How Two Tough Astrology Cycles End in April

Two Tough Astrology Cycles End on April 10

If you have been dealing with Mars in Pisces as well as Mercury Retrograde in Pisces in your personal birth chart (and found March and April very difficult) the reason is probably factors in Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces and/or Virgo.

These Pisces cycles have been extremely hard work.

The good news is, these cycles both end on April 10, +/- 24 hours.

If you don’t have your birth chart you can pick it up now. The chances are extremely high that you have mutable sign factors (Gemini, Sagittarius, Pisces, Virgo) at 8-22 degrees.

Your Factors at 8-22 Degrees 

They call them mutable signs because they are about your ability to change. And usually that’s quite good. You are flexible, adaptable.

Yet, Mercury going backwards and forwards in Pisces at 8-22 and Mars going (too fast) forward at 8-22 has created real issues for you, perhaps, and a great many others. Normally you would be quick to make changes in your life. Instead you have been stuck. The more factors you have in Pisces, Gemini, Sagittarius, Virgo – the more quicksand you have found surrounding you.

Fortunately this is almost over. In fact, as you will see in this article, you only have one Pisces cycle left to finish up and in fact, you may be owed some good karma with it.

Which Areas of Your Life?

If you have planets, asteroids or other factors in any of the signs below, then your personal birth chart has been directly hit by this tricky Pisces weather in March and April.

Maybe you have two or three signs occupied in your natal horoscope. So, for example, you may be a Pisces (the Sun is in Pisces) with the Moon in Gemini. Or, you may have Jupiter in Sagittarius, together with Mercury in Sagittarius. Have you been affected?

Pisces – Religion, counselling, therapy, hypnosis, psychics, Tarot, your aura, chakras, solitude, spirituality, psychologists, psychiatrists, your soul, your psyche, your inner self.

Gemini – Your brother or sister, your cousin, your neighbour, your transport locally and regionally (you may have been hit by petrol/gas price rises and shortages), the media, the internet.

Sagittarius – Foreigners and foreign countries, academics from overseas, international students, publishing in translation, the ‘world’ part of the worldwide web, multiculturalism, migrants.

Virgo – Your physical health, your mental health, your fitness, doctor, nurse, surgeon, dentist or alternative practitioner. Your workload, daily routine, lifestyle, job, unpaid role or studies.

The North Node at 8 Degrees Pisces

You’ve also had the North Node at 8 Pisces and South Node at 8 Virgo, again picking up the mutable signs of Pisces, Virgo, Gemini and Sagittarius at the same time.

This is really unusual and because the nodes were opposite each other, you have had the classic tension of inner conflicts or external differences and conflicts, poles apart. Whenever we get these transits in signs which are opposite each other, or square to each other, we feel the tug-of-war effect.

The World and the Pisces Cycles

We have seen this play out on the world stage with Pisces problems (religion, Israel, Iran, America) and also foreign problems (Sagittarius) – the same. So what happens globally has a ripple effect on all of us.

It’s Karma

Even though the delays, flux, cancellations, communication issues (even NASA’s Moon expedition had them), technical problems and changed minds stop on April 10th – there is still karma to complete for you or others.

The end of Mars in Pisces, also around April 10th is also the end of heat, urgency, conflict and a stuck green traffic light and stuck accelerator effect. It happens almost as Mercury Retrograde in Pisces stops too.

We have to be realists though and say that the karma from 18-19 years ago, and 18-19 years before that, is here until July, though. Not until July 28th when the North Node is well and truly out of Pisces, can we say ‘This is over.’

Do look at your past, when the North Node was last in Pisces. Depending on your age you could even go back decades to see why closure never happened.

April 20th 1969 to November 2nd 1970
December 3rd 1987 to May 22nd 1989
June 23rd 2006 to December 18th 2007

Karmic Closure and Settlement

Basically, you are owed from 18-19 years ago, or 18-19 years before that. Alternatively, you owe. When I say ‘owe’ I mean spiritually. On a soul level. You never had closure back then and you must either pay back on some level, or be repaid.

That is why the North Node in Pisces has been so challenging. Along with that, you also had Neptune and Saturn in Pisces throughout 2025.

So, if you do have mutable signs in your chart showing up – you have had a chain of situations which were impossible to square (reconcile) or just about complete opposites.

These would have hit the same areas of your chart, as above – those ruled by Pisces, Virgo, Gemini, Sagittarius.

The good news is, progress happens in stages. Around April 10th 2026, as discussed, then just a few more weeks of feeling as if you are on a loop, or on a circuit, or stuck in a pinball machine! That ends conclusively on July 28th. So you are under three months away.

After that, there is nothing else in Pisces to hit your chart. A very, very long chain of squares and oppositions is over.

The Pisces Cycles and Your Solar Chart

This has also publicly affected quite another area of your life. So far I have focussed on your personal natal chart, but your solar or Sun Sign chart has been hit too.

This is just as accurate as your other chart, but one is private (only you know your birth time and place) and one is public (everybody knows your sign).

You can look up the life area, below, in this extract from the 2026 Astrology Diary. Just by knowing your Sun Sign you can see which department of your world, has been so stuck and so challenging.

I have some time and space to take your questions in Comments. If you are a Premium Member your natal birth chart will appear on the screen, for me to check. I can’t promise to reply to everybody, but I hope to tackle at least some of your stuck Pisces cycles concerns.

Aries – Twelfth House
Taurus – Eleventh House
Gemini – Tenth House
Cancer – Ninth House
Leo – Eighth House
Virgo – Seventh House
Libra – Sixth House
Scorpio – Fifth House
Sagittarius – Fourth House
Capricorn – Third House
Aquarius – Second House
Pisces – First House