We began a discussion about the Saturn return two weeks ago, which is one of the early key-life transits. These are a series of events that happen to everyone usually (with the exception of most Chiron transits) at similar times for adjoining generations; that is, our Saturn and Uranus transits will happen at about the same age as those of our parents and our kids.
I’d like to open up the floor on the Uranian opposition. This is the transit that happens when transiting Uranus reaches the 180 point from one’s natal Uranus. It generally happens around the age of 39 and has effects that are notable through around 42, so let’s call that the range.
In replying, please tell us a little about what happened during these years of your life, and also mention what year you were born and the position of your Uranus, if you know it.
Currently, people born between around 1967 and 1971 are under the influence of this transit, and I am especially curious to hear how you describe your life at this time. This group is split between Uranus in late Pisces and Uranus in early Libra.
I am curious how this time in your life relates to what you went through around the time of your Saturn return at age 28-32. Thank you for your contributions, and for helping make Cosmic Confidential our most comprehensive annual edition of Planet Waves.
I have been fascinated by the replies thus far and finally decided to submit my own as I am still trying to figure out what the heck is going on with me.
Around the age of 27-28 I was finally getting started in my career. Things were really great until a new manager was hired and he took a liking to me. He was married and had a very bad temper and wrong for me in other ways. However, he said what I wanted to hear at the time because the man I really cared about did not feel the same for me. Things at work became miserable and I hated it. After almost a year of this, I found a new job and moved to another city. I threw my self into work and found my faith in the methodist church. I finally got over this guy and realized I took the easy way out and just listened to what i wanted to hear and not think about the long term consequences of the impact of this relationship and what i was avoiding.
However, the new job was an awful, toxic environment. I lasted one year. I was so miserable that I decided to quit a few days before my 30th birthday. I just felt I was too young to feel this unhappy all the time. I was physically and mentally unhealthy too. I moved back with my parents who turned out to be great during this whole time. I was unemployed for only 9 months and found a great job in the city I lived when i was in college. This was the start of many more good career choices and jobs. My career has grown steadily since then and i have loved every job I have had since. I really didn’t date in my 30s because of health problems that lingered till I was 35 and then went to grad school to further my career. I graduated when I was 38.
The next year I took a vacation to Italy as my graduation present to myself. A friend was supposed to come with me but backed out at the last moment as she now had a boyfriend to occupy her time. I had a great time and met a man that changed my life. He was married too and unhappily– unlike the previous man. Nonetheless though, married. We didn’t become involved until 6 months later after we kept in touch via email and Internet. I was afraid of repeating a pattern of becoming involved with a married man. So, I saw a therapist and discussed the situation about whether to meet this man (because we lived in different countries). After a few meetings, the therapist said it sounded like I had had emotionally distant relationships in the past and i had not taken a risk and fallen in love before. If I took this risk, I wouldn’t die from the experience and if it didn’t work out I would have a broken heart that would recover.
I wasn’t sure i agreed but I did take the risk. The therapist did turn out to right. It was the first huge risk with my heart I think I had taken since in my 20s. This time it was different. We both fell in love and he flew me all over the world for us to meet. He is 16 years older than i am.
My friends even said I acted more alive than they had ever seen. During my time with “Mr. Italy”, I learned so much about myself, acceptance of someone else, and became a much better communicator. It was the first time that my heart and head felt like they were on the same page. All other relationships seemed to have my brain thinking one thing and my heart trying to feel what the brain was thinking. They never sync-ed up until this relationship. I am still not sure why we connected so deeply. It just clicked.
I was involved with “Mr. Italy” for 2 years. Earlier this year, I communicated that I wanted more from him and I believed he wanted the same of me. However, if this was true, then he had to make decisions about his marriage in order to have a future with me. That was 7 months ago. I have heard no definitive word one way or the other. I have asked one last time what his decision is and am awaiting info.
