The Astrology Podcast
Transcript of Episode 499, titled:
Uranus in Taurus Retrospective: Stories from the 12 Houses
With Chris Brennan
Episode originally released on July 25, 2025
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CHRIS BRENNAN: Hey. My name is Chris Brennan, and you’re listening to The Astrology Podcast. In this episode, I’m gonna be interviewing people about the recent transit of Uranus in Taurus and doing a retrospective about what house it was transiting through in their birth chart over the course of the past seven years and what sort of themes and topics and changes came up in their life during the course of that time that we can connect directly with the transit of Uranus.
All right, so the premise of this episode is that Uranus just moved into Gemini last week in the past week on July 7th, 2025. And a lot of people are wondering then, you know, what the transit of Uranus is gonna mean over the course of the next seven or eight years as it moves through Gemini. But one of the things that’s important about outer planet sign changes or when slow-moving planets change signs is it always provides you with an excellent opportunity to look back at what that transit has been over the course of however many years it’s been transiting through that sign and to kind of do an assessment now in retrospect about what the changes were that it brought up in your life. And all of the planets signify change in some way, and it’s just the manner in which they bring about change in our lives, the types of changes they bring about, and also the magnitude or the extent and duration of the changes that they bring about in our lives. So for example, over the past several months, I’ve been doing a number of episodes about the recent Venus and Mars retrograde periods. And I showed how with the Venus retrograde, it opened up a series of changes that were happening in different people’s lives, especially in the house it was transiting over that several month period that lasted almost six months from like, January when it first went into Pisces all the way until June when it finally departed from Aries, the sign that it retrograded in. So that was like, a six-month window where there was the unfolding of a sequence of events that related to the Venus retrograde in different ways. Or when we talked about Mars, it was a longer like, nine month maybe 10 month period from September when Mars first went into Cancer until June when it finally departed from Leo, having gone retrograde in those two signs of Cancer and Leo. So there again, I demonstrated how the retrograde transit was the unfolding of a sequence of events that extended over a period of time. And while sometimes there was like, a singular event within that that acted as like, a focal point or a trigger, that oftentimes there was this whole sequence of events that led up to that and that flowed from that that were tied in with the overall manifestation of the transit.
So with Uranus, we’re looking at something similar, but we’re just looking at it over the course of a much longer period of time, which is the seven years that it’s been transiting through the specific whole sign house that it’s been transiting in your chart ever since it first dipped into Taurus in May of 2018. So for the purpose of this webinar and for this case study, I’ve done a previous episode – I think it was episode 197 of The Astrology Podcast, which was titled, “Uranus Transits Through the Houses.” And we actually did that at the beginning of Uranus in Taurus, and we asked people to share different stories about what happened when Uranus transited through different houses in their chart and how that manifested. And we got a lot of really good stories just going through each of the houses sequentially, because one of the things that I’ve found is that this is one of the ways that you can understand all of the planets. Not just the inner planets, but also if you’re let’s say a traditional astrologer and you’re wanting to investigate the outer planets and what they mean and try to develop your own understanding of the significations, this is one of the ways that you can go about doing it – by paying attention to these discrete periods of time when the planet is transiting a specific whole sign house in your chart. Because during the course of that transit, there will be some themes emerge that relate to that planet and the changes that occur in that specific area of your life. So for the purpose of this, we’re gonna be using whole sign houses where you just identify what your rising sign is and then that sign becomes the first house, and then the sign after that becomes the second house, and the sign after that becomes the third house. And I do truly think that you can see very vividly the house topics come up in the whole sign house framework at different points when Uranus is transiting through that whole sign house over the course of that seven-year period. And sometimes this is accentuated, of course, at different points when Uranus will either have specific mundane astrological transits – like, if it stations retrograde or direct, that’s usually an exclamation mark. When there’s eclipses in the same sign as Uranus. When it makes hard aspects with other planets, like there were three Mars-Uranus conjunctions in Taurus that happened over the past seven years, or there was a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction that happened at one point. So all of those things can accentuate it. And then on top of that, when Uranus actually makes exact aspects to planets in your chart during the course of its transit through Taurus, especially hard aspects which are the conjunction, the square, and the opposition, that’s oftentimes when the specific meaning of that transit will manifest in the most dramatic ways during the course of that seven-year long transit. That’s also true if, for example, there’s the degree of an angle, either the Ascendant, the Descendant, the Midheaven, or the IC. If it hits one of those degrees at some point during the course of its transit through the house, then that’ll be a particularly active and potent time for the significations of that transit to manifest. But usually there’s some like, lead up to that or some things that happen after that as well, just as it’s going through the whole sign house.
All right, so those are some like, basic preliminaries. I did wanna show a couple of graphics to help orient people with the dates that I was working on over the past few days and that were made for me by Madeline DeCotes of Honeycomb.co. So the first one just shows the ingress dates of Uranus into Taurus.
All right, so Uranus first departed from Aries and moved into Taurus on May 15th, 2018, and this is the first ingress. And for me, this is the beginning of Uranus’s transit through Taurus, and it’s the beginning of the timeframe that we’re gonna be thinking of when we look back and think about what was happening in our lives starting around this time period in mid-2018 forward, because the first ingress of a planet into a sign opens up – it’s the initial opening up of the sequence of events that will then unfold, in this case, over the course of the next seven or eight years that Uranus was in Taurus. So it went into Taurus in mid-2018; it retrograded out back into Aries in late 2018, and then it made its final ingress back into Taurus on March 6th, 2019.
Then it was just in Taurus for a very long period of time for about seven years, until July 7th, 2025, when it made its first ingress into Gemini. And eventually later this year, Uranus is not finished with Taurus because it’s gonna retrograde back into Taurus on November 7th, 2025, before eventually departing from Taurus for the final time on April 25th, 2026. And at that point, it’s gonna be in Gemini for the next like, seven years.
So that’s our timeframe. And part of what that means is that the transit actually isn’t technically over, and I’m doing this workshop a little bit prematurely because Uranus is gonna come back into Taurus for one final trip going through the later degrees of that sign late this year and early next year. But the reason I’m doing it now is because now that Uranus has first moved into Gemini, it’s finally moved through all 30 degrees of Taurus at least once, which means that everybody that was gonna get an exact transit – especially an exact hard aspect – from Uranus in Taurus to one of the planets in their chart has now received at least one hard aspect of that planet, and therefore usually whatever the Uranus story is, especially in terms of the house transit, should have clearly started to manifest at this point even if there’s still gonna be some final surprises or final things that don’t fully come into completion until later this year or early next year when Uranus returns for one last trip through that sign.
So let me show one more diagram that Madeline made for me. So of course, Uranus in Taurus, as I said, there were different points during the course of that transit that were important in a mundane sense. And if I were to identify everything, it would look something like this graphic basically which shows not just the ingress dates and the egress dates – egress is when the planet leaves the sign, ingress is when it enters the sign – but it also shows the stationary dates when Uranus stationed retrograde or direct, which are like, exclamation marks next to the planet, especially if it stations very close to a natal planet in your chart or closely aspecting a natal planet through a hard aspect, then some of those stations and dates would have been important for you. There was that period for a few years from 2021 through 2023 where eclipses were happening in Taurus, which indicate major beginnings and major endings and can really amplify what the Uranus transit is all about. There was a period in 2020 through 2023 when Saturn was going through Aquarius and it was squaring Uranus; it squared Uranus three times, which could then add some additional things on top of if you’re already having a exact Uranus transits, then you were also having exact Saturn transits during that time from 2021 especially when there were three exact squares. There was the Jupiter transit through Taurus from May of 2023 through May of 2024, with an exact conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in April of 2024. And then finally, there were three Mars transits through Taurus during this time – more specifically I should say three specific Mars-Uranus conjunctions that occurred in January of 2021, August of 2022, and July of 2024. And so those also may have acted as triggers for some Mars-Uranus events that happened in different people’s lives in different ways.
So that’s like, the more complex picture which you then have to overlay your birth chart with, and that I’ll kind of be doing on the fly as I’m going through and interviewing people a little bit in this episode. But for the most part, I don’t actually wanna complicate things, and I actually wanna try my best to keep it very simple by just focusing on the first graphic and the ingress dates, which is that the transit started in mid-2018, and it’s ending now in 2025 and 2026. What house did it transit through in your chart, and how were the topics associated with that specific whole sign house manifested in your life and some significant changes in some way? And here’s a diagram that shows my traditional significations for each of the 12 houses, and some of the topics that we would expect to encounter having any sort of transit through one of those houses.
All right, so I think that’s it in terms of preliminary stuff that I meant to say in the lead up to this before we start doing interviews. I’m trying to think if there’s anything else that I meant to say, but that might be it; maybe it’s time to jump into some examples so that instead of just telling you, you know, what’s gonna happen, you know, that we can actually demonstrate it through talking with people and hearing their life stories. And that’s one of the things and that’s why I’m doing this is because we’re gonna be able to take some of these stories, and then hopefully people can learn the principles of some of the ways that a Uranus transit through a specific house can manifest, and then understand then what the next transit of Uranus in Gemini is gonna mean based on which house it’s moving into in their chart.
All right, so I’ve asked a bunch of people to submit examples, both from patrons of The Astrology Podcast through my page on Patreon as well as students of my Hellenistic astrology course, and so I’m gonna go through and interview some of those today and people are helping me by voting on some of the submissions in order to help filter some of them out and prioritize certain ones that are the most compelling examples.
So we were gonna start with the first one, which is Brianna. And I’m gonna promote you to a panelist now, and then we’ll jump into our first interview, which is a transit of Uranus through the 4th house.
Hey, thanks for joining me.
BRIANNA: Yeah, thanks for having me!
CB: All right, so here’s your birth chart. So let’s do some of the basic stuff. So you have Aquarius rising; you have a day chart. The most positive planet in your chart is Jupiter, which is in the 3rd house in Aries, and then the more challenging planet is Mars, which is in the 10th house in Scorpio. And this was a Uranus transit through your 4th house, so starting in mid-2018, Uranus went into your 4th house and then it recently departed from your 4th house although the degree of your IC is there at two degrees of Gemini so there’ll be some continuation of 4th house topics into your 5th whole sign house, doubling up with 5th house topics. But what were the 4th house topics that came up for you with respect to your home and your living situation or the topic of parents?
B: Yeah, so it really didn’t get started, I think, until Uranus started to make contact with my Ascendant degree and my natal Pluto. Like, it didn’t start in 2018. But in 2021, I had a really abrupt, unexpected move that happened when I was out of the country, so that was very strange. And then I moved again —
CB: So it was like, your partner at the time caused you to move while you were away on a trip?
B: Yes.
CB: Okay. So that was tying in the 4th house transit as well as the fact that it was like, squaring your Ascendant and your Descendant and your Venus.
B: Yeah.
CB: That’s actually interesting that you were away on a trip at the time, because it also would have been squaring your Venus, which is the ruler of your 4th and 9th.
B: Yeah, it was very strange. And then any time I use the word “weird” or “strange,” I’m like, “Is that Uranus?”
CB: So was that jarring? I mean, did that cause tension between the two of you or what?
B: Oh yeah, it was not helpful at all. Yeah, safe to say it made for a weird time abroad. It was very unexpected. I had to kind of pivot and deal with it in a very like, sudden, abrupt kind of – it was very acute. And yeah, it definitely caused some challenges.
CB: Some challenges and some tensions. Okay.
B: Understatement, yeah.
CB: And this is 2021. I should be sharing the biwheel because that’ll probably help us visualize it a little bit more. So okay, so do you know what month it was?
B: It would have been September.
CB: September, okay. So Uranus…
B: I don’t know the exact date.
CB: Uranus was actually stationing at like, 14 degrees of Taurus around that time roughly in your 4th house?
B: Yes.
CB: Got it. Okay. So that was surprising, and I’m sure like, disorienting and like, sudden. And then you said you had a second move later on?
B: Yeah. So then it would have been August of 2022 I moved again by myself, away from the previous place that I had moved.
CB: Okay. And that was due to like, a breakup?
B: Yes.
CB: Okay. So that —
B: Yeah, so then I was very independent, which is another – felt very Uranian.
CB: Got it. So how comfortable do you feel talking about that, just in terms of like, was that partially due to like, tensions that happened after the first move over the course of the next year, or was that like, a long process that had been building up, or was that in and of itself something that happened suddenly?
B: Oh, that was a very long process that had been building up. But this was definitely like, kind of a, I don’t know, breakthrough is not the right word. Breakdown, I guess. You know, when something’s been having a stress test for a long time, and then something unexpected happens, yeah. So that was more the vibe of it.
CB: How long had you been married?
B: Not on paper, but together for 13 years.
CB: Okay, that’s a long time.
B: Yeah.
CB: Okay. So at this point, you separate, and then you go out and you end up getting your own place, and then you’re suddenly living on your own for the first time in how many years?
B: Oh goodness. So it would have been since like, 2009? So then what’s the math on that – like, 12 years prior.
CB: Right.
B: Or so.
CB: Okay. So that’s a huge, huge shift in terms of your living situation and like, living independently on your own. And on the one hand, that being wildly different than what your life had been up to that point, but then also sometimes there can be a sense of greater freedom and like, liberation and things like that.
B: Oh yeah. Yeah, it was extremely different, and that’s – yeah, again, just like, whatever was there, I feel like Uranus came through and was like, “We’re gonna do this differently, entirely differently.” And that is how it ended up very much.
CB: Okay. How did you experience that? What was your like, internal and external process in terms of that, in terms of your living situation?
B: I went from kind of a, you know, normal two-bedroom sized situation with a person to a tiny little like, studio apartment by myself. So tiny. And that was actually very manageable. But yeah, everything was new. Like, everything about that situation was new. Grocery shopping was new again. How I took care of my home was new. Everything was very, very new. Even though it was like —
CB: Right.
B: — very mundane and kind of boring stuff.
CB: Yeah. But you had to get used to something that was almost like, learning how to do something new all over again even though theoretically it’s something you had been doing for your entire adult life. But you were having to learn this like, brand new context for doing it.
B: Yeah. Totally.
CB: Nice. Okay. And then did you say there was a third move?
