Uranus in Taurus

From Mystic Tea Room

by cat yronwode

As discussed on the Lucky Mojo Hoodoo Rootwork Hour on May 0, 2018 with co-hostscatherine yronwode and ConjureMan Ali, and special guest WIlliam Stickevers, the path of Uranus through Taurus often brings about conditions of chaos.

Because a lot of this is going to fly by very quickly, i have prepared some data:

The Uranus Cycle

Uranus has an 84 year cycle. The halway point occurs when you are 42 and is sometimes said to mark 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 is a year to watch out for accidents. Be careful you son't fall and break your hip."

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.

Current Uranus in Taurus Dates

• May 15, 2018 - Uranus enters Taurus. "The shot across the bows."
• November 6, 2018 - Uranus Retrograde, back into Aries. "Clean-Up."
• March 7, 2019 - Uranus Direct, Re-Enters Taurus. "The chaos begins."
• July 7, 2025 - Uranus enters Gemini "The shot across the bows"
• November 7, 2025 - Uranus Retrograde, back into Taurus. "Clean-Up."
• April 23, 20126 - Uranus Direct, Re-Enters Gemini. "The chaos begins."

So 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, 20126 - The clean-up of loose ends

Uranus in Taurus in History

Previous times Uranus was in Taurus, for comparison:

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 Emire.
• 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 agains 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:
• 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 signs an Armistice with Franz Josef I of Austria.

1934 - 1942: URANUS IN TAURUS

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

• 1935: The Soviet Union signs a secret pact with Japan, recognizing Japan's control over the South Manchurian Railway
• 1935: Germany violates 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 covers eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma; the Social Security Act is signed into law.
• 1935: The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany, stripping all Jews of citizenship and outlawing both marriage and sexual contact between Jews and German citizens; the USA refuses to admit Jews as refugees.
• 1935 - 1936: Italy invades Ethiopia, seizes control, consolidates Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland into Italian East Africa, and sends Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassi into exile.
• 1935 - 1936: In China, General Chiang-Kai-shek does not effectively resist Japanese incursions, Mao Zedong finishes the Long March and calls for a Communist-led National United Fron against the Japanese.
• 1936 - 1938: Palestinian Arabs rebel against British rule and repeatedly massacre groups of Jews who have entered Palestine to escape from Germany.
• 1936: Failed coup in Japan as junior military leaders try to overthrow the government.
• 1936: Anti-Trotskeyist "show-trials" in Soviet Russia as Stalin consolidates power.
• 1936-1939: War in Spain; France closes its border to Spain; Republicans fight against General Franco, who is supporeted by Hitler of Germany; Franco wins and Spain becomes a dictatorship.
• 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War; Japan invades China and occupies islands in the Pacific; Italy joins into a pact with Germany and Japan.
• 1937: Polish politicians seek to expel all Jews;
• 1938: Oil 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 annexes Austria; Austrians welcome the German Army and take 40,000 Jews into custody; the internment of Gypsies (Roma and Sinta people) begins.
• 1939: Germany invades Poland; Germany invades Czechoslovakia; the Allies (Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand) declare War.
• 1940: Japan joins Germany and Italy to form the Axis; France surrenders to Germany; Finland repels an attack by Soviet Russians; Germany begins construction of Auschwitz death camp in Poland; World War II in full force.
• 1941: Britain invades Italian Ethiopia; Britain and Canada declare war on Finland; Hungary declares war on the Soviet Union; Peru invades Ecuador; the British surrender Hong Kong.
• 1941: Greece is conquered by Germany; Germany occupies Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia; Germany invades Soviet Russia; German troops murder tens of thousands of Jewish civilians in the Ukraine.
• 1941: Japan bombs Hawaii and the USA joins the Allies, declaring war on the Axis and vice versa; Bulgaria and Hungary declare war against the United States.
• 1941 - 1942 The Germans besiege the Soviets at Leningrad and later assault Stalingrad; mass round-ups of Jews from all territories controlled by Germany continues, and they are sent to death camps to be murdered.
• 1942: Japan captures Manila in the Philippines; Japan invades Burma; Japan invades Bali.
• 1942: In Chicago, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated by Enrico Fermi; the Atomic Age begins,