Short working week or not, the stars are going to pack a lot in, with a chance this week to get a much better handle on where things stand on both the career and work fronts. With Pluto now in his final weeks in direct motion in your Business sector and slowing right down, you have a chance to look at your overall professional objectives with closer scrutiny, with the urgency no longer there. At the same time the Moon’s return to your work sector on Monday, coming full circle from last month’s Full Moon is going to close the circle, bringing all that this triggered home in a way where you can expect a lot of things to fall into place. On both the work and career fronts this is giving you a much better sense of what you have to work with ahead of next month’s income opportunities.

For you Easter’s long weekend is going to be a real line in the sand, for it’s on the other side that you’re going to come out stronger, more determined, more motivated when it comes to income opportunities and ready to bring things home. If it’s taking all your effort just to get through the short working week and all you can think of is the long weekend and the chance this will give you to take a break go with that. It’s on the other side of the long weekend that you’ll get your first real sense of the professional opportunities ahead and how close you are to new doors opening. In the meantime, with the long weekend obscuring your view of the road ahead and this week’s potentially game changing Full Moon in your income sector, purposely keep your options open.

With Pluto slowing down in your work sector ahead of his retrograde turn in just a few weeks time, a lot of urgency is evaporating and with new doors not opening on the career front until mid April, you can afford to pull back, pull over into the slow lane and instead of buying into the rush mentality of a short working week, look forward to the long weekend ahead. This wasn’t an option last Easter, for with so much already happening on the career front you didn’t have the luxury of resting on your laurels. This year that push won’t come until after Easter and with Pluto already slowing down to a crawl on the work front, the less you can rush and push things the better. Instead time off over the long weekend will give you a chance to consider your options and put things into perspective.

A short working week is always your reality in the lead up to Easter’s long weekend and is less a coincidence and more the cause. It was the Sun’s return to your business sector late last week that sets the scene for Wednesday’s Full Moon in your home and family sector, which in turn sets the date for Easter. Having your home and professional lives in conflict in the lead up to Easter has always and will always be your reality, giving you a chance to deal with any work/life balance issues. However this year, with so many advantages falling into place on the career front, a nose for money as you move into the new week and the work/life balance issues of the past no longer there, this is simply a chance to tweak things. You’ve reached the most important point in your professional year.

While the Moon’s return to your work sector on Friday and position here over the majority of the long weekend will make it harder to keep your work hat off, this is more a chance to pull back and let your intuition and your imagination wander, away from the coal face. This is the Moon’s last visit to your work sector before returning as a lunar eclipse next month, but also his first visit since the Sun and Venus left your Business sector late last week, taking away a lot of the professional urgency and the all encompassing focus. It’s Mercury that is staying behind to wrap things up on the career front and to put things on the path you want them to continue on, but his is an intellectual approach and you still have plenty of time to spend at the drawing board or in the war strategy room.

With no planetary activity in either of your professional houses, a short working week and a long weekend ahead you can be forgiven for thinking that this should be a fairly cruisy week, where you can put things on autopilot, do what has to be done but where the main focus is on the time off ahead. Well, it seems that this week’s Full Moon didn’t get the memo, for while the week will start off on a low key note, the Moon’s return to your work sector on Wednesday and the Full Moon just a few hours later will turn things on its head. While you will always have a Full Moon here at this time of year, this is the first time since 1995 there has been no planetary activity in either of your professional houses, so any messages will be loud, clear and potentially game changing.

The Sun and Venus’ departure from your work sector late last week has dramatically reduced the planetary focus on the work front, bringing you to a point where as you move into this short working week you have half the planets you had at the start of the month. With Mercury the only planet staying behind to keep up this more active phase not only still moving slowly, but with a more strategic focus, this is a week for working smarter, not harder. Mercury won’t leave your work sector until next month, which is when an active and defining chapter that began in early February will run its course. Until then keep your mind and your options open, while dialling things back considerably from the recent frenetic pace. The long weekend provides a chance to step back and let your thoughts settle.

It may be a short working week, but with an extraordinary line up having just assembled in your work sector and the Moon just wrapping up his monthly visit to your Business sector as you move into the new week, you have only just found your stride. Whether you physically clock out over the long weekend or not there’ll be little chance of taking your professional hat off, not with the Sun and Venus aligned in your work sector all week, Mars evoking your passions and your fighting spirit and the laws of attraction and synchronicity engaged. If things seem urgent it’s because they are, with everything that the rest of the year will rely on playing out between now and the end of next month. Listening to your professional instincts makes it easier to pick your battles wisely.

The Moon’s visit to your business sector in the early days of the week will give you something to think about over the long weekend, especially as this is the Moon’s last visit before new doors start opening on the work front next month. The long weekend is the last real chance you’ll have to take your professional hat off for a while and as there are some busy weeks kicking off next month, this is the perfect chance to step back and put things into perspective. The Moon’s return to your business sector on Monday and position here until Wednesday will trigger your professional instincts and provide some valuable clues, hunches and insights that you’re able to mull over during the long weekend. Next week you’ll have a better sense of the professional changes ahead, so you can afford to wait.

With Jupiter still coming up to speed in your work sector and things not really starting to come together until May, a short working week and a long weekend should be cause to take your professional hat off rather than put it on. However that’s exactly what you’re likely to be doing, with the Moon’s return to your business sector on Wednesday and the Full Moon this will create a few hours later likely to see things come to a head or to a tipping or turning point in a sudden and unexpected way. This will be the first Full Moon in your business sector since Saturn left last October and with no planetary activity here since last November, there’s been a lot of things falling into place behind the scenes that have been waiting for the right trigger. Wednesday’s Full Moon will be that trigger.

While the Moon’s return to your career sector on Friday and position here over the majority of the long weekend will make it hard to keep your professional hat off, this is likely to be a case of good timing. As the Moon’s last visit to your career sector before next month’s lunar eclipse and his first since Venus, Mars and the Sun left your income sector, this gives you a chance to mull things over and with your professional instincts likely to be sharp over the long weekend, any chance to step back will further enhance your ability to see the big picture. And right now it’s all about the big picture, with the more you can stand back from work day matters the easier it will be to see the wood for the trees. Let your imagination and instincts do the talking over the long weekend.

Moving into any new week with the Moon in your work sector will always be an advantage, ensuring you have your finger on the pulse and your ear to the ground from the get go, with your instincts sharp and your imagination engaged. But this is not just any ordinary week, for as well as a short working week this is the week where everything is finally falling into place on the income front. Not only are the Sun and Venus spending their first week in your income sector they’ll spend the whole week aligned, giving your expectations and a new developed fighting spirit the kind of transparency needed in order to pick your battles wisely. While the Moon will leave on Monday he’ll reach your career sector over the weekend, in both instances giving developing income forces a sense of direction. – Astrolis