posted January 06, 2007 10:48 AM            

Is this truely the proverbial "Mid-life Crisis?"~~~~

posted January 06, 2007 12:32 PM            

Here's a bit from Robert Hand's “Planets in Transit” ~

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Uranus Opposition Uranus
This is one of the most important transits of your life. Like the Saturn return that occurred when you were twenty-nine, the Uranus-Uranus opposition when you are forty or forty-one marks a period of major transition in your life. This is the crisis of middle age when you have to come to terms with a number of realizations that may not all be pleasant. For example, even though you are not very old, you are no longer young. Have you accomplished or begun to accomplish what you wanted when you were younger? If you have, was it an appropriate accomplishment for you? Are you happy with your close relationships, your marriage, your work?

Many people encountering this transit discover that the answer to several of these questions is no. If this is your situation, you may become seized with a feeling of urgency that you have only a short time to correct the problem. Consequently you may begin to act rather disruptively and quickly. You may leave a marriage or an old job and take up a lifestyle quite different from your earlier one. Your friends are likely to be rather shocked at the change. You may spend more time with younger people, for their youth is a symbol of the opportunities you feel you have almost wasted. This seems to be your last chance to take advantage of those opportunities.

It is also quite possible that you may make none of these drastic changes. If you have taken advantage of opportunities right along and have not allowed your life to become prematurely old and rigid, this transit will not be so upsetting or disturbing. You will experience the real meaning of this transit – a climax of the direction your life has taken since childhood and a shifting of direction toward the issues you must confront in old age.

Each period of life has particular functions. Roughly speaking, during the first half of your life, prior to the Uranus-Uranus opposition, you encounter the outer world, make an impact upon it and learn all you can about it. During the second half of your life you will turn your focus inward and begin to reap the consequences of what you have done and encountered in the first half. From now on, you will turn your experiences inward and recreate – make somethihng new of – yourself. You will deal with issues of ultimate concern: the meaning of your life, your relationship to the universe and so forth. This is why some people begin to get a “last chance” feeling, because the main thrust of their life is turning away from issues that they haven’t dealt with fully.

If you have been successful in your dealings with the outside world, you will continue to be, but now it will have to mean something in terms of your own life and perception. You will not be able to live for some external purpose, the purpose must come from within. If you don’t reorient yourself, your life will become hollow and meaningless, regardless of what you accomplish from here on.

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posted January 06, 2007 02:59 PM            

Blessings to you lovely souls!! I am BLOWN AWAY!!!!!!!

What universal knowledge you all have offered to me............

My OWN Uranus transit was awesome, but my friend's is not........

Forever trying to understand a bit of the pain of a soul dis-connected, yet not dis-connected from me........

Love and Light to you------

Sue, Zala and HD!!!!!!!!

Terri

posted January 07, 2007 09:00 AM              

I do Uranus Return readings which I introduce this way:

The Uranus Demi-Return

Most commonly called the mid-life crisis, it is an event that occurs in every life, usually between ages 38 and 42. Uranus opposite Uranus represents a needed revolution. Its purpose is to inspire a review of our lives to this point, and a decision about whether to continue in the “old ruts” or make significant changes for better alignment with our original incarnational intent.

For many, it is the time when we first realize that we have a higher purpose and/or what that purpose is. On the mundane level, it is the time when we go through a personal revolution, designed to free us of those elements in our lives which no longer serve us.

At this time, there are often losses. However we never lose anything that we still need. Instead, we clean out the drawers and closets of our lives, making room for new and better things.

Another view of this is to say that it is a time when the big hand in the sky, reaches down to make adjustments in our life.

For most, this event takes place over approximately a year, though for some it may seem to take several years, when the over-all change is composed of a series of component changes. Such changes may occur either or both before and after the date of the Uranus Demi-Return. For the aware, this experience changes our lives forever, and for the better.

posted January 07, 2007 09:53 AM            

Uranus was all that and more for me, and in studying my friend and the transits he has going on now, I think this one is a biggie for him~~though I think he re-mains unaware....

Blessings!

posted January 07, 2007 12:06 PM            

My friend had complained ever since we met that he was unhappy with his job, wanted to go back home, etc. And lo and behold, he got into it with some "authority figures" at work and was forced to resign...

Thank you all for your help and the very knowledgaable links. In helping me you have helped me to understand what my Bull friend is going through and I can continue to re-main behind the scenes, supporting him unconditionally.....

Blessings

Terri

posted January 07, 2007 12:26 PM            

When I read…..

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And lo and behold, he got into it with some "authority figures" at work and was forced to resign...

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posted January 07, 2007 01:38 PM            

Check out the aspects Natal Uranus is making in the natal.
These will be activated with the transiting opposition.

terri~ your own natal Uranus must be better placed and/or aspected than your friends since yours went pretty easy, also look at the house being activated. Does it happen on an angle? These are the ones you really feel.

