Uranian freak accidents

Yesterday, I was getting out of the pool as one of my friends was getting in it. I asked how she was feeling, because last weekend she was in a freak bike accident, in which a man walking his dog had gotten the leash stretched clear across a bike path: my friend came around a curve and didn't see this hazard, and she fell off her bike and broke her nose, scraped her arm, and damaged her ego. As she recalled the accident, the look on her face changed, and then her tone changed: "WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?" she demanded, rageily, to me. I stared back, blankly.

Well... I mean, I know the answer, and here it is: Neptune is opposite her Mercury and Uranus is opposite her Mars and square her Pluto. I don't have a birth time for her, but Mercury is your environment, so the Neptune opposition means strange things happening in your environment. I'm really focused on Mars here, though, because I said "opposition" which means her Mars is in Scorpio, and I also said that Mars was square Pluto. If you are familiar with astrology, that means alarm bells go off in your head. If you're unfamiliar with astrology, strap in.

Mars in Scorpio has a tendency to put you in touch with deep emotions around anger, by which I mean rage. If expressing healthily, you can be really in touch with your psychological issues and those of the people around you, because you'll have a natural understanding of what motivates people to behave the way they do, even and especially when they are being diabolical. Scorpio can become highly benevolent over time, after years and years of seeing the best of the best and the worst of the worst in people, as Scorpio functions in emotional extremes.  Scorpio planets that make harsh aspects to Pluto (including the conjunction) are exclamation points on what I just said. As the owner of a Scorpio planet that is conjunct Pluto, I am here to tell you that sometimes you would prefer that everything not be extreme for 5 minutes so you can take a breather, but nope, it's your energy, so you gotta keep riding the wave. Sometimes, with Scorpio, that wave is rage.

So Mars in Scorpio is going to be angry if provoked (period. the end). Uranus in Taurus opposing that is sudden events (Uranus keyword) or actions from other people that destabilize you, but the point is to put you in touch with your anger or self-assertion and use it in a new way (Uranus is about change and innovation). Remember: oppositions look like the call is coming from outside the house. So something 'out there' makes it feel unsettled in here. The unsettled feeling is a calling card (again, of Uranus) that you need to change some stuff. An accident is usually *not* the first sign of feeling unsettled.

Am I dumb enough to explain Uranus transits to a pissed off person (on a pool deck, at the crack of dawn)? Nope. When I had Uranus opposing my Scorpio planet, I was agitated and angry. I remember it non-fondly. I'm not blaming my friend for the freak accident, but in most of the better transit description books you'll find, there are safety warnings about Uranus-Mars harsh aspects, because you tend to be moving so fast that you get in freak accidents. So it is, in fact, a calling card. The advice is to slow down and pay attention to what’s really going on, which is easier said than done, especially if it’s Mars, and especially if that Mars is in an extreme sign like Scorpio.