I have written about this already HERE and HERE and some other places, but since we will be going through five or six exact (I have lost count) trines between Uranus and Pluto over the next two years that are going to change the world - let's keep talking about this. Let's start with Uranus at the end of Taurus - where we are NOW.
Let's start with a story. Two stories actually.
There once was a woman who lived in a valley so green and still that even the wind forgot to visit. She had built her home with her own two hands, stone by stone, and filled it with everything she loved. Jars of honey, A worn wood table, The smell of fresh-baked bread. She knew every root in her garden by name and the garden knew her gnarled hands and stooped back. People came from distant hills to trade, and she always gave them fair measure. She slept without dreaming because there was nothing she needed that wasn't already here. One morning a stranger appeared at her gate. He was made, it seemed to the woman, almost entirely of weather. His coat moved when there was no wind, his shoes wet where there's been no puddles and his eyes held two colors at once and she could not catch which was real. He said to the woman, "the valley is going to change". She told him she did not want to change, that she had worked too long for what was here/for what she had. He nodded as if this were a fair answer and then he left. But something had already shifted. The woman noticed first that the honey tasted different, not so much worse, as other, as if the bees had discovered a flower she had never planted.
And then the river changed course.
The story doesn't end there, but I have to revise a bit already because I do us no favors by writing about Uranus coming in as a quiet stranger. More likely he doesn't appear at the gate. So let's edit.
He is already inside when she wakes up. Not an intruder exactly, more like she walks into the kitchen and the wall she has always known simply isn't there. No rubble. No explanation, Just the cold morning air coming in from where her wall used to be and the woman is standing there with her bread in her hands not understanding what she is seeing. Or he arrives as the thing she most trusted turning out to be the thing that breaks her (Uranus at the end of Taurus). The table that stood for twenty years collapses. The honey jars shatter. Suddenly and unexpectedly the way Uranian things happen - one moment they are there and the next they are not. Something like this has happened to all of us over the last few years.
Because with Uranus (direct) things happen that we don't see coming. We can't prepare. Pluto at least announces himself - there is a sense of dread, a kind of darkening, a feeling that something is coming even if we can't name it. Neptunian changes come slowly. They dissolve over time until one day another transit comes along and we wake up and realize something is missing. Saturn gives us the weight of consequences we can at least trace back to choices. But Uranus is different. The floor was beneath our feet and now it isn't. Sometimes these are little disappearances and we just move on. Sometimes these are bigger things and there is no where for our feet to go.
Our woman in the story, if she is smart (and Gemini and Aquarius will help us with this) understands what Uranus was trying to say, which was not - your life will be taken, but rather, "your life will be asked to breathe" and that she had been, without knowing it, holding her breath for twenty years.
She didn't leave the valley (or maybe she did). The valley changed. The table was still there when she came home (or maybe it wasn't). And the honey and the bread (or maybe they weren't). But she sat at the table differently now. She was no longer someone guarding it/gripping it. She was someone resting at it until the next new day blew in (Uranus in Gemini).
When the floor is there and then it isn't and our psyche desperately needs narrative and words (that make our w-o-r-l-d) to survive, we are left with a before and after and nothing in between to hold onto. If I wrote about Uranus totally honestly, he doesn't announce anything. he removes something. Without asking. Without explaining himself. This isn't about cruelty, but it isn't kind either. Something is just - GONE.
Uranus in Taurus came in like a wrecking ball a few years ago because our Taurean space is fixed earth - the space in our chart where nothing moves. It's our soul's deep need to PLANT ITSELF SOMEWHERE! It's our house in the valley with our honey and our solid wood table. If our birth chart is our contract with life then our contract says "here, here is the space you can count on". And then over the last few years we found out there was a clause in there somewhere and we didn't/couldn't read the fine print - there would come a time for us when this thing we counted on to be stable above all else would change. The area of life we always counted on, well there would come a time when we couldn't.
Now Uranus days in Taurus are ending (after this weekend). He has done his job.
The Taurus/Scorpio axis is about survival and resources - what we need to feel safe enough to live here until we don't live here anymore. Gemini's opposite sign is Sagittarius, which is about meaning and truth. So, the shift now is from anchoring in tangible things to anchoring in meaning itself. Which I know sounds abstract and yes, life is about to be more abstract now, but it's something like the difference between "what can we hold?" and "what do we believe is holding us?"
OK, one more post coming about this, but not this morning and then a bit about people born in the 1960's with Uranus and Pluto conjunct and what this all means for them. I hope something here is helpful.
xo all
Another thing to think about because in evolutionary astrology Uranus is our natal trauma signature- a kind of SHOCK IMPRINT. He is not just the archetype of liberation and awakening, but our soul's accumulated experience of sudden and unpredictable rupture. Our natal Uranus placement (for example my natal Uranus is 10th house so involves career, father/mother, authority, reputation and public life and sits with Pluto so involves endings and death) is not only where we are meant to individuate and break free but also where we have been REPEATEDLY AMBUSHED BY LIFE. This creates a kind of existential flinching where we are always either bracing for impact or preemptively creating disruption ourselves/screwing ourselves before life can do it first. We'll talk more about this next post, but check your natal chart (or email me and I can tell you) to see what your natal Uranus is carrying, because when Uranus moves from Taurus into Gemini this will be a very good time to move this stuff out of our bodies and into our words/conversations for healing.
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