In many ways I feel he helped me so much by helping me put my whole heart into a relationship. It has changed me in so many positive ways. It was a very different relationship than with the first man. My career has grown more successful and I have even more confidence in my abilities than ever before. I write creatively now about my feelings and have tried to learn more about staying in touch with your heart and not always doing the rational, logical thing. Yet, on my more frustrating and negative days I feel like I am repeating some cycle and have accomplished little but to remain perpetually single in an area where all my friends have moved forward. Something I long for since I met Mr. Italy and never seemed to care much about before him.
During this experience I came to really trust my feelings and believe in his and I really thought we would wind up together. It seemed like we were brought together to show each other what real love is since neither of us had experienced it before.
I don’t know much about astrology but the words on this blog seem to speak encouragingly to me so that is why i contributed my story. I had my chart done so based on what I am reading I am not sure if the Uranus opposition is occurring for me. Someone fill me in on the astrology of it all, if I have provided enough info.
My natal Saturn is 4 Aries and natal Uranus is 21 Virgo. BD is 4/8/67. From a site i check regularly, they pinpoint that uranus is in my 7th house right now at 22 Pisces. I hoped that meant maybe some changes to my relationships would be occurring, but nothing yet.
I have to clarify…I had the ovulation induction and IUI to get my daughters…I wasn’t trying to get pregnant in 2001 when I got pregnant with my son.
I have natal Uranus at 18 degrees 25 minutes Leo retrograde in the 12th house for most house systems. It is opposing my natal Chiron and square my natal Neptune. I was born in 1960. (February 22, 1960 at 6:25 PM in Chicago, IL. Caesarian section.)
I was extremely fortunate that two things happened in my late teens and mid twenties that prepared me for my Uranus opposition. In my late teens, my mother, in her Uranus opposition, had an affair with a rich Palestinian in Israel and then went to live with him, taking my younger brother with her and dragging the entire family apart. She literally burned her bridges over this affair which didn’t last long and ended with her returned on my older brother’s doorstep, broke and needing a place for her and my younger brother to live. She then had affairs openly. One of these my younger brother could hear all the graphic sexual detail of when there was a thin wall between our mother, her lover and he and I. The aftermath of her opposition was that her youngest son was damaged and the entire family was torn to shreds. She even threatened to have me committed (to a mental hospital) to make it easier for her and my brother to sue my dad for half the house she had left behind. The destruction she left in her opposition wake was awful and irreparable.
In my mid twenties, I took astrology classes with Beth Underwood in Phoenix Arizona. She taught me about the Uranus opposition and what to look out for. Always good at extrapolating, I put her lessons together with my mother’s disastrous behavior and realized just how damaging a person could be under the opposition if they make the wrong choices.
When I turned 38, I began to feel restless. I lost weight and began feeling like I needed to do something with my life. I was happily married with three very young beautiful daughters. I began longing for a place of my own, a life free of responsibilities, a life of travel (I had traveled in my twenties) and freedom in general. Instead, I remembered my mother’s disaster and Beth’s advice about the Uranus opposition and I found outlets for my sometimes overwhelming feelings. For one of these outlets, I started having deep discussions online with a group of women. We were from every kind of religion you could imagine and we discussed religions and controversial topics. I knew better than to have an affair or do something that would damage the good marriage I had or worse, damage the vulnerable little girls we had so I just kept remembering that the feelings would pass in a few years.
When I was 41 (2001), I had to have my appendix out with emergency surgery. Later that same year, I got pregnant while on the pill. I was certifiably infertile because I had had to have ovulation induction with intrauterine insemination to get my three girls; the pill was only to regulate my weird cycles. I got pregnant on June 21st during the full eclipse as the sign changed to Cancer…the Mother. At first, I was terrified and devastated. Terrified because I was over 40 with all the risks to the unborn baby that means and devastated because my youngest child was 7 years old and in school and I was already feeling that restless, trapped feeling from the opposition. I felt I was going in different direction and I didn’t want to start all over with a baby again. Yet in a few weeks, I came to want the baby passionately and to love whoever s/he would be.
