The creative expression of the Soul of Humanity, sometimes called the “Christ Consciousness” in the West and “Krishna Consciousness” in the East (both names coming from the same etymological root), is the synthesis of all individual human souls.  This collective Presence of Love is also unfolding through its own evolution, a process that takes place throughhumanity.  As It evolves, It allows for an ever increasing possibility for Love to enter our lives.  Our primary job is to create

the Way for the Soul of Humanity to manifest through ourselves and the whole of the human race.

                                                                                                                                     --A.O.            

When we speak about Uranus, we are entering into a field of energy that is by its very nature quite unique.  Uranus is supposed to be a “peculiar entity.”  He is a different globe whose purpose is to make us just as unique, peculiar, and different as he is, according to our own individual karma and destiny.  Even his physical body challenges the systemic norm for the planetary Children of the Sun.  He is the only globe for example that revolves around his solar orbit on his equator (with his north pole always and forever facing the Sun) while all the other planets orbit around the solar system on their polar axis with their equator bulging a bit to meet the solar rays.

         In Greek mythology, Uranus (Ouranos) was called the “sky god” or Father Sky.   He was ancient and timeless.  In fact there was quite the battle between Saturn and Uranus, the results of which will clearly explain the function of Uranus on both our natal charts and lives.  In the astrology of ancient Greece, Saturn is known as “Chronos,” a word meaning “time.”  This is why we refer to Saturn as “Father Time” and it is from his Greek name that we get our words chronology, chronological, chronometer, and chronicle.  All these words refer to “time” and all these terms and items are “ruled” by Saturn. 

         Chronos (time) was the youngest son of Ouranos (timeless).  His mother (and also his sister by the way) was Rhea (the name of Saturn’s second largest Moon). Ouranos had some very interesting parents.  His mother was the earth goddess, Gaia while his father was Aether (the god of the “light of heaven”).   Chronos and Rhea decided to overthrow their father, Ouranos (you cannot kill an immortal god) and they came up with a plan to have Chronos castrate his father.  He did this one day while they were flying over Poseidon’s (Neptune) ocean.   Ouranos’ severed genitalia fell into the water and from the blood and semen were born an entire new generation of Olympian gods and goddesses, new archetypal powers who would themselves eventually overthrow Chronos.  Most interestingly, Aphrodite (Venus) was born out of the combination of Neptune’s waters and Ouranos severed sexual organs!  Perhaps this is one reason why in traditional astrology, Venus is said to be exalted in Neptune-ruled Pisces while in esoteric, soul-centered astrology, Uranus is the ruler of Venus-ruled Libra.  Furthermore as Uranus’ procreative energy could not be stopped even by castration, is it any wonder that Uranus is exalted in the sign of (sexual) regeneration, Scorpio?

         What does this mythological history tell us in astrological terms about the nature of Uranus and his effects upon our natal horoscope and thus out lives?  Due to his amazing generative potency, Ouranos (Father Sky) is also known as “The Father of Archetypes.”  Thus wherever Uranus is placed in our chart, the following indications are present:

1.     Where we are most likely to disregard the norm of the collective (solar system) and orbit around in life the way we wish to do so.  In other words, the place (house) and means (sign) by which we will exhibit our own uniqueness and rebellious spirit.   In essence, where and how we act the part of the “alien.”

2.    Where (house) we are most likely to meet other unusual, rebellious, or just simply, different people and the nature of their differences (sign). The circumstances of our encounters and how we deal with such meetings, is more exactly described by the aspects Uranus makes with any of the other planetary archetypes.

3.    Where (house) and how (sign) people and/or circumstances that are out of the ordinary enter our lives and create important changes and challenges to the status quo.

4.    Where and how we receive “wake-up calls” that tell us we need to change direction.

5.    In terms of the evolution of our consciousness, it is the wise use of Uranian energy that leads us out of the robotic magnetism of our instinctive, biological karma and onto the path of objective and impersonal witnessing of life which is a quality of achieving the path of individualization.  This needs some further explanation.

