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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Mar 28, 2014 6:24 PM UTC  The horoscope wheel The horoscope wheel Getty Images by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Mar 28, 2014 6:24 PM UTC _“APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.”_ That’s a quote from a T.S. Eliot [poem](http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html), but according to everybody’s favorite astrologer Susan Miller, April 2014 is going to be [an absolutely horrific month ](http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/03/april-is-going-to-be-a-calamitous-disaster-month.html)for almost all of us. Of course, that’s only if you believe in astrology. _New York Magazine_ points out that in an [interview](http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/jan/18/susan-miller-astrologer-interview) given to the _Guardian_ in January, Miller noted that two “angry eclipses” destined for us in April will cause some intense emotional upheaval, particularly for anyone born between April 15 and 29\. From _NY Mag_: --- > “” --- And it gets worse. From the _Guardian_ story: --- > “” --- Miller also said that April looks so scary she’s “giving classes on it.” At least Mercury won’t be in retrograde? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/41979/confirmed-april-is-the-cruelest-month/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/41979/confirmed-april-is-the-cruelest-month/"},"headline":"Confirmed: April Is the Cruelest Month","datePublished":"2014-03-28T18:24:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:19.191Z","description":"Anybody wanna hibernate until May?","url":"https://time.com/41979/confirmed-april-is-the-cruelest-month/","keywords":["Newsfeed","relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f8c078aabdd304a/698687d9f983e702ef04d029/150207200.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7f8c078aabdd304a/698687d9f983e702ef04d029/150207200.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"150207200","caption":"150207200","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/41979/confirmed-april-is-the-cruelest-month/","name":"Confirmed: April Is the Cruelest Month"}}]}] ```