Uranus

Uranus is the co ruler of Aquarius along with Saturn, and this electrifying planet takes us into the higher mind, and gives us the clear perspective and capacity for seeing the future in a blinding flash of clarity. Uranus is a great awakener, who brings visions and revelations. This planet symbolizes the urge for rebellion and for instigating a new order that reflects a more progressive way of thinking. Uranus seems to personify the need within the psyche to break free of identification with the material reality and to experience the world of archetypal mind.

Uranus has been called the Awakener because, the urge he symbolizes like all unconscious contents, is projected. It appears to come back to the individual as a sudden event which rips away the fabric of what was previously reality often in a highly painful way. Uranus has come to be associated with things such as invention, space, science , technology, electricity computing, aviation, exploration and the social sciences.

Maintaining this remarkably strong practical link with revolutionary change, modern astrology associates Uranus with radical idealism. Uranus symbolizes the power of the human mind to reach the realm of “universal ideas” and apply them to everyday lives. This is not the realm of the rational mind which belongs with Mercury, but that part of the intuitive mind that is capable of grasping whole concepts in a single blinding flash of insight.

Uranus is concerned with the truth and the kind of realizations that cut through everything. Uranus challenges all that has become stuck, sterile and predictable. It’s message is fiercely anti-establishment and unconventional. Planets touched by Uranus seek excitement, freedom and independence. In early life strong Uranian contacts in the chart regarding the planet that is being contacted, there was probably not too much in the way predictability and anchorage. Instead some kind of sudden disruption, shock or at least some inconsistency is indicated.

Individuals with such contacts seem habitually to recreate disruption in adulthood, rejection, alienation, estrangement and feelings of isolation are major emotional experiences to be associated with this planet. The notion of rejection is the insistence on independence. Uranus is the enemy of the tried and tested path and seeks to break free of things that tie us to the past, or limits us in some way.