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by cat yronwode

As discussed on the Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour on May 20, 2018 -- with co-hosts catherine yronwode and ConjureMan Ali, announcer Papa Newt, and special guest WIlliam Stickevers -- the path of Uranus through Taurus often brings about conditions of financial chaos. 

Because astrology is a dense subject and a lot of information is going to fly by very quickly, i have prepared some supplementary data here on this page. Please read this page first.

== The Uranus Cycle==

Uranus was discovered by Sir William Herschel in 1781. Uranium, discovered in 1789, was named in its honour. 

It is unlike the other planets in the Solar System. It has 27 moons and 13 rings, and instead of spinning on its axis like the other planets, it rolls along in its orbit. 

Uranus has an 84 year cycle. That means it takes 84 years to circle the Sun and it spends about 7 years in each sign of the zodiac. 

== Uranus: Eccentricity, Technology, Accidents, and Sudden Changes==

Uranus rules the sign Aquarius.  Its symbolical colours are glittery, sparkly, and changeable. It favours clear stones with odd inclusions, such as Rutilated Quartz and Moss Agate, and also technologically-enhanced stones, like irradiated Blue Topaz. The wearable metal associated with Uranus is platinum. 

Symbolically, Uranus is a bizarre planet that signals originality, eccentricity, and  creativity. It brings about rapid technical advances, especially in electronics. It promotes high ideals, social cooperation, and the formation of alliances (both for good and for ill). 
Above all, it is a planet associated with sudden changes. These can take the form of unexpected strokes or good luck -- or, when Uranus is badly placed, with unpredicted accidents.

Because Uranus has an 84 year cycle, the halfway point in that cycle for you occurs when you are 42 years old, and that mid-point is sometimes said to mark a "new start in life" or, conversely, a "mid-life crisis." 

When Uranus returns to its natal position on your chart, you will be 84 years old. It was commonplace when i was young for old-time astrologers to warn that, "Eighty-four years old means it's time to watch out for accidents. Be careful you don't fall and break your hip."

==Taurus: The Earth and Its Riches==

Taurus is a sign noted for its stability. On a global, impersonal scale, it is a fixed Earth sign allied to concepts such as husbanding the natural wealth and resources of the land. 

Taurus is ruled by the planet Venus and is associated with the metal copper; some minerals associated with it are Green Jade, Carnelian, Pyrite, Quartz, Emerald, and Beryl. 

The sign Taurus inlines one to value jewelry, precious gems, art as a commodity, and fine clothing. It rules not only forestry, farming, businesses, and property management, but also the banking system, and capital financing. It promotes cautious growth and fiscal responsibility, favouring property ownership over monetary or commodity speculation.

==Uranus Enters Taurus: The Result==

The unpredictable planet Uranus is incompatible with the ultra-fixed sign Taurus. In fact, Uranus is said to be in its "fall" or worst position possible, when in Taurus. 

New Uranian technological advances occur independently of the sign that Uranus occupies, but when Uranus is in Taurus, these advances are often delayed in their effect. Worse, they may be temporarily side-tracked or wasted, as natural resources may be exploited or even intentionally misused to make weapons of war or to promote other sudden rearrangements of land-ownership. The destruction of natural resources through accidents can also be predicted.  

Wars are always a feature of global history, but during the cycles of Uranus in Taurus, wars take on a particularly nasty financial and property-based aspect. Nagatie Taurean "blood and soil" propaganda favours fixed concepts of who is "indigenous " or "of the land," so under disruptive Uranian influences national citizens may be told to return to their cultural lands of origin and, as pressure mounts, they may be stripped of property rights and citizenship and lose their previous legal connections to their land, possessions, and food sources. 

Financial ups and downs always occur, but with Uranus in Taurus, new banking technologies may bring about a crisis and attempts to stabilize the banking system by additionally fine-tuning the system may not succeed well until Uranus moves on into Gemini.

==Key Thoughts for Uranus in Taurus==

Because Uranus in Taurus is inherently a negative position, let's look at the possible downsides first, and follow with some optimistic possibilities. 

===Negative Possibilities===

* Financial upheavals: fiat currency manipulation and failure; interest rates change quickly, sudden banking crisis. 
* Food supplies diminish: economic or military warfare leads to bottlenecking of food supplies, trouble with technologically altered foods, loss of agricultural lands. 
* Land ownership in crisis: appropriation of public lands, incursions and invasions to control adjacent lands, borders change suddenly, crop lands and orchards are demolished, wholesale accidental destruction of natural resources. 
* Technological adjustments: mass layoffs as AI robots rapidly replace unskilled and semi-skilled retail, factory, agricultural, and warehouse workers.

