The Sun Conjunct Uranus: What I Love & What I Could Live Without

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology. Happy Monday, everybody. Today we are going to take a look at this week's Sun-Uranus conjunction in the sign of Taurus, which is a pretty interesting conjunction considering that we have a new moon coming up in Taurus, Jupiter moving into Taurus. So there's a lot of activity happening in that Taurus region of our birth chart right now. It's a big time for Taurus and Scorpios, of course, and all the fixed signs in general. But today, I want to talk about the five things I absolutely love about Sun-Uranus conjunctions and five things that I could live without.

So I amended by the way the I could live without, from things I hate because enough of you complained about the word hate, and I listened. So five things I love and five things I could live without when it comes to the Sun Uranus in any sign, but in this case, in the sign of Taurus. So that's what we're going to do today, and hopefully, this will help you prepare for this energy as it comes through this week.

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We are going to take a look at the Sun_Uranus conjunction; let's go ahead and put it up on the screen the real-time clock so we can take a peek at it before we talk about it. So you'll see that the Sun is conjoining Uranus in Taurus; this is May 9, and you can feel it. If we go back to today, May 8, you can see that Sun is just one degree off from Uranus. Go forward there; it's on the same degree. Go forward to Wednesday, May 10, and it's just separating within one degree. So we'll call it a Monday through Wednesday transit. You should be feeling this actually all the way through, you know, Thursday, Friday because it's still within that three-degree range.

So this is the week of the Sun conjunct Uranus, and that's really exciting because it's a week that can lead to breakthroughs. This is one of the big signatures of the Sun and Uranus coming together. Now, of course, what's really interesting about this, in addition, is that if we go forward just a few more days on May 16 into the 17th, Jupiter enters Taurus, and then we get a New Moon in Taurus on the 19th.

So the middle of this month features a whole lot of energy pouring through the sign of Taurus. That's huge for Tauruses, the Taurus area of your birth chart, where the fixed signs in general, depending on where planets lie in the fixed signs in your chart, you might be getting some aspects right now, and these transits will amplify those.

So anyway, there are five things that I absolutely love about the Sun-Uranus conjunctions, and five things I could live without that I came up with today that we fun to talk about as ways of turning that archetypal jewel, getting to know the transit-making sure we're prepped for it, getting some spiritual insights and psychological insight.

Also, you know, what are the shadows that can come up? So, sometimes depending on the context, the shadow is a blessing. Sometimes, depending on the context, the blessing is a shadow. It's so you know, context is everything in astrology. Anyway, the five things I love.

Number one is a sudden burst of inspiration that come when you think about the Sun-Uranus think of; for example, when they're conjoined with one another, as I say, opposed to square or square or in opposition, you often get it, you know, rather than the tower card in the tarot, which is like the sudden breakup of structures that sort of damaging and terrifying a lightning strike that bursts the castle apart.

When the Sun conjoins Uranus, it's more like the clouds breaking and the sun blasting through the breakup of heavier, darker, denser material with a sudden blast of light. That is one of the energetic images of the Sun conjoin Uranus that often leads to sudden bursts of inspiration.

I brought up the etymology of the word inspire, which I wanted to share with you guys. So here it is, comes from enspiren, "to fill (the mind, heart, etc., with grace, "blow into, breathe upon," to inflame to breathe.

That's the thing that there's this feeling with the Sun Uranus that suddenly you're being injected with vital force. And that vital force is creative in nature, which means that it usually inspires and breathes the excitement to do something in particular. That inspiration for many people is going to be experienced as a kind of redeeming and joyful, and often when the sun breaks through the clouds, suddenly, it's like there's a breakup of heaviness and, and stuckness, which something else I'll come to in a minute, but the inspiration is one of the best parts about Sun-Uranus, that the sudden arrival of grace and vitality, and it has the feeling of awakening. So that's one of my favorite things about the Sun Uranus, and you could experience that this week, especially around the topics of the whole sign house of Taurus and your birth chart.

Then, we have number two on my list, which is the breakthrough insights or actions. So the other thing that Uranus likes to do is it likes to break up structures, especially those that are monotonous, that are reaching their expiration date, and that are stifling or oppressive. Uranus will say, you know, sort of let's give you an idea, an insight, or an action that can lead to a breakthrough. I've been stuck trying to solve a problem; I've been stuck in a pattern.

Here's the insight, here's the action, here's the thing that will suddenly help you break through a barrier, a boundary, or something that you've been frustrated by. One of my favorite things about Sun-Uranus conjunctions.

