Taurus. And then on the 20th, we're getting more conjunctions. Mercury catches up with Saturn. Mercury catches up with Mars, because remember, Saturn and Mars are together. And so right now we're getting this Mercury talking with Aries forcefulness with Saturnian authority. But we can't. It's almost like it's going to go one of two ways. Either the authorities are going to come down so hard, that's that, or the resistance is going to be in some way blocking it. I think that this April 20th is a really key point. Then by the time we get to the 23rd, we have two things that happen, both of which we've kind of been waiting for. It's actually on the 22nd, early on the 22nd, on the 23rd, we have Venus hatching up with Uranus at the end of Taurus. Now, remember, Uranus has gone into Gemini, backed into Taurus, and is now ready to go back into Gemini. That'll be on April 23rd. And once it's in Gemini, it will be there for the next seven years. It won't go back into Taurus again. And just literally moments before Uranus moves from Actually, the time is really interesting. It's at 7pm or 6.58pm on April 23rd. This is Pacific time. Venus catches up with Uranus. Let's just break that down a moment. We'll be feeling it for days prior to it. But Venus is what we like. Venus is what feels good. Venus is our attractions. Venus, all month of April, is at home in Taurus. Venus is strong this month. We're going to be wanting to find a way to be sensible. We're going to be looking at our paychecks. We're going to be looking at what food we're eating. Where does the food sources come from? This is a month of Venus in Taurus, kind of reminding us that life isn't just about Aries fighting battles and defending territories. And so on April 23rd at 6.58pm, Venus lines up with Uranus. And then just a few hours later at 9pm, three hours later, 9.03pm exactly, Venus moves into Gemini right after the conjunction. So between the 23rd and 25th, we have Venus lining up with Uranus at the very, very end of Taurus. Then Venus moving into Gemini, followed by Uranus moving into Gemini on the 25th. And that's another new world. This is as big a shift as we can possibly imagine. And remember, Uranus is about exciting, sudden, unexpected change that relieves tension. It brings things up that were hidden, that were buried. Venus bringing it into a place of like, I'm going to like these changes. Something's happening. This is really exciting. This is out of the box. And then as Uranus moves into Gemini on the 25th, it's almost like Uranus for the last seven years, except for a few months last summer when it was in Gemini and then back into Taurus. For the last seven years, Uranus has been like granite because Taurus is stable Earth. And Uranus about change has almost been like in a straitjacket. Changes have happened, really, really big ones, but abruptly and suddenly. Whereas once Uranus moves into Gemini, it's like free. It's like change becomes falling off another rolling log. And so we're freed from that Uranian holding back. And also when Uranus holds back, it attracts bigger changes. The lightning has to strike harder. The Earth has to quake in order for that granite to shift. Uranus moves into Gemini and this whole information war, AI, ET, augmented reality, all of these things are going to take off on another level again, especially because as Uranus moves into Gemini, it's by sign picking up on its trine to Pluto in air sign Aquarius, Uranus moving into air sign Gemini, and that will continue to grow all the way through their first exact perfected trine in July. Now, meanwhile, of course, we still have Neptune at their midpoint and that still brings in this whole issue of what's real of idealism of the dreams of humanity. What are we going to manifest out of this? So, you know, this is all rock and roll. And by the way, the day that Uranus moves from Taurus into Gemini on the 25th, the sun makes a 90 degree angle. Having just moved into Taurus, the sun will make a 90 degree angle to Pluto in Aquarius. And so we're getting another round of this power struggle. I wanted to say the deep state, but it's all deep states of consciousness, not just a political issue. And I think the 23rd, 24th, 25th, this whole period of time is going to be quite disruptive, but also potentially important in where we go with all of this. Because by the 26th, we have Mercury squaring Jupiter. This is big ideas talking about big solutions to things. Then on the 28th, we have Venus making a trine with Pluto. Now the planets that as they eventually will move into Gemini, they will each make a trine to Pluto. This isn't now until May and June, but this is all going to be feeding that deeper change that I think is going to be the culmination of whatever the craziness is that's going on right now. Hi friends. As Rick mentioned, Uranus entering Gemini is going to bring a lot of big shifts. If you're curious about how Uranus entering Gemini will affect you personally, we created a free guide that walks you through what Uranus in Gemini means for all 12 zodiac signs. In it, you'll get a glimpse of what this next cycle means for you, as well as reflect on how Uranus in Taurus has already reshaped your life. If you want to grab your copy, you can download it for free now. Just go to astrologyhub.com forward slash Uranus Gemini. All right, let's get back to the episode. I think in March, we've already seen like indications that these shifts are going to be way bigger than we thought. And then April moves along. I think that they're going to grow, but they're going to have to change into something that has sustenance. That would be the Venus and then the sun moving into Taurus that will actually look for some way to stabilizing it before then Uranus both move into Gemini at the end of the month. Wow. Okay. So you said that April has the most