B: Yeah! So then – because I noticed when you put up that graphic, the Saturn-Uranus squares, that time was the most tumultuous for me. And then when there was that Jupiter-Uranus conjunction, what was that, May 2023? I ended up being able to move into this place and rent a home with a new partner, and now I’m taking care of an entire home for the first time in my life. It’s not mine, but I have to take care of it. I’m taking care of a lawn! So yeah, it’s been again, just another new thing that I’ve never done before.
CB: Wow, that’s amazing. And so yeah, that was in May of 2023, and that was right when Jupiter – actually Jupiter moved into Taurus that month. So that’s a brilliant additional sort of positive expansion, and that’s funny that it was an expansion almost literally, because you said you moved from like, small apartments to being in like, a big place.
B: Yeah. It’s extremely different, yeah.
CB: Yeah. That’s cool. Cool, all right. Well, are those – would you say, like, reflecting on the transit over the past seven years, obviously there were many things that came up, partially because it wasn’t just your home and living situation, but of course like, the Saturn-Uranus square that you were describing was Saturn was like, going over your Ascendant and your Venus at the same time. And so obviously, this was bringing into account not just the 4th house and your home and living situation, but something I commonly see which is all of the angular houses that sometimes when Uranus goes through an angular house, especially if there’s other planets or angular degrees, that it starts activating those as well. And certainly relationships went through some major changes and shakeups, and I assume your personality and your self went through some major shakeups, and even your career has gone through some changes during that time, right?
B: It sure has! Yeah. I left pharmacy, and now I’m an astrologer!
CB: Right! Yeah, you’re like —
B: Yeah!
CB: — a fulltime astrologer, and that’s been part of your journey probably since pretty early on in that transit.
B: Yeah. Yeah, this is my 8th year of study and my 4th year away from pharmacy, getting into my 5th year, so.
CB: Got it. Okay.
B: Yeah. Pretty much this whole Uranus thing.
CB: I mean, initially, though, I mean, that’s kind of interesting because, you know, it was opposing some of the Scorpio stuff as well as squaring Venus and like, the Ascendant and stuff as well as the Descendant. And that was actually, I think, how you and I first met was you posted on Reddit that you were having some tensions about in your relationship about your partner not believing in astrology and like, how other people —
B: Yeah.
CB: — dealt with that, so that was actually part of your process as well was over the course of this transit was like, getting more and more into astrology but that partially causing tensions with your then current partner.
B: Yes. Yeah, that was my Uranus in the 3rd; Jupiter was in my 9th. I found astrology. It kind of upheaved everything.
CB: Nice. Cool. All right. Well —
B: In the best way possible.
CB: Right. Yeah. Well, now you’re an astrologer, and you’ve made that your fulltime career. And it’s kind of interesting coming out of this transit, yeah, not just how it’s shaped your home and living situation but also how it’s had these other – there’s been these other changes sort of connected with that in very weird and interesting ways.
B: Yeah. Totally. Yeah, thank you for the prompt!
CB: Yeah! Thanks for thinking about it and sharing it, and oh yeah, what’s your website again for astrology and for consultations?
B: Oh, I appreciate that very much – www.aligninglightastrology.com.
CB: Cool. All right —
B: I’m Claire Moon, by the way. I used my government —
CB: Yeah.
B: — name. Like, I just didn’t even think about it, but hello!
CB: Okay.
B: Thank you.
CB: Cool. Well, thanks for sharing your story.
B: Thanks! Take care.
CB: All right, bye. All right. So that was a pretty solid, yeah, like, 4th house example. And one of the things I meant to mention at the very beginning, which I didn’t, but that this really helped to bring up and kind of drive home is some of the core themes of Uranus that we’re expecting to see. So I’ve done two whole episodes devoted to Uranus at this point – one that I did with Rick Levine on Uranus in astrology, and then another that I did on Uranus transits through the houses. And the recurring themes throughout those two episodes that you commonly see, not just that astrologers talk about but that you actually see in examples when Uranus is prominent either natally or by transit, is on the one hand, there’s themes of revolution, freedom, and liberation. So sometimes there can be this intense desire and push for freedom in a certain area of your life that you hadn’t experienced previously. Or sometimes there can be this feeling of suddenly being liberated and having much greater freedom to do different things or to not be held back in certain areas of your life than you had up to that point.
There can also be sudden unexpected and radical changes in a certain part of the person’s life when Uranus goes through a certain house. So sudden changes, unexpected things, things that are unpredictable – that’s actually one of the issues when you’re dealing with Uranus as an astrologer is that you can’t often – all you can do is predict that there will be something unpredictable that’s sudden and comes out of left field unexpectedly that the person isn’t necessarily anticipating. And that’s kind of a funny thing then to attempt to predict. But it’s funny then how persistent and how reliable that concept is that there will be something unreliable or something unexpected that will take place.
Another major theme that comes up both as an external signification but also as an internal or psychological one is feelings of individuality, authenticity, and eccentricity. So we can often have this drive when Uranus goes through a certain house in our chart where we suddenly start having this feeling to be much more authentic to who we are and what we really want out of life, even in an area that might set up apart from other people or even if it’s a thing that might make us look eccentric or weird or going against the grain compared to what other people are doing.
So sometimes when it’s hitting our chart in a particular way, we experience that personally and wanting to do something more authentic to ourselves. But sometimes when it’s going through different houses, we see that happening in the lives of people around us. So in some stories, I’m sure we’re gonna see that coming up where the partner starts doing something that’s unexpected or something that’s eccentric. Or if it’s the 5th house, it might be the children that are doing something like that, or if it’s the 11th house, it might be your friend group that’s doing something like that. So sometimes these significations manifest through us, but other times they manifest in the lives of people around us in a way that impacts our life in some way.
Other themes that come up are sometimes themes having to do with technology, innovation, and futurism or like, thinking towards the future. People can start using technology in a certain area of their life that they hadn’t used before up to that point. They can start thinking about the future more. Sometimes they can be very future-oriented, but that in and of itself will set them apart or make them stand out or sometimes even make them look weird or eccentric compared to other people.
And then finally, there’s sometimes this theme of like, awakening or insight or genius that comes along with Uranus placements or Uranus transits. So for example, a lot of astrologers have Uranus transits at different points sometimes when they start studying astrology because it can be such a radical change in the person’s worldview and outlook and where their life was headed up to that point compared to afterwards. And when I’m talking to a group of astrologers, of course, they’re gonna be over-represented that a lot of them are probably having Uranus transits or a decent number of them may have had a Uranus transit that coincided with getting into astrology. I famously have talked a lot about Uranus going over my first house and my Ascendant when I got into astrology back around 1999 or so.
All right, so those are some of the significations and the things I was saying – that I meant to say – at the beginning that we should expect from Uranus as we’re talking through some of these stories. So let’s jump into some other ones. So there was a good 5th house example from Chris. There we go. Hey!
CHRIS: Hey! How’s it going?
CB: Good! Thanks for joining me.
C: Absolutely. Thanks for having me.
CB: So here’s your birth chart. You have – for those listening to the audio version – you have Capricorn rising. You have a night chart; the most positive planet is Venus, which is in Aries in the 4th, and the more challenging planet is Saturn in Scorpio in the 11th. Taurus is your 5th whole sign house, although the degree of your IC is also there at 11 degrees of Taurus, so it’s importing some 4th house topics into your 5th whole sign house and we’d expect some overlap there. And then you also have Mars in Taurus at 17 degrees and the North Node at 18 degrees. So tell me about this transit. What’s been going on?
C: Well, I think you can kind of break it down into 5th house as well as the IC transit with the 5th house being the more prevalent over the last seven years or so. I think towards the beginning you showed that the first ingress was in May of 2018?
CB: Yeah. That’s correct.
C: So this was around the time like, June 2018; I just quickly looked through my photos just now, and this was like, my first major trip with my wife. We went to Yosemite Valley. And kind of spontaneously – like, she’s a lot more spontaneous than I am. We weren’t married at the time; we had just kind of basically started dating, you know, but we’d been dating I think for probably a couple years, but this is where our relationship really started kind of, you know, doing a lot of fun, recreational things together. And so we went to Yosemite Valley, drove there in the middle of the night, and parked along the side of the road and got a first-come-first-serve campsite, you know, and just enjoyed a trip. And a major theme that I’ve noticed, which has been kind of like, liberating for me, is something that I’ve always wanted was to have like, a romantic partner to do a lot of fun activities with. And it’s been in a lot of ways just like, probably the best part of my life just experiencing this. And it really is a liberating major change from what I had before. I’ve done so many more like, trips and had so much more fun and enjoyed life so much more these last like, seven years than any other time in my life.
CB: Yeah. That’s a really good – I’m glad you brought that up, because that is – that’s one of the components of the 5th house where traditionally it’s associated with like, fun and games and leisurely activities, but people – which often looks like a kind of weird minor signification that you wonder why that’s in there sometimes if you’re just reading it and comparing it to other things in the chart like the 10th house and like, career or the 7th house and marriage or the 8th house and death. But when you actually start experiencing a 5th house activation and you suddenly find yourself having much more fun and enjoyment or getting more involved in leisurely activities or like, getting really obsessed with like, a game of some sort that you really enjoy and brings you greater joy in life, it’s actually can make a huge difference. Because sometimes those are some of the things that make life the most enjoyable is those things that bring fun and enjoyment.
C: Absolutely.
CB: Nice. Okay.
C: So, you know, that’s kind of been the major theme the past seven years or so. Recently about three months ago, she told me she wanted to start having a baby in three months – or start, you know, to start trying in three months. So this is a big, sudden change to me because before, she was undecided about that topic, or you know, about that issue. And I’ve always been kind of like, open to it, but to all of a sudden say, “I wanna start having a baby in three months” like, kind of made my head spin and kind of, you know, all of a sudden I’m like, I’m not sure if we’re gonna be ready in three months. And interestingly, it kind of made me feel like I wouldn’t have time for my own creative projects if I had a baby. Like, I wouldn’t have any more time, and I was kind of like, rushing to get a bunch of like, my projects done. And we also decided to start couples therapy to kind of like, talk it over. You know, I think the plan is that we are gonna have a – it’s already been three months – or at least we’re gonna start trying to have a baby. But we’re gonna do couples therapy, and the goal is to start trying this year. And what else was I gonna —
CB: Nice.
C: — say about that? Yeah.
CB: That’s awesome. So up to this point, there had been either an ambivalence or lack of interest in having a baby on both of your parts, but all of a sudden, three months ago, she became really suddenly unexpectedly wanting to have a baby like, very soon?
C: Yes. And she’s 38, so that kind of plays a role in it too.
CB: Yeah. So but this is something that you experienced as like, a surprise or like, unexpected because you weren’t like, anticipating that or it wasn’t something you had necessarily like, planned out or talked about a lot up to that point?
C: It was major surprise for me. It was, you know, kind of definitely threw my head in circles.
CB: Sure. Yeah. So that’s something that you’re still processing, and that’s something that can happen is suddenly a surprise thing that comes up. And you know, when we’re dealing with other houses in the chart, sometimes it’s somebody else having a sudden change and that impacting our life unexpectedly. And that’s one of the reasons why with Uranus transits, it’s tricky… You know, sometimes people say that you can control things or you can change your mind or you can like, manifest the energy however you want. But sometimes when it’s like, something unexpected that’s coming from somebody else in your life, you have to react to and deal with that however you’re gonna deal with that, but that it’s very much – it’s not something that’s fully under your control because sometimes it’s like, changes that are coming about in other people that are then impacting you in significant ways.
So you said there might be something else that you wanted to mention that, or is that – I guess that’s the main thing?
C: Yeah, that’s pretty much the main thing for like, 5th house topics. You know, you also see the IC there, and I did have some like, kind of like, family things going on, you know, around that time. But unfortunately, I can’t really talk about it, you know. But it was kind of like, of a Mars-Uranus type of nature, and not really like, the best experience. But I just thought it’s worth mentioning, but it’s not really related to much to the 5th house things. Maybe IC.
CB: Sure. No problem. Yeah. Sometimes that’ll be a thing is like, not everybody will be able to go into certain transits, even if there was something that manifests. But that’s okay, and thanks for giving us a head’s up that there was something of a like, IC component at one point as well.
Cool. Well, thanks for sharing. Good luck, you know, with everything. I hope it works out, and I think you told me yesterday that you probably will start trying soon, so it’s possible maybe sometime next year as this transit’s like, finishing up that that could be your what’s in store, yeah?
C: Yeah. I think there’s a good chance it will be.
CB: Okay. Cool. All right! Well, good luck in, you know, becoming a father, and yeah, I look forward to hearing how it goes.
C: All right, thanks a lot, Chris!
CB: All right. Take care.
C: You too. Bye.
CB: All right. That was great. All right, so let’s keep moving on. So Lisa Page – I think yours is the next one that I was gonna do.
Hey. Thank you for joining me.
LISA PAGE: Thanks for having me.
CB: Okay. So this is your birth chart, so you were born with Libra rising, and you have a night chart with Venus in Aquarius in the 5th house and Saturn in Pisces in the 6th house. And you have an 8th house example with natally your Moon and Jupiter conjunct in Taurus in the 8th whole sign house. So tell me what happened and what this transit was about for you.
LP: Yeah, so it was through my 8th house, so I was dealing with a lot of death and an inheritance and gifts and shared resources. On October 16th, 2021, my dad died suddenly of a massive heart attack, and on that same day, my boyfriend proposed marriage to me. So I’m at a —
CB: Wow!
LP: It was a topsy-turvy, Uranian day. So —
CB: And let me pull up the transit chart for that, because that’s crazy. So your – and did your boyfriend propose first, or what was the like, sequence?
LP: My dad died first.
CB: Okay.
LP: It was actually our 10-year anniversary kind of week, and he had been planning on proposing, and my dad died, and then he wasn’t sure that was the right thing to do, but you know, I was talking to him about it, and I said, “Oh, I just really feel like my dad just wants me to be happy,” and he thought, “Well, okay, I’m not sure if this is the right time or not, but I’m gonna do this!”
CB: Right!
LP: That’s how it happened.
CB: What was the date again?
LP: October 16th, 2021.
CB: 16th, 2021. Okay. So here’s the chart. So yeah, so Uranus is up there at 13 degrees of Taurus.
LP: Exactly trining that natal Taurus in the 12th house.
