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Mars Enters Aries, Mercury Enters New Territory
Dear Friend and Reader:
This week’s horoscope looks at the transit of Mars through Aries, where it will be very busy for the next six weeks. Mars made its Aries ingress this afternoon, and Mercury comes out of its second shadow phase as well.
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ARIES Sun + Rising for April 9
Self-discovery can be violent. I don’t mean in the sense of a sledgehammer or gun (though sometimes so), but rather in the sense of asserting yourself in ways that bang into others and provoke reactions. Then there is the use of aggression as a cheap means of ‘self-actualization,’ a specialty of the digital age. With Mars passing through the last few degrees of Pisces this past week, you may have felt some of your paranoia or irrational fear squeezed out of you. As Mars enters your sign, you must discern which concerns are real and which are imaginary. Here in the digital simulacrum, anything can seem like anything. If you remain conscious, you can seek peaceful means to discover or assert who you are. This may be difficult, and you might find yourself acting out of character. If you’re paying attention, you will notice when you’re doing this. You don’t need to hurt yourself or others, emotionally or otherwise.
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Planet Waves for April 9, 2026 — By Eric Francis
Today is horoscope 1,600! Detailed readings for your Sun, Moon and Rising Sign. Subscribe to this Substack or become a Core Community Member at PlanetWaves.net.
ARIES Sun + Rising
Self-discovery can be violent. I don’t mean in the sense of a sledgehammer or gun (though sometimes so), but rather in the sense of asserting yourself in ways that bang into others and provoke reactions. Then there is the use of aggression as a cheap means of ‘self-actualization,’ a specialty of the digital age. With Mars passing through the last few degrees of Pisces this past week, you may have felt some of your paranoia or irrational fear squeezed out of you. As Mars enters your sign, you must discern which concerns are real and which are imaginary. Here in the digital simulacrum, anything can seem like anything. If you remain conscious, you can seek peaceful means to discover or assert who you are. This may be difficult, and you might find yourself acting out of character. If you’re paying attention, you will notice when you’re doing this. You don’t need to hurt yourself or others, emotionally or otherwise.
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TAURUS Sun + Rising
Uranus is in its last moments in your sign for this 84-year cycle. It began its trip through Taurus in 2018, and this has been a wild ride for everyone — though especially for you. The combination of personal instability and being immersed in society’s obsession with technology has been challenging. You may have experienced this as the pressure to be who you are not, to believe what you know is not true, or to change your life in ways that are out of character. It will be helpful to review the past seven or eight years and see if you can notice the ways in which you’ve been pressured to change. You may decide you liked the old you better. You may not be able to go straight back, but you can reclaim some of what you love. Travel back in time and discover what you’ve left behind, and bring it back with you.
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