momentum of the entire year. That's a pretty bold statement. And I think that's something that we should all consider working with in our own personal lives. Yes. And I think that it's too late to wait until this whole thing becomes more settled in some way through the summer, through the June, July, August. I mean, there's a whole larger sweep that will get unfolded at some other point. But right now, it's what we do now is architecturally important to the foundations that we're laying, just as what we were doing back in February as the Saturn-Neptune conjunction was building. We were talking even back then that the dreams that we were imagining, what we were willing to let go of in order for the new to form. Again, I come back to this deeper Plutonic metaphor that I've used again and again and again. And that is the difference between change and metamorphosis is like the leaves change colors and fall off the trees every year. When a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it only does it once. It's a full structural at a very cellular level change. And in a way, in order for the caterpillar to become the butterfly, caterpillars got to go. And so this is not without pain. I've said many times, maybe even here, maybe even last month, I've said that if a caterpillar had an ego the way we humans do, there's no way in hell, and I use that word as a double entendre, there's no way in hell that the caterpillar would ever get into the cocoon because that's the hell realms. I mean, hell isn't bad. It's just a place of endings and beginnings of transformation. It's only the Christian mythology that has eliminated the complexity of the hell realms that we find even in Judaism and Buddhism and Hinduism and all indigenous cultures where those in-between states are where the shamans go to make magic. And yet we have this fear about it, thinking that we're going to go there and get punished. And so if the caterpillar didn't go into those in-between states where the caterpillar's gone and there's no butterfly yet, if it didn't go in there, we wouldn't have butterflies. And that's where humanity is. It's that big. We have reached a state of hyper-complexity that we cannot sustain. And we have to let it go and reorganize it on a higher level so that we are able to become butterflies. And this may take a year or a decade or a century or two. This is not an overnight thing, any more than the shift from being hunter-gatherers were to living in cities and becoming an agricultural species. I mean, that's how big this change is in front of us. And no, it's not going to all happen in April. But in April, we're going to get that cosmic boot in the butt that's going to certainly be moving us in a direction. Some people are going to be booted in their butt because they're moving in a direction full of fear and full of anxiety and full of wanting to blame someone else for what's happening and wanting to go back to the way things were to make them safe. And then other people are going to be blindly pushing ahead without any fear and just wanting to jump off cliffs. And neither of these solutions are valuable or viable because ultimately the balance here is between all the intra inside Saturnian planet and the trans or external outside of Saturn planet because we are at a dance between physicality and metaphysicality, between what's real, sitting here in a Zoom room or actually sitting with your family at home. What is real? What comes through in what we call artificial intelligence or alchemical or augmented intelligence? Or what happens when we sit in a meditative state and just think about what comes in naturally? These are the larger issues that are at stake here. And I don't have an answer because no one has an answer. And a lot of it depends on what we do individually while we're riding this enthusiastic thrust of April. If you're loving this conversation with Rick and want to hear more, be sure to hit that subscribe button and notification bell so you never miss an episode. This month we have some amazing guests on the show like Cameron Allen, Ari Moshe-Wolf, Jamie Lee, Christopher Renstrom, and Rick will be joined by Steve Judd for the May forecast at the end of the month. Thank you to everyone who's already subscribed to our channel and thank you for being a part of our community. Now back to the episode. So the month starts and the momentum is building. We have Mars and Mercury, namely because they've been in Pisces, moving into Aries, and it's all kind of culminating at that Aries new moon on the 17th. And it seems like we're on the gas pedal, we're going to the Aries new moon, but Mars and Mercury are both going to hit Saturn on their way there, which is kind of like a reality check. Yeah. And we have the new moon and then there's an opportunity with the sextile to Pluto to kind of adjust maybe whatever was that reality check of Saturn. Is that how that can play out? Yeah, I think that there's an adjustment there and I think there's also by the end of April when that Venus trines Pluto, it's a little bit of a flavor, a taste of what's coming around the bend as Uranus will be trining Pluto in July. But yeah, I think you have it right. And I think also we need to, the new moon on the 17th, although you use the word culmination and in some ways it may feel like that, it's really the seed period of what's ahead. Technically, the month culminates, this is going to sound backwards, on April 1st at the full moon, which is the culmination of the prior energy as we try to begin to consolidate it and focus it and we reach that highest level of enthusiasm, manifestation, not a movement, that's the word I'm looking for, because the Aries new moon on the 17th is less a culmination than it is an intensity of focus and thrust and creating a direction to something that actually will then culminate