Uranus Opposition

When we think of prominent astrological cycles during a lifetime, a couple main transits come to mind. The Saturn Return at age 29, and that wild and disruptive time of midlife in our early 40s - the Uranus Opposition. Although their impacts are different, both have an underlying urge for a “call to action”. Saturn wants us to have a life plan, structure our adulthood, and crystalize who we’re becoming. The Saturn return pushes many people to lock down that relationship, have a baby, go to graduate school, buy a house, formalize that creative project, start a business, and “adult”. 

Uranus takes 84 years to transit or make one orbit around the sun, all the while seeking freedom on this path. Uranus is the un-doer. Its the planet known to disrupt, liberate, and connect with what makes us unique. It examines those previous commitments from the Saturn years, and questions their authenticity. If we’d hoped that at age 30 our partner, career, house, kid, and white picket fence would allow us to ride off into the sunset because all those pieces of “the good life” were solidly in place - Uranus comes along and shakes that image to its core.

Uranus is the great awakener. The great disrupter. It requests we no longer put up with that which is not serving us. If you ignore its nudges, it stops nudging and starts demanding. Those demands look like deep dissatisfaction in your current situation, financial events, health events, work disruption, relationship issues, and existential questions. Often something that was once tolerable is no longer tolerable.

Many people in their Uranus Opposition phase shed outdated societal expectations during this time and become highly aware of how family and cultural programming may have informed previous decisions. They become more aware of their soul’s callings, and life becomes far less about fitting in, and more about finding one’s own truth. 

If we treat this disruption as a sacred phase of human development and engage with it, we can stay in relationship with the transformation. Negotiate with it, and be in conversation with the growth and with ourselves. We can re-define where we are in life and what we want.

Success has an entirely different meaning during this transit, and many people shift their focus to authenticity as it relates to their role in the greater expression of life. Expansion of consciousness, heart-centered empowerment, and connection with the soul are common themes. After discussing this time with clients, I often hear that these are ideas that would not have occurred to them a decade ago.