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Uranus Entered Taurus Yesterday
I mentioned this astrological event in my post yesterday, along with the new moon that occurred in Pisces, but I didn’t say all that much about it.
The movement of Uranus into Taurus, however, has a lot more long-term significance than the waxing and waning of the moon, since Uranus has an orbit of 84 years. Indeed, the last time Uranus moved into Taurus was 1934.
It Takes Uranus 84 Years to Move Through All 12 Signs of the Zodiac
That means that Uranus takes seven years to move through each individual sign. Thus, for the past seven years, it has been transiting through Aries, which is the first sign of the natural zodiac. So, if you happen to be an Aries, then Uranus has been impacting your 1st house over the past seven years: so you may have experienced opportunities to revolutionize or innovate your concept of yourself, how you present yourself to the world, or sudden changes to how you think about yourself, etc.
In order to help you know which house of the zodiac Uranus is impacting, you need to refer back to those two basic and essential aspects of your chart that I wrote about a while ago: your sun sign, and your rising or “ascendant” sign.
Uranus Brings Change – Often the Sudden and Unpredictable Kind
Uranus is a planet that is often associated with sudden change, innovation, and creative insights. Change is a really huge aspect of Uranus, and whatever house it is traveling through for us is where we will probably see the most intense change or shift in our status quo. For me, I always associate the image of a lightning strike with Uranus.
Of course, it helps if you can figure out which houses in particular of yours Uranus is in when it moves into Taurus. You can find that out by reading your sun sign and your ascendant sign in this excellent article by Chani from May 2018, when Uranus first moved into Taurus.
It just so happens that Uranus actually entered Taurus on May 15th of 2018 and stayed in that sign until this past November. So it’s possible that we may have had a preview of what the next seven years will bring us if we look back on how things unfolded for us in that six month period of May – November of 2018.
Uranus Retrograded Into Aries From November 2018 through 6 March 2019
As Chani actually explains in the article linked just above, in November 2018, Uranus went retrograde and returned to Aries for one last kiss goodbye. This retrograde into Aries lasted from November through yesterday – March 6th, 2019.
Just as a point of interest? Following is an assessment from 2011 of what Uranus moving into Aries might bring. Remember, Uranus moved into Aries in 2011. When I read this, I find the possibilities mentioned, knowing what actually did happen, pretty fascinating.
Now, however, Uranus is in Taurus, for good, until April 2026.
I don’t know about you, but when I contemplate these longer transits, I can’t help but wonder how life will change, both personally and globally, for each of us. It is fascinating to track whether the changes we all inevitably experience in life bear some correlation to the ‘house’ through which Uranus is moving in our chart.
My life certainly was struck by lightning in 2011 – and I’ll never think of myself in quite the same way again. I’m an Aries, so the transit that began in 2011 was in my 1st house. The house of Who I Am.
Uranus – nationalgeographic.com.au
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