April 2025 News & Views. Part 2

Venus Stations Direct;

Consultation Fees increase May 1st

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Hi all

Welcome to both subscribers and those reading my newsletter for the first time. If you missed

the last newsletter about Mercury stationing direct on April 7th, you can read it here:

conta.cc/4cB9Cva. Please excuse any typos or mistakes below. Feel free to notify me if you find any.


Now that we made it through March, with two eclipses and Mercury and Venus stationing retrograde, Mercury stations direct on April 7th, and Venus stations direct on April 13th, causing a shift in the world and in your lives, which may not occur right away, but should reach a crescendo and manifest in the second half of April since Saturn conjoins the true North Node/Rahu on April 21st. It will be within a one-degree orb on April 16-28, and events in the world may come to a head, and then in May as Saturn and North Node/Rahu separate, things move in another direction.


As promised, this News & Views focuses on Venus stationing direct on April 12 or 13 depending on your time zone. As most of you know, I have been working with the Venus cycle for over 40 years, and I am busy revising and reissuing my book Venus, which was published in 1994. The book may not be exactly the same, so if you never read the original book, you may still be able to find it on eBay, Amazon, Abebooks, or other retailers that offer out of print books. If all goes according to plan, there will be a new version by the end of the year. Since Venus will station direct on April 12/13, but will cross the Retrograde Arc (shadow) on May 16, we are still influenced by Venus, which starts to speed up but not quite back to its usual movement until after May 16. You can still purchase the Venus Retrograde 2025 webinar at ronniedreyer.com/schedule, and scroll down to read more about Venus Stationing Direct.


Remember that my rates on horoscope consultations will go up on May 1st, so if you wish to book a reading at current prices, you can sign up now, and book anytime over the next three months. Scroll down for information on links for readings.


The annual Jyotish Kumbh conference takes place at Arsha Vidya Gurukulam in Saylorsburg PA. In addition to myself, speakers include K.S. Charak, Vinay Aditya, Komilla Sutton, Penny Farrow, Simon Chokoisky, and many others. It is hybrid and takes place from May 8-18th with a pre-conference seminar on May 6-7. You can register for as many days as you wish, and attend in-person or virtually. Just go to www.jyotish.com. Scroll down for more webinars and conferences.


I am thrilled to announce that The Psychology of Astro*Carto*Graphy by Jim Lewis with Kenneth Irving, which is published by our company, Words and Things, is now available as both a print book and as an ebook. It is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble as both print and ebook and available as an ebook at Kobo, ebooks.com, applebooks and other digital retailers.


Included in this newsletter: This month's New and Full Moons; Venus stations direct; Horoscope consultations; Upcoming webinars and conferences; Celestial Events; The Psychology of Astro*Carto*Graphy book for sale as both a print and ebook..


This month's lunations occur with the April 13, 2025. Full Moon. 0:22. Tropical. 23° Libra 19’. Sidereal. 29° Virgo 13’. citrā, and the April 27, 2025. New Moon. 19:30. Tropical. 7° Taurus 46'. Sidereal. 13° Aries 40’. bharaṇī. (The times are in GMT.)


If you have any planets, points, or angles around those degrees (I would take a one-two degree orb) then whatever is represented by that planet, point or angle, will be prominent and important until the next lunation, meaning that if something in your chart is conjunct this month's Full Moon on April 13, 2025, it will usually be prominent until the next Full Moon on May 12, 2025. If something in your chart is conjunct this month's New Moon on April 27, 2025, it will be prominent until the next New Moon on May 27, 2025. 


The New Moon represents beginnings and can help you to institute a change you have been thinking about while the Full Moon is an accomplishment or culmination and gives the push to continue on that path. If you have planets, points, or angles conjunct this month's lunations, you will feel a need to take action with either something new (New Moon) or the manifestation of something you have been working on (Full Moon). Of course, the houses that these lunations fall in, will highlight those areas of life as well.


If your birthday is between April 12-14, then the Full Moon is in your solar return (varṣaphala), the annual birthday chart, or close enough that it will be important for the year ahead until your next birthday, meaning that it may be year when things you have been working on will manifest, or feel like they are moving in the right direction, so continue with whatever is fulfilling you. Set your intentions high and gather your confidence since this is the year when things will take place. The Full Moon on your birthday is important since the year ahead will be even more significant than usual. make sure that you are prepared to make those changes that come with manifesting your hopes, otherwise they can pass you by.


If your birthday is between April 26-28, then the New Moon is in your solar return (varṣaphala), the annual birthday chart, or close enough that it will be important for the year ahead until your next birthday, meaning a change is bound to happen, so work on that change. It could be a physical move, job change, relationship change, or simply working on yourself to integrate new patterns and habits into your life. Expect a great deal of transformative experiences that will make you want to change or take a step in a different direction. Take your time but do head in that direction, since otherwise it will happen to you whether you initiate it or not.


