An Illuminating and Anaretic Opposition Between the Sun and Uranus

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Today we're going to take a look at the sun in the very last degree of Scorpio opposing Uranus in the very last degree of Taurus. These are so called anaretic degrees. We're going to talk about what that means, whether it's actually a thing or not, and how we can apply it symbolically to the astrology that's at hand in the next couple of days.

Here, the sun opposing Uranus is a part of the conversation we've been having all week about the new moon that just took place, all of which oppose Uranus, but now specifically, the sun is advancing into the exact degree based opposition today and tomorrow. So we're going to look at that today, and I'm going to give you a list of things to watch for. So that's our agenda.

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Okay, on that note, let's turn our attention to the real time clock so we have a opposition coming through. We're just after the new moon. Now, if you missed it, there was a live stream I did yesterday where we covered horoscopes for the new moon, opposite Uranus with mercury cazimi. That's been the story of the week so far.

But now, Thursday, November 20, you can see that we are moving right into that opposition between the sun and Uranus. If I fast forward this just one day by tomorrow, Friday, November 21 middle of the day, sun is just passing through the exact opposition. I'm going to fast forward this one more day, to Saturday, November 22 the sun is ingressed into Sagittarius.

So we are really experiencing this November 20 today, Thursday, as I'm recording this, and then Friday, November 21 so today and tomorrow, you will get that exact opposition. Now when the exact opposition comes through, you'll notice that both planets are at 29 degrees. In modern astrology, there is a lot of hype around these degrees because they are called anaretic degrees.

I want to talk briefly about what that means, provide some context for the anaretic nature of this opposition, and then give you a list of five things to watch for. All right, so first of all, are anaretic degrees a thing? Well, yes and no, yes, they are a thing because they do have some traditional support and background in astrology.

But no, they're not a thing as in, has there always been this specific reference to the final degrees being anaretic? No. So let me explain, in ancient astrology, the word anaretic in its etymology, comes from a Greek word, anareticos, probably I always slaughter the Greek pronunciations, but anareticos, which means destructive or killing, and it in more modern times, the use of that Greek word has been applied to the last.

Degree, the last degree of a sign, that it's a killing degree, or final sort of destructive degree. And typically, when people talk about the 29th degree of a sign, or anything taking place at the 29th degree, and they use the word anaretic, they really mean is a killing, destructive place for a planet to be, because that's the etymological roots of the word.

However, in the history of astrology, that word was applied to a planet that could have the power to act as the bringer of literal death. So when analyzing transits around the death of someone, a killing planet, a planet that had the power to bring about the death of the native was associated with this word.

It's not until recently, though, as far as I've understood and I've I've done a lot of digging on this, so I it could, it's there's always a case that I missed something, or that there's some history that I'm not aware of. So I'm totally open to that. And if someone has anything to share like that, please do but from all the research I've done and the asking around I've done with colleagues and people I trust.

The use of the word anaretic specifically applied to that 29th degree is new. That doesn't make it irrelevant. It doesn't make it, you know, unreal. There can be new innovations of symbolism in all divinatory fields. I'm always open to that. But the idea that it has, you know, 2000 years worth of astrological history is, is not accurate.

So in terms of, like, how much weight should we put around it? I think that's it's a little subjective. Here's where there is some traditional backing to the anaretic degree idea in ancient Astrology. I'm going to put my chart back up on the screen here so I can show you this the 30 degrees of every sign was broken into five subsections that were called bounds confines or terms.

Those are all translations for English language translation conventions, bounds confines or terms. And what that is are a subsection of degrees within the sign that are hosted by a planet. So you may notice, for example, if I just circle on the outer edge of the wheel, you'll see the bounds and the planet that rules the number of degrees that constitute that bound.

So here at the beginning of Sagittarius, you can see that the early portion of degrees, I think that might even be 10 or 11 degrees, there is ruled by Jupiter. What that means is that when planets are in those specific degrees, Jupiter has a certain amount of influence or sway over that portion of Sagittarius. So that becomes a bound ruler.