CB: Right. So it’s trining your natal Uranus at 13 degrees of Virgo and it’s not too far from your Jupiter at 17 Taurus and your Moon at 18, as well as squaring your Sun at like, 20 degrees of Aquarius.
LP: Yes.
CB: Okay. So but this was a sudden unexpected shock in both —
LP: Yes, both things.
CB: — ways. Okay.
LP: Yes.
CB: Yeah. Okay. So that’s pretty big. And that’s happening a little bit into this transit, and then you – I’m sure there was like, especially if it was unexpected with your father that there was like, a grieving process that was tied up with that, especially in terms of how sudden and unexpected it was.
LP: Yes. And he was the caretaker for my mom who had Parkinson’s, so then it was a mad rush to figure out care for her and how that was all gonna work. And then the second part of the story is that she died the next year on September 1st, 2022. And that was when Uranus was exactly conjunct that Moon-Jupiter.
CB: Got it. Okay. So September 1st, 2022 – I see Uranus is at 18 degrees of Taurus. It’s actually probably very close to stationing, because the Sun is almost trine it. And the nodes are also at like, 15 degrees of Taurus, so this is also tied in with the eclipses that started to take place between those two signs.
LP: Yes.
CB: Yeah. But was this unexpected when she passed away?
LP: You know, it was probably gonna happen within a few months, but it’s always to some extent unexpected.
CB: Right. Yeah. To lose both parents within like, a one-year time frame, basically.
LP: Right.
CB: Got it.
LP: That was a 10th house profection year for me, and that Moon rules my 10th house Cancer. So with her passing, I got an inheritance that allowed me to retire from my job that I had worked at for 30 years as a physical therapist.
CB: Wow. So you spent – I mean, that’s an interesting like, Moon ruling the 10th house exalted in Taurus in the 8th —
LP: Right.
CB: — thing to begin with that you were a physical therapist that like, took care of and like, helped other people.
LP: Right. Yeah, and then that 6th house Saturn. And then that was right in the middle of the Saturn return as well, so —
CB: Okay. Yeah.
LP: Or no —
CB: Okay.
LP: — actually, maybe not yet. Sorry.
CB: Yeah, you were getting ready to. I mean, Saturn was already pretty close and it was getting ready to go into Pisces early the following year. So you got an inheritance, and that allowed you to retire at that time at the age of, what? How old were you?
LP: 58.
CB: Okay.
LP: Yeah.
CB: Got it. Okay. So that’s also a major 8th house component is not just death and topics pertaining to mortality, but also inheritance and other people’s money or the resources of other people.
LP: Right. And then getting married in 2024, and you know, shared resources kind of change, and…
CB: Okay, right. Okay. So then you got married two years later, and that was also a shift in terms of merging your finances with your partner?
LP: Right.
CB: Got it. Okay. So looking back on it, I guess you would say that those were the three themes was those things pertaining to mortality, obviously, themes related to inheritance, but also because the ruler of your 10th house came into play, it was also a sudden and unexpected shift in terms of your career. I mean, when would you have retired if that hadn’t happened? Would it still have been a number of years into the future?
LP: Yeah. I probably would have worked five to seven more years.
CB: Got it. Okay. So that’s also a good example then just in terms of how a Uranus transit can sometimes suddenly or unexpectedly change things with respect to other areas in our life based on the houses that the planet rules, especially if there’s a really important house ruler that’s in the house that Uranus is transiting.
LP: Yeah.
CB: Okay.
LP: And I think there’s natal promise with that exalted Moon-Jupiter in Taurus in the 8th that, you know, came to pass.
CB: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, that’s sometimes tricky when you know, people have placements like that, because there can be other psychological or other more obscure indications of like, the 8th house that can be relevant and manifest at different points in the life. But then also sometimes there can be these very literal manifestations sometimes as well, and that’s pretty much as literal and straightforward as you can get. And that’s, you know, one of the reasons why even though sometimes people – especially in like, social media or like, pop astrology – get nervous about having significations like death in the 8th house or like, illness in the 6th house or other things like that. You know, sometimes these are very important, crucial areas of our life that we all experience at some point in one way or another, and so we have to be able to know where to look at in the chart for that and how to articulate it. And sometimes the articulation can be in some instances pretty straightforward.
LP: Right.
CB: Yeah. All right. Now that you’re towards the end of the transit, how are you processing everything, or do you feel like you’re moving into a new phase of life or that there’s some sense of closure now that you’ve gotten a few years away from it? Or where are you at now in retrospect?
LP: I’m excited for Uranus in my 9th. I think that seems like a good place for it to be for me. Getting more into astrological studies. When I retired, I started writing books, and I just published a novel this past week, and so yeah. So publishing, that 9th house kind of thing, and yeah, I’m excited for it.
CB: Okay. So the loss of your parents and the inheritance which allowed you to retire early suddenly when Uranus was conjoining your 10th house ruler also suddenly gave you the freedom to pursue writing and to pursue another career that you’ve always wanted to pursue?
LP: Yes.
CB: Okay. That’s really important, so that’s another crucial piece then. And that actually brings in the freedom piece, which is just that even though you experienced sudden, shocking, unexpected things of a difficult nature in terms of losing two people that were close to you, a side effect of that is you also experienced a sudden feeling of liberation and freedom to pursue a career that you’ve always wanted to pursue at the same time or at least that was one of the outcomes of that exact transit that maybe you weren’t thinking about as you were in the middle of it, but then not too long after that, you did start to realize was suddenly available to you.
LP: Yes.
CB: I like that. Nice. Okay, cool! What’s the title of your book?
LP: It’s called Saving Cottonwood.
CB: Saving Cottonwood? Okay. Where can people find it? Do you have a website?
LP: It’s on Amazon.
CB: Awesome. Give me a real quick like, blurb – what is it about?
LP: It’s about some people that band together to save a forest, and it’s got a lot of magical realism in it, and talking crows and faeries and yeah.
CB: Cool! That sounds like my kind of book. Well, I’ll check it out.
LP: Oh good!
CB: And yeah, thank you for sharing this story with us; I appreciate it.
LP: Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you for everything you do.
CB: Thank you. All right, take care!
LP: Thanks.
CB: All right, that was a great example in a number of different ways. And I think there’s a lot that we can learn from that.
Right, okay, so now I’m remembering some of these that were submitted. So Kris who had the 7th house transit, I think I’d like to do that one next.
Hey. I think it’s muted still. There we go! Hello!
KRIS: Hi!
CB: Hey!
K: Thanks for having me.
CB: Yeah. Thank you for joining me; I appreciate it.
K: Absolutely.
CB: All right, so first with your data which you already gave me, you have two Scorpio rising, right?
K: That’s correct.
CB: Okay. And you have a 7th house transit story to share?
K: Yes, a pretty interesting one, I think.
CB: All right. Well, let me put your chart up. So here’s your birth chart, so you were born with two degrees Scorpio rising. Taurus is your 7th both essentially whole sign house and quadrant house. And you have your Midheaven at five degrees of Leo and your Uranus at 29°59′ degrees of Scorpio, so it’s at the very last degree and minute of Scorpio but still in your first house. But that also means that part of your 7th house Uranus transit essentially was your Uranus opposition at the same time by sign, building all the way up to the exact opposition by degree. So let’s start from the beginning and tell me how it went.
K: Well, you know, it’s been interesting. I’m definitely a novice, but this exercise has been enlightening. So even in preparation for the discussion went back to the 2018 ingress, noticed some really interesting foreshadowing during that time – some disagreements, I think, with my partner at the time. Some foreshadowing around career changes. So recognizing the angular influence there potentially. Astrology was certainly a theme; it was the first time I really started to study at the beginning in that May 2018 timeframe. I was looking to have a child through the transit, so that showed itself during that 2018 period. And then some travel and relo foreshadowing. So that was all just during that first ingress in 2018.
CB: Yeah. Because you have the degree of the Ascendant at zero Scorpio and you have the degree of the Descendant at two Taurus, as soon as Uranus ingresses, it’s hitting two of your most important angles right away, so we would expect things to start happening pretty early on. So let’s set the stage. So 2018 opens, and you’re already in a relationship?
K: That’s exactly right, thank you. So about five years at that point into a committed marriage.
CB: Okay. So you’re actually married. When did you get married?
K: We got married in 2014.
CB: 2014. Okay. So 2014, so you’d been married for like, four years. And then we move into 2018, and Uranus moves into Taurus in May of 2018 and begins a seven year or eight year transit of Uranus through your 7th house of relationships and partnership. So from 2018 forward, walk us through how it went.
K: Yeah, so as we move into 2019, my partner makes the decision that they’re going to medically transition during this timeframe. And you know, it’s a big revelation for me. We’re both queer, but that wasn’t necessarily something I was expecting. Again, I think an important component here is that they’re a Taurus rising. So you know, this is all moving through their first house. And that was 2019 was really, I think, the beginning of the end. Ultimately, there was a rupture in August of that year kind of associated with that transition.
CB: Got it, okay. So they wanted to transition, and that was their Uranus through the first house transit and then your experiencing this as a 7th house transit which makes sense. But you stayed together – did you stay together for a while? Because it’s 2019, right? So you —
K: Yeah.
CB: So you were actually open to it, or at least you didn’t – the relationship didn’t like, end immediately or something like that?
K: That’s exactly right, yeah. So moving into 2020, May 2020, we had the murder of George Floyd, which really also surfaced in our relationship; it was an interracial relationship, and so the topic of race became really prominent. And ultimately, they wound up having their surgery that year later in November.
CB: Okay. So and just to back up, so they basically came out as trans and said that they wanted to transition and you actually – like, it was something that was surprising to you, but you were still loved them as a committed relationship, so it wasn’t something where your relationship ended as a result of that. But you came to like, adapt to it, and to be okay with it, right?
K: That’s right. Absolutely. It was certainly a learning, I think, for both of us, right? Because I was reflecting on what that meant for my queer identity at the time, so there was a lot of learning associated with that aspect of their transition.
CB: Right. Because up to that point, you had been in like, a lesbian relationship and conceptualized yourself that way, but now —
K: Correct.
CB: — that wasn’t necessarily the case. So then you had to adapt to like, what that meant and what that was like?
K: That’s exactly right.
CB: Okay. That makes a lot of sense. And okay, so that’s part of a process for you, and that’s ongoing. And then there’s other things that come up just in terms of social things that were happening but also other dynamics that come up in the relationship as well that sort of come out of nowhere?
K: Yeah. That’s exactly right. So by the time we get into 2021, we decided to relocate – move from Seattle to Atlanta, cross country just about. And we made that decision and relocated within a two-month timeframe. So it was pretty much immediately after their top surgery in November. We then made the decision in December of late 2020 and were in Atlanta by January of 2021.
CB: By January of 2021 – okay. So this is all – this keeps coming up over and over again, but a lot of this I keep hearing about like, the square between Saturn and Uranus like we saw in the first example that was in like, the 4th and first. But here we have the Saturn is transiting through your 4th, and it’s squaring your Uranus in the 7th. So you relocate like, pretty quickly over a pretty short period of time?
K: Yes, that’s exactly right. Unexpected. Wasn’t on the radar at all, and it went as soon as my partner agreed that, you know, they thought that it would be good for them as well to make the move. I said, let’s go. You know, before they changed their mind! I wasn’t really happy where we were, and so, but was just really kind of waiting for them to give us the green light.
CB: So you were the one that motivated the move?
K: I think I was unhappy where things were, probably with life in general, and thinking that a relocation might change that. And you know, there was not a specific location that was on my mind. It was just where I wasn’t feeling like the right spot. And so they ultimately said, “How about here?” And again, that does tie into the race relations. They actually wanted to move to Atlanta to be closer to the Black community at the time and felt that they’d actually have more family and friends and community here.
CB: Got it. Okay. So that was what you were bringing up about 2020 is after the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests that the element of race became much more important to your partner who is Black and —
K: That’s correct.
CB: — the dynamic of you being in an interracial relationship became more prominent in different ways.
K: That’s exactly right.
CB: Okay. Got it. Yeah, so there’s just a lot of stuff coming up, and then you move in 2021 and then what happens after that?
K: Yeah, so shortly after that, within maybe six months of the move, we decided to open our relationship up. So we opened it up; we had been monogamous up to that point, and decided that this might be the way for, you know, both of us to get different aspects that were missing from the relationship. But this was a new concept to us, so certainly a big learning for us to navigate and go through that.
CB: And when did this begin?
K: That began about July of 2021, and September there was a moment when my partner at the time said that they thought they might never be in a sexual relationship with a white person again, so that was another kind of revelation around race and, you know, what does that mean for our relationship. And ultimately lasted for all of 2022, this open partnership.
CB: Got it. Okay. Yeah. So and that just makes sense in terms of it’s like, they’re having a first house Uranus transit and are going through this radical transformation in terms of wanting to find what is most authentic to them.
K: That’s right.
CB: And their sort of entire journey in many different levels with that, and then you’re going through this 7th house Uranus transit and you’re experiencing being in a partnership with somebody that’s going through a major Uranus transit and like, transformation of their identity and how that’s impacting your committed partnership. So it’s really interesting seeing both sides of that. And just as a side note, that’s why it’s kind of important sometimes – which you see pretty frequently – where you’ll have one partner have one rising sign and the other have the opposite rising sign. Because then they both get impacted in this way when one of them starts having transits through the rising sign or through the 7th house, and you can kind of see it reflected in each other’s charts and lives.
K: Yeah. Exactly.
CB: All right. So okay, so you open the relationship in 2021, and where do things go eventually from there?
K: Yeah, so also in 2022, I got a new job, which I think is important to mention. Continued dating quite a bit, both of us. I was on an IVF treatment, so I actually decided, hey, I’m gonna parent; I’ll go down this journey on my own. So that really took up the most of 2022, and then by May of 2023, my partner asked for a divorce.
CB: Okay. So May of 2023… So you were trying to conceive and have a child, and then May of 2023, your partner asks for a divorce and this is… I’m just looking – yeah, right, okay, so the eclipses in like, Taurus and stuff, you’re actually getting towards the end of that eclipse series in Taurus. So this is not just Uranus going through your 7th house at this point, but it’s also eclipses taking place between your 7th and your first house. And my keyword for those is always major endings and major beginnings. And so this was sort of things that have been building up for quite a while at that point eventually culminate and they ask for a divorce.