===Positive Possibilities===

* Banking technological revolution: cryptocurrency advances, online banking expands; changes fully effected when Uranus enters Gemini.
* Innovative food solutions: community gardens, hydroponics, "instant" foods, AI robot packing and drone shipping of food.
* Land ownership changes: cooperative living, creative downsizing, portable housing, innovative materials, time-shared spaces.
* Technological advances: increased automation, AI robot technologies develop rapidly, affordable clean and renewable energy.

==2018 - 2026, the Current Uranus in Taurus Cycle==

Uranus moves forward, then goes retrograde, then forward again. Because Uranus is
slow-moving, these retrogrades generally take the form of a little
"wiggle-dance" as seen from Earth -- forward into a new sign, backward to finish
out the previous sign, then forward again for a longer period of time in the new
sign.

* May 15, 2018 - Uranus enters Taurus. "The shot across the Taurus bows."
* November 6, 2018 - Uranus Retrograde, back into Aries. " Aries Clean-Up."
* March 7, 2019 - Uranus Direct, Re-Enters Taurus. "The Seven-Year Taurus Show is On."
* July 7, 2025 - Uranus enters Gemini "The shot across the Gemini bows"
* November 7, 2025 - Uranus Retrograde, back into Taurus. "Taurus Clean-Up."
* April 23, 2026 - Uranus Direct, Re-Enters Gemini. "The Seven-Year Gemini Show is On."

===2018 - 2026 URANUS IN TAURUS ===

Removing the Uranian forward-and-backward "wiggle-dance" episodes, we are looking at THREE periods of time in which Uranus is in Taurus: 

* May 15, 2018 - November 6, 2018 - The warm-up and first pass
* March 7, 2019 - July 7, 2025 - The long run of instability
* November 7, 2025 - April 23, 2026 - The clean-up of loose ends

==Uranus in Taurus in History==

In order to estimate what a Uranus in Taurus cycle may bring us on a global scale (because we cannot work out the positions of Uranus in regard to every one of your own natal planets on a show like this), we can look back to the previous two Uranus in Taurus cycles and see what was going on in the world. 

Here are summaries of world events during the two previous times Uranus was in Taurus, for comparison with one another and as a guide to what we may expect this time:

===1850 - 1859: URANUS IN TAURUS===

The 1850 - 1859 cycle of Uranus in Taurus was marked by:the suppression of indigenous people by colonial powers, by the appropriation of wealth,  mining, and property rights; and by wholesale extraction and destruction of natural resources. 

* 1851: Chilean Revolution
* 1850: Gold was discovered (Aries) in California in 1849; by 1850 - 1859, as river-gold was playing out, inventors (Uranus) devised hydraulic mining that destroyed entire mountainsides (Taurus).
* 1852: Kautokeino rebellion in Norway as Sami people tried and failed to win independence.
* 1852: Montenegro and Herzegovina rebelled against the Ottoman Empire.
* 1853 - 1856: Crimean War; the Charge of the Light Brigade; the Siege of Sebastopol; Russia lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain, and Sardinia.
* 1854: Miao people rebelled against the Chinese Qing empire and lost. 
* 1855 - 1856: Nepalese–Tibetan War; Nepal invaded Tibet and won. 
* 1855: USA wars against Native Nations, mostly in California, Oregon, and Washington; all Native nations conquered and mining rights were secured by the USA on behalf of colonizing citizens, resulting in massive ecological damage. 
* 1855: Conquered nations in the US wars of 1855 include Yakima, Tillamook, Nisqually, Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Klickitat, Haida, Tlingit, Seminole, and Sioux.
* 1858: The Marais des Cygnes pro-slavery massacre of unarmed free-stater abolitionists at Trading Post, Kansas; final "skirmish" before the Civil War.
* 1859: Franco-Austrian War / Second Italian War of Independence (France and Sardinia against Austria for control of Northern Italy); Napoleon III of France signed an Armistice with Franz Josef I of Austria.

===1934 - 1942: URANUS IN TAURUS===

The 1934 - 1942 cycle of Uranus in Taurus was marked by a dramatic rise in dictatorships (Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler, plus consolidation of power by Stalin and Mao Zedong); by a swift rise in "blood and soil" ideology; by an unprecedented number of incursions, invasions, and assaults across national boundaries; by the appropriation of wealth, mining, and property rights; by financial changes; and by wholesale extraction and destruction of natural resources. 

