Weekly Astrology Forecast for April 23–28, 2023* —The Power of Words

Hey star-gazers! As we enter the final full week of April, the little grey planet, Mercury, takes centre stage. After its thrice-annual direction-shift began last week, we may have found ourselves confronting deeply personal questions around money, material resources and even how to finance our personal ambitions, especially with Vesta entering the sign of the bull. If you’re like me, the manifestation may have been more basic and literal: with Mercury retrograde in my eighth house, I received a notice yesterday that I may need to refile my taxes owing to an issuing error in a form from a financial institution. Just when you think astrology can’t get any more literal — it gets oh-so literal.

Mercury’s periodic backpedaling invites us to rethink grand ideas, or to confront much-needed do-overs where convos are concerned. In Taurus, this could be about realizing your worth — and the fact you ought to be compensated accordingly! — or crunching the numbers around a personal or professional goal that you might have set for yourself during Mercury’s last retrograde in fellow earth-sign Capricorn.

Mercury remains in the headlines this week not least because it will disappear from visibility in the sky, ushering in a just-over-two-week-period where communications, messages, correspondence and contractual…