YyyyYour ideas are your most important asset, but you must develop them before you can promote them to your advantage. This is the basis for your problems, as well as for their solution. You dislike responsibility; and unless this changes, you won't be able to get people interested in your ideas. You could do so much to help improve social conditions that oppress others. In this area you would gain immediate recognition for your efforts and also get the experience you need to succeed in the field you choose. If you want to function in a position of trust and authority, you must have a formal education, or your aspirations are little more than dreams.
You owe it to yourself to accept the fact that you must start at the bottom. Learn your craft well, so you can grow into the demands of a more responsible position. Plan ahead so you don't have to submit to other people's control; and learn to have enough self-discipline to persist in a program that will assure you of independence later. Learn the art of being patient about getting results when you act.
You permit yourself greater indulgences and more permissive behaviour than you would tolerate from anyone else. Also, you have established one set of rules for yourself and another for your partner. Unless you modify this position, you risk losing your mate's respect, and you will jeopardise your relationship. You have great plans for your children, and want them to rise to their fullest potentials. They find you exciting and admire your talents.
Disease and healing: Health is subject to unpredictable changes. Your nervous system is high-strung and particularly vulnerable. Stress-related neurological disorders can provoke unusual symptoms, which often respond well to radical or experimental treatments. Difficulties with independence or integrity are precursors to disease; imprisonment makes you sick. The challenge is to roll with the punches. Disease is a message provoking you to wake up, a 'shock' from the system indicating that your lifestyle must change immediately.
Unequal relationships: You're a natural reformer with a sharp eye for abuses of power, seeking out situations of social disequilibrium to provoke change. From the inferior position, your impulse toward upheaval begins quietly. Then suddenly, in an unlikely momemnt, you reveal yourself to be Robin Hood, defender of the meek, tweaking the nose of the Sheriff of Nottingham. You'd like to exist outside all power hierarchies, since your motivation is toward complete independence. The pitfall involves abuse of fairness. If you insist on provoking revolution is the underdog, realise that you're fair game for similar treatment in the superior position. The challenge is to destroy unhealthy dominance anywhere you find it. If you have a choice, be Thomas Jefferson rahter than Thomas Paine.
Duty and service: You take particular delight in helping, for service is the way you stand out from the crowd. In attitude, you're a loner; ordinary cultural rules of conduct are discarded in favor of a more private code. Provocative mental insight is your method. You take risks with those you serve; you want impact. You shake up people's nervous systems, challenging old emotional assumptions with new mental
perspectives. The pitfall surrounds humility versus ego. One moment you seek only a unique solution to another's problems; the next moment you're commanding all the energy in a surge of fervent but insensitive soapbox philosophy. The challenge involves mastering teh art of the 'quiet revolution' and the use of 'invisible electricity'.
Technical mind: Uranian mentality includes the brilliant impulses of inspired geniuses, as well as the erratic aberrations of unbalanced crackpots. What distinguishes the two? The genius solves problems by thinking about them in new ways. She looks with fresh eyes, questioning everything. Often, she sees the solution in a spark of inspiration before the knows the means. The crackpot uses the same procedures. But the genius works backward, filling in the holes, painstakingly bridging the old to the new, whereas the crackpot offers no help to those of us he has 'left behind'. So we disregard the crackpot while embracing the genius. Your mind pulls you away from ordinary linear rationality, to inspired bursts of new vision. Your challenge is to add the discipline necessary to bridge the gap, abd be revered as a genius rather than denigrated as a crackpot.
Discipline and routines: Regularity is antithetical to your lifestyle. There are routines, to be sure, but they are markedly erratic, distinguished by their unpredictability. You have an iron will when it comes to tasks; and you can work with astonishing discipline, but only when you choose hte issue. Your skills become specalities; and your specialities then branch off to form their own peculiar patterns of expertise, sometimes seemingly unrelated to one another. Your challenge is to weave these disparate elements into a unique coherence.
The seventh house represents both what you need in close one-to-one relationships and what you have to give in them. Sometimes we try to project our seventh house requirements solely onto others, and sometimes we look only to ourselves to provide these necessary qualities. But neither of these alternatives is completely satisfactory. You could go from one relationship to another, and from one extreme to the other, until you realise that you must share the requirements in that area with a mate, a best friend, or anyone else with whome you are intimately involved.
If you have Uranus in the seventh house and you try to express all the qualities described therein yourself, you will probably insist on showing your individuality and maintaining your independence in close relationships. Because htere needs to be some stability to maintain a relationship, you will probably attach yourself to someone who is responsible and steady. Also, if you are being nonconforming, your partner will undoubtedly be assigned the task of defining your parameters. Since you are placing the emphasis on responsibility and stability, this person may lack the excitement you need in a partner. Then eventually you could end the relationship because you are bored or feel limited; or your partner might terminate it because you are so unreliable.
If the relationship ends, tehn very possibly your next relationship will be with someone who is exciting and needs a great deal of freedom. you will be attracted to the independent nature that was lacking in your last partner. But before long you could discover that this independence brings with it a lack of dependability. So you become the one burdened with responsibility in the relationship. When this occurs, you begin to feel trapped because you no longer have the freedom you need. If the feeling of being restricted becomes very strong, you could abruptly end the
association. Then you might go back to a partnership in which you are the independent one and keep alternative these two scenarios.
A possible third script is to decide not to form any intimate associations. Having been exposed to both extremes (or even without experiencing either extreme), you may begin to feel that your freedom is more important than any relationship. You believe you will be happiest if you avoid intimacy. You could try to stay away from people altogether, but this will not work for long because you need intellectual stimulation, and with Uranus in the seventh house that stimulation comes with and from others. So you interact, find yourself attracted to some exciting, intelligent person with whom you are sharing ideas, and start alternating all three scenarios again.
Eventually you might come to the conclusion that you can never have a lasting relationship. Some people with Uranus in the seventh house say that; and some astrology textbooks state this as well. It may be a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it need not be true. In fact, I can give you a number of examples of people with this placemnet who have been able to maintain enduring relationships. One couple I know very well have, at this writing, been married for over forty years. He has Uranus in the seventh house, and she has Aquarius there. There were adjustments along the way, but they hvae learned to share the qualities they require in relationships.
Knowing that there are alternatives, understanding what they are, and consciously developing the desirable ones, are the secrets to making a relationship work. With Uranus in the seventh house, remember that defining your boundaries is the first step in expressing your freedom. You might make a list (either in your mind or on paper) of what your requirements are in relationships. You can do this with or without astrology; but astrology makes the job easier. Note what you want and do not want in terms of the signs, planets and points in your seventh house, and remember that you and your partner both need to express some facet of these qualities.
You should also be aware that with Uranus in the seventh house, you probably do not want the kind of relationship your parents had, no matter what it was like. Even if you consciously believed your parents were the ideal couple, you would possibly be attracted to people who were unlike your parents. The differences might be in ethnic, religious and / or socio-economic background. If your parents had a traditional or conservative marriage, you could find the hippie type appealing in partnership; but if they were free-thinkers, you might want a partner (at least initially) who is conservative. The principle here is that you will break with traditionwhatever it might be.
Let's look at specific issues that could be prevalent with Uranus in the seventh house, and some ways of dealing with them. As we examine the alternatives, it should not be difficult to sort out the desirable and undesirable qualities.
Freedom is one theme that will have prominence in partnerships. As already stated, you might be attracted to the independent nature of your parnter (especially if stability was an integral part of your parents' relationship). You do not, however, want a partner who is so independent that there is no need for you. Therefore, as you begin to develop intimacy, look for mutual interests that can be shared, particularly those that entail excitement and mental stimulation. You might join forces in a challenging project or unite behind some cause. However, you do not want to share everything. Twenty-four hour aday togetherness can be limiting. But having some common interests can create a mutual bond to keep you together without making you feel confused.
these qualities there may be no thought given to consequences and responsibilities. Unless you establish certain ground rules you could find that all the responsibility is heaped on your shoulders and you feel fettered rather than free. You do not need too many regulations, only a definition of the outer limits. For example, your spouse might walk in and announce that the two of you are going to take a romantic cruise. That could be an exciting prospect, and how nice to have a spouse who would think of such a trip. But if you are left with the details, such as how it will be paid for, who is going to take care of the children, etc., it could take away all the pleasure. If, however, you determine long in advance that any details must be jointly handled when last minute plans are made, you will not feel burdened by the responsibility. And because your partner is sharing the responsibility, you can more easily share the fun.
Another characteristic that can come with the need for freedom is the desire for periodic time alone. If you have to be with others constantly, you can feel oppressed, restless and / or exhausted. You want to break away, be by yourself, and replenish your energy (or perhaps your tolerance). herefore, you want a partner who will at least be understanding of your need for occasional solitude. But chances are that you will be drawn to those who also want some time alone. If you are attracted to someone for other reasons, and then you discover that this person has to be with you constantly, you probably will not stay in the relationship too long.
The two main problems that could arise in connection with the need for solitude are: 1. you and your mate want to be alone at different times; and 2. concern with what your spouse is doing with his or her free time. If you want to be alone at different times, and do not make an effort to remedy this, you may never get to see each other and then there wouldn't be any relationship. If you are concerned with what your spouse is doing, you could get obsessed with this thought and defeat the purpose of your free time. Therefore, it would be a good idea to jointly schedule times alone (remaining as flexible as possible so that changes can be made), and to share information about your individual activities. You do not want the relationship to become too regimented; but total lack of consideration for the partner (which could occur of you made no adjustment to each other) is just as bad. Once you have developed a loose pattern, which has room to accommodate exceptions, it can become an automatic part of the partnership, and you will not feel restricted.
Another possibility for Uranus in the seventh house is to find a partner from a different background from your own, either ethnically, psychologically, or socio-economically. You might select such a partner in order to be a rebel, or to emphatically state your individuality. Or you might be attracted to this person because he or she offers qualities that have been lacking in your life. For example, your partner could come from an emotionally demonstrative family, whereas yours was cool and reserved and, through your partner, you might learn to express your feelings more readily. You, in return, might help your partner to exercise more control. Or if your spouse or dear friend is from a foreign country, you could expand your knowledge of the language, customs and culture of that country because of the association. And you could share these facets of your own country with the significant other.
The differences between you, however, could also create problems. If each of you is accustomed to behaving in a particular manner that is unlike your partner, conflict can arise. In using one of the illustrations mentioned above, you could handle critical situations in your cool reserved way, by logically evaluating what is going on. While your partner, in his / her typical demonstrative fashion, at least from your point of view, will rant and rave. Or if you are an American 'women's libber' married to a man from a Near Eastern country who considers women second class citizens, you can
reasonably expect that the two of you will have to make compromises or problems will most assuredly arise.
Compromise is not easy with Uranus, but the objectivity attached to the planet may help to resolve difficulties. As different situations arise, evaluate circumstances and determine together the best course of action. Discuss the situation objectively, as though it were happening to two other people. That could help you arrive at a fair compromise.
So look for a parnter who is creative, unusual, intelligent, exciting, and / or from a different familial background from your own. Avoid those who are completely unreliable, totally self-centered and extremely erratic in behaviour. You may think that this sounds too difficult; but if you apply your objectivity you will find that it is simpler than you believe. With Uranus in the seventh house, you have the ability to view the relationship as though you were not involved. Then, before you allow yourself to be drawn in, you can eliminate those who exhibit a number of the qualities you want to avoid.
Uranus in this natal house will be active in the sphere of personal relationships, where it is most unlikely that you will experience smooth-running, tranquil partnerships.
Often, this become sa struggle over the issue of relatedness, and what that actually involves and demands from people. Everyone has to undergo some kind of adjustment and modification of his / her behaviour within all social relationships, perhaps more intensely within intimate partnerships or marriage when people live togther. You may find such changes difficult to make, or resent having to do so; and this reflects that Uranian tendency to be highly individual and rebellious. With that stubborn obstinacy and belief in being right, you may fail to even see why you have to adjust in order for a relationship to continue and prosper. Certainly the question of freedom will rise; and your insistence on this and having your own way is likely to create conflict. At times, an insensitivity to the parallel 'rights' of others can stand out in stark relief to some of your progressive social ideas.
Commitment is another problem area. You probably have severe mood changes; attitudes and interests can rise and fall with surprising rapidity; often your demand for freedom and individual expression is but a cover for this inner fluctuation, as you know how erratic and unpredictable you can be. Coupled with this is that urge for new stimulation, perhaps new partners; and the thought of willingly typing yourself to one person can frighten you through fear of restriction and limitation. Running away from relationships of any depth can indeed restrict you to experiencing only superficial affairs.
Many changes in your life will be triggered by the nature and outcome of your social and intimate relationships. there may be sudden affairs, marriages, divorces, due to unpredictable behaviour by either yourself or others. Your life can be turned upside down in such situations; and even your demands for freedom in a relationship could suddenly become freedom without any partner! These relationships will probably have an element of the unorthodox about them, with unconventional and unusual experiences likely, especially if you are inclined to cross the lines of social taboos.
You may need to discover, and clarify for yourself, the function of relationship in society, to look at how you handle your relationships and how you regard their purpose. Uranus is attempting to lead you towards a new understanding of
relationship in life, so that you can find real freedom within the relationship web instead of always being tempted to break out and stand alone. You need to transcend that aspect of destructiveness that you often bring into a relationship, which makes you respond to the pressure of growth by deciding that the tensions are unresolvable and looking for ways to shatter the bonds. In fact, a new approach to this sphere of life could open doors to entirely new forms of relationship, where each lives together in relative harmony, yet they are free enough to follow their own independent paths in a spirit of conscious partnership, instead of any antagonistic self-seeking demands which are exclusive of the partner, and which ignore his or her needs and sensitivities. If you can successfully modify your natural tendencies, relationships of valuable depth can be possible, which as you mature would really fulfil your needs.
In your desire to enjoy life without limitations, you seek progressive people who lead exciting lives. You apply the same philosophy in searching for a partner with whom you can have room to grow and develop. You are easily accepted in any social environment, because you don't follow any hard and fast rules that make it impossible for others to welcome you. You tend to avoid responsibility, however, which could create some problems in your career. Until you are established in your own right, you may have to rely on social contacts to open doors. This might be painful, because you don't like being obligated to others. You need to plan your moves carefully and realise that success is the product of a well-thought-out program with specific objectives.
Though you think you know what's best for your children, giving them unlimited freedom may cause more harm than you know. Luckily you have good communication with them, so they may not criticise you for your lack of discipline. You know how to make contacts with important persons who can help you exploit your creative ideas. They will support you in your endeavours because you are careful not to force yourself on them. Get an education and learn how others accept full responsibility for their actions. You may then realise that you have freedom only if you earn it. With your talent for innovation, your goals are nearly limitless when you apply yourself.
You are uncomfortable when forced to adhere to rules laid down by someone else, which was even more difficult while you were growing up, when your parents tried to control you. A rebel at heart, you needed to let them know that you had to make your own way and fail, if necessary, on your own terms. You aren't as self-confident as you appear; and working with the public will show you how much experience you need to succeed. Time is in your favour if you learn to forego some of your personal indulgences when your career demands require it.
It may be annoying, but you must deal with the financial facts of life if you want to earn a decent income. Learn to capitalise on your social contacts and use these opportunities to demonstrate your talents. You will eventually succeed on your own and gain the freedom to be more selective about whom you are obligated to. You do owe something to your public, from whom you are willing to accept certain rewards for the services you render. Don't forget those who do favours for you. Helping them can be a wise investment in your future, when you may need them again.
You are ingenious in finding ways to gain acceptance by the general public for your contributions, which may not be spectacular compared with others'. But you fascinate people with your special brand of charm, which disarms them without their knowing it. You easily arouse people's interest in your programs, which you say are in their best interests; and for the most part you succeed. Examine your motives in all your
actions. If your purpose is to get as much as possible at others' expense, your victory will be bittersweet; but if you sincerely work for their best interests, you will deserve and win their appreciation. Your partner is your most ardent supporter, and will honestly appraise your accomplishments.
Mirrored awareness: Uranus in the 7th house indicates that your reflection in others electrifies or awakens you. The experience can be both enlivening and upsetting, and encompasses both in the long run. One-to-one relatedness is where you discover your true uniqueness, that which separates you from the crowd and defines you as a special being. The pitfall lies in defiant refusal to look at what needs to change within you. The challenge is to see yourself with fresh eyes, letting old masks fall away.
Equal partnerships: You are likely to jump into - and out of - partnerships, for not only is their appearance an unexpected surprise, but their disappearance can be qually sudden. THe function of personal relationships in your life is to disturb ordinary unconsciousness. If you're 'sleeping' lightly, then their appearance is a delight. If you're stuck in habit, or using unconsciousness as an escape from your life, they may well jolt you like an electric cattle prod. If you want relationships to last, you'll need to come and go often. The willingness to establish instant connection, to break that connection when necessary, and tehn re-establish it later is a hallmark of maturity. Do not cling, nor allow others to cling to you. The challenge is to let go of expectations and live in the here and now.
Contracts, commitments: Commitment is hardly the tenor of this placement. Instead, you leap into contracts - and later break them, often on very short notice. The polarity is sufficiently extreme that when you're in one state, you can't conceive of ever being in the other. Commitment touches directly on the issue of personal freedom, especially in the arena of spiritual growth. Ordinary commitments too often limit our freedom; and you are very aware of these limitations, determined not to be bound by them. Your challenge is to find a better way, to experience the linking of your higher will with the mundane experience of making a promise. That's no easy task to master; but even the contradictions can teach you about the extraordinary freedom that comes from true commitment.
Co-operation When you flow calmly, you are a joy to be with, since your boundaries are so clear, and yet your natural willingness and interest in interaction causes otehrs to feel completely safe with you. When resistant, however, there is no-one more rigid and defiant. In those moments, you would cut off your nose to spite your own face rather than engage in a substantive co-operation. What makes this placement fascinating is the switch from one posture to the other. It can take even you very much by surprise. Your challenge is to flow with the changes. When you are unco-operative, go away - you need separateness and a sense of freedom. When you again feel co-operative, return to sharing.
Natural partner or partnership: Your natural partner is different from other people you've met in your life, an individual who stands apart in your mind, distinguished by independence and a distinctly revolutionary bent, a crusader for change. His or her personality should also be more than a little unpredictable, keeping you on your toes.
A natural partnership awakens you to new possibilities within yourself, and leads to uncharted territory. Your partnership causes you to want to throw off the shackles of false security, to reach for true freedom through the discoveries sharing can provide. The image is an electrical generator.
The natural assumption with Uranus in the eighth house as it pertains to sex is that the native would want total freedom in sexual experiences or would have unusual standards in regards to the sexual theory or practice. And if you have Uranus posited in this house, you may be totally uninhibited in sexual matters. But I have discovered in discussions with clients who have this placement that there is another possibility which is just as common. You do not want to be controlled in that area. You may enjoy sex, but you want it when, where and with whom you desire it.
One tends to think of passion and lust connected with uninhibited sex. But if you have Uranus in the eighth house, you can become cool and detached if you feel that your sexual partner considers you a sex object or tries to control you through sex. You may then make yourself inaccessible even if you do have deep inner passion. On the other hand, if you are respected and feel free in expressing your sexuality, your sex life can be very gratifying.
Since the eighth house is also other people's money and joint resources, you could find that unearned money comes in sporadically or other people's resources help to make you feel independnent. More often, however, it seems that those with Uranus in the eighth house want to be financially unencumbered. You probably are uncomfortable with debt. You may not even want to be responsible for managing funds which are not your own. However, it might not always be practical to accomplish what you want all by yourself.
For example, I have a client with this placement who felt very strongly about owing money. He had always paid cash for whatever he purchased. The one credit card he had, he used only as a monthly charge, so that he would not be in debt to even the credit card company. THen came a time when he wanted to buy a house and the situation was very difficult for him. The house was too expensive for him to pay for out of current earnings. He needed to borrow money from his family for the down payment, and he had to take out a mortgage from the bank as well. I suggested that he view the matter from a different perspective. Instead of looking at his borrowing money as a terrible burden, he should think that each payment he made would make him freer. He borrowed the money. He still has an uncomfortable feeling about the debt, but he is trying to develop the right attitude. He is working hard to pay off his loans and his mortgage, nad tries to make double payments whenever possible. He told me that this makes him feel twice as free!
Since the eighth house represents joint resources as well as the resources of others, you might also find it difficult to share money or talents with others. If you are married, you could prefer that your partner handle joint money so that you can be free of such burdens. Or perhaps you would rather you each handle your own resources and not pool your assets.