The April lunations also occurred on the same dates and degrees in 1987 and 2006 so think about anything important that might have occurred in that birthday year. Although other planets will be different from those years, it still may indicate the area of change or importance in those years. (Scroll down for more Celestial Events.).


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All good wishes,

Ronnie



Cycle of Venus/Śukra 2025 (Days listed in GMT)


The following is adapted from previous newsletters on Venus stationing direct. The difference is the dates, degrees, and other planetary aspects occurring during this cycle.


If you want to review this particular Venus retrograde cycle, you can read the March 2025 News and Views about Venus retrograde conta.cc/3FzF6p6 and about the Sun-Venus conjunction conta.cc/4c0eNnZ. Below is what to expect now that Venus stations direct but not yet at the end of the Retrograde Arc or shadow, which occurs on May 16, 2025, meaning you may still be affected by Venus's journey. Below are the dates of the retrograde stations and retrograde arc of Venus, which stations direct on April 13, 2025 (GMT).


Venus enters Retrograde Arc or Shadow. January 28, 2025 

    Tropical. 24° Pisces 37' Sidereal. 00° Pisces 30 pūrvabhadrapadā

Venus Stations Retrograde. March 2, 2025

    Tropical 10° Aries 50'. Sidereal. 16° Pisces 43’. revatī

Sun-Venus Inferior Conjunction. March 22, 2025

    Tropical. 2° Aries 39’. Sidereal 8° Pisces 12’. uttarabhadrapadā  

Venus Stations Direct. April 13, 2025

    Tropical. 24° Pisces 37’. Sidereal. 00° Pisces 30’ pūrvabhadrapadā

Venus leaves Retrograde Arc or Shadow. May 16, 2025

    Tropical 10° Aries 50’. Sidereal. 16° Pisces 43’. revatī


Venus stations direct on April 13, 2025 (GMT), and even though it is regaining speed and moving forward, it will still conjoin the degrees in between their retrograde and direct stations until it leaves the retrograde arc on May 16, 2025. If you look at the list above, and as I have consistently pointed out about the retrograde motion of Venus, and all retrogrades, the degrees in between the retrograde and direct stations are hot degrees. The degree where the planet enters the retrograde arc (shadow) is the degree where the planet eventually stations direct. The degree where the planet leaves the retrograde arc is the degree where the planet stationed retrograde.


Since the degrees in between the retrograde and direct stations are hot, if you have a planet, point, or angle between Tropical. 24° Pisces 37'-10° Aries 50' or Indian Sidereal. 0° Pisces 30'-16° Pisces 43', Venus will conjoin it for the 3rd and final time between April 13-May 16 so it is important to think about what that planet, point, or angle means to you and how it may have impacted your attitudes towards money, relationships, creativity, confidence, etc. beginning around January 28th, when Venus entered the retrograde arc or shadow, and what you have discovered, and how you plan to forge ahead. This should now be a time of relief and awareness but the difference between now and the last six weeks since Venus retrograded on March 2, is that your energy is renewed to finally make some of those changes, and embrace new things regarding what Venus stands for in general-love, prosperity, self-confidence, creativity, etc. and whatever the planet, point, or angle that Venus conjoins in your chart represents. Remember that you now have time to move things forward and enjoy Venus regaining its regular motion. 


As we see above, Venus stations direct on April 13, 2025, but it will stay in the retrograde arc or shadow until May 16, 2025, when Venus crosses the degree where it stationed retrograde. That means that if you have a planet, point, or angle around that degree you may be especially affected by the current Venus retrograde cycle. Otherwise, as a general rule that applies to all, the six weeks of the retrograde was the perfect time to review situations, revise projects, and even getting counseling for a situation you want to change. Between April 13, when Venus stations direct, and May 16, when Venus leaves the retrograde arc, is the time to start implementing all the plans you have thought about and can start to make regarding love, prosperity, all personal and professional relationships, and creativity. After May 16, Venus will have finally regained its speed, and everything seems to look more optimistic, and even if the world around you is in a crisis format, you can still feel more positive about your own live and the lives of the people who touch you.


