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 Uranus
Rebel Without a Clue
(with affinities to Aquarius and the 11th house)
BTW - It's Pronounced: Your -Ron - Us
Uranus
represents a shockingly different and unique way of looking at
things. Named for the greek god, Ouranos... Ouranos was the first
of the Greek sky gods and the grand-daddy of the thundergod Zeus.
He (Ouranos) was created out of his mother Gaea (the great Earth
goddess, sometimes known as Mother Nature). Ouranos later married
his mother, Gaea (try to relax... the gods did a lot of that stuff).
The
union of Ouranos and Gaea produced the Titans, the Hekatoncheires,
and the Kyklopes (must be what happens when you marry your own mother).
There were 12 Titans, created in couples (boy meets girl kind of
thing). The Titan children didn’t like Ouranos' heavy-handed rule
and so they rose up in a great rebellion. Kids will be kids... but
Ouranos easily quashed their youthful rebellion and threw all them
into Tartaros (sort of a Greek hell).
Meanwhile,
mother/wife Gaea - unhappy with the harsh treatment of her Titan
children - arranged for the death of Ouranos at the hands of their
youngest son, Kronus (Kronus was known to the Romans as Saturn).
Gaea showed Kronus how to irremediably "wound" (castrate) his father,
Ouranos, with a curved knife (or a sickle) that she'd made just
for the special occasion.
I’d
vote for this being a seriously dysfunctional family!
This story also explains why: "it's
not nice to fool Mother Nature...."
Prometheus?
Some astrologers who like associating the differing planets
with the mythology of their namesakes are a wee bit:
- unhappy
- uncomfortable
- disquieted
with the naming of Uranus.
Richard
Tarnas, one of the current "big dogs" of archetypal astrology, seemingly
long ago abandoned the crotchety, cantankerous
Greek god, Ouranos, for the rebellious Greek god, Prometheus, the
"bringer of fire" and friend of humanity. Maybe a campaign should
be started to officially rename Uranus to Prometheus (it might,
at least, get more respect that way).
Anyway,
I can't resist taking this idea just a wee bit further. You see...
Prometheus (son of the Titan god, Japetos) had three brothers: Epimetheus,
Atlas, and Menoitios. And each of the brothers also appear to have
an affinity with the rebellious, independent energies of Uranus,
Aquarius, and the 11th house.
- Prometheus
- Epimetheus
- Atlas
- Menoitios
- little is known of Menoitios, other than he was reportedly an
"evil doer" whom Zeus struck down for his foolhardiness
and lustful aggression.
The
Great Awakener
My best guess is that the archetypal "Great Awakener" associated
with this planet is both pleased and amused there’s controversy
surrounding its very naming (as well as its pronunciation). This
is because Uranus enjoys and absolutely revels in being different
and unique! For instance... Had you ever noticed, that of all the
major planets in our solar system, only Uranus was given the name
of a Greek god (having no Roman counterpart)? Yep, all the other
planets were given names of Roman gods.
The
Inventor
Neptune and Uranus being compensatory to each other, the two "personifying"
archetypes of these two outer planets are the Magician (Neptune)
and the Inventor (Uranus).
The
process of Uranus has to do with freedom and invisible energy.
The process of Uranus is "electric" and is balanced
out by magnetic Neptune. Uranus questions
every status quo. And cries out, "Why not?" Uranus
cries out, "Give me liberty or give me death!" Uranus
cries out, "CHANGE!"
Change!
Author Alice O. Howell reminds us that when Uranus travels thru
a new sign, the effects of that particular sign will show a marked
change:
"When
in Libra, art and marriage customs changed; when in Scorpio, sexual
mores changed; when in Sagittarius, religious outlooks; and so
forth. Neptune ushers in trends, but Uranus brings abrupt changes."
Well
guess what, folks? In April of 1995 Uranus entered the sign that
it rules, Aquarius. It then remained in the sign of Aquarius (off
and on) until the very end (Dec 30th) of 2003.
Did
humanity's hopes, beliefs, dreams and aspirations drastically change
during the long Uranus journey (1995-2003) through Aquarius? While
it's a no-brainer that it didn't usher in a time of peace and harmony
throughout the world - it's difficult to say (with any authority)
what the effects of the Uranus journey through Aquarius have been.
Much of the time we can only somewhat objectively judge such things
when having the advantage of retrospect and hindsight; being able
to look back in time at least 10 to 20 years.
And,
of course, currently up is the long Uranus journey through the Zodiac
sign of Pisces.
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