In regard to sharing assets, you might be concerned that too much togetherness could interfere with your creativity. However, if you have the right attitude, you may be able to stimulate the creative process. Brainstorming can be exciting and productive as long as you are not wasting your time dwelling on the possibility of being controlled or thwarted. Always consider this form of sharing temporary, knowing that if the other party seems to be taking charge, you can extricate yourself from the interaction. Thus you may be able to allow ideas to flow more freely.
The eighth house is also connected with psychological probing and transformation. So with Uranus there, you might find that you do not always have the patience to get to the bottom of issues. You can deal with this potential problem by analysing for a short period of time, taking a break, and returning to it. A number of sessions may be necessary, but insights concerning deep, psychological complexes can occur. The insights will probably come suddenly, and may lead to personal transformation. Total transformation is possible, but it will be most likely to come as a result of several insights, each of which may occur suddenly.
There are several ways in which the influence of the natal Uranus can work through an 8th house position. These can range from a focus on material possessions and money, through to an interest in the worlds hidden behind the material appearance.
This can also involve a crisis of the relationship between self and others; a new understanding and expression is probably required in order for a new light to reveal new potentialities. It is a deeper process of social relating that can be explored, where there is a wider scope for the insights to be displayed and communicated.
Underlying this are the themes of transiency, of death and rebirth. Changes can be triggered in your life which are reflective of these themes. There may be sudden legacies, perhaps due to a family bereavement, which in the pain of loss can also offer opportunities to another. Business ventures or marriages may collapse, reminding you that nothing in life is for ever. The realisation of change, that life and loved ones can slip through one's grasp like grains of sand, can radically disturb any sense of inner security, especially one which is founded on material principles.
It is certain that you will lose something or someone of importance in your life, and that will be the catalyst for the process of searching to begin. It is a questioning to discover if there is any solid foundation in life, or how to deal with this transiency which when experienced in a negative form can strip the life of all colour and vitality. What is needed then is a rebirth, through which, with wiser attitudes, you are more ready to face the facts of life. This rebirth can occur through an investigation into the hidden inner realities beyond the superficial appearances. This can be through scientific or occult investigations, where the sense of probing new dimensions can stimulate and excite the mind. Yet it is often a maturation of your emotional level that is required, so that you are able to commence deeper relationships with others too. This rebirth is not just a personal need, it is tied in with the nature of your social relationships, where personal development should also have beneficial social repercussions. In finding a new self, you should also realise a new form of social relating, expressing your place and function within the webbing of the collective network.
Sexuality can also be an aspect of your nature that Uranus seeks to work changes through. The importance of sexual activity may be quite strong in your life, possibly determining certain choices for you as a result of its demanding voice. Uranus will stimulate an unconventional approach to this fact of adult life, and your scope in this sphere could be considerable and varied. This will be especially so if aspects are made to natal Moon, Venus and Mars. Your sexuality can add to the forming and dissolution of partnerships; and depending on their impact in your life, Uranus may take this route to confront you with its necessary lessons. This could even include moving beyond a certain emotional detachment and distancing, towards more embracing, intense, emotional experiences in relationships. Achieving this could result in a rebirth for you in an important sphere of your life.
The essential archetype that the 8th House correlates to in human consciousness is one in which we experience our limitations: who we are, who we are not, and who we cannot be. This awareness creates a sense of power and powerlessness - power in the sense of who we are in a total sense, and powerlessness in the sense of who and what we are not: we have an awareness of other people's power and of sources and forms of power that are somehow not part of our subjective reality. The awareness of subjective power is based upon an intense inner focus that promotes a psychoanalytical knowledge of what motivates and defines the total nature of our subjective reality. This subjective awareness is galvanised through the interaction or interfaces with other people's subjective reality, with what motivates and defines other people's total natures, and through the awareness that there are forms or sources of power that are beyond our subjective ability to control: the 'mysterious' laws that regulate the totality of life itself, laws that we, as subjective entities, apparently cannot control. Death is an example of this.
The awareness of what we cannot control induces into human consciousness the instinct of feeling threatened. This feeling can be projected onto anyone or anything; this feeling and its projection are reactions to the survival instinct: the 2nd house polarity to the 8th house. It is this reaction that becomes the basis of resisting necessary growth dynamics, i.e., someone else trying to point out something about us; our merging with another person or with sources of power that are stronger or more potent than we are; as well as our trying to manipulate and control that which we can in order to not feel threatened, to feel powerful in the face of powerlessness.
The interface between subjective, self-enclosed entities not only defines the parameters of personal limitation but also allows for a metamorphosis of those limitations by merging together. Through merging or uniting with another source of power, a person, a body of knowledge, or any symbol or phenomenon that promtes or can be used to create a metamorphosis of existing limitations, an osmosis takes place. Through osmosis the subjective, self-enclosed entities become that which they have formed a relationship to, or merged with. In so doing, a metamorphosis of limitations occurs because the merging entities have not only become one through each other but have become mroe than they were prior to merging. Examples of this archetype can be seen in the phenomena of committing ourselves to another in relationship, in which we necessarily confront our limitations yet merge to become larger than we were as single entities; sex, in which we merge with a partner and through osmosis produce children and exchange karma (a form of which is sexual diseases); merging with symbols or forms of power like astrology, tarot, magic, and occult sciences of all types, in which we become more than we were prior to the merging; joining resources with another to form all kinds of partnerships; and, nowadays, the intense acceleration of corporations buying up other corporations. Additionally, instead of resisting that which we feel threatened by, we can confront whatever it is that induces this instinctual feeling. By confronting it we can come to know the basis of the fear(s). By knowing it we merge with it, and merging with the basis of the fear(s), we grow beyond that by which we feel threatened.
Uranus in the 8th House correlates to individuals who have an intense need to psychoanalyse themselves in order to understand the nature of their personalities and the inner dynamics that motivate and define the nature of that which they do, and of that which they desire. Because of the inherent objectiveness and detachment of Uranus, these individuals are silently, yet continuously, observing and monitoring their own inner workings. This silent observation promotes an ongoing self-knowledge and deep inner self-awareness as to the nature of their own psychology. Cyclically, content from the person's own unconscious will erupt into his or her
conscious awareness. This content will reflect either that which has been repressed for whatever reasons or seed thoughts that suddenly appear that portend a potential future to come. In either case, these cyclic eruptions will always be preceded by a time of withdrawal or detachment from the immediacy of whatever constitutes the individual's existing reality. This withdrawal reflects the need to inwardly attune to that which is about to erupt from the unconscious. The erupting contents lead to ever deeper levels of self-awareness and the necessity to cyclically refine, redefine, or eliminate whatever dynamics of existing reality thwart the necessary growth that is reflected in this type of metamorphosis. It is as if these people cyclically rebel against their own status-quo reality; this rebellion reflects their inability or intolerance to accept existing limitations for too long a time.
This type of inner Uranian reality will project itself upon the environment in the sense of psychoanalysing or penetrating to the core of anyone or anything in which the individual finds him- or herself engaged. The intense inner magnetism produced within the individual's inner environment, a magnetism that is based on a deep, soul-searching-type consciousness, can attract and repel many people to the individual. These individuals can create an instinctual defence response in others because of the deep inner gaze that is projected through another(s) person. Others can feel exposed, thus threatened, when they do not desire to be exposed. Uranus in the 8th House rebels against superficialness, thus looks below the surface. For those who are seeking to understand themselves, to look at themselves more deeply, to understand how and why they work the way that they work, an intense draw or attraction can be projected upon individuals with Uranus in the 8th House because of their ability to look deeply into the human condition. The deep inner gaze that is projected upon others by these individuals is their way of determining with whom to be engaged: whom to commit to by way of friendship, whom to commmit to by way of intimacy (the search for a soul mate), and what types of experiences to commit to that will allow for essential growth and metamorphosis of inner or outer limitations. Unless there is an essential like-mindedness between the individual and another(s), the individual will have almost nothing to do with him or her.
This deep inner need to grow beyond limitations, to metamorphose cyclically, will promote not only the implementation of personal rituals that allow for this but also a natural kind of curiosity to experiment with, or at least intellectually consider, 'different' kinds of experiences of all sorts. If the individual senses that something may be gained from such experiences, then nothing will be able to stop him or her from implementing the desire for whatever the experience may be. The key here is for the individual to determine that the contemplated experience is necessary or essential for expanding his or her self-psychoanalytic knowledge, for deepening the awareness of the 'mysterious' laws governing life (including his or her own), or confronting an existing limitation that is preventing an evolutionary leap in growth.
Liberation occurs as the person detaches, rebels, and throws off all the external conditioning patterns that have defined his or her psychology and personality, and manifests a willingness to exmine the nature of his or her motivations and intentions (and the desires that determine them) and by examining the cause and basis of any fear, compulsion, complex, or emotional dynamic that is the basis of manipulation or resistance patterns. Liberation occurs through acceptance of what he individual is at any moment, yet can become with respect to full potential, and what the person is not and cannot become. Liberation occurs by accepting what others are at any moment and by encouraging them to become all of what their potential suggests, to not feel threatened by it or block whatever experiences allow for the development of it.
Freedom from the known occurs as people allow themselves to metamorphose as required, without blocking themselves by reaching a certain level of self-knowledge or circumstantial life conditions that feel comfortable and secure and resisting future growth requirements.
A natural stress can occur in the pancrease, liver, colon, small and large intestines, reproductive organs and glands, a stress the impacts on the role, function, and behaviour of the enzymes within the entire organism and on the RNA and DNA structures reflected through the genetic coding within the organism. (When Uranus transits through Scorpio an acceleration occurs in the production of bacteria and viruses by way of mutation: creation, death, and rebirth. New strains and forms are the result. These in turn accelerate the alchemical structural metamorphosis of the RNA and DNA genetic coding for the species: thus the acceleration of mutation based on the need for the species to adapt to rapidly changing conditions. The AIDS virus is the latest example. In our times Uranus in Scorpio also produced the science of genetic splicing, genetic experimentation in general, and new forms of laboratory-created life. New forms of reproductive technology have been invented so that otherwise infertile couples can have children.)
Very independent, those with this Uranus position think everything out for themselves and accept nothing at face value. Circumstances in childhood act to set them apart in some way from their peers, causing them to feel different or isolated; and this isolation remains with them to some extent throughout their lives. Once they have arrived at a conclusion about smoething, they stick with it and can be extremely dogmatic. They do not like to be told what to do, and will resist authority - usually not openly, but simply by not responding. They can seem very cold, disinterested, or even conceited in companionship, though this is due to shyness or their sense of isolation, as they are usually deeply caring, especially on a one-to-one basis.
Though they can dedicate themselves to a cause and work with groups to achieve it, they rarely become members of a group and will part company with it as soon as it no longer serves what they believe to be its purpose. They hate to compromise. They want to stand at the centre of whatever situation is primary in their lives and, if they cannot, prefer to go it alone. If they are able to control a situation it will be by a sort of remote control, by personal example and charisma, rather than by direct or overt efforts to influence.
They frequently present a serious or stern appearance. They could never be characterised as sily or hilarious, though they may try on such behaviour, fearing they won't be included because of being thought 'too serious'. They have an heroic streak that will surface at moments of crisis, an ability to step outside themselves and be self-sacrificing and noble. They can also break out of their customary shell every so often and do something really wild.
The 8th house, the natural domain of Scorpio, engenders those kinds of emotions and feelings so often awakened by the agony and the ecstasy of love - passions like lust, jealousy, rage, envy, possessiveness and vindictiveness. Uranus seeks to approach this sphere somehow differently from the way most people go about it. Often those with Uranus in teh 8th have a compelling urge to free themselves from the restrictions of the basic instinctual nature, and to overcome being ruled by such emotions. They may continually expose themselves to situations which challenge them to rise above and develop detachment from these primal instincts in order to
forge a broader and more tolerant understanding than such messy feelings allow - for instance, the concept of a communal marriage or even husband and wife swapping. In some cases they may try this sort of liberality and fail miserably.
Similarly, they may seek to express the instinctual nature in other ways than merely for the purpose of mating and procreation. Hence, the reputation of this placement for some degree of seuxal curiosity and experimentation. Others might look for techniques and systems which enable them to transcend the realm of libidinal desire through re-directing the sex drive into other outlets.
In cases I have seen, Uranus in the 8th alternates between the extrmees of excessive passion and inhumane coldness. For instance, believing fervently in a certain issue, they may not think twice about planting a bomb in a department store if this would promote their mission.
Those with Uranus in the 8th often have a desire to probe beneath the surface level of existence to discover the more subtle laws of nature operating in life. Astrology, psychology, alchemy, the occult, magic, sub-atomic physics or modern chemistry might interest them. Uranus in the 8th may be fascinated by what death is all about, and attempt to understand it in a less conventional framework. Psychic and telepathic experiences are not uncommon for people with Uranus in this house, although some may not have too much control over them when they occur.
On a more mundane level, sudden reversals of fortune could come through marriage, inheritance and business partnerships. Also, phases of the life may end suddenly and irreversibly: seemingly overnight, one chapter finishes and another begins, or an unforeseen event drastically alters the direction in which the person is heading.
Your parents allowed you to express yourself in your own way, so you assume that everyone will allow you that privilege. You will probably continue to enjoy a favorable relationship with your parents. However, you may sometimes have difficulty with people who resent your lack of inhibition. Once you undersand that not everyone feels as liberated as you do, you can learn to cope with people who have to accept their frustrations. People are impressed with your ability to assert yourself; and they admire the way you defy any of society's rules that interfere with your desires. You can do a great deal to help people become more free of their inhibitions and hang-ups; you can teach them how to create a future of their own choosing, rather than be confined by the past, which only restricts them.
You probably know more about the people you deal with than they do. You know their most guarded secrets, and you can show them how to accept themselves. The work you do should allow you to become involved with the public; and your efforts should help improve their general well-being. At times people are embarrassed by your habit of focusing on their most sensitive psychological inhibitions, for there are few secrets that anyone can keep from you for long. You would do well to choose a career of service to the public. You would attract substantial patronage for your efforts to help people help themselves. Being self-employed would allow you self-determination to adapt as needed as your influence becomes more extensive.
It is important to develop your personal values with the same ardour you exhibit in pursuing a life without restraints. Self-discipline and a sense of financial responsibility will assure you of greater freedom to indulge in those matters that attract your attention most strongly. Doing favours for people all the time suggests that you have some doubts about your worth. Try to resolve this situation as early as
possible, so you can get on with making your most significant contribution to society through your understanding and ability to help people with their problems. You tend to overextend yourself in making purchases, which will further delay the time when you can improve the circumstances of those who are directly affected by you.
You must get training and education to help you achieve a high degree of proficiency in understanding people's problems. This is one of your most significant abilities, and it is your responsibility to use it where it will produce the best results. Whether you apply this talent for yourself or for others, you cannot fail to benefit from it. Because you have an obligation to serve others, you may rebel at the thought of limiting your self-indulgence because someone else depends on you. With your help, others can enjoy greater freedom.
Although you think 'free', you too have some limitations; and the key to them is the public's need for your services. Your destiny requires that you extend yourself on behalf of people who do not know how to fulfil themselves. Adhere to a sound code of ethics as you become more involved with people and their affairs. In dealing with the public, even the slightest departure from moral responsibility can have disastrous results. You cannot afford to have your dreams so easily jeopardizsed, because your dreams for the future are very important to you.
Union: Intimate sharing is a peak experience. Much time is spent observing union rather than participating in it, staunchly maintaining detachment. In this state, your personal worth is not open to alteration through interaction with others. Then, suddenly, a spark of sharing explodes you like a rocket off the launch pad, blasting toward the heavens of union. The pitfall involves mutual exclusivity, the tendency when operating from either frame of mind to deny the possibility of the other. The challenge is to respond to intimacy whenever your life hardens into stagnant habits, knowing full well that such revolutionary unions are not likely to be permanent, but honouring them just the same.
Transformation: One moment you're the person you know, and the next moment you're a stranger to yourself, an alien from another world. These changes are rarely permanent. Rather, they represent the experience of a self still in-the-becoming, a preview of who you will eventually become. What characterises both states is the willingness to stand alone, unaffected by the pulls of ordinary human relating. The challenge involves clarity in seeing what is ultimately real, shucking illusions like shedding old skins. Remember these special phases, and use them as a compass to guide yourself toward maturity.
Sexual merging: Why do you explode into sexual ecstasy one moment, yet remain coolly aloof another? Most of the time you don't know why. But the issues revolve around your individuality and the use of your wil. When you operate from ordinary will, you may staunchly refuse to be sexually involved. It's only when you become receptive to a purer consciousness within yourself that you receive the full benefits of your tantric power. However rare it may be, sexual union is a sudden awakening of your sensitivity. In release, you gain a renewed sense of the power that surrounds us in the universe. Your challenge is to accept this power whne you connect with it, to honour yourself, your partner, and the universe itself for the gift of sexual magic.
Focused intuition: You are alternately fascinated and bored by intuitive realities. At times, you are the real item; a bona fide magician. At other times, you're a cipher, denying that you could ever perform feats of occult magic. You don't wish to be a trained seal, going into your act on command; and this includes even your own
command. Intuition happens on its own, shocking you and others with its unpredictable urgency. You are so humanitarian in your psychic focus that you more often receive insight about strangers than about those closest to you. Somehow, distance increases sensitivity. One pitfall lies in your not gaining personal advantage from the occasional flashes of intuitive brilliance. The challenge is to give whatever you get, to allow your intuition to go where it wants to go, rather than trying to develop or force it into any disciplined application.
Shared assets: There is unpredictability around money and possessions, especially as they pertain to your relationships. You can win and lose fortunes, often overnight, so expect hte unexpected. It's best if you make your money in non-standard ways, for it is outside the ordinary that your talents will lie. Lowered attachment to money and possessions liberates you from fear. The pitfall is excessive wilfulness - bending under pressure is not one of your strong suits; and you can be incredibly stubborn when pushed, although you are also graciously flexible when you feel free to be so. Finally, you tend to play the game of money by your own rules; and though this can be an asset, it can get you into trouble. The challenge is to understand what is gained or lost.
Uranus in the ninth house can be indicative of someone who strongly believes in religious freedom for everyone. Personally, this individual will find it hard to confirm to an organised religion. If you have this placement, you might even object to the word 'religious' being attached to you. But call it what you will, there is a need for a personal belief system. It is possible to start life in a traditional religion, but unlikely that you will stay in it. You probably consider your religious beliefs unique; and it may surprise you when you discover that, although some of your ideas are nonconforming in terms of organised religion, there are other people out in the world who have similar views. This is because the main concern is not necessarily uniqueness or eccentricity, but rather that your spiritual concepts satisfy you as a person - that they contribute to your sense of individuality and make you feel freer.
If you were raised in a traditional religion, you will probably retain some of the tenets from your early religious training (although you might do this unconsciously); but you will discard anything which does not fit into your way of life or does not make sense to you.
A number of people with very different horoscopes, but all of whom have Uranus in the ninth house, have each mentioned to me a search for a personal religion. The methods they used varied. Some read books, others took courses, still others visited houses of worship, and some did two or more of the above. However, whatever method was used, what each was doing was to examine the possibilities of the ninth house in terms of religion. They were defining their choices so that they could stretch their boundaries. They wanted a belief system that would make them feel freer. The body of beliefs that each ultimately embraced were, to some degree, different from each other; but the overall result was the same - the formation of a persoanlised religion.
With Uranus in the ninth house there can be an intellectual curiosity in terms of spiritual matters. But because Uranus is a fixed planet you are not easily influenced. You do not readily accept ideas without question. However, your curiosity can prod you to investigate, and your objectivity help you to look fairly at what you find. You may even examine religious concepts in order to disprove them; but your mind should
Since the ninth house is also the house of higher education, your intellectual curiosity can be satisfied by learning about matters other than spiritual ones. There isa thirst for knowledge and an impatience to get it as quickly as possible. If we add the ingredient of impatience to the non-conforming quality associated with Uranus, it is understandable why some individuals with this placement do not easily adjust to college life and may take another route to educate themselves.
On the other hand, many people with Uranus in the ninth house do attend traditional colleges. This may be because the desire for knowledge outweighs the need for freedom, or else tehy find ways to satisfy individuality and the revolutionary spirit within the frame of reference of the four-year college or university. If you are an idealistic person with a cause, or in search of a cause, you might gravitate toward an institution of higher learning. You may do this because you think that academia caters to open-mindedness. Therefore, you will be able to find a cause or get support from other free-thinking people. You could consider the campus a good place to vent your revolutionary tendencies.