at the next full moon and that'll be at beginning of May. Okay, great. And you said that the new moon has no squares or oppositions, and so when there's just that density of Aries energy, is that just enthusiasm with no direction? Understand that the full moon on the 1st, actually, because it's at 12, almost 13 degrees of Aries and we have Jupiter still relatively stationary, it's moving direct at 15, almost 16 degrees of Cancer, on the first day of April we have an opposition and a T-square. The moon is opposite the sun and Jupiter is square, both of them, and so we do get that on the full moon. By the time we get to the new moon, it's gone. There are no oppositions, there's virtually no squares, we do have these kind of pushing sextiles with Pluto, which as I said and you noted, is a potential saving grace, and yet it's an opportunity that if we don't take, it will go away. So Rick, you said earlier that people might be going in a direction that's driven by fear, anxiety, and that's the wrong direction, or that's like, you know, they're going to kind of get swayed in a different direction, or I forget how you said it. I forget also, but fear is only useful if we have a real threat in our immediate moment to resolve that threat, and unfortunately, we have a systemic, cultural, free-floating anxiety fear about not being in control, about the realization of what we thought was real is not real, the realization that people running the show, not just in the United States but around the planet, are either crooks or satanic evil people that are doing things that are part of a horrific scenario that has been until recently just written about in books about conspiracy theories, and all of a sudden, it's out there and it's become what we have to deal with, and so people are afraid, and some of that fear is justified, but unfortunately, free-floating anxiety and fear only manifests as hatred towards those people who we think have instilled that fear in us, and that's the game that those in power are playing. They want me to be afraid of you so that you and I don't get together and say, let's not be afraid of each other. Let's work together and figure out how to make Earth livable for us. As you said, the fear is justified. You turn on the news and it's like, oh my gosh, and I know with Uranus moving into Gemini, you know, last time that happened, there was talk that there was war, and so I guess with what we know now about the state of the world, how do you suggest people move forward without fear and so that they can actually, this is the seed moment of this next era, how can someone move forward without that fear that we're going into a really terrible direction? Yeah, well, every time Uranus has moved into Gemini, the United States has been at a significant war. It was in Gemini during the American Revolution, it moved into Gemini during the Civil War, and it was back in Gemini again during World War II. This war that we are now in may have physical components, but this war is different because it's a technology and an information war. This war, it will not be won by weapons. There may be weapons involved. Well, there already are. Look, the United States has never been, at least in my lifetime of nearly 77 years, there's never been a time when the United States was not at war, you know, bombing or doing something militaristically. So to say that we're at war is crazy. We're always at war. We're a warring nation, but I do think that this war is different. And once we realize that, we realize that there is something we can do. And what we can do is we can control our information. And we have to realize that when we watch the news and we see all this horrific stuff that's going on, our news is all being curated. It's getting more and more curated day by day, week by week, month by month, you know, as those people in control are taking over all of what used to be public media. And this is a very, very real issue. What that means is that what we can do is we can talk amongst ourselves. We can listen and talk with community. We can get, I think the most important thing we can do is get news sources from as many perspectives as we can. I personally, until someone pulls the plug on this, will trust the social media from someone standing in the middle of the storm saying, here's what's happening today, rather than trusting the curated news that's coming from some point of view that I don't know what that point of view is, or if I do, it's not necessarily my perspective. And so I think what we can do is watch what we feed our with, watch what, you know, and understand that all the news we get is being curated. I mean, since the beginning of this war, you know, I say this war, I mean, the Middle East action with the intention on Iran, all of a sudden, everything else has dropped out of the news because we are living in a curated environment. You know, we've been focused as a culture, for example, on Gaza. And here I'm not being political at all. That's been the focus of what we've been aimed at. Whereas the number of people who have died in Sudan in a month is greater than the people who have died in Gaza in three years. Again, I'm not comparing horrible situations. I'm just saying that we need to be aware that we focus our attention on what we're told to focus our attention on. And the one thing that we can do during this time is get news and get information from as many sources as possible, which is one of the beautiful things about your little gig that you have at Astrology Hub, because Astrology Hub doesn't focus just on the astrology of Rick Levine or the astrology of whomever it is. You have a community of people coming from different perspectives, different ideas. And especially as Uranus moves into Gemini, I'm reminded of a friend who years ago, 20 years ago, used to sign all of his