Mercury will hike into Taurus on April 19th, requesting you to decelerate your financial decision making. While Mercury’s conjunction with Uranus on April 24th may inspire you to leap before you finish the calculations, its square to Saturn the next day may halt your momentum just as fast. If you’re working out kinks in your budget, the solution will be within reach, but you’ll do well to bide your time. Do as the Taureans do. Move at the pace of your body, which is bound by gravity and other laws — not the speed of your mind or heart. Export your dreams into reality. Focus on the goals you can implement in tangible, demonstrable ways.
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Taurus & Taurus Rising
A message arrives to you on April 19th, when Mercury rolls into Taurus. Finally, the world relaxes to your pace, which isn’t slow per se — just unhurried. This is a time to get physical with your communications: send love in the form of cupcakes. Write a letter, on paper, even if it won’t reach your recipient for another week. A lot can unfurl in that time; sentiments solidify and feel more sure. Hey, maybe even write yourself a letter. See how much changing and forgetting and remembering you do at the speed of local mail. Take extra care around April 24th, when Mercury’s conjunction with Uranus may bring news you don’t expect. You’re getting used to these ripples. Do what you do to absorb the change. A sweet footnote, or reply, or solution, will cross your desk the next day.
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Gemini & Gemini Rising
You’re no stranger to Mercury’s whims and tricks, but in the sign Taurus, the messenger planet may feel hard to recognize. This is a time to favor literal thinking over theoretical ideals. Barely two weeks will pass before Mercury comes home to Gemini, but in the meantime, this is a moment to get concrete about your schemes and exchanges. Or pause those exchanges altogether. If there was a moment to put your phone on Flight Mode or Do Not Disturb, it’s now — especially around April 24th and 25th, when Mercury will feel torn between letting loose and abiding the rules. If you permit yourself to be less available now, a sweet idea or love song from the universe may find you in sleep or daydream.
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Cancer & Cancer Rising
Get firm with your communications, as Mercury plods into Taurus, a sign known for its solidity. This is a time to say what you mean, rather than hope someone reads the subtext of your pregnant pauses or body language. Dare to be literal right now, even if it feels vulnerable or on-the-nose. You can also get literal with this advice, and speak through concrete gestures or acts of service. Show friends you care by being there — physically — when they need you. That might mean helping them move; it might mean feeding their cat while they’re away; it might mean cooking more lasagna than you could possibly eat and inviting them for dinner under the stars. If there’s a bumpy patch, it will arrive around April 24th when Mercury sidles up to wildcard Uranus. Expect the unexpected, but know the turbulence will be short lived. A sweet balm or omen will find you the next day.
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Leo & Leo Rising
The crucial emails, phone calls, or exchanges you’ve been awaiting in your professional life may find you now that Mercury, the messenger, casts its spells in Taurus. While the sentiments will roll in, they’ll do so at their own speed; a watched inbox won’t materialize the anticipated email any faster. The tension you’ve been harboring between career and partnerships may burble up again around April 24th-25th, as Mercury activates that square from rule-setting Saturn. This isn’t the time to rush headlong into going rogue. Take care with your decisions; it will require time to work them out. On April 25th, the chapter will reach a sweet conclusion (or at least a satisfying place to slot your bookmark), but remember that you are penning the wider story all year.
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Virgo & Virgo Rising
Mercury will enter Taurus on April 19th, orienting your attention to the wisdom traditions or fields of study currently ripe for your perusing. Maybe you’ll find a great teacher, or you’ll cross an informative thread on Twitter that enriches your perspective. In either case, this is a time to soak in the process, including the mental chaos you experience before all the details settle into place. Said chaos may find you around April 24th in particular, as Mercury’s conjunction with Uranus could rattle a few concepts you held to be true. The discomfort should pass swiftly enough, and the next day brings a sweet epiphany or breakthrough
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Libra & Libra Rising
As Mercury enters Taurus on April 19th, consider this an open invitation to get tangible in your dearest collaborations. There’s something to be said for sharing rose-edged fantasies about schemes neither of you really commits to. There’s also something to be said for taking steps to actually implement these plans. If your schemes involve sharing a budget, or resources, do your research and propose realistic numbers. You may need the business plan, or blueprints, come April 24th, when communications get jostled and unpredictable. This is a moment to return to the arrangement you agreed to. If you need to redefine those terms, do so on April 25th, when Mercury’s conjunction with Venus will promote mutual understanding and benefits.
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Scorpio & Scorpio Rising
If you’ve been waiting at the phone for your paramour to dial, Mercury’s entrance into Taurus could hasten the proceedings. Saying that, Mercury in Taurus will actually invite you to slow down your communications with significant others (including collaborators, clients, and best friends). This isn’t the moment to send anxious wall-texts, then check in an hour letter to make sure they got your message. Nor is it the time to hyper-analyze the read-receipts of your latest DMs. Communications could get choppy around April 24th and 25th in particular, but the latter date is also when the love letters arrive. It will feel easier to connect with folks as Mercury joins Venus, but it remains all-important to uphold other people’s boundaries and timelines.
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Sagittarius & Sagittarius Rising
You may not consider yourself the type to advance-plan, but this might be just the troubleshooting that Mercury in Taurus orders. The process of inscribing your ideas onto paper, in some semblance of chronological order, could do wonders for distilling your sense of priority. Around April 24th, possible curveballs at work will demonstrate the value of preparatory thinking; you’ll save yourself some second-guessing if you’ve already identified what’s important. So too with your physical health. Maybe you’re someone who won’t take your vitamins or go to bed on time if you don’t program notifications into your calendar. There’s no shame in that. Mercury in Taurus wants you to get real about every tool on your belt that helps reduce stress.
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Capricorn & Capricorn Rising
However your creativity manifests, you may discover extra gusto now that Mercury is in Taurus, your place of self-expression. Mercury rules thought and communication, so the messenger’s migration through this fertile corner will promote writing and research projects, or any way you share your voice. This is also the part of your chart that rules fun and pleasure, so these communications may assume the form of more casual exchanges, such as brain-teasers or crosswords you share with friends. Flirting also counts. Saying that, the messaging could judder around April 24th, when Mercury’s conjunction with Uranus pitches a few curveballs. If friction arises (or gets reactivated), it should dissipate soon. Words will feel more relaxed the next day.
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Aquarius & Aquarius Rising
Mercury will enter Taurus on April 19th, facilitating conversations with those you call family. Take your time with these communications. If you have a sensitive topic to parse out, do so over a shared meal, or a plate of fresh-baked cookies. It’s hard to interrupt other people with food in your mouth. That extra time may be all that’s needed for the other person to feel respected or listened to. The exchanges may get wobbly around April 24th, when Mercury will bump into Uranus, who’s not known for its table manners. If chaos ensues, remember you can be the one to press pause, or rewind, to locate the spot where someone got led astray. Mercury’s connection to Venus the next day will bring some compassion and assuaging.
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Pisces & Pisces Rising
It’s high time you divulge your bejewelled ideas to others, as Mercury enters Taurus, your place of learning, writing and speaking your mind. Whether that involves posting an overdue diatribe on social media, or composing a short story, poem, love song, curriculum, or hand-written note, the Messenger has arrived to facilitate. Once you set pen to paper, the words that flow out of it may startle you, especially around April 24th, when Mercury’s conjunction with Uranus will be anything but subtle. This is a time to seriously scrutinize the habits you’ve gathered around pleasing other people or grooming your opinions to be socially acceptable. Dopamine hits notwithstanding, this process is more important than gathering likes.
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