Another reason for attending a traditional college is that you may take pleasure in chellenging your professors. Someone I know with this placement told me that when he was in college, he would research topics that were going to be taught in his courses with the idea of discovering facts that might refute anything his instructors would say. He particularly enjoyed doing this with teachers who were dogmatic or those who were ill-prepared. He may not have been popular with the faculty; but a number of the courses in which he participated were probably more interesting and informative because he was there. And he felt that he became more knowledgeable because of the experience.
Another route that might be taken in terms of higher education is to attend a technical school. In such places you can acquire specialised knowledge and can receive training for a specific purpose. This training is often focused on a particular subject and you are not slowed down by having to take courses that seem to have no connection to your goal. For example, you might take a computer course to learn to program computers or to operate them. If you take this route, you get the information you need as quickly as possible without the embellishment of seemingly irrelevant courses full of extraneous material. You can apply the results of what you have learned right away and satisfy that impatient quality so prevalent in your attitude about higher education.
Another possibility of Uranus in the ninth house is to avoid any form of traditional higher education and braoden yourself in other ways, such as travel. You need not be constantly on the move; but when you go to a different state or country it is not just to vegetate. You want to know what the natives are like, and will probably ask about and go to see the points of interest in the area you are visiting. The success of your journey will be most likely to be measured by the amount of knowledge you have gained.
What Uranus is attempting to guide you towards in this 9th house position is a revolutionary change in your world-views. Similar to everyone else in your culture and soecity, you will have grown up under the influence of collective thought-forms, attitudes and beliefs. These will have formed the conditioning social concepts arising from religious, philosophical / moral and educative teachings which form the structure of your society. THis is the process of socialising, where the young child is
taught how to live within the socially accepted parameters of the culture. Most individuals' thinking is basically repeating what they have been conditioned to think; very few become 'free minds'. Yet such an approach does instil order into society, historical traditions and established patterns of thought being inherited and transmitted across generations.
But it is in the fixity of such mental patterns that problems arise. They inhibit explorative discovery, leading to branding such thinkers as heretical; they suppress questioning of the status quo, creating dissidents, who are leant on by the weight of the State; they deny and inhibit necessary changes from occurring, in case the results are destabilising; they ignore the consequences of choices made under these fixed world / cultural views, because if they do not, the edifices of their political / religious beliefs collapse through being revealed as outdated and inappropriate.
What Uranus will expect is that you break out of these restricting mental paradigms. There is probably a spirit of revolution in you anyway, inclining you to free expression of your own unique individuality; but Uranus in the 9th house will fuel this need, so that you can mentally breathe freely instead of suffocating. This certainly will not be an easy move to make, as it involves shaking off the accumulated dust of centuries of that society's thinking, in order to gain a glimpse of something else that has perhaps been lost. The problem is that until an individual wakes to the fact of this social conditioning, it is not realised how deep its effects have grown. Most of the sense of personal identity is rooted in that ground; the reflective angles of self-perception have been allowed only within a certain social contex, and the rest are 'taboo areas' where social constraint is attempted over even words and thoughts.
If you can achieve a new mental paradigm, a way of experiencing and perceiving the nature of life, then you will have been truly reborn. Through you could come advanced, progressive, utopian ideas and visions (reflecting the Ideation of Uranus); you could become inspirational to others who are seeking ways out of the impasse facing them. Expressions such as teaching and publishing could become your 'outbreath' released into the world to continue and stimulate the process of change and liberation. But it will not be easy to ahve the roots of our mind and identity uprooted, and then replanted to give a totally new scenario of the universe. One can start by pausing, looking within and considering what you do really think and know. Has it been absorbed through forms of conditioning? Essentially ask yourself the question 'Who am I, and what am I doing here?'. The 'answer' can be an ongoing experience, the start of your personal revolution.
A natural stress occurring in the thyroid gland will impact on teh ability to assimilate or metabolise the inherent nutrients of the foods that one eats. Stress relative to the pituitary galnd will impact on its regulation of the growth and decay of the organism; and stress impacting on the sciatic nerves will disrupt the functioning of the legs and feet. Uranus here accelerates the individual's (or species's) need to interpret the existential phenomena of existence in metaphysical, cosmological, or religious terms, thus placing heightened stress, or focus, upon the right brain. This focus thus produces the problems associated with 'switching', as mentioned with Uranus in teh third house. The difference is that the individual's centre of gravity, or focus, lies within the right brain here, whereas in the third house the focus, or centre of gravity, was in the left brain. An acceleration of intuitive realisations about the nature of whatever the individual is focused upon can lead to brain fatigue or stress because of the intensity of the electrical energy in the right brain, which produces such realisations.
Uranus at this ambitious angle can bring a variety of opposite effects. It can intensity the ambition or will to succeed at all costs, or it can turn it around, creating disdain for worldly ambiton. Sometimes it brings spiritual ambition, and eagerness to penetrate the mysteries of life nd death and be ready for the next world. The emotional isolation can be very great at this angle; and good aspects below the horizon, planets in Water signs, and a good Moon and Venus are necessary to create a warm home life and stable friendships.
There may be sorrow or coldness at home in childhood or youth. The family may break up or move away from familiar surroundings. There is a tendency for them to leave home early or to be forced out on their own before they are ready; and as they tend to lack the inner resources to re-establish qucikly and easily, this remains a lasting grievance. They are inclined to maintain a cool or lofty pose, which makes it even more difficult for them to ask for help.
This position brings deep political insight which can manifest in many ways, causing some to become political geniuses, able to mastermind large scale social movements for the benefit of mankind, and some into cold-blooded manipulators for the benefit of no-one but themselves, and (few, luckily) into paranoid monsters who manipulate others for the thrill of seeing them destroyed. Some will have experienced from childhood the limits of human ambition and social manipulation, and so will retreat from the world, renouncing all personal claims and social ambition. It brings a cynical attitude towards the motivations of others, an inclination to suspect he worst, or even a paranoid inability to see anything but personal ambition and cold manipulation in all actions of others.
It gives courage that can become recklessness, a tendency to gamble with things that others would hold too dear to risk. Lots of love in childhood helps to ease the difficulties this position brings later.
Uranus is always searching for 'the truth'; and what better house to do it in than the 9th, the natural abode of Sagittarius? Rather than adhere to traditional or orthodox views, they must independently find a meaningful set of beliefs or a philosophical system by which to order life. But in true Uranian fashion, they will keep on destroying systems they have created for the sake of discovering or trying out new ones which might be broader or more inclusive.
The image of God may be cast in the likeness of Uranus - the starry heavens - vast and very difficult to grasp. And yet, just as there are laws which guide the movement of the planets, somewhere in it all, there must be a system. Those with Uranus difficultly aspected could, at certain times, adhere to quite odd or fanatical cults. Too abstract, their philosophy may not translate easily into everyday life. Occasionally, they might have flashes or insights into what they believe are the workings of the Divine or Universal Mind. Often those with Uranus in the 9th will hold progressive views in the field of education. They may seek an alternative rather than traditional academic structure - such as an independent study programme or the Open University in England. At any time in the degree programme, they may decide to make an abrupt change in their course of study. A 9th house Uranus can bring new ideas, concepts, and insights into any field.
visiting another country, encounter people or ideas which wake them up and shatter old structures. An in-law may even be the catalyst for inspiring new vision.
If Uranus is not too adversely aspected, they will probably have an uncanny insight into future trends, as if they can feel the pulse of society.
Freedom is so important to you that nothing will stand in the way of getitng the education you need to achieve your goals. In your view, anyone who is uninformed is likely to become trapped in a life situation or career that limits his or her personal privileges or ability to assert individuality. You want the opportunity to develop your creative potentials and prove what you can do with them. You demand the same for your children; and you offer yourself as an example of what someone can accomplish through individual fulfilment. You give them the chance to exploit their identities to the fullest. Your innovative talents make you a creative lover as well; and your partner is probably quite content with your skill in lovemaking. You have enormous faith that you will succeed in anything you attempts; and your devotion to your responsibilities makes it possible for you to 'move mountains'.
You have a good understanding of people and their problems; and it is rare when anyone deceives you successfully. You know intuitively when someone is not telling the truth or is insincere. You are generous in helping those who truly need your assistance; and you willingly share your knowledge to help them solve their own problems. You never lose sight of the future and the goals you still plan to achieve. You want to know that your efforts have helped improve the quality of life for as many people in society as possible.
It is essential that you always be available to those who need your knowledge and skills. Though you are well informed, you still have to apply yourself to acquire new information. No-one knows everything, nto even you; and your growth depends on your continued search for more knowledge so that you can better use your skills. You need the kind of career environment in which you can use your talents fully and not be restricted so that your enthusiasm wanes. You could distinguish yourself in many fields; but whatever you decide, you should make some contribution to benefit the most needy members of society. Because you are in tune with soecity's problems, your efforts can help reduce or eliminate many of them.
Though you may have yielded to family responsibilities, you were innovative enough to find a way to pursue your eudcation at the same time. This probably required that you make many sacrifices, but you realised that you could not afford to pass up the chance to invest in your future security. This also taught you how to plan for the future, for you know that increased earnings will give you freedom to succeed in newer and more satisfying objectives.
The right to pursue your own objectives does not allow you to ignore those who have come to depend on you for help and guidance when they need it most. For the most part, you recognise that you play an important part in their lives, so you are usually available. Don't deny yourself the full benefit of your creative resources by aligning yourself with people who want you to lower your ethical standards while working on their behalf. You don't need the apprehension of fearing that someone will learn about your lack of integrity and cause you to lose much that you have gained.
rollercoaster of stimulation. There is a desire to go past the acceptable, to see what lies beyond in forbidden realms of thinking. At times you become a philosophical or religious revolutionary, going after accepted beliefs with a vengeance, stopping at nothing to upset the status quo. Rarely one to mince words, you may lambast others with your opinions, and you're as likely to provoke opposition as win support. Remember, devastating social criticism is easy. Aim for something higher, for true reform. THe challenge is to let your mind move as it wishes, to allow it to show you previously undiscovered channels to brilliance. If you live your own philosophy, you'll promote a wider revolution than by storming the walls of traditional power centres.
Cultural perspective: When you travel far from home, or at least away from normal surroundings, the unexpected can and often does happen. Journeys can be pleasurable, awakening new perspectives that cause your understanding to leap beyond former boundaries. Or they can be unsettling, rattling your cage in chaotic or upsetting ways. When you want to shake up your life, leave home, and you invite radical influences into your consciousness. You may find yourself alone on your travels, even when you start out in tamdem with others. This is natural, for exploring the world is a basic way to get in touch with your individuality. Use trips or relocations to establish a new sense of yourself.
Higher education: Of all the 9th house planetary types, you are the least suited to classical routes of higher education. You could be found in a classroom, but there will be something unusual about the situation. Learning is not likely to be consistent. There are periods of lying fallow, simply moving with the general tide of life. But then an experience galvanises your consciousness, and you catapult into intensive study. It may seem totally irrelevant to others, but your mind is charged by a wave of illumination. No-one questions your basic intelligence, but you often engender opposition with an iconoclastic disregard for traditional wisdom. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead.
The search for truth: Truths emerge not from prolonged or careful study, but as wild-cards, sudden bursts of enlightenment. Being hardheaded, you are unlikely to be interested in others' truths, and yet you insist on communicating your own discoveries. Telling the turth is something you relish. You love the element of surprise, and your communication is often outlandish. But keep in mind that shock effect is not always the best method for transmitting the truth. Remember to be gentle, and you're more likely to be considered a wise genius than a cantankerous fool. Truth is an awakening into freedom.
Ideal society: Your perfect soecity would have few if any restraints on expression. No structured society for you; the less government the better. All men would be brothers (and women sisters), but each person would have ample opportunities to develop his or her particular genius. Repsect for personal liberty would extend to peaceful resolution of conflict, probably be separating the combatants. There might be a revolutionary sensibility: out with the old, in with the new. As Ruler of the World, you would be a benevolent despot. You would abolish every institution and finally abdicate the throne; and no-one would know if you were serious or joking.
Uranus is always searching for 'the truth'; and what better house to do it in than the 9th, the natural abode of Sagittarius? Rather than adhere to traditional or orthodox views, they must independently find a meaningful set of beliefs or a philosophical system by which to order life. But in true Uranian fashion, they will keep on destroying systems they have created for the sake of discovering or trying out new ones which might be broader or more inclusive.
The image of God may be cast in the likeness of Uranus - the starry heavens - vast and very difficult to grasp. And yet, just as there are laws which guide the movement of the planets, somewhere in it all, there must be a system. Those with Uranus difficultly aspected could, at certain times, adhere to quite odd or fanatical cults. Too abstract, their philosophy may not translate easily into everyday life. Occasionally, they might have flashes or insights into what they believe are the workings of the Divine or Universal Mind. Often those with Uranus in the 9th will hold progressive views in the field of education. They may seek an alternative rather than traditional academic structure - such as an independent study programme or the Open University in England. At any time in the degree programme, they may decide to make an abrupt change in their course of study. A 9th house Uranus can bring new ideas, concepts, and insights into any field.
Unusual and unexpected experiences can come through travel. They might, while visiting another country, encounter people or ideas which wake them up and shatter old structures. An in-law may even be the catalyst for inspiring new vision.
If Uranus is not too adversely aspected, they will probably have an uncanny insight into future trends, as if they can feel the pulse of society.
Freedom is so important to you that nothing will stand in the way of getitng the education you need to achieve your goals. In your view, anyone who is uninformed is likely to become trapped in a life situation or career that limits his or her personal privileges or ability to assert individuality. You want the opportunity to develop your creative potentials and prove what you can do with them. You demand the same for your children; and you offer yourself as an example of what someone can accomplish through individual fulfilment. You give them the chance to exploit their identities to the fullest. Your innovative talents make you a creative lover as well; and your partner is probably quite content with your skill in lovemaking. You have enormous faith that you will succeed in anything you attempts; and your devotion to your responsibilities makes it possible for you to 'move mountains'.
You have a good understanding of people and their problems; and it is rare when anyone deceives you successfully. You know intuitively when someone is not telling the truth or is insincere. You are generous in helping those who truly need your assistance; and you willingly share your knowledge to help them solve their own problems. You never lose sight of the future and the goals you still plan to achieve. You want to know that your efforts have helped improve the quality of life for as many people in society as possible.
It is essential that you always be available to those who need your knowledge and skills. Though you are well informed, you still have to apply yourself to acquire new information. No-one knows everything, nto even you; and your growth depends on your continued search for more knowledge so that you can better use your skills. You need the kind of career environment in which you can use your talents fully and not be restricted so that your enthusiasm wanes. You could distinguish yourself in many fields; but whatever you decide, you should make some contribution to benefit the most needy members of society. Because you are in tune with soecity's problems, your efforts can help reduce or eliminate many of them.
Though you may have yielded to family responsibilities, you were innovative enough to find a way to pursue your eudcation at the same time. This probably required that you make many sacrifices, but you realised that you could not afford to pass up the
chance to invest in your future security. This also taught you how to plan for the future, for you know that increased earnings will give you freedom to succeed in newer and more satisfying objectives.
The right to pursue your own objectives does not allow you to ignore those who have come to depend on you for help and guidance when they need it most. For the most part, you recognise that you play an important part in their lives, so you are usually available. Don't deny yourself the full benefit of your creative resources by aligning yourself with people who want you to lower your ethical standards while working on their behalf. You don't need the apprehension of fearing that someone will learn about your lack of integrity and cause you to lose much that you have gained.
Conceptual frameworks: In the 9th, Uranus indicates that the higher mind is a rollercoaster of stimulation. There is a desire to go past the acceptable, to see what lies beyond in forbidden realms of thinking. At times you become a philosophical or religious revolutionary, going after accepted beliefs with a vengeance, stopping at nothing to upset the status quo. Rarely one to mince words, you may lambast others with your opinions, and you're as likely to provoke opposition as win support. Remember, devastating social criticism is easy. Aim for something higher, for true reform. THe challenge is to let your mind move as it wishes, to allow it to show you previously undiscovered channels to brilliance. If you live your own philosophy, you'll promote a wider revolution than by storming the walls of traditional power centres.
Cultural perspective: When you travel far from home, or at least away from normal surroundings, the unexpected can and often does happen. Journeys can be pleasurable, awakening new perspectives that cause your understanding to leap beyond former boundaries. Or they can be unsettling, rattling your cage in chaotic or upsetting ways. When you want to shake up your life, leave home, and you invite radical influences into your consciousness. You may find yourself alone on your travels, even when you start out in tamdem with others. This is natural, for exploring the world is a basic way to get in touch with your individuality. Use trips or relocations to establish a new sense of yourself.
Higher education: Of all the 9th house planetary types, you are the least suited to classical routes of higher education. You could be found in a classroom, but there will be something unusual about the situation. Learning is not likely to be consistent. There are periods of lying fallow, simply moving with the general tide of life. But then an experience galvanises your consciousness, and you catapult into intensive study. It may seem totally irrelevant to others, but your mind is charged by a wave of illumination. No-one questions your basic intelligence, but you often engender opposition with an iconoclastic disregard for traditional wisdom. Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead.
The search for truth: Truths emerge not from prolonged or careful study, but as wild-cards, sudden bursts of enlightenment. Being hardheaded, you are unlikely to be interested in others' truths, and yet you insist on communicating your own discoveries. Telling the turth is something you relish. You love the element of surprise, and your communication is often outlandish. But keep in mind that shock effect is not always the best method for transmitting the truth. Remember to be gentle, and you're more likely to be considered a wise genius than a cantankerous fool. Truth is an awakening into freedom.
Ideal society: Your perfect soecity would have few if any restraints on expression. No structured society for you; the less government the better. All men would be brothers
(and women sisters), but each person would have ample opportunities to develop his or her particular genius. Repsect for personal liberty would extend to peaceful resolution of conflict, probably be separating the combatants. There might be a revolutionary sensibility: out with the old, in with the new. As Ruler of the World, you would be a benevolent despot. You would abolish every institution and finally abdicate the throne; and no-one would know if you were serious or joking.
Uranus in the tenth house can mean that you change jobs frequently, but there are so many other possibilities that it is a poor excuse for career failure. Although it can indicate a restlessness in the area of occupation, you could also be dissatisfied if you were unemployed for too long. Important requirements are that you have a degree of freedom in what you do in the world and that you are challenged in that area. If you are not working, you may bf free, but you will be missing the challenge.
You are probably most content if you can use your ingenuity in your career. You thrive on spontaneous responses to situations and, therefore, prefer not to be involved in a job in which there are no surprises. However, you really do not want a totally unstructured situation, nor do you respond well when you feel another person is using surprise tactics to control you. You tend to resist any change suggested or instituted by someone else. If circumstances demand a new approach, you have the ability to come up with one that is fresh and original. But if you are supposed to carry out someone else's new and creative ideas, you might rebel. And you possibly would seem so unbending that you might be considered a reactionary.
If you have Uranus in the tenth house, your profession should ideally include a broad, stable structure within which you can operate, but enough flexibility to help you avoid monotony and boredom. You will want to be aware of company goals so that your direction is clear. But, you prefer to pursue these goals in a manner that you select. And, if left to your own devices, you will probably go beyond the company's expectations.
You could decide that having your own business is essential to your need for freedom, especially if you have had dealings with tyrannical bosses. Working for yourself can be very appealing to your urge for independence. But what you should consider before you embark upon this path is that there are responsibilities connected with self-employment that are not part of working for someone else. WHen you have your own business, you have to deal with finances, advertising, marketing and probably a number of other issues, depending on the type of profession involved. In other words, when you are the one in charge, success or failure is based largely on your own efforts or your ability to delegate well.
If you are thinking about starting your own business, you should consider what needs to be done in order to make it succeed. Determine what you want to do yourself and what you would like otehrs to do. You might like the idea of doing everything yourself and, if this is feasible, there should be no problems. If, however, your goals are too large to handle alone, you can still estbalish a successful business if you analyse your situation and take action accordingly. After you decide what parts you will enjoy doing yourself, find people for the remaining tasks who have capability in the sector of the business involved and are self-reliant, but not so independent that they might overthrow the power figure - you. This last possibility can be avoided if you select subordinates who are trustworthy and also report to you regularly in order to keep you informed of what is occurring.
What you do not want is to feel more tied down in your own business than you were when you worked for someone else. If you have to worry about what your subordinates are doing, you will feel weighted down. Responsibilities may interfere with your creative ideas which you started your own business to express. So if you are feeling uncreative or bored with your career, do not permit your restlessness to cause you to act hastily. Before you move in this direction you might first get away from the office for a short period of time. Go out into the world and do something exciting or creative but totally unconnected with your current career. This may be enough to renew your enthusiasm and give you fresh ideas. Another goal or dimension might be added to your business or, possibly, a new type of career could stem from your newfound excitement or creativity.
