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Uranus in Scorpio

radical honesty · broken taboos · intense change · deep upheaval

Under Uranus in Scorpio, a generation tends to drag hidden things into the light: power, sex, death, money held in common and whatever a culture prefers not to discuss. The placement is shared by everyone born over around seven years, so it describes a collective intensity rather than your own nature; the house and aspects of your Uranus are the personal part.

There is often a fearless curiosity about the depths and a refusal to keep polite secrets. At best, that brings honest transformation and the nerve to change what is stuck at the root. At worst, it can bring all-or-nothing upheavals or a suspicion of anything calm. Letting change happen in stages, with care for what each stage costs, usually works better than tearing everything down at once.

The basics

Uranus (change, freedom, originality): Sudden change and awakening; independence, invention and the urge to break from convention. Discovered 1781.

Scorpio (Water, fixed; ruled by Mars (traditional); Pluto (modern)): depth, intensity, loyalty.

Uranus in the other signs

Other points in Scorpio

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Original interpretation written for Scryway from common modern Western astrology. A description of tendencies for reflection, not a prediction.