Number three is the liberation from stuckness. So this is sort of similar to a breakthrough insight or action, but the difference is that it's like, you know, imagine that Eyore is suddenly gifted a dose of MDMA. You have, like, almost, almost naturally; you have to think of the Sun Uranus as an antidote for the Saturnian blues. And Saturn does so many wonderful things. But, if you're feeling weighted, down, stuck, imprisoned, if you lack movement, if there's stagnation, one of the things that Uranus does it feels like it's plugging you into an electrical outlet, and suddenly you have the energy to move past something that you have that has been a block.

So, in particular, there can be these insights or actions that lead to breakthroughs, and there can also be very specific getting out of stuckness. And the stuckness can be psychological or emotional, or it can be physical, or it can be practical or strategical, but suddenly, there is this understanding or energy or, you know, sufficient resources to get out of a place that you have been stuck and maybe you didn't even know you were stuck and suddenly, you have the understanding I've been stuck in here's how I get out. So those are kind of similar.

Number four is the unexpected illumination. Now one of the things that I love about the Sun-Uranus is that the Sun was associated with Apollo; Apollo with Oracle's. The great inscription at the Oracle of Delphi was To Know Thyself. There's something about the Sun Uranus that comes along, and it gives you that clear, individuated sense of who you are, where you're going, what you have to do, and what is true and authentic to you.

That unexpected illumination can be from the higher self, so to speak, just saying, this is who you really are, this is where you're really going, and this is what you really need to be doing. And so there's a way in which it can be like a little mini enlightenment. An enlightenment that serves the process of individuating further, taking that next big personal step in your journey.

The other thing that can come is, let's just say that you've had a hard time understanding something now for me, that's often, you know, in my studies as an astrologer, I just have a hard time understanding a concept, or, I might have a hard time understanding some elements of a house or a sign or, you know, and I think about these things all the time.

Astrology, for me, is like, you learn it, and then you think about the most basic things for, you know, hundreds and hundreds of hours. And every time you think you understand something, you know that you realize that there's, there's more that's hidden that you can't understand. And I love that about astrology; it keeps me forever interested.

There's this amazing thing that happens when the Sun gets together with Uranus, which is something that you've been puzzling over. And it could be intellectual, spiritual, philosophical or political, or social, within a relationship, or a pattern of some kind, and all of a sudden, boom, I see it, I see it clearly. It's like; I get this total clear understanding of something. And it's very temporary. It's very quick; it strikes like lightning.

But that is a gift when those insights come, that is like, you know, easily one of my favorite features of Sun-Uranus conjunctions is the unexpected moment of illumination or enlightenment, which can serve your personal development and it can also serve to help you understand subjects or topics or anything that you're passionate about at a deeper level, and usually, it will also serve to reinvigorate and re-inspire your interest in those things, or even your personal journey, you can just be really motivated to keep going and keep growing.

Number five is moving upward again; after a plateau, you can easily get bored and stuck. Well, it's like when I say stuck, what I mean is stuck in the familiar, stuck and doing the same thing over and over again. It's not that there's some feeling of like, Oh, I'm imprisoned. It's just it's more like you've reached a plateau; you're a little bit bored, you're a little bit restless, and you haven't figured out what comes next, and you're excited for what comes next. But you know, nothing's coming.

Then the Sun and Uranus get together, and all of a sudden, you're putting your, you know, hiking boots back on, and you're moving from a plateau back up the mountain. I love that the Sun and Uranus conjunctions, that the inspiration to move to a higher space in your journey. It's a very transcendent quality, the Sun Uranus, it's not like going down into the valley, which is very, like Plutonian, for example, going downward and inward, which is valuable to with Sun-Uranus is very much like upward like, you've reached a plateau.

Now let's climb again; let's go back up toward the peak; it has an interest in transcendence, generally speaking in making significant changes with an eye for novelty and doing things differently. And that can help us get off of plateaus is just one of the things I love about the Sun Uranus. Well, there are five things that I could live without. And you know, for some people, these things might actually be gifts, as I said earlier.

So anyway, the number one would be, and this is no particular order. But number one on my list is the freedom that leaves others behind. Sun-Uranus is so individualistic, so interested in personal evolution, that, you know, sometimes you see that person who's like, I've just got to do me. And that means that they're going to leave their family, you know, they're going to leave their spouse and abandon people or other relationships are not going to be very considerate of or that this freedom doesn't consider the thoughts, feelings, values, and needs of other people, that depend or rely on you.

Sometimes you have to leave those things behind, which is why I say that, you know, this is something I don't love about this transit, this energy, this or this archetypal combination, but it's not always a bad thing. You know, so can leave some room for this to be that freedom and sometimes having to not care so much about what other people think is a great thing about Sun-Uranus, but it can be so individualistic that it disregards other people in a way that's damaging.

