Uranus in astrology
Uranus is the planet of change you did not plan. It stays about seven years in a sign, so it marks a generation more than a person, until it touches a planet in your chart.
What Uranus means
Uranus stands for freedom, invention, shock and waking up. Where it sits in your chart, you do not want to do things the usual way. When it crosses one of your planets, something that was stuck breaks loose. The break can feel like bad luck at first and like relief a year later.
A planet found with a telescope
William Herschel found Uranus in 1781, the first planet that no one had seen with the naked eye. Astrologers gave it the meanings of its time: revolution in America and France, and the machines of a new age.
Uranus in your chart
Uranus goes around the zodiac in about 84 years. It squares its own place in your chart around age 21, opposes it around 42 and returns around 84. The opposition is the midlife turn: see Uranus opposite Uranus.
Where Uranus is now
On Nov 6, 2026, Uranus is at 4°28′ Gemini, retrograde. Next, Uranus turns direct on .
Times are in UTC.
Uranus in each sign
- Uranus in Aries: A generation that breaks new ground.
- Uranus in Taurus: A generation that changes money and values.
- Uranus in Gemini: A generation that changes how we talk.
- Uranus in Cancer: A generation that remakes home and family.
- Uranus in Leo: A generation that demands to be itself.
- Uranus in Virgo: A generation that remakes work and health.
- Uranus in Libra: A generation that remakes relationships.
- Uranus in Scorpio: A generation that brings hidden things to light.
- Uranus in Sagittarius: A generation that remakes belief and travel.
- Uranus in Capricorn: A generation that rebuilds structures.
- Uranus in Aquarius: A generation of reformers and inventors.
- Uranus in Pisces: A generation that remakes faith and art.
Uranus transits
- Uranus conjunct Sun: Once in a life, a sudden new self.
- Uranus opposite Sun: Change that arrives through other people.
- Uranus opposite Uranus: The midlife wake-up, around age 40 to 44.
- Uranus return: Around 84, a late and strange freedom.
- Uranus square Sun: Restless years that break a pattern.
- Uranus square Uranus: Around 20, the break from the script.
In the app
- Uranus. Uranus is the lightning bolt — sudden change, rebellion, the urge to break whatever has become too small. Where it sits in your chart is where you refuse to follow the script.
Calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris, tropical zodiac. Updated Nov 6, 2026.
Where is Uranus in your chart?
Uranus’s sign is only half of it. Its house and the planets it touches come from your birth time and place. Solstice works them out and talks with you about what they mean.
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