It begins at the age of 29 when Saturn Returns to its natal position at birth and Uranus forms a sesquiquadrate. At age 37, the weight of the world begins to weigh on the shoulders of those who are approaching the Saturn square Saturn movement and the impending Uranus opposite Uranus transit. Everything comes to a head around the age of 42, when Uranus effectively opposes its own natal placement, there is also a Saturn square Uranus contact, and Neptune squares Neptune, all at…...
Question: Any experiences, comments, knowledge on transiting Uranus opposing natal Uranus? Is this truly the proverbial “Mid-life Crisis for men and women? This Uranus Opposition Uranus has been a real eye-opener. I don’t feel that it is a “crisis.” However, it is a real wake-up call. I joined a “boot camp” work out for 8-weeks twice weekly. I’m going back to school and that’s just the beginning of all the life-changing things I’m going to accomplish. Uranus ain’t easy, but…...
Anna Karina was a Danish-French film avant garde actress. She was French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard’s muse in the 1960s, performing in several of his films, including The Little Soldier, A Woman Is a Woman, My Life to Live, Bande à part, Pierrot le Fou and Alphaville. Breathless In 1959, director Jean-Luc Godard saw Anna Karina in a Palmolive soap ad. She was 17, and he was casting for his film Breathless, for which he offered Karina a small…...
Paul Claudel, a French writer, diplomat, and poet, was transformed by a deep spiritual experience that forever altered his life. He characterised it as “in a split second, my heart was touched, and I knew I was right.” This encounter resulted in his conversion to Roman Catholicism, but he had spent years before to that attempting to reconcile the conflicting impulses of his intuition and his intellect. In Claudel’s birth chart, Jupiter is conjunct Neptune, which is an aspect that…...
Question: I don’t like the idea of transiting Uranus conjunct my Mars. I’m worried about accidents, violence, and general unpredictability. Is there a way to avoid all of this? Our tendency to become scared of astrological events, afraid of what’s coming is totally natural, but transits describe passages, developmental journeys, and lessons that transform us. Sometimes difficult transits of Uranus converge with difficult outward events in our life. When a planet makes contact, it sets up a circuit of energy which modifies our inner rhythms. Sometimes this energy…...
When transiting Uranus aspects the Moon, emotional chaos shows up uninvited in your life, and there is often more than one thing going on inside you. You know that anything chaotic is noisy, it’s messy, it’s unruly, and Uranus-Moon transits sometimes implicate experiences happening to jolt you emotionally. You might, for instance, desire to break away from things in your personal life as they are upsetting. As a general rule, Uranus stirs the unconscious when it contacts the Moon, and…...
Too many people worry about fulfilling expectations. “Will they like the person I fall in love with?” and will people be disappointed with my career choice?” Or “What will others think if I decide not to get married or have kids.” When Uranus opposes Uranus a lot of worrying about what others think is shattered. Uranus provides you with access to different views and ideas and encourages you to view the world in new ways. It fosters an atmosphere of…...
When transiting Uranus aspects Venus, you become exhilarated by romance, art, and creativity, love, enjoyment, and pleasurable activities. This often means that you are roused and excited by social enjoyment, changes in your love style, appearance, or even artistic inclinations. All in all, you could be reinventing your clothing style and going for something ‘different – romantically or otherwise – because you somehow feel freer to follow your desires. Sometimes this ‘differentness’ involves dating someone who may appear to be a mismatch,…...
Sun-Uranus people want to step up to a new level, think in a new way, and create life. Some have always felt like misfits, outsiders, aliens, and all their teenage feelings of being left out bubbles to the surface. Uranus adds an eccentricity to the Sun that causes the individual to behave in a more extrovert and uninhibited fashion, even a shy Sun takes an unconventional course of action when connected to this planet. The antics of Uranus can make…...
When transiting Uranus aspects Mercury, your thinking expands to new levels, and you’ll feel that your learning more advanced things, coming to breakthroughs, and continually conceiving new ideas. You might be coming across concepts that the average person simply has no way to deal with. Your mental apparatus is drawn to topics outside the generally accepted viewpoint. This might give a hidden fascination with the structures of the universe, and it will probably make you feel pulled towards more edgier and…...