Uranus in Aries
Going first is the instinct of this Uranus, shared by the children of the early 1930s and of the 2010s. Independence comes early, rules are tested by doing, and waiting for permission feels like losing.
The rule said you had to wait until you were older. You found out who had made the rule, and asked them why.
Seven lights, then eight
For all of recorded history the sky held seven wandering lights, and then in March 1781 William Herschel, an organist in Bath who built telescopes in the evenings, noticed one more. Uranus was the first planet anyone had ever discovered, and it broke the ancient number at a stroke. Aries, the first sign, ruled by Mars, carries that first-ever quality. With Uranus here, freedom is not a theory. It is an act: the door opened, the line crossed, the thing done before anyone could forbid it.
Two generations of firsts
Uranus stays about seven years in a sign and returns every eighty-four, so this placement belongs to two very different groups of people alive today. The early-1930s children grew up in hard years and went on to make careers, families and ways of living their parents had never imagined. Those born in the 2010s arrived with screens in their hands and are already rewriting what childhood is.
What the two share is impatience with the way things have always been done.
Independence early
You wanted to do it yourself from the start. Tie the shoe, choose the clothes, walk to school alone, leave home at the first chance. Being told how to live wakes a fierce resistance in you, and you learn best by trying, failing and trying again in your own way.
The new pulls at you: new sports, new tools, new places. Anything that tests nerve and gives a rush of freedom speaks to you.
Lightning, not weather
Sudden change can become a habit. You can break things that did not need breaking, quit before you had given something a fair chance, and mistake rebellion for independence.
Starting again
Among the older of the two generations you find the grandmother who learned to drive at sixty and the grandfather who took up a new language after retiring. The courage to begin again at any age is theirs.
Whichever of the two generations is yours, somebody older than you once said you would never be allowed to do the thing you are now doing every day.
Were you born with Uranus in Aries?
Uranus comes to Aries once every eighty-four years and stays about eight and a half years.
Uranus’s every stay in Aries 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 |
|---|---|
| March 31, 1927, 5:22 p.m. | November 4, 1927, 10:38 a.m. |
| January 13, 1928, 8:40 a.m. | June 6, 1934, 3:36 p.m. |
| October 10, 1934, 12:42 a.m. | March 28, 1935, 2:53 a.m. |
| May 28, 2010, 1:46 a.m. | August 14, 2010, 3:34 a.m. |
| March 12, 2011, 12:50 a.m. | May 15, 2018, 3:18 p.m. |
| November 6, 2018, 6:57 p.m. | March 6, 2019, 8:29 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.