Uranus in Aquarius
In Aquarius, the sign modern astrology gave it, Uranus marks the generations of the 1910s and of 1995 to 2003. You think in networks, expect technology to serve people, and fight for a future that includes everyone.
You have never known a world without a screen that answered back, and people who are surprised that it does puzzle you.
A new ruler
When Uranus turned up in a telescope in 1781, astrologers needed to fit it into a scheme that had worked for two thousand years with seven planets. They gave it Aquarius, which Saturn had ruled until then, and the match stuck: the planet of sudden change and a sign devoted to the future and the group. Here Uranus is in its modern home, and its effects are at full strength.
Two network generations
The late-1910s children knew radio, the first flights and mass politics, and saw the old empires dissolve. The children of 1995 onward grew up online from the cradle, with a phone in hand by adolescence and friendships spread across the world. Both generations were shaped by a new way for everyone to reach everyone else.
Community by design
You were online before you could spell, and it has never occurred to you that a friendship must live in one town. You think about people in groups and systems. You organise online, find your community by interest rather than geography, and expect technology to make life fairer. Rules that exclude people offend you, and you are quick to question them.
You have friends you know only online and would trust with anything, and a group chat that has outlasted two moves and a change of career. You value friendship highly, and your friends are a web across many places and kinds of life.
Detached
Screens can stand in for closeness. Connection through a screen can replace connection in the same place, and ideals can outrun the patience to live by them. You can be very attached to your independence and very uncomfortable with dependence, your own or anyone’s.
First on the street
The older wave were famously open to new things for their age: first on the street with a television, full of opinions about the future and delighted by each new invention.
The world your generation takes for granted is the one theirs could only imagine, and a few lived long enough to see it.
Were you born with Uranus in Aquarius?
Uranus comes to Aquarius once every eighty-four years and stays about four and a half years.
Uranus’s every stay in Aquarius from 1920 to 2030, from the minute it entered to the minute it left, in Universal Time (UTC). Born on a first or last day? Then the hour and the place decide it, and your chart settles it.
| Entered | Left |
|---|---|
| August 16, 1919, 10:12 p.m. | January 22, 1920, 6:28 p.m. |
| April 1, 1995, 12:11 p.m. | June 9, 1995, 1:41 a.m. |
| January 12, 1996, 7:13 a.m. | March 10, 2003, 8:53 p.m. |
| September 15, 2003, 3:46 a.m. | December 30, 2003, 9:15 a.m. |
Find your own Uranus
Your chart is free and takes a moment: the wheel, your Sun, Moon and rising sign, and where Uranus sits in it, to the degree.