Uranus

In a birth chart, Uranus represents change, originality and the need for freedom. It shows where you reject ready-made frameworks, where unexpected ideas strike, and where you need to shake up your habits.

Uranus was the first planet discovered through a telescope, in the late eighteenth century, an age of revolutions, and modern astrology linked it with whatever surprises and sets free. It takes about eighty-four years to circle the zodiac and stays around seven years in each sign, so its sign mostly describes a generation. What’s personal is its house and its aspects to your planets. Uranus shows where you need air, where you innovate, where you chafe at routine and arbitrary authority. It’s the planet of sudden clicks, ideas that arrive in the shower, changes of direction nobody around you saw coming. Lived badly, it brings instability or a reflex to contradict everything. Lived well, it lets you be fully yourself without asking permission. Around forty-two, Uranus opposes its birth position, a passage often linked to the famous midlife crisis.

Uranus through the twelve signs

Uranus in AriesUranus in TaurusUranus in GeminiUranus in CancerUranus in LeoUranus in VirgoUranus in LibraUranus in ScorpioUranus in SagittariusUranus in CapricornUranus in AquariusUranus in Pisces