Uranus, on its 84 year cycle, moves into Taurus mid May 2018 staying for 7 years, the first time since 1934 to 1941. Uranus is inventive and experimental, with lightning eureka flashes of insight, and Taurus is earthy and practical, so no surprises that on previous occurrences there were new discoveries. In the later 1930s there were major advances in technology in aviation, radio, and film. On a previous occasion, in the late 17th Century, street lighting was introduced in London. There was also widespread exploration across the globe and major advances in astronomy, including the first sighting of Uranus (which was mis-named). Taurus being earthy and quite anal, no surprises either that sewage systems and toilets came to the fore.
Taurus is also acquisitive for money and possessions so from past experience trade became a pressing and not always compassionate drive. During the Uranus in Taurus of 1600 England starts trade with Asia; two Uranus in Taurus later it moves into Bengal with catastrophic results for the population; 2 million die in a famine and the East India Company raises their taxes and ships the revenues out of the country! The Same Brit company then takes over the North American tea trade, which leads, due to their punitive taxation, into the American Revolution.
The Bengal famine narrative repeated in a different location during the mid 19th Century Uranus in Taurus in Ireland. The potato crop failed, which starved a million to death and a million emigrated, with the British overlords, who were partly the cause of the population’s reliance on one crop, continuing to send foodstuffs to the UK. And that is a wound which has never healed.
It isn’t easy to extrapolate the effect of Uranus in Taurus from other influences ongoing. The mid 19th Century Uranus in Taurus came on the back of a Saturn Pluto Uranus conjunction in late Aries/Taurus, so was always going to be a time of upheaval and devastation.
The most similar to this one would be the 1767 Uranus in Taurus with Pluto in Capricorn about to oppose Saturn in Cancer, with Neptune in Virgo. Apart from the horrors of the Bengal famine, James Watts’ steam-engine inventions drove the Industrial Revolution into being; and the first mechanical spinning frame for fabric weaving also appeared.
The most recent 1935 to 1941 Uranus in Taurus came on the back of the Great Depression of the decade following 1929, with widespread poverty and unemployment leading to authoritarian regimes emerging in several countries, most notably German with Hitler rising to power from 1933; and Stalin’s Great Purge of 1936-38 with 600,000 being executed in Russia by the state. Territorial greed is clearly one of its manifestations; as well as inhumane methods in the pursuit of power. Though Roosevelt was pushing his New Deal in the USA to alleviate social problems so different countries had different experiences.
In 1935 Uranus was just over the square to Pluto in Cancer, so not dissimilar to now – and it ended with a Saturn Uranus conjunction trine Neptune in Virgo in 1941.
So the overall conclusion would be good and bad. Innovative yes. Power and money hungry not great.
Hi, there’s an interesting connection between Portugal and Uranus…
Do you think it harbors a positive overhaul in our farming methods and the damages of globalization, Marjorie, perhaps becoming more earth conscious?
The so-called Age of Aquarius thinking was very prevalent in the early and mid-60’s. Never came to be, however. ‘Nam focused people on the effectiveness of the industrial war machine, thence onto continuing Cold War issues. Both are gone but have evolved into something very perverted: pocket nukes.
Thank you Marjorie. I’m probably naive in hoping the harmonious links to fellow Earth sign placements, Saturn imminent, Jupiter in a couple of years, and importantly Pluto will have beneficial outcomes on the political, societal, and economic levels. That Uranus’ revolutionary impact will be progressive and work constructively not violently. There are masses of people who have had enough of neo liberalism, austerity, Trump, and too much war etc will perhaps find a practical and enduring outcome? All very Earthy and tangible…
I’ve got a Taurus mid-Heaven. I am hoping Uranus is going to bring me good things. 🙂
I too have a Taurus MH. Should send us in new directions at the very least!
Interesting re Uranus in Taurus. Uranus transiting my third house has brought all kinds of freaky, out-of-the-blue incidents with my car. Last year I was pulled over for a traffic violation I’d never heard of. The police officer was shocked (Uranus) when I spewed my fury at being ticketed. On another occasion I was driving through my neighborhood when I heard a strange scraping sound coming from the right rear of my car. A broken wire coat hanger had somehow become embedded in the tire, which went flat as a pancake. Another time I was cautiously backing out of a grocery store parking space when–wham!–a pick-up truck slammed into me (no injuries, thankfully). So now I’m worried about what home-related surprises await as Uranus begins its transit of my 4th house. A friend of mine who dabbles in astrology says I shouldn’t fret since Taurus is far more grounded and stable than Aries, hence it’s less likely that this Uranus transit will be as jolting. Hmmm, I don’t know about that, but I’m hoping…..