Number two would be the over-promise and under-deliver effects on Sun-Uranus promises big; it's hard to live up to, almost like the fever of the gold fever of Sun-Uranus in the sign of Taurus. Here's what's beautiful. Here's what's amazing, here's what's possible, let's go do it.

It's like a, you know, the reality is that the Sun Uranus is holding up a Promethean image of progress and freedom and enlightenment and godliness and beauty and truth and liberty and these very lofty things which we can move toward, but can we ever get there fully, I feel like we always have to be prepared for the Sun-Uranus to over promise and under deliver. If you can be okay with that, like it's going to aim high, you'll get high-ish, but you may not get all the way. That's, that's something to be aware of this week.

Now, the third one would be the cocksure self-righteousness. Unfortunately, for as charming and invigorating as this transit is, it can also lead to a kind of cocky, self-righteous, my way or the highway feeling; you can get so high on this energy that again, like leaving others behind or neglecting other people in favor of, you know, this sort of individualistic impulse, that the same thing can lead us to be a little cocksure, self-righteous and stuck on ourselves.

Especially when you think what you're doing is progressive, interesting, important, when something constitutes a breakthrough in your life, it's hard not to ride that horse, you know, to freedom with a kind of disregard for what anyone else thinks or cares about and that can translate into a kind of arrogance or pride that comes before a fall. So to be a little bit careful, that.

Number four would be the inability to sit still. One thing I don't love about Sun-Uranus transits is the feeling of restlessness that can literally feel like you're; some people will literally have panic attacks with Uranus transits. Mercury-Uranus and Sun-Uranus can lead to like a mania. It's like, for example, if someone were to ask me, Is this a good transit to take a psychedelic under?

Well, it depends on your constitution, obviously, and the set and setting and the sacredness of the space and the safety and all of those things. And it's not right for everyone. And but the thing is, is that this would be a particularly, like, I would be particularly worried about someone getting really, you know, sort of manic and not like clinically, but you know, what I mean, just like, like, really, really amped up to the point where they could have a little bit of a break.

So, like, I would be careful. I learned from many, many years of working with Ayahuasca under all sorts of different kinds of transits that, you know, the transit does have an effect on the experience. And, you know, the people who said the same thing that I learned a lot from to was, you know, Richard Tarnas and Stanislav Grof, who did all sorts of experimentations with LSD and Holotropic breathwork and astrological transits.

They noticed that the kind of experience you have is often signified in part by the astrological transits to your birth chart that are happening. It's true like this is a transit that can wire you up to the point where, you know, if you already have a nervous constitution, so to speak, then this could send you over the edge a little bit. So I don't love how nervous and restless it can be.

You know, for me, the fact that it's happening in the springtime here in Minnesota, as like, everything's starting to blossom, and like, I can clean my garage and sort of get spring fever. You know that's exciting to me, and probably, I can utilize that energy in a positive way. I'll be more careful about the caffeine I drink around that transit this week. So that's just little things like that. So one thing I don't love is the inability to sit still.

Number five is reckless idealism. By that, I mean that their Sun Uranus can be about perfection, about the possible future, that what is possible in the future as a progressive ideal can be sort of utopian. And there's nothing wrong with holding out with moving toward fiery, you know, images of what's possible. What's next? Because the soul loves that it's part of the adventure of life.

Where it's a problem is if the Sun-Uranus becomes a fixed sign, earthy, so stubborn, fixed in a kind of dogmatic sense of this is the ideal, this is what it is no bend, no flexibility. Taurus can be dogmatic and stubborn, just like all the other fixed signs. So, you know, I would just say one thing I don't love about this transit or that I could live without would be that way in which a kind of stubborn and somewhat reckless ideal can present itself, and we can get fixated on it, and be resistant to anything but that standard. So getting taken over by incredibly powerful ideals, drives, and desires. That would be a potential downside. Now any of these, you could turn and look at the positive as well. So, you know, we're playing with shadow and light always when we talk about archetypes.

Anyway, I hope that this was useful for you guys and gives you, as always, some good things to think about as the astrological weather comes through. I would love to hear your stories. So if you have one to share, use the hashtag grabbed or email us your story, grabbed@nightlight astrology.com #grabbed, and then say Sun-Uranus in Taurus, and then tell us the story. We'll be sharing some stories probably later in the month. All right. Don't forget to sign up early for need-based tuition if you want to take advantage of that for the upcoming course, which starts in June. Any questions you guys have about any of the programs, email info@nightlightastrology.com.

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