These April 2025 self-care horoscopes for each of the 12 zodiac signs are based on the upcoming astrological transits, (the movement of the planets around the sky), and some of the general themes that are going to be activated for you in the coming month. As a witch, I’ll be sharing some predictions, insight, and inspiration on how you can most effectively nurture yourself and practice self-care this month based on the cosmos. 

I highly recommend that you generate your birth chart at www.astro.com or www.astro-charts.com and read the horoscope for your rising sign but if you only know your sun sign, you can read for sun signs too or instead. Please note that in order to generate a chart with an accurate rising sign, you will need your exact birth time, as even a few minutes can actually make a difference. 

For the first half of April, Venus will continue to be retrograde as it was for all of March but it will appear to move backwards from Aries into Pisces. This is such a different vibe! We’re still reflecting on our relationships, finances, and self-worth, but now we’re leaning more into our intuition and allowing ourselves to get a bit dreamy about the possibilities in this area. 

Neptune is one of the generational planets, meaning it moves so slowly that entire generations of people have it in the same sign. Since 2011, Neptune has been in its home sign of Pisces and while it will be back there in the fall, this spring and summer are ushering in a new era. Starting on March 30, Neptune will enter Aries for the first time since the 1860s. 

Neptune is the planet of illusion and it brings a sense of confusion wherever it goes in the zodiac – but also an invitation to trust our intuition more in that area of life. With Neptune moving into Aries, we are collectively being called to trust our intuition around self and our own identities more. We will see even more diffusing of the gender binary and of what it means to be an individual within the collective. 

Mars in Leo

We’ve had a little break the past couple months from Mars’ chaos. The planet of action and passion was retrograde throughout December, January, and February, first in Leo and then in Cancer. Now, Mars is reentering Leo and winding down the last bit of the retrograde shadow – a period of integrating the lessons we learned. 

For the next few months, we’re retracing our steps from December when we were really learning to take action in a fun, creative, heart-centered way, (but we probably hit some stumbling blocks in doing so back then – now we’re full steam ahead.)