A Full Pink Moon is on the rise, folks.
On Saturday, April 12th, at 8:22 p.m. EST, the moon will reach peak illumination at 23 degrees of Libra.
Full Moon in Libra 2025
Libra is a cardinal air sign ruled by Venus, our planet of attraction, assets, and affection. Lording over the seventh house of partnership, Libra is synonymous with relationships — how we connect with, depend on, orbit around and define ourselves through others.
Why is it called the Pink Moon
Despite the moniker, the Full Pink Moon in Libra will not appear pink.
Nay, April’s full moon is named for the blooming return of the ground phlox, a sprawling wildflower also known as the creeping phlox, moss phlox or moss pink.
Other names for April’s full moon include such fertility-forward titles as the sprouting grass moon, the egg moon and, among coastal tribes, the fish moon, as this was the time shad species swam upstream to spawn.
After all, folks — aren’t we all just trying to swim upstream to spawn?
In all of those names, we see the primal pulse of new life. It’s an open call to cut free from old roots and make room for what wants to sprout up.
While we’ll all feel the effects of this Full Moon, four signs are primed to be altered by it.
Read on to learn more.
Ahoy, Aries! This moon not so subtly highlights your relationships and trusted partnerships.
As a firstborn fire sign, your primary lesson here in/on Earth School is to balance your fierce selfhood with the reality that we are interdependent beings. How can you be who you are and get what you need — while contributing humbly to the whole and to the betterment of others? By acknowledging that we are all holy animals, that’s how.
Buddhist scholar Daisaku Ikeda reminds us, “No human being can escape the eternal rhythms of life: birth, aging, sickness, death. When we are grounded in this most fundamental perspective of the commonality of our lives, we can rise above any differences and without fail achieve empathy and dialogue.”
Happy Full Moon, Cancer. This one lights up your fourth house of roots, apron strings, and other ties that bind.
The fourth house represents the homes we come from and the sanctuaries we build for ourselves out of the wreckage of those origins.
May I suggest you find a safe corner where you feel warm and welcome, at ease, and at your most essential. Now, imagine ways you can offer that feeling of being at home in the world to the world at large. Export peace.
The Full Moon in your sign lights up your first house of identity, Libra. You could experience a crisis of confidence.
People-pleasing is a kind of self-abandonment. Leading with fear instead of love sends the message that your value is in direct proportion to how much you are willing to forfeit.
Imagine that every honest ‘no’ will lead you closer to yourself — and that the echo of compassionate refusal will also serve as a mating call, heard only by the worthy.
The Full Moon in Libra highlights your tenth house of legacy, profession, and authority figures, Capricorn.
Meanwhile, the sun and Chiron in Aries are holding a candle to the scar tissue of your oldest pains and most profound insecurities.
A kind reminder: you are not what you do, nor are you the sum of what you’ve suffered.
This Full Moon is a precipice moment for you, sea goat — one where you see the past and the future not as points of opposite disembarkation, but as a circle, a staircase.
What came before, preparing you for what is still to come, the vantage allowing you to look back not with resentment but with reverence — and ahead with the hopeful knowledge that your next act can be your finest hour.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and irreverently reports on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture, and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
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