Now, if you fast forward to the end of every single sign in the zodiac, you'll notice that the final bound rulers of the last degrees of the sign are the malefics with Sagittarius, it's Saturn and Mars with Capricorn. It's Saturn and Mars with Aquarius. It's Mars and Saturn. Right. Pisces Mars and Saturn. Aries, Mars and Saturn, and you can go on around the wheel.

The last two bounds are of the malefics, except for in the case of cancer, where Mars opens Saturn's at the very end, but Jupiter comes before it at Leo. It's Mars at the end, but Mercury comes before it. So you have some exceptions where there's not two bound rulers, but just one. And the only real exception to the let me make sure I've got this, hold on.

Just a second. I gotta remember what is the Libra situation? So, yeah, it's Saturn as the at the beginning and Mars at the end. So for Libra, Mars comes at the end. And anyway, the point is that there isn't one sign without the exception of with the exception of the there is not one sign that doesn't have the malefics ruling the final degrees of the sign.

That's the point. Sorry, I got a little tongue tied there. So on that level, I think it's safe to acknowledge something of the modern notion of an anaretic 29th degree, which is relatively new, as far as my research has led me to believe the anaretic degree, from the standpoint of the last several degrees being ruled by malefics, in terms of The bounds, is not new.

That's 2000 years old. And so I do think it's safe to say whether we think about it as the anaretic degree or the last degrees being hosted by the malefics, in terms of the bounds that the final degrees of signs can be very challenging. Okay, so that's just a little history lesson, in case you're you know, you're curious to know more about where that came from originally.

As far as I can tell, the word or the use of the word anaretic had to do with the examination of which planet was most likely to be the one indicated in a terrible event or a death, or something like that, a killing planet, but applied to the very last degree of a sign seems to be recent.

But the bound rulers, being the malefics of the last degrees of the signs, is very old. So there you have it. Now for me as a practitioner, how do I work with them? Because you can choose for yourself, but I'll just tell you how I work with them, which is that I believe that the last degrees of the signs tend toward deconstruction.

It's as though the first portion, you know, there's that kind of Hindu idea of creation, maintenance and destruction, and I feel like that, in a way, tends to map out through the signs from start to finish, if you track a transit, for example, from start to finish, there's sort of a beginning, middle and end to the story that a planet will often tell us it transits through our birth charts, on a symbolic level, and when it reaches the final degrees, there's kind of a cumulative effect, and sometimes a feeling of things either wrapping up or coming to completion or falling apart.

I'm more likely to call the last degrees of a sign a moment of karmic harvesting release and deconstruction, then I am killing or like malefic, because I have noticed that in many instances, depending on the planet, depending upon the house, depending upon the context of the natal chart, that there can be a way that it's like a bow or a ribbon is getting tied around things, or things are reaching a place of finality or conclusion within the story arc of a planetary transit.

But that doesn't always mean that it's like, oh, it's super gnarly and destructive. It's super, you know, hostile or something. So keep that in mind. I would look at the anaretic degrees as something more like a culminating point of karmic release. By that, I mean outcomes are delivered that have some history behind them, and they're reaching kind of a boiling point, but that can be actually constructive, depending on the planet and context.

When things come to resolution or reach a point of closure, that's not always negative, sometimes it's actually about realizing the fruits of your labor, or a creative process coming to a culmination, or a moment of insight or Revelation. So I urge everyone to be thoughtful and nuanced about what the last degrees of a sign might mean, and open ourselves to something other than this ultra intense moment of collapse, like it's like the tower card and Tao, I think, in a lot of people's minds.

So that might be a little extreme. Okay, well, let's go back to the chart, and let's just talk about a few features here. So if we want to be, I mean, for example, if you really wanted to be nuanced about this, aside from just understanding what Sun Uranus dynamics mean, and I'll provide you with some ideas about the symbolism, including the finality of the last degree in my list today.

But you may also think about the bounds. They're in. Uranus is in the bound of Mars. Sun is in the sign of Mars and bound of Saturn. There's two other planets in Scorpio that are in the domicile of Mars, right? So I think Saturn is in the bound of Mars as well. So there's a lot of power that Mars has in the sky right now.

