The sun is in your sign, Aries, as you may already know, from March 20 to April 19. This essentially puts you in the leadership position for awhile. The fact that a lot of outer planets are in your solar 4th quadrant only makes this leader-y stuff more potent.  (If you want to know what outer planets are in your 4th quadrant, they are: Pluto in your 10th house, Neptune and Jupiter in your 11th house, and Uranus in your 12th house).

As it happens, Mars is in your 4th quadrant as well, zipping through Pisces before it enters your sign on April 22nd. Planets in the 4th quadrant are up at the top of your chart, where they like to be seen, and, indeed to put themselves above other planets, influences, and people. They’re not so much into that whole equality thing or even the co-operation thing. They want to run the show themselves.

This is a long-term trend in your chart, one that’s just gotten a tad bit more prominent this year. You may have noticed yourself over the course of several years hankering with greater and greater urgency for more control of your own destiny. Some of you have crept toward greater autonomy and some have been pushed. But the bottom line is that you are gradually getting your chance to be known for your own achievements.

What happens this month is that this long-term energy gains a bit more steam with the sun and then Mars in your sign. It’ll get boatloads more steam in a couple of years. But for now, just know that this particular time is all about you, not about the people you may have left behind or who may have been holding you back. Right now, the planets are calling on you to act with urgency on your own behalf.