* 1935: The Banking Act of 1935 changed the structure in the Federal Reserve System; this was an attempt to rectify the losses of the Great Depression. 
* 1935: The Soviet Union signed a secret pact with Japan, recognizing Japan's control over the South Manchurian Railway
* 1935: Germany violated the Versailles Treaty of World War I by rebuilding its Air Force and conscripting all able-bodied men over 19 years of age into the Army. 
* 1935: The worst dust storm ever to hit the USA covered eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma, destroying wheat and corn crops; the Social Security Act is signed into law. 
* 1935: The Nuremberg Laws went into effect in Germany, stripping all Jews of citizenship and outlawing both marriage and sexual contact between Jews and German citizens; the USA refused to admit Jews as refugees.
* 1935 - 1936: Italy invaded Ethiopia, seized control, consolidated Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Italian Somaliland into Italian East Africa, and sent Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassi into exile. 
* 1935 - 1936: In China, General Chiang-Kai-shek did not effectively resist Japanese incursions, Mao Zedong finished the Long March and called for a Communist-led National United Front against the Japanese. 
* 1936 - 1938: Palestinian Arabs rebelled against British rule and repeatedly massacred groups of Jews who had entered Palestine to escape from Germany. 
* 1936: Failed coup in Japan as junior military leaders tried to overthrow the government.
* 1936: Stalin staged Anti-Trotskyist "show-trials" in Soviet Russia as he consolidated power. 
* 1936-1939: War in Spain; France closed its border to Spain; Republicans fought against General Franco, who was supported by Hitler of Germany; Franco won and Spain became a dictatorship. 
* 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War; Japan invaded China and occupied islands in the Pacific; Italy joined into a pact with Germany and Japan. 
* 1937: Polish politicians sought to expel all Jews. 
* 1938: Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia by US geologists, leading to the sudden rise of the "oil-rich nations" and the rapid expansion of gasoline-fueled vehicles, with subsequent pollution of the atmosphere and waterways;  
* 1938: Germany annexed Austria; Austrians welcome the German Army and took 40,000 Jews into custody; the internment of Gypsies (Roma and Sinta people) began.  
* 1939: Germany invaded Poland; Germany invaded Czechoslovakia; the Allies (Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand) declared war on Germany.
* 1940: Japan joined Germany and Italy to form the Axis; France surrendered to Germany; Finland repelled an attack by Soviet Russia; Germany began construction of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland; Stalin arranged the assassination of Trotsky in Mexico; World War II was in full force. 
* 1941: Britain invaded Italian Ethiopia; Britain and Canada declared war on Finland; Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union; Peru invaded Ecuador; the British surrendered Hong Kong.
* 1941: Greece was conquered by Germany; Germany occupied Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; Germany invaded Soviet Russia; German troops murdered tens of thousands of Jewish civilians in the Ukraine. 
* 1941 - 1942 The Germans besieged the Soviets at Leningrad and later assaulted Stalingrad; the mass round-ups of Jews from all territories controlled by Germany continued, and they are sent to death camps to be murdered.
* 1941: Japan bombed Hawaii and the USA joined the Allies, declaring war on the Axis and vice versa; Bulgaria and Hungary declared war against the United States.
* 1942: Japan captured Manila in the Philippines; Japan invaded Burma; Japan invaded Bali.
* 1942: In Chicago, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated by Enrico Fermi; the Atomic Age began.

==So, what do we predict this time around?==

Well, truth to tell, Uranus in Taurus always looks pretty grim. Listen to the podcast for more specific predictions -- and for some practical financial tips and a free seven year magical spell to ease your way through the coming cycle. 

==Quick Links==

You may read more here about the financial factors in play when Uranus is in Taurus, at William Stickevers' own site: 

http://williamstickevers.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/uranus-in-taurus-global-banking-crisis-2018-2026/

Then open up the May 20, 2018 radio show chat log here:

http://forum.luckymojo.com/post384310.html#p384310

The chatlog contains the complete text of William's free spell for dealing with Uranus in Taurus. 

Then open a second window and use the chatlog to follow along as you listen to the show in archive form here: 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/luckymojohoodoorootworkhour/2018/05/20/lucky-mojo-hoodoo-rootwork-hour-uranus-in-taurus-w-william-stickevers-52018

or here;

http://tobtr.com/s/10786229

Finally, here are quick links to our '''Lucky Mojo Podcasts''' about astrology:

May 20, 2018 Uranus in Taurus
http://forum.luckymojo.com/lmhrhour-chat-log-may-20-2018-uranus-in-taurus-t90834.html

March 19, 2017 Astrological New Year
http://forum.luckymojo.com/lmhr-hour-chat-log-march-19-2017-astrological-new-year-t89406.html

May 29th, 2016 Astrology for Work or Care
http://forum.luckymojo.com/lmhr-hour-chat-log-may-29th-2016-astrology-for-work-or-care-t87653.html

And here are quick links to our '''Lucky Mojo Forum Threads'''s about astrology:

Astrology and the Zodiac as Used in Hoodoo
http://forum.luckymojo.com/astrology-and-the-zodiac-as-used-in-hoodoo-t3022.html

Spell Timing: Moon Phases, Moon Signs, Moon Void of Course
http://forum.luckymojo.com/spell-timing-moon-phases-moon-signs-moon-void-of-course-t442.html

Spell Timing: Eclipses and Retrogrades
http://forum.luckymojo.com/spell-timing-eclipses-and-retrogrades-t2025.html

Thank you, and good luck.