Turning the Jewel of the Sun Square Uranus

Hey everyone, this is Adam Elenbaas from Nightlight Astrology, and today we're going to take yet another look at the Sun square to Uranus. Yesterday we took a look at this through the lens of the new moon, and we talked about what you could expect in the entire lunation cycle ahead based on the signatures present at the time of the new moon, including Venus-Sun going retrograde and some of the things happening in the cycle. If you haven't gotten a chance to look at that video, you might want to start there because today, we're sort of building on some of the things we said yesterday, but not a big deal. You could always watch it later as well and just fill in some blanks.

So today, we're going to look at the Sun square Uranus; in order to do so, I'm going to tell you about one of my favorite books and give you a book recommendation that you may pick up if you are someone who likes to study astrology on the side. We're going to take a look at a passage from the archetypal universe by Renn Butler, who is a colleague, and his text is one of my desk references. I have a number of them that I often turn to when generating my ideas for content and so forth, and his is one of my most reliable I love plugging his book because if you're a student of astrology, his book can be very helpful in terms of getting to know planetary archetypes and their combinations. I think he has a unique way of looking at them.

So we'll talk about that. I'm gonna go through some of the things he says in his passage on Sun-Uranus, tell you about another book, and give you some more things to think about as the Sun-Uranus square is very much in the air this week. So that is our agenda for today. Before we get into it, as always, don't forget to like and subscribe, tell us your stories, or share your comments. All of this helps the channel to grow. We really appreciate it. You can find transcripts of any of my daily talks, as always, on the website nightlightastrology.com.

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All right, let's turn our attention now to the real time clock and hear me put it up on the screen. All right, perfect. So what we are looking at is the continued square of the Sun and Uranus. So you can see this is Tuesday, August 15, and the Sun is approaching the square to Uranus.

If we advance this by just a day, you'll see that by the new moon Wednesday that the Sun has passed through the square. So again, we talked about that new moon signature yesterday and kind of expanded upon the entire lunation cycle and five themes to watch for throughout the cycle, given the seating moment and the Sun Uranus Square.

Today I want to continue exploring the Sun and Uranus a little bit more as a standalone archetypal combination because if you spread this out, the square between them will be within the three-degree range all the way up until Saturday, August 19. So we are working with this all week long, and that new moon energy, although strong, is really just one day of the week, and it's going to be in effect all week.

So let's go ahead, and the first thing I want to do is tell you about a book. If you like archetypes and you want to learn more about them, you're probably like me; you're always looking for good recommendations. This is one of my favorite books ever written on Uranus, and looking at Uranus as an archetype on its own as an archetypal field, I guess you could say, and then looking at it in combination with houses, signs, planets, etc.

This is by Liz Greene. It's called The Art of Stealing Fire: Uranus in the Horoscope, and, as I said, it is one of my favorite books; I try to recommend things to you guys that, you know, I not only like but have, you know, made a lasting impact on the way that I think about things and that book is right up there at the top with the best things I've ever read on Uranus and has deeply informed my thinking.

So I thought you guys might want to know about that, especially because in that book, she does a really good job talking about the Sun and Uranus in particular. There are lengthy sections throughout the text where she talks about the Sun and Uranus as an archetypal combination.

Now today, I'm not going to read from this text because the passages that I found I just felt were a little too dense for where I wanted to go today. So what I am going to do is I'm going to read you straight from another book that I love. Well, this is a favorite desk reference of mine called the archetypal universe by Renn Butler; I highly recommend picking up a copy.

People who have watched my channel for a while know that this is one of my favorite desk references; we've had Renn come and give talks in my speaker series, and yeah, I just feel like the way that he thinks is very similar to the way that I think, and so he feels like a kindred spirit in the way that he conceptualizes the combinations of planets, and so I just, I really love it.

When I read his lists and combinations of a planetary, you know, planetary combination, this textbook, it tends to like It's like one of those water mills, you know, the water starts pouring, and then my wheel starts going. So I really appreciate the way that he does things. Anyway, so here's his passage on Sun-Uranus, and what I want to do today is literally just read you what he has to say and then offer my own reflections and commentary as we go.

