horoscope-2026-04-17

The only planet that will spend time in Aries this year that is not here for today’s New Moon is Venus. With the planet of love having already moved through and her mission to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year already banked, in the final days of your birthday month, this is a chance to recommit to them. Across the board, this is a day for drawing a new line in the sand.

The lead up to the Moon’s return to Taurus tomorrow is an important point in any month for having your antennas up while keeping an open mind. While the Moon will leave just before the Sun returns to begin your birthday month and new solar year, as the Moon’s only visit while Venus, the planet of love is here, this will be a chance to get the most out of the final days of her mission to update your romantic and relationship desires and expectations for the coming year.

As Venus, the planet of love moves into her final seven days in a nostalgic and reflective part of your chart and of the nostalgic trip down love’s memory lane she is taking your heart on, the Moon is getting ready to return tomorrow. It is over the weekend that a sense of romantic nostalgia is likely to peak, while on the other side, the Moon’s return to Gemini will start preparing the way for Venus’ return.

While it is when the Moon returns tomorrow that the real magic will happen, as Venus, the planet of love moves into her final seven days in a social and serendipitous part of your chart, she is already drawing closer to Uranus here. Venus and Uranus not only rule through the laws of attraction and synchronicity but are in the most serendipitous part of your chart. When the Moon returns tomorrow and heart and gut are on the same page, the potential for serendipitous moments and/or encounters is set to increase dramatically.

While it is tomorrow that a rare six day alignment between the asteroid Juno and Pluto, the planet of change and transformation will begin, their first in your relationship sector in our lifetime, the impact will be starting to be felt. Juno is the queen of commitment and especially commitment to your relationships and teaming up with Pluto, this is making sticking with the status quo a lot harder.

After Mercury, the planet of communication left your relationship sector two days ago and the Moon yesterday, you have reached your first full day this year where there are no planets or any lunar focus on your relationships. While the lunar nodes will continue to monitor a balance between your own and your relationship needs, this brings to an end a journey towards getting to the heart of what you want and need from your relationships. It is now that the real journey begins.

Today’s New Moon in your relationship sector couldn’t come with better timing. Apart from Venus, the planet of love who has already moved through the Sun, Moon and the six planets that will spend any time in your relationship sector this year are all here, just as a New Moon is able to sweep things forward. A New Moon is a time of new beginnings, hope and an opportunity for a fresh start and every available relationship god is on hand to help you out.

In between the Moon’s departure from your romantic sector yesterday and its return to your relationship sector tomorrow, you have reached an important point in any month for first holding onto the spirit of romance. Two days after Mercury left and ended all planetary activity on the romantic front, but with things just starting to power up on the relationship front, this couldn’t be more important.

On the one hand, today’s New Moon in your romantic sector is an ordinary annual event and something that at some point during the Sun’s month long visit will give matters of the heart the green light while making this a time of hope and for new beginnings. On the other hand, for the first time in 13 years while Mars, the planet of passion and for the first time in our lifetime while Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams is not only here, but as they have already teamed up. There are some serious romantic forces in play.

In the lead up to the Moon’s return to your romantic sector tomorrow and the Sun’s return two days later, Venus and Uranus are not only in their last full day on their own but drawing closer to their last alignment here for another eight decades. As Venus moves into her final seven days and Uranus after seven years, his final nine days, the spirit of romance is not only becoming contagious, but the laws of attraction and synchronicity are starting to merge.

With Venus, the planet of love just seven days away from her return to your romantic sector to kick off what she will be working to make some of the most romantically charged weeks of the year and Uranus just nine days away from returning to spend the next seven years here, making your life as love friendly as possible has become a lot more important. The love gods are giving you advance notice that ready or not, they are on their way.

Thanks to the Moon’s recent friendly aspect to Jupiter in your romantic sector as it made its monthly visit to Pisces, this has helped to boost your romantic confidence and awareness, just as you are nearing some of the most pivotal months of the year for matters of the heart. While Jupiter won’t leave your romantic sector until the end of June Venus, the planet of love is just over a month away from returning to help you get the most out of this lucky year for love.