Another course of action could be to simply try a new or different approach to your work. Or you could investigate new equipment available to you that might be exciting to use and possibly streamline your business. That could make your work easier and give you more time to be creative. Also relying on machines instead of people could be appealing to you. A machine may break down, but you don't have to worry about its motivation in doing so. If, after various attempts to put new life into your business, you are still dissatisfied, you might then consider doing something else.
Although Uranus in the tenth house indicates that change can be undertaken in the career, you do not want to make abrupt changes without forethought. Sometimes restlessness and the desire for change, or pressure from others, may cause you to act too rashly; and you can create a situation that is worse than the one you left. Some of the suggestions mentioned baove could be tried, or you might create other appropriate actions. Keep in mind that a hcnage of attitude may be as satisfying as a change or career. There is a desire to make drastic changes, but minor adjustments may be all that are needed. If you have made minor adjustments anda re still dissatisfied, you might consider a career in a Uranian field such as astrology, computer technology, electrical engineering, or anything unusual or on the cutting edge.
The challenges confronting you with this placement are involved with your relationship to society, and your role and function within the collective expression of your generation. This will concern personal desires and the expression of your individual tendencies, as well as a potential social contribution that you may make.
There is likely to be an inner impulse to succeed and to rise socially, gainning prestige, status, authority, power and influence. Applying your strong will may make this quite possible, but much will depend upon the seometimes unpredivtable Uranian activity, and whether this will undermine your conscious efforts. You may be quite able to organise yourself well, and progress through discipline and work, but much will depend on your sense of social relationship and obligation.
If the thrust of your desire is purely personal, for ego gratification, power over others, social status, or monetary gain, and fails to take due regard for others or the social consequences of your decisions, then Uranus may conspire to prevent further progress, perhaps through the influence of others in your social circles or by allowing you to over-emphasise several of your more damaging characteristics through hubris. This can often occur in business or political scenes, where the dynamics of the élite power structures can be difficult to handle successfully. Your ambition could be thwarted, perhaps through a Uranian lack of deference for an employer or authority senior to you in the hierarchy.
Often, your relation to authroity can be difficult and touchy, and your feelings towards power can be ambiguous. An adjustment may be required in these feelings, so that you rae able to develop your own personal power, instead of probably inhibiting it to some degree. If you can accept your own power, then your attitudes and understanding of the roles and functions of authorities and power will also change.
You will be really looking to discover your own role and function in society, a process of potential integration into the whole. You could fail, and become a reactionary revolutionary, feeding off rejected negative energies, and primarily being destructive rather than constructive in your response to your own failure.
Yet the most appropriate way could be the pioneering of new ways and concepts, where liberal humanitarian and radical social politics attracts you, satisfying the Uranian impulse for future-oriented social change. As usual, you will demand as much freedom as possible in your life, stalking around like a caged animal if it is denied. This need could develop into an unusual career or profession, which can absorb such a demand without any detriment, and it may be that over time your innovative perspective could lead you to become a leadr or spokesperson for some idealistic cause or scientific development. This will depend on that ability to generate personal power and to apply it in a socially influential manner; and this is unlikely to happen overnight but likely to emerge as a consequence of effort and persistence in a chosen direction.
The essential archetype that the 10th House correlates to in human consciousness is the need to give structural cohesion and definition to the totality of what one is inwardly and outwardly. It is the need to establish inner and outer laws, rules, customs, norms, and taboos that regulate the funcitoning of life itself. These laws, rules, or customs, establish inner and outer conditions that by their very nature condition, shape, and define the essence of anything: e.g., when water is poured into a certain shape, the inherent essence or spirit of the water now reflects the shape that it is defined by (poured into). It was stated earlier that Uranus correlates to the Creation that is projected outwards from its Source, and that the root principle of the projected Creation is Intelligence. This projected Creation is everywhere and constitutes everything. As this Creation / Intelligence is reflected in human consciousness, which simply means a consciousness that has the capacity to be aware that it is conscious (self-conscious), and from a metaphysical point of view the Universe being conscious of itself, the essence of consciousness is thus defined by, conditioned, and limited to consciousness in a human form: the structure of consciousness as expressed through time, space, and the time / space laws of cause and effect that are the essence of evolution. In reverse, this is why human beings project upon the Creator anthropomorphic images of their own form.
Uranus here means to learn the difference between the laws, conditions, rules, and norms that are made by the human being, and those laws that are intrinsic to the condition of being a human being. To give form, shape, and definition is an inherent law of the Creation, which is projected outwards form the Source, as an example. When this law is linked with time, space, and the law of cause and effect, the evolution of form, shapes, and definitions takes place. Similarly, this law is reflected in human consciousness as the need to give definition, structure, and form to itself, which changes over time through cause and effect. When a group of people live together in the same time and space, this intrinsic law manifests (projects) as the need to establish social definitions, laws, customs, norms, and taboos in order for the
individuals, who reflect their own laws, to live together in a social unit that is regulated by the consensus of social contracts: laws.
Uranus in the 10th House is a natural paradox. On the one hand, any group of people who live together must have social contracts, laws, that allow them to live together, On the other hand, every individual within that social group is an individual whose individuality is subjected to the social conditions of the society that he or she is born into. It is this interface between the individual and the social group that induces the paradox to manifest. Individuality and consensus are inherently antithetical. The challenge for those who have this archetype in their consciousness is to define, first, their won intrinsic nature in total, and then to objectively acknowledge the social system, the prevailing socual conditions, consensus, rules, laws, regulations, taboos, and normks that they are living within in order to understand how to integrate within the social system with their inherent individuality intact. The resulting overall lifestyle of each individual will be reflective of the individual's actual nature, a nature that is not defined or limitedby the consensus-held beliefs, values, norms, and so on.
Even though the challenge is for the individual to define his or her own inherent laws, beleifs, values, and identity, the most common reaeciton is to define oneself, to experience oneself, to reflect the nature of the times that one is living in. When Uranus is in an individual's tenth house, he or she may adopt the overall lifestyle of the prevailing peer group (the values, beliefs, etc.) in order to feel socially, thus individually, secure. If so, this reflects an emotional and / or psychological reaction to the inner sense of being quite different from the consensus that is reflected in the prevailing peer group.
Liberation for individuals who have Uranus in the 10th House means to be free from all judgement or perception patterns that are projected upon themselves or others (patterns that are based upon, or are reflections of, the consensus status quo of the prevailing peer group of the society in which they live), to realise that such judgements or perceptions are based upon and conditioned by the mainstream consensus of social contracts that allow for a group of people to live together. Liberation occurs when these individuals learn the difference between their conditional identities and their actual identities: the deconditioned / unconditioned Self. Freedom from the known occurs when these individuals allow for new ideas or ways of responding to life conditions, instead of hanging on to old ideas or ways of response just because a security exists with respect to the way they have always reacted to, or throught about, something. Freedom from the known occurs when these individuals realise the difference between natural or inherent universal laws versus the laws made by human beings, and when they harmonise individual requirements to reflect the universal laws and / or requirements.
A natural stress can occur in the skeletal system and bone marrow of the organism. The stress can lessen the secretion of fluids vital for the integrity of the skeletal system's maintenance. Brittleness of bones, arthritis, curvature of the spine, accelerated tooth decay through weakness in the enamel, and immune system problems associated with irregularities in the B and T cels can all result. Deficiencies in calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus either will be genetically present or will be transitorially produced. Pituitary and thyroid problems (commonly a deficiency in iron) can manifest, and toxic retention on a cellular level can 'pollute' the inner environment, which can lead to cycles of fatigue or, in extreme cases, to cancer in its various forms. Skin eruptions, sores, ulceratioms, and abscesses can also manifest because of these toxins as the body attempts to purify itself. Dehydration leading to constipation can also occur in the intestines; the toxins that this produces generate, in varying degrees of difficulty, problems associated specifically with the colon and generally with the intestines: the growth of polyps, cysts, abscesses, blockages or
closures in the passageways, etc.. The increased pressure to eliminate can thus produce haemorrhoids, anal itching or burning, a 'frozen' sphincter muscle, etc..
If you have Uranus in the eleventh house you will probably avoid attaching yourself closely to a group unless the group is unusual. Even then, however, you could find yourself looking for excuses to miss meetings or break away from the crowd. You are most comfortable on the periphery, viewing the gathering as an observer rather than a participant. This is the easiest way to objectively evaluate the situation and to maintain your independence. You do not want to blend in so much that no-one notices you because you do not want to be ignored or taken for granted. But, you may not want to be a continual participant. If you feel ignored, you might do or say something outlandish just to express your individuality.
This attitude may be prevalent in social events, clubs, business meetings or other kinds of gatherings. You could remain detached or try to avoid them entirely. You might also find that if you do attend a meeting, or accept an invitation to a party, you have the strong urge to leave soon after you arrive.
There are ways to combat the feelings. You could keep flitting around the room. The movement alone should be comfortable for someone who has Uranus in the elventh house. But, as you move around, you could seek out people whom you think might be mentally stimulating. If you have no idea how to find interesting people, select someone who dresses oddly or for some other reason seems different. You would probably naturally gravitate toward such people anyway, and you may find that you leave the party with new ideas or information, or at least a good story about the strange people you met.
Another way to cope with parties is to stir up a little excitement. I don't recommend physical combat; but verbal bantering could be fun. You might express the opposite viewpoint to anything anyone suggests. It should make the gathering interesting and make you feel your attendance was worthwhile. If you evoke strong feelings or hostility in others, a discordant situation might arise and your host or hostess might never invite you to a party again. But you could welcome that response if you didn't want to be there in the first place.
There is still another way you might choose to express your Uranus in the eleventh house. You might select a cause with which you could become involved. It is probably best if you do this on a short-term basis. A long-term project could become boring, and your interest would undoubtedly wane. Then you either experience burn-out or dissatisfaction with the progress being made. That is the time to drop what you are doing and move on to a new cause. If you have committed yourself for a long period of time, it may not be so easy to leave. Therefore, it is simpler to assume short-term obligations in regard to a humanitarian project or cause.
It is possible to stay with a cause indefinitely with the right approach. Make sure that it is clear to all parties involved that your commitment is short-term and you will not feel trapped. Then, as you are approaching the end of your commitment time, you can review how you feel about what you have been doing. If you think it is time to move on you can do that, or you might decide you want to continue and you can reaffirm the same commitment. Should you decide you want to go on, your evaluation might have instilled a renewed excitement within you, or you might have thought of some creative ideas and an innovative approach to the project. Using this approach, you
Whilst the 5th house is concerned with personal creativity, the 11th house is concerned with the social dimension of group consciousness and creativity, and with changes in the dominating social paradigm of your civilisation and culture. Uranus will be guiding you towards involvement in group co-operation which is designed to achieve common social ideals or philosophies, which it is believed could help society to function better and encourage people to have more satisfying lives. Obviously this can create a situation of conflict with other groupings who have different views.
You are likely to feel part of a social movement, one which is probably humanitarian, libertarian and attuned to the ideals of world brother and sisterhood, the 'One Family of Mankind'. If Uranus can be fluently expressed through this placeing (i.e. harmonious aspects), then you may be open-minded and receptive to the Higher Collective / Universal Mind, intuitively grasping the outpouring of the overshadowing source of progressive seed ideas. In alliance with others, you can determine your social role, which is probably to give a collective voice to reformist ideas, as the whole 'speaks' through a unified group consciousness, and reveals its underlying purpose and evolutionary intention to humanity.
Such group involvement, on the inner or outer planes, will be a central factor in yoru life, offering direction, discipline and meaning. Many of your social friendships will emerge from these group associations. Yet problems can occur if Uranus has challenging aspects, and these can emerge through such relationships or a desire to be highly individualistic to the detriment of a group purpose. The urge for freedom and a questionable degree of commitment can stimulate such problems, which will also reoccur in your more intimate relationships. Sometimes, that degree of impersonality can spoil potentially successful relationships when, in responding to that siren call of 'freedom', your commitment collapses and your interest wanes in favour of exploring the new horizons. Also, you may need to guard against supporting irresponsible and impractical beliefs and ideas, which can appeal to that aspect of mental eccentricity that often goes hand in hand with the high Uranian ideologies.
The essential archetype that the 11th House correlates to in human consciousness involves the very basis of what we have been discussing: liberation and freedom from all conditioning patterns that define one's sense of identity in order to discover one's essential nature. Collectively it means to liberate from all prevailing social conditioning patterns that have defined a group of people, or a nation, so that new social, natonal, and international patterns of behavior and organisation can evolve. In order for this to occur individually or collectively, a fundamental detachment from the emotional involvement in th eexisting patterns of structural reality must occur. The emotional involvement reflects the need for security, thus an emotional investment in the prevailing conditions that define the individual, or the nation, that can retard the necessary growth requirements of each.
Individually, when Uranus is in the natal 11th House it emphasises the individual's sense of being very different, somehow misplaced, from the peer group that he or she grows up within. This can include the 'community' of one's birthplace. This sense induces a social uneasiness or insecurity that in turn induces a sense of individual insecurity: an awareness of not fitting in. Commonly, such an individual psychologically and behaviorally compensates for this social and individual uneasiness and insecurity by adopting the ways of being determined or manifested by
the peer group consensus. This is done in order to fit in, to create a sense of social and individual security by being like everyone else. Typically this individual seeks out a subgroup of individuals, within the total peer group, that are most like him- or herself. This individual can also seek out, or relocate to, communities of people that seem more like-minded. Within this subgroup, he or she will seek out a few others in order to establish friendships. Because of the behavioral compesnation that has set this dynamic and reality in motion, the individual is now dependent on his or her friends, and the immediate subgroup of people that most closely resemble the individual's own reality, for self-actualisation. The person's overall lifestyle, and the values and beliefs that condition and shape it, is thus determined or influenced by the immediate subgroup within the overall peer group. And yet the individual still feels 'different' or displaced, even though the act in compensation has created a circumstantial sense of security and social bonding.
This 'emotional investment' based on the act of psychological and behavioral compensation thus sets up, or leads to, the inevitable disruptions that can unexpectedly manifest between the individual and those with whom he or she has established friendships. It can lead to disruptions and unexpected problems within the community or group of people that the individual has established a social bonding with. It can progressively lead to an intense feeling or sense of disconnectedness, displacement, or fundamental detachment from the very life (lifestyle) that the individual has adopted through the act of compensation. The temptation to rebel and just walk away from it all can manifest because of this. These disruptions and temptations occur in order for the person to objectively evaluate the nature of his or her overall reality. These cyclic disruptions and temptations thus allow for a progressive deconditioning or liberation from the adopted ways of being that were defined by conditions outside of the individual. Liberation and freedom from the known thus occur when the individual learns to independently define his or her own beliefs, ideas, values, and lifestyle to reflect the essence of his or her inherent individuality.
A natural stress occurring throughout the central nervous system can impact on almost every area within the organism. The stress associated with the central nervous system can restrict the 'life force' of the organism, thus producing any manner of problems because of this. Lots of massage, biofeedback techniques, meditation, 'cool' foods (i.e. millet, bulgur, rice, etc.), passive exercises, and fluids can relax the restrictions produced through the central nergous system. This type of anatomical and / or physiological system can use up an extreme amount of the full spectrum of the Vitamin B complex. This in turn tears down the sheathing on the nerves, which in turn can promote many types of nerve disease or conditions. The Pran and Apan tributory nerve channels associated with the Ida and Pingala (parasympathetic and sympathetic nerve systems) can be very active because of the increase electrical activity associated with the fracturing of the coccyx chakra. This can produce snakelike or coiling sensations in the spine and instances of suddenly feeling unusually cold or hot when there is no apparent environental reason to be so. Skin disorders, numbness in various parts of the body for no apparent reason, brain disorders, misfiring from the phypothalamus leading to dysfunction within the primary brain, and, in varying extremes, headaches that cannot be treated through normal means can all be linked with Uranus here.
If you have Uranus in the twelfth house and, as a child, your independence and creativity were encouraged, you will undoubtedly be able to easily express these
qualities as an adult. You should have little difficulty exhibiting your individuality and you will probably easily combine imagination with your creativity.
If on the other hand the independent side of your nature was frequently suppressed, you might have become timid and too conforming. If you are overly cautious and never alow yourself ot exhibit the maverick in you, you could stunt your meotional growth. You might spend your life being unhappy aboutyour circumstances, wishing that somehow you could be freer.
If, however, you become extremely restless or dissatisfied, your self-control could disappear and then your behaviour might become erratic. This extreme will not be satisfying either. You want to express your individuality and independence, but you have to determine acceptable limits in so doing. Although you do not want to be totally conforming, nor do you want to be a pariah. Therefore, you have to decide how different you can be without being considered very strange or even crazy by others; but it is most important that you approve of yourself.
Another way you might choose to quell the restlessness is to become a 'closet rebel', nourishing your differentness without fanfare. You could do it quietly, or perhaps deviously. Becing covert, however, might give you feelings of guilt. This, in turn, could interfere with the personal gratification you should get from expressing your individuality.
If you have Uranus in the twelfth house and tend to have problems with such issues, you might try the following procedure to get your energies moving. First, probe deeply (twelfth house) into why you feel inhibited. Stir up old memories of how your individuality was thwarted and what occurred when you tried to express your independence. This could unlock fears that have been stored up over the years, and allow you to take small steps toward becoming freer and more creative.
You also can consider acceptable outlets for expresing your uniqueness through the twelfth house. You might choose to become involved with mystical pursuits. The particular mystical path you select is unimportant because any form of mysticism is considered unusual and sometimes strange by the materialistic soecity which sets our standards. Delving into metaphysics could enrich your life; and you may beign to feel that freedom you have been missing.
Another possibility is to become involved in the arts, particularly music. This will trigger the creative element associated with Uranus that you may not even know you have. Your creativity may be unusual and come in spurts, but demonstrating your uniqueness in this manner can alleviate your restlessness or feelings of suppression. This may seem like an indirect approach to expressing your individuality, but you may find that it is far more satisfying than inciting an insurrection, or being covert about your nonconfirmity.
As mentioned in the beginning of this sectiuon, if your creativity and individuality were encouraged when you were a child, you probably grew up with the ability to openly display your uniqueness confidently, without concern for rejection or repercussions. Your creativity, too, will flow quite easily. Keep this in mind when you are intimately involved with children who have Uranus in the twelfth house. Work on helping to cultivate Uranian themes in their lives.
No matter which house in your horoscope holds your natal Uranus, remember that this is the area in which you are supposed to break with tradition and also directly display your individuality. With all the planets, but especially Uranus, the planet of change, you will need to find different ways of expressing the themes in the course of
your lifetime. You will know it is time to make changes in terms of Uranus when you feel oppressed or restless. If you recognise these symptoms as soon as they appear, you can immediately define your parameters in the house in which Uranus is placed so that you can begin to break out of the mold quickly. Then you can make the necessary changes with a minimum of effort and a maximum of spontaneity and success.
Uranus in this house involves the concepts of endings, transitions, the results of the past, and an affinity with the unconscious mind. In several ways, this can be a challenging placement, which will oblige you to confront powerful hidden habit patterns or 'karmic residues' which are affecting your life, options and choices.
There is a parallel between your psychological health and that of society, through the connections of the collective and individual unconscious mind. Often you will be pulled back towards the past, both because of theinfluence that it has on your current life, and as an escape from the present moment. Emotionally, you probably have 'unfinished business' with the past, and perhaps with parental relationships. There will be a need to free yourself from this preoccupation, and to resolve the stresses and splits that make you look back; such an integration could become essential for your psychological well-being, and if problems develop related to your mental interpretation of human 'reality', you may need psychotherapy (even self-directed) to enable you to release the unconscious pressures,a nd to shine a liberating light clarifying and making the unconscious conscious. Forms of self-evasion and deception may work at covering up inner pslits and problems for a time, but eventually they will stand revealed, as the personality-structure fragments under the strain of living an illusion.
In discovering self-healing, one participates and contributes to the healing of the collective. The higher aspect of this placement includes the poteential to become an inspirational channel and voice of the collective mind, the natural inner receptivity being expressed in forms of insight, revelation, and artistic creativity. This may emerge after a period of self-exploration, through which a more inclusive centre of identity and consciousness is discovered as previously unconscious aspects of he self are exposed o the light.
