The Saturn-Uranus opposition
How will Saturn-Uranus affect me?
Elsewhere on this blog, I've discussed the respective influences of Saturn and Uranus on Venus. Both Venus-Saturn and Venus-Uranus aspects can correspond with problematic love lives, as either there's not enough affection or one doesn't want to stick around for the same 'ole thing. Well, imagine have both at the same time!
- Part of you craves stability while the other needs to shake things up.
- Whatever feeling of security you've built threatened by a contradictory desire to throw out the rule book.
- Your pursuit of exciting sexual encounters seems thwarted at every turn.
- Unconventional expressions of sexuality are met with stern reprimands or even punishment.
- Another person can "take on" one of these archetypes, either repressing (Saturn) you or disrupting (Uranus) your life. In other words, you could embody Uranus while a parnter goes all Saturn on your ass, or vice versa.
This opposition won't affect everybody's love lives: these planets will need to make an angular relationship to an important planet in your natal chart. Currently, Saturn is in Virgo and Uranus is in Pisces (both mutable signs), and soon they will ingress (move) into cardinal signs Libra and Aries. Their contacts are as follows:
- November 4, 2008 - 18 degrees mutable (Saturn direct, Uranus retrograde)
- February 5, 2009 - 20 degrees mutable (both planets direct)
- September 15, 2009 - 24 degrees mutable (Saturn direct, Uranus retrograde)
- April 27, 2010 - 28 degrees mutable (Saturn retrograde, Uranus direct)
- July 26, 2010 - 0 degrees cardinal (both planets direct)
How to tell if these aspects will personally affect you
If you have key planets in late mutable signs or early cardinal signs, then your love life will not be the same once this aspect has had its way with you. The mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, and the key degree areas are pretty much the last fifteen degrees of these signs. The cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, and the key degree areas are the first five degrees of these signs. (I am highlighting the conjunction, square and opposition aspects to your natal planets. The Saturn-Uranus opposition may also make "soft" aspects -- the sextile and trine -- to one of your natal planets. Also, Saturn or Uranus may fall in one of your sex/relationship houses, or make an angle to your Ascendant.)
Hm, that leaves me out entirely. Uranus is transiting my fifth house, but since the fifth and eleventh houses are empty for me, and I have very few mutable planets, and none of them in the later degrees....nope. Around the 2010's it'll hit my nodal axis, but...
I'm kinda disappointed. I could use a shakeup in that direction...but then again, in my chart Saturn beats Uranus into submission every time, so probably not.
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