Uranus Wind Storms
~ life cycles offered to us through astrological transits ~
I just read this piece by Jessica Davidson on the pacing of Uranus transits throughout our lifetime. I recommend her astrological writing in general and this piece specifically offers something we might not get even from doing an astrology reading or reading about specific placements in our birth charts. We might not even get it from learning about what transits are happening in a given moment in our lives. Because she’s describing how Uranus moves through our lives, through our charts, over the long arc. It makes aspects to itself at a similar timeline for everyone. The one I’ve been mentioning a lot lately is Uranus opposite natal Uranus, because I’m experiencing it as we speak. It’s a transit that’s usually associated with the “midlife crisis,” in the early 40s. But Uranus makes various aspects to itself through different seasons of our lives. And when I remember that, I feel better. So many people track the Moon, where it is in its cycle, even people who don’t care about astrology, because we understand it affects us - we are in relation with all beings, not just abstractly. It helps things feel less personal, more seasonal. Lamenting seasons is a thing we do, but we understand they have a purpose for life on earth. When we learn about astrological activity, and especially that every planet moves in predictable rhythms, I find it makes it easier to relate to hard seasons with curiosity and openness. When I reconnect to the fact that I’m undergoing a transit that only happens once in my lifetime (it becomes conjunct itself at around 84 years old, but I won’t live long enough for it to be opposite again 40+ years after that) I become much more interested in it, less resistant to it being difficult.
Our typical cultural response to difficulty is to rearrange frantically so that it gets easier. We think something is wrong with our lives if we don’t have a partner, a certain kind of job, a certain kind of living situation, a certain kind of body, whatever our culture says is important at the moment. But these things not going the way we want, seasons and experiences of friction and tension and growth, are built into the experience of living on earth! So it’s not personal and it’s not a problem. It’s an invitation to open to what it is asking us to update, let go of, rethink, refeel.
I find the experience of this Uranus transit to be sort of lit, in an uncomfortable way. The experience is not calm, it’s not still, it’s antsy, it’s anxious at times. Especially because it is also square my Moon. So my home situation is in flux, my relationship to my kids and my sleep and my own needs is in flux, my emotional responses to everything are under review. There is an energy of creativity, but it feels really hard to harness, to bring down to the material. I just feel unsettled a lot. Those are a few of the feelings.
I hope that even reading this you can reconnect to your own trust and patience in whatever season you are in, that it is in support of life, of growth, it’s an opportunity, and seeing it as such is always something we can practice.
I want to talk to you about your birth chart and transits because I think this is the feeling a lot of us have when encountering astrology - a sense that all of this is bigger than us, that we need to do less to make more happen (LET more happen!), it’s not forever, and it’s validating to whatever is our current way of being and feeling in life. In a similar way to connecting to the wheel of the year, the seasons, the rhythms of the earth, astrology is a way of connecting the collective rhythms to the personal ones.
Looking to the stars paradoxically reaffirms my connection to earth, my participation as continuous with earth, not other than or outside of earth. I am subject to the seasons as created by this solar system relationship between Earth and Sun, and between earth and all other planets in the solar system.
I have astrology reading spots open in April where I so look forward to talking to you more about your specific growth seasons, and either way I hope this reminder is of some use to you.
love,
Sarah
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