Uranus = shakes things up
mid-life crisis? yes, it can be.

posted January 07, 2007 02:23 PM            

tUranus recently made it's final pass over my DC and Opp to nPluto. I enjoyed my Uranus Demi-Return (begun/felt mid 2005 thru summer 2006)for the most part. I felt invigorated, curious and daring! I took on a few lovers after a long hiatus, got a long-wanted piercing under my lip (still loving it too!) and explored lots of new territory. Things have certainly slowed down now, which is okay.

I have Uranus conjunct my Asc so my experience was more of an amplification of who I really am anyway. I'm really never too far from rebellion at any given time, and I wouldn't have it any other way

posted January 07, 2007 04:45 PM            

I'll be checking all the aspects and doing this little exercise myself soon enough -- tUranus will be conjuncting my nMoon at 26 Pisces in the 8th.....

posted January 07, 2007 05:06 PM            

Thanks for the reminder--good advice. He does not know his birth time, so unable to look at houses, but he does have Uranus, Mars and Pluto conj, opposed to Saturn, natally.

I would have thought mine would have been a whammy and it was, being a Pisces sun, everything relative to me, in hindsight it was awe-spiring. I have Mars, Merc and Jupiter conj in Aqua in the 3rd opposed exactly to Uranus in Leo~~~

As much as I am intrigued by Uranus transits and how good they have been to me, Uranus entering my 4th house and coming up on my sun has my microwave sounding like a Yeti, my computer is working only when it wants to, my fridge is ticking off and on like a time bomb, my dishwasher, too sounds like an unearthly animal......

Think I'll duck when he sits upon my Pisces sun!!!

Thank you all for the help!!

posted January 07, 2007 05:08 PM            

Thanks for sharing the story....Quite the Uranian tale---As he enters my 4th, opposing my MC, hmmmmm

I wonder........

posted January 07, 2007 05:19 PM            

Do you have "Earthquake Wax" for everything in your house, and asbestos-lined scrubs for work???

Just kidding.....

posted January 07, 2007 05:28 PM            

I have my IC @ 13 Pisces, sun @ 20 and from the looks of things around here, 13 is probably correct!

Makes me mad, though, cause I KNOW external events are merely an expression of internal things...

Guess I need to go do some more soul searching, as if I do not spend enough time doing that anyway!!!

Dealing with my computer issues with a friend on myspace, he is trying to help me, so if I am not on for a while.....well, Uranus....what can I say!

posted January 07, 2007 05:37 PM            

But thank you for indulging me

Damn, first the Mermaid and now the tUranus conj nMoon 8th! I'd rather have that one! There I go again, little spoiled Aries brat!

Hmm, so I have to assimilate Pisces/DC? SUFFER. That about sums it up. Oh, wait, can't forget MARTYR. Then there's SACRIFICE. Mmm, how about SAVIOR? All goes back to SUFFER.

In light of all the SUFFERing I've experienced could it be that Uranus will initiate "spontaneous" Chiron "healing" in the realm of 7th house "relationships"?

How's that for an optimistic Aries? hehehe

I just ended another "learning" experience last month. I'm literally asking the Universe for the REAL DEAL this time around. I mean how much pain, suffering and loss do I have to endure? Sigh.

I am resigning myself to no longer set about saving lost boys. I'm going to insist on higher expectations instead of being my usual yielding self.

<sounding a lot like an Aries tantrum> if I don't figure it out this time around I will remain alone..."as God is my witness..." (Yes, they also call me Scarlett)

It seems like a cruel twist of fate that Jupiter 29 Pisces is in my 7th House and I don't get to reap anything positive from that. Waaaaaah.

I truly am NOT the kind of person who feels "entitled" I actually abhor that trait in anyone. I think I'm hormonal today-eating anything I can get my hands on this afternoon! oatmeal, blueberries, pizza, mini-marshmallows with chocolate syrup on 'em (half-as$ed s'mores) LMAO!

Seriously, for weeks now, especially when good ol' Uranus went direct in November, I felt my spirituality begin to return. I'd kind of "misplaced" it since my Uranus Demi-Return in 2005. I'm "open" again. I have a crazy chart so I'm a little all over the place. Aries Sun/Merc combust doesn't help, know what I mean?

p.s.
I'll be 'bumping' this in 90 minutes if I get no response before then, j/k!

posted January 07, 2007 06:29 PM              

I joined a "boot camp" work out for 8 weeks twice weekly, I'm going back to school and that's just the beginning of all the life changing things I'm going to accomplish.

Uranus ain't easy, but it sure gives you the kick in the behind that you need and for that, I am grateful. I'm flowing with it and accepting that it is a necessary thing in my life.

posted January 07, 2007 07:47 PM            

Ps re Chiron and Sat--

OK, actually been VERY peaceful lately, lots of realizations, feelings flowing nicely in and out of-----

my conciousness.

Feel quite like I am floating in a dream, as I used to feel always, always in my younger days...

Maybe the wounded healer is finally healing herself?