You will certainly have to face the consequences of the dominating patterns which are operating through your life. Wherever these derive from, or from whichever experiences they have been formed, you will initially have to acknowledge their existence and impact on you; accepting them as part of you is the next step in integration, and will begin to resolve their more negative influences. A serious evaluation of these restrictions and limitations may reveal their potential trascending too, indicating the right way forward. Confronting 'fate' is not inevitably a negative encounter; it can equally be the opening of the doors of opportunity and success, and a sowing of fruitful seeds for the commencement of the next cycle of experience and expression.
The essential archetypes that the 12th House correlates to in human consciousness are based on the impulse to transcend and unite with the ultimate causal factor that has set in motion the phenomenon of creation through time and space.
Individually, the reaction to Uranus in the 12th house is to overly identify with a singular dimension or aspect of the total nature. An undefined fear of losing control,
of egocentric dissolution, of being consumed by throughts or images that arise apparently of themselves within the consciousness, and of going 'nuts', produces this overidentification. Again, the primary archetype in the 12th House is to rise above duality, of cause and effect, of conditional, teporal, secual reality in order to unite with that which created everything - to transcend. Uranus here requires a liberation from the egocentric sturcuture of consciousness that is only identified with itself as a singular, separate entity that is distinct from the total Creation.
Anatomically, Uranus here increases the amount of electrical energy impacting on the pineal gland within the brain. Increasing the amount of melatonin produced from this gland promotes the weakening of he non-material barrier separating the interface between the conscious and unconscious. It is the conscious merging of conscious and unconscious that allows for the transference in the centre of gravity within the total consciousness to take place: from the ego of the personality, which is subjective and is perceived as singular and separate from the Creation, to the soul, which has is own conscious centre. The conscious centre of the soul can only be made consciously available to the egocentric structure of personality by dissolving the barrier separating the unconscious from the subjective consciousness reflected as personality in each life.
The unconscious has two dimensions within us all: the individuated and the collective, as we discussed earlier. In effect, it is by making the unconscious conscious that we shift the centre of gravity in our consciousness from the subjective ego of personality to the conscious centre within the soul. By being centred in the soul, we thus transcend and unite with the ultimate causal factor of Creation. It is this archetype within all human consciousness that has given rise to the various spiritual traditions throughout time.
And yet it is this very impulse that is resisted and feared by many who have Uranus in the 12th House. This is because of the disassociation or disorientation from separateness, from accepted and normal reality as defined by the existing social conditions that one is living in, that Uranus in the 12th House can produce. Thus the common reaction within this group is to overly identify with a singular aspect fo the total nature, to blindly accept the existing reality conditions, focuses, beliefs, and immediate social group that they find themselve sliving within. When suppression of the total nature occurs, consciousness reacts by producing fantasies, dreams, escape behaviours, or imaginary thoughts that most of these people live out quite passively through daydreams, regular dreams, the modern media of movies or TV, or reading, in which vicarious fulfilment can take place. The high rate of alcoholism in this group of people reflects escape behavior based on denial of the total nature. It is no coincidence that the first astronauts in space had Uranus in Pisces. This physical event symbolises the need for a global consciousness, of a detached view of Earth that induces a universal vision that naturally makes us aware of how small and seemingly insignificant we are in the total scheme of things (humility), of inducing an absolute wonderment at the nature of Creation in which the laws and structures of Creation as understood and experienced on Earth are uniformly experienced in the space beyond Earth. It is no coincidence that for many in the generation with Uranus in Pisces, the generational icons are individuals who are larger than mundane life, individuals whose personae are produced through the illusion of movies or created through the myths of fiction.
Liberation and freedom from the known occur when these individuals allow themselves to actualise their total natures, to step outside the times they are living within. It occurs by their examining, in some way, the causes or bases of teh fear of losing control, of the fear of being overwhelmed by undefined forces. It occurs by their examining the nature of their dreams, the nature of their illusions or delusions
as projected possible realities, the nature of their personal ideals that remain as unfulfilled expectations. Liberation and freedom occur in many by their accepting the individual lifestyles of those who are perceived to be so very different from themselves. Liberation and freedom occur when these individuals can design strategies that will allow them to expand their sense of reality. It will occur when many of these people learn to act upon the ideas that seem to be pulling them away from the immediacy of their existing reality and all the commitments that this reality induces.
A natural stress can occur in the endocrine system, thymus gland, and immune system. The various problems, conditions, or diseases associated with these areas can result becuse of this stress. The body can require a constant and above normal amount of vitamin C, fluids, and 'sweats' in order to maintain the integrity of these systems, and the thymus gland. A natural stress can occur within the pineal gland that promotes the accelerated secretion of melatonin, a hormone that increases the sensitivity of not only the anatomy and physiology but also the consciousness of the living organism itself. The increased sensitivity of the anatomy and physiology produces abnormal reactions to extremes of anything that goes into the body or interfaces with the skin or biosphere (etheric) of the body. There can be an abnormal sensitivity to sunlight, as an example, that leads to discoloration of the skin through the rapid production of melanin. This, of course, can progress into skin cancers such as melanoma. Internal stress can produce melanemia, or an unnaturally dark colour of blood. There can be a heightened reaction to impurities or chemical additives in foods, as well as to synthetic drugs and their side effects. Because of the natural polarity between the coccyx chakra and the crown chakra (pineal), a certian percentage of these individuals can experiecne puberty quite early in their lives.
Difficulties in childhood are apt to maket hose with a twelfth house Uranus into mavericks; often bright, even brilliant, but frequently out of the current mainstream of human experience. They are apt to be psychological or spiritual exiles, sometimes political exiles as well, either through choice or through the activity of enemies. They have strong activities and opinions, which they have a hard time keeping to themselves. They see the faults in everything, including themselves, and work hard to put them right. They have great sympathy for the underdog, and, given aspects of power, can do much to bring about more just and sensible ways of doing things.
Uranus, with its clinical attitude at this angle of moral sensibility, can give them a moral blind spot so that the ramifications of their actions are not always clear to them at the beginning, through wigh good planets and aspects, though, they may ultimately become very sensitive to moral issues. They run the moral gamut from cold-blooded killers to the greatest humanitarians.
With Uranus in the twelfth house, there is always a moral crisis of some sort. Circumstances will force these people to study issues of right and wrong and to take a stand. If they don't, and they just allow things to take their natural course, life is going to batter them pretty badly. Some choose ealry, some late, but all must choose. Once they have chosen right over wrong, they are able to ride out the storm.
Their critical faculty is so strong that it can hinder their progress. They do best working for the good of some alienated or misudnerstood group as their criticisms will then be of use in defence of something other than themselves; although, without several planets or angles in water signs, their approach may be overly clinical.
They have trouble early in life in discriminating properly between those companions, lovers, business associates, etc., who are good for them and those who are not, and the process of finding out which is which may take a long time and bring a few shocks and sorrows along the way.
The 12th house represents the collective sea out of which we all emerge. Those with Uranus in the 12th need to take a deep breath and jump in, not forgetting to bring along their best diving equipment and research apparatus. Through exploring the unconscious it is possible for them to regain a sense of continuity with evolutionary and historic processes and glimpse the guiding patterns on which their lives are based. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but in whatever house Uranus is placed, we have to take risks and be different.
People with Uranus in the 12th can approach the whole unconscious realm in an inventive, original and intuitive way. They have access to the mind's storehouse of ancestral wisdom - experiences accrued in the past and inherited through previous generations. Some find the key to unlocking this treasure through drugs, others through meditation or any form of artistic expression which allows them to 'tune into' these ancient records of experience.
Uranus in the 12th can also give a close attunement to movements within the collective, often before these actually manifest (the 12th house contains the seeds of the future as well as the remnants from the past). In a collection of her essays on the outer planets and their cycles, Liz Greene points out that Uranus in this house often has 'a very strong interest in political movements and ideologies, but in a rather compulsive as opposed to reflective way'. Uranus gets the rumblings of something even before it happens.
From what I have observed, if Uranus is well-aspected in the 12th, these people have a welath of good advice to offer others - as if insight and knowledge are there on tap. However, if Uranus has many hard aspects, then their vision is sometimes impaired by their own personal neuroses and complexes. These will have to be 'cleaned up' before the positive benefits of this placement are felt. They are also more likely to be thrown off course by negative feelings in the atmosphere. Regardless of how Uranus is aspected, there is often an interest in parapsychology and spiritualism.
A deep-seated reluctance to relinquish their independence can make it difficult for them to settle down or take root. One part of them might despearately want closeness and security but somehow they manage to thwart this happening. Exploring their own unconscious motivations can free them from this conundrum and help alleviate a lingering sense of loneliness and isolation.
Some join secret societies or engage in 'behind-the-scenes' work for groups. They may align themselves with institutions of a progressive or unusual nature. Acting as a channel through which new ideas and trends are established, they could revolutionise or disrupt the workings of any institution with which they are invovled.
Periods of confinement or incarceration may produce surprising effects. In a few cases I have seen, they have not acknowledged a need to temporarily retreat from life, and consequently attracted 'accidents' or illnesses which forced them to do so. Sudden reversals of fortune are possible: something which seems ominous and threatening may turn out to be completely different from what they expect, and vice versa.
It could be fruitful to enquire about anything unusual which might have occurred to the mother during the gestation period - in some way, thuis may have impressed itself on the psyche of the developing embryo.
Your parents indulged you and gave you plenty of opportunities to prove what you could do with your creative imagination. You owe it to yourself to develop your talents so that you can make your own way successfully. At first you may have to accept the limitations that society imposes on you, but this will pass as you make your own contribution to its needs. When you see others enjoying greater freedom because of your efforts, your anxiety about restricted mobility will pass. Knowing that someone needs your skills gives you the enthusiasm to put forth your best efforst. You can motivate people to utilise their resources more effectively, but you should not expect any sexual favors as a condition of your help. You can satisfy your physical needs in a different setting.
Although your freedom is very precious, you put up with the limitations of your career because you realise that after you've achieved your goals you will have a more lasting freedom, with financial security. Surely you must know that sharing your talents is part of your destiny, and the enrichment you give others will be returned when you review your life efforts later.
Until you focus on providing a unique service, your progress will be slow. To learn the necessary skills, you must get a good education. You can't hope to succeed on your intuitive gifts alone; and formal training will help you find the best way to apply yourself. Your insight gives you an advantage over your competition and enables you to solve many problems that baffle others. You are keyed to the social problems in your immediate surroundings; and your finger is on the pulse of the major problems of the larger society. You should have little difficulty attracting patrons for your service, and as your reputation grows so will your patronage. It will be to your advantage to seek a career that allows you self-determination and opportunities to grow and develop to your maximum potential.
A career in science, medicine or social work might be appealing to you. These fields would give you the opportunity to deal with their inherent special problems, and recognition will surely follow your achievements. However, you will have to sacrifice some of your personal pleasures to invest the time and energy in exploiting your creative potential. Your partner and children will make any sacrifice seem a worthwhile investment.
You carry a heavy burden of social responsibility, beacuse you are so aware of society's problems, and you have the talent to help solve them. This responsibility you cannot ignore. The freedom you enjoy depends on your willingness to share your skills with those who do not have such freedom. You have the resources people need to lead them out of the darkness of their ignorance. Later you will feel very proud when you reflect on how much your efforts meant to those who benefitted from them.
Imagination: Your dreams glisten with the promise of the unusual, the abnormal, the miraculous. There are no limits; anything is possible. In fantasy, you express freely, with no concern for acceptance. The judgements of others are irrelevant; and even your own judgements about yourself fall away. The pitfall occurs when fantasies become real. In dreams you leap beyond the pull of gravity, but in real experience you're subject to the density of earthly existence. It's like the difference between
stopping on a dime and running into a brick wall at eighty miles an hour. Be careful about what you transfer from one realm to another. The challenge is to realise through your dreams that nothing is as it seems, that the expected norms of life are mere illusions. Everything in existence is absolutely unique and incomparable.
Unfocused intuition: You're fascinated with psychic development (or research in general, for that matter). Intuition is a visit from outer space, a non-sequitur leaping in to disrupt the ordinary process of logic, a neon sign flashing suddenly in the night. It's either on or off, hot or cold, but never lukewarm. The challenge is to awaken your superconscious, however revolutionary it may prove to be. Channelship repots you, ripping you up by the roots so you can find new, more fertile soil in which to grow.
Withdrawal or isolation: Others see you as unique, even odd, but you struggle to identify what makes you different. You withdraw from life to find the 'real' you. Privately, you're interested in arcane and unusual pursuits, especially mental explorations. The more in touch you are with your secret self, the more tension you feel about revealing it to others. The challenge is to take selected individuals into your private world. As your trust increases so you're seafe to be yourself with them, gradually move your private world towards the public realm. The goal is to merge the 'outlaw' self with the 'normal' self, so that there is finally only one self, acceptable but special.
Selfless giving: When you give of yourself freely, with no conditions, something special happens. Selflessness is your chance to step out of the mundane. The precise nature of what and how you give cannot be foreseen; it is unpredictable both in form and in content. In fact, the more radical your gifts are, the fuller is the release of new perspective. The pitfall is stubbornness. You become like the zealous minister who is going to save souls whether or not they want (or need) to be saved. Rememebr that pure giving is correctly a response to need. The challenge is to awaken to a will higher than that of the ego.
'Past Lives': Independence has come up in life after life. You may have been such a non-conformist that you alienated others. There were broken commitments, sudden separations, both personal and cultural. Or you may have been someone eo concerned with acceptance by others that you sacrificed your individuality, stuffing it into your unconscious. In either case, the issue of freedom has reached a point where patterns from past incarnations are carrying over into this life. Whenever you experience unpredictable breaks in relationsips, urges to shock others, or compulsive desires to overthrow the status quo, you're in the flow of karmic rhythms. The challenge is to integrate personal freedom without totally upsetting your own and others' lives. Study what independence means; learn the difference between productive reform and unconscious iconoclasm.
(Haydn Paul)
This conjunction came within a nine degree orb in November 1988, was exact in February, August and October 1993, and stayed in orb until 1998; the last time before that was 1821-3. These children will have a strong degree of identification with the collective mind and group consciousness, which in some cases could revert back to fervent nationalist affinities in countries that hae a powerful controilling religious, racial, political and social structures. Yet in most cases it is unlikely that this will result in the emergence of charismatic demagogues as in recent examples of
the manipulation of the masses.
There will be a directing sense of social responsibility, and an awareness of participating in a social community, which will be expressed in positive ways for the betterment of all. The merged energies of this conjunction will inspire concepts of brotherhood, which will relect the ideals of Uranus and Neptune, as a form of revolutionary mysticism emerging from an acute mental and emotional sensitivity connected to an intuitive imaginative faculty.
Personal freedoms and rights will have a high priority, and there will be a new perception of 'leadership' being formed, which can dissolve those old patterns of a powerful leader and hundreds of following 'sheep'. There is a distrust of leaders, based on an intuitive perception of their real motivations and characteristics, which will also develop into a new understanding of authority and power in society. Those born under this aspects will be willing to 'fight' for the maintenance of personal freedoms and rights if they are under threat by the decisions of social leaders. A new balance of power between the people and the state will begin to form, and a new politics shoud rise into view, reflecting this increase in individual rights and power. Generally, this should be a period of spiritual and scientific development, where breakthroughs occur in the exploration of nature and mind.
Changes that became inevitable by 1994 will have to be more fully achieved and realised by this new generation, imbued with a more conscious spirit of human unity and solidarity.
(Robert Pelletier)
The conjunction of Uranus and Neptune shows that you are aware of your obligations to the social structure to which you belong, and that you identify closely with its mass consciousness. You are keenly observant of the deception that the leaders often use to gain and maintain complete control of the people, and this disturbs you deeply. You recognize that this pattern can lead to loss of personal freedom unless steps are taken to eliminate the offenders. Since you belong to a generation that will not tolerate abuses of authority and power, you realize that freedom can be lost if not protected against political erosion.
When the conjunction occurred in 1821-3, among the important achievements were the invention of an ingenious process for waterproofing fabric and the development of cement, which later played a large role in the industrial revolution. These physical phenomena - cement and waterproof fabric - exactly parallel the strong foundations of the courageous individuals who have this aspects and the process they use to protect themselves and their rights.
You respond to people who need your understanding of their social predicament, whether it is a personal problem or one they share with others. Although you know that you can do little by yourself, the combined effort of those sharing your concern can be a powerful force against social injustice. Working together, you can restore order and freedom where there was chaos and privation.
(Betty Lundsted)
It seems that the conjunction of these planets would make for some interesting life experiences - the concept of individuality or humanity is brought together with that of creative expression. These are the times when important changes in attitude and / or consciousness take place.
When this aspect occurred in the early 1820s, it brought the world Mary Baker Eddy, Dostoevski, Clara Barton, Louis Pasteur and Johann Strauss. If this conjunction also involves a personal configuration, a personal kind of creativity emerges - for example, Clara Barton had this conjunction also conjunct her natal sun.
(Charles Carter)
This potent aspect occurs again and again in the charts of the great. It stands midway betwene the harmonious and inharmonious contacts, and produces the great savant or prophet, such as Pasteur and Ruskin, and people of remarkable but more doubtful repute, such as Nell Gwyn and Caesar Borgia. Dr. A. R. Wallace exemplifies the spiritualist tendencies of the aspect.
It seems on the whole to be self-willed, but frequently extremely able, and rarely to be lightly diregarded. One would expect eccentricity, but on the whole good intentions and kindness, Neptune softening Uranus, as it softens Mars.
Uranus in any aspect to Neptune (Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
Uranus represents the need for independence and originality; it crashes through forms and restraints, and helps develop individuality on the basis of inwardly desired change. Neptune, on the other hand, represents the desire to experience what lies beyond individuality itself. hence it stands for a need to disassociate and blur things, to idealize and perfect them. But there is a danger of the individual mind becoming chaotic and losing itself in the collective. When the two factors come together, as they do here, we get a highly idealistic personality displaying an impersonal attitude every now and then.
The aspects of Uranus and Neptune reinforce their mutual idealism. Perhaps the native sits and dreams of finding what lies 'somewhere over the rainbow', but it is equally possible the he or she may help to bring about actual social change.
Since both Uranus and Neptune play a big part in spirituality and metaphysics, and in such things as clairvoyance and telepathy, any contact between the two planets can lead to fresh ground being broken in these fields, and can stimulate scientific research in the realm of the invisible. An obvious example of such research is parapsychology, but an equally valid example is theoretical physics - because the latter has penetrated so far behind the everyday world we see around us. If there are tie-ups with personal planets in the chart, we may even encounter the mystical and mysterious first hand.
It is interesting, in this connection, that the English Society for Psychical Research (the S. P. R.) was founded in 1882 during a trine between Uranus and Neptune. This society applied itself to systematic study of the unexplained, and in so doing stimulated worldwide research into parapsychology. The time was ripe for paying more heed to matters hidden from ordinary view. Shortly after its trine with Uranus, Neptune was conjunct Pluto, and, at the turn of the century, Uranus formed an inconjunct with Neptune conjunct Pluto. Astounding discoveries were then made in the field of parapsychology due to the fortuitous arrival of numerous exceptionally gifted mediums and other exponents of the paranormal.
When Uranus / Neptune constellations are linked with personal factors in a chart, the native is quite likely to be attracted to paranormal studies and to make original contributions to them.
Aspects between Uranus and Neptune can provide a stimulus for all sorts of mind-
expanding experiments, including the study of hallucinogens on consciousness and behavior, the study of the physical influence of empathy and imagination (as in stigmata for example), and so forth.
The search for a completely individual religious experience (the Uranian influence on Neptune) is as likely as the erosion and depersonalization of individuality (the Neptunian influence on Uranus). Yet Neptune's often subtle influence can refine the individuality and place it in the light of a greater, cosmic whole; either through religious faith, or else through the insight that, whereas the conscious has its limitations, the unconscious soars above space and time to give the human spirit endless possibilities.
Of course, everything will run more smoothly with the easy aspects. Nevertheless, the ungovernability of these particular planets can lead to sudden upheavals, and to innovations that are not always welcome. With the hard aspects, we face an even rougher ride, impelling us to take action.
Uranus trine Neptune (Haydn Paul)
The trine aspect was made roughtly during the period 1941-6, and features in the birth charts of a generation born diring war time. This tends to condition their perception of life and people, which in effect can sometimes veer towards pessimism and cynicism, especially if they were born in the early years of the trine when the world war was at its height and the result still hung in the balance.
Underlying this is still the idealism of these planets, but with possibly insufficient personal faith in their actual manifestation, together with an ambiguity about their own personal role and responsibility in society. There can be a tendency to follow personal goals irrespective of social needs and obligations, and a preference for personal gain and ambitions. Yet this too can be a source of personal development, and it is still perhaps too early yet to be sure how such individuals will use any social power and influence that they may have acquired.
