Understanding Uranus
Uranus is the Awakener, representing the higher octave of Mercury - universal intelligence, intuition, and sudden flashes of insight. It breaks Saturn's structures to allow for progress.
What Uranus Governs
Uranus governs electricity, technology, aviation, astrology, and humanitarianism. It rules the urge for individuation - to be unique and free from conditioning. Uranus brings sudden change and revolutionary thinking.
About Transpersonal Planets
Transpersonal planets act upon the collective unconscious and force evolution through disruption.
Uranus Expression
Positive Expression
Genius, objectivity, liberation, altruism, and truth-telling. The Revolutionary or Inventor can detach from ego to serve collective evolution. Brings sudden insights, innovation, and the courage to be authentically unique.
Shadow Expression
Anarchy, dissociation, fanaticism, and change for the sake of change. The Rebel without a cause is cold, distant, and prone to "God complexes," valuing abstract humanity over actual human beings.
Uranus & Tarot
Primary Correspondence
The FoolThe Fool (0) is the blank slate, the sudden leap into the unknown, and chaotic potential that precedes order. It embodies Uranus's association with new beginnings, freedom from convention, and the courage to be different.
Secondary Correspondence
The StarThe Star (XVII) corresponds to Aquarius, representing cosmic inspiration and the pouring of divine knowledge onto humanity - Uranus's gift of progressive insight.
Uranus Retrograde
Annually for about 5 months
What It Means
Sudden external changes slow down. The urge to rebel turns inward. It is a time for internal liberation rather than external revolution.
Advice
Break free from internal conditioning rather than external rules. Process trauma related to shocks and sudden changes. Realign with your authentic individuality.
Body Rulership
In medical astrology, Uranus rules the Electrical impulses of nervous system, ankles, circulatory rhythm.
Mythology of Uranus
Ouranos (Greek) or Caelus (Roman) was the primordial god of the Sky, father of the Titans. His castration by Kronos (Saturn) symbolizes the necessary separation of the infinite sky from earth to allow time and reality to exist. Uranus returning as a discovered planet represents the "return of the repressed" infinite.
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