In April we left behind the first eclipse season of 2025 and the month started with the Moon starting a new lunar cycle, already in the waxing phase. This month brings us the first full moon of spring, the pink moonin these nights that come later and they last a little less each day.
We will talk to you about how the lunar phases happen in April and when there is a full moon, but also about other phenomena that we can enjoy in the night sky, such as the Lyrids, the shower of stars most anticipated of spring. We will also tell you how the lunar phases and other aspects of the Moon influence you when it comes to cut your hair or shave.
With this lunar calendar in hand, you can organize yourself better to schedule your haircut or waxing, taking advantage of the most favorable lunar energy to obtain a good result. We will do it following the criteria of biodynamic agriculture, still used today to organize field work taking into account how the Moon influences the earth and plants. Our 2025 lunar calendar for haircuts and waxing is based on it.
You can delve deeper into how the moon influences us in different areas of our lives. free ebook Calendar of the Moon created by the experts of Bodymente magazine.
Phases of the Moon and meteor showers for April in 2025
The Moon The month of April begins in the visible new Moon phase, the first section of its growing phase. He does it with the Pleiades near in the night sky on Tuesday, April 1st. It will be a great opportunity to identify this star cluster. Already on April 5, the Moon will reach the crescent phase.
Here we detail how the phases of the moon occur throughout the month.
Waxing quarter at the beginning of the month
He Saturday April 5 The Moon will be illuminated at 50% and will look like a perfect crescent, drawing the characteristic «D» in the northern hemisphere and already sensing the «C» in the southern hemisphere. As the second week of April progresses, it will develop its «hump», to the left or to the right, respectively.
April full moon, the pink moon
The April full moonthe first of spring in 2025, will arrive shortly after some lucky people have started their vacations, especially children. It is known as Pink moon, although it is not pink, and it will be on Sunday, April 13 at dawn, so the night in which it will shine at its maximum illumination will be the night from Saturday the 12th to Sunday the 13th.
last quarter at easter
During Holy Week the Moon will already be in its waning phase, still showing its hump, but on the opposite side to what we saw in its waxing phase. He Easter Monday, April 21, Also at dawn, it will enter the waning quarter.
The next day there will be peak of the Lyrid rain. In reality, the Lyrids are a lmeteor shower, one of the most popular showers of the year, and will be visible in the northern hemisphere between April 16 and 25. In the southern hemisphere they can also be seen but with less intensity.
According to the National Astronomical Observatory, in 2025 the best time to see the Lyrids will be first part of the night of April 22.
April new moon to say goodbye to the month
From there, its luminosity and its presence in the night sky will reduce and the current lunar cycle will close at the end of the month, the Sunday April 27. That day, at night, the new Moon phase will occur.
If you want to know exactly what time the April lunar phases occur, here is a short summary:
- Crescent: Saturday April 5 at 4:16
- Full moon: Sunday April 13 at 2:23
- Last quarter: Monday, April 21 at 3:37
- New moon: Sunday, April 27 at 9:33 p.m.
What else to see in the sky in April
In April we will have the opportunity to see Venus at its brightest moment, on the 27th, next to Pisces. But it won’t be the only planet worth paying attention to this month.
In the northern hemisphere, Mercury remains visible in the morning sky, while Mars and Jupiter will be visible in the evening. In the southern hemisphere, during sunrise, there will be a small lineup on April 17 which will allow you to enjoy seeing Venus, Saturn, Mercury and Neptune parading together.
April 2025 lunar calendar for haircuts and waxing
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Taking into account the phases of the Moon, its orbit and the movement of other bodies in the celestial dome, humans have drawn conclusions over the centuries about how all this influences the work of the earth. Therefore, the lunar calendar has served and continues to serve farmers to better organize field tasks.
This is what biodynamic agriculture doesdeveloped more recently, which seeks to grow food and medicinal plants taking into account cosmic rhythms.
Based on the same calculations that allow us to determine when it is best to plant or transplant a certain type of plant, or when it is best to avoid pruning, some experts also calculate what the best dates to carry out other types of activities in which the Moon can have its influence.
Here we tell you, specifically, when are the best times in April to get a haircut or wax. For this we rely on data from the Biodynamic farming lunar calendar by Maria Thun, published every year by the Rudolf Steiner publishing house. If you want your haircut to give you better results and for your hair removal to last longer, take note of the dates indicated below.
When to get a haircut in April 2025 according to the lunar calendar
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To cut your hair and make it grow stronger, experts recommend choose what they call a «root period» to cut it. The root periods occur when the Moon is descending in its orbit and is at the height of the constellations related to earth energy.
In the lunar calendar for April 2025, the root periods occur on the following dates:
- Thursday 10: a few hours in the afternoon, from 3 to 5 p.m.
- Friday the 11th: All day, from 2am in the morning, is good for getting a haircut. Both in the morning and in the afternoon, the energy is excellent for cutting your hair and strengthening it.
- All Saturday the 12th It is still ideal for cutting your hair if you want to strengthen it.
- Sunday 13th: until 3pm you are on time.
- Monday 14: First thing in the day you have a new opportunity, specifically between 5 and 11 in the morning.
These moments that are recommended for cutting hair coincide, in biodynamic agriculture, with the most advisable for working on the plants that we grow for their roots or tubers. They are also ideal days or times to remove the soil from the plants and thus stimulate their roots.
As you have surely deduced, These are not recommended days to shave if you want to take advantage of the lunar influence. Waxing during these periods would, according to experts, cause body hair to also grow stronger.
The best days to get a haircut in April if you want it to grow faster
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There may be times when you might want it to grow a little faster after cutting your hair. If you choose a «leaf period», the one that in biodynamic agriculture favors the tasks in plants that we grow for their leaves and stems, you will achieve that effect. The hair will also be revitalized.
These good times to get a haircut take place with the Moon in ascending orbit and located in an air constellation. Take note of when exactly they occur on the lunar calendar for April 2025:
- Thursday 24th: late of the day, from 8 p.m. to midnight
- Friday the 25th: all day from 9am in the morning.
- All Saturday the 26th and until 6 a.m. on Sunday.
Again, These are not optimal days to shavesince a waxing these days would last less than if you choose one of the periods that we reveal below.
When to shave according to the lunar calendar for April 2025
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The best days for shaving are those that coincide with a «flower period». These days it is considered that body hair growth slows down in case of shaving or plucking it. If you want to shave in April, taking advantage of the best time of the lunar cycle, you have two great opportunities.
- All of Friday the 4th and all of Saturday the 5th These are excellent days to shave.
- Sunday the 6th until 2am in the morning you still have time if you happened to shave the previous days.
- Monday 14: from 12 noon At noon you have a second chance again.
- Tuesday 15: all day until 11 p.m. You still have the Moon in your favor if you want to shave.
If the end of the month comes and you see that you need to shave, don’t despair. In May, the best days to shave come at the beginning of the month.
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