My only son was born in March, 2002. I was pregnant through 9-11. He was the healthiest (still is) of all my children and a joy to me every day. After having him, my cycles became normal for the first time in my adult life. Six months after he was born, I finally felt like I had come through the opposition tunnel because the restlessness and trapped feeling was gone and I felt as happy as I had before going into the opposition. To this day, I tell people that are approaching the opposition, don’t make any rash, huge, life altering decisions even if you feel compelled to because too often when the opposition is over, you will be faced with the aftermath and it won’t be pretty for anyone, especially children.
I would not have been able to deal so well with that Uranus opposition had I not went through my Mom’s and learned from Beth Underwood. Like my Saturn return, the Uranus opposition changed me profoundly because I now have my son who is a sweet joy to me, my husband (his dad, the man I married during my Saturn return) and our three daughters. I am so very lucky!
I am now 49 (I will be 50 in February) and aren’t I approaching my Chiron opposition? If so, that will be interesting.
Birthday: 08/11/1949
Saturn return at age 28-32 (1977-1981): My relationship with my first wife started deteriorating badly, ending up with my waking up alone in an empty house on my 30th birthday, she having moved out the day before. Shortly thereafter, I started having the most sex with the most women I’ve ever had before or since, until ’82 when I met the woman with whom I’d live until ’93.
Also, my job performance deteriorated badly during the same couple of years, until I was put on disciplinary probation and given a couple of new job assignments to improve my performance, which I did markedly. During that time I found the job classification at which I was the best: Technical Writer, which I’ve been to this day.
Uranian opposition at age 39-42 (1988-1991): My relationship with the lady mentioned above began deteriorating badly in ’88 (do I detect a pattern here?), but this time we enrolled in Lifespring personal development training to try and save the relationship. This worked for a while, but ultimately we became just good friends and at the end of ’93 we went our separate ways. From ’90 through ’93 however, I had the largest and best group of friends I’ve ever had before or since, a result of the Lifespring trainings. No sex though.
Job-wise, I got a major new assignment outside my niche in ’88, which didn’t go all that well, and ended up being laid off (along with over half my team and many others) at the end of ’90 during a major corporate downsizing, beginning 3 years of unemployment that ended when I moved to my current location at the end of ’93 to (finally!) take a new job.
I also started playing bass again in ’89 after a 22 year (!) hiatus and rediscovered how much fun it was to make music. That continued until about ’03, when all the bands I was in at the time imploded, and my music making has been pretty much non-existent since then, except for a small blues gig here and there.
In Feb. 1996, just before my 28th birthday(March 24, 1968) I gave birth to my son, my first and only child. Within that year, I had a very vivid spiritual vision that both frightened me and filled me with wonder. One night I started rocking back and forth and then saw a vision and heard a voice asking me if I was “ready to join them now” (let them who have eyes to see, see and ears to hear, hear).
I was frightened and tried to shake myself out of it. At the time I didn’t know why I was frightened. I realized later that I did understand the vision, the message, but felt frightened to make the commitment. I didn’t know if I was “ready to join them”.
A couple of weeks later I happened upon a television documentary on the Jewish faith. The reporter was being lead by a young jewish boy who brought him into a prayer room. My mouth dropped open as many in that room were rocking back and forth. The reporter asked the young man what they were doing. The young man explained that some people do that when praying, they were “being moved in the spirit”.
Having not been raised in religion, this was all new to me. Although my family of origin was not religious in any way, as a youngster I always felt a connect to spirit, and at the same time not belonging on this planet! (my aquarius moon maybe?)
When my son was about three years old he told me that Jesus had visited him in his dreams. I asked him how he knew it was Jesus? He said because he was orange like a cheezee!! This did not make any sense to me until I related the story to a friend who is well versed in the bible. It was in there, other than the words bronze and fire are used instead of orange like a cheezee. I had asked my son what Jesus had said to him. He said that Jesus told him to believe in himself. Good advice my son would need very much through his life. He seems to attract a lot of opposition in his life, especially with what I would call traditional conservative authoritative folks.