K: That’s right. Yeah.
CB: Okay. That makes sense. And that’s in May of 2023. Let’s see. So that’s the eclipse. And then when did that happen? Was the separation immediate, or when was that finalized?
K: So they ultimately moved out by August of that year, and so pretty much finalized then outside of paperwork. And then one other interesting piece here I think is that unexpectedly in September of 2023, at a conference out of my state, I met a completely new partner who I’ve been in a committed relationship with since then. So new partnership in an unexpected location; we don’t even live in the same country. She’s in Canada.
CB: Nice. So this was the… That’s actually really funny, because Jupiter of course by this point is transiting your 7th house, which I thought was kind of interesting because that was the divorce. But it’s not just the divorce, it’s also that you started a new significant relationship at that time in that year. And then that summer, that was the like, Barbie movie summer when Venus went retrograde in Leo and was squaring Jupiter in Taurus. So you said you met her at a conference?
K: That’s exactly right; yeah. A queer conference, but both of our works sent us there.
CB: I love that. So that was the Venus retrograde in your 10th house happening at the same time, essentially, that summer.
K: Yeah.
CB: Beautiful. So okay, so and then you’ve been in that relationship ever since?
K: I have. And just the final note here is my exact Uranus opposition on July 4th – well, when Venus was conjunct July 4th, we actually got in a pretty big, unexpected fight. I was really worried; it lasted several days. So definitely we’re repairing; we’re good. But it was – you know, certainly could be foreshadowing for the next transit back into Taurus later in the year.
CB: Sure. Yeah. I mean, you’re certainly wrapping up your Uranus opposition over the next year between now and when Uranus makes its final departure from that sign, from Taurus, next year. But it is interesting how things have sort of come full circle and certainly that 10-year relationship ended when there was just a series of unexpected changes and your partner going through a lot of different radical transformations and changes and trying to find their own identity and how that ended up being very unexpected and very disruptive for you, but then also ended up freeing you up and now you’re sort of pursuing other relationships that hopefully in retrospect you’ll look back on and feel ended up being good changes or changes that pushed you in a direction that ended up being more productive in the long run.
K: Yeah. Absolutely. I think it was certainly best for both of us in the long run, yeah.
CB: Yeah. It sounds like it. Cool. Well, that’s actually an amazing example. I actually saw one other example like that as well of another Tuaurs rising person whose partner transitioned and then they were together for several years and everything was fine, but then the partner decided independent of that to get a divorce for other reasons. And so I thought your chart was interesting just because I know somebody that was going through a very similar thing. And yeah, there’s just something about the Uranus archetype where sometimes things arise that are like, unexpected that you can’t necessarily like, anticipate ahead of time, and then you just kind of have to roll with it. And it sounds like you did the best that you could to roll with it and adjust and sort of, you know, continue to adapt to it as best as you could. But yeah, sometimes the changes that happen push you in a different direction than maybe you wouldn’t have foreseen going into it.
K: That’s exactly right. Yeah. Really —
CB: Cool.
K: — thank you for the exercise. It was really enlightening for me.
CB: Yeah. Thank you so much for sharing that example. I really appreciate it.
K: Yeah, absolutely. Thanks —
CB: Cool.
K: — so much.
CB: All right.
K: Take care.
CB: Take care. All right, amazing. All right. Let’s move on. So I wanna like, dwell, because I wanna talk to like, everybody for a full hour or sometimes dwell and think about like, what were the things we learned from that or different things, but in order to get through more examples I think maybe I’ll just move on. Yeah. I should move on. Okay.
So the next person I wanted to talk to was Yukkio.
YUKIKO: Hello.
CB: Hey. Thanks for joining me.
Y: Thank you. And it’s Yukiko.
CB: Yukiko – sorry. Sorry about that. I was misreading the name.
Y: It’s Japanese.
CB: What’s your birth data?
All right, so here’s your birth chart, and we see that you have Leo rising. You were born a little bit before sunset, so you have a day chart. And let’s see, Taurus is your 10th whole sign house and we find Saturn there in a day chart. And the most positive planet is Jupiter, which is in Sagittarius, and it’s with the more challenging planet, Mars, which is in the 5th house also in Sagittarius. So this was a partially a 10th house transit for you with Uranus going through your 10th house, although it would also square your Ascendant and Descendant as well as your Sun eventually also in Aquarius in the 7th house. So tell me about what’s your story and how did it go?
Y: Yeah. So it’s mainly about my mother. It started when she got into a bicycle accident in May 25th of 2018, so just 10 days after the ingress.
CB: Wow, so right after the ingress. Okay.
Y: Yes. So I live in Holland, but I’m originally from Japan, so I flew back to Japan, spent a couple of months there to sort things out, and I eventually of course came back after a couple of months. And then I decided to go back to work so I can visit my mom on a regular basis. Up until then, I had been a full-time mom. I moved to Holland in 2008, so I had been a full-time mom for 14 years. But I wanted to go back to work so I can at least, you know, pay for my flight to go visit her.
So in 2019, May 13th, I went back to work in finance where I was before, before I moved to Holland. I started working in finance, and six months afterwards, I got promoted as team lead. So in November of that year 2019, I became team lead; I was working there for, you know, a year and a little bit. And in 2021, on March 11th, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. So I had to – and then I had a surgery on May 27th of that year, of 2021. I had my surgery. But it was at a very early stage, so I had my surgery and that was it. So I ended up with a lot of time on my hands. So during my sick leave, I found that there was something called life coaching, and I started to study for life coaching, and I became – no, I was studying for it. And then at the end of that year, I was already going – the surgery was done, the treatment was done, so I was going back to work. But then at the beginning of December, I found out that I had thyroid cancer this time. So it was my second cancer, and so I had to postpone going back to work, and I went back into treatment. Yeah. So I was diagnosed on December 9th, and I had my surgery on December 28th. And then the year after in January of 2022, they found out that my thyroid cancer had metastasized on the other side, so I had to have another surgery. So I couldn’t go back to work even longer. Yeah, and there was some other treatment that I needed to do. By the end of March, though, I became a life coach, and this is just about the time when I also found astrology. So around – I took my first, like, it was a Moonology course. I started on March 20th of 2022 on the spring equinox, so that’s when I discovered astrology. Yeah. So that was —
CB: Yeah, so and that’s amazing, you know, some of the health stuff seems like it’s coming up partially because on the one hand, early in the transit, Uranus was like, squaring your Ascendant, but also even just being copresent with Saturn, having Saturn in the 10th house ruling the 6th house of health and illness means that that was wrapped up in that transit for you. Although it’s also interesting how Saturn is also the ruler of the 7th house of one-on-one interactions and it’s in your 10th house and then eventually becoming a life coach, because that’s very much working directly one-on-one with other people in this sort of counseling type or advisory type role is something I see come up pretty often in terms of 7th house placements.
Y: Yeah. So and eventually, I did go back to my bank job, and I still work there now. And I started working – I still do life coaching as well. I also do professional consulting and astrology as well. Yeah, and then just to like, close out that chapter, my mom passed away this January.
CB: Okay. January of 2025?
Y: Yeah.
CB: Okay, just pulling that up. Right. Okay. So this is the tail end of the Uranus transit for you, and yeah, Saturn is going through your 8th house and then there was like, the eclipses that were taking place in your 8th house. So we have those activations. And we’re getting to the later part of the Uranus transit itself, which has been opposing your 4th house broadly by sign and then occasionally transits going through there would reactivate that through the opposition with Uranus. Yeah. So at this point, career-wise, you still have the bank job. And then I think you said there was actually one more development that happened that you didn’t mention with your partner?
Y: Yeah. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. Yeah, so last year in July – so my husband had been like, the main breadwinner of the house. He was earning more than I was. But he lost his job in July of 2024; his contract ended. And then since October, there was no income from him. So since October of last year, I’ve been the only person who’s bringing in money now.
CB: Got it.
Y: So —
CB: Okay.
Y: Yeah.
CB: Got it. Okay. So yeah, July of 2024, and there’s like, this Mars-Uranus conjunction in your 10th house. Saturn again is still transiting your 8th house, and that can sometimes be a decline in the partner’s income at that time. And the Uranus transit actually is also squaring your Sun in the 7th house at 22 degrees of Aquarius. So then that put more of a focus on you needing to do more, becoming the primary breadwinner in the house in terms of your not just financially but also in terms of your career focus.
Y: Yeah. Oh my god, just looking at this chart and just listening to you is really overwhelming! Because I do —
CB: Yeah.
Y: — feel that burden on my shoulder. I totally do. And it’s still like, ongoing. Yeah.
CB: Yeah, it’s been a long journey, because you started the transit as a stay-at-home mom, I think you said, right?
Y: Yeah.
CB: Okay. So it seems like so much of it has been different ways in which you’ve been pushed to go back to focusing on 10th house matters related to your career and work in different ways and like, there’s been a lot of other transits of course going on. And sometimes I’m focused on Uranus and obviously there’s other major transits happening at different points in a person’s chart during the course of this seven year period that we can’t always get into as much, but it seems like it’s pushed you in different ways towards having to focus on the 10th house more even though it’s been in the context – it’s been kind of a burden or something that’s been, you know, challenging in the process of that having Saturn there in the 10th house in a day chart natally. But you’ve also been developing some of these other ways of working with your 10th house, it sounds like, that are good in terms of your work with both life coaching and astrology and other sort of counseling professions, it sounds like, right?
Y: Yeah. And which I enjoy tremendously more than my bank job.
CB: Yeah.
Y: So I am happy on that side; I’m very happy with that.
CB: So that work – you found that work to be fulfilling?
Y: Oh definitely. Yeah.
CB: Nice. Okay. Good. So you’ll be finishing that up over the course of the next year, and it seems like it pushed you in that direction. Is part of your aspiration potentially in the long term to be able to do those things more full-time and to transition away from doing the bank job?
Y: Yeah. So Uranus is now squaring my Moon, so I do feel that restlessness. And I also feel like it’s challenging like, my sense of security and it’s like, you know, pushing me – you can be more free; just let that go! But I’m not there yet. Yeah.
CB: Yeah. It can be kind of scary to make that jump and that transition to doing things like astrology full time or other professions like that where you’re completely independent and relying on yourself and other people for income and things like that.
Y: Yeah. And my husband, he’s having health issues that just came out of the blue as well. And he’s a Gemini rising, so he’s now going through that. So I think, like, my rational mind is saying, okay, you need to stay with that bank job where it’s more stable. But I feel that Uranus nudging me on – you can do it!
CB: Right. Yeah. I mean, it does seem like you’re getting pushed in that direction and it’s hard because you want the stability and there’s obviously a lot of really important benefits that come along with a job like that. And it’s sometimes hard to make that transition to going full time, but maybe that will be part of it as you continue that process over the next year or so. And it’ll be interesting, yeah, when Uranus goes into your 11th house like you’re saying – it will be squaring your Moon in the 2nd house, and that could be potentially helpful in terms of some of the, you know, finding additional ways to make an income and support yourself through doing work independently could be part of that process.
Y: Yeah. So I hope like, jumping on this call with you is a start, considering that it’s Uranus in the 11th house.
CB: Yeah, exactly. Well, so tell me about your website and like, your offerings and things like that.
Y: So my website is YukikoTsubaCoaching.com? Dot EU? Maybe EU! And I’m on Instagram under YukikoTsubaCoachingandZumba, because I’m also a Zumba instructor as well. Yeah. So if you just punch in my name, like, last name Tsuba is a very, very rare Japanese name. So if you just punch in my name, I will be there. And thank you for this opportunity to share that to the world, Chris. You’re so kind —
CB: Yeah.
Y: — doing this.
CB: Yeah, of course. Yeah, I really appreciated your story and just, yeah, what a 10th house transit can be like in different ways with Uranus and things coming up that are unexpected or disruptive. But yeah, I admire your perseverance and how you’ve been able to help persevere through that and push through that in different ways. And I think it’s taking you in good directions which hopefully you’ll look back on, and even though it won’t be a super rosy part of your life that you’ll look back on fondly necessarily, sometimes we look back on those difficult times in our life and realize that it pushed us and forced us to go in a certain direction that we were meant to go that we wouldn’t have gone otherwise. And in that sense, we can look back on it and appreciate, yeah, how the universe sort of worked out in that way. So yeah, I look forward – we should check in again at some point. And I look forward to hearing how it goes.
Y: Thank you so much, Chris. I really appreciate it. I really appreciate you and this community. You’re so generous. I think you’re amazing. I think the community is amazing. Thank you so much!
CB: Thank you. I appreciate it. All right, thanks for sharing your story, and take care!
Y: Thank you. You too.
CB: Awesome. Everybody in the live chat says thank you. Lots of really good comments. Yeah. It makes a huge difference to hear people’s stories in their own words, and there’s one… You know, that’s why I try to do things like that, and that’s why, for example, in like, the houses series that I’ve been doing recently, I’ll do the celebrity or prominent examples to get straight and to the point and just demonstrate a clear correlation. But that’s one of the tricky things about astrology is it’s not until you’ve talked to people directly about some of these transits and heard how they describe them in their own words or until you’ve lived through it yourself – certain transits – that you can truly understand it. And we just get much greater insight by talking to people directly in this way. And it’s a little bit more chaotic, because it’s not as prepared, but I think it’s still worth it nonetheless.
All right, so let me go ahead and do the example with Harnoor, and then I’ll jump into some others right after that. All right, so I’m gonna promote you to a panelist.
Hey, thanks for joining me. And I think earlier I couldn’t see that there was an R in the middle of your name, so your name is Harnoor, right?
HARNOOR: It is, yes.
CB: Sorry for mispronouncing it earlier.
H: That’s okay; I didn’t even notice!
CB: Oh, okay, good. Then never mind! So is your Ascendant 25 degrees of Sagittarius?
H: It is, yes.
CB: All right. Here is your chart. So you have Sagittarius rising. Taurus is your 6th house of work and health and illness. And you have a day chart, and the most positive planet is Jupiter in the 4th house of Pisces, and the most challenging planet is Mars in Capricorn in the 2nd house. So tell us about your 6th house Uranus transit.
