Esoteric Astrology as news for week April 16 – 22, 2025

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Holy Week, Resurrection, Easter, Passover Ends

Easter Week: All events are symbolic of the Disciple’s Path. Each event signifies the shift from the Lunar Mysteries (Old Testament, Aries) to the Solar Mysteries (teachings on the Soul, Pisces).

And so… what occurred Holy or Passion Week a long time ago? And what is occurring now? From Monday through Wednesday, Christ taught His Disciples hidden esoteric teachings, preparing them for His departure. On Holy Thursday (April 17), at the Last Supper (Passover feast) Christ anchored the new Piscean religion and the priesthood. On Good Friday, the Christ at his crucifixion, “rent (tore/broke) the veils” that separated humanity from returning to the Father. This “renting of the veils” allows the Door of Return to open for humanity.

On Holy Saturday, the Christ entered deep into the Earth and released the Souls unable to return to the Father’s house (our origins) and lifted them into heaven. On Sunday (Easter Sunday), Resurrection Day, the Christ demonstrated to humanity the fact that there is no death. There is only a change of elements, and a Great Adventure called death, which lies ahead. Christ’s three-year mission on Earth, culminating in the Resurrection (Easter) festival, was a cosmic and planetary labor.

The Pisces World Teacher closed one great cycle (Involutionary Arc, into matter) and initiated the new cycle of Pisces (sign of the Savior and the Evolutionary cycle, the Return). We are now at the beginning of the Aquarian cycle (2,500 years forward) where the wisdom teachings (hidden in symbols) focus upon Life (not death) and a resurrected and liberated humanity, released from the crucifix of matter.

Now (2025), we are preparing for the reappearance of the World Aquarian Teacher – the Christ’s Reappearance. Everyone will recognize Him this time. He comes “in the air, with the Rule of Law” (I come when the law has withered). Christ, as the Aquarian Teacher, is the Water Carrier, “pouring forth the waters of life for a thirsty humanity.” He comes for the nations and for the people, meeting the needs of the thirsty nations of the world – thirsty for truth, right human relations and loving understanding.

We prepare for this. We pray for our world – thirsty, confused, separated and in crisis. In the days and weeks and months ahead… we wait.

Note: Easter (both Westerns and Orthodox) is Sunday, April 20. And at day’s end, the festival of Passover culminates. Two religious festivals, two stages (Jewish and Christian) of humanity’s development, hand in hand. Thus, the new Aquarian religion begins!

ARIES: In this last week, tend to all promises, follow all rules, act like a Taurus (which may feel a bit dangerous, daunting and restrictive) and make sure that no aversion, reactions or oppositions color your responses and ways of being. Honor is most important, and one progresses more easily when the virtues of patience, understanding and grace are cultivated. You can do these things.

TAURUS: Your energy is up and down, high and low, here and there and not there. Your tasks and important responsibilities, however, remain and each day more seem to appear. You would rather turn away, swim in a warm pool, take a long drive, find friends to chat with, take short trips to the bank and back, garden, and envision and research yourself in the future. When responsibilities and the need for freedom collide, it’s best to simply focus on goals. Or garden. Then you continue to dream.

GEMINI: Heavens! There are two distinctly polarized situation occurring. One keeps you behind the scenes and the other out in the world where all your values are swimming about and apparent and actually you want to talk about them because they define you. However, you’re also pulled into a deep quietude and silence, a sort of repose before the storm or daylight or friends or the future Sun or something that’s coming. Perhaps it’s a lot of praise. Or a move.

CANCER: You consider your friends, groups you relate to, and all your thoughts and wonder if they need redirecting and you wonder if you’re being practical and efficient for both long and short term needs and then family needs crop up and you worry and fret and don’t sleep nights and the past reoccurs and you’re hurting sometimes and need help. It’s hard to ask for help, isn’t it? And hard to trust it will come.

LEO: Each day, more and more clarity about work and purpose and resources occurs and each day you feel more courage to pursue unusual goals, to fight for what’s right, to realize that a values shift is taking place in your life and this shift may create a future you only hoped for. A new two-year Mars cycle begins and it’s calling up all hopes, dreams and wishes you’ve ever had and asking you to follow your heart. Where is it (your heart)?

VIRGO: The past three years have been challenging for Virgos. There’s been a shifting of structures, a sense that someone is being your taskmaster and you’ve had many responsibilities to tend to. Soon, this will end and you will feel a freedom and relief from the taxing demands and tests undergone. You have only a bit more time with this.  Then it’s over and love and expansion appear. Quietly celebrate.

LIBRA: A more orderly, organized, strict and sober view of life is very quietly beginning to take hold of your day-to-day thoughts and feelings. This is good. However, it could feel restrictive. Simply consider it as another step in growing up, being responsible, learning more and more how to act with more finesse and refinement. There’s a struggle for balance, a struggle to be heard and understood. There is no compromise. Be strong, call for courage and forgive.

SCORPIO: You had obligations. Then your dreams appeared amidst your obligations. And you had to choose. And then relationship issues (questions?) cropped up and you had more than you could handle. Something is changing within. It’s pushing you to break the mold and all previous patterned ways of being. Follow this call for “all things new.” It’s a call from your future self, your Soul. Don’t resist.

SAGITTARIUS: Tremendous work was called for this month, and it will continue. If you take each day and work slowly through it (like a Taurus), then you will come to the end of each day with feelings of great success and pride in what you have accomplished. Is there someone special contacting you? Or the possibility of money from someone close? Be prepared, after a small respite, for new work to appear. High energy will be called for. Rest now.

CAPRICORN: Your creative force can be found in the garden, woods, fields and meadows. It can be found with cows, hands in the earth, plants with deep roots, and a pantry (or lunchbox) filed with sweet and savory homemade edibles. What I’ve mentioned is both healthy and comforting for you and these will safeguard your need for safety and security. There’s everything to be passionate about. What has chosen you? What do you choose?

AQUARIUS: The focus on relationships, whether it’s many people in your life seeking your attention or your need to have a sense of intimacy with another, could make you feel hopeful along with a bit of being unsure. You feel both delighted and confused (wondering about the other). You are a friend to everyone. You also want to create both beauty and security to your home. Something about home and money will occur in the coming month.

PISCES: You are being pushed into new states of creativity. This is not a new stage for you. It is coming at your swiftly and relentlessly. Know that you are fully capable and have the essential qualities and gifts to move forward into your future. You are to make decisions based upon your needs and no longer the needs of others (which Pisces looks to first). Courage is presenting itself. Wear it like a mantle, a robe and a crown.

Risa – writer, editor, educator, teacher, psychological-spiritual counselor, mentor, astrologer & esotericist. Founder & Director of The Esoteric & Astrological Studies & Research Institute/College, a contemporary Wisdom School (center for spiritual discourse & study) for the Ageless Wisdom teachings. Foundations of the Teachings are the study & application of exoteric & esoteric Astrology, the Seven Rays, Theosophy, Esotericism, all religions, art, science & Raja Yoga meditation. risagoodwill@gmail.com  nightlightnews.org/ Astrological, esoteric, day-to-day news, art, literature, psychology, the cosmos, consciousness, philosophy, history, religion, economics, geography & cultural journalism. 

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