In 2004 I became completley disillusioned with the world of work, people, faith everything. I was waking up and not liking it one bit. I spent almost everyday in the woods with my best friend at the time, our family dog.
It was healing and nurturing and I thanked Goddess for bringing our family pet into our lives just when I would need her(I never felt safe to go into the woods alone). Mother nature became my office where I questioned everything and started a long healing process.
The past few years I have really woken up, had experiences of seeing the spiral and my third eye opening up. This past year in particular has been very healing and my faith seems stronger than ever.
So to sum it up, Saturn return for me was the start of my spiritual awakening. The last few years, Uranus opposition, more spiritual learning and understanding and this past year especially, healing.
My natal Uranus is at 2 degrees Leo 7th house in 1955. During my opposition, Uranus was in my 1st house Capricorn around 1995, I found out my husband had been cheating and was expecting a baby with the other woman. I got a divorce during that transit and moved to another state. I was also taking an intensive year training in shamanism and native american womens moonlodge culminating in a vision quest on Mt Shasta. Lots of growth, changes in how I viewed myself as a woman and spiritual being.
Taurus (04/21/68) Age 28-32 was a time of great happiness, adventure, and also great sorrow. My lover and I moved around, enjoying our lives as artists, until he began to have affairs. This was devastating to me (I am a typical jealous bull!) and we had a painful year examining our relationship, our personal needs, wounds, and found that we could no longer help each other on our path in life. So we split up and I was heartbroken. I was afraid I would never love like that again. Now here I am, 41, and I am in love! It is a deep, nourishing love that is as passionate as my previous love but much more grounded. I nod my head and smile when I read about Chiron and the healing of deep wounds. Then I thank the universe for blessing me.
Uranus was in 01 degrees Leo At 39 years old, I had been working towards applying to a program of study in a health field. The previous 3 years I had been taking pre-requisites for the program. Towards the middle of that year I became suddenly highly motivated to apply to the program after realizing that I would be ready to do so IF I crammed in 19 hours of study into one semester. After finishing in good standing I applied to the program and was accepted for interview. It was toward the end of a group interview, in which I generally failed to distinguish myself, that I finally spoke up with some energy about what had inspired my true interest in the program. I was accepted into the program. I think the powerful motivation to become ready for the program right when I did benefited me tremendously, because I became part of a group of people who bonded together around helping everyone succeed. Even the one woman who had to drop out over a divorce and resulting issues came back and finished with the next class because of our encouragement. The next class was not so lucky.
My marriage during these years was strained due to the stress of my school program, childcare and financial issues. My husband had a heart scare which devolved into a mid-life crisis causing him to question whether he wanted to stay in our marriage. We managed eventually during these years to work it out in marriage counseling. I am very glad we did, b/c when I finally graduated in 98, it was only 2 years later that he was diagnosed with cancer. It was my joy and privilege to be able to walk through this terrifying time with him and I am pleased to report that he is a survivor doing very well now, 9 years later. The biggest effect his cancer had on him was to make him more able and effective in expressing his love and concern for those around him in his work and home life. I think this is because he came to know, in this crisis, how much he was truly loved and valued by his family, friends, and co-workers. The biggest effect his cancer had on me was that it burnt all lesser fears out of me and helped me begin to face my fear about the possibility of outliving him. Being a recovered alcoholic, I have always worried about how I would react to losing him. But now I know that whether he is here or gone back to creator, I will continue, as I have always been, to be inspired by him to want to be a better person. So while losing his physical presence will cause me to grieve, I know he will live in my heart forever.