H: Yeah. So Chris, as I reflected back, it sounds like – well, I went through major physical health changes, so I had both my kids during the Uranus transits. So I had my daughter in November 2018, and I think Uranus was actually retrograde at the time. And…
CB: What was the context? Because that’s interesting that you would have conceived your daughter at the very end of Uranus – 2018 – yeah, the end of Uranus going through your 5th house, and then it would have gone into Taurus in your 6th and then retrograded back into your 5th house in like, late 2018, early 2019. Had you planned on having kids? Was it planned out?
H: It was planned, yeah. We had had a loss the year before in 2017, so it was very tentative. We weren’t sure what we were gonna do. But then I think I decided to, yeah, just give it a go again in 2018, and then, you know, it took. And then I had my daughter in November of 2018.
CB: Got it. Okay. Nice. All right, and then what happened after that?
H: Yeah, so basically, I just kind of think of it as like, a huge change to my physical health kind of as I started having kids. And you know, there was a lot of like, little skin issues that popped up as well after I had my daughter. It’s really hard to explain, because they didn’t really – they weren’t really something that necessarily stopped my life, but they were random things. So I had like, a rash that came upon, like, after my daughter was born. And then more recently, like, I think after my son was born in 2021, I developed like, a Sun allergy. So I’m like, allergic to the Sun now? And I was born in India, so that’s really odd for me, because I grew up, you know, with a lot of Sun.
CB: Right. Yeah. So that is something – yeah, sometimes when you have a major like, change with your body or with your health, it can lead to these weird side effects of like, developing other health issues or sensitivities or other things like that. And that’s a pretty good – I mean, the other thing that’s coming up, of course, is just that it was initially moving back and forth with the first child between your 5th house and your 6th house. And I’ve noticed some people where the house topics as it’s crossing over get intertwined during that timeframe. And it sounds a little bit like what was happening there, that the tail end of the Uranus transit in your 5th house of children in some limited instances set off some issues with health.
H: Yeah. In fact, like, the skin rash I was talking about, it was kind of like, on my upper lip area. It was really random too; I couldn’t figure out what was bringing it on. And it was like, about February of 2019 that it came about. And I eventually ended up going to see the dermatologist and everything, and it resolved on its own. But it was really weird; it came out of nowhere. Like, it felt really random, and I think Uranus was, again, retrograde through Aries at the time in February of 2019 if I remember correctly. But I don’t have my ephemeris in front of me, so.
CB: Yeah. I’m showing the animated chart here real quick, and there was like, this Mars-Uranus conjunction actually in February 2019 in that range. Okay. So and then you had your second child in 2021, and then there was additional health issues?
H: Yeah. There have been some unexplained things going on. So I’ve had this like, weird stabbing stomach pain or like, pain in my abdomen that sort of comes and goes. And I’ve gone for ultrasounds and I’ve gone for, you know, another kind of exam I can’t remember the name of right now. But they couldn’t really find anything. And so every time, it’s kind of like, well, just keep an eye on it; it could be, like, related to a muscle or like, some kind of inflammation of some kind. But it’s very odd that no one’s been able to figure out what it is. And more recently, it’s been calm; I haven’t had the episode again. But it would be like, a really sharp pain that I would get either when I would sit down or go from sitting to standing. So yeah, that was another thing aside from the allergy of the Sun that I developed, so.
CB: Yeah. So ongoing just kind of like, bizarre health issues has been a thing throughout the course of this. And other 6th house things have come up as well?
H: Yeah. Lots of 6th house… So I started my own healing. I went into like, my own therapy work. So I’m a therapist by profession, and I started my own therapy work in early 2022. So I’d been kind of contemplating it towards the end of 2021. I was just having a really hard time. There was also eclipses happening in my 6th and 12th around that time. So November of 2021, I think there was a Scorpio eclipse in the 12th, but that seemed to have really set things off where I was like, okay, I really need to go. And then I kind of was able to make the connection and show up by January of 2022. But the kind of therapy I started doing, it was very life-changing for me. It was very different from anything I’d ever done as a practitioner before, as a therapist before, anything I had indulged in before. And it really changed the way I was able to start working on my healing. And so as a result, I found it super helpful that I started learning it. And so the same year – 2022 – I believe Jupiter was in Pisces at the time, because it was kind of like this lottery system to get into the training. And I got in, like, on my first try, which was like, unheard of. And so I was able to learn the modality and then start offering it to my clients as I went back to work in July of 2022. So it’s been, again, life changing and I would say completely shifted I would call it like, the biggest breakthrough I’ve had in my therapy work if I were to describe it in that way. And I think everybody I’ve met in that community feels the same way about it. Not to keep it a mystery; it’s called IFS – internal family systems. And so it’s been very different with how I used to practice therapy before, and so that’s another aspect of the 6th house transit I feel.
CB: Nice. I love that. Yeah, and it’s cool because it ties in with how Uranus when it was transit through the middle degrees of Taurus around this time was trining the ruler of your 6th house, which is Venus in Virgo in the 10th whole sign house. And you’re bringing some of those healing or like, therapeutic modalities into your career with Venus there and that the Uranus transit is positively accentuating some of that in terms of both your work and your career.
H: Yeah. I think I remember in May is when I had applied, and I – May of 2022 – and then I got in by July 2022. And I remember there was like, a sign on TV; I was watching something, and it was kind of like, you kind of have to go for it, and I just decided to go for it and I applied and I got in. It was just such an odd moment, because I was like, oh my god, I’ve heard people have been trying to get into this training for years, and I just got in! And my therapist was surprised, because she was like, “You got in?” And I’m like, yeah! And so anyway, it’s changed the way I work. It’s completely changed, yeah.
CB: Nice. That’s brilliant. Yeah, and here’s the eclipse, for example, at the beginning – May 1st of 2022 at 10 Taurus, and Uranus was at 14 Taurus at that time trining your Uranus almost exactly. So I love that as a precursor to that. And then how did things go now that we’re getting towards the later part of that transit and sort of wrapping up? Was there anything else that came up over the past few years?
H: I’m trying to think of the past two years. I mean, lots has happened, so you know, another underlying theme that came up as a result of having children and my physical health kind of changing so much was that like, the daily routines and you know, sort of like, how we run our life has completely shifted for us. You know, for me especially, as a mom as to like, how I used to spend my time before and how I spend my time now. I find I have zero time for myself, of course. So you know, that has kind of gone downhill. So I would say like, my physical health and my physical appearance or how I take care of myself has completely, you know, kind of gone downhill, if I could put it that way, because that’s how I feel. Like, I can’t find any time to take care of myself. But then also, I wanted to just add like, back in 2022 when I was learning IFS, when I did return to work from my maternity leave in July of 2022, I actually ended up going into eating disorders, which I thought was really interesting too because it’s like, again, 6th house which can be associated sometimes with diet. I also have that Venus in Virgo there. And so it was really interesting that I then started working with eating disorders clients, and then they were the first clients I started using IFS with. And it’s also interesting, because IFS was originally sort of the founder of IFS, Richard Schwartz, he founded it when he was working with eating disorder clients as well. So it was just an interesting juxtaposition, so.
CB: Interesting.
H: Yeah.
CB: Yeah, I like that. That’s interesting in terms of the Taurus and Virgo having connections with like, foods and things like that and the foods we eat. So is the Uranian component partially with that that it’s something that’s kind of unique and different in the healing or therapeutic profession? Like, I’m curious if that’s like, a component of it or how to understand how that’s different compared to other therapeutic approaches.
H: Yeah, Chris, that would be essentially it, because it’s a more specialized area of practice. And prior to that, I had been more in generalist practice, as we call it. So you know, you work with sort of everything under the Sun – you know, anxiety, depression, you know, personality stuff, psychosis, anything that sort of walks in the door. But this is the first time I decided to do something a little bit more different or specialized. And so I think in that it was a little bit different for me, and I think the Uranus transit maybe speaks to that. Again, going through the 6th house, you know, health related. Because everything that I was working with was very health-focused. We were working with food a lot. So like, the program that I was in, it had an in-patient component; it had out-patient and day treatment. And so I was literally responsible for feeding clients. So we would sit and have meals with them and make sure that their food intake was okay, and if they weren’t, then we would have to supplement it, or you know, sort of sit with them until they were able to finish their meals. So it was all very like, meal and food-oriented work.
CB: Nice. I love that. Okay. Brilliant. So yeah, so you went into the transit with one approach sort of in terms of your work and your career, and you kind of emerged from it with a much different – like, radically different – approach in terms of that. And then do you feel like now, getting towards the end of it, that you have a better handle on some of the weird, like, health things came up early on? Or where do you feel like you’re at with that?
H: Yeah, I mean, most of them seem to have been resolved on their own. So I don’t know if they’ll resurface. We’ll see. But I think, yeah, the skin issue was resolved on its own. Like, on my lip, it sort of just disappeared. And I was like, okay, I’m really grateful for that! Because yeah, that was like, a little bit of like, a problem for me because having to cover it up and stuff. And then the stomach issue hasn’t resurfaced, so yeah, I would say health-wise, things are okay and I’m hoping that as Uranus leaves my 6th, maybe I could start taking better care of myself. I’m not sure if it had anything to do with it, but I’m sort of making that association because everything sort of started happening around the same time. I started having kids in 2018, and then I feel like my physical health stuff just went downhill from that.
CB: Yeah. That makes sense. I was reflecting on that today about how sometimes when we’re in the middle of really longterm transits, something arises that kind of takes over our life or becomes really prominent. And it seems like it could never end, or that you know, it’ll be permanent that way. But sometimes it’s weird how when a long-term transit does end, and it shifts into a different sector of our chart, suddenly something that seemed so prominent and was dominating our life in different ways during the previous period can sometimes fade away mysteriously as we move into a different era in our life. So you know, we’ll see in terms of that. Hopefully that’s the case with you in terms of that transit as you finish up that 6th house transit, but yeah. Otherwise, it sounds like you were able to use it like, very productively and some really positive things came from it in terms of your job and your work and being able to help people with 6th house issues. So it’s nice that you were able to, yeah, have some really positive things happen in that context.
H: Yeah, for sure. And I guess one thing I forgot to mention was also that I had to change jobs a lot of times. And so it wasn’t always something that I wanted to do, but just kept happening. So I had to leave eating disorders because it wasn’t working, again, for my lifestyle. And so it was a very busy program, very demanding, and I needed to have more time to do things and I wasn’t able to do that. So I was looking for a way out, and I ended up taking this other job that I originally didn’t want to take. But then I ended up taking it because it was sort of on the way to my son’s daycare. And so I thought, this way, I’d be able to drop him off, which was taking us two hours a day to do, and also be able to just go to work and not have to sort of do two things separately. So it was, again, tied to I guess my kids and, you know, how they came into my life and then structuring my life and my work around that. So I picked a different job, but it wasn’t really something I wanted to do. And then last year around the time of – so this happened in end of October 2023 is when this took place, the job change, and so I think end of November —
CB: And that was an eclipse in Taurus, end of October 2023.
H: Yeah. So there was that eclipse as well. And I was also grateful for Jupiter transiting through there, because I feel like it kind of brought me that job, because it was a complete slowdown. It was the very opposite of eating disorders where eating disorders was very busy and hectic, and I felt like I was losing my mind. I was able to go to this other clinic which was in a rural setting, and it was completely slow. And there wasn’t much going on; there was like, four clinicians there. And it was like, very isolated where it was located in a residential setting. And there was like, no coffee shops around, which I really miss, but it was very like, you know, I felt like it was very like, a complete slowdown. And so it was very different from eating disorders.
And then I landed there, I believe, November of 2023, because I started end of November 2023. And then I was there for about a year, and then that Libra eclipse that happened in October of 2024, I got plucked from there – literally they decided they were gonna move me to another rural clinic because we weren’t busy enough at that clinic. And so this other rural clinic was busier. So I had the lowest seniority there, and they decided that, you know, I was the person that they were gonna make move to this other clinic, and it completely changed my routine. So my daily commute and my routine and mind you I was also in a 3rd house profection year since last year, so that also tied into it. But I’m now driving two hours a day to, you know, do the drop-off for my son, then going in a different direction to my work, and then driving back to go get him and then in a totally different direction to go home. So it’s completely changed my routine as well.
CB: Wow. Okay. Yeah, so that’s another big thing, and it’s interesting how some of those changes, you know, like I said at the beginning, are sometimes getting triggered by important things like the eclipse in Taurus that you mentioned in October of 2024 or that period where things slowed down for a bit when Jupiter was going through Taurus and going through your 6th house, which is helpful in terms of balancing out. Otherwise, Uranus can have this kind of frenetic energy when it’s all on its own.
H: Yeah. For sure. I think the eclipses definitely impacted me, and they do seem to impact me more. I’m basically like, a Full Moon, you know, native if you wanna call it that. But yeah, the Libra eclipse last year was literally right on my MC, because my MC’s at I believe 10 Libra. And it was like, nine Libra or something. So it really did a number on my career and work-related matters, and then it was all tied in with everything that was happening with Uranus going through probably as well. So I don’t know if the eclipse had more of the effect or Uranus, but I just thought I’d mention that, so.
CB: Nice. Good. Well, I think that’s an amazing example, and I think that gives us a lot of good insight into some of the challenges that sometimes people run into with the 6th house, but also some of the positive ways that people can use it as well and some of the positive things that come from it. So thanks for sharing that; I appreciate it.
H: Of course, thank you.
CB: All right. Everyone says thank you. That was a great example.
Okay, yeah, that might tie in some other stuff. Let’s do your example, Grace.
Hey!
GRACE: Hi!
CB: Thanks for joining me.
G: Thank you for having me.
CB: All right. So you have an 11th house example you’d like to share. And you just gave me your birth data, so let me share that. For those listening to the audio version, you have Cancer rising, and you have a day chart. Jupiter is in Pisces conjunct the degree of the Midheaven in the 9th whole sign house, and Mars is in Aries in the 10th whole sign house. And let’s see, Uranus through Taurus was your 11th house, and it would have been squaring some 8th house planets you have, including Neptune, Uranus, the Moon, and Venus. So tell me how it went and how it worked out for you.
