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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 1^sthouse 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 15^thof 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 6^th, 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 1^sthouse. The house of Who I Am.

Uranus – nationalgeographic.com.au

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Esoteric Means of Understanding Ourselves Better

As you’re all discovering day-by-day and post by post (thank you for hanging with me), I’m fascinated by a wide range of esoteric means we humans have developed to help us understand our place in the Universe. I’ve been on the quest to understand myself better since my earliest memories. And of course, the admonition 28 years ago by the Taos Pueblo elder to “know” myself, as I describe in my book Owl Medicine , only clinched that early urge to soul search and gave me permission to translate it into a life-long passion.

Numerology

There’s numerology, which, as I’ve only tangentially touched upon, uses numbers based on a Pythagorean system of 9 to set forth a roadmap of our lives and the various gifts and challenges that our souls have come into this particular lifetime to experience and hopefully learn from and use to evolve.

Astrology

Another system is astrology. I’ve been fascinated for decades by this means of cultivating self-awareness, which is incredibly complicated and is far and away so much more in-depth and rich than the trite paragraph we used to read in the newspaper about our ‘sun sign’ when I was a kid.

At its most basic, astrology takes into account your ‘natal’ chart, which is the exact position of a wide range of heavenly bodies at the minute of your birth, from the perspective of where your mother was at the moment you were born. From this snapshot of the solar system, you do indeed know your ‘sun sign’ – which is the sign of the zodiac in which the sun was located at the minute of your birth.

Discovering Your Rising Sign or “Ascendant”

What many people don’t realize is that, while one’s sun sign can be a somewhat prominent indicator of traits that you carry in this lifetime, an actually more intimate and accurate indicator of who you are is what’s called your ‘rising’ sign – or the sign that was ‘on the ascendant’ at the minute of your birth. So, if you have a chance, I strongly urge you to research and discover your ascendant or rising sign.

One way to do this is to access the free website Astrodienst. (There are many others. I just happen to use this one.) You can either set up an account (again, for free) or just log on as a guest. Either way (under the ‘Free horoscopes’ tab, go to the far right and click on ‘natal chart, ascendant’ under the heading ‘Drawings and Calculations’) you can input your birth information. You’ll need the date of your birth (obviously), as well as the time (and this is important, as some important shifts can take place within minutes), but you can always input a default time until you can secure your specific birth time from your mom (wink) or on the ‘long form’ of your birth certificate. You’ll also need to know your birthplace (city, state, country). All of this information will add up to giving you a much richer, deeper picture of the heavens at the moment you arrived.

The three easiest and most basic aspects for you to discover are (a) your sun sign, which you probably know already unless you live under a rock; (b) your ascendant or ‘rising’ sign; and (c) your moon sign. Just knowing and delving into those three aspects of your personal astrological makeup can bring you an incredible amount of insight into yourself and how you ‘tick.’

What I find fascinating is how every form of roadmap that our souls have created for us to discover and work with, if we choose, matches up. In other words, when Alison Baughman gave me a comprehensive numerological reading years ago, it dovetailed in truly eerie and profound ways with every astrological reading I’ve received. (All told, I think I’ve had three or four separate astrologers read my natal chart for me, cultivating decades-long relationships with two of them, which means I would go back to them periodically to have them read my ‘transits.’)

I’ll talk about transits another day.

Roadmaps of Our Souls

My point, though, is that no matter what roadmap you look at, they all pretty obviously chart the same unique challenges and gifts. So it is as if we (as souls) leave cosmic magical breadcrumbs for our ego-selves to discover, in order to help us understand our strengths, weaknesses, and potential destinies, should we have the desire to discover them.

I started this post intending to discuss the fact that we will be experiencing a ‘new moon’ tomorrow and what that might mean for each of us. And then I got sidetracked into writing what I wrote.

But! The good news (for me) is that I just now realized that the new moon actually won’t ‘arrive’ until 2:20 a.m. EST on Friday, December 7^th.

So maybe I’ll save what I was going to say tonight until tomorrow!

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