Discovery’s Door — Sun Conjunct Uranus

The Aries Sun catches and passes Uranus this weekend. The catch part is a conjunction, the merger of two energies, usually restarting their mutual cycle. The Sun’s expression as your consciousness is concluding a week of continuous merger, first entering Aries, then encountering retrograde Mercury, and just hours ago, with the New Moon. You may already have noticed a corresponding pattern of convergence and/or commencement in your life. If not, the next few days should bring a discovery that reveals your life is on a level with the symbolic solar trend. Astrology can help you to anticipate and make the most of the opportunity, an advantage not enjoyed when Uranus became synonymous with discovery.   

Up until March 13, 1781, Saturn, symbolic of limits, was the outer limit of the solar system so far as we were aware. Then, just as the world was discovering that a new order (or “novus ordo,” as it says on a dollar bill) had been declared from North America, astronomer William Herschel announced a new order in the sky, Uranus, the first planet discovered by science. The outer limit was no more, it was replaced by a door. 

Herschel’s observation was confirmed and its characteristic energy signature for astrology was defined by corresponding Uranus to the revolutionary experience of the time. Many other objects orbiting the Sun were discovered in the years to follow. The discoveries continue to this day. All of those discoveries have come through the same door opened by Uranus, a door of perception. It is the perception that there is something out there. Acting on that perception is the conscious attempt to find it. That door now swings both ways, allowing you to both encounter the past and enter the future.

You could say that every time Sun conjoins with Uranus, about once a year, a door opens to the past. The solar archetype of awareness, a physical understanding that has always been with us, encountering Uranus, an entity that is still largely abstract, connected to historical events still being integrated, and even then only by mind. Every year and a handful of days brings another chance to feel the experience more tangibly. This year, the opportunity is enhanced. The Sun, having recently merged with retrograde Mercury’s mental construct heading back to its recent past in Pisces, has created an opening for your consciousness to conceive what it must have been like for Herschel and his contemporaries.

William Herschel and other astronomers of his time knew they had found a new world in the solar system, but did not connect that discovery to the new world taking shape all around them, if indeed they even noticed what was going on outside of their observatories and correspondences. With the benefit of hindsight, you can notice and place your discoveries this weekend in a broader context. The recent Vernal Equinox is physical evidence that everything going on for you right now is somehow, in some way, on some level equivalent to what is going on for everybody else at the same time. You can use that perspective to connect your personal experience to the world taking shape around you.

While the course of your life and the course of outer events must necessarily diverge at some point, there is every reason to perceive that there is a convergence of some kind in this moment. There is likewise every reason to act on that perception and look for that convergence. That broader perspective will in turn open a door to the future, a door that you will be able to see represented in the evening sky. 

The New Moon just hours ago was literally the Sun you can see conjoining with the Moon you can’t see. Their merger was symbolically germinating the seed of a new lunar cycle. That seed will grow perceptibly, represented by the Moon gradually becoming larger and brighter from one night to the next as it separates from its solar encounter. Luna will return to visibility, as a thin crescent above the setting Sun this weekend just as the Sun is exacting its conjunction with Uranus.

Think of that crescent as the light shining through the crack of an opening door, because that is just what it will represent. Think of you consciously reflecting on your discoveries this weekend as being the source of that light, because it will be. Even if you have not yet perceived a continuum in the events of this week, something that connects your experiences together and, in turn, to all of creation, it is not too late to find one so long as you go into the next few days thinking of yourself as someone about to make a discovery. You will not need a telescope to make that discovery. All you will need to do is open the door for your self.

You can open that door by simply looking around and observing your own level of existence with the perception that the discovery is there to be made. That’s because the Sun’s entry to Aries literally put us all on the same level for a few days. While on that level, the solar conjunctions with Mercury, Moon and, finally, Uranus have brought energies representing perception, germination and discovery together like a set of lenses. It will be up to you to first, like William Herschel did, look and know. Then, with a perspective that Herschel did not have, you will have the opportunity to go beyond looking and knowing to seeing and understanding. It’s there, it’s real and it’s on your level .

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