Uranus
Where the pattern breaks, usually without asking first.
- Speed
- about seven years in each sign
- Retrograde
- once a year, for about five months
- Rules
- nothing traditionally — modern astrology assigns it Aquarius
- Keywords
- disruption · individuation · shock
Discovered in 1781, and assigned to Aquarius afterward. Uranus marks the part of a chart that refuses to run on the inherited settings — where change arrives suddenly, where you are unlike your family, where the sensible plan gets abandoned in an afternoon.
Seven years to a sign makes its placement generational; it is the house it lands in, and its aspects to personal planets, that make it yours. Read it as the pressure that builds until something gives, and note that it is rarely a bad thing afterward — only badly timed at the moment.
Whether Uranus is retrograde today, and when it next turns, is on the retrograde tracker. Where it stands right now is on the sky today.
Where it stood the day you were born — cast the chart. Free, no account, and it draws the whole wheel.