For me this happened in 2000 to 2003. In the 1980’s I had had a career in high tech marketing which I left (post Saturn return) in 1992 to start a biodynamic farm. I was then forced to look at non-farming career options when I left my marriage and the business in 1997. In 2000 I was in the Bay Area with no money, few contacts and little interest in most of the marketing consulting gigs I manifested (market analysis for HMO software services, web content for packaging design, etc). When the dot-com bust hit and the gigs disappeared, I decided it was now or never for working with energy. I started writing for a tiny publication, I created the first of my vibrational remedy sprays and took part time work in event staffing to pay the bills. I also decided to chose to speak whatever truth came up for me and to just show up as me. In 2004 I moved out of expensive northern California to less expensive but culturally challenging Atlanta. I have a non-glamorous retail gig and a growing practice clearing past life blocks, negative entities, etc.
Birth chart: Uranus at 23 degrees in Leo in the 10th house (conjunct midheaven), Oppose natal sun at 19 degrees in Aquarius in the 4th house (conjunct IC)
Birth date: 12/26/1967, Uranus in Virgo 29°11’ 3″
39 was when the rubber hit the road in my spiritual rebirth. Up to that point I had been doing in depth introspection. At 39 it came to a total all encompassing path toward spiritual awakening. That process has been going like gangbusters up through the present. Total change from the inside out. I began a solid career at 30, which I am now ready to dump 12 years later.
I would describe now as a time of total renovation. Scrapping all that doesn’t serve. Beginning to find real lasting satisfaction, understanding life much better. Ready to jump into something new, finally, but not yet knowing what that will be.
I’m a 1966 baby. As if it’s not oh-so-awesome enough to have Uranus and Saturn about to oppose each other yet again in December, I have even more astro treats in store for me.
Transiting Uranus conjuncted my Pisces 6th house Saturn already, and because it went Rx, I get to experience that all over again in April. Hip hip hooray.
As if that’s not bad enough, transiting Saturn in my 12th is opposite my natal Saturn.
And transiting 6th house Uranus recently opposed my natal Uranus!
I wonder how much more extensively and for how long these transits will effect me. It’s been a very tumultuous year with drastic changes in home (after couch surfing for months on end I moved clear across the country), and career with several new jobs opening up to me after much hard work making them happen. The 6th, is the “Health House,” ruling job, routine, daily responsibilities, diet, employees, pets, and physical fitness. Interestingly, all of my jobs totally fit the bill and are/were nanny, personal assistant, dogsitter and gym employee. These jobs are not my career choice that allow me to use my M.A. degree, they’re financial band-aids to pay bills, just good enough for now.
One thing I noticed: my digestion has been really sensitive up for the past couple of months, despite eating pretty clean. I just learned that the 6th house rules the solar plexus (midriff), bowels, colon, intestines and abdomen. Go figure.
Interestingly, I’ve become more psychic during the past three months, and have become extremely interested in honing these skills. I’ve gotten back into studying astrology, which I’ve been dabbling in since 1988, am reading my tarot more, which I started in 1985, and I’m practicing grounding, meditation, and psychometry. I prefer to be alone these days because people seem to get on my nerves lately, which is weird b/c I’m an extrovert. I’m guessing these are all transiting the 12th House things.
Hi Eric!
This is my first-ever reader feedback on planetwaves (and I’m completely not sure about it)…
…but now that you’ve asked:
How do I (as an aspiring 39 year-old Gemini Sun, Aquarius Moon and Libra Rising) describe my life at this time? Some might say that I live in the clouds (go figure) but I would say I live in my dreams, while remaining fully aware, of course! Seriously. I live in a cabin on a river surrounded by trees in Western, MA. This is exactly where I want (need) to be and it is very different from where I lived during the 28-32 range, which was in the TL in San Francisco which was exactly where I wanted and needed to be at that time…just very different stimuli all around. For one, in SF I never encountered a bear when I was on a run, as I did here just the other day. I encountered a lot in SF, just never an actual bear.
