Astroview Report
Planetary Transits for April 15th – May 14th
(Interpretations based on the Systems’ Approach to Vedic Astrology)
Note: This column is now published on the 15th of each month. This coincides with the movement of the Sun — the king of the planetary cabinet. Sun changes signs around the middle of every month – and follows the same pattern every year. “Watching the Sun” is a powerful technique – and helpful guide to your monthly activities. Other planetary transits are also included in this report when prominent.
Last Month’s Prediction: “There is a Lunar Eclipse overnight between March 24th and 25th. This is followed two weeks later by a Solar Eclipse on April 8th. Experience shows that this two-week period between eclipses is a delicate time, with unusual and intense events and headlines worldwide.”
Cases in point: On March 26th, a cargo ship leaving the Port of Baltimore struck and instantaneously collapsed the second-longest bridge in the U.S., the Francis Scott Key Bridge; on April 3rd a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan; severe and deadly storms leave a path of destruction and more than 50 tornadoes across the U.S.
Note: There was also a Total Lunar Eclipse known as the “Blood Moon” on June 14, 1946. Notable persons born on this date: Donald J. Trump.
Transits Through May 14th
Sun transits Aries until May 14th at 7:33 a.m. CDT. This favorably connects the government with significations of Mars, including property, military, police, and executive organizing skills. Sun is under the third aspect of Saturn, May 1 – 12. Cancer, Virgo, and Pisces rising sign people should be careful and patient.
Moon is waning/waxing and transits Gemini — through the full zodiac — ending in Cancer. The full (Pink) Moon is in Libra, April 23rd at 6:48 p.m. CDT.
Mars transits out of Aquarius and into Pisces on April 22nd at 10:08 p.m., CDT. Mars remains in Pisces until June 1st.
Mercury transits out of its debilitation sign, Pisces, and into Aries on May 10th at 8:22 a.m. Mercury is closely conjunct Rahu until May 6th. Be vigilant with stocks, business, brokering, finances, viruses, technology, communications, and intellectual property People are also likely to change their minds and/or have difficulty with speech and decision-making capabilities.
Jupiter transits out of Aries (where it has been for 12 months) and into Taurus, on May 1st at 2:29 a.m. CDT. Jupiter is weak in degrees until May 22nd. Be patient with law, banking, religion, and education. There may also be vulnerability relative to husbands and children. Jupiter remains in the sign of Taurus until May 14, 2025. More on this transit impact for each rising sign in the May report.
Venus transits out of Pisces and into Aries, April 24 at 1:28 p.m., CDT. Venus is closely conjunct Rahu until May 2nd. Take care of the women in your life and be patient with the fine, healing, and performing arts. There may also be sudden issues with the weather and transportation.
Saturn transits its own sign, Aquarius, from 20:56 to 23:33°. This is mostly favorable and represents the masses, the elderly, the poor and needy, agriculture, and manufacturing, along with the oil, gas, and minerals industries.
Rahu and Ketu transit Pisces and Virgo, respectively, from 21:22 to 20:40°. Those persons with “even-numbered” rising signs, (Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces) should be careful and patient whenever Rahu and Ketu are within 5° of their rising sign degree (in any house), or within 5° of any planets in either the birth chart or the transit chart — in even signs.
Seriously. Watch the impact of these slow-moving planets close to your rising sign degree or any planet – in any house or sign — by aspect or conjunction. During these times lay low, get extra rest, and avoid stressful situations.
The Impact of the Transit Planets for each “Rising Sign” (not “Sun Sign”)
Note: Transit planets should also be seen with reference to the position of the planets in your personal horoscope. In some cases, this will impact the predictions.
ARIES: Sun is in your first house until May 14th. Take a leadership position and connect with authority figures and large, medical, spiritual and government organizations. Pets, children, education, investments, and spiritual pursuits are likely forefront. Be patient after April 22nd to manage losses, expenses, and separations – for yourself and with relationships. Your best bet may be with ashrams, retreats, institutions, foreign lands, or international ventures. Be vigilant to manage debts, disputes, health, or legal issues through May 6th. Relationships are forefront beginning April 24th. Focus on the fine, healing or performing arts. Saturn in Aquarius supports income and friendships through February 2025. Gain from hard work; be of service to others, and consider agriculture, manufacturing, sustainable living, etc.