So Sun-Uranus starts off with principles, and this is sort of the passage within each portion of his text that outlines the most distilled fundamental way of understanding the combination. So Sun Uranus, a heightened sense of freedom and autonomy, individuation and independence, unique opportunities for creative self-expression, unexpected breakthroughs, and awakenings, the brilliant light of rebirth. Then he talks about some shadows, manic self-celebration, willful and erratic behavior, excessive urges for independence, and inability to cooperate or compromise with others.

So now, a little bit of feedback and reflection, a heightened sense of freedom and autonomy. There are some days, and I would describe them as Sun-Uranus days, where you just feel like the wind is at your back and filling your sails, and nothing's gonna stop you, nothing can hold you back, there's a sense of unlimited potential or possibility, the sky's the limit kind of feeling.

These kinds of feelings will often coincide with aspects from Sun to Jupiter or Sun to Uranus. With the Sun in Uranus, there's often an accompanying sense of taking a big step forward somehow in terms of your personal psychological and professional potential where it's almost like you feel like you're leveling up somehow.

I like that he says that there are opportunities for creative, unique opportunities for creative self-expression. I know as a content creator that when the Sun and when the Sun and Uranus come through, I will sometimes create things that I really, really enjoy myself or that I'm really proud of creatively, or I will conceptualize something during that time that I will do in the future. Let's say, for example, you know, some of the series that I've done in the past have come through the inspiration of Uranus and the Sun in transit.

The series I did on ten things I've learned in 10 years and 10,000 charts came; that idea actually came during the Sun Uranus transit, not unlike the one we're experiencing right now. So you just never know the way that the Sun Uranus comes through, and there's a little break in the clouds, and suddenly that sort of glorious, you know, divine beam of light pours down from the heavens and strikes you on the face, and you suddenly feel lifted up.

It's an appropriate metaphor for how we might feel when the Sun and Uranus get together that there's a sense of original thinking, creative breakthroughs, where there's been stuckness or stagnation, suddenly there's an opening, you feel as though you're taking a significant step forward and personal or individual growth.

It's kind of unexpected. The fact that he uses the word unexpected is, of course, in line with Uranus and also the feeling that he uses the phrase, the brilliant light of rebirth and that one's really important for Uranus as well because there will be this feeling of like, that's why I use the image of the clouds breaking because there's kind of a heaviness and you don't even know you're living with it until boom, the Sun and Uranus come together or maybe Uranus is transiting the Sun in your natal chart for a longer period of time and you go through this feeling of this experience of personal renaissance, awakening, rebirth, and the feeling of being excited about something again, oh my god, I haven't been excited like this for a long time. That's a Sun Uranus experience.

Now, he does say that there's sort of willful manic self-celebration, willful, erratic behavior, excessive urges for independence, and inability to cooperate or compromise with others, sort of like someone with their hair on fire, that's just, you know, super exuberant and excited, but I would put it like this is, I would compare this embarrassing, embarrassing quality of my character to this part of Sun-Uranus.

So whenever we've moved, let's say, we're, you know, move moving apartments, back when I was, you know, single in New York City, or since I've been married, moving houses, especially with the whole family, you know, I get in this mode, where I'm, like, really excited, but kind of, yeah, sort of manic and, like, uncompromising in how I think things should be done and it's just my wife will always be like, it's like you're getting into moving mode and, you know, we've had to, like have code where like, codes code word safe words, like, rabbit, banana, some kind of code word that calls me back from like, what am I like, I'm marching to Zion.

It's like I get that way, where there's a sense of it, but the funny thing is that one of the reasons that it's traditionally been hard for me to recognize when I get like that, and it's, I swear to God, it shows up when we're moving, or cleaning. If I'm cleaning a big room or something, I just get sort of like, I get really excited, but then I'm absolutely uncompromising, and like sort of like authoritarian, like weird. But thankfully, my wife can call me back. I swear to God, she is magical in that sense, where she can just gently call me back from my insanity.

So but that's how I would describe the Sun Uranus two is that there's this feeling of I'm off to the races, and nothing and nobody can stop me, and if they do, you know, I'll just bowl them over. So those are some of the things you have to watch for with Sun Uranus.

Anyway, he goes into this next thing of this next area of the text, character, and themes of free-spirited sense of exuberance and enthusiasm, and you see that get quality can actually be very good and helpful, especially when it's coming through, and there's not that kind of rigid individual going it alone, not working with other people, kind of shadow, aliveness and excitement, renewed opportunities to find oneself.

