I’ve been reading Liz Greene’s book ‘The Art of Stealing Fire’ about Uranus and already had some powerful insights on the archetypal energy that the planet represents. She starts by saying that in her perspective, contrary to what we find in many astrology text books, there is nothing individual about Uranus. According to Liz Greene all of the outer planets represent collective yearnings and impulses that are best mediated by a strong (healthy) ego rather than the person being identified/possessed by it.
In her words: ‘Human nature, without individual consciousness and reflection, cannot contain Uranian vision, which tends to break loose and overwhelm the powers of individual reason and individual feeling.’
I resonate with that, and looking back in my life I feel that there were many moments where I unconsciously had a reaction based much more in ideas and visions rather than how I was truly feeling. I feel that the masculine has somehow overpowered the feminine in me over and over again, especially before my Saturn Return in 2012. (Uranus is conjunct Mars [my chart ruler] in the first house, square Sun/Mercury in the 10th, and opposite Chiron in the 7th).
Further in the book, on Uranian people’s difficulty in expressing feelings, Greene says : ‘Something inside keeps saying, “Don’t get stuck in all that emotional glue, keep the door open so you can leave if you have to.” (…) I think Uranus shuts itself up, because the expression of personal feeling binds us to other people, and the daimon wants us to be ready with our luggage packed and our tickets and passports in our hands.’ This quote really summarises how I dealt with attachments many times, wanting to suddenly break them and just walk away. There is a strong impulse in me that feels pretty much like what she describes in the book.
It has been a journey making this part (the one represented by the strong Uranus in my chart) conscious and stopping identifying with it as ‘myself’.
At the moment, for the last three years, I have attracted a partner that is also highly Uranian and he somehow had been carrying a lot of the rational, logical, removed from human emotions type of inclinations for me. It’s just recently, after we separately went to see a jungian therapist astrologer, that it somehow dawned on me what was going on. (or at least one layer of it all!)
So now, even finding this book by Liz Greene in a shop in Glastonbury for a very good price seems to be reflecting this new understanding that perhaps Im ready to embrace… I don’t know. But I silently stop blaming him for the lack of ‘human connection’ in our relationship.
Another fantastic post! X I’d love to read that book! I’ll have to add it to my list. Definitely dealing with things by wanting to leave. Must be all my Aq stuff and my Jupiter–Uranus which sextiles it!!
So have you gone your separate ways? X
Ahh, thank you so much for reading it. No, interestingly, in a very Uranian fashion, we are somehow building our relationship in peculiar ways. It does not follow the rule of what a relationship is or how usually looks like. It has always been hard to pin down and define it. I can imagine all the aquarian stuff having a very similar flavour, plus Uranus is transiting some of your personal planets no? how are you managing not to leave? 🙂 xx
It’s challenging but I’m managing things so far. Constant change and not knowing which way I’m headed each day seems to add the variety which Uranus demands. I’m totally immersing myself in Astro land as well!! Which helps.
Having Uranus in Sag close to the DC and Venus in Aq, I am someone who needs freedom and unconventionality in my relationships. I think it’s important to remember that no one has a normal relationship. And the second my one would seem normal would probably be the day I would leave! haha xx
Good work! Blame is *always* a dead end, but it’s a closed ecosystem and the exit is very hard to find.
I think that to stop blaming is very empowering, even if difficult to start perceiving things from a different perspective… somehow very liberating because you know that the work is within.
Good work! Blame is *always* a dead end, but it’s a closed ecosystem and the exit is very hard to find.
I think that to stop blaming is very empowering, even if difficult to start perceiving things from a different perspective… somehow very liberating because you know that the work is within.
Reblogged this on Psychoanalysis today.
Thank you so much for the reblog 🙂
Thank you so much for the reblog 🙂