   The development of consciousness requires that we move from the personal through the impersonal and into the transpersonal.  As this process unfolds we become increasingly detached from the psychic umbilical cord that is defined by the nature of the Moon in the natal map.  This (loving) detachment then allows us to become increasingly attached and self-identified with the Nature of the Soul. Once anchored firmly in this place of Love, we are allowed move on further into the “Father’s House,” the Divinity that dwells latently inside of each one of us until our awakening wakes It up.  This is referred to in the Ancient Wisdom Teachings as “The Jewel within the Lotus.”  The awareness of this Jewel is the goal of the Spiritual Path.

     How does this all relate to Uranus and its position in the natal map? There are two major energetic polarities in this respect:  the interplay of Uranus and the Sun is one, and the dynamics of the interchange between the signs Aquarius and Leo is the other.  The Sun is the energy of all life; it is very impersonal.  It only becomes personal as we evolve an individual relationship with it, i.e. to the Creative Source of our own and all Life.  This cannot be successfully accomplished when we are trapped inside the lunar forces that are centered in the solar plexus.  Indeed the heart (Sun) cannot truly open while the solar plexus is consuming and giving form our creative vitality.  This is because the only forms that will result are ancient, pre-molded by the nature of our genes and chromosomes and consequently the psychological patterns inherited from “the shadows of forgotten ancestors” (and in the case of our parents and grandparents, these ancestors are quite well remembered!).

         The energies of Uranus when used correctly, free us from the repetitive nature of this lunar prison (allowing us to keep what has indeed been redeemed by love and is thus has become a part of our creative consciousness or “soul matter”).  Uranus takes the vital solar energy of our creative Source and allows us to form it according the archetypes that are alive and being birthed through our soul, our Higher Self.  These “higher archetypes” are our personal gods and goddesses, powers within us that free us from repeating the past and opening our way to a much more conscious and individuated participation in life. This shifting of focus is our individual “revolution in consciousness.”  This is Uranus at work in us.  

At first this process alienates us from our parents (unless they themselves are conscious and embracing human beings):  “Where did she come from?” says mom.  “She does not resemble my side of the family, she must come from your side,” says mom to dad.  “Not my side!” says dad.  “Are you sure we did not adopt her or find her under a tree?”

         As the energies of Uranus grow stronger, especially from adolescence and on into our 20’s when the potency of Mars and our sexual hormones drive and motivate our behavior (remember Uranus is exalted in Mars’ sign, Scorpio), we not only become alienated from our family, but from the collective surrounding society in which we have been raised.  We then seek to join religious or political groups and social movements that call and respond to our sense of difference.  These groups allow us the opportunity to try to change that society and/or to rebel against our originating religious or social upbringing.  There are other young  people who begin to travel the world in search of other aliens like themselves and  experiment with those cultures totally different to their own, cultures where they may feel more “at home” and more themselves.

         In many cases, this “Uranian rush” for individualizing experiences does not happen or is prevented in youth.  Instead it can happen later on in life during a very strong and always long-lasting transit of Uranus, bringing the profound need to break totally with current routine and existing life styles and habits.  Such transiting aspects include (but are certainly not limited to) Uranus crossing the Ascendant, square or conjunct the Sun,  Moon or 4th house cusp, and we should not forget the Uranus/Uranus opposition at around the age of 40-42 which signals the onset of the “mid-life crisis.”  In all such cases, Uranus is saying to the Sun: “Hey Father Sun, this is the ‘Father of Archetype’ speaking and you know what?  I have got to use your solar vitality so that I may become ME!” 