emails at the bottom. He'd have his name and underneath it, it would say, just another data point. And that's Gemini. And we need to get out of that single focus of believing that the reality tunnel in which we live is the real one, because there is no real one. The one that we focus on now, that's what will become real. And so we have to pay attention. Now, having said that, there's another thing that we can do. This comes back to my think cosmically, act locally. And that is that we can't feed a family unless we have enough food. We can't give someone else water to drink unless I have extra water. And so from that standpoint, I go back to that old Hopi prophecy that says, at this time, it's important to know where your food comes from and to have water and to have shelter. And above all things, for those people on the planet who are blessed enough to have those things, it's important to make sure that you maintain having those things, because otherwise, all other arguments are irrelevant. If you don't have what you need to live another day, you're not going to be able to have your kids or your spouse or your family or those you love or your employees or whomever. And so we need to make sure that we attend to our own lives. And this, of course, is the dilemma. Another great word. You know what a lemma is? Guess a dilemma is two lemmas. Oh, you've said this before, Rick, but it's escaping me. Okay. A lemma is a statement that you make in a Greek proof, like in geometry, when we had to prove two lines were parallel or be logical and prove what we're saying. Each step we take is a lemma. And if you reach a lemma that goes in two ways, that's a dilemma. And our dilemma is how do we keep one half of the brain or one eye focused on the future and survival and the other half of the brain or the other eye focused on making sure that my family is safe or that I have enough going on in my life that I can take care of my responsibilities and maybe even have enough extra that I can share what it is that I have with others. That's the dilemma. And there's no easy answer to that. Everyone has to find their own place. And I think that most of us are struggling with that. And that's a good thing to struggle with. But it's not to do it out of fear and closing in and then trying to take everything. You know, our whole economic environment comes from the economist Thomas Malthus, who basically realized that the earth was finite and that at some point we would run out of resources and there wouldn't be enough to go around. And therefore, we better make sure that we have ours before someone else gets theirs. And this whole it's called Malthusian economics. And yet the flip side of that is the awareness that we live in a universe that has enough energy to abundantly supply everyone with everyone they need. It's a distribution problem. I think of the wonderful William Gibson line who says the future has already arrived. It's just unevenly distributed. And so in the same way, the wealth of the planet is unevenly distributed. And we'll either now figure out a way to redistribute it. And those who hold that wealth and power will not go down easily. And they are not. And that's what we're seeing right now is we're seeing the last gasps of a dinosaur. We're seeing the last gasps of a whole way of life that is trying to hold on and it will not let go easily. And anyone who thinks that they're just going to let happiness, peace and love take over, it's just not going to go that way. And yet that's the battle that we have in front of us. Revolutions do have pain and often collateral damage. Every time I use that word, I say I hate using that word because it sounds so emotionally detached. But every war that's been fought for a good reason to basically increase someone's freedom or a people's freedom or to destroy some evil invader or invading force, there has been damage. And we may have some of that. We already are now. I mean, people are suffering around the planet. And part of the suffering that's going on now, unlike suffering that went on a couple of hundred years ago, is you get up in the morning and turn on your phone and you see it. You know, a hundred years ago, three hundred years ago, that just didn't happen. You only knew about the old guy down the block, you know, who fell down the stairs and died last night. Other than that, you don't know what happened, you know, in a city three miles away. Right. It's so in our faces. And I think that's where the recommendation to kind of take a step back or be discerning comes from, because you don't know what's real. Your nervous system was not meant to see all this, hold all this. Aries may be awesome. I'm an Aries. Okay. I like being an Aries. But discernment can be a problem when you're with God or when you think that you're channeling that enthusiastic energy because you become blind to the quincunx point to Aries. You know, quincunx is the astrological aspect of invisibility or irritation or annoyance that needs adjustment. And the quincunx point to zero degrees of Aries is zero degrees of Virgo. Virgo is about discernment. Virgo is the place in the zodiac where the cosmos says yes or no. In the body, Virgo is the bowels, where the body says, this is good. Assimilate it. This is ----. Send it down the line. Pluto will take care of getting rid of it. No, I mean, this is the way it works. And so with all these planets stuffed into Aries, we're missing some of that discrimination and we have to really focus on it. And hopefully Saturn moving through Aries during this period of time will be enough of an awareness factor about where the wall is so that we don't have to run over the guard rails before we realize that they were there to protect us and to keep us alive. Right, right. So Rick, if you had a word or a phrase or an image to leave people with