Uranus in astrology

Uranus is where you refuse to be predictable: the part of you that breaks open when it is given room. What it is ultimately after is freedom, even at a cost.

It is at home in Aquarius, so the affairs of Aquarius tend to be where it has the clearest hand.

The sign tells you the manner: the same disruption looks bold in Aries and careful in Cancer without changing what it wants. The house tells you the arena: the part of life where you will actually meet it, whether that is money, partnership or reputation.

Aspects then tell you who it has to negotiate with. A Uranus squared by Saturn and a Uranus trined by Jupiter behave very differently even in the same sign.

Moving overhead, Uranus jolts whatever it touches, for 84 years for one full circuit. Slower bodies make chapters, faster ones make days — which is why a Moon transit is a mood and a Saturn transit is a re-write.

Astro Nox reads your own transits against your birth chart rather than against a Sun sign, so a Uranus pass is dated to your degrees.

The Golden Dawn ties Uranus to the cards below — the trump that carries the planet, and the decans it rules among the pips.