Symbol: ♅
Cycle: 83.83 years
Domicile: Aquarius
Exaltation: Scorpio
Exile: Leo
Fall: Taurus
The nature and influence of Uranus can be most easily understood based on the features that this planet has as a celestial object. Uranus is specific in that it is the only planet in the solar system, beside Venus, that rotates around its axis in the opposite direction, in the north-south direction while its axis of rotation is tilted 98° sideways, nearly into the plane of its solar orbit. Its north and south poles, therefore, lie where most other planets have their equators.
It is not difficult to conclude from this characteristic that it has as a body that rebellion and the desire to destroy rules and norms is one of the basic characteristics of this planet. Therefore, it is natural that in the order of the planets in the solar system, Uranus follows Saturn, the founder of laws, norms and rules. In fact, almost all that Uranus represents is a reaction to and overcoming of Saturn’s influence.
As Saturn primarily represents orientation towards the old and the past, Uranus as a reaction represents the urge for novelty and a look into the future. Under the influence of Saturn, we tend to stick to fixed attitudes, dogmas and habits, while under the influence of Uranus, we tend to get rid of them, that is, to change them. While Saturn is reactionary and conservative, Uranus is progressive and liberal.
Basically, both on an individual and collective level, Uranus is activated at the moment when Saturn in its negative meaning is maximally activated. Thus, a person feels an increased desire for freedom in the moments when he is most trapped and shackled by a certain lifestyle and environment. Personal change as well as collective revolution occurs only when negative energy accumulates, when a person or a nation is dissatisfied and frustrated with the current state.
After all, the typically Uranian decision to take one’s own life, i.e., to commit suicide, is made only in moments of greatest suffering, when a person experiences a tragedy, when he is dissatisfied and unhappy, when he loses hope that anything can be done to change the current state.
Just as Saturn represents a way of thinking and acting that conforms to generally accepted conventions, norms and traditions, Uranus represents the ability to “think outside the box” and therefore represents those among us who are non-conformists and willing to take risks, who are capable of generating new, original thoughts and ideas, and who discover and invent new views, concepts and devices. For this reason, Uranus symbolizes inventions, discoveries and technology.
Apart from the rebellion against the principle represented by Saturn, Uranus opposes the influence of the Sun, since it rules the sign of Aquarius in which the Sun is in exile. As it is exalted in the sign of Scorpio, the sign of the fall of the Moon, Uranus is nevertheless essentially a malefic, because a planet is by definition malefic when its meaning and dignities oppose the principles represented by the Sun and the Moon.
As the Sun and Saturn are opposing principles, Uranus, as the opposite of both principles, symbolizes overcoming the framework that these two planets represent, i.e., overcoming the dichotomy of master or slave, winner or loser. Uranus essentially symbolizes freedom from conditioning and subordination to anyone and anything, but also freedom from the will to power, rule and domination.
Its position in the sign, house and aspects shows where, when and how we tend to express ourselves in a free, unconventional way, how and where we want to change something, to experiment and under what circumstances, in what way and against whom or what we rebel, we defy and protest.
Various meanings:
- sky, clouds, height, jump, flight, wings.
- plane, helicopter, rocket, missile, satellite, spacecraft, aerodynamics, airport, pilot, stewardess, parachute.
- sudden, without notice, unexpected, unpredictable, accidental, strange, shock.
- rebellion, protest, revolt, demonstrations, anarchy, revolution, transformation.
- electricity, lightning, thunder, battery, transistor, conductor, electronics, engineering, power plants.
- inventiveness, ingenuity, originality, discovery, idea, invention, patent, experiment, improvisation, genius, maverick.
- original, eccentric, bizarre, perversion, unnatural, deviant, abnormal.
- freedom, liberation, liberty, emancipation, independence, humaneness.
- technology, progress, artificial creations, devices, apparatus, machine, robot, cyborg, android, Frankenstein.
- future, prediction, divination, anticipation, futurism, astrology, meteorology.
- friends, socializing, social clubs, social networks.
- bomb, explosive, detonation, explosion.
- noise, alarm, shakeup, siren.
- change, separation, breakup, divorce.
- rebellion against life, suicide, euthanasia.
- speed, haste, nervousness, stress.
- atheism, communism, anarchism.