As the trine is a reconciling factor, this generation could be seen as a 'briging group' where both the past and future tendencies co-exist, probably uncomfortably at times. They have grown up in a rapidly changing world, though childhood conditioning would still reflect pre-war attitudes; they are thus able to serve as mediators in society, knowing the older world and yet attuned enough to the dawning of the new world.
There should be sufficient intellectual capacity for them to evaluate the implications of ideological belief structures for themseves, without the imposition of authority; this should result in the development of genuinely held personal views irrespective of their nature and content. If they don't feel convinced, after careful consideration of the validity of an idea or belief, they will usually be unable to give whole-hearted support for it - unless they compromise themselves for personal gain.
They are aware of the dangers of gullibility and a lack of public discrimination regarding leaders - as the German people in World War II demonstrated - yet are not fully convinced by the intent of any leaders who use truth as an expedient to be employed only when it suits them. In many ways, this generation is faced with a need to resolve certain inner conflicts and opposite world views, almost as a 'trial run' for the way in which society can achieve this on a larger scale. There are paradoxes on both mental and emotional levels that should be resolved and integrated, because too
often such people are caught in the cleft stick of their own indecision and confusion over which 'face' to present - the face of the older ways, or the face reflecting the emerging changes in the world.
Uranus trine Neptune (Robert Pelletier)
The trine of Uranus and Neptune indicates that you resent being told what to believe. You prefer to decide for yourself whether you will accept or reject the ideas that have satisfied previous generations of believers. Your intellectual awareness requires that you are logically evaluate all ideologies, dogmas, or theories, whether they are political, philosophical, or religious. You feel that you cannot support a particular belief until you understand thoroughly how and why it was established. Seeking truth rather than illusions, you are suspicious of ideas that may seriously alter your life and destiny. You observe how the masses of humanity in the past have been dominated by individuals who forced their ideologies on their subjects, mesmerizing them to accept those ideas blindly and obediently.
To illustrate how these planets produced mass hysteria, we must examine the period between 1938 and 1944, when they occupied this relationship. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, and Emperor Hirohito hypnotically dominated millions of people and produced an awesome machine that destroyed even more millions and altered forever the destinies of countless others. The planetary combination indicates the indolence and apathy present among people throughout the world, which allowed this destruction to take place.
You and many others who were born during these years can help prevent a repetition of history by refusing to support any individual in power until you know everything possible about him / her. Because you have the ability to see through illusion and dishonesty, it is your responsibility to communicate what you know for the benefit of humanity. You must arouse the public to challenge any public official who will not keep open the lines of communication to the people he represents.
Uranus sextile Neptune (Haydn Paul)
Most of the characteristics of Uranus / Neptune aspects involve the element of distrust for leaders, organisations and power élites. Those born with the sextile aspect tend to object to establishment secrecy and the withholding of information from their people or their electorate. They consider this manipulation of information to be a deliberate and iniquitous distortion of the truth which should not be allowed by their leaders. Often such people would support a 'freedom of information' causes, believing that the state should be the servant of the people, and not hte other way round.
There is an anti-establishment attitude, together with an objection to state autonomy in which the person is steam-rollered by the weight of state bureaucracy. There is a need to reassert individual power and freedom from state interference, and such attitudes will often oppose authoritarian dictates. An attraction towards social revolution and changing the nature of state control can develop a revolutionary and evolutionary philosophy which champions the people's right to power within their own society.
An optimistic belief in people and their potential will dominate, which some may consider to be too naive and idealistic, but it is founded on the right to be able to choose for oneself, and to determine the sort of personal lifestyle to live without being inhibited by social repressions (provided that it does not harm others). It conceives of a society aimed towards personal development and fulfilment, through
individual creativity and uniqueness, in contradistinction to one which conditions people to unquestioning fulfilment of economic roles and adherence to social convention.
Essentially, it asserts the right to be self-determinin, rather than meelky and blindly following the guidance of leaders who often gain such positions through money or heritage alone. An active involvement in social decision-making will attract, especially in ways designed to make some progress towards those brotherhood ideals which so appeal to the mind and emotional levels of those with this aspect.
Uranus sextile Neptune (Robert Pelletier)
Uranus sextile Neptune indicates taht you are part of a group consciousness that is intolerant of anyone who distorts the truth or withholds it from the people. You are especially suspicious of strong, established organizations that have powerful government connections, but you are similarly offended by the rigid control that organized religions have over their members. You prefer to decide for yourself what to believe and how to discipline yourself through whatever faith you've chosen. A revolutionary thinker, you resent the fact that you are expected to yield to the thoughts and beliefs of people you are suspicious of. The 'establishment' represents a threat to your personal freedom. You insist that any commitment must be mad voluntarily and without the slightest exercise of pressure. Fearful of the erosion of individual rights, you freely communicate this sense of danger whenever possible. You realize that people who follow others blindly are endangering their right to choose the path to their destinies.
From your generation will come the fruit of the seed that germinated between 1965 and 1968, when open hostilities were commonplace at many universities throughout the world. You will demand a say in the social, educational, and political systems to ensure that your right to free expression will not be curtailed or denied. In everything that has a bearing on your future and that of the masses, you will seek the truth. You are not afraid to express your views because your opinion is backed by an arsenal of facts. You uphold the belief that every individual bears a spiritual obligation to his society, which you call the 'Brotherhood of Man'.
You hold that a societal structure based on materialism is an affront to the peronsal dignity of the individual. You aspire to a high degree of creative expression for everyone, regardless of the opportunities their material circumstances afford them.
Uranus trine Neptune (Betty Lundsted)
Compassion, understanding, creative expression or inspiration (Neptune) blend with the expression of new-age ideas (Uranus), so that theory and feeling meld together to express a form of universal love and understanding. This trine has occurred in people born around 1940 in the past century.
These are the people who have taken courses in meditation, inner awareness, spiritual development, etc.. They are searching for the inner self. This generation may produce new philosophies that will be emerging now at the turn of the 21st century.
The trine can also foster the great dreamer - the energy from the Uranus - Neptune combination can produce highly individualistic ideas that may not be put into practice unless there is an aspect in the chart that indicates the potential to take action.
Uranus sextile Neptune (Betty Lundsted)
This group can learn to combine creative expression with the process of individuation. The potential for consciousness will have to be developed or the sextile may remain latent.
The aspect produces a generation of people who may have highly individualistic dreams or goals. Some of them will be unproductive; some will use this energy to present advanced concepts in the field of scientific endeavor or spiritual development.
Uranus trine or sextile Neptune (Charles Carter)
Since contacts between these two bodies extend over considerable periods and are therefore to be found in the horoscopes of very large numbers of persons. it has been usual rather to discount their importance in individual charts and to ascribe to them an influence over national or world-wide conditions, which only affect individuals powerfully when they are aspected by other bodies, or when they occupy important house-positions.
An examination of charts seems to indicate that these aspects do affect individuals, and I cannot say that it seems necessary to restrict the orbs of aspect very much in judging them. But the effects are naturally most noticeable when the planets occupy prominent house-positions and receive other aspects.
They bestow a strong touch of mysticism and a love of the esoteric and arcane. There is a good deal of emotional force, and there may be considerable enthusiasm for some cause or cult. The love of art and music is very marked. Even in practical pursuits there is generally a sort of vision or inspiration towards ideals.
It is on the whole a kindly, beneficient influence. Napoleon I is an exception - but in this case Mars is conj. Neptune. In another case, the aspect seems only to have produced a rather arid turn for metaphysical discussion, but here Saturn is with Neptune.
(Note: the opposition of Uranus and Neptune was last exact a succession of times commencingon between March 1st 1906 and ending October 28th 1910, and
had dropped outside a nine-degree orb for the last time by December 1914. It will next occur in the 2070s. It is presumed there will not be anyone reading this directly affected, so no specific delineation is provided here, but Charles Carter's interpretaion of squares and oppositions between the planets was most strongly affected by his direct acquaintance with the youths of his day who had the opposition, so read what he wrote.)
Uranus square Neptune (Haydn Paul)
The last square aspect happened during the period 1952-56, and influenced the people born during that phase. This was the second phase of post-war children, born into a time of relative stability and reconstruction, when the memories of the war were ebbing away into past history, even though the Korean War was rekindling some of them.
This group received a psychic impression from the collective, which embodies a form of social confusion then prevalent which was reflective of the collective mind. Social direction was the issue. The defear of Churchill's government after the ending of the
war, a government which seemed to represent the past, and the introduction of the post-war Labour reformist policies such as the Welfare State seemed to herald a new vision and direction. But the collevtive was torn between dreams and fears of a new world, and a rejection of painful memories of man's inhumanity; a clash between the future and the past, the unknown and the known.
Reflecting this collective conflict, the individuals born at the time received a pattern of rebellion (Uranus) which was mixed with confusion (Neptune) over what to do, which direction to travel in, how to achieve objectives, even what these objectives actually were. The only model that could be absorbed was that of their parents and peers, which offered conflicting and confusing social messages.
The problem in later life would become ambivalence; they would be torn between a need to revolt against authority and the establishment, and a need to feel socially secure. Purity of ideals would become a challenge, especially when confronted with the pragmatic demands of economic and family life.
With this aspect there is an aversion to leaders, who, it is felt, lead people into blind obedience and conformity, which to the Uranian spirit is anathema and opposed to the Uranian principle of freedom. Peronsal freedoms are paramount, and their repression may lead to a struggle to assert them. Yet this group eventually fragmented into various types. Some were reluctant revolutionaries, eventually being reabsorbed into the social 'mainstream'; some were 'rebels without a cause', social misfits with no direction except that of aggressive reaction. Members of this aspect group were attracted to the existing hippie and drug couter-culture, in the later phase after 1968; others became early leaders of the mid-seventies' punk movement, an anarchic reactionary youth revolt against conformity; and perhaps most significant of all became part of the spreading of the New Age movement which incorporates the ecological Green political groups.
In fact, many of those who were early adherents of the hippie ideals have become part of the New Age culture, which is expanding throughout society through alternative health therapies, mind training, healthy foods, and an ideology of individual and collective wholeness. It is in this way that the core group of those born during the period 1952-6 is active in taking control of their own lives and influencing society.
Uranus square Neptune (Robert Pelletier)
This combination occurred between 1952 and 1956; anyone born during that period of time will have this combination.
Uranus square Neptune shows that you belong to a group consciousness that is in constant rebellion, but isn't quite sure of the reason. Although you feel the oppression of ignorance, you will have to do a lot of hard work to make clear exactly what you are going to do about it. If you are guilty of rejecting your social obligations, you may refuse to demonstrate your opposition to the corrosive effects of political subversion. Or you may decide that your professional status and personal security are too much to risk for the sake of that faceless crowd of humanity from which you've become detached. If you do decide to participate, it may be through an intermediary, because you say, 'I don't want to become personally involved, since I have so much to lose if I'm discovered.' This is an understandable position, but it is also indefensible. You would be the first to cry out in anger if your own personal freedom were being taken away. In the past, millions refused to 'rock the boat' for fear their own security would be jeopardized. How many of them gained the security of a roof over their heads - in prisons, detention camps, and the like? If freedom is
truly important to you, then you must have the courage to fight for it.
Lacking the courage of Uranus, you have consented to live in bondage at the hands of leaders who lust for power and who consider you expendable. On the other hand, you can challenge those who abuse their leadership positions and demand that they be held accountable to everyone for their deeds. You have the ability to arouse others and to stimulate them to action when mere words will not suffice. If you cannot personally supervise the action against oppressive conditions, you can at least support those who will.
Your future objectives are always weakened by a tendency to take a laissez-faire attitude toward the political motivation of existing government officials. You cannot afford to relax your attention to this danger.
Uranus square Neptune (Betty Lundsted)
The square aspect indicates a tendency to use the energies against each other. The dream or ideal of the generation (Neptune) may not be reflected in the behavior pattern of that generation (Uranus). When this aspect ties into the personal planets, the square becomes important in the personal sense, for these individuals will need to work out the frustration in order to realize the full potential of growth possible.
For example, consider the Sun conjunct Neptune square Uranus. The creative energy of Neptune will influence the Sun. The aspect indicates some delusion regarding the father; either he was misrepresented or the individual has some delusion in regard to his heredity or inherited responsibilities. The Uranus square will make him willful and eccentric, and he will behave in a manner that might not enhance the expression of his Sun sign energy. In order to use the aspect constructively, he will need to consider his Sun sign needs and how highly individualistic behavior would best support those interests.
Uranus square or opposition Neptune (Charles Carter)
In these cases, the intensity of emotion is very marked, the native being as a rule, highly strung, intense, sensitive, and easily upset. Self-will is marked, and the native will not readily be thwarted or persuaded. The emotional force may be discharged in some such form as art, music, dancing, rhetoric or pseudo-religious devotion; some form of service; or, in bad charts, in drink, sex, or neurotic collapse. It does not lack courage, and may cause the native to seek excitement in risks.
Usually, motives and ideals are high, and the native means well, but is apt to go to extremes, to lack all sense of humour (in regard to his or her own interests and pursuits), and to be unable to co-operate or compromise. It may indeed be termed an aspect of fanaticism, but in many cases its action is chiefly external, giving taut nerves, an 'edgy' temper, and various forms of disease, usually of neural character.
It is often present in the charts of very conscientious people, who are hard on themselves and on others, exhibitin rigidity of outlook. It does not favour calm, moderation, reflectiveness, and detachment, for the emotions are set at variance with the will.
Like all Neptunian afflictions, it sometimes causes unpleasant or deceptive 'astral' experiences, and it constitutes a warning against the cultivation of pursuits of this nature. A well-known example of this error is the case of Dr. John Dee, astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I and an alchemist. He was a man of true piety and learning, but his whole career was ruined by his reliance on the guidance, or misguidance, of
supposed angelic monitors. He had Neptune in the 3rd in Pisces, square to Uranus in the 7th.
Much of the unhappiness, 'never been young' attitude of modern (ie late 1920s, when Carter was writing!) youth, their confusion of outlook, and lack of standards may be attributed without risk of error to the opposition of these planets that prevailed around 1910.
Uranus quincunx Neptune (Robert Pelletier)
(This aspect last was exact on January 18th 1927, with Uranus in Pisces and Neptune in Leo; and fell outside a 2½ degree orb permanently from December 1928, when Uranus was in Aries and Neptune was in Virgo.)
The inconjunct of Uranus to Neptune shows that you are deeply disturbed by social, racial, religious and political injustice. You feel guilty because these cancerous conditions exist and because you are powerless by yourself to do anything about them. But you know that if enough people can be aroused to honestly deal with these problems, they can be overcome. You are equally concerned about the vast numbers of people who live in poverty because of circumstances beyond their control or who are extremely handicapped, making it very difficult to earn a living. Whatever the cause of their suffering, you know that something can be done to compensate for their disadvantages. For this reason, you may decide to work with social welfare, religious, or political organizations. You can easily identify with their purposes and indicate that you care about your fellow man. Perhaps you are also caught up in the very conditions mentioned, so that your concern is more critical than that of the casual observer.
A glance at the years 1922 through 1928 will give some idea of the social effects of this planetary combination. Talking films were introduced in 1923, which heralded the change from domestic to public gatherings. Television was demonstrate in England in 1926, and the first volume of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' appeared. The author of that book altered the lives of untold millions and introduced social, religious and political injustice on an unheard-of scale, as documented in history books.
It is in response to the reverberations of that era that you will distinguish yourself. You and many others who were born during those years can establish the kind of world that honors the right of all people to be free to choose their destinies. The contribution you make will help provide opportunities for everyone who wants to succeed.
Uranus quincunx Neptune (Betty Lundsted)
The quincunx aspect implies a strain that will involve the process of individuation, the eccentricity or behavior of a generation (Uranus), and the dream of compassion and universal love (Neptune). The generation's behavior pattern will not agree with the creative dream. The strain can be read in terms of the signs involved in the quincunx. This is not an important aspect unless the personal planets are also tied in.
the qualities, tendencies and attitudes associated with them are those which give a distinct conditioning tone to society during the period of the aspect.
The conjunction is quite rare, being made the last time around 1848, a time of social revolution in Europe and a time of great civil unrest and social change in Europe and America, and occurring again in the period of 1963-68.
The influence of these potent transpersonal planets is likely to be radical and far-reaching, setting a trend for the following century to develop and integrate, one which requires a long period of time for society to assimilate. In that sense, the influence is world-wide, and the period in which the close conjunction is made should be carefully analysed to perceive the essential thrust of this directive energy and the emergent trends for social development over the next hundred years.
With the cosmic periodic releasing of such powerful energies, the human reaction to them is varied and often polarised in response. These reveal the interface between the individual life and the collective life of a society. It is as though from a multiplicity of sources a new alluring voice is rising, which is revealing a new approach to life for society to absorb. Certain individuals respond enthusiastically to this new siren call, embracing 'the new way', and begin to group together as an influential minority within their own society. They then reflect the new ideas, impregnate society with them and act as transmitters of change. Broader social reaction to 'the new way' is often slow, apart from the inevitable reaction against the new trend; and often society attempts to use the power of its established structures to resist what appears to be a threatening impulse.
The influence of the conjunction is to initiate a new phase of social change; and during the 1963-68 aspect, it is that of a revolutionary new spirit in the air, extolling the virtues of individual rights and freedom, stimulating the need for the transformation of the existing social establishment and the breakdown of outdated and limiting social and national attitudes and engrained patterns of thinking.
For those who were (and still are) attuned and receptive to this visionary energy, there is a personal feeling of involvement in a vast process of evolutionary development occurring on earth, a feeling that their individual life is intimately linked with a vast plan slowly unfolding into manifestation, and that their lives are guided by some greater consciousness, participants in a planetary drama. AS a world-wide group held together by shared response, they collectively form a conduit for the new social approach to be mediated into human life and consciousness. Some reflect this in a more conscious manner, by seeking to manifest the overshadowing energy via deliberate meditation or occult rituals, etc..
What is of importance to this group is the respect and value of life in all of its forms, ranging from human life to animals, plants, all of the many appearances of Nature, and the abundant creativity of Earth. Life is viewed as essentially 'holy', to be cherished, respected, enjoyed and protected. It is a basic attitude to life that wants the highest quality of life for everyone, founded upon a balanced and careful relationship with the environment and the natural world, whereby human society moves from being a dangerous exploiter of nature's gifts to living in a more natural harmony. Individually, there is the need to develop as a unique person, free to live and express oneself within a peaceful, co-operative co-existence, to learn how to unfold innate potentiality without it infringing on the rights of others.
Some twenty years after the close conjunction, the attitudes released into the world at this time were still serving as a necessary social direction; and many pressure groups had been formed to further the progress of such causes. The succeeding
The conjunction of Uranus and Pluto shows that if necessary you will go to extremes to preserve your freedom. Being free mean many things to you. It means freedom from pollution, disease, unemployment, and economic control by the industrial establishment. You want the right to 'do your thing', especially the right to make some important contribution to mankind along with others who are similarly motivated. You support local and national programs to improve the quality of life and may even become actively involved in seeing that this work is carried out. You realize that hard work by everyone concerned is the only way to reverse the continual plunder of natural resources, which leaves only a blighted landscape. You have a deep respect for all living things, including people, animals, and plants. When you observe how the earth is so freely desecrated by private interests, with little regard for those who will inherit it, you feel the need to dedicate yourself to preserving those elements.
This conjunction occurred from 1963 to 1968. Rachel Carson's book 'Silent Spring' was a grim reminder of how seriously we were upsetting the balance in nature. The United States Government report on Smoking and Health pointed to the much higher incidence of cancer and heart disease among smokers than non-smokers. Along with the disturbing reports of these publications, there was an increasing use of mind-altering drugs such as the hallucinogenic LSD, marijuana, and 'hard' drugs such as heroin and cocaine. The use of the drug thalidomide by pregnant women in Europe produced deformed children, until the side-effects of this medication were understood.
You are offered two alternatives: either to turn your back on the decaying quality of life or to make some effort to restore order to the chaos that man's insensitivity has produced.
The keyword for Uranus is 'I behave', and the keyword for Pluto is 'I am unconsciously motivated'. The combination doesn't occur too often; it last happened in the 1960s. Here, the process of individuation can be either confused or overwhelmed by some unconscious force or energy. The behavior may be controlling or strangely eccentric.
