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Welcome to Uranus retrograde. It’s an opportunity for integration, reflection, and inner liberation. It’s an invitation to tune in with heightened intuition, knowing, and connection to who you are and the potential that exists within you. And it brings both societal and individual invitations for the integration of the ways in which we have been changing, evolving and pushing past existing boundaries to come closer to truth.
When is Uranus Retrograde 2024?
Uranus retrograde begins September 1, 2024, and lasts through January 30, 2025. It will be one of five planets in retrograde.
What Does Uranus Retrograde Mean?
Uranus is an outer planet residing more than 50,000 km from our Sun. Comparatively, the inner planet of Mercury is a relatively neighborly distance of 5,000 km distance from the Sun.
Despite its distance, Uranus’s sharp presence in our cosmos is unquestionable. Its purpose is freedom, liberation, evolution, and truth. Its energy is electric and innovative and it brings heightened awareness and and higher consciousness. It is here to open us to a new way, a different way. And it represents the fundamental truth of our world that nothing stands still. Rather, existence is in a constant state of evolution.
But what happens when Uranus begins its seemingly backward spin? Can evolution move in reverse?
Retrogrades, and Uranus retrograde in particular, remind us that growth isn’t exclusively forward movement. Retrogrades are filled with vast opportunities for evolution, within each of us as individuals as well as the collective consciousness we all share.
As observed from Earth, Uranus spends almost half of its life in a backward spin, retrograding for approximately five out of twelve months each year. We are accustomed to this dance of seven months of vast breakthroughs, outer growth, innovation, and breaking down boundaries and five months of integrating these movements and changes as well as observing what we might have missed. It is a time of turning within, gathering insights, and inwardly catching up with who we have been becoming.
While the forward movement of each planet connects more to outer living and experiences, retrogrades connect us to the world within each of us. As Uranus retrograde moves into the realm of our inner world and our individuality, we are invited to reflect on our relationship with its qualities. What is freedom to you? Within your body, mind, and soul? What would freedom feel like for you? And what within you exists in opposition to this freedom?
Uranus is the liberation we find through being who we are. Who are you? Does this differ from who you have learned to be? Who emerges when you begin to clear others expectations, desires, fears, beliefs, fears, emotions and energy from your own truth?
What Does Uranus Retrograde in Taurus Mean?
Uranus has been in Taurus since 2018 and will remain there until 2026, with a quick detour through Gemini in 2025. It’s an appropriately long chapter for a slower-moving planet. During this time, Uranus has been breaking down everything Taurean within our society and our personal life
Uranus in Taurus has been highlighting a beautiful paradox for us in that the more we find grounding in the tangible, the more we can access the intangible—the higher consciousness, sharp intuition, and heightened awareness that results from inner evolution. Uranus in Taurus has been breaking open our inward relationship with security, finances, liberation, individuality, belonging, and freedom. It has been bringing in a new way to relate to our own planet and to the wisdom of our bodies. And it has been working with us to expand our comfort zones so that more of who we are can exist in our everyday lives.
What belief systems, emotional patterns, perspectives, nervous system responses, or other structures in your life require tending to so you can propel yourself forward and continue your own evolution? What within you feels too limiting or small that you are ready to free yourself from?
What Uranus Retrograde Means According to Your Astrological Sign
As Uranus retrogrades through Taurus in the heavens, it simultaneously retrogrades through the section of our chart ruled by Taurus. What Uranus in Taurus invites you to throughout this retrograde becomes more personal when you begin to look at your natal chart. A snapshot of the cosmos at your first breath, your chart shows you where you have Taurus living within you. By looking to your rising sign, we can see where this and bring insight to your own personal Uranus retrograde invitations.
Aries Rising
How has your relationship with finances been shifting in recent years? Uranus has been bringing shifts into this area of your life for the purpose of liberation and evolution.
As Uranus retrograde begins, it asks you to become curious about and observe what exists within you. What are your desires for your financial life? What is your relationship with your sense of worth in life? Consider your sense of inner security, worthiness, stability, and abundance.
Taurus Rising
The vast expression of who you are has been moving through boundless openings, changes, awakenings, and shifts. So much so that it may feel like your current life is only a part of who you are.
Uranus retrograde offers you more space to breathe and to begin anchoring who you are in this moment so that you may catch up with and get to know yourself again. It’s an invitation to deepen into this season of you and feel the hum of stability from deep within the earth. These next five months are a mirror for all that exists within you and brings insight to your self-expression, identity, and beliefs of who you are and what is possible for you.
Gemini Rising
How do you experience the sacred? What does divinity, source, or oneness mean to you? And how has your relationship to this unseen aspect of existence shifted in the recent past?