This “me-ness” may however be centered in Leo and not in Aquarius and to travel from the former to the later, the mid-point between the two must be traversed.  This portal of course bears the name tag, “Scorpio.”  Leo embodies the principle of the creation of a dynamic personality, one that when it reaches perfection, is capable of not only functioning well in terms of the physical, emotional, and rational (lower) mental bodies, but also actively creating from the synthesis of these three.  But things stop there.  Unless Leo moves through the portals of Scorpio so that the personality/ego dies to its identification with itself as a separate unit, what the Leo personality will creatively generate is only more personality!  Look at the world around you and you will see many such personalities.  The sign matters not, the process of the creation of a creatively generating personality is Leonean by nature.  It is characterized by narcissism, the need to be noticed, as well as very often a considerable amount of talent or at the very least, the pretense of having same (and which most people perceive as “real”).  Most film and rock stars have it as does the wave of reality TV and social media
“star personalities.”  Leo, Leo, Leo and more Leo!  (Note: To my Leo friends who have become soul-infused and are already in consciously creative partnerships with Life, I am not writing about you, but then again, because you have long ago passed this stage and have dived into and come out reborn from the waters of the Scorpion, you are not taking what I am saying “personally.” If you are, it is time for another “dip.”)

But what takes place when there is a negative interplay between these planets and signs on collective levels?  One doesn’t have to look very far to find some examples, examples that illustrate what happens when the collective archetype of the Leo/Aquarius polarity goes wrong. Here are a few:

1.    Political cults of personality.  This is when the individual ceases to individuate from the level of the soul and instead individualizes his or her participation relative to the needs of a fascist state.  The state is run by a figure-head impersonating the Godhead, so that each member of that society does his or her part but only within the designated structure of that brand of cult-worshiping fascism.  Examples:  North Korea at present, the USSR during the time of Stalin, Germany during the Nazi era, and Cambodia during the Pol Pot regime. 

2.    Religious cults of personality: On smaller scales but occupying the same archetype are such un-evolved Aquarian groups with leonine leaders that went through the doors of Scorpio only to come back to Leo as sexually obsessed and definitely narcissistic.  Examples: David Koresh and The Branch Davidians, Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple as well as the men of ISIS, the Taliban, and Al-Qaeda who enslave countless men and women in the name of divinity.

3.    Collective madness.  This occurs when the individual yields his or her life force up to a collective that is based upon anarchy (the extreme of negative Uranian energy) and is anchored in the solar plexus and the other two lower chakras.  Examples:  The New Year’s Eve attack on the women on Cologne, Germany; European and South American footballers gone mad; riots at USA rock concerts…And these sad lists just go on and on.

When the true Uranian of any of the 12 signs emerges into the state of being that we can correctly call “Aquarian”, the process of individuation is well on its way to achieving its goals.  These are:

1.    An individualized real talent.  This can be as a fireman or a fire-walker, as a farmer or a food server, as a stay-at-home mom or as a working mother.  The quality of a real talent is that one is conscious about what one is doing.  Thus whatever a person does in life, the purpose is to bring consciousness to others, this is love-in-action.

2.    The awareness of being one with the collective functioning at times as a separate unit but no longer believing that “I am separate.”  Thus the more individuated, the more “Uranian”, the more alien one becomes, the more universal and inclusive is one’s frame of reference.

3.    I am Me but I am also You.  I am myself but I am also one with The Self.  I am always part of the Whole but I can function as an individual.

4.    I live in a place both within me and outside of me that declares: “I am impersonal to all things that are personal and personal to all things that are impersonal.”

       This positive interplay between the Sun and Uranus and between Leo and Aquarius is at the very core of the collective archetype of the Aquarian Age human being.  This is a person who through his or her participation within collective processes for the benefit of the whole of humanity, grows and prospers.  In fact, such collective participation only furthers his or her individual path of being oneself.  In this sense, the collective benefits from the individual while the individual benefits from his or her participation in the groups, organizations, and processes of the collective.  Positive examples of this Leo/Aquarius relationship may be found in the doctors and health workers within Doctors without Borders; the incredibly brave men and women who have so many developed and highly individuated real talents who give themselves to Save the Whales, Greenpeace, UNESCO, Habitat for Humanity, the World Hunger Project and so many more great and wonderful groups and organizations.