TAURUS: Sun is in your twelfth house until May 14th. Be patient with property, vehicles, fixed assets, and family life. These, along with father and authority figures are vulnerable to losses, expenses, and separations. Relocation or travel abroad may be possible. Turn your home into an ashram or retreat. Take care with income, friendships, and older siblings after April 22nd – as these may involve losses, expenses, separations, institutions, or foreign lands. Pets, children, education, and investments may also be vulnerable to sudden issues through May 6th. Fortunately, you should be able to count on your career – through Feb. 2025 – as Saturn is blessing your tenth house with a “Sasha Yoga*”. This is favorable for leadership and humanitarian efforts. *This also supports service to the masses, patience, hard work, practicality, and a position of authority.
GEMINI: Sun is in your eleventh house until May 14th. Expect income and friendships connected with communications, independent projects, and entrepreneurial ventures. You can also gain from father and authority figures – along with large, medical, spiritual or government organizations. Be patient with pets, children, education, and investments through April 21st – and then favorably connect these with your career through mid-May. Take care of parents, property, vehicles, and home life through May 6th. These may also be vulnerable to sudden issues. Fortunately, Saturn, ruling your ninth house of good fortune, may bring blessings — relative to father and religious figures and long-distance travel through February 2025.
CANCER: Sun is in your tenth house until May 14th. Take a leadership position in the workplace. Ask for a raise or promotion. You may receive an honor, award, or recognition. Connect your career with large, medical, spiritual or government organizations. One year of tension at work is about to dissipate. Be patient, however, with property, vehicles, and home life for one week, and then connect these with your professional life through mid-May. Redecorate your workspace and consider a new company car. Be patient, however, with communications and independent projects through May 6th. These may be vulnerable to sudden issues. With Saturn in Aquarius through February 2025, focus on research, languages, and/or the Vedic sciences. For some of you, there may also be a marriage, windfall, inheritance, legal or insurance settlement.
LEO: Sun is in your ninth house until May 14th. Connect with father and religious figures and focus on your spiritual practice. There may be a long-distance journey of a short duration, such as a week or two. However, all these significations are likely vulnerable through mid-May. There may also be setbacks with your wealth, status, and family life. Unfortunately, after April 22nd, most all of the planets are connected with your unfavorable eighth house – so exercise a great deal of care and patience to manage vulnerability and transformations. Saturn in Aquarius, however, confers a favorable Sasha Yoga* in your house of partnerships, joint ventures, and life abroad through February 2025. (*This supports service to the masses, patience, hard work, perseverance, and a position of authority.)
VIRGO: Sun is in your eighth house until May 14th. Be patient with losses, expenses, separations, intimacy, insomnia, institutional life, and/or foreign lands or international ventures. Father and authority figures – along with relationships with large, medical, spiritual or government organizations may also be vulnerable to setbacks or going through transformations. For some of you, however, there may be a windfall, inheritance, legal or insurance settlement associated with these same above topics. Be vigilant with all relationships after April 22nd. These may be connected to debts, disputes, fire, theft, cheating, false allegations, health, or legal issues. On the other hand, Saturn, in Aquarius, should add protection with debts, disputes, health or legal issues, through February 2025.
LIBRA: Sun is in your seventh house until May 14th. This favorably connects income, friendships, and older siblings — with marriage, partnerships, and joint ventures. These may also relate to father and authority figures and/or large, medical, spiritual or government organizations. Be patient after April 22nd, however, as these may also involve debts, disputes, health, or legal issues. There may also be sudden losses, expenses, or separations – and/or issues with intimacy, insomnia, institutions, foreign lands, or international ventures through May 6th. On the other hand, Saturn in Aquarius supports success with children, grandchildren, education, investments, and spiritual pursuits through February 2025.
SCORPIO: Sun is in your sixth house until May 14th. Be vigilant in the workplace to avoid or manage debts, disputes, accidents, fire, theft, cheating against you, and health or legal issues. These may also relate to father and authority figures, along with large, medical, spiritual, or government organizations. Take care of your stomach, digestion, heart, blood, and bones. Take care of pets, children, education, and investments after April 22nd. These may involve debts, disputes, fire, theft, cheating, false allegations, health, or legal issues. There may also be sudden issues with income, friendships, or older siblings through May 6th. Fortunately, Saturn in your fourth house blesses you with a Sasha Yoga*, which should protect property, vehicles, fixed assets, and home life — through February 2025. (*This also supports service to the masses, patience, hard work, perseverance, and a position of authority.)