On a whole I am more able now to sit with creative ideas and actually make them real: At the same time I have just about mastered the art of procrastination. What’s notably different, and what makes the above possible, is my relationship to focus and my understanding that I do have a choice at the start of each day and how very cool that is. I say to myself, “What do you choose to focus on?” However, I am not a proponent of “mind over matter”…in fact, that might be the greatest difference between now and then. My expectations of myself were not truly my own (other people’s minds over my matter), thus they didn’t fit and I continually felt like a failure. My experience is largley different now…though there is still internal nagging. grrrr.
I take risks, as I did then too, but am more thoughtful about putting myself in too precarious of a position…especially with finances. However, because of student loans my debt value has seriously increased! Can debt and value can even be used together? I still live month-to-month…that is, if I really have my act together.
On a whole I experience more reciprocity in my relationships (which I partly define as when people are willing to at least try to hold their own “stuff”, when possible). Because of this I am more free now…yet still experience some heaviness in my chest. Remnants of guilt, I suppose (and some fear).
Oh, and what’s really different is my relationship with my mother…I attribute this to the fact that she finally went to therapy (instead of telling me how much I needed to go)! She has learned to appreciate our differences and this allows me to do the same…there is more trust now, thus less volatile. I think we actually like each other.
There are many historical moments which spice up what I’ve written such as when I was 32 the ceiling in my SF apt fell in…but I haven’t elaborated as I’m not sure how much detail would be helpful…and in the spirit of the recently past Gemini Moon (as I know zero about Uranus Opposition and Saturn return) I am honoring that less might be more, although I’ve written quite a bit : ). In all honesty, I have to keep re-reading your questions. They are straightforward yet have felt a difficult to answer. There is just so much! It not easy being a gemini…despite what some might think.
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this conversation!
Sincerely, Orah
gemini born in 1960, my saturn return was spot on good (japanese) wife, 28-32… then I moved to europe and all hell broke loose… big passion story from 33-39 (arab mistress) , then 7 years of plagues from 40-47, the wrong job, the wrong car, the wrong relationships, always on the chasing, losing, crashing into walls side of the story… i suppose my deep training in school of hard knocks and to discover myself…
march 2008 started to emerge to a whole new reality, gradually through to march 2009, teenage revival, childlike wonder and sensuality, a heightened state of sensitivity for music and color and love… now in new job, new car and new love story… integrating different parts, good wife (the ex-variety) with wife-mistress… choosing mystery, baby steps, and a slow-gorw seduction that is somehow creating the kind of relationship I need to feel and live, with its missing pieces… the exhilarating erotic blend eric gives us license to live: of freedom and devotion in one. thanks eric.
I forgot to say that my natal Uranus is at 2 Leo in the 9th house, conjunct the moon within the minute and involved in a T-square with both Mercury in Taurus in the 5th and Neptune in Scorpio in the 11th. At the time of it’s opposition, it was in my 3rd house and making a grand cross to the T-square.
P.S. I committed a huge typo error. My birth year is 1965 (Oct. 28)
Dear Eric,
My natal chart says I have Saturn in 10 degrees Pisces and Uranus in 18 degrees Virgo. Last year though, when I sought advice from Ms Dierdre Tanton, she said that the positions of the two planet, which still opposed each other, have reversed. I was confronting a situation last year during my birth month where I was torn between having the “urge for leaving” and staying where I was because of attachments to relationships and life patterns. I wonder how these two are now playing in my life. But I still feel like being pulled from so many sides. I was born October 28, 1964 at 1:15 in the afternoon (Manila, Philippines).
Sincerely,
Clara
I am also in the middle of my opposition — My natal Uranus is at 24 Virgo, born September 13, 1967. WOW — what a ride. Everything I thought about how my life was going to go has changed… mostly because I have literally been forced to take off my “rose-colored glasses” and start being true to myself. After spending many years in a fairly unhappy marriage, but determined to keep it together for the kids, I found out about my husband’s long-term affair! It took me almost a year to finally have the courage to file for divorce. Now, I’m completely restructuring my life and expectations based on this new road I’m on. I’m 1/2 scared to death and 1/2 excited! The road is completely unknown to me, but I’m moving forward in faith, knowing that there are wonderful things heading my way.
