by Robert Wilkinson
On January 22, Uranus turns stationary direct at 15 Taurus, showing major sea changes happening right now! This is the platform of our “braving the storm” to build character as we face the need to confirm some things.
I'll be composing more about the major changes of the larger spiritual field in the future, since as Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and TransPluto move, so moves the greater Transpersonal Field within which we live and breathe and have our Being. The outer planets show us the larger transformational forces within which we demonstrate our Higher Self as we stand individually and collectively at the threshold of a new era.
Uranus going direct is important since whenever an outer invisible goes retrograde or direct, it's a sea change in the collective consciousness. This larger shift begins 2:59 pm PST on January 22, and now Uranus again begins to retrace its steps over ground it's now covering for a third time.
Here's where the Transpersonal Individualizer again moves forward, also moving collective consciousness with it. The 15th degree of Taurus is now again irrevocably burned as a hot spot that will be triggered any time there's a transit to that point.
Past, Present, and Future Awakenings In the Spiritual Field
This point was set as "original future potentiality" when Uranus went stationary retrograde at 15 Taurus in August 2021, where we were first introduced to “an awakening to our fulfillment requiring strength and perseverance within the larger theme of “seeing what we cultivated in the garden of Life and Mind.” We’ve had various angles of awakening to this over the past 17 months while also giving us a look at what we have and have not cultivated, and what we want to cultivate in 2023.
Uranus now resumes its forward trek, moving through its shadow zone span from 15-19 Taurus yet again, but with the advantage that we first awakened to the promise of the span between April and August 2022 which we’ve now re-traced between August 2022 and now. So we’re about to see what we’ve cared for and how we’ve cared for it.
The lessons of the entire span between 15 and 19 Taurus will be put into new forms of expression in at the end of Marchand early April when Venus transits the shadow zone, and again after mid-April when Mercury conjuncts Uranus in its shadow zone. The Sun will conjunct Uranus just as it leaves the shadow zone, as will Mercury in early June.
In months to come, Uranus will make its third pass of 15-19 Taurus, after which it enters unknown zones of 20 through 24 Taurus, where it goes stationary retrograde on August 28. Uranus will occupy 15 Taurus through February 3, 16 Taurus from February 3 to March 13, and 17 Taurus from March 13 to April 4. It occupies 18 Taurus between April 4 and 23, and then reoccupies its stationary RX degree at 19 Taurus from April 23 through May 10.
In May, June, July, and August Uranus will awaken the themes of 19 through 24 Taurus which deal with the actional and material, as well as emotional-social levels of “confirmation” where we will awaken to further developments in actions which will confirm our spiritual growth. May encourages us to allow spontaneity and “lightness of Being” to come forth, while June and early July will show us what matters to us in our society and culture, leading us to “the dove flying over troubled waters” promising a new life to come.
Between early July and late August, accept the rewards which confirm your worth while opening to your ability to command others’ skills. By mid-August, Uranus will occupy its SRX degree, where it will go retrograde in late August, giving us a “Uranian review” of all these themes through January 2024, when it goes stationary direct on the degree of “wisps of winglike clouds,” which should stabilize a “lightness of Being” we can use to take on the challenges of 2024.
The Sabian Symbol for Uranus' Station
The Sabian symbol for the 15th degree of Taurus is “A man muffled up, with a rakish silk hat.” In the original Marc Jones class notes on the symbols published in The Astrology of Personality, Rudhyar says this is a degree of the “Supremacy of conscious mind over brute nature forces,” “full appreciation of outer difficulties,” and “great inner resources.”
In the Astrological Mandala, he says this is a degree of "the courage needed to meet the crises precipitated by social ambition,” where regardless of what we have already succeeded at, we will still confront inner and outer storms the more “successful” we become. He offers that we must be ready to face these storms with courage and be willing “to accept crises and to go through them” to develop strength of character, which becomes the vehicle for Higher Consciousness.
He also states this symbol “implies a transition to a new level at which the individual who has learned from experience demonstrates a truly mature mind. What is revealed here is character under adverse circumstances.” He offers that this degree falls in the Span of Experience, Act of Differentiation, Scene of Substantiation on the Individual-Mental level.
Dr. Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of “Absolute self-integrity at a simple extreme of self-consciousness,” and of our Spirit’s “inherent supremacy over all possible limitations or embarrassments.” He states that this degree is about dramatizing self in “a continual and effective awareness of a role to be played in life.”
He offers that we must be “willing to utilize whatever arises in experience” while transcending the limitations of even the least part of it. He offers us the keyword SOPHISTICATION. He goes on to say that when operating positively, the degree is “a superb aplomb arising from the constant rediscovery of greater powers latent in selfhood.”
From this symbol we see the theme of this Uranus threshold state and current launch point involves using our consciousness to forge ahead despite circumstances so that we can build the parts of our character we’ll need in the future. We now get a 5 month review of how our maturity in handling past crises served our awakened individuality, and we can see our “self-integrity” from a different angle of spiritual wisdom. We will be offered glimpses of a) how we transcended “limitations or embarrassments” in the past, b) how our self-awareness kept us steady in the “role to be played in life,” and/or c) how we rediscovered or can rediscover powers latent within us.
Where We Stand and What’s Coming
We can now again resume moving forward, expressing unique forms of synthesized spiritual creativity wherever we have 15 Taurus in our charts. This continues our pure Taurus awakening in its second decan, ruled by Mercury and the Moon in sectors involving the Individual, Mental, and Spiritual, as well as the actional-material levels of experience.
Now that Uranus is again "on the move," it renews its powerful pull on the tides of evolution and continues in its extraordinarily powerful “destiny shaping” septile with Neptune from now through June, activated in a big way by transits through late Pisces and mid-Taurus. The septile from Uranus to Neptune drops off after mid-June, and will return one last time at the end of 2023 and beginning of 2024.
We can expect dramatic upheavals and major movements in the world thanks to these nonrational “destiny producing” aspects, which will be associated with the long wave transpersonal shifts in people and nations. The coming years will substantiate awakened Divine Power both in individuals and collectivities in creative and original forms, so get ready, since we're all on a journey of transition between the outer spiritual planets in Earth and Water signs and their entry into the Fire and Air signs.
The virtue of Taurus is in its calm strength of purpose, and ability to get the job done in a slow, steady, reliable way. The revolution in human values and ways of regarding matter proceeds, with the current Aquarian pulse fulfilling that Earth energy in a greater idealism and sense of connection. By the harvests of Jupiter and Saturn over the next few years, we’ll see how we’ve made our individuality clear, both to ourselves and our world.
Articles Related to Uranus in Taurus 2019-2021
Here’s the August 2021 article when Uranus went stationary retrograde at 15 Taurus. In it you’ll find themes related to “braving the storm” to cultivate our personality strengths:
Spiritual Astrology in August 2021 - Uranus Stationary Retrograde at 15 Taurus
Here’s the August 2020 article when Uranus went stationary retrograde at 11 Taurus. In it you’ll find themes related to the “garden” we’ve been cultivating:
Spiritual Astrology in August 2020 - Uranus Stationary Retrograde at 11 Taurus
Here’s what I wrote in March 2019 about the Uranus in Taurus era:
Uranus in Taurus May 2018 – The Commencement of A New Era Pt. 1 (I’ll have to update part two sometime soon, since it only covers 2018-2020.)
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