G: Yes. So the main thing that happened for me was that there was a ton of changes within my friend groups. I was in college. In 2018 when the transit began, I was 20. And so the main thing that happened around I think you said in May is when the transit began, but for me, in about the fall of 2018, early 2019, my childhood best friend and I – we kind of fell apart. We started to have some things going on; there was a lot of stuff with social media and like, some subliminal posts and things like that. So I decided to kind of distance myself from her.
And then another situation that I ended up having with a friend is that – so I mentioned that I started a business for college, because I was thinking about the themes of like, the 11th house with like, money from your business and hopes and dreams and stuff. But I started a business in college that I ended up doing out of my house. And one of my roommates who I was a friend with, I feel like there was some secret hidden animosity. I feel like she was probably jealous about the way that a lot of things had happened and blew up with my business. And things just got really weird. This was a college apartment, so there were four of us – four girls – four of us living in the apartment at the same time. And she kind of had disconnects with all of us, but because me and her were the closest and I was the reason why she was even kind of living in the space – and this was around – I noticed that things really kind of started to lead up this, but we had our altercation and we actually physically ended up fighting multiple times. In January of 2020, that’s when things kind of really hit its peak.
CB: Okay.
G: But yeah, lots of crazy stuff with friends, for sure.
CB: January of 2020. So you were living with a group of friends, basically, for college essentially, right?
G: Yes. And this was somebody that I knew – because I went to college about 45 minutes away from my house. I wasn’t super close friends with this girl in school, but we went to the same school; I’ve known her since we were like, little kids. So I’ve known her; we were always cool, but the fact that we got to college together and we were like, oh, I’ve known you forever; we might as well start to be friends. And we started to become friends, truthfully, I would say around the time that Uranus did enter Gemini around 2018 is when we really did start to get close. And then around January, February of 2020-ish is when everything kind of hit the fan.
CB: Okay. Got it. So you had this altercation around January, and Uranus stationed at some point. Oh yeah, Uranus was actually stationing at the beginning of January around January 10th. So there’s a real intensification of that. And then you have this major conflict and altercation with friends, and then did that change your living situation, or what happened after that?
G: Yes. She ended up moving out of the apartment. And it was just the three of us for the rest of the school year living there.
CB: Got it. Okay. And what happened after that, or what’s the rest of the transit been like for you?
G: So after that kind of tempered off, everything was pretty much fine. I started to – another thing with like, social media and friends and groups and things like that – around 2021, so I ran that business in college. I started this, and also my Lot of Fortune is in my 8th house – I mean, not my 8th house, I’m sorry – in my 11th house. And I noticed that I won a lot of this stuff with the money and the pitch competitions and grants and money for my business that I won, I noticed that Uranus was conjunct my Lot of Fortune at that time when a lot of that stuff started to happen, too. But I started the business, ran that business, and I decided that I don’t really wanted to do that anymore, and I started to have an interest in astrology, so I started your podcast, of course, was a great help. Started listening to your podcast, started discovering other sources, and then I decided to start talking about astrology online. And now I have a TikTok account that I’ve grown – I hit 80,000 followers today – where I talk about like, a lot of different astrology stuff. I’ve started to post on YouTube. I’ve grown my business, and I’ve been doing readings now for the past three years. But social media has been a huge part of not just the astrology stuff, but also even with the stuff that I was doing in college with the skincare business that I had. I would post – because I started my business in 2019. I started selling soap, and then, you know, a couple months later, we had the pandemic so everything kind of blew up. I was posting about it, and I started to get like, a lot of different customers, and a lot of stuff happened internationally with that. But yeah, social media and connecting with people and groups was a huge, huge, huge part of the past couple of years for me, honestly.
CB: Nice. That makes so much sense. Okay. So the part of the core of it is that you’re leveraging technology through social media, which is 11th house and like, Uranus, and then in some instances, that was actually really resulting in a lot of like, financial benefits. And it’s interesting that the ruler of your 11th house is Venus, which is in the 8th house, relatively well-placed with that nice Moon-Venus conjunction that reminds me of one of our earlier examples where there was a major inheritance. But in your case, it’s using technology and social media especially, which is a 11th house thing, and having good financial benefits. So you said you made quite a bit off of the first business?
G: Yes, I had my business open from 2019 to 2021, and within those two years, I made 250,000 dollars just selling products straight up. My college that I went to also had a really good business program, and that’s why I even started the business. I was an entrepreneurship major, and we had to start and run a business to even get the – to be able to graduate. So I had a lot of support, and even thinking about like, the connotations of like, networking and support and people who can help you with that, the college of business was instrumental. My school really champions entrepreneurship and people kind of doing things for themself, and we had different pitch competitions. In 2020 – no, I think that was – I don’t remember if it was 2020 or 2021, but I also won a pitch competition for my school. I won 10,000 dollars, and I don’t know if you all are familiar with Shark Tank, but Daymond John was one of the judges, and I got to talk to him. I got to have a conversation with him about business and things like that. It all happened —
CB: Nice.
G: — virtually because this was in the middle of the pandemic, but yeah. A lot of crazy stuff happened relating to some of those topics for me for sure.
CB: Yeah, that’s super cool. So Uranus would have been like, squaring your natal Uranus in the 8th house as well as your Moon and Venus there in the 8th house. And then over the past few years, a large part of it has been getting into astrology and then building a social media presence and profile. And it’s interesting how much that’s become important in like, modern times of developing a following. And you said you reached 80,000 followers recently?
G: Yeah, literally this morning on TikTok I hit 80,000.
CB: And when did you – do you know when you started your TikTok or started doing that?
G: I started posting around in 2022. I think summer ‘22. I remember I started just looking at celebrity charts and posting things, and I remember this was around the time that Nick Cannon was having all those kids, and we have a birth time for him, and I was like, I looked at his chart and I seen that he has Jupiter in his 5th house. So I made a TikTok video talking about like, you know, this is ironic; this man has a bunch of kids and he has Jupiter in his 5th house. And then from there, I just kind of started posting a bunch of different astrology videos. And it took a while to really start to gain some traction, I would say. Like, from 2022 to 2024, I think within that two year range I maybe had gained like, I think it was somewhere between like, six to eight thousand followers. But then within this past year, I would say really since like, spring of last year, I started posting consistently. Like, sometimes on TikTok I will post like, 20 times a day just going crazy with the posts. And my channel has been able to accumulate a lot of different things.
Now something else, astrology is my primary focus on TikTok and that’s how I’ve gained a lot of followers, but I also do a lot of local content. A lot of food reviews, a lot of local experiences and things like that as well that I’ve also started to do. And I could even see a connection with that as well, too, because I do a lot of promotion for people and a lot of people have told me like, I’ve helped their businesses and I’ve built a lot of relationships and done a lot of networking with these people as well too.
CB: Nice. I love that. So yeah, connecting with people and building… It’s interesting how you were talking about the summer of 2022 and starting that, and that’s the same eclipse basically that happened at the beginning of that summer that eclipses were happening in Taurus that was in our last example, in Harnoor’s chart, that was in her 6th house and some of the 6th house things were happening there. But for you, it’s like, starting to post on TikTok basically and starting to post astrology content there. And it demonstrates one of the things I often talk about with eclipses, which is sometimes it’s very small beginnings that you don’t think are super significant at first or don’t appear to be, but it’s like planting a seed that will grow and develop and turn into something much bigger later on. And if you started at that point, you know, three years ago and now it’s turned into 80,000 followers, then that certainly seems to be the case.
G: Yeah. That makes a lot of sense, and I didn’t even think about that, that the eclipses were there, but for sure, yes.
CB: Yeah. So do you feel like you’ve made, now that you’re coming to the end of that transit, aside from just having a lot of followers, do you feel like you’ve made a lot more contacts and like, friends and associates or groups —
G: Yes.
CB: — at this point?
G: Absolutely, because even through just me posting more social media stuff, I’ve made friends on TikTok; I’ve made friends on Twitter and even just seeking out and engaging more with other people who are interested in astrology and some of those other things definitely have started to build communities. Even for myself, I’ve launched my own Patreon now, and I have some subscribers and things like that as well. So it really just, you know, a lot of community-oriented things that I have going on right now definitely.
CB: Nice! Awesome. What’s your TikTok so people can check it out?
G: Moon ruled mommy, because I’m a Cancer rising.
CB: Nice. I love that. That’s good. Perfect. Well, that’s actually a really great example, so thanks a lot for sharing that.
G: Thank you for having me, Chris!
CB: All right. Take care!
G: Thank you.
CB: Okay. So I like talking to different people I haven’t talked to before. Christine with the Uranus 9th house transit, did we talk before recently? Because I’m trying to remember if we did, if you were on a recent episode already.
Hey.
CHRISTINE: Hey.
CB: All right, what’s your birth data?
C: November 5th, 1996. Harrisonburg, Virginia. 1:56 AM time.
CB: All right. Is your Ascendant 13 Virgo?
C: Yes.
CB: All right, so you have a 9th house example that you wanted to share with us, and for those listening to the audio version, we’re looking at a chart with Virgo rising, and Taurus then is the 9th whole sign house. Your natal Uranus is at zero Aquarius, so that’s gonna be your square as soon as Uranus moves into Taurus, just like in our last example. And then your Sun and Mercury are in the 3rd house in Scorpio, so at some point in the middle of that, there would also be an opposition to those 3rd house planets. So tell me what happened and what you wanna share about your Uranus 9th house transit.
C: Yeah. That literally – it was wild when you posted the thing for this talk or whatever. I thought about it, and I was like, oh my god, whenever I tell my friends about my life, I always talk about this whole Uranus in the 9th house period without me relating that to astrology. But I talk about these last many years as me becoming me. So it literally changed absolutely everything.
So right before it moved into my 9th house, I had started to do a little traveling. But pretty much in – let me look at the dates for stuff. So the first biggest thing that happened was I went to an ayahuasca ceremony. And that was in – I think it was October, November timeframe. And it —
CB: Of 2018?
C: In 2018, yes. And it —
CB: Okay.
C: — changed my whole life. I met this random guy; I was in a relationship with someone else, and I met this guy. We had attraction, but I was in a relationship. I didn’t really understand what was gonna unfold between us, but I was like, didn’t think it was romantic. Ended up following him home to Connecticut after this ayahuasca ceremony and telling him all about my story.
So I was going through a whole major transition of my life with my philosophy. So I was like, a girl who was in college, had like, acrylic nails, designer bags, and I basically decided I wanted to sell everything I owned and just like, live off the land because I felt really depressed. I started studying permaculture. So I got my permaculture certification right at this time. So I went to this ayahuasca ceremony, met this person, and then that escalated to him —
CB: Really quick, the ceremony – did you travel to South America for that?
C: No. Uh-uh. So it was —
CB: Okay.
C: — a shaman that was a connection, and he comes in. So it was in Ithaca, New York, where it was.
CB: Got it.
C: And so that happened, and then that escalated into its own thing. But January 2019 is when it was basically late December that I got told that this guy that I met at the ceremony, his mom would pay off all of my rent – I had two apartments, long story, but – would pay off both of my apartments, buy me a new car, and if I was ready to move now. And I wanted to move to California. I just wanted to be on the west coast. So I moved across the country January 2019. I had one day to pack everything from my place, so I packed what would fit in a car and my two dogs and broke up with my boyfriend. He had no idea; this was all random. And moved to California and started living on WWOOF farms – like, these volunteer farms, and just doing farmwork and working. So that was like, the biggest thing. And then from there, I have the other events that exploded. But that was like, humungous change right from January 2019.
CB: Got it. Okay. So part of the ingress was a sudden relocation to completely different part of the country and doing something completely different than what you had been doing otherwise.
C: Yes. And so that spiraled and spun into then my whole new life. That was a completely whole new thing. So I went through learning to farm. I had to deal with like, I still had like, acrylic nails, and so people were like, judging me. Like, “You’re not capable of doing this.” So then I was like, “Yes, I am!” And had to show myself through applying myself majorly to the farm. I stayed there about like, eight months, and then I decided I wanted to just do my whole own thing. So I found this off-grid commune deep in northern California. And I moved there and spent the next two years… From 2020 I moved there to this commune off-grid, and stayed there until about 2021, 2022 is when I started coming out from there. So that was like, a pilgrimage on its own, which is very like, 9th house. And I was completely alone. So it was a commune, but there was no one there! So I was alone, and I like, met with – long story. But anyway, I ended up being there alone for two years off-grid, farming, homesteading all on my own, and went through such a mental remaking of who I really am from that.
CB: Okay. That’s amazing. It’s funny in this example and a few, like, we keep having these earthy, sort of like, Taurus sort of significations coming up related to like, food or like, land, or other things like that. And I think it’s been funny how much that’s come up in very specific ways.
So you’re living on your own, and it’s different in terms of you’re living in a different place or you’re in like, a foreign surrounding. And you said this was impacting your beliefs in some way?
C: Yeah. So around that time, I started to – I found your podcast, and I found it was like, I was off-grid, so I would go to town. Found your podcast. And I would download all these long episodes, and then I would leave town and go back, and I would just be taking care of the goats and the chickens and my garden and playing you in the background, like, studying astrology. And kind of like, obsessing. So that was the start of my obsession with astrology. But then it grew, because I ended up relocating again back to Virginia in 2022 for eight months. Totalled my car, had to like, figure all that out. The end of 2022 around June, I ended up back in northern California, now living in the same area that that commune was, but like, a little less off-grid but still very deeply off-grid. Instead of three hours from a town, I was two hours from a town, and I was living in a yurt. And then I started to like, deeply study astrology.
2023, I then went to work on a glacier randomly in Alaska and had never – yeah, that was also interesting. That was around the eclipse! That was around the Taurus eclipse thing that I noticed through someone else’s study that that —
CB: What month?
C: Okay, so when I went to the glacier was the summer of 2023. It was…
CB: Yeah, so maybe —
C: May.
CB: — like, the May eclipse, yeah.
C: I literally went there in May. I went there May and stayed ‘til September.
CB: Yeah. So this is the same – I think it’s the same – May eclipse, or it’s one of the eclipses that everybody keeps hitting on that seems to be important to a lot of people is just because when the eclipse happens, it’s then activating the Uranus placement even more. So then you went to travel even further afield and went to an even more kind of weird or eccentric kind of situation?