See, it's funny because we lose ourselves, and we don't even know that we've lost ourselves, and you can always tell that you found yourself again because there's this feeling of like, Ah, I'm back, you know, and when you have that feeling, it can be a Sun Uranus feeling, urges towards self-actualization, personal brightness, and brilliance. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. That's Robert Frost; of course, The Road Not Taken; I think it's called The Road Not Taken.

But that sense of being daring and original and individual and breaking from the well-trodden trail and, you know, blazing your own, these are Sun Uranus qualities, yearning for freedom and autonomy, individuation and independence, rebirth and breakthroughs and warm rays of personal liberation, who so would be a man must be a nonconformist that was Emerson.

Surges of energy and vitality, new or unexpected opportunities for self-expression, feelings of inspiration and illumination qualities of innovation and originality, creative genius, humanitarian and egalitarian tendencies, which is funny because, on the one hand, you can get someone who's so set in their excitement and their enthusiasm and going in a direction according to their will and the power and force of their the way they see things their vision that they can completely disregard other people.

On the same note, you get the Sun Uranus is like the within the history of humanity it's it might be a democracy, or it could be, you know, the right to vote being granted to all people no matter of race, color, gender, etc. So Sun Uranus can have this kind of spiritual, moral enlightenment. You know the quality of spiritual or moral enlightenment, but it can also be about the zeal and charisma of like single sighted and lacking in the ability to appreciate diversity.

Which is something that Ashley and I talked about last week when we talked about Sun Uranus in relation to mono myths. The renaissance man or woman, the unique eccentric or creative father, reconnection with memories of good fathering redemption of the masculine principle. That's why we also mentioned this week that there can be healing or a focus on liberation or releasing of old toxic father karma, right this is a very common thing for outer planetary transits to the Sun that there will be dad karma that comes up the Sun is usually the planet that can represent the paternal energy or the father. But either way, the idea here is of a release of creative energy relative to the fathering principle.

The solar brilliance of Greek civilization, the ancient advent of individualism and democracy, secular humanism, and the Enlightenment. Redemption of the masculine principle as an emerging new paradigm successfully unfolds. Almost like what does healthy masculinity look like, and liberating masculinity, or let's call it masculinity on an energetic level, doesn't have to be literal gender, right, but then it was like the yang within all of us. What does it look like when that's moving through us in the world in a healthy way?

It's freed up somehow from authoritarianism and rigidity and control and domination and violence and so forth and objectification critical attitudes toward the abuse of power. It's interesting that the Sun Uranus will be about defying, you know, like, the French and American Revolutions are very Sun Uranus. So, interesting.

Shadow qualities, qualities of impatience, and restlessness. I can feel like you're on, like, you've slammed several Red Bulls when the Sun and Uranus are together. Quirkiness and eccentricity in practicality and unreliability, erratic and unpredictable hate behavior, unfocused creative energies. I had a Sun, Uranus transiting my natal Sun when it was in Aries; my Sun is in cancer. So it was transiting in Aries hitting my Sun, and one of the things that happened, I think I told you guys, my grandfather passed.

Another thing that happened, which was really interesting, was I went to I used to go to Washington Nationals games when we lived in the DC, Maryland area, and I used to go, and I would bring, like, a little journal, and I would often just literally just sit in the ballpark and watch games and relax. I find going to baseball games by myself to be one of the most meditative things in the world. I know that's weird, but that's been one of my private pleasures or whatever. It's like a little place that I like to go to and have a kind of Zen and baseball experience.

Anyway, so I went, and I was going and getting these ice teas, and I think I ended up having, like, it was super hot. I remember I just remember it was so hot and humid, and it was a long game. It was like a four-hour game, and I just kept going and getting ice teas, and here's the thing is that at that point in time, I really wasn't drinking caffeine.

I wasn't a morning coffee or tea drinker, and I just thought iced tea sounded good, so I've just completely spaced on the fact that these have caffeine in them, just completely spaced on it. Uranus was squaring my Sun. I ended up being unable to go to sleep until the next night. So I was up for approximately 24 hours from the time of the baseball game to the following evening.

