Daily Horoscopes for Friday 17 April 2026
Aries    Aries   Mar 21 - Apr 19
As the New Moon in Aries peaks, the point in your birthday month when with a tailwind at your back and the lights green, you can commit to your new solar year, the future and the journey ahead, there is some serious support behind this. Having begun his first full week in Aries aligned with Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams, Mars is heading towards another with Saturn, the planet with the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes over the weekend. Just having Mars, the planet of passion and the warrior planet of the cosmos here at the time is a game changer.
 
Taurus    Taurus   Apr 20 - May 20
At the same time that moving into the final days of your old solar year, the Sun is getting some serious support when it comes to the process of closing old doors and preparing to move on, Venus moves into her final seven days in Taurus today. With the Moon returning tomorrow and the Sun two days later, this last day when Venus and Uranus are here on their own is a chance to keep the reality checks at bay and focus instead on listening to your heart and aligning with your personal truth. Do that and everything else will fall into place. With after seven years of guiding you onto the right path, Uranus leaving at the end of next week, this couldn’t be more important.
 
Gemini    Gemini   May 21 - Jun 21
While today’s New Moon in your friendship sector is always the high point in the Sun’s month long visit, with a chance to team up with the Sun to promote connecting while making this a positive time to launch or begin anything new, rarely with this much support. With the Sun, Moon and six planets all focused on connecting, this is a powerful time on the social, friendship, teamwork and both personal and professional networking fronts. With six planets here, all bringing a different influence, there is something for every occasion. In the mix you have Mercury, the communication and smart thinking, as well as Mars fuelling your passions, competitive and team spirit.
 
Cancer    Cancer   Jun 22 - Jul 22
Whether for taking action or just feeling on top of your own personal or professional mountain, today’s New Moon in your career sector, the most competitive and professionally charged part of your chart, is a pinnacle point or moment. With the Sun, Moon and six planets all lined, this is a chance to give the green light to what is already locked, loaded and ripe with potential. Giving this an additional potency is the timing, for three days ago not all the right planets were in place, and in three days the Sun will be gone, with a chance to lock in this moment.
 
Leo    Leo   Jul 23 - Aug 22
With today’s New Moon in your sector of adventure, travel, learning and discovery bringing together the Sun, Moon and six planets, including some of the most powerful in the solar spotlight, this is something that would be hard to ignore even if you wanted to. Fortunately, as Venus and Uranus spend their last full day on their own in your career sector before the Moon returns tomorrow and the Sun two days later, they are asking that you hold back and especially from any reality checks. If you let it, today’s New Moon has the ability to change your whole outlook on life.
 
Virgo    Virgo   Aug 23 - Sep 22
At some point during the Sun’s month long transit through your financial sector, the Moon will align as a New Moon that will create the forward momentum that can sweep things forward, making this a good time for new beginnings. The difference with today’s New Moon is the sheer combined power and resources of the six planets that are giving you a real chance to take your power back. It has been 13 years since you last had Mars, the warrior planet of the cosmos here, three decades since Saturn, the planet with the power to move mountains if you have to and 150 years since Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams were here at the time. With this team on board, anything is possible.
 
Libra    Libra   Sep 23 - Oct 23
What makes today’s New Moon in your relationship sector different from the New Moon that will always fall at some point during the Sun’s month long visit and a chance for new beginnings, is the number of planets that are backing this up. Three days earlier and Mercury, the planet of communication wouldn’t be here, while the last time Mars, the planet of passion here at the time was in 2013, while it has been 150 years since Neptune, the planet of hopes and dreams and three decades since Saturn, the planet with the resolve to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, were here as well. While the Sun will leave in three days, the rest are staying on.
 
Scorpio    Scorpio   Oct 24 - Nov 21
It is just as the working week is drawing to a close that today’s New Moon in your work sector not only gives it its second wind, but the whole professional year itself. The Sun will always return on the March equinox and the solar spotlight will always be on your work situation, job matters and options during the first three weeks of April, with a New Moon at some point allowing the Sun and Moon to join forces to move things forward. The difference with today’s New Moon is that this is going to act as a trigger for and give the green light to the six planets that are not only locked, loaded and ripe with potential, but will stay on after the Sun leaves in three days.
 
Sagittarius    Sagittarius   Nov 22 - Dec 21
While it is just as Venus moves into her final seven days in your work sector and after seven years Uranus is getting ready to leave next week as well that a New Moon in a playful and creative part of your chart peaks, this won’t be a problem. Even if Venus and Uranus weren’t urging you to make their last full day on their own less about having your work hat on and more about listening to your heart and aligning with your personal truth, they wouldn’t have been able to compete with the weight that the Sun, Moon and six planets are putting behind today’s adventurous and spontaneous New Moon.
 
Capricorn    Capricorn   Dec 22 - Jan 19
A New Moon is always a good time for new beginnings, to start or initiate anything new or to draw a new line in the sand and today’s New Moon in your home and family sector is no exception. Three days before the Sun is due to leave and take the solar spotlight off home, family and/or property matters, behind this New Moon are six planets that are not only staying on but have brought you to the most powerful months of the year on the home front. This includes Mars, who just seven days ago returned for the first time in two years to fire up a drive to make things happen and get things done.
 
Aquarius    Aquarius   Jan 20 - Feb 18
Seven days after Mars returned to your communication sector to begin his first war on communication roadblocks and barriers, whether real or imagined in two years and two days after Mercury, the planet of communication returned to do what he does best, the Sun and Moon align to create today’s New Moon. Mercury and Mars are just two of three planets in your communication sector, making what is an annual event the most powerful New Moon on the communication front in decades. If this can’t get the communication lines moving, nothing will.
 
Pisces    Pisces   Feb 19 - Mar 20
While today’s New Moon is something that at some point during the Sun’s month long visit will act as a trigger that can propel things forward, making this a good day to start, begin or initiate anything new, the difference today is the number and the influence of the planets backing this up. There are six planets in your income sector and they are all locked, loaded, ripe with potential and ready for another that this can act as a trigger for or give the green light to. More importantly, while the Sun will leave in three days, these six planets are staying on and will continue to run with whatever this might set in motion.
 
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