If you have had relationship or financial snafus, which Venus represents, you will be able to finally move forward and beginning the process of making changes you have been thinking about. The road will not be immediately smooth, especially since there will be a Saturn-North Node/Rahu on April 21, and Venus will form its 3rd and final conjunction to the North Node-Rahu (4/24), to Saturn (4/25), and to Neptune (5/2). That just means that while Venus regains its speed, and you start to implement plans you formulated or revised during Venus retrograde, there may be a few more roadblocks, which may just have to do with the situation in the world and not something that you can control, but is something you can plow through with a sense of confidence and the support of everyone close to you. After May 16th, when Venus leaves the retrograde arc, you still may hit obstacles from time to time, but you should feel differently and your renewed sense of self-love, emanates to those around you, and their love and support will emanate back to you. .


Take advantage of the clarity you will start to feel now as Venus goes direct, and remember that retrogrades are an excellent time to review projects and decisions that have to be made but not necessarily the best time to make those decisions. If you have put off making decisions about love, finance, starting a new job, entering into mediation or negotiations, once Venus moves direct, you can continue to do the legwork, and after May 2, and that last conjunction of Venus-Neptune, you will feel as if a load has lifted, and then after May 16, mofe forward with the speed of light. What makes Venus retrograde periods productive are the time and space they offer for planning strategies related to Venus generally, and when Venus goes direct you can act on them. Think about everything you may have reviewed and revised when it comes to Venus and hopefully things will move forward with positivity.


In addition to the degrees that Venus may affect in your chart for a final time, the planet still travels through two signs (Pisces and Aries in the tropical zodiac) and one sign (Pisces in the sidereal zodiac) for a much longer time than usual, making those areas of the chart stand out as places to transform and strengthen especially when it comes to maximizing harmony in an area of your life where you might have experienced more discord and conflict than usual since March 2, 2025.


Rather than going through a sign in about a month, which Venus normally does, Venus will be in tropical Pisces and Aries for five months and sidereal Pisces for four months. This will lengthen the influence Venus has in those signs in your chart, and will cause you to pay more attention to those areas in your chart. And while Venus does represent love, money, harmony, and happiness, when it travels through the signs where it retrogrades, it causes it to act more like an outer planet, meaning that Venus wants those areas of the chart to be happy, and will be forced to make changes, and eliminate unpleasantries in order to achieve that goal. So during this time, look at any planets, points, or angles Venus conjoins during this period, but also look at the houses that encompass tropical Pisces and Aries, and sidereal Pisces since those areas will need to be looked at, examined, tweaked, and ultimately changed even a little if you want to achieve the harmony that Venus enjoys. (Scroll down for more information about Venus influencing the planets and houses in your chart.)


This is the time period for Venus through tropical Pisces/Aries and through sidereal Pisces.

Tropical Venus Ingresses during the retrograde cycle.

Venus enters tropical Pisces. January 3, 2025;

Venus enters tropical Aries. February 4, 2025;

Venus re-enters Pisces. March 27, 2025;

Venus enters Aries. April 30, 2025;

Venus leaves Aries and enters Taurus. June 6, 2025. 

5 months between two signs Pisces and Aries.


Sidereal Venus Ingresses during the retrograde cycle.

Venus enters sidereal Pisces. January 27, 2025;

Venus leaves Pisces and enters Aries. May 31, 2025.

4 months in one sign Pisces.


A normally 1-2 day transit of a Venus to a planet, point, or angle in your chart can be about 3 ½ months during the retrograde when it enters and leaves the retrograde arc. Read below which zodiac you use.


Read if you use sidereal Indian astrology. If you have a planet, point or angle in your chart between Sidereal 0° Pisces 30'- 16° Pisces 43', where Venus retrograded, then you will get the final transit of Venus, now direct, conjoining it, and finally you can harmonize whatever that planet, point, or angle means in the chart. If it is a planet that is getting the final effect of Venus, then also scroll down to see the description of which house that planet rules. This is what may be accentuated, examined, and transformed by Venus:


Sun. power, vigor; Moon. maternal, mind; Mars. strength, courage; Mercury. speech, learning; Jupiter.  knowledge, wealth; Venus. love, happiness; Saturn. sorrow, fear; Rahu. intensity, compulsion; Ketu. extremes, spirituality; Lagna. destiny, vitality. If you want to use Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and other angles, you can look below at tropical Western astrology for their keywords.


Venus is in sidereal Pisces from January 27-May 31, 2025. The house that Pisces occupies will be harmonized and transformed in these last months of Venus moving direct through them. If you do not know which house sidereal Pisces occupies, look at your ascendant, or Moon, or even your Sun (only if you do not know your ascendant of Moon), and just count from there. General descriptions for bhavas (houses) are as follows: 

 

1. appearance, destiny, temperament, personality, constitution; 2. Money, family life, food, speech, early childhood; 3. Siblings, Fine arts, courage, desires; 4. Mother, happiness, real estate, vehicles; 5. Children, romance, investments, speculation; 6. Open enemies, work, competition, obstacles, illness; 7. Marriage, partners, contracts, passion; 8. Life and death cycle, research, accidents, other's money, inheritance; 9. Father, teacher (guru), religion, higher learning, opportunity; 10. Career, status, public recognition, reputation; 11. Profits, rewards, gains from work, awards, older siblings; 12. spiritual practice, secret enemies, foreign travel, debt, confinement.