I couldn't sleep, and it was Uranus Sun, and I went through, I would just say, a complete roller coaster ride of reflecting on reflecting on where I was at, you know, and where I was going, and that time ended up being pivotal with respect to the desire to have our second child like I was, I did all of this reflecting on fatherhood that was very productive, it was sort of crazy to be completely honest. I was like, I was, I can't explain; it was like it was on cocaine or something.

I mean, it was just so much caffeine, and I hadn't been drinking caffeine for a long time. So it's like a 24-hour fugue state that I went into, which ended up inspiring the birth of our second child, not right away, but like, not long after, did all of this deep reflection on fathering, that was, you know, my oldest daughter had already been born. But anyway, so that sense of restless, erratic, almost like overstimulated qualities that can come through.

Excessive self-will and obstinacy problems with authority figures, an inability to cooperate or compromise, unwillingness to commit ineffective and counterproductive rebellion, tendencies toward manic self-celebration, hubris, and inflation, the cult of the hero and Christ complex.

So that sense of, like, I'm going to save the world or, like, again, I'm revealing way too much of myself. But I will tell you that I think when okay, when we're moving, and I get into that mode I was describing earlier, it feels like I will save us from the, you know, I'm a Cancer Sun. So I think part of this is like I don't like moving. So I'm like, I'll save us from the situation. I'll move it all as quickly as possible, but nobody can stand in my way. It's like it's crazy, like Christ complex that comes up when we're moving. I don't know why that is. But I will tell you that again. Thank God I have a wife who's like, hey, knock knock, crazy pants come back. So, you have to be careful with that.

The kind of we talked about it with the Sun Uranus last week in the mono myths, the tendency toward heroic inflation or Savior complexes or, you know, my will, my vision, my way, and nothing else. These can become real shadows. I love he puts this nature in the Art section. Nature's sunlight sunbeams the moment of sunrise art, radiant genius, and emphasis or lighten the spontaneity of the moment in Impressionism, the unfettered and eccentric self-expression, and abstract art cinema.

Classic auteur directors are noted for innovations and firsts actors who play cool, independent, rebellious, headstrong, self-willed temperamental, eccentric, goofy, wacky, or quirky characters. Archetypes the brilliant light of rebirth, the graven self has been a covered bridge leading from light to light through a brief darkness that was from Longfellow.

The solar hero or heroine Achilles is Primus inter-Paris first among equals rebirth of the good father archetype, the Puer eternus or eternal youth, the Divine Child, the reborn Sun, the winter solstice or birthday of the unconquered Sun, which was the traditional birthday of Horus, Krishna, Dionysus, and Mithras adopted in the fourth century AD. The birthday of Christ. Really interesting.

One thing that I think is really fascinating is that when I reflect on, you know, clients who have had Uranus transiting their natal Sun, which lasts a long time, it's, I would say, depending on, you know, how many retrogrades and so forth, two years, I would say is a good amount of time within which the kind of total effects of Uranus hitting a square conjunction opposition trine to the Sun will be.

Usually, people during that period of time feel like they've uncovered their purpose as it was hidden or dampened or obstructed their purpose, being that sense of life-giving enthusiasm, direction, clear visions, and a sense of continued growth. I'm taking the next step; I know where I'm going.

There's a little bit of a feeling of the tumultuousness of the chaos of like the Red Sea being parted and you know, like Moses leading the people through it, that that the chaos and tumultuousness of potential potentiality but also chaos and confusion is somehow you know, the way is somehow parted so that you can move through it with a clear sense of direction. Of course, the danger of such times is to think that they last forever or to think that you have become that power that has granted the clarity, which is the kind of inflation that leads to, you know, the problems of the ego.

So, anyway, these are things to watch for this week. I hope that you enjoyed visiting a little passage from Renn Butler like to reintroduce and familiarize the audience with him from time to time because there are a lot of new people that come in. We've had 1000s of new people come in since the new year.

So, if you're new and you've never heard me reference Renn before, be sure to check out his book and all of his work; I really appreciate the way that he does astrology. Check out The Art of Stealing Fire by Liz Greene. I'll put that up one more time in case you want to check out a really fantastic, really fantastic exploration of Uranus in the birth chart and Uranus and astrology in general. So, that is what I've got for today. I hope you guys are having a good one, and I will look forward to seeing you again tomorrow. Take it easy, everyone. Bye.