Uranus retrograde is an invitation to remember the sacred within your body. It is an invitation to observe the divinity throughout your very self. It is a doorway for the spiritual to begin speaking directly to you, inviting real and felt experiences to take place whatever you may call this realm. These experiences change you. They change the way you think, move, trust, love, and create by inviting greater belonging, purpose, and truth.
Cancer Rising
When the word “possibility” arises, how does your body react? Where does your mind go? How does your heart feel? Uranus in Taurus invites a new relationship with possibility for you. It is heightened intuition and a peering into cosmic potential.
This retrograde, begin reflecting on your hopes, dreams, desires for yourself and your community, and your vaster sense of belonging within the collective. They are all linked. And there might be some existing possibilities lingering and waiting for your returned attention.
Leo Rising
Who do you want to be in the world? What legacy do you want to leave behind? How have you been building toward that? Whether through your career or other spaces, Uranus in Taurus has been breaking open, shifting, and building the space of your long-term visions and life.
As the planet of awakening shifts into its backward spin, let yourself review this journey you have been on since 2018. As you arrive at who you now are, so different than who you were then, what do you now want for yourself? What is now true for you that is an important piece of the puzzle?
Virgo Rising
Uranus in Taurus has been traveling through a section of your chart representing culture, travel, philosophy, and higher wisdom. These have in common the ability to expand your mind and build your beliefs of what this life means and where your place exists in it. These last few years the cosmos has been breaking open, shifting, and showing you more of the story in this realm of your living.
Uranus retrograde brings a beautiful opportunity to begin reviewing all that you have been experiencing and thinking about meaning and life. As you strip away what you have been taught to believe, what begins to reveal itself then? How does this shift your relationship with existence itself? And how does this change you?
Libra Rising
Uranus in Taurus has been deep transformation for you. Six years of it, in fact. A breaking open, shifting, death and rebirth within the depths of who you are, your underground, and your relationship with surrender and control, power and self-reclamation, the psyche and unconscious, the esoteric and unseen.
Uranus retrograde is both space and a breath out from this cycle of transformation. An invitation instead to reflect and glean the vast wisdom and personal insights from this transformation. There is treasure waiting within, as if these last few years are now available in the form of meaningful self-growth and self-reclamation.
Scorpio Rising
Wherever Uranus travels, it brings plenty of change. Since 2018, Uranus has been traveling through the realm of your relationships. Whether that has manifest as beginnings or endings in partnerships or friendships, liberation through your connection with another, or something entirely different, it is less about the physical expression of these relationships and more about what has changed within you relating to this aspect of your life.
Uranus retrograde is an opportunity to begin asking this question. What has changed within, what has this change been offering, and what do you now desire in this space?
Sagittarius Rising
As humans, we take part in a dance between structure and flow, surrender and control. Uranus in Taurus has been breaking open this dance and your role in it. It has been bringing vast movements to your everyday life that may feel inconsistent or even unreliable. There have also been invitations within this movement to find a new way to relate to both ease and adaptability, to observe how your energy moves day to day, and when to rest and when to express.
Uranus retrograde invites you to begin opening yourself to what these experiences have been revealing about yourself, your body, your habits and routines, and your life.
Capricorn Rising
Uranus is the planet of individuality and truth. It reminds us that liberation comes through being who we are here to be and that tere is something unique about the spirit and frequency that is you and no one else. Your journey has been liberating yourself from the structures that quiet yourself inwardly and outwardly. It has been a journey of breaking open everything within and without inhibiting your self-expression.
This retrograde, begin to play with your frequency. Observe how it wants to move, where it has been dimmed, and that it is intrinsically linked to your pleasure and creativity.
Aquarius Rising
There is space within you that stores your memories—the foundation of you built in your formative years, the fears sparked while living unconsciously, the teachings from your parents and family. Unless you visit this space, it will continue to lurk beneath the surface and inform much of your everyday life without your conscious awareness, permission, or desire.
Uranus has been inviting you into this room of you. It has been breaking open old patterns and liberating what no longer supports you. This retrograde, allow yourself to curiously explore what exists here and create the space to integrate all of Uranus’ shifts and changes deep within you.
Pisces Rising
The mind is a powerful place. Your thoughts inform much of what you see, believe, experience, and create. It opens you to imagination, intuition, and the vast information available in this world. It connects you with others through your communication, listening, and sharing of what exists in the house of your mind.
Uranus has been inviting you to use your mind toward your liberation, your truth, and your relationship with security, safety, and worthiness. As Uranus retrograde, it welcomes more space into your mind. It offers an opportunity to bring greater stability and continuity in your thoughts, beliefs, and learning. You may benefit from journalling, talk therapy, and meditation throughout this time.
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