Uranus Guiding Planet

You are the sort of person who wants to revolutionize — or at least

update and improve — whatever you touch. If you also possess

insight and communication skills, you have the makings of a successful

innovator. For you, it might not even matter much what you are

innovating, discovering or revolutionizing, as long as you are effecting

change! You may best meet problems or difficulties by seeking ingenious

new solutions.

You have a knack for drawing criticism from conservative people who

resent change, who like things just the way they are. That goes with the

territory, but at times it might be productive to cultivate people skills,

stability, perseverance and patience. More than most, you may find it

difficult to "fit in" and many Uranus Skill Symbol people invent their own

place in the world, often without precedent. A Uranian element of

constant change and mutation may be evident in your personality and

activities, which may bewildered others who can’t see the pattern and

continuity beneath the surface.

As Guiding Planet, Uranus lets you know what needs to be shaken

up; what’s out-moded and in the way, especially in the social and political

sphere. More than most others, Uranus Guiding Planet people are often

dissatisfied with themselves, their place in the world, and with general

conditions. This is because Uranus lets them know in some definite yet

unexplained way that things could be better, yet it doesn’t necessarily

give much insight into how to manage things "after the revolution."

Acquiring a historical and philosophical perspective may bring a better

balance.

The natal horoscope of Beat writer and author of Dharma

Bums and On the Road, Jack Kerouac, features Uranus Oriental, rising

eleven degrees before a Piscean Sun. Uranus is near the Descendant and

opposite the Moon, which is near the Ascendant, and squares from both

planets to Mars at the nadir complete a well-defined T-Square formation.

As mentioned earlier, the Guiding Planet doesn’t tell the whole story,

and one needs to tune into the chart as a whole and how the Oriental

Planet fits into the whole picture. Regardless of how great and wonderful

our potential and innate talent, unneutralized core issues may rise time

and time again as obstacles preventing us from realizing our birth

potential, or they may take the form of unconscious, self-sabotaging

syndromes. Core-issue humanistic astrology — the harder ("harder" as in

penetrating, powerful and effective, but easy in terms of application) form

of humanistic astrology I’ve developed over the past three decades — is

especially suited to recognizing where our core issues lie and how to deal

with them. Core-issue humanistic astrology is also highly effective in

helping the psychologically savvy discover the origins and nature of

psychological complexes and personality disorders. It can help us

neutralize core issues, psychological complexes and disorders, transmuting

the immense psychic energy these conditions keep locked-up in rigid

psychological patterns, rechannelling energies and power for self-

realization and transformation.

Kerouac, the most macho of the Beats, was a Catholic mystic of

sorts and evidently deeply conflicted in certain areas of his psychology

and sexuality — he lived most of his life with his mother and she was one

of the very few women with whom he seemed to have a truly close

relationship. Although Kerouac exemplified and popularized the Beat spirit

during the early years of his career, he later became somewhat alienated

from his early comrades and highly critical of the involvement of Allen

Ginsberg and Neal Cassady in the psychedelic culture of the mid-60s,

perhaps because the two were attracting a large number of young people

and were becoming prime movers of the emergent counterculture.

Paul Verlaine, another writer and poet whose lifestyle was as

controversial, unconventional, and scandalous during his time as that of

the Beats, was also born when Uranus was Oriental. He is most

remembered today for his tumultuous homosexual liaison with poet Arthur

Rimbaud.

The birth-charts of a rather extraordinary number of highly

successful, visible women born during the 1940s and the early-1950s

feature Uranus as the Planet of Oriental Appearance, and in many ways

they seem to epitomize the spirit of their generation. Examples include

vocalist Nancy Sinatra, singer turned actress Michelle Phillips of the

Mamas and the Papas, actress turned singer Deborah Harry of the New

Wave group Blondie, actress Anjelica Huston and early LSD researcher

and leading figure in the human potential movement, Jean Houston.

In the birth-chart of Nancy Sinatra, Uranus rises twenty-four

degrees before the Sun; it trines a second house Neptune and forms

septiles to planets in a loaded twelfth house.Michelle Phillips, who

epitomized the hippie chick of the 1960s, was born with the Sun and

Oriental Uranus in Gemini, straddling a Gemini Ascendant. Uranus is close

to the Sun and even closer to Venus, which rises less than two degrees

before it. Yet, again, the Guiding Planet doesn’t tell the whole story, in

Michelle’s later life her natal Jupiter in Leo conjunct the Nadir seems to

exert a powerful pull, perhaps setting her direction. Deborah Harry, who

made it big in the rock music business by taking the New Wave scene by

storm while in her early-thirties, was born with a Cancer Sun conjunct the

north lