As an astrologer, I have a unique perspective on my natal chart. I know every corner of it intimately and yet, after all these years, it still continues to reveal its secrets. I can also peer into the future and have a fairly accurate idea of what’s on my horizon. I say “fairly” because even a good astrologer is going to have a blind spot when it comes to his or her own natal chart. Things will hide in plain sight. And so I’ve watched over the last few years as Uranus, planet of shocks and sudden events, slowly gained ground on my natal IC at 16 degrees Aries. I’ve been, admittedly, quietly nervous with anticipation.
Outer planet transits are a Big Deal. They are agents of a force much bigger than us and speak to a process that often feels fated. Having survived a Pluto transit in my late 20s (barely), I’ve been a little gun shy when it comes to sweeping forces of change (I am a fixed sign after all) and the IC, one of the four chart angles, is a sensitive point that roots the natal chart with themes of home, family, and nurturing. What will happen, I wondered? A move? With my natal Mars in Sagittarius, will I suddenly find myself in a foreign land? I even asked my colleagues. Commenting on her own experience of Uranus to the IC, a close astrologer friend said she was an insomniac for a year. Great. Awesome.
Even though I knew it was coming, the transit sort of snuck up on me. For some reason I thought Uranus wouldn’t get to 16 Aries until 2015. So it was a surprise when I realized that Uranus would spend nearly two months at 16 Aries and station on July 21, 2014 — right smack dab on my IC, almost to the arc minute.
Ay dios mio. It’s here.
I started looking around for tell tale signs of Uranus at work. Such as, who or what event would bear the hallmarks of the planet of revolution, vision, and change? (Edit: With natal Uranus conjunct my Scorpio Sun, I am the revolution.) It wasn’t until the days after the Uranus station that I realized how the transit would announce itself and the answer was in my natal chart.
I have 22 Sagittarius rising. Mercury (17), Neptune (17), and Mars (11), all in Sagittarius, are tucked in the 12th House (Placidus). I should have known better and realized that any transit will always trace back to the natal position, especially the ruler of the transit — Mars. And how has Uranus in Aries on the IC manifested? Like someone turned up my psychic abilities up 1,000 percent. Suddenly I’m channeling for clients, talking to ghosts, clearing two soul fragments, and reading the Akashic Records. Oh, and apparently I’m an animal communicator as well. At one point, while visiting a friend out of town, I got a clear message from Spirit to ask her if there was a local crystal shop because I was supposed to go there. Turns out there was. She took me to the shop and where I was guided to a phantom quartz crystal. When I put it into my hands, I felt a current of electricity run through my auric field. I quickly purchased it.
Boom. Uranus on the IC.
This thing isn’t over yet. Uranus won’t cross 16 Aries completely until April 2015. I’m sure there is more to discover but, wow, I was not expecting my connection to Spirit to get stronger. Let’s not forget that Saturn stationed at 16 Scorpio just the day before Uranus. That one has been a little more mundane. I bought a new couch.
My sun is 16 degrees Aries (Gemini moon, Leo rising). Yikes, any advice?
What if someone has Venus at 16 degrees Aries? What would you expect this next year?
my venus(ruling planet) is in the 12th house at 16 aries….still just watching it unfold….pluto is exactly trining my mercury, also in 12th house… very interesting..also uranus square uranus…and more!!! we will see how it all shakes out…i enjoy your insights..
Ha ha, your experience sounds great, Katie! My natal IC is in 10th degrees Aries and I went ahead to live abroad for six months. I’ve also felt my senses sharpen. My energies are telling me to get away from most of the people. It’s almost like I’ve found myself in a life situation which is like kryptonite and I need to fix it and get away! I’ve turned into a hermit who is diligently trying to reach her goals with much less energy than before.
I’m wondering how is the connection with Mars showing? I have the warrior planet in Capricorn in my second house.
My Mars is in the 12th conjunct Neptune and Mercury in Sagittarius — trine Jupiter and square Saturn. So I learned a valuable lesson as an astrologer: the nature of the transit will always connect back, first and foremost, to the natal placement.
Your experiences of this Uranus transit are extremely similar to my own. I have a moon at 16 degrees of Aries in my 12th house. 5 deg Taurus ASC. 7 deg Scorpio sun conjunct venus. Uranus (3 deg) Neptune (26 deg) and Mars (29 deg) are all in Sag located in my Natal 8th house. Intense psychic and spiritual awakenings abound!
Hi, I have Sun at 16 Aries too, with the added joy of Saturn being conjunct at 15.
I’m Libra rising, so have this massive Uranus energy hitting me in my 7th. After 18 years, it looks as though my wife and I are parting company. It’s been painful and it’s not over yet; there’s a lot of talking to do. While it doesn’t exactly come out of the blue, it is, at the same time, shocking. Uranus arrives retrograding at 16 tomorrow. I wonder what will happen when it goes direct around Christmas.
Here’s my Uranus transit story. My brother has 3° Sag Sun. I have 3° Sag Uranus. My IC is 17 Aries. He came to visit me last month and had a rash which his doctor misdiagnosed. Turns out he’d picked up Scabies from the home he bought. Guess who else got it? Yours truly, and both my kids. We are in treatment and our house has been turned upside down. URANUS is for REAL.
Gosh, now i’m kind of scared. Uranus is approaching my IC in Aries at 21 degrees. I don’t have a very nice natal Mars to start with… It’s in 9 degrees leo, in my 7th house, conjoined by my sun and mercury, opposing my jupiter in aquarius in the 1st, squaring my moon in taurus (4th), and pluto in scorpio (10th)… It looks like its going to shake everything up, would that be so? I hope my Capricorn rising can take matters into its own hands and reign in this influence a little bit. My Natal Uranus is in Sag (11th) And trines my sun/mars/mercury conjunction and also my jupiter… Will that help?
Wow! Right now Uranus is at 23 degrees Aries and it’s sextile my Midheaven at 24 Gemini and trine my IC, while also forming a trine with my Mars Saturn conjunction in my 12th in Leo at 24 degrees. Guess I’ll be moving more towards the spiritual realm and materializing it in a form of my career/vocation. Relocation possible as well? This is the first pass of Uranus across those degrees. I’ll have these transits all the way to end 2017. Tons of unexpected events coming my way I guess.
What a great insight into Uranus crossing the IC. So what happened after it crossed the IC? What changes came about ? Just curious since this is now past 🙂
Good question. Maybe it’s worth another article. But, in short, my whole connection to this world, my grounding, my roots, how I emotionally connect with people radically changed. Aries is also my whole sign 5th House and it’s been a revolution of self, an opening and awakening of creativity and self expression. I’m not the same person I was in 2014 when Uranus first approached. Lastly, I met my spiritual family. (I have Mars in the 12th conjunct Neptune and Mercury, which rules my Moon.)
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. What do you mean by spiritual family? I see the relation between IC and family.
Also, is Mars the ruler of Uranus Transit the IC because its in Aries?
Thanks again for sharing ýour thoughts and experience.
Hi Katie,
My natal IC is at 29 degees Aries and Uranus will be crossing it very soon. I just happened to come across your website and was wondering what you think could happen when Uranus crosses an angle. I guess I will know soon enough, but would like to prepare.
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
Lily
PS: Saturn also just crossed my ASC, progressed sun is conjunct my MC and north node transit is conjunct my natal south node, POF and opposite my natal Mars…. Yikes !
Nice article 🙂 I love Uranus, I’ve got it natally conjunct my IC (also Scorpio). It’s interesting to read how others experience this as transit. Also curious how it will manifest when transiting my MC.
“Commenting on her own experience of Uranus to the IC, a close astrologer friend said she was an insomniac for a year.“ That sounds about right… I’m in this transit currently, it should end with the third and last pass over my IC in March 2019. Until now, it’s essentially been “annus horribilis”; my mother who was living with myself and my son got very ill and passed away within a 4 month period (1st pass over my IC) affecting much on the home front, my brother went MIA from our lives right after, other important people in my son’s life disappeared from the radar, I have been ill throughout the year with very little energy most of the time, I did not get a more than well deserved promotion at work (and am now trying to find another job) (2nd pass over my IC) and have had a medical condition suddenly appear from out of nowhere last March which prevents me from sleeping properly at night most nights… it’s been a difficult year, and I’m used to difficult, having had Pluto transit my ascendant about 10 years ago. Looking forward to the third and last pass over my IC, but then I should have the opposition of Uranus to the natal placement coming my way shortly enough…
I am having a painful uranus transit since 2015 that hit my mc in Aries. Pluto from Capricorn since 2008 in my 6H has made employment a nightmare having to take up jobs way below my skills and abilities so Uranus pulled me out of these circumstances where I didn’t belong.
It liberated me on one hand but left me without an alternative. It’s insane, leaving me without resources to survive. I want it to get out of my 10H and stop hitting all my personal planets I had ENOUGH!!!