And Mars and Saturn, the two malefics ruling the bounds of the sun and Uranus, are square to one another. To me, that often represents a square between Saturn and Mars would represent working through limitations, and where Saturn is going to check Mars and say, enough is enough. No matter how much effort you exert, you're not going to do it.

There's a block being put up. Mars may say to Saturn, you're a limit that I have to work and persevere to overcome so they can be like a break in a gas that are trying to figure each other out. How much should I persevere? How do I get over the obstacle or hardship? How do I work around the know, whereas Saturn might be trying to check or put a limit on something that's excessively willful, you see what I mean?

So if that's a dynamic under the surface of the sun, Uranus opposition, that could give meaning to what the specific final degrees of these two planets mean? Do you see what I'm saying? So an analysis of where the bound rulers are, Mars and Saturn could be perhaps more constructive in our analysis than just being like, Oh, shit. Is just going to get super intense, you know?

But anyway, sometimes it's easier to just be like, shits intense. So I don't, I don't fault anyone for that, either. All right, well, let's talk about the five things to watch for. Number one, let's talk about rapid progress when the sun and Uranus combine. The sun is almost always associated with ambition. And mean, what is ambition?

You know, actually, let me show you something. I was looking this up earlier. I think I'll bring this back. Now I wasn't going to include this, but I'm going to give you. I love Etymologies, and so sometimes I will play with them, and sometimes I share them with you guys. Sometimes I don't. So this is the etymology of the word.

Word ambition, eager or inordinate, desire for honor or preferment. Isn't that nice? Directly from Latin a going around, striving for favor, courting flattery, desire for honor, thirst for popularity. Am The AMB like ambulate to go around? Um, that's interesting, because the ambulation, in association with achievement, is so solar, because the sun ambulates through our sky from our perspective and rises up to this peak.

And so it's interesting to me that the word ambition has this long standing relationship with the sun in astrology, to ambulate in relation to a high point that you're trying to reach is very solar. From our kind of basic symbolic view of the sky, every day, the sun ambulates around us, climbs up to the top of the sky.

It's the sun is ambitious. You see. Isn't that nice so anyway, but when the sun, who represents ambition, hits Uranus in an opposition, there will often be a moment of very fast and rapid progress with respect to our ambitions. That's one way of reading it. There are others that aren't as lovely, because doesn't that sound nice?

Like, ooh, rapid progress on route to the realization of my dreams and goals. Sounds good. Sign me up. You know, so. But it is, it is a very real part of the Sun opposite Uranus, that dynamic tensions, creative tension, can arise in a way that suddenly catapults and a project or something that we are ambitiously doing or pursuing, and it can just sort of catalyze it and launch it forward really rapidly, and often that's because there will be some breakthrough in how we're doing it, or some aid, the aid of some kind of technology, or Some sudden twist that allows for a breakthrough, the common Uranian word, right?

So rapid progress that anything we're ambitious about kind of rapidly, more rapidly developing or finding breakthrough, or something like that. Number two would be resistance or defiance. The sun also represents authority. It's funny that the sun a source of luminous intelligence, a source of ambition, and it's so individual. It has a long standing relationship to that felt sense of individuality, you know.

But it also was a symbol that represented law and dharma and kings or empresses or emperors, people who are the divine embodiments of social law and order. That's the ideally, what they're supposed to embody as the ruler is through my through my ruling, I give structure, sanity, coherence, harmony, to a society. I mean, archetypally speaking, that's the idea resistance or defiance.

Comes up with this transit because when the sun represents Law Order, law givers, law providers, whether it's a CEO or a president or whatever the case might be, or even a celebrity, someone who has a lot of clout or fame or position or rank or notoriety or importance, and then there will be, as it hits Uranus, the god of rebellion, defiance and revolution, there will be almost like revolutionary resistance to a form of order or law, or like, even like a cultural norm, or something like that.

