FINDING STRIDE - ASTROLOGY for THE WEEK AHEAD APRIL 5-11 2026 

There is a shift in tone this week. Not sure that I would call it quiet, but definately different. As though something inside you has found its footing again after the swell and suspension of the past weeks. The ASTROLOGICAL WEATHER for APRIL 5 – 11, 2026 is a moment of finding stride. Not all at once, but step by step, breath by breath, movement returning to the body with greater awareness.

On APRIL 5 the SUN in ARIES forms a square to JUPITER in CANCER. The SUN in ARIES illuminates identity, desire, the instinct to move forward and claim life directly. JUPITER in CANCER expands the emotional body, the need for safety, nourishment, and belonging. In square, these two forces press like a tortilla press. It may feel tight, but something really delicious comes from it. This is THE ONION. Layer upon layer of self, each one holding a different truth. The part of you that is ready, certain, willing to leap. The part that hesitates, that remembers, that seeks reassurance. In this tension there is a compression, like the tortilladora bringing opposing forces into contact. Something changes fundamentally here, not in a competitive sense where one side wins, but because both opposing forces are felt simultaneously creating something far more interesting than if they were isolated. Fear and desire coexist and in that coexistence, old patterns begin to loosen. Responses that once felt automatic no longer sit as comfortably in the body. We begin to notice where we have outgrown our own reactions (read that again, and tell me you haven't been feeling the beginnings of this already). Where something within you is ready to move differently.

As the week unfolds, the energy gathers. On APRIL 9 MARS enters ARIES, joining NEPTUNE, SATURN, the SUN, and CHIRON. The sky ignites. This is the beginning of a much larger movement that will continue to unfold through the month. The curtain opens (eeek). MARS in ARIES is raw life force. Direct, immediate, and undeniable. Through the lens of AYURVEDA, this is PITTA in action. PITTA energy ruled by FIRE and WATER when channeled is extraordinarily transformative, it is the golden light shot through the sky to illuminate the path. When it is used in a positive way. That is important. So ask yourself: How will you channel this heat? Where is this emerging in your chart and your life, and what can you do now to best participate with it? Because, as I said above this kind of fire is phenomenal when used positively. Feel MARS/ARIES your body, where it pulses, where it gathers, and how it wants to be translated into action. It is important because this same energy, when left unattended, can turn blade, envy, impatience, and overwhelm. A heat that leads to depletion rather than creation. Work with the current. When action is aligned it emerges.

This is an exploration of life force itself. How it moves through you when you allow it, rather than control it. There is another level here. One that is accessed through presence rather than pressure. Feeling fear alongside desire is part of being human. To feel hesitation alongside readiness. To question our capacity even as we are called forward. This week does not ask us to resolve that tension but rather to hold it. 

There is another way of moving that does not require self-abandonment, overwhelm, or depletion. As you take each step, you move closer to the life you are creating. But each step also reveals something within you that asks to be recognised. Not dimished, or pushed aside. This essence is you. Be it. If you haven't had the chance to read anout the SEVEN WEEKS for ROOTING the SPARK ahead this is the moment.

I will be in residence at MANIPURA HOUSE in BATH, from APRIL 29 to MAY 2, offering one to one ASTROLOGY and TAROT readings. This is an invitation to meet in a space where time slows and attention deepens. The room will be prepared with care. Oils warming softly into the air. Tea steeping. A return to an older rhythm of gathering, where presence is undivided.

My work moves between the seen and the felt. Through ASTROLOGY I map the living architecture of your life, creating and interpreting your natal chart with precision and depth. We look at planetary movement, relationships, and timing, to understand where you are and what is beginning to unfold. Through TAROT I work more immediately, responding to what is present and drawing it into form. Each reading opens a space where what has been sensed but not yet articulated can be seen and understood clearly.

This insight is grounded through AROMATHERAPY, AYURVEDA, breath, and ritual, so that what we uncover can be integrated into daily life. You leave with a sense of expansion, a clearer direction, and a spark of movement where something had been waiting. Alongside this, you will carry practices that support you as you continue. Spaces are limited across these three days. BOOK HERE

SUN | MOON | RISING 

Read through your SUN | MOON | RISING to know where this week’s energy unfolds in your chart. Where the sky meets your body. Take what resonates, leave the rest.

If this writing resonates, if it nourishes your thinking, your sensing, your way of meeting the season, you’re welcome to support its continuation. This work takes time, attention, and care to create, and your contribution helps keep it alive and freely shared. Adding something to my TIP JAR is a way of participating in the circulation that makes this work possible.