April Horoscope 2024: Traveling During the Most Intense Month of the Year

27.03.2024 - 21:41 / cntraveler.com / Steph Koyfman / April

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Steph Koyfman is a writer and astrologer best known for her work as Lady Cazimi. She writes the monthly horoscope for Condé Nast Traveler's Women Who Travel.

Welcome to the most intense month of 2024. Your April 2024 horoscope is serving up eclipses, a Mercury Retrograde, a Mars-Saturn wall slam, and a Jupiter-Uranus great awakening. The ground is moving, the earth is shaking, and hopefully that’s just a metaphor, because this is definitely the kind of month where the truth can set you free—or is it just that arriving to a dead end makes everything possible again?

No, this isn’t the easiest month for travel, but if you have the flexibility to choose, the end of the month looks a lot better than the beginning. Mercury is trolling us all by stationing retrograde on April Fool’s Day, and the solar eclipse in Aries comes in hot on the 8th, followed closely by the Mars-Saturn conjunction on the 10th. The first week or so of the month is by far the most disruptive and problem-focused. Pack your literal and metaphorical first aid kit in your luggage, because you’ll be glad you had that extra charger when push comes to shove, and you’ll thank yourself later for having a backup route to your destination.

Just remember: when one door closes, another one opens. The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction on the 20th is a once-in-every-14-years phenomenon, and it is the kind that shifts paradigms, opens new vistas, materializes new opportunities, and effects profound inner movement and liberation. Coming so closely on the heels of early April’s crisis, it seems likely that wherever this is taking you, you couldn’t have gotten to the excellent view without taking the road pockmarked with potholes. This comes just in time for Taurus Season to begin, an annual high season for music festivals, gallery hopping, park sitting, good eating, and fine wining. To top it all off, Mercury stations direct on the 25th. Around this time in the month is when you can expect things to start to cohere again, or at least start to feel less chaotic.

Life will be coming at a lot of us fast this April. If you happen to be traveling, it’s not unlikely that the road will be a bumpy and a meaningful one—the kind of trip that adjusts and firmly redirects you. May the opening be worth the strife it took to get there.

Astrologer's note: Below we refer to your signs as “rising” signs, also known as your ascendant sign. Horoscopes are more accurate when read this way—using your birth time and location, you can quickly find your rising sign online (it takes less than 30 seconds).

It’s time to wake up, shake up, and make yourself available to the changing circumstances that are putting you more firmly on your path. April’s Aries eclipse