FIRST QUARTER WAXING LUNAR “CRISIS IN ACTION” SQUARE & PLUTO RETROGRADE MAY 4: STAND YOUR GROUND!

LISTEN HERE https://www.karmicevolution.com/astrologically-speaking TO THIS WEEK’S ASTRO NEWS YOU CAN USE PODCAST WITH SHERI HORN HASAN! 
This podcast, which drops May 2, discusses the intensity of this Taurus New Moon waxing cycle, as well as what’s happening since Venus entered Mars-ruled Aries April 30. With Venus in the sign of the warrior until June 6 & Pluto in Aquarius seemingly fuh-evah, is it time to fight for the values we hold dearest?  
First we recount the multitude of events leading up to the April 26 Mars/Pluto exact opposition, & since the Taurus New Moon squared the Mars/Pluto opposition on April 27. And how these fit the Mars resistance against attempts by those who seek power over others, & the current themes of both empowerment & disempowerment.
We note how, with President Donald Trump’s popularity sinking in the polls, how his & his government’s disempowering actions against immigrants, federal workers, universities, etc. (read: Pluto), have driven people out onto the streets in protest all across the U.S. (read: Mars.)
We look also at some of the other horrific events as we waxed toward the April 26 exact Mars/Pluto opposition & the April 27 Taurus New Moon which carries the energy of these aspect. You know, stuff like the April 22 massacre of 26 people, most of them tourists, in the disputed region of Kashmir which has brought two nuclear powers—India & Pakistan—to the brink of war. 
Then there’s the Iranian port explosion & fire from April 26 that killed at least 70 people and injured over 1,200 others, according to Iranian state media reports. Of course, April 26 was also the day Pope Francis was laid to rest, an event at which U.S. & Ukrainian presidents Donald Trump & Volodymyr Zelensky sat down together to confirm a minerals deal. That meeting seems to have resolved the tension between the two which began during their last, extremely contentious, Oval Office meeting in Washington February 28.
Also, we take a deeper dive into the chart of Virginia Giuffre, the sex trafficked victim of Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell, & what was triggered in her natal chart that led to her death by suicide on April 25. Hint: This involves the triggering by transit of her natal Mars/Pluto square, so tune in for more!
We take a deep dive as well into the far-reaching meaning of this Taurus New Moon’s waxing square of the Leo Moon to the Taurus Sun May 4 and how it asks us all to stand our ground. Combined with Pluto’s station retrograde in Aquarius May 4, we can grasp the deeper meaning of getting in touch with our deepest reservoirs of self-empowerment based on what our soul knows to be our truest values.
We’re watching too, the transiting conjunction of Uranus to fixed star Algol, exact this week as we watch to see who’s head is going to fall next. Seems that Mike Walz, Trump’s national security advisor, is the most recent as he takes the fall for Signal-gate back when DoD Secretary’s classified information about the U.S. bombing of Yemen was accidentally exposed to both a journalist, and to the defense secretary’s wife. So far, he’s only been demoted to ambassador to the United Nations (pending confirmation), but we’re watching this space to see who—if anyone—is next…
K, be sure to join us at  https://www.karmicevolution.com/astrologically-speaking for all this Astro News You Can Use, as well as the upcoming square of transiting Jupiter to the transiting nodal axis. As Jupiter in Gemini creates a mutable T-square to the Virgo South Node & the Pisces North Node, will we see increased tension between those who maintain a hubristic king-like arrogance & those who demand a greater sense of morality & justice from a despot wannabe? 
It would seem obvious to sky watchers at this point that abuse of the legal system here in the U.S. cannot be tolerated as mothers of 1 & 2 & 4 year-old children (including