The funny thing about all of this is that I’ve wanted out of the marriage for so long, but didn’t even see it as a possibility because of our young children and my strong belief in keeping it together for them. His affair was a catalyst which gave me the courage to finally question my own beliefs and to begin to change them. I wish it hadn’t taken such an extreme situation, that has now created so much pain, hurt and mistrust (among several people involved – him, me, her, her’s, our’s), but I was not willing to face reality without this happening.
I’m not sure which part of this is uranus-influenced, but I can tell you for sure that the past 2 years or so have “packed a punch”!
Jen
Hi Eric,
In 1996 when Uranus was within a 1 degree orb of an opposition I voluntarily transferred from the school where I’d taught in South Fulton County, Georgia for the previous seven years and landed in North Fulton County. The two halves of the school systems and the two thirds of the county could not be more disparate. Notice I said thirds of the county. The city of Atlanta s approximately in the center of Fulton County, and it has its own school system. South Fulton county is predominantly Black, Liberal Democrat, and has a significantly lower per capita income than North Fulton, which is predominantly white and Conservative Republican. Even though I was prepared to hate being in that environment, I was surprised by how much I loved teaching there. Whereas my African-American colleagues have generally been somewhat embarrassed by my Afrocentric appearance and presentation, the faculty of the school where I ended up completely and totally accepted me (and the ones who didn’t kept it a secret). By the end of my second year there my co-workers were choosing to put their birth children either in my homeroom or on my team so that their birth children would have me for Social Studies and Science. That is a vote of confidence! In addition, several parents of Gifted students requested that their children take my Social Studies class instead of the Gifted Social Studies. Another vote of confidence! The atmosphere at the school was very liberating. I was allowed to teach the way I wanted to and to be as creative as I wanted.
I left after my third year because the commute was kicking my behind, but being at that school helped to reshape some of my essential beliefs about education.
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I have natal Uranus at 9 Virgo conjunct Pluto at 14 Virgo and my midheaven at 9 Virgo (Born in mid-November 1963, so I think they’re all opposite Chiron in my natal, not sure) and during my Uranus opposition I changed from full time work to part time, found out I had an early stage of cancer which the doctors were able to take out, had a miscarriage, quit the job and went to work for a little used bookstore for practically no money. I also started studying to become a Gemologist, quit the bookstore and started working for an animal rescue organization and learned more about how to make jewelry. Animals and jewelry are two of my first true loves. So I made big changes and they, in turn, made me. And now, I’ve just turned 46 and it feels like things are shifting again, but one big thing the Uranus opposition helped me with is being able to be more comfortable with not knowing what the hell is going on ( a friend says, being comfortable with being uncomfortable) and knowing that I’ll probably (probably) be all right.
My natal Uranus is at Libra 2 degrees, November 9, 1968. The ages for my Saturn return would put me at around 96-00. In 1996, I moved out of my parent’s home & out of state for the first time & have lived in this state ever since. That was a time of taking baby steps towards my own independence & not relying on the goodness of my parents any longer, taking my career out of retail & to corporate & growing my career.
Currently, my life feels like it’s been in a tailspin that I have little control over. In 2006, I lost my job from the company that I worked at since 1996. I had acquired a part-time job which by 2008 they closed down. In 2006 I found a new company that I didn’t like, for less money, and moved to a new position in 2007 where I had a difficult time with a boss, but then I lost that job just this past September. It has felt like making $40,000 a year has been a goal that I have not been able to reach, unless i work two jobs. Currently I am working a temp, data entry position that is extremely monotonous, as well as a retail part-time job. Working some over time at both!
