Freedom... from freedom?

Let’s talk Uranus, the funnest planet to say out loud. Do you like…breaking away from everything you’ve ever known? Unfamiliar territory? Innovating past the point of discomfort? How about visionary people who seem to have left the planet mentally but turn out, much later, to have been onto something? All of that is Uranus/Uranian in nature. When you see this planet coming, all you can say for sure is you’ll be doing some different shit, and occasionally eating your words, if you words are “I will never do ___.” (Are your words delicious?)

I am coming to the end of Uranus’ transit of my first house, the house that rules “me” in terms of how I appear, how I react, independent action, and leadership (in the way of charging headlong into things, rather than the kind of leadership that’s thoughtful, which is a 10th house matter). Before Uranus entered my first house, I was already a pretty independent person, but let me tell you, this didn’t help. Pre-COVID, I was known for showing up in random places by myself. All kinds of places. Places that I’d never be caught dead in previous to 2014, with people I’d never in a million years consort with* (again, previous to 2014). You know how a lot of people need a buddy to show up to things? That’s never been me, but boy have I done a lot of wandering into random scenes (and I’ve left having made new friends along the way).

I learned to seriously wing it, too. A lot of my life became very in-the-moment, which consisted of needing to make the best possible decision given the circumstances in a sea of not-great circumstances. Oh, and, very obviously: I learned astrology and also to harness my preexisting intuitive gifts. Plus, I stopped caring what other people thought about astrology or said gifts. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this, would you?

My appearance changed SO OFTEN. Last year, Uranus left for my second house for several weeks and when it went back into my first, I (naively) thought “I can’t possibly change my appearance *more.*” Oh, how wrong I was. I’ve gone unrecognized or barely recognized a lot.

Uranus entering the first is a harbinger of doom for married people who know astrology, as is Uranus entering the seventh house of relationships. Traditionally, Uranus entering the first means that your need for independence will cause you to break free from things, and Uranus entering the seventh means that your partner will either require more independence or become unavailable for long stretches of time (or your partner will begin displaying strange properties/whims). If you have a solid relationship, and you’re a patient person, you're less likely to have issues. I was textbook, though: got a divorce, and also went through a series of breakups, in some cases of relationships I never agreed to be in in the first place. It's been all breakups, all the time over here.

So does Uranus leaving my first house mean these things stop? Probably, honestly, since that would be the astrology. But just I'm so used to winging it...

*If you are reading this, I'm not talking about you.