April: From Fire to Earth

Aries is a Fire sign, and Fire is interested in movement and visibility.  The head and the brain are its domain in the body, which is why the weeks of Aries season often bring a particular kind of alertness, a feeling of the mind running slightly ahead of everything else. Over the winter months, attention settled inward and downward, toward the feet and the slower rhythms that Pisces governs. March pulled it back upward again, toward the face and eyes and the part of the head where decisions live.

Taurus rules the neck, the jaw, and the throat, which is the corridor connecting all of that head-forward Aries energy back down into the rest of the body. When the sun moves into Taurus, something in the physical body responds to that shift, often first in the jaw, which many people hold without realizing it. The masseter muscle, running along the side of the jaw, is one of the strongest muscles in the body relative to its size, and it tends to absorb  whatever has not yet found its way into words.