Pluto rules the underworld in mythology; it has something to do with the archetypal energies of the unconscious depths. In the 1960s, people became interested in hallucinogenic drugs. Some of them experienced an inner exploration of the self induced by chemicals. Literature has been written comparing the drug experience to that of the mystical path of Oriental philosophies. People also became involved in supporting 'people' rights, and the peace marches began - the march on Washington occurred, as well as marches supporting young people's rights to refuse to fight in the Vietnamese war.
People born during these years will be highly individualistic and unorthodox. Whether this energy will express creatively or destructively will be apparent in years to come.
individuality and also produces sudden breakthoughs and explosions; Pluto concentrates forcefully on internal and external power struggles, and endeavors to effect transformations by bringing everything to the surface. People born when there is a hard aspect between the two planets are typical of times in which hidden tensions are building up in readiness for all kinds of revolution. And when personal planets in the charts are implicated, these people feel a need to express their revolutionary fervor personally.
In 1965, for example, Uranus and Pluto were conjunct. Quite a few children of that generation became filled with an uncontrollable spirit that was taboo-breaking (Pluto) and provocative (Uranus) in the exterem: as these children reached puberty, many of them in different countries became punks.
If Pluto and Uranus strengthen each other by apect, they are not easy to hold back but tend to push things to the limit. Pluto, representing force and transformation, aided and abetted by Uranus, can create sudden explosive acts of violence, or intense tensions affecting us deeply or welling up from the depths of the collective psyche. Fresh ideas in psychology and psychoanalysis are important instances of the renovating influence of Uranus on the repression and depth of Pluto. A prime example is the publication in 1912 of Freud's 'Totem and Taboo', a work in which he cut through the conventions of his era and charted new territory in medicine. He reaped a whirlwind of indignation for daring to slaughter so many sacred cows. The book came out during an inconjunct between Uranus and Pluto, a naturally disruptive influence and not, one may add, conducive to success. In the same period, Adler and Jung left Freud to strike out on their own. Also in 1912, Jung's first major work, 'Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido', appeared. This also was highly original and broke many of the current taboos but, at first, was more successful than Freud's offering. In fact it was one of the many causes of the rupture between Freud and Jung.
Anyway, when Pluto and Uranus are in aspect, break-throughs occur in things to do with the hidden and suppressed, with the masses (since they also are ruled by Pluto), with power and power-struggles, and with the fierce untamed forces in matter (atomic energy, atomic fusion, atomic research, etc.). Strain and stress are inevitable with the aspects, because Pluto, which intensifies everything it touches, is activating the restlessness, tension and impulsiveness of Uranus.
Therefore, if we have these aspects linked to personal factors in our charts, we ought to take care not to be too uncompromising, and not to try and demolish everything (risking the destruction of more than we can restore). Impulsiveness and intensity may need curbing. On the other hand, we could have enormous potential for detective and research work, and make unusual discoveries in our chosen field.
There is always a certain amount of tension in the character when personal planets are involved; and this shows itself in restless searching, in delving into matters that have little to do with the everyday world, and in a refusal to bow to the dictates of superiors. For Pluto makes us want to deal with them in our own way. Therefore, if there is attempted interference, we refuse to tolerate it (in the tense aspects or the conjunction) or else manipulate it so as to change its direction (in the more harmonious aspects). Battles for power or authority, and sometimes savage bad manners, are possible, with, at the same time, a grim determination to build our own lives and develop our own individuality. When these aspects are linked with personal factors in the chart, we demand the right to make mistakes; in fact, we need to make mistakes in order to grow up how we want, regardless of sound parental advice.
(Note: the quincunx will not fall within orb again until October 2035 and last fell out of a 2½º orb in December 1912, so is assumed to be of no direct importance to readers of this; the opposition last fell outside an 8º orb in October 1905 and will not fall within an 8º orb again until October 2043. The last opposition occurred in 1900-1903, so the only people still living to have it in their birth charts are centenarians.)
The influence of the square aspect was to stimulate 'destructive' social change across international borders, to intensify all those latent nationalistic characteristics that had been coming to the surface of the national group minds, until the only way to express and release the underlying tensions was through world conflict.
The close square applied from 1931 to 1934; and the phase was of rapid metamorphosis in crucial countries like Germany and Italy. These were two clear examples of the impact of the Uranian-Plutonian energy, where nationalistic tendencies and élitist attitudes were elevated into a sense of social direction, manipulated by dictatorial groupings in an attempt both to seize power and to benefit the State by introducing new political concepts. The power complex and need to dominate of the unregenerated Pluto energy is displayed in the need to expand their control and influence into other less powerful nations, through ruthlessly expressed violence and force.
The general world economic instability helped to create the space for radical and revolutionary political agitators to gain power, feeding off the exploited energy of will (Pluto) to build an apparently attractive edifice of the new society. In many cases, this basic urge to create new social structures was genuinely held by those whose motives and ideals were socially beneficial; however, they were to lose their positions of responsibility to those whose intentions were more mixed, and who were being swept along by their receptiveness to the powerful energies pouring into the world, which served to over-stimulate aspects of their unintegrated personalities.
The collective group responding to the Fascist and Nazi ideals was generating and reflecting the possessing energy, especially through the group mind and seen in those emotionally manipulated and invocative mass public rallies, which were similar in effect to certain types of magical ritual. There were two main ways in which people reacted to the social change occurring. One was to collaborate with it, being excited and thrilled by active participation in a national resurrection, irrespective of some of its hidden darker aspects. The other way was to be apathetic and passive, allowing it to go on all aroundt hem, feeling insecure and unable to have any influence even if they disagreed witht he dominating group.
What became paramount in this square was the stimulation of the unconscious national mind and emotions by Pluto, which overrode the more intellectually idealistic mind quality of Uranus. All those repressed tendencies rose into physical view, those attitudes of superiority, of national frustration, of harsh, sadistic dismissal of other 'inferior' races, and of the power of violent aggression, became ingegrated into the expression of the new society; and freedom was ignored by the might of the oppressor. The dark face of incorrectly applied Pluto energy was ready to be unleashed onto the world.
The square from Uranus to Pluto shows that although you know there is much you can do to preserve the freedom you enjoy, you prefer to let someone else do it. You
assume there will always be people with the courage to accept this responsibility, so you don't need to add your contribution. But if developments in your immediate enviroment threatened to curtail your liberties in any way, you would be the first to react. This planetary combination shows that you would be directly affected by such changes; if you are apathetic about preventing them., you are at fault. An example of such apathy is the fact that many people do not exercise their right to vote and then complain loudly when an ineffectual candidate wins the election. On the other hand, you could be so concerned for your fellow man that you would become a servant of the people, such as a firefighter, police officer, or public official. In that way, you could do something positive to improve the general welfare of society.
Uranus and Pluto were in this relation from 1931 to 1934, when dramatic events stirred the world. While people were deeply preoccupied with the Depression, trying to find work and food, Hitler made his move. He effectively restored order amid the chaos in his own country, and stabilized its economy, but the price paid by the people was extremely high. He enslaved them and gained domination over those willing to serve his madness.
You must be constantly alert to the price you will pay if you fail to respond to the danger signals of any popular movement or political development. There will always be individuals who will try to rise to power when the public is apathetic.
If your instinct for self-preserveation is strong enough, you will protect yourself against such tyrants by taking an active role to establish legal safeguards. You will also urge others to join with you in resisting domination and seeing that such individuals are removed from office.
The concept of personal individuation is at odds with the needs of the masses. There may be an unconscious attempt to control behavior and relationships. If Mercury is involved with the square, it can indicate an attempt at controlling the mind as well as the behavior.
Behavioral attitudes may be unconsciously motivated, and the individual may find himself living out the archetypes or having them lived them out on him. People with this aspect will be interested in moving away from the family environment into some new approach to life. If the aspect concerns personal planets as well, it becomes more powerful.
(Robert Pelletier)
Uranus conjunct the Ascendnat shows that you are individuality personified. You have a personal chemistry that never fails to stimulate people to be friendly to you. You are admired by most but feared by some, especially those who feel overpowered by your total self-awareness. You tend to make people feel insignificant in your presence, although you certainly don't try to give that impression. No-one should feel any discomfort with you because you project yourself freely and honestly.
You relate easily to all types of people and are friendly to everyone, regardless of their social status. You don't measure anyone by the cut of thier clothes, their school, or the social register, for you are intimately aware of the unfair limitations imposed by social custom and tradition. You view everyone you meet as a unique and individual person who cannot possibly be categorized except as a member of the
human species. You are intuitively aware that the progress of man and of the society he conceives and constructs depends explicitly upon the individuality of its members. Therefore you aggressively defend every person's right to be an individual. In your view, the past and its traditions are important only for the lessons learned, and the future is possible only when our grip on the past is finally released.
Concerned primarily with the future, you are eager to participate in the development of a higher consciousness, which will be the nucleus for the greater awareness of man. You reject as inadequate a reality that is measured merely by its physical dimensions. Your greatest value to others is that you can give them access to explore the new freedom, a freedom that is denied them if they turn away from it.
(Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
With Uranus and the Ascendant we make no bones about showing how important individuality is to us. We take life into our own hands at a very early age; and this can easily make us seem unruly and impertinent. Uranus is capricious and restless, and we radiate these traits to others. It is impossible to sit still. We are highly strung and full of ourselves and, to make matters worse, we keep jumping from one thing to another. We are always ready with sudden insights and inventions, but hardly ever seem to finish what we start.
The Uranian tension quickly winds us up and fills us with impatience. Therefore we may appear brusque, tactless and crabby. Uranus conjunct the Ascendant is a difficult aspect to handle. What is more, we expect others to keep up with our changes and innovations. If they are unable to do so, we lose interest, and eagerly hunt around for something else to stimulate us.
People with Uranus conjunct the Ascendant prize freedom; they consult their own advantage in every situation, and expect others to do the same. So they are very tolerant of anything new but, because bright ideas lose their shine so quickly for them, they are not quite as open-minded as they suppose.
(Betty Lundsted)
The Ascendant indicates the persona, how we present ourselves to others, the person we are trying to be. When Uranus conjuncts the Ascendant, the self-expression becomes unique. The qualities of the rising sign will be enhanced, the approach to life will be unorthodox or unconventional, and this personality will have a chance to manifest a more highly conscious reflection of the rising sign qualities then those without this conjunction.
Because the Ascendant reflects the approach to new life experience, this conjunction indicates a tendency toward an unusual approach, an unpredictable approach to new situations. This conjunction can be exciting, spraking off an unusual life experience, or it can cause much inner conflict depending on how Uranus is aspected to other planets. The unorthodox approach will only bring contentment when used to further develop the facets of personality that must have expression. In order to diagnose the personality needs, look to the personal planets.
(Sue Tompkins)
People with Uranus aspecting the Ascendant / Descendant axis often look different. There is often something physical about them that sets them apart from others or makes them particularly noticeable. Frequently they are simply quite tall. Uranus always seems to increase height, and this is sometimes the case even with major
Uranian contacts which don't involve the Ascendant.
Whereas a person with Uranus in the 12th house may be highly individualistic but keep the more unconventional aspects of his / her personality, world-view or lifestyle to him- / herself, those with Uranus rising usually make no secret about their differences from others.
As always, the sign involved is of crucial importance, as is the ruler of the Ascendant and other planets making aspect. As a rule though, the Uranus rising person seems to go out into the world saying: 'In what way am I different?'
Often, from birth or early childhood the individual felt marked out as being in some way unique. With Uranus rising, this is often felt to be just a statement of fact, and the individual may even come to wear his / her 'differentness' as some kind of badge. Whatever marks him / her out from the rest of the family may also have been reinforced and therefore exaggerated very early on in life. Thus the life's journey is often concerned with discovering in what way he / she is genuinely unique from the rest of the world as opposed to merely appearing to be different from others.
Those with Uranus rising usually have no wish to conform. The type will be highly individualistic and uncompromising in his / her insistence upon having space and freedom; and especially space and freedom to pursue whatever (to others at any rate) radical or unconventional life-style is appropriate to him / her.
People with Uranus rising and sometimes on the Descendant are sometimes born very suddenly or unexpectedly, so that their first experience of themselves in the world is of their producing some kind of shock.
Others with Uranus conjunct Ascendant themselves receive and early shock to their system, and thus somehow come to expect that something sudden and devastating might occur at any minute. Or at least this is my theory to explain the often very taut nervous tension that these individuals sometimes exhibit.
In my experience, Uranus contacts to the Ascendant / Descendant axis are amonst the most common contacts to be found in the charts of astrologers, although if astrology ever becomes a commonplace, accepted subject amongst the general populace, I doubt whether this would remain the case.
Uranus trine Ascendant (Robert Pelletier)
Uranus trine the Ascendant means that you will always be able to express your creativity when you want, mainly because you let everyone know that you will not be denied this privilege. Your creative potentials are considerable, and you only need self-discipline to develop them. But it is useless for anyone to pressure you to do so, because you resent interference in this matter and consider it an invasion of privacy.
Nothing seems to bother you, and your bright, optimistic outlook shows that you are not troubled by personal problems you can't take care of. You live each day as it comes and are not unduly worried about all the tomorrows, for you know you will take care of them in due time. Generally you are not bothered by subconscious problems because you refuse to dwell on anything negative. Not a clock-watcher, you are freed from being dependent on time. You enjoy a variety of pleasures, some rather ordinary but others bordering on the ridiculous or bizarre. You are a rebel and in many ways a loner. You don't really care whether others have freedom; that is
their problem. You only know that you must be free.
You have an adventurous mind filled with ingenious ideas that you can exploit if you want to. All that restricts you is the money needed for developing them. Since you are not interested in public admiration, you don't feel any obligation to gain status. Your love relationships must be based partly on intellectual rapport, or you easily become bored. You like to believe that you are important in the lives of those you touch; chances are that anyone who forms a close friendship with you is affected by your concern. You understand people better than they understand themselves. You are pleased that the trend among young people is toward greater individuality and that they are more determined to seek their own desires free from the confinement of tradition.
Uranus sextile Ascendant (Robert Pelletier)
Uranus sextile the Ascendant shows that you think like a rebel, whether you act the role or not. You are impatient with traditional concepts unless they bring results when you adhere to them. Fascinated by novelty, your mind races with high expectation when you encounter an ingenious idea. Although you are restless and like to be on the move all the time, you realize that you cannot hope to win any support for your creative ideas unless you convince important people that you are stable and dependable. Your greatest selling point is your original and progressive creativity. You are skillful in communicating what you know, and you freely share your ideas with anyone who will listen. Time means little to you, and you reject the limitations it imposes. You depend on intuitive hunches which are, more often than not, extremely reliable. Many times, your statements are prophetic.
Because freedom means to much to you, your career must permit you some degree of independence and self-determination. Daily, routine jobs are too boring and restrictive for your creative talents. You bring ingenuity to any work you do, but research and development have a special appeal. If there is any way that new sources of revenue can be devised for the company you work for, you are the one who can find it.
You enjoy a wide variety of friends from different backgounds. You are particularly fond of people who think for themselves and those whose interests are as novel
as your own.
Among your associates, you sparkle. You enjoy competing with them, but you are not usually pompous when you win. Rather, you consider it a mutual victory, for you realize that your opponent helped stimulate you to win. You may be envied and even disliked by some co-workers, whose limited perspective prevents them from really understanding you.
It is unlikely that you will ever truly retire. Each day reveals new possibilities that continue to arouse your interest.
Uranus trine or sextile Ascendant (Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
Individualism and independence play a big role in the harmonious Uranus / Ascendant aspects. But, with a surer instinct than someone with a conjunction or tense aspect, we know how to integrate these traits into daily life. However, this does not alter the fact that nothing will stop us from setting out on our own path; it simply means that we go about things rather cleverly and avoid conflicts with existing patterns.
We like variety, newness and renewal, and often react very quickly and adroitly to what we encounter. The impulsiveness of Uranus can play us false here, and its restlessness can make us alert, taut, and occasionally nervous. There is something provocative about our behavior. This does not necessarily cause trouble for us, but we make it clear that we are fond of change, that we are our own person, and that we are going to need plenty of elbow room. No Uranian aspect excels in adaptability, and, even in the harmonious aspects, the emphasis is laid on pursuing personal objectives. Yet although adaptability is not great, we can cope well with new situations - and what is this but adaptability of another kind? Apart from that, restlessness makes us very lively.
People with harmonious Uranus / Ascendant aspects are a stimulus to those around them; their activities are like a fresh breeze. There is no denying that some of them make good pioneers.
Uranus trine or sextile Ascendant (Betty Lundsted)
When a trine or sextile between the Ascendant and Uranus occurs, these individuals are exposed to new ideas and new attitudes because the parents were encouraging of new concepts.
Uranus square Ascendant (Robert Pelletier)
Uranus square Ascendant shows that you are a rebel at heart. When your independence is denied even momentarily, you are defiantly abusive. You feel you have the right to do anything you want without adhering to any rules or regulations. In general you are irresponsible and find it difficult to learn anything from your experiences. You were at odds with the rest of your family when you were growing up, and you will always strike others as being different from the average person. But you do have a mind of your own and insist on finding for yourself the best way to capitalize on your wealth of ideas.
Generally indifferent to money, you prefer to devote your efforts to enterprises that are characterized by such clichés as 'relevant' and 'meaningful'. What you do is far more important than what you are paid for doing it. Your modernity is repelled by tradition, and yet you conform to another kind of tradition that is consistent with the values of your generation.
You refuse to stay confined in a career that does not give you some degree of freedom and mobility. A nine-to-five routine would be positively crushing to your individuality. The only reason you want an education is so you can make a better contribution to society, but you must learn to be wary of people who will take advantage of you and deprive you of even basic necessities. Giving is noble, but in this case poverty is stupid. You are not likely to seek a binding partnership unless it is by agreement rather than by contract. You remember rebelling against the close confinement of your youth, and you have no intention of repeating that experience.
You are disturbed by social injustice and hope that some day you can contribute substantially to eliminating those injustices. You need to know that your life's work is serving a wide human need. Closely identified with youth in society, you try to help young people exploit their creative potentials.
Uranus opposition Ascendant (Robert Pelletier)
Uranus opposition the Ascendant shows that relationships stand in the way of achieving the freedom you want. You attract people who demand their own freedom, even though it means you must curtail yours, and this annoys you. Attracted to people who are defiant of authority, you'd like to share the enthusiasm of their independence. You feel uncomfortable when anyone asks you to make a commitment, for you consider contracts and related obligations as too limiting and frustrating. Marriage in the traditional sense is not for you. You prefer a more liberal association in which the only binding agent is your emotional attraction to your partner. You enjoy a wide circle of friends who share your views and with whom you feel safe and secure.
Your contemporaries admire your ingenuity in using your creative talents. You are drawn to occupations that give you freedom to work in your own way, unconfined by rules and regulations. You don't like to be tole when and how you should do something or to receive an ultimatum if you don't submit.
Rebellious by nature, you probably left home at an early age to seek your own goals. Although you have a mind of your own, you probably are not fully prepared to accept responsibility for your actions. You tend to avoid competition on the excuse that it is the trap of a regulated society.
Although you secretly hope to make a substantial contribution to improve society, you may lack the motivation to actually do something to prove your concern. Your resentment of authority may cause problems in reaching your goals. You make your own rules to serve as guidelines, but they are not very demanding. Part of your role in life is to help others gain their freedom by urging them to get an education and to learn about the social and political issues that can affect them.
Uranus square or opposition Ascendant (Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
With a tense aspect from Uranus to the Ascendant, we give the impression of being restless, changeable and capricious: a pretty good description of our behavior toward everything encountered in the outside world. We shift from one thing to another and, in spite of longing to develop along lines compatible with freedom, we are not clear how to shape desires or know quite what they involve. We are liable to do the wrong thing, or to be fiercer, more impulsive, more tactless, and often more provocative than is really justified. There is no doubt that these aspects can cause ruptures through thoughtlessness, restlessness and a hot temper.
Ingenuity is a marked feature, bu often we are too impatient to exploit or perfect an invention. We are easily distracted by novelties, and the next thing that comes along may capture our attention for no better reason than that it is original or quaint (usefulness is not high on our list of desirable qualities). And then something even more intruiguing catches our eye, and we go running after that. Real progress is out of the question when this happens, and the usual restlessness is compounded by nerviness.
With Uranus / Ascendant conflicts, we need an outlet for tension. If, for example, the Ascendant has few other aspects, it is hard to be openly impulsive, and the tension can build up inside. When we finally let off steam, the effect is startling and possibly destructive.
