Where are those planets now?
Updated April 21, 2012
Here is an overview of where each planet is by sign
and its influence while there.
This information applies to all signs.
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Sun is in Taurus 4/19 – 5/20
“Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you.”
~Lao Tzu
The Sun entering Taurus will be grounding and bring things “back to Earth”, for while the recent activity and enthusiasm is great, so is having your feet on the ground and keeping it real. With the Sun here for the next 30 days, the themes that will get your attention are: seeing what truly matters in your life, finances, resources, natural living, the Earth/gardening/natural beauty, what makes you feel grounded, secure and safe.
Further, while the Sun is in Taurus, you will be inclined to be more practical, down-to-earth, physical and focused on such issues as what creates stability and security in your life. It is a time to create routines, that support these things. Also of import now is what pleases you and offers you comfort, and to include things of beauty in your environment.
Mercury Crater
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Mercury is in Aries 4/16 – 5/8
Key energies & qualities to focus while Mercury is in Aries:
While Mercury is in Aries, you will find you are more mentally alert and determined. The need to be decisive is stronger during this time and a sense of urgency is often present. The mind is active and perhaps unsettled until clarity is achieved. New information may present itself that opens you to new directions and brings you new options. Don’t hesitate to be more bold and more assertive if it feels right to you.
What to watch out for while Mercury is in Aries:
- Making rash or impulsive decisions. Get all the facts first!
- Being impatient as it is easy to overlook important steps and/or details now.
- Assuming you know what others are saying or mean. LISTEN CAREFULLY!
Questions to ask while Mercury is in Aries:
- What am I now ready to entertain and embark on? Am I clear as to where I am going?
- Am I willing to leave old patterns and habits and ways of seeing in order to live my life with greater vitality and sense of aliveness?
- If not, is there some information I need to get first?
- Where will I find that?
Other things to consider during this time:
Mercury rules the mental and while it is in Aries the mind can race around, keeping us from focusing on the task at hand. Hence, it is important to stay grounded and centered in order to use the fiery energy of this placement, which once properly directed, can accomplish a lot.
Venus & Moon
Venus is in Gemini 4/3 – 8/7
Keywords and energies for Venus (which represents our caring and loving natures) in Gemini:
Venus, the planet of love, is very lively and mental while in Gemini and loves to think and talk about what you care about and love. During this time, it is likely that your conversations and interactions with your partners, friends and those closest to you will be active and dynamic. This is a social placement for Venus so finding time to enjoy your friends will be appealing now. Venus here invites you to have a lighter touch in all your communications.
What to watch out for {lower expressions of Venus in Gemini}:
- It is common to find it hard to know what you really want as Venus in Gemini can be interested in and drawn to so many things (or people!)
- Being insincere and or saying things about your feelings that you may not feel past a surface level. Superficiality. Also, being fickle or gossipy.
- Be careful as to what you agree to now, as sometimes under this influence something may sound better than it is. Do some investigating and reflection, especially if it is something that has a long-term impact.
Ways to enhance the energies of Venus in Gemini (focusing on these will bring in the higher frequencies available now}:
- It is easier now to be more flexible in your attitudes.
- Expressing your love in lighter, more playful ways.
- Communications in general are easier and even difficult conversations get some help from Venus in Gemini.
- Simply put: Listen with your heart. Speak with your heart and “use your words” to express how you feel.
Questions to ask while Venus is in Gemini {remember that these will prompt an inner process}:
- Do I take myself (or things in general) too seriously?
- Is it time to lighten up a bit?
- Have I been filling my mind with images and thoughts that are loving and kind? (If not, now is a good time to do so.)
- Do I need a change of scenery and/or a fresh point of view? Perhaps for just a few hours?
Other things to consider during this time: Venus will be retrograde in Gemini from 5/15 until 6/27, hence it will be spending a longer than usual time in Gemini. Also, there will be a rare event taking place on June 5th called “The Transit of Venus” which is when Venus will be crossing the face of the Sun. More on that later!
Mars is in Virgo 11/10 – 7/3/12
Surface of Mars
Key energies and qualities to focus on while Mars is in Virgo:
Mars here helps us to get organized and come up with a plan that is thought out and doable, though will likely require several steps and patience to implement. In general, Mars has everything to do with where we place our focus. While Mars is in Virgo it is a good time to place extra focus on the everyday details in your life. You may well be inclined towards organizing closets or de-cluttering your home or workspace.
Things to focus on now include:
- Managing your time well;
- Being productive;
- Taking care of the details of your life;
- Paying extra attention o your health and particularly your diet.
What to watch out for while Mars is in Virgo:
- Be careful about what you eat now as the stomach and digestion can be easily upset during this time. (If you have these sorts of issues anyway, spicy foods, overeating or eating late can all be more problematic than usual.)
- Avoid wasting your time in useless routines or tangents.
- Spending too much or not enough time on the small things.
- Strive not to be overly critical as it is only too easy to do that now…this includes not being critical of yourself.
Ways to enhance the energies of Mars in in Virgo {focusing on these will bring in the higher frequencies available now}:
- Be specific, methodical and more precise than usual.
- Slow down and practice being deliberate.
- Be discerning, paying careful attention to the choices you make, as even the small ones can hold keys to accomplishing what it is you want during this time.
- This is the perfect time to do those things that at other times you just wouldn’t want to do, such as: bookkeeping, budgeting, household chores, office tasks, etc. This said, it isn’t so much that we want to do them, though you may, but that you have the right kind of energy to accomplish them now!
Questions to ask while Mars is in Virgo {these can prompt an inner process}:
- Am I staying on track or do I lose my focus easily and/or often?
- Am I really organized enough?
