Transit Lab: Uranus

I often write about my experiences and understandings of my own transits and progressions. I seem to think it’s a really useful way to translate the theories of astrology into real life, so it can make some sense on the material plane. Each person is unique, so my take on a transit or progression will be unique to me and my journey, but I still believe there’s use in it to readers.

When my Scorpio Sun side + Pluto in the 12th side realize that I’ve been writing and posting about myself, I sometimes consider bagging the whole journal thing altogether - you wrote what about us??!! But for better or worse, I refrain from deleting all the posts.

Besides, I often need to write or talk about what’s happening with me before I have any clue what it is and what it might mean or require. It’s one of the features of my Sagittarius stellium, and I often write in my own private journal (a thing called a book made of actual paper!), but there are a few things that might be useful to others, too.

Today it’s Uranus. Trining my natal 2nd house Sun from Pisces/6th, and squaring my natal Saturn, Rx in Gemini/9th. As with any transit to a planet with aspects, we’re looking at Uranus affecting the pre-existing conversation between the Sun and Saturn in my chart, which is an inconjunct. The basic story is that there’s a seemingly unresolveable misunderstanding between that Sun and that Saturn, and Uranus seems to be taking the Sun’s side (the trine supports, the square challenges with friction).

I can see this at play in my life these days, as change I pursue works at the level of my core, yet my planning, efforts and expectations based in past patterns aren’t working. Basically, wherever there are rules (Saturn) in my life, I’m being challenged to let them go. The energy of Uranus is about breaking free, but in order to raise the lowest common denominator or find new levels of authenticity. The square to Saturn, from Pisces in the 6th, calls for a fluidity in how I work, as the 9th house Gemini energy that’s crystallized no longer offers me chances to grow.

A great example of this happened last night. I was at a meeting with other alternative health practitioners at a coffee shop, and one of them asked me if I could help her psychically, regarding her friend. I said I couldn’t, that I don’t do psychic work. I said I probably could do it, but that there were a few reasons I choose not to do it. And when I heard myself tell her this, I saw it as a Uranian square opportunity to go with the flow.

As she talked about her friend, I received information and shared it. I released the worry about being wrong or misleading her, and just did it. My rule that I don’t call myself a psychic or do that work outside the structure (but I mean safety) of my astrological counseling sessions no longer serves me. It felt good to access that energy and offer her what I could - the flow of the moment (Uranus in Pisces) offered a chance to work on (6th house) an ability I know I have, but that conflicts with a version of reality I’ve constructed intellectually as a response to fear (Saturn in Gemini/9th).

The next step is to understand how the person understands and lives with Saturn and Uranus in his natal chart, as you can’t grasp the effects of a transit without knowing how the energies in question work in someone. The differences in how we experience energies natally contributes to the vast range of reactions to various transits. Some people respond to the work called for by a Saturn transit better than others. It’s not that it’s necessarily easier (they still have to work), but that they have a different attitude about the energy in general.

I’m going to do more of these Transit Labs over the coming months, to illustrate my evolving understanding of transits I’m experiencing. I’ve got a couple of years of this Uranus square business, and I expect I’ll have a lot more to say about how I release and break patterns.

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July 16, 2007 By Tom Jacobs