C: Yeah, definitely weird. It was like, a sled dog camp, and I was the cook for like, 30 people. Which that then activated me realizing I loved what I wanted to do as a profession and become like, a farm-to-table private chef, and that’s what then I ended up like, launching by the end of that. So now Uranus is in my 10th, and that’s kind of what my focus is on is creating my own businesses and stuff. But yeah, so I feel like I hit all of the 9th house themes, other than education which I guess it’s like, I spot your course during the time. I did do the permaculture certification. But they’re not like, the long school education stuff. But other than that, I feel like I hit every 9th house topic during that transit.
CB: Nice. Yeah. So you traveled around a lot. You went to a lot of very eccentric living situation places. I think it’s kind of interesting how animals were coming up a few different times and your Uranus is in the 6th house natally, so it was getting squared by the transit, and a lot of the stories you were talking about involve like, animals or like, living places with animals. And then there was an educational component in terms of getting into astrology and studying that, as well as some of the other educational things. And now you’ve sort of emerged from that and a lot of that was preparatory, which the 9th house usually is, to the bigger transit of Uranus going through your 10th house and some of the career focus that that’ll be over the next seven years.
C: Yeah. It felt like this whole Uranus in the 9th house was me becoming me. Like, I had no clue who I was before, and it was all these messy, unexpected events. But they all played this story that now I can look at now that the transit’s passed and be like, oh wow, all of those led to each other. Like, everything led to each other. And the thing about animals that’s fascinating – because I have two dogs, and they’re my only constants in my life. And I got them both a year before Uranus entered my 9th house. So they were the only thing that came with me to every single thing and has like, stayed my constant. So yeah, that’s interesting that there is that correlation and animals and my pets were definitely huge in that.
CB: Nice. Yeah. That’s brilliant. And then part of it also was a changing of your philosophy and outlook in life in terms of where you were when you went into the transit versus where you are now sort of emerging from all of that.
C: Yeah. I was a very fiery person that was kind of like, bitter and not very nice. And now I’m much more – I’m still fiery, but only in my activities. Like, climbing and things like that. And I’m very grounded, mellow, and very sweet of a person now. Like, literally people who knew me before, they’re like, you’re a completely different person. And it was that Uranus in the 9th house.
CB: And you feel like it was because of the experiences that you had during that that changed your outlook on life in different ways?
C: Completely, yeah.
CB: Nice. All right, well that’s a really good example. Thanks for sharing that.
C: Yeah, thanks for having me on again.
CB: Cool. All right. Take care!
Yeah. Guille says she learned a new lifestyle. That makes sense. Yeah. And the 9th house and just your personal beliefs and philosophy and sometimes that can be like, really radical like, religious shifts especially. But sometimes it’s like, your personal philosophy of life and how that shifts as we have significant 9th house transits.
You know, one actually – let me see if they’re still here. No, they’re not still here. It would have been interesting to do a little contrast with that; there was one other submission from Andrew who said he had a 9th house transit, and he said, “I had a big change in religious beliefs and had a very difficult time finishing my bachelor’s degree due to lots of chaos in my life and the world.” So that’s, you know, would provide like, an interesting contrast just in terms of different ways that the same transit can be experienced based on how our natal chart is set up and people reacting to it in different ways.
All right, so looking through… Nicole in the chat says, “Fellow Virgo rising, and our story is amazingly similar. It’s crazy. Also a traveling farmer and changed so much and lots of crazy events.” Yeah, it is fascinating how the different experiences, depending on the natal chart with the same transits – everyone’s chart is set up so differently with the rulers of the houses and like, the natal planets that are getting hit and different things like that as well as what environment you grew up in and everything else.
Steven, if you’re still here with the 12th house transit, that could be a good example.
Hey.
STEVEN: Hi there, Chris.
CB: Thanks for joining me.
S: Perfect.
CB: What’s your birth data?
S: It is the 6th of June, 1978.
CB: So here is your birth chart. You have Gemini rising; you were born just after sunrise, so you have a day chart. Jupiter’s in Cancer in the 2nd house, and Saturn and Mars are in Leo in the 3rd house. And this transit of Uranus would have been through your 12th house. And it would have opposed your natal Uranus in the 6th house at 13 degrees of Scorpio, and then also later at some point squared your Saturn and Mars later in Leo.
So what happened, and what was the transit about for you?
S: Yes, well, 12th house is quite a challenging transit. It’s like, sort of that way. From a career perspective of always being someone who’s really been driven, very focused on what I would do in terms of work and what I found was that the Uranus transit to a certain extent made me realize that I wasn’t necessarily taking care of myself. So very basically, I in terms of my job had a situation where we got a new international president in our local country office who was a very exploitative boss. I worked directly for him, and it all came to a head by about the 23rd of January 2020 when I basically hit a total breakdown and realized that I needed to get a medical intervention, was diagnosed with burnout and major depression. From that, went into therapy and an institution for about two weeks to basically do some psychological work. And as you know, directly after that, as I came out basically we went into covid lockdowns. So it was totally an isolative period. And then yes, in terms of that work, by the end of that year, December of 2020, I left or we did a mutual separation with the company I was with. And I was basically unemployed and living at home for about nine months in that following period. So really a time that brought me into that 12th house of isolation, of really facing myself, dealing with where I am and what I’ve found since in terms of the rest of that transit was that the period really made me a lot more isolative, a lot more focused on what my own needs and my own shadow work was. So really 12th house and that type of environment. And yes, looking forward to at least moving into Uranus into the Gemini period, because that means that hopefully we move to something that can help me with changes I need in my personal life as well.
CB: Yeah, for sure. That makes a lot of sense. So yeah, that hits on three really important 12th house significations. One of them is enemies or people that we don’t get along with in our life, or people that are doing us harm in some way or detracting from our life. One of them is mental health and focusing on our mental health can be part of going through the 12th house, and then another one can be themes of isolation or seclusion and how that contrasts with the 11th house, which is about socialization as opposed to the 12th house where you then encounter more themes of seclusion and being on your own and sometimes finding ways to be okay with that or to even thrive in that sort of environment.
So going back to the first one, could you tell me more about some of the themes you encountered with your boss? Because you were really in a situation where he became almost like, an enemy in some way.
S: Yes. Well, if I put it this way, a Korean boss that was very much a dictatorial type of personality, the type of person who would come into meetings and literally humiliate anyone that he deals with, so, and I’m quite empathetic when it comes to people so I really took on a lot of the energy that comes from that. And ironically, he was moved into that position just as Uranus started ingress, so it was a literal situation for the next few months dealing directly with this person and reporting directly to this person who was highly controlling, very difficult to deal with in a cultural and a personal type of level.
CB: And did that happen in like, May of 2018, or in 2019?
S: In the 2019 ingresses.
CB: Got it. Okay. And you know, that’s really interesting, because that’s something I try to explain to people and tell people, which is pay attention to little changes that happen at the beginning of a transit, especially not long after an ingress, because sometimes a little change that you might not think is gonna be a big deal or have any reason to think is gonna be a big deal at the time could turn into a much bigger deal or could foreshadow some things that are gonna come up in the future later on. Because presumably, like, when that change first happened, you wouldn’t have assumed that it was gonna turn into this whole big thing or that he was gonna be a jerk or cause you so many problems or hardship or mental anguish. But then eventually it sort of became that as time progressed.
S: Yes. I think the thing was when he moved into that position, I wasn’t in a position where I would even report to him. So my direct boss actually left the country and left his job, and I got promoted into the position that reported into the MD much later that year. And initially, it wasn’t something – I knew of the type of personality that I was dealing with, but by October I was promoted and from October until January, I went through a very, very pressured period from this boss. And incidentally or so it was a 6th house profection year, which is ruled by Mars. So I do feel that that malefic was then also activated in that period.
CB: Got it. Okay. That makes sense. So you start dealing with these issues of like, having somebody who’s causing you mental anguish and who you’re having tensions with, and that’s something I often say is that traditionally it’s enemies, but one of the ways that I phrase that sometimes in modern times is just people you don’t get along with in your life, and that the 12th house sometimes is that’s the area in the chart where we find people we don’t get along with for different reasons, whatever those reasons are. But then one of the things that comes out of that is that it does eventually cause you like, a physical burnout, both psychologically and physically to some extent, right?
S: Yes. Definitely. Both physical and psychological. So I didn’t actually realize that there was a psychological element until I actually got physically ill. As in anxiety made me go into the level of throwing up from the buildup of anxiety. Every morning I would wake up and just not be able to function due to that anxiety. And it is literally that type of element of for me, this was a case of really realizing a lot more about myself due to the fact that prior to this, I most probably already had a certain level of burnout or a certain level of pushing myself too hard. But it was a case of this specific event to a certain extent made me a lot more aware of the type of anguish that I was going through.
CB: Yeah. And how your sort of mental state in the 12th house can sometimes affect your physical health as well with this being part of your Uranus opposition with Uranus in Scorpio in the 6th house. And so eventually this culminated and you ended up separating from that job when?
S: In early December 2020.
CB: December 2020, okay. Got it. So that’s interesting, because that’s right after Saturn makes its second ingress basically into Aquarius. And then we start the Saturn square with Uranus as well as squaring your 6th house Uranus. So you go into a period of sort of like, isolation and being more on your own over the next few years?
S: Yes. It was a period of… Let me just check the dates there if you don’t mind. Basically until November of 2021 was basically when I started again in a office environment after that period of isolation.
CB: Okay. So you go into an office environment, and then what happens after that?
S: Then I was there for about I’d say two years, and then by – quite suddenly by October 2023, I went into remote working environment, which is again quite isolative. But working remotely still in the same type of environment, but in a really very good job environment that I’m still currently in.
CB: And that was – did you say October 2023?
S: Yes. Beginning of October.
CB: Nice. Okay. So that was, you know, by now, Jupiter has moved into your 12th house, and it’s that year when Jupiter’s in your 12th house and then by the end of October, we get I think it was the final Taurus eclipse, which is a lunar eclipse in Taurus in your 12th house. And Uranus is already at like, 21 degrees of Taurus, so it’s starting to move away from the exact opposition with Uranus in your natal chart in the 6th house. And then you’re doing remote working from home, and this is essentially a much more optimal situation for you in terms of your mental and physical health.
S: Correct. So yes, I might still be quite isolated in a certain extent, but what I do find is that there is a connection at least in terms of people that I work with and again, quite an international type of thing. And what’s interesting with it is because I work from South Africa for a US company, it means I am out of sync with a lot of my normal type of community or my normal friend circle to a certain extent, so it is physically my work ensuring to a certain extent that I also then spend my mornings on my own because everyone’s at work when I’m off. And I work when everyone’s off again, so that type of context.
CB: Right. That makes sense. Yeah, there can be – in addition to the 9th house, oftentimes being about foreign travel, the 12th house that can come up as well in terms of interaction with foreign countries or places or things like that is pretty common.
So now that we’re reaching the end of this transit essentially, do you feel like you’ve become more – I mean, it’s interesting that in the one sense, part of the Uranus transit also was using technology, because you’re using technology to work remotely in this position of being more in seclusion or isolation but then connecting with people through that and still doing your work and job. By the end of that, do you feel like – end of the transit – do you feel like you’ve become more accustomed to and adapted more to that way of thriving within the context of being in isolation more? And do you feel like your mental health with the changes that have been implemented, do you feel like you’ve learned a lot more about your mental health and about what you need to do to take care of yourself, both mentally and physically?
S: Yes, definitely. I think by the end of this period, I’m a lot more aware of my mental health and the typical elements that – or signs that – there is burnout on the way. So where in the past I would have just thought, oh, this is interesting, and moved on and continued, now I would say, “Hold on. I’m putting in a day or two for leave,” and I literally do my mental health days. So I’ve learned so much in this period, and I do believe that it’s equipped me quite strongly for future.
CB: Nice. I love that. I think that’s great, and a really good example of how, yeah, learning one’s limits and how while sometimes the 12th house can bring up difficulties, by the end of that transit oftentimes there’s a lot of growth and a greater sense of finding what’s necessary and what’s authentic to you in order to grow and thrive in the world. And it sounds like you’ve been able to do that, so yeah, so good job!
S: Thank you very much.
CB: Awesome. Thank you for sharing that example; I appreciate it.
S: Perfect. Thank you. Have a great day.
CB: Thanks. You too.
Good example. And you know, one of my access points for understanding the 12th house as mental health that’s something that’s emerged over the past several years is just thinking back to the planetary joys scheme in Hellenistic astrology and how the entire bottom half of the chart and the houses below the horizon are in the sector that pertains to the earth and to the Moon, and that there’s like, a physicality to the houses in the bottom half of the chart, whereas the houses in the top half of the chart are above the horizon in the sector that relates to the sky and to the Sun and to the more intellectual side of things of the intellect, which is noos in Hellenistic astrology which is associated with the Sun and the mind. And when you apply that to the 6th house-12th house, sometimes part of the distinction can be the 6th house and physical issues that we deal with, physical ailments, whereas the 12th house can sometimes be more like, mental issues that we deal with. So yeah, that’s part of the basic distinction that I’ve tried to develop and tease out there, which brings into account some very modern concepts but also is still very much rooted in the traditional framework, and that’s something, you know, I’m trying to demonstrate here today as well about how a Hellenistic astrologer would have approached investigating the outer planets and trying to see what they mean and what they do. Like, if you took Vettius Valens or you took Ptolemy or any other traditional or ancient astrologer and you plucked them out of their own time period and you put them in ours, and you said, “There’s this new planet that’s just been discovered, and it’s called Uranus. This is its timeframe; it takes 84 years to go around the chart.” And you know, while some traditional astrologers might say, I don’t know, some of them – let’s say one – decides not to use the outer planets and stick with the traditional system, for the most part, like, astrologers are very curious and inquisitive people. And I do think that most of them would have tried to figure out what these planets mean. And one of the ways that they would have gone about doing that is what we’re doing here today, which is just simply seeing what the transits of those planets look like when they go through different houses in the chart. And that’s one of the most basic and obvious ways that you can come to some understanding of what the outer planets mean, especially with Uranus.
So we’ve seen a lot of commonalities between these different stories, I think, even though the transit itself has applied to different houses in the chart or has activated different natal placements. Yeah. So that’s been really good.