Uranus square or opposition Ascendant (Betty Lundsted)
The square or opposition brings in conflict, for the behavioral attitudes of these individuals were probably not accepted as a part of their persona. When putting their
best foot forward, they may not be comfortable.
When the opposition takes place, the behavioral attitudes are compromised with every new beginning: the approach to life may not reflect the behavioral attitudes.
Uranus square or opposition Ascendant (Sue Tompkins)
Those with Uranus squaring the Ascendant are usually not reinforced for their 'differentness' by the family. They often themselves feel different or think that others may find them odd. This usually feels rather uncomfortable, and the individual often finds it difficult to integrate his / her unconventionality into the rest of his / her personality or life-style.
People with Uranus on the Descendant tend to look to others to bring out the more unconventional or original aspects of their personality. It usually takes someone else to awaken the Uranus-Descendant person to the possibility of leading a more exciting or exhilarating life. It is through interaction with someone else that it dawns upon the person that they needn't conform to the whims of society but can express themselves as they would honestly wish to.
Instead of making a statement 'I am unique', as might be expected with Uranus conjunct Ascendant, those with this placement might make a life-statement which says: 'We are different. Our relationship is exciting, radical, unconventional' - or a whole host of other Uranian words. The relationships of Uranus conjunct Descendant will often involve 'shocks'. Quite unexpected happenings, unexpected choices of partner, instant marriage proposals, speedy and sudden exits from relationships and so on. And all of this is usually in the service of some personal awakening, some personal radical change.
It is also through relationship that the Uranus conjunct Descendant person can rebel. The choice of partner may itself be an act of rebellion, as may the way the relationship is pursued. With this placement, the individual will insist on the freedom to pursue whatever kind of relationship he / she wants, and with whomever he / she chooses. With Uranus at either end of the Ascendant / Descendant axis, freedom within a relationship will also usually be insisted upon, and thus this combination might be associated with 'open' marriages and partnerships; and, in particular, with relationships which are essentially based on friendship. Individuals look to their partners and their relationships for excitement, stimulation and personal awakening. If such exhilarating interchange becomes no longer possible, the individual will usually feel the need to look elsewhere for it.
(Robert Pelletier)
Uranus inconjunct the Ascendant shows that you are inventive and clever in capitalizing on your creative abilities. Always on the lookout for novel ways to use your talents, you generally succeed in finding them. You want to be admired for finding new and better ways to gain your objectives. Being progressive and eager to develope, you are not satisfied with traditional methods unless they can be improved upon. People who prefer tried and true ways of doing things may not accept your ideas easily, so you may have to develop them privately until you are sure they will work. You are especially concerned with finding labor-saving techniques that will give you greater freedom to indulge in personal interests. Although your outlandish suggestions may be criticized, you will not fail to arouse the interest of people who can visualize their financial advantages. You should guard your ideas and not share
them with anyone until you have legal protection.
With your ingenuity at finding new sources of revenue when you have to, you will always be able to earn a living. Your retirement security is reasonably assured if you realize that you must have a program for that purpose alone.
You are admired by friends who are more aware of your gifts than you are; they may make proposals you could take advantage of. You are effective in your job, and your superiors know it, even if they don't say so. You are strongly motivated by a desire to use your talents for the benefit of many people.
In partnerships you may have difficulty because you are preoccupied with your own interests, which take up a lot of your time. Because you are so enthusiastic about any current interest, you tend to get lost in your work.
(Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
This inconjunct, by virtue of being an inconjunct, and also by virtue of connection Uranus and the Ascendant, is a sure sign of tension. Therefore this aspect is often associated with inexplicable nerviness and sudden fits of passion. When we are expressing ourselves, the need for individuality is sure to rear its head, and we can be more capricious and opinionated than we wish. But whenever we are spending time on self-development, or are occupied with Uranian-type hobbies, we are unconsciously affected by our surroundings (which press in on us via the Ascendant) and, feeling insecure, are inclined to snap at people - not something to be recommended for establishing stable relationships.
Although with this aspect we can be inventive, we are inclined to show off cleverness at the wrong moment. In other words, we do not know what to draw attention to insights and ideas, and when to take a back seat and listen to others. The irritation we may cause by mistimed suggestions will probably serve only to increase the inner turmoil produced by the Uranus / Ascendant inconjunct. This turnmoil can revel itself in destructive tendencies such as the sudden impulse to smash things up or to break off relationships. With the inconjunct, we shall keep on creating or running into highly charged, unstable situations - until the day we discover how much we ourselves are contributing to the problem. When that day comes, we shall be able to react in a more balanced fashion to the outside world; though always possessing a certain nervous watchfulness and great independence.
(Robert Hand)
People should be prepared to encounter in you an extreme individualist. Even while you are very young, you insist on doing everything your way, and you strongly resist any pressures to conform. In fact, the best way to ensure taht you will not do something is to try to force you to do it. You are a rebel, and the established ways of living will not attract you particularly.
On the other hand, you can be very creative with this aspect, because you have much originality and can see life in ways that others are blind to. You may be very inventive; in fact, this placement is characteristic of people who make a career in scientific or technological invention.
You may get a great deal of satisfaction from goading others. When you see people who are set in their ways, you cannot resist playing jokes or otherwise outraging
them. Obviously if you are going to do this, you can expect to have problems with teachers and other authority figures, even your parents, who would prefer that you conform a bit more and stop rocking the boat. Teachers might find you quite difficult to deal with, not only because you insist on breaking rules, but also because you are very restless and hate to sit still for long. This placement may indicate a nervous disposition as well.
Eventually, you should learn when it is worthwhile to rebel and when it is not. However, adults who want to restrain you should not try to do so by force. If they do, you will develop a lifelong negative attitude toward authority.
(Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
With a Midheaven / Uranus conjunction, we are constanly revising the view we have of ourselves and of our social and professional prospects. Business relationships change with the changing self-image. This can imply a run of different jobs, or a flexible work schedule with room for original ideas. Generally speaking, we cope well (if not absolutely calmly) with stressful situations.
One desideratum is a place where we can spread ourselves. Working on our own is what we find most attractive, because it leaves us reasonably free. it is best for us to have an employer; but one who gives us responsibility. We know our own mind. People sometimes see us as unco-operative: and not without good reason, since we have no time for rules and regulations and seldom go through the motions of keeping them. But this is part and parcel of a refusal to recognize limitations, the good side of which is a creativity that can take us far in technical or other work.
Now Uranus has a certain steeliness; once we have chosen the path, nothing and no-one is allowed to bar the way. Having set our sights on some target, we are prepared to give it our best shot. On the other hand, if we lose interest in a thing we are very loath to waste further time on it.
(Sue Tompkins)
Uranus conjunct the MC often reveals itself as a marked urge to rebel against the social values or conditioning of a parental figure, and, in particular, to follow a line of work which might be contrary to the consciously stated wishes of that person. It may well be in line with the unconscious desires of the parent, however, who may look to the child to do all the exciting or unconventional things that he / she (the parent) would have liked to have done but didn't dare.
Uranus conjunct MC may be indicative of a vocation that involves technology and thus the breaking of new ground and the breaking away from a past established way of doing things. Careers in computing are sometimes those chosen at the present time, whereas electronics may hav been more common several decades ago.
Whatever the actual vocation, this combination favours self-employment. For this individual often needs to do things in his / her own awy and without interference. Sometimes the person, having needed to rebel against an early authority0figure, continues to live out this process with bosses at work. People with this placement are too honest to want to toe the line. Their choice of vocation or the way they pursue their career must personally feel very fulfilling to them: there is usually no element of following a career for the sake of respectability or security. The vocation must be felt to be exhilarating and exciting; and as soon as the individual fails to consider it so he / she may well feel compelled to leave instantly and do something completely different. And not only do people with Uranus conjunct MC want freedom within their
career, but that career may actually concern itself with freedom for others. Thus sometimes there is involvement in a vocation which is concerned with liberating people, whether this liberation comes through supporting free speeh, feeding the world, or the usage of technology which might liberate people from having to spend time engaged in boring and unstimulating occupations.
(Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)
This conjunction indicates unusual conditions where work and public reputation are concerned. If the conjunction is well-aspected, the natives can gain fame and high positions by originating scientifically advanced methods in their professions. The conjunction favors jobs related to science, electronics, physics, and occult work such as astrology.
Other aspects made to Uranus can cause sudden changes in reputation and professional standing.
If the conjunction is afflicted, the natives may become impatient with professional routines and rebellious toward their superiors - often for foolish reasons - so that a change in positions is likely. They are happier if they are their own bosses or at least have a free hand in the work they do.
In politics, this conjunction may lead to revolutionary views. Unless other factors in the horoscope contradict it, the natives will be known at least for thier liberalism.
Uranus trine Midheaven (Robert Hand)
Probably your beliefs and ideas are different from those of the people around you, and you put a different value on physical objects as well. You do not like to be tied to possessions that you must take care of. This means that eventually you will prefer to have as few possessions as possible so that you can go wherever you want without any worries. Very early in life, you will decide that you have to follow a path that is uniquely your own and does not follow anyone else's ideas about what is good for you. You want to break new ground, but in order to get there you won't have to battle others, especially your parents or other authority figures. You should be sufficiently creative so that you can make them see the desirability of letting you have your way to a reasonable extent.
You may change your mind several times about what you want to do with your life, not so much because your mind is unstable but because it is so difficult to dind exactly what you need. Incidentally, this can be a sign of an interest in or, later, a career in a technical field, such as electronics, computers, engineering or science. Or you may be interested in the occult and astrology.
You like a certain amount of excitement in your life, to keep from getting bored. You prefer anything new to what is old, so you will not be particularly interested in keeping in touch with your childhood and your past once you are finished with it. You are future-oriented, always looking ahead to the next thing to come along.
Uranus sextile Midheaven (Robert Hand)
With this aspect, you want to be independent and to find a lifestyle and life work that are unique and yours alone. While you are young, others will consider your interests quite unusual, especially for someone your age. You may be particularly interested in
a technical or scientific field, and in fact when you are an adult you may choose a career in such a field. This aspect may also indicate an interest in the occult or in offbeat philosophies. You do not feel obligated or held back by tradition. You seek to carve your own niche in life, and in the course of doing so, you may come up with some rather original and even daring ideas. At some time in your life, you may even make a totally new discovery.
You may prefer to be alone much of the time, not because you can't get along with people, but because you prefer to be free to program your own time. Other people may keep you from doing this, so that you feel you cannot accomplish what you need to.
You are likely to identify yourself as being different from others, because you feel that if you are just like everyone else, you are less of a person. Everyone follows some kind of pattern in order to feel unique, and yours is simply to be different.
You are capable of working with others as long as you feel that you share common goals. In fact, you can work very hard for a belief in something higher than yourself, usually a belief that is radical or unusual.
Uranus trine or sextile Midheaven (Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
Although there is less fickleness and provocativeness with the harmonious aspects, our behavior makes it quite clear that we mean to go our own way, that we are highly individualistic, and are always ready to fit the new into the old - indeed there is nothing we like doing more. We are prompt to take part in changes, often initiate them, and keep alert to what is going on instead of settling down to the day's work. We like novelty - especially in social and business affairs: a dull office routine drives us to distraction.
Alternative viewpoints are quite acceptable to us, and we try to break down rigid forms and barriers in ourselves and in society. We may advocate processes that lead to the spread of democracy or that revitalize the community; we may become absorbed in occultism, astrology, crazy inventions and so on. If possible, we turn these interests into a full-time occupation, and could succeed in integrating them into both social and business life.
Even with the harmonious aspects, upheaval is not unknown; often we bring it on ourselves. There is nothing mysterious about life suddenly propelling us in a new direction, as it does every now and again: inner transformation is the real cause.
Uranus trine Midheaven (Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)
This configuration indicates professional success and even fame through unique contributions to the natives' professions, which are in unusual fields. Renown may come suddenly.
The configuration favors scientists, occultists, astrologers, and particularly those in electronics.
The home life and family conditions are likely to have an original flair. There can be unusual gadgetry or architecture for the home itself.
Uranus sextile Midheaven (Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)
This configuration gives exceptional talent in the native's chosen profession and in
capturing the support of people in prominent positions. Friends help further his professional advancement. When combined with other favorable influences, this configuration signifies a successful political career.
It also helps the natives create their own distinctive domestic environment. They often entertain friends at home. One or both of the parents may be unusual.
Uranus square Midheaven (Robert Hand)
This aspect can signify that you are rather eccentric and easily excitable. Sometimes your actions are quite unpredictable, which confuses other people and may make them think that you are unreliable and irresponsible. But even though you do not take on the responsibilties that others think you should, you do carry out those duties that you impose on yourself.
Unfortunately you probably don't get along very well with people who try to tell you what to do, including teachers and other officuals, and perhaps your parents. You feel that when they discipline you, they are merely forcing you to conform to their expectations rather than leeting you be yourself. On the other hand, they consider you stubborn, rebellious and always wanting to do what they don't want you to do.
In this there is some truth, because you tend to be negatively siggestible; that is, you want to do the opposite of whatever someone tells you to do, even if at first you wanted to do it. This is unfortunate, because you can cut yourself off from activities that you might enjoy being involved in. Learn to choose your interests according to what you want to do, not merely to avoid doing what someone else wants. Also, the fact that someone else knows something that you do not does not mean that person is wrong. You will always be yourself and ususally somewhat eccentric, but when others try to give you some kind of inner discipline, you don't need to worry that they are threatening your integrity as a person.
Uranus opposition Midheaven (Robert Hand)
This aspect signifies that you are an individualist and that you should go pretty much your own way in life. You especially need emotional freedom, and you don't enjoy being with people who are jealous or possessive. In fact, as a young child you probably did not like to be coddled by your mother, feeling that such emotions were smothering rather than reinforcing. This attitude probably resulted from an incident or series of incidents in earliest childhood that taught you that you couldn't count on the kind of nurturing children need from a mother. Therefore you understood that you must learn to do withough it as much as possible. It is quite likely that your mother is very independent and has a busy life outside of being a mother. However, this aspect does not usually signal emotional inadequacy or difficulties, unless Uranus is otherwise poorly aspected. It often signifies a parent who, like yourself, is a very free spirit.
As you grow older, tradition and home life will mean relatively little to you, and in fact, you may regard them as elements that hamper your freedom of self-expression. As soon as you are able, you will try to break free of your family and your place of growing up. Even while you are quite young, you may enjoy the freedom of having no real roots; of fitting in, more or less, wherever you go. When you are older, you will keep your home simple and sparsely furnished, and you will try to have as few obligations as possible. If you ever have a family of your own, you will teach them to be as independent as possible, because you do not want anyone to depend on you.
Uranus square or opposition Midheaven (Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
When the planet is in hard aspect to the Midheaven, the changeableness, uncertainty and brusqueness of Uranus are not so easy to channel productively. Inconstancy, the abandonment of what looked full of promise, tension, a restless longing for change, and rashness are the result. With these aspects we need to exercise caution; as creatures of impulse, we often forget to look before we leap.
Even when we are very young, we can be rebellious, hard to manage, and sometimes maladjusted. Given a propensity for trouble-making and rule-breaking, we can easily become revolutionaries in the literal sense of the word. When Uranus is powerfully placed in the horoscope there is always a great need to be ourselves; but, with these hard aspects, being ourselves can get in the way of social and business aspirations. We may decide to be ourselves at some unfortunate moment, striking others as unpredictable and even egotistic. What is more, we show resentment at interference.
Nevertheless, the hard aspects are particularly creative. True, we suffer from mental tension and restlessness, but we are seldom short of bright ideas. Making discoveries, small or large, often seems like child's play; and by following a path where there is room to try out various unusual options, we could go far.
Uranus opposition Midheaven (Sue Tompkins)
The inclination to rebel against the values or conditioning of a parental figure may occur even with Uranus conjunct IC, but its effects are not likely to be so obvious to the outside world as those of Uranus conjunt MC.
Uranus conjunct IC or even into the fourth house is sometimes indicative of great upheavals in the early home life. This placement is consistent with, for example, moving house in early childhood to a location that is radically different from that of one's forebears - perhaps being uprooted to a completely different country, culture or family, for example. Often the early upheaval is not that extreme, but in childhood may have seemed so. Sometimes a parent might have made a sudden exit or have been forced to do so. In any case, people with this placement often have to build their own roots, they often feel or are literally cut off from the roots of their family or their culture.
I know of one extreme case where a boy with Uranus exactly conjunct the IC, because he was born illegitimately, was placed in a children's home. He never knew who his father was, never saw his mother, and when aged about 11 was sent to Australia by the home as part of a Government scheme to help colonise that country. On all sorts of levels he was cut off from his roots, and has been looking for them ever since.
Sometimes, such early experiences result in the individual feeling unable to put down roots, for he or she cannot believe that he / she is ever going to feel safe. For some, depending on the other aspects, the lack of roots is exciting. Many others with this placement, though, often become very concerned with creating a permanent home and as much security as possible.
For all its difficulties, being cut off from one's roots, like most things, can have its advantages. Individuals with this placement have freedom at their foundation. They can do what they want without having to consider the pull of the past or the tradition of the family.
Whatever the exact scenario, those with Uranus on the IC are often thrown back on their own resources at an early age. Thus, the individual is usually deeply independent, not only in behaviour and choice of life-style but also in his / her ideas and opinions. Unlike Uranus conjunct MC, though, there is usually no felt need to be seen to be different. On the contrary, any unusual family background, eccentric family members, or unconventional views are usually kept well hidden from public view at least until the mid-life Uranus opposition. Like Uranus in the 12th house, the individual with this placement will often want to be seen as conventional in public.
Uranus square Midheaven (Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)
This square indicates the natives' lack of ability to conform to professional or domestic routines. There is rebellion against authority - whether parents, an immediate superior, employers, or the government. The natives change jobs and residences frequently, and not always for sound or valid reasons.
There is also impatience with family responsabilities, and sometimes a tendency to use the home as a camping ground for the eccentric friends. The typical hippie pad is characteristic of this aspect.
Uranus opposition Midheaven (Frances Sakoian and Louis Acker)
This conjunction creates an unusual and constantly changing domestic situation. The parents or the home itself may be out of the ordinary in some way. Natives may be forced to change residence suddenly. Their homes are filled with modern conveniences and electrical gadgets or else with artifacts of ancient or unusual origin.
Often the home is used for group activities such as clubs or occult organizations. Electronic or scientific hobbies are characteristic, with basement workshops or gadget rooms to accomodate them.
If the conjunction (to the Nadir) is afflicted, it can cause sudden disputes and separations in the family life, such as estrangements from parents. If it is well aspected, the natives are friendly with their families and share interests with their parents.
(Robert Hand)
You need to express your thoughts and feelings, but you often upset the people around you with your words. You seem to enjoy creating a stir every time you say something, but this can get you into quite a bit of trouble with parents, teachers and other authority figures. The underlying principle of this aspect is the need to balance your individual self-expression and manner of communicating with your need to learn and grow under the guidance of older people.
When you feel rebellious and unwilling to accept anything you are told, you should be allowed, within reason, to have the experience that will help you understand the elders' point of view. If you are lucky enough to have parents who let you do this, you will eventually get over your childhood resentment of being told what to do. Although you may not always agree with what they tell you, at least you will consider the merits of their ideas.
On the other hand, if your movements are restricted and you have few opportunities
to experience yourself directly, you will become more resentful of authority and finally disregard whatever you are told, regardless of its merit. Later in life, this attitude could make it extremely hard for you to hold down a job, because you will respond to bosses in the same way that you respond now to your parents and other grown-ups.
Certainly you will discover your own routes to what you want in life. While young, you need to be given the confidence and encouragement to look for these routes on your own with total freedom.
(Karen Hamaker-Zondag)
The way we present ourselves to the outside world, especially in the social life, is spoiled by an inner feeling of unrest, tension and irritation. This can sometimes cause us to lash out, to abadnon promising ventures, and so on. In fact it looks as if we are prey to some hidden impulse that keeps driving us into awkward situations. Because we do not seem able to control capricious behavior, people around us become very uneasy. We are unsure what we want. We vaguely feel that we want to be ourselves, but do not know how. Nor do we know what else we would do.
Whenever we are in individualistic mood (Uranus), the nagging thought arises that our behavior may not be in keeping with our self-image, and may be even less in keeping with what the world expects of us on the basis of our usual social attitudes. This leads to inner unrest and outer incomprehension. The inner unrest, coupled with fickleness and tension, produces a search that is never satisfied; and this, in turn, gives ceaseless change in social and business status.
Now, the root of the tension is the incongruity between our self-image and the way we express the need to be ourselves. Once we get a clear conception of this fact, we can deploy creative energies with great originality in the social field.
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