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Read if you use tropical Western astrology. If you have a planet, point, or angle in your chart between 24 Pisces 37-10 Aries 50'where Venus retrograded, then you will get the final transit of Venus, now direct, conjoining it, and finally you can harmonize whatever that planet, point, or angle means in the chart. If it is a planet that is getting the final effect of Venus, then also scroll down to see the description of which house that planet rules. This is what may be accentuated, examined, and transformed by Venus:


Sun. vitality, individuality, ego; Moon. emotions, habits, conditioning; Mercury. communication, intelligence; Venus. love, beauty, creativity; Mars. physical energy, aggression, courage; Jupiter. expansion, abundance; Saturn. limitation, disciplined, fear; Uranus. originality, independent, rebellious; Neptune. spiritual, immaterial, imagination; Pluto. intensity, power; North Node. power, place where you must strive; South Node. place where it is easy, habits; Ascendant. personality, destiny; IC. home, family, mother; Descendant. partnerships, contracts; Midheaven. career, father

 

Venus enters tropical Pisces. January 3, 2025; Venus enters tropical Aries. February 4, 2025; Venus re-enters Pisces. March 27, 2025; Venus enters Aries. April 30, 2025; Venus leaves Aries and enters Taurus. June 6, 2025. The houses that Pisces and Aries occupy will be harmonized and transformed in these last months of Venus moving direct through them. If you do not know which house tropical Pisces and Aries occupy, look at your ascendant or Sun (if you do not know your ascendant), and just count from there. General descriptions for houses are as follows:  


1. personality, body, appearance; 2. finances, possessions, values. 3. communication, siblings, short journeys, learning; 4. family, mother, home; 5. children, recreation, entertainment; 6. health, service, pets; 7. marriage, contracts, partnership; 8. business transactions, sexuality, life and death matters; 9. higher education, travel abroad, publishing, law; 10. profession, status, father; 11. gains, friendships, hopes, dreams; 12. compassion, spirituality, limitations, solitude.

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Upcoming Webinars and Conferences.


New Jyotisa Classes begin in May. Email if you are interested. Schedule will be announced soon.


Thursday. May 8-Sunday. May 18, 2025. You can attend virtually or in person for as many days as you like. Jyotish Kumbha Conference. Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Saylorburg, PA. Hybrid conference. My lecture on Thursday May 15. "What's Next in 2025?"

www.jyotish.com

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Thursday. May 22-25, 2025. Divinations Bharata Conference. Hybrid. In-person in London and remote. My lecture on Sunday May 25, 2025: Making the Most of Eclipses. https://circleofdivineastrology.com/divination-bharata-conference-2025/ ____________________________________________________________________________

Annual Webinar on the Next Six Months. Date TBA in July.

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Secrets of Astro*Carto*Graphy.

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Thursday. November 20-Monday. November 24, 2025.

Maharishi Parashara Virtual Vedic Astrology Conference.

Information and early reg. through April 1st. parasharaconference.com. DREYER is my discount code.

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Thursday. September 3-Wednesday September 9. UAC 2026. (United Astrology Conference). Information. www.uacastrology.com

Celestial Events. April 2025.


Lunations

April 13, 2025. Full Moon. 0:22. Tropical. 23° Libra 19’. Sidereal. 29° Virgo 13’. citrā

April 27, 2025. New Moon. 19:30. Tropical. 7° Taurus 46'. Sidereal. 13° Aries 40’. bharaṇī


Retrograde and Direct Stations

April 7, 2025. Mercury stations direct. Tropical. 26° Pisces 49’. Sidereal. 2° Pisces 42’.

  pūrvabhadrapadā

April 13, 2025. Venus stations direct. Tropical. 24° Pisces 37’. Sidereal. 0° Pisces 30’.

 pūrvabhadrapadā


Tropical Ingresses

April 16, 2025. Mercury D re- enters Aries.    

April 18, 2025. Mars D re-enters Leo. April 18, 2025.

April 19, 2025. Sun enters Taurus.

April 30, 2025. Venus D enters Aries


Sidereal Ingresses

April 2, 2025. Mars D re-enters Cancer.

April 13, 2025. Sun enters Aries.


Aspects

April 21, 2025. Saturn conjunct North Node-Rāhu

Tropical. 26° Pisces 50’. Sidereal. 02° Pisces 43’ 

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