Uranus in Taurus: The End of a Story

I was just sitting and pondering the fact that I have yet to write a forecast post for April, and wondering whether I was feeling it. I'm trying my best to respond authentically to my desires for my blog, and to stay inspired rather than dutiful when writing posts. I'm learning that that's the key for me for keeping it feeling fresh and interesting rather than churning out what I think you want to read. I've also learned that this means I can talk myself out of it pretty easily. If I'm not feeling it, then I don't force it. But today, Saturn is giving me a nudge. Sometimes we have to just begin and trust the feeling and the inspiration will follow.

So here we are.

Rather than cover everything that's going on this month, I'm going to focus on one thing. Because it's that one thing that I believe we'll be feeling the loudest, whether we realise it, or not.

Uranus in Taurus

Uranus is The God who is difficult to ignore. The God of awakening. The God of revolution. The God of change that comes suddenly. The God of authenticity. Of freedom. Of innovation. Of originality. Uranus excites, and pushes us to experiment, to be different, to be ourselves, fully.

Uranus has been moving through Venus' earthly domain of Taurus, writing a new story for us collectively, since May 2018. We've all felt His electric power. We've all been changed.

Uranus in Taurus was predicted to bring financial revolution. A reckoning with the systems we'd built our security on. Cryptocurrency was the thing on everyone's lips in 2018. The banks, the old guard of money and power, were supposed to be shaken loose. And they were, though perhaps not in the ways anyone imagined. Nobody predicted a global pandemic. Nobody wrote the world will come to a standstill and you will spend three years questioning everything you thought your life was supposed to look like.

But that's the thing about Uranus. He likes to surprise us.

The astrologers who wrote about this transit pointed to the last time He moved through Taurus, 1934 to 1942. The Great Depression was already grinding on. The Dust Bowl was turning American farmland to nothing. The world was being stripped back to what actually mattered, what could actually sustain a life, and finding that the answers were more fragile than anyone had admitted. History doesn't repeat exactly. But it rhymes. Melodies repeat.

I wasn't an astrologer in 2018. I wasn't even learning yet. I came to all of this in 2020, which means I walked into Uranus in Taurus mid-story, while the thing was already happening. I didn't read the predictions. I lived them first and found the language for them later. The chart doesn't care whether you can read it. The story unfolds either way.

'Uranus in Taurus can catalyse profound structural changes in society, particularly in financial and material systems.' Given where we are now it seems as if He's incited exactly that.

Have a read of this blog post to get more of an idea of where we were and what was being predicted at the start of this transit.

Uranus In Taurus 2018 – 2026: There’s Security In Letting Go — LADY CAZIMI

Uranus transiting our chart: Our story

I've spent the morning planting seeds in an attempt to grow a bit of food this year. An attempt to become a little less dependent on the systems which seem so fragile at the moment. Uranus forces us to face what's important. What we truly value. When you strip away everything that we've been conditioned to think. Programmed to want. I've spent the last few years fantasising about being independent from the system. Dreaming of my own little plot of land in the countryside where I can resource my power from nature, collect my own water, grow my own food, and live sustainably, cheaply and comfortably regardless how volatile the world gets. That's Taurus in my 8th house. There's been a personal transformation which has brought out the truth of who I am and what I really want in this lifetime.

And on an even more personal level, Uranus has bought a transformation to who I am in the world. I've spent the last 8 years consciously getting to know my self. My true self. The one Uranus has pushed me to remember. The one free from the conditioning. From the programming. From patterns I've been repeating since childhood. As a Libra Rising Uranus has been churning up my 8th house. The house which holds my Moon and my Mars. My body and mind, my desires, my will, in a place where we meet what's beyond. Where we die, and are reborn. Where we merge. With others and with the all.

Uranus wants to liberate us. To awaken us. This post is how: THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WILL EVER READ. Word

The house where Taurus lands for you (depending on your rising sign) is where your own personal revolution has been playing out. Check out this blog for an idea of what was arriving for you with His presence:

Uranus in Taurus in the Signs: The Final Shakeup (05/2018-04/2026)

The next two weeks

Uranus is now at 29 degrees of Taurus. The final degree. Sometimes called the critical degree, which sounds serious, and is a little. This is where the stories we have been writing during the journey through the sign culminate. It's the big crescendo. The final countdown. Stories have to end so the new can begin. A ripening. Whatever has been growing during these seven years is ready to be seen clearly now.

The more awake we are to the story that's been playing out, the easier it is to meet what's coming with some grace rather than be derailed by it. That's always the invitation with Uranus. We're given an opportunity to look honestly at where we've been living someone else's life without quite noticing. Uranus ultimately brings us to freedom. To our true authentic selves. To living a life that's ours and not one that's been handed to us by systems and beliefs that are designed to keep us small.

Yesterday The Sun made a square to Jupiter, which is the kind of aspect that astrology textbooks describe as tense, but since it was between The Sun, where we shine, and Jupiter, our God of benevolence, it seemed an opportune moment for a family day out and a walk in nature. Now don't get me wrong, there were some tense moments, between us in our family dynamic as well as for us when it looked like we'd taken the wrong path and would have to retrace our steps (there were a lot of them!). But on reflection I'd describe it as an amazing day: the day we had the best chips of our lives. The Sun shone, though it was very windy, and the walk on the moor that challenged us and pushed us in all the right ways that I expect when out in nature and off the beaten track. When we finally made it back to the car and into a little thatched pub we'd been magically guided to, we shared a moment that felt glorious. A perfect meal, in a perfect pub, with the most perfect chips we all agreed we'd ever eaten. Jupiter doesn't do subtle. But he does do joy, and sometimes that arrives exactly when the world feels most uncertain. There are always things to worry about. There are always opportunities to meet joy. The chart always contains both and with the current nature of things that's something worth remembering.

Because Uranus isn't working alone right now. The Sun, Saturn and Neptune are all together in Aries. The firestarter. The initiator of the zodiac. A story began here in February when Saturn and Neptune joined at zero degrees. A point they haven't met at in thousands of years. And shortly after the world is on the brink of war. As we speak, the resources we rely on to sustain us are under threat. Money. Power. Food. All under Uranus' domain in the realm of Taurus. Our foundations. Our security. All are looking dicey at the moment. Our world feels more fragile than ever.

Mars will join the battlefield on the 9th of April. Stepping into His home territory to add more fire to the fold. Followed by Mercury on the 15th, hopefully bringing some rational thought and some sense to the table. We have a New Moon in Aries on the 17th. Uranus moves out of Taurus and into Gemini on the 26th. Turbulence. Insecurity. Turmoil. These are all things we may need to get more comfortable with over the next few weeks.

Now I can't say what will transpire. I can't predict how this will all turn out. I won't pretend I'm watching all of this from a position of serene detachment. With a Moon and Mars in Taurus in the 8th house I know I'm prone to catastrophise. I've taken some steps to give myself a little bit of reassurance. I have two large boxes of toilet roll being delivered today. I've signed up for a regular delivery of organic veg, and I've stocked up with some staples. And I've planted those seeds. I know it won't help if the world does fall into collapse. None of it would actually help if the worst happened, and I know that. But there's something in the doing of it that steadies me, the small act of tending to what I can reach.

At the end of the day it all comes down to mind. The philosophical truth, the one I believe and also have to keep relearning, is that we are not really any less secure than we have ever been. The world has always been this fragile. A large scale threat, or just a phone call, can send everything spinning in a moment.

Uncertainty is the only constant. It was the only constant on the day the chips were perfect, too. We just didn't notice it quite so much.