- Do I manage my time well?
- What can I do to get my life in order?
- Are my regimes supporting my health or hindering it?
- Am I being too critical of either myself or others?
- If I slowed down a bit would I notice some important details I tend to over look?
Other things to consider during this time: This is a very long time for Mars to be in one sign, as it usually stays about ten weeks in each sign. This is because it will be going retrograde in Virgo on January 23rd. This suggests that we all should become familiar with (even make friends with) this influence as it will be around a while!
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Jupiter is in Taurus 6/4 – 6/11/12
Keywords while Jupiter is in Taurus: I feel this will help many with money and financial issues as it opens the door to greater abundance, if you allow it to and do what you must to “make it so”. Basically efforts made now will fall on fertile ground, if you will, and you may be rewarded beyond what you can imagine. Think of it as growing a garden. You must plan, work the soil, plant, water and week before you can reap a harvest. Things you tend to with this sort of focus will thrive. Keep moving in the direction you want to go and during this year that Jupiter is in this most fertile of signs you will very reap a wonderful harvest.
Jupiter's Auroras!
Qualities to focus on while Jupiter is in Taurus Growth, creating what you want, moving in a positive direction, stating who you are and what you want and rediscovering how to have some fun in simple, basic ways.
Questions to ask during this time:
What area of my life is really ready to grow and to take off?
- What is required for that to happen?
- Am I really doing what I need to, to make that happen?
- And is it something I really enjoy?
- What brings me joy?
- Am I willing to work towards, and doing what I must, to create a more secure future for myself?
- What do I need to do to make that happen?
What to watch out for during this time: Jupiter in Taurus can be laid back and even lazy, thinking things will take care of themselves. Also, and this is really important, is that Jupiter and Taurus can incline us towards overindulging, overspending, overreaching in some way. Strive to get a handle on that, as it will help you to really get the most out of this really very benevolent energy.
Other things to consider while Jupiter is in Taurus: This placement of Jupiter may well help certain sectors of the economy. It is wonderful for growth and manifestation. This is a time to consider doing just what you love and what brings you greater joy. Jupiter and Taurus wants us to have fun, to enjoy, but also to be productive, and that combo, in fact, that’s the alchemy about this here, is where what we’re doing, what we’re focused on, what we’re tending to, is also something that is either a passion or a joy for us.
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Saturn is in Libra 7/21/10 – 10/5/12
Keywords: Tests of balance, compromise, relating, loyalty.
Saturn in Shadows
Questions to ask during this time:
- Am I willing to walk the middle path?
- Can I stay away from extremes that are not in my best interests?
- What does stability and security really mean to me?
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Uranus is in Aries 3/11/11 – 5/15/18
Keywords while Uranus is in Aries: Unusual, unpredictable events that change how you view things will occur more often. There is an acceleration of energies. It is indeed, a time to let go of old patterns and attitudes as the represents a new cycle has now begun and many new things are being ushered in.
Uranus Orbits on it's "side"
- Am I willing change those things that will truly change my life?
- Or do I back away from them?
- Do I sabotage myself in this way?
- What would be the first thing I would change in my life that would make it better if I could?
What to watch out for during this time: Being erratic and making changes without any forethought. Seeking freedom and independence in impulsive ways. Resisting new ideas and information.
Other things to consider while Uranus is in Aries: Uranus only changes signs every 7 years, so this is a very significant shift of energies.Read my article on this powerful shift and what to expect here.
Amazing Image of Neptune
Neptune is in Pisces: 2/3/2012 – 3/30/2025
Keywords while Neptune is in Pisces:
Neptune entering Pisces is a most mystical event, primarily because Neptune more than any other planet rules all that is sacred and mystical. And it’s now entering the sign it rules, which is considered to be the most spiritual of the signs. These mystical energies are subtle, yet strong.
Qualities to focus on during this time: Surrender; forgiveness letting go, allowing God; devotion; faith.
Higher expressions of Neptune in Pisces:
- You are more drawn to the inner realms, the only place we are truly safe
- Your devotional nature gets stronger.
- Meditation practice is deeper and results in greater peace
- Intuition increase. Lots of 3rd eye activity
- More sensitive to your environment. Picks up on things. Direct knowing
- In general, a stronger pull towards the divine…seeking becomes even more important.
Questions to ask now:
- Am I willing to truly surrender my will?
- Am I open to a higher path for my life?
- Do I express unconditional love or do I hold on to my “own version” of what love is?
- Do I utilize the Spiritual tools and gifts that I have?
What to watch out for during this time:
- Feeling more spacey and ungrounded.
- Feeling scattered and have difficulty focusing.
- Things may feel more surreal, unreal. As tho it’s a little harder to differentiate between what is real and what is not!
- Imagination is strong, perhaps having you worry or fearful about things that will never happen (mass hysteria being an example of this).
- Drugs, alcohol and addictions in general are greatly influenced by this placement. It is important not to go unconsciousness about the stronger inclination many will feel towards such behavior.
- Panic or fear can become stronger, as well.
- Desire to escape is stronger.
- Picking up feelings from your environment. The “psychic sponge syndrome.”
Neptune has not been in Pisces since the mid-1800’s, and when any one of the three outer planets changes signs it represents a shift. Neptune in Pisces initiates a pull towards the mysterious and deep currents of the subtle realms. No other Planet influences our Spiritual as much as Neptune does and it will now be even stronger now that it is in Pisces.
Read more on the energy and influence of Pluto in Capricorn here.
Keywords for while Pluto is in Capricorn: Profound transformations of government, corporations and society in general. Challenge to the established ways, rules and laws. Greater accountability of those in control of cultural destinies.
Pluto with Moons-NASA
