This week in astrology: April 8 – 14, 2013

The New Moon in April is walking through active Aries. You may have some serious energy flowing around you this week. Energy will give you the gumption to be very self-assertive. Seize this vitality and use it for your own good. Launch something new in your life. Try a new career or take classes that enhance your current career. If you are passive about what you want, friends will bombard you with rudeness and be pushy. Take action and be careful when you judge others and their actions.

Wednesday is the beginning of forward movement. You are inspired to connect with your co-workers and friends. Relating with others will be very important to you and you will find you are very comfortable confronting others. This is a perfect time to make new friends. You will connect from your heart and you will put away your need to impress people with your looks, conversation, or mind. Be free and tell yourself that you don't care what others think. You might be confronted by people around you who are behaving in unacceptable ways. There is always something to learn from difficult situations. Loosen up and go with the flow.

Great week to take up journal writing. Make the most of the Wednesday energy and write your wishes down in your new journal. Be clear and concise so when you go back read what you have written you fully understand and are again enthused. Put down details and be particular. The New Moon is the perfect time to be clear about where you are going and what you are creating. If you have something new to start this week, do it. There is not better time than right now.

Pluto is retrograding on Friday. You now have a chance to redo those things you did wrong. Study and learn and discover new ways to accomplish old goals. Pluto in Capricorn causes emotional and physical structures to crumble. Your old ways will be challenged and someone, maybe your love or your friends, will urge you to come into the modern day. Be certain of your choices. You have made wrong decisions in the past and are still paying for them. Your foundations need to be built on solid group. Love yourself; be happy with who you are - then you can be perfect for someone else. Pluto retrograding will expose whatever thoughts are hindering your progression. Pluto will bring out repressed and forgotten parts of you. Pluto serves to strengthen psyches and force changes. Get real with you and yours while Pluto returns again and again. You will come out of this week empowered.

Watch and be aware of who are supposed to be this week. It is funny, but we change every week according to what we need to do. There are many different clues pointing you in the right direction. Track your progress and create your ideal life. Make sure you put down everything! It will be fun to go back and read it over next year. Set your course and stick to it.