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In his book Cosmos and Psyche (published in 2006), Richard Tarnas explains how the cycle of Uranus seems to be related to the concept of creative and innovative breakthroughs in the lives of great historic intellectuals... When Uranus would transit itself, a breakthrough would occur.
A personal transit in astrology is when an actual planet aspects an important point of your birth chart with a significant mathematical angle. The most significant transits are conjunctions (0 degrees), squares (90 degrees) and oppositions (180 degrees). Trines and sextiles (60 degrees and 120 degrees) are also significant...
Example: I was born with Uranus at the 27th degree of Scorpio... For a period of about a year in my early 20s, Uranus was going back and forth around the 27th degree of Aquarius, which is 90 degrees apart from Scorpio. That means Uranus was squaring my natal Uranus. (Uranus was going back and forth because from the Earth's point of view, planets retrograde for certain amounts of time)
Richard Tarnas discovered that ''when Galileo made his first telescopic discoveries between October 1609 and March 1610 and then quickly wrote and published Siderus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger), which heralded the truth of the Copernican theory and caused a sensation in European intellectual circles, he had the identical personal Uranus transit cycle that René Descartes had in 1637 when he published his equally epoch-making Discourse on Method, the manifesto of modern reason and the foundational work of modern philosophy. Moreover, this also happened to be the same transit Isaac Newton had in 1687 when he published the Principia, the foundational work of modern science.''
These events happened when Uranus was reaching the halfway point of its full cycle around the birth chart (transiting Uranus opposite natal Uranus). It can be understood as a symbolic 'full moon' of the personal Uranus transit cycle.
This transit lasts approximately 3 years, if one considers the transit as being effective within 5 degrees of the precise opposition point, and when it is viewed as tracing a bell curve around that point, producing a wavelike continuum of effectiveness.
Freud was going through this Uranus transit in the years 1895-1897, when he had the insights that gave birth to psychoanalysis.
Jung had the same transit during 1914-1917, the intellectual turning point of his life, when the milestone ideas of his work were put forth.
Einstein, Darwin and Kant also had similar breakthroughs during major Uranus-Uranus personal transits.
For example, Einstein's natal Uranus was opposed by Uranus during 1918-1921. ''In November 1919, the Royal Society in London announced that its scientific expedition to Pricipe Island, which was formed for the purpose of photographing a solar eclipse earlier that year, had completed calculations that demonstrated a deflection of light at the tim of the Sun, thereby giving a dramatic support to Einstein'S theory of relativity. Einstein was immediately heralded as a genius without precedent, and the theory of relativity was for the first time widely acclaimed by both the scientific community and the larger public. However, the initial major scientific breakthrough in Einstein's life took place in the summer and fall of 1905, when he published the four papers in the scientific journal Annalen der Physik that transformed modern physics; these contained the special theory of relativity, the equivalence of mass and energy, the theory of Brownian motion, and the photon theory of light. Uranus was exactly at the 120 degree trine point of its cycle during the years 1904-1906, the trine being the major aspect of th Uranus transit cycle that precedes the opposition by approximately 14 years. ''
Darwin reached his most important conceptual breakthrough on natural selection during his Uranus trine natal Uranus transit in the years 1837-1839. On the day he judged to have solved the problem of natural selction (september 28 1838...), Uranus was within one degree of exact trine. Darwin's work was recognised by the Royal Society in 1853, in the years of the Uranus opposition.
In his book Cosmos and Psyche (published in 2006), Richard Tarnas explains how the cycle of Uranus seems to be related to the concept of creative and innovative breakthroughs in the lives of great historic intellectuals... When Uranus would transit itself, a breakthrough would occur.
A personal transit in astrology is when an actual planet aspects an important point of your birth chart with a significant mathematical angle. The most significant transits are conjunctions (0 degrees), squares (90 degrees) and oppositions (180 degrees). Trines and sextiles (60 degrees and 120 degrees) are also significant...
Example: I was born with Uranus at the 27th degree of Scorpio... For a period of about a year in my early 20s, Uranus was going back and forth around the 27th degree of Aquarius, which is 90 degrees apart from Scorpio. That means Uranus was squaring my natal Uranus. (Uranus was going back and forth because from the Earth's point of view, planets retrograde for certain amounts of time)
Richard Tarnas discovered that ''when Galileo made his first telescopic discoveries between October 1609 and March 1610 and then quickly wrote and published Siderus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger), which heralded the truth of the Copernican theory and caused a sensation in European intellectual circles, he had the identical personal Uranus transit cycle that René Descartes had in 1637 when he published his equally epoch-making Discourse on Method, the manifesto of modern reason and the foundational work of modern philosophy. Moreover, this also happened to be the same transit Isaac Newton had in 1687 when he published the Principia, the foundational work of modern science.''
These events happened when Uranus was reaching the halfway point of its full cycle around the birth chart (transiting Uranus opposite natal Uranus). It can be understood as a symbolic 'full moon' of the personal Uranus transit cycle.
This transit lasts approximately 3 years, if one considers the transit as being effective within 5 degrees of the precise opposition point, and when it is viewed as tracing a bell curve around that point, producing a wavelike continuum of effectiveness.
Freud was going through this Uranus transit in the years 1895-1897, when he had the insights that gave birth to psychoanalysis.
Jung had the same transit during 1914-1917, the intellectual turning point of his life, when the milestone ideas of his work were put forth.
Einstein, Darwin and Kant also had similar breakthroughs during major Uranus-Uranus personal transits.
For example, Einstein's natal Uranus was opposed by Uranus during 1918-1921. ''In November 1919, the Royal Society in London announced that its scientific expedition to Pricipe Island, which was formed for the purpose of photographing a solar eclipse earlier that year, had completed calculations that demonstrated a deflection of light at the tim of the Sun, thereby giving a dramatic support to Einstein'S theory of relativity. Einstein was immediately heralded as a genius without precedent, and the theory of relativity was for the first time widely acclaimed by both the scientific community and the larger public. However, the initial major scientific breakthrough in Einstein's life took place in the summer and fall of 1905, when he published the four papers in the scientific journal Annalen der Physik that transformed modern physics; these contained the special theory of relativity, the equivalence of mass and energy, the theory of Brownian motion, and the photon theory of light. Uranus was exactly at the 120 degree trine point of its cycle during the years 1904-1906, the trine being the major aspect of th Uranus transit cycle that precedes the opposition by approximately 14 years. ''
Darwin reached his most important conceptual breakthrough on natural selection during his Uranus trine natal Uranus transit in the years 1837-1839. On the day he judged to have solved the problem of natural selction (september 28 1838...), Uranus was within one degree of exact trine. Darwin's work was recognised by the Royal Society in 1853, in the years of the Uranus opposition.
