Trailblazing, sky-ruler Uranus has been moving through earthy, rooted Taurus since 2018 and will exit in April. Past experience of this hybrid mix which recurs every 84 years has been a focus on trade and money, climate and natural disasters and inventions.
During this recent phase there has been an escalation in high-impact climate disasters from drought, severe storms, and floods. Key events included massive floods in Pakistan and China, record heatwaves in Europe and Asia, and intense wildfires in California.
Trade has been highlighted recently with Trump’s cavalier tactics over tariffs and also covers the UK exiting from the EU.
Inventions are less obvious except in the purely Uranian field of tech, AI and the like, less clear where Taurus fits in.
The rise in populism/fascism in recent years also has echoes of the Uranus in Taurus of the 1930s.
Past Uranus in Taurus:
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. Sewage systems and toilets came to the fore.
Trade: In 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.
Climate/disasters: 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.
Inventions: 1767 Uranus in Taurus James Watts’ steam-engine inventions drove the Industrial Revolution into being; and the first mechanical spinning frame for fabric weaving also appeared.
Politics: The previous 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 one of its manifestations; as well as inhumane methods in the pursuit of power.
In the UK: Queen Elizabeth 1 and Elizabeth 11 both die under Uranus in Taurus.
From Hugh in previous post for extended version see 2018 post in search: Key to the UK. Uranus in Taurus between 1515 and 1523 was the start of the Reformation and had huge global significance not just for the UK but also for the entire planet. The Stuart dynasty united the thrones of England and Scotland. Roll the clock forward to the late 1680s and Uranus was in Taurus when the Glorious Revolution occurred. It was there again in the early 1770s in the run up to the American War of Independence and the loss of the American colonies.
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