for this month, what would it be? I wanted to say no going back, but it's been like that for a bit. I'm thinking of the great Aries hero that would be William Shatner or Captain Kirk from the original Star Trek. And basically our mission now is to go where no human has ever gone before. You know, we are at a threshold, at a portal. We are at that place that is technically it's an edge, it's a cusp, it's liminality, meaning that it's not where we were and it's not where we will be. It's neither physical nor metaphysical. We're somewhere in between. Going back to the caterpillar becoming the butterfly. I know that Bruce Lipton got this from someone else and I apologize. I can't remember whose concept this is. Someone will throw it in the chat for us. Thank you very much. But the idea is what Bruce calls imaginal cells. And that is that when the caterpillar has entered its chrysalis stage and the skin of the caterpillar melts, the hair disintegrates, the eyeballs and nervous system, everything of the turns into this black gunk. And there is nothing that resembles anything that ever looked like a caterpillar there. And for all practical purposes, if you open up a cocoon at that point in time, it's dead. But what happens is that there's little sparks that occur in the cells that kind of set up little bits of networks that as this black brown goo begins to create these impulses, these cells, which Bruce refers to as imaginal cells, actually begin to visualize or create what Rupert Sheldrake would call from the morphic field, from this energetic quantum field or Lynn McTaggart's idea of field, there's an image that is brought into being that eventually begins to, in a Saturnian way, begins to crystallize into a three-dimensional form that eventually becomes a butterfly. And that's where we are. You got to trust the process, sounds like. And we have to be willing to let go of what we thought we were. And again, this transcends all religious, political, dogmatic, I don't care what you believe or what you thought was real, get with the program and begin to let it go because there's new coming in for everyone, all of us, that includes me. And I don't say that to be cool. I say that to remind myself because like everyone else who's paying attention, I'm realizing that what I thought I knew, and believe me, I've put a lot of effort into what I think and what I thought was real, I knew was real. And now I'm beginning to realize there may be another perspective here. It doesn't mean I need to take that other perspective. It just means I need to be in a place that's willing to let go of the certainty that I had about whatever my position was on whatever the issue is. Amazing, Rick. Thank you. I'm going to hold the butterfly in my mind all month and just float around like a butterfly and embody that in my own life. One last thing about the butterfly, and that is if you're a little boy or girl watching this cocoon and you're so excited and you see movement in it, and if you get over eager, over enthusiastic and open that cocoon to help the butterfly out, it'll never fly because the butterfly gains the strength in its wings to fly by the resistance of it fighting against the constriction and contraction of the weight that it has to bear. That Saturnian container of the cocoon is actually, on another level, part of the manifestation. It creates the momentum for the burgeoning butterfly to fight and develop enough strength in its wings that once it breaks out of the cocoon, it actually can fly. Shortcuts here are not a good idea. Yes. Yes. Okay. Sometimes pressure is good and we need it. Absolutely. All right, Rick. Where can people find you this month? Well, tomorrow I'm heading to Greece to spend two weeks on a boat through the Greek islands at a wonderful thing called Mystery School at Sea. I'm very excited about that. Then I'll be in a combination of Greece and the UK and France, and then back to the UK for the Steve Judd conference, which is on May 15th, 16th, 17th. Then I'll be to Norwak the end of May and I'll see you and a whole bunch of people at Norwak. I'm doing the opening keynote address for Norwak and teaching a post-conference after it. That's where I'll be. Of course, like most every other astrologer on the planet who can get a visa into the United States, we'll be at UAC in September. There's the Lillydale Astrology Conference in August that's also terribly exciting. I'm going to be there with people like Cameron and Anne Audley and Stormy Grace. It's going to be a fun one. Other than that, I'm going to be tied to my computer looking at these planets unfolding and tied to the external reality, trying to make sense out of it like everyone else. Yes, yes. Well, Rick, safe travels as you go about your worldly business. We'll be back next month with actually a special edition with Steve Judd to do the May forecast, so everyone look out for that. Rick, just thank you so much. I can't tell you how many times I think of you throughout my weeks in this conversation that we've had as it's unfolding, so just thank you for your insight and your guidance for this whole community. Thank you, and to everyone at Astrology Hub, whether they're on screen or behind screens doing the magic that you guys do because it really is needed on the planet right now. As my friend Steve Judd says, astrology is the lingua franca of this change in consciousness, and I'm not sure it's the only lingua franca, but it is part of the language that's giving us all the ability to understand and to see what's going on in the cosmos in a wider frame of reference than we used to have. Oh my gosh, I couldn't imagine going through it without the language of astrology, so amazing, everyone. Well, thank you so much for tuning into this episode and for making astrology a part of your life. We'll catch you on the next episode.