Uranus enters the sign of Aries May 27, 2010. Uranus remains in each sign for about 7 years, and takes about 84 years to transit all 12 signs.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of noise about this (minor) event by modern method-focused astrologers.
7 truths about Uranus transiting through the Sign of Aries:
- It doesn’t “affect” your life in any way
- The magnetic fields of the planets don’t “affect” you or anything else, at all, other than a very nominal gravitational pull from the Moon and Sun
- The riots in Greece, oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and violent protests in Thailand have little to do with Uranus
- You don’t really feel yourself on the “border of creativity and annihilation because of Uranus…” (or any other heavenly body)
- Uranus in Aries doesn’t make you “burn for change,” it doesn’t “ignite your inner light,” and you aren’t in danger of “raging beyond control”
- “Many things” won’t be “set into motion” during the transit of Uranus through the sign of Aries—no more than at any other time
- You aren’t now seeing “clear signals of the new, more spiritually advanced world”
The myths exposed above are the sort of thing that gives astrology a bad name, and rightly so. It’s taking loose generalities, broad, sweeping buzz phrases and molding them to a completely subjective viewpoint to push a New Age marketing agenda.
It’s acceptable to describe Uranus as relating to, for example, the unexpected, unconventional, individuality, and technology; and the sign of Aries as action oriented, drive to be on top, etc.
But it’s deplorable when opportunist poet-astrologers seize on trivial considerations, cashing in on spreading misinformation and half-truths.
They are only helping to increase the amount of illusion in your life, doing a great disservice to you: reality is distorted through myths about astrology and mysticism, and heaps of bias aggravate it.
Other Minor Astrology Factors
This “event” is only a planetary transit. Transits are given too much emphasis by today’s astrologers. Transits, retrogrades, progressions, solar return charts, and other superficial considerations that almost all of today’s astrologers focus on exclusively are only modifiers, yet they approach them as if they are the core of a comprehensive analysis–big mistake. Such factors are only useful to firm up an existing, comprehensive analysis using more reliable (pre-modern) methods.
It’s like telling someone, “here’s a house for sale, check it out…” and then only showing them 1 photo, of the master bedroom closet. That’s not the whole house by any means.
Besides, any single universal indicator (like Uranus transiting into the sign of Aries) must be assessed in relation to your personal natal charts (plural). So, the question is, how does this transiting Uranus relate to your natal Uranus.
See this blog post for more information about such minor astrology factors as transits. https://scottpetullo.com/2010/01/the-cyclical-nature-of-life-reflected-by-various-minor-astrology-factors/
Going back every 84 years or so when Uranus transits into Aries, you won’t see anything out of the ordinary, compared to any other time in recorded history.
To give you more insight, the ancients and those before modern times either didn’t know about Uranus, or ignored it, and their predictive methods were far more accurate than modern astrologers’ methods are today.
It’s important to have many checks and balances in any personality and, or predictive system of analysis if you want high levels of accuracy. Transits, by themselves, unfortunately offer only negligible symbolism.
Copyright © 2010 Scott Petullo