One other thing that is new is that in late 2007 I began taking singing lessons. I performed live once, but the progress to recording material has been extremely slow. I have worked on & improved my songwriting skills, but I am getting frustrated with the lack of progress my vocal coach has been generating in taking it to the next level. My intuition has been telling me that I need to follow my desire to make music, but I have to balance that with making a living & that is very frustrating to me right now.
Progress seems to be very lacking in so many aspects of my life that I notice that I get angrier & lose patience much easier now than ever before. New dog in my life! Plus I shaved my head, for many reasons but mostly to tell men that I am taking a break for myself as dating has become ridiculous. I hope I can blame Uranus on all of this! It’s been hard to follow a calling from your soul when the economy has tanked as well as your career & it just seems like an uphill battle! Nothing is ever easy.
My natal Uranus is at 10 Cancer, one point of a grand cross. The opposition happened 1990-1992 and was exact to within minutes on the day my daughter was born. It was conjunct natal Chiron. Like all major transits to my grand cross, this one was accompanied by a major depression, too much drama, and lingering health issues. Shortly after the opposition, Uranus transited my midheaven and infused a lot of chaos into my job situation and family life. My daughter has a healthy dose of “loose cannon” in her personality and we continue to play out the Uranus opposition, alternating between uproar and unexpected, pure joy. It would take several pages to cover how this transit interacted with all four points of the grand cross. It wasn’t pretty.
I am right in the midst of my Uranus opposition which started for me in Feb of this year.
Born dec 1966 and a very late Uranus in 24 Virgo as I will be having my 43rd birthday in a couple of days and don’t have my last direct hit until March 2010?
My 9th house natal Uranus is conjuct Pluto, moon all on the midheaven and opposite Saturn and Chiron in Pisces. I had my Pluto square pluto before Uranus opposition and I guess accarding to Barbara Hand Clow we are one of the first generations to have it before Uranus Opposition also had the Neptune opposition this year.
Life is changing, I am changing and I am thankful to be getting out of old habits, routines, patterns on many levels that just don’t serve me anymore.
I am open for new adventures – I have been stable living on the same land for 12 years and during this time I went deep into the cycles of nature building my relationship to the earth and healing myself. I am ready to bust out and get out into the world and create a way through art, storytelling, myth and theatre to bring what I have learned, give it voice and life and share it with others.
I am taking concrete steps to make this reality as well as listening to my dreams and following syncronicity.
I should also add that, after that experience in Dallas, I did get back to my normal self and in fact my intuition and my insightfulness increased tremendously and now I am mainly an idea person.
But during the fight between Saturn and Uranus in 2009 for me, Saturn has been so far winning!
oops… i misspelled intelligence and chaos in my comment….Sorry Mr. Uranus.
This opposition happened to me ( natal mars uranus conjunction in the 5th house )
around 1990-91 . This was a time of Aids, helping my friends with their illness,
losing many close friends – and coming face to face with mortality.
It profoundly changed my creative work – and the community around me…….
I have Uranus in Virgo at 3 deg. Uranus opposition to my natal Uranus would be around 1999-2001. At that time, I took up a Software Engineer job in Dallas with a Telecom software start up company. At the time there was a big boom for jobs in the dot com and Telecom sectors and these companies were paying money and stock options to us Software geeks to give them our resumes, off course later on we learned that most of these companies were cooking books…
Anyway, that phase was very unusual for me in terms of me being me and myself. I felt as if my intellegence and intellect were taken away from me and my mind was empty, dull and dumb and I was not grasping anything intellegent in terms of my professional abilities where as I was very established professional in my field. Emotionally there was total choas inside me and around me. Emotionally, in terms of environemnt and atomsphere I felt as if I was pulled from new realm and pushed into some old realm, because the situation emotionally felt very familiar. It was very unsettling, painful and harsh. But this energy had been building for more than a year ago.
Up until now(As I am writing this) I did not even think of linking it to Uranus. I always thought Uranus was my friend, the planet of innovation!!!
Asha