SAGITTARIUS: Sun is in your fifth house until May 14th. This favorably connects father and religious figures, dharma, and good fortune with your mind, children, education, investments, and spiritual pursuits. Think big – and like a royal person. Consider gold or government bonds. Study large, medical, spiritual, or government organizations. Investments in property, vehicles, fixed assets, and home life will be favorable after April 22nd. This should also be favorable for pets, children, education, investments and spiritual pursuits. Saturn, in Aquarius, absolutely supports successful communications and entrepreneurial ventures through February 2025.
CAPRICORN: Sun is in your fourth house until May 14th. Turn your house into a palace (you have a royal planet transiting your home life). Be patient, however, with delays or setbacks with property, vehicles, fixed assets, and home life – and be careful to avoid accidents at home or with transportation. For some of you, there may be a windfall, inheritance, legal or insurance settlement with these same significations. After April 22nd, you can work out of your home and connect property matters with communications, independent projects, and entrepreneurial ventures. Take care of father and religious figures and be careful with long-distance travel through May 6th. Fortunately, Saturn in its own sign, Aquarius, should protect your wealth, status, and family life through February 2025. This also supports leadership, industrial activities, and service to the masses.
AQUARIUS: Sun is in your third house until May 14th. This favorably connects marriage, partnerships, and joint ventures with communications, independent projects, and entrepreneurial ventures. Connect these with father and authority figures, and large, medical, spiritual or government organizations. There should also be a lift with all of these after April 22nd – relating to your wealth, status, speech, and family life. Be vigilant, however, to manage the marital bond, inheritance, windfalls, legal or insurance settlements and to avoid accidents through May 6th. On the other hand, Saturn, in Aquarius, confers a Sasha Yoga* on you, which is favorable for your health and reputation through February 2025. (*This is one of the five great Yogas, and supports leadership, service to the masses, patience, hard work, perseverance, and success relative to agriculture, industrial and manufacturing activities.)
PISCES: Sun is in your second house until May 14th. Speak as an authority figure – but do so softly, as other people may take you the wrong way. There may be status for you connected with large, medical, spiritual, or government organizations. You should have the power to overcome enemies and obstacles and to win in disputes. Expect a lift with your wealth, status, and family life after April 22nd. Make executive decisions, consider property matters, and focus on yoga, sports, marital arts, and/or physical activity. Be vigilant, however, with relationships – these may be vulnerable to sudden issues through May 6th. On the other hand, Saturn in your twelfth house should add protective covering against losses, expenses and separations – and is favorable for long-distance ventures – through February 2025.
Note: Planetary remedies add protective covering to life. Strengthen your favorable planets (with color and gemstone therapy and/or the mystical pendant known as the kavach: (https://astroview.com/mystical-pendant/) and do “Bhoota” and “Deva” “Yagyas” (charities and chants) for the planets that cause adverse effects in your horoscope. For those with severe planetary transit afflictions lasting for one or more months, consider the “Graha Shanti” services in India: https://astroview.com/planetary-remedies/graha-shanti-services-peace-making-planetary-remedies/
Vedic Chants of the Month:
Mantra recitations on the Maharishi Veda App
Vedic sounds are the eternal sounds of Nature. Whenever these most fundamental sounds are heard, the reverberations begin to resonate in our human body. This restores harmony in mind, body, behavior, and environment – bringing added peace and joy in life.
This App includes hundreds of highly auspicious tracks recorded by Maharishi Vedic Pandits. This also includes a collection of Classical Indian music (Gandharva Veda) featuring some of the most renowned Gandharva musicians.
Spiritual Quote of the Month:
“As is the human body, so is the cosmic body. As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind. As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm. As is the atom, so is the universe.” — The Upanishads
Health Care Videos of the Month:
Is Your Body Too Acidic? A Deep Dive into the Vital Factors for Maintaining an Alkaline pH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJV6T55MKA&ab_channel=Dr.MarianneTeitelbaum
Treating the Underlying Causes of Constipation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXMJLZafre4&ab_channel=Dr.MarianneTeitelbaum
Cortisol and High Vata – How Modern and Ancient Doctors Understand Stress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9PfAjSTeE&ab_channel=Dr.MarianneTeitelbaum