Let’s see. Renata submitted one a while ago that said, “3rd house Uranus transit, several changes to my neighborhood and frequent neighbor changes. Random car issues kept occurring.”
Hey, thanks for joining me.
RENATA: Hey! Thank you for inviting me; I’m excited to help.
CB: Yeah. What’s your birth data?
R: So it’s December 17th, 1981.
CB: All right, so here’s your chart. And for those listening to the audio version, we’re looking at a chart with Pisces rising. The 3rd house is Taurus. This is a day chart with Jupiter in Scorpio in the 9th and Mars in Libra in the 8th. And let’s see, Taurus… The primary thing’s that there’s hard aspects to are an opposition to Jupiter at three degrees of Scorpio at the beginning and a square with Venus at five degrees of Aquarius early on. So what was your 3rd house Taurus transit like?
R: Sure. So like, I started kind of noticing like, around 2018, I live kind of like, in an area that was just a couple houses and apartments kind of on the outskirts of the Charlotte area. And then they started adding a police station. My neighbor had a farm, and they were contacted by the hospital in the area and they told them they would pay them like, a million dollars or some high sum to sell their farm so they could build a hospital. So like, I no longer have just like, farmland beside me, because like, and then they started building like, just a bunch of shopping centers and it totally looks different. Like, there’s traffic everywhere. So it went from being kind of like, just seeing a strawberry farm to seeing just a sprawling like, area where people are just shopping and things like that.
CB: That’s incredible. That’s perfect. Yeah. That’s definitely something I’ve seen when there’s major 3rd house transits is just a change in terms of your neighborhood, and in your instance, like, a radical transformation in terms of your surroundings outside of or in the vicinity of your home essentially.
R: Yeah. And then also as you guys were talking – and I know I talked about the other thing was my car. I never had car trouble. I would always – you know, maybe a flat tire. And then it was like, just random check engine lights. I was like – like, even – what was it? I wanna say if this is July, a couple of months ago I was just driving down the road and my car just stopped. Like, mid driving, so I had to get a brand new engine put in my car. So just major, sudden car repairs. And then when I called the people to tow my vehicle, they told me, hey, I got an idea. I want you to contact this dealership; they are fixing the engines on – I have a Hyundai Sonata. And they were like, they’re fixing them due to like, a recall that they had. And I called, and they were like, everything’s free. Don’t worry about it. But that wasn’t the first vehicle; I had went through several vehicles in 2017, and they were just like – everything just was kind of breaking down. So I saw that —
CB: Wow.
R: Yeah. And —
CB: So that’s been an ongoing thing. Just like, issues with your car throughout this transit?
R: Yes. And I believe it was – I have the date in my phone; I would have to kind of look through here. But in I wanna say – no, I actually know when it was! It was April Fools’ Day; I remember distinctly. I made contact with someone who says they’re my cousin. They were – my uncle had supposedly, you know, he’s had a child that our family didn’t know about, and I guess is it like, 23 and Me? One of those like, genealogy things. They contacted one of my second cousins, and they found me. And it’s like, you know, my family let my uncle know that I had a cousin that I didn’t know about. He says —
CB: And this was April Fools’ Day what year?
R: This year.
CB: This year. 2025. So April 1st, 2025?
R: Yeah.
CB: Okay. You were saying? Sorry I interrupted.
R: Oh no, you’re fine. And that was my – because I thought about that, and I was like, oh yeah, I did have, you know, because I know a lot of people think of siblings but I also think – you know, and cousins as well. And my cousins, for me, are like my brothers and sisters. A lot of us grew up as like, siblings, so yeah.
CB: Right. Yeah. Absolutely. So you were contacted on this day, and that was funny because that was the day of a Moon-Uranus conjunction in your 3rd house, and you found out unexpectedly that you had a cousin that you never knew of.
R: Yes.
CB: That’s amazing; I love that.
R: Yeah.
CB: Nice. And have you kept in touch with them since then?
R: Yeah! So I just talked with them the weekend of the 4th of July. Just making contact and getting to know them, so.
CB: Nice. That’s amazing. I love that. That’s just like, there was another person – I don’t know if they’re still here, maybe I can talk to them afterwards, but – who had an unexpectedly – they had a 4th house transit basically and unexpectedly found out that they were not – that their father was not their biological father. So sometimes there can be surprising genealogical things that come out with Uranus.
R: Yeah. My family – because my daughter is 23, and so she studies alongside with me. And we are both Pisces risings, and we were both looking at our charts wondering what our 4th house would look like. We were like, oh wow!
CB: Right!
R: We’re like, wonder what – you know? We’re hoping it’s just moves. We were like, I wonder what family secrets will come out! But yeah.
CB: Yeah. I love that. So the change over the past seven years, though, in terms of your neighborhood from living essentially like, in the country or living near farmland without many people around you to suddenly there’s like, almost like sprawling city that’s grown up around you has been one of the more dramatic —
R: Yeah.
CB: — obvious changes in terms of your 3rd house environment.
R: Yeah. Because and I remember, too, like, I live in this apartment – I don’t remember the date for this, but I do live in an apartment complex. And it used to always be blue. That was kind of like, the reason why – I like the color blue. And they like, wrote us and said, “We’re gonna paint your apartment,” so like, now it’s white. And me and my daughter were like, we don’t like the white! But it was just like, randomly they were like, it’s gonna be painted. And so yeah. We’ve adjusted though.
CB: Yeah. Well, and what’s funny about that is a lot of those different additions and changes that happened at different points in the past seven years probably happened around some of these different turning points like the eclipses or Uranus —
R: Yeah.
CB: — stations or like, other things like that.
R: Yeah. Because I was looking, and let’s see if I can… Because I was trying to pull when they broke ground on the, let’s see here. And I do have the date. It was, they broke ground on August 22nd of 2019. And it was just, it was kind of a big deal because it was – like, we’re not, we’re like, right in the outskirts of a major metropolitan area. Well, we were; now we’re in it. And so…
CB: Yeah. That’s perfect. Well, ironically, that was another Moon-Uranus conjunction in your 3rd house that day. And it looks like the Sun is almost at the trine of Uranus, so that means Uranus was stationing around that time. Oh wait, no, it was before that. So August 22nd, you said?
R: 2019.
CB: There it is! It had just stationed around August 12th and 13th. So that was also a Uranus station, which like I said, it’s sometimes just like, an exclamation mark where you find out more about what that transit’s gonna be about when the outer planet stations there.
R: And then the hospital, I don’t have the exact date, but it was June 2023 of when the hospital opened, which was huge. Because it was just like, because one of the children went to school with my daughter, and so like, you know, kind of a big deal to go from a farm to a hospital.
CB: Got it, okay. So that was… Jupiter’s going through your 3rd house, and we’re still finishing up some of the eclipses there. Like, there would have been an eclipse that would have taken place right before that, which is one of the eclipses that everyone, that we keep coming back to like, in May of 2023.
R: Yeah.
CB: April, May. Nice. Yeah. Well, that makes sense, and it’s a good example just because then that’s changed your neighborhood and your surroundings, and then you know, sometimes that can have an impact eventually on one’s actual like, home and living situation. Like you mentioned changing the colors of the paint and stuff like that. But also just other people in your —
R: Yeah.
CB: — area and your neighborhood eventually as well that you run into on a regular basis.
R: Yeah. So neighbors moved in and out a lot. Like, it was just constant moving. Yeah, I think with the changes, with everything going on, a lot of people decided to move and kind of change.
CB: Okay. So there’s a lot of disruptions in terms of that as well and in terms of your neighbors?
R: Yes.
CB: Cool. All right. Well, that’s a really good example of like, a 3rd house transit and just the different things that can come up and also, you know, your perceptiveness of sometimes it was like, major things, but also sometimes just noticing during different parts of our life there’s little minor things that come up more frequently as well, like different car trouble that you were having throughout the course of that and how that’s probably gonna be another one of those things where once the transit’s over after a few years, you’ll realize like, I haven’t had like, a huge car incident or something like that in quite a while. And think about how it was during that transit versus outside of it.
R: Yeah.
CB: Cool. All right, well, thanks for sharing your example. I appreciate it.
R: No problem. You guys have a great day.
CB: You too.
Okay. Did we not do a 2nd house example, and did somebody have a 2nd house example? All right, does anybody have a 1st or 2nd house example that’s really striking, or it might be time to wrap up for the day.
All right, were there any… Yeah, I think that might be it, then. So it’s funny that we didn’t do a first house example, since those are often the most notable ones. All right, that might be good for today, because I know we’re getting towards the end of this, and I’m starting to get tired. So let me I think do some conclusions.
All right, so I think that’s good for examples. We didn’t get to the first house and 2nd house, but we sort of incidentally got there through some other examples like one of the relationships one we talked about somebody that had Uranus going through their first house. And you can watch the other episode that I did of Uranus transits through the houses for some other examples of those two, and the things that can come up where the first house can be about your personality, your appearance, your body, but also broader things about your outlook or your focus on life. And the 2nd house, of course, about finances and possessions and income and other things like that and things connected with that.
All right, so I think that’s it for this workshop. So thanks everybody that shared an example; I really appreciate it. We had a lot of really great stories today, and I appreciate everybody who was willing to open up and share their story, even when we were talking about some difficult things.
So I hope this has given people some ideas, again, just by defining our timeframe of first ingress in the middle of 2018, and now we’ve reached the last ingress early next year. Everyone’s Uranus transit through Taurus is not completely over yet, because Uranus will retrograde back into Taurus later this year before departing finally next year. So for some of you, there may still be some final wrapping up and some final sweeping up and sort of assessing and taking into account the entirety of the transit that isn’t completed until sometime next year once Uranus departs from Taurus. And especially for those of you that have planets in the last few degrees of the fixed signs, especially like, the last three degrees of the fixed signs, there may still be some really important events that haven’t taken place yet where the transit sort of culminates towards the end of Uranus’s transit through that sign rather than those, for example, who had planets or sensitive degrees earlier in the fixed signs where it sort of culminated or got going and got intense much earlier. So pay attention to that and keep an eye out for it.
I hope this has given everybody some ideas about some themes that you might expect in terms of now that we’re looking at Uranus going into Gemini and some of the themes that you might anticipate as Uranus moves into a new whole sign house in your chart. Like I said, pay attention to themes that have started to emerge. Even already this month, there may have been some minor changes in your life or things that are happening in the background that could end up becoming much more important than they might seem at first since we’re starting a seven year long transit of Uranus through a different sector of our chart and activating a whole host of new topics and a new area of our life.
One thing that I will say is I mentioned this once, but I do notice that there can sometimes during this intermediate period where Uranus is going back and forth between two signs, it’s also going back and forth between two whole sign houses in our chart. And sometimes that period can connect the house topics in interesting ways during the course of that period. So for example, when this transit started, Uranus was going back and forth between my 3rd house of communication and my 4th house of home and living situation. And I had this experience where a few people came through town. Like, a large part of the Uranus transit through my 3rd house in Aries from like, 2010 ‘til 2018 was about starting to do the podcast and learning all the technology of doing audio and video that it took in order to turn The Astrology Podcast into what it is today and to leverage technology in order to communicate was a large part of my Uranus transit through the 3rd house for like, seven or eight years. But then Uranus started moving into my 4th house of my home and living situation, and part of what happened is I had this experience where a few people came through town and I wanted to interview them. But I didn’t have a good setup for that in my little like, basement apartment, so I wasn’t able to interview them in person or one of them, like I think it was the Priscilla Costello episode when she came through town for like, a book event, and she gave a talk for our local astrology group and did a book signing for her book on Shakespeare and astrology. And I ended up trying to like, go to her hotel and we tried to record there. But just like, the audio and the video was terrible, so I think I only released like, the audio recording of that episode, and I didn’t release the video because it was so bad. And after that experience and like, two others that happened around that time, I decided to create a recording studio in my living room so that I could interview people when they came through town in Denver. And that was my initial experience around that time of Uranus retrograded back and forth between my 3rd house of communication where I’d recently started doing video versions of the podcast and my 4th house of home and living situation, and it kind of like, intertwined those topics for a period of time. And then of course, during the course of this transit, there’s been some different notable interviews that I’ve done here in person in the studio even though I haven’t been doing those as much the past few years. But one of the funny ones was the Uranus episode that I recorded with Rick Levine. And right at the beginning of that episode, we were recording together in the studio in my apartment. Right at the beginning of the episode, the power went out like, one minute into the episode right after I’d introduced it. So it’s this funny sort of like, legendary Uranus 4th house transit that I had at the very beginning of that episode that people can go back and watch now. It’s like, an outtake I think at the end of the episode.
So pay attention, though, to things like that where during this time you may see some overlaps or some connections that are taking place between the two whole sign houses that Uranus is going back and forth as it’s making its way out of Taurus and moving into Gemini and sort of setting the stage for some of the themes that are gonna grow and develop over the next seven years.
Yeah. So to conclude things, this is how I would go about – you know, this is my approach to studying transits and rooting it in both the ancient approach of Hellenistic astrology by using things like whole sign houses, paying attention to whole sign transits and aspects, paying attention to things like sect and traditional rulerships. But then also bringing into account some modern concepts, including the investigation of modern planets that were only discovered in the past few centuries. And I think when you do that, you really can root the practice of and the use of new concepts and techniques – like the use of the planet Uranus – you can both root it in a traditional framework, but you can also investigate and verify what the planet means so that you’re not just taking that for granted from what people say or what you read about it, but by actually investigating what the transit looks like when it’s going through different houses in a person’s chart.
So that can be difficult because it takes very long periods of time in order to do that. It takes, you know, seven or eight years for Uranus to transit through a specific house in the chart. So that’s obviously a much longer research project, but that’s why these periods around the ingresses of Uranus into a new sign are so valuable, because it gives us a rare opportunity to look back and reflect on the past seven years while it’s still somewhat fresh in our mind, and to assess and reflect on all of the changes that have happened in that area over the course of that transit.
So I hope everyone has learned something from that today, and yeah. Be sure to check out the other episodes I did on Uranus with Rick Levine or Uranus transits through the houses for more examples of what you might expect of Uranus transits through certain houses. But otherwise, I think that’s it for this episode of The Astrology Podcast. So thanks everyone for watching or listening, and I’ll see you again next time.
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