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.