That's supposed to be like a gravitational center around which every around which everything orbits. But then hits Uranus, and there's this kind of moment of breakthrough. So you can watch in your life for the active energy of resistance or defiance, rebellion, especially against authority figures. Now look that could also be something in yourself, that you know there are voices of authority on our inner council that sometimes you know, well, you know you have, you have a lot of characters inside.

And Becky might need to stand up to the board leader. You might have to say, Look, you can't be the boss of me. All right. Well, the next one is innovation, or shining examples of originality. Let's, I love this one. I've done this one before, but let's do it again, innovate. The etymology of innovate, kind of cool.

Introduce as new. It means to change, to restore, to renew. It has a connection to Novus, which means new and it means bring in new things, alter established practices, introduce as new or to renew or restore. So innovation can be like, let's say I create content five days a week, people who walk. My channel will be like, Oh, he's he's been really innovative lately, which means he's making everything kind of new on a channel that's been established for a long time.

But everything feels kind of new and fresh. There's a like an electrical current moving through the space that is a perfect example of Sun opposite Uranus, where something that's fallen into a familiar pattern, suddenly feels fresh and awakened and alive. Very similar innovation to the word renaissance in terms of its kind of its connotation of renewing or awakening.

So innovation, Renaissance, revolution, shining examples of originality would mean that an original idea or introducing something new or original never quite been done before, or even something that refreshes, renews, revitalizes, and it suddenly happens. It happens quick. It's very Sparky, and you can get caught up in it too. You can almost get drunk on it.

So you have to be a little careful, all right. Number four would be a point of accumulation and breakthrough. Now we're talking about that 29th degree. Now we're also maybe talking about Mars and Saturn. Is this a gas pedal time that we need to work through obstacles? Is this a break pedal time where we need to cool it down?

Sometimes these breakthroughs come like breakdown breakthrough. There could be a sense here of reaching a limit, trying to push past it, and then receiving a kind of karmic consequence for some kind of transgressive behavior. It's like I'm trying to push past the limit and I shouldn't have. And so the hubris, the impatience, creates a sudden karmic backlash of some kind that would be very Sun opposite Uranus in those final degrees of the bound rulers Mars and Saturn square to one another.

Now if we think about it as something that has some history behind it, something that's been building weight, momentum, gravitas, then suddenly it reaches a point of dynamic accumulation and and the energy has to break out of. It's like that we were talking recently about the storm clouds accumulating, but nothing raining. Yet this could be a moment where burst it rains.

So think about it as accumulation and breakthrough, and also maybe impatient and recklessness trying to that accumulates. And it's kind of like my dad used to say when I was getting like, amped up and too energetic, he would say, you're cruising for a bruising because I was, you know, he for sure I was about to, like, hurt myself or get myself in trouble, or hurt my sister or whatever.

Like, you know, as a little kid, like the energy was getting too much, he'd be like, you're cruising for a bruising, kiddo, watch out. So we could be cruising for a bruising is, I guess, the point number five, an unexpectedly destructive or destabilizing moment. Look, this would be the that anaretic tension. Again, if we want to go full tower card, you know, we can go there.

I suppose if we have to, we have to. But the unexpectedly destructive or destabilizing moment is super Uranian, not uncommon for the sun opposite Uranus. Again, those bound rulers are Mars square, Saturn. But remember, this is a lunar cycle that features that opposition, and so this could be one of a number of moments that contribute to unexpectedly destabilizing things taking place over the next couple of weeks.

So be mindful about that. Notice what's building up, what's seeking an outlet or an escape or a release that might even be destructive or unhealthy. If I'm not careful with how it's trying to get out, or how I start, if you start seeing yourself expressing frustration and it's getting a little destructive, or you're you're maybe going to burn some bridges or something.

Now is a very good time to look at that more carefully, because not just right now, but in the weeks ahead that Mars is going to square Saturn, we could see more of a feeling of, you know, resistance, or having to work through something that's going slower than we want. And so, you know, just again, same message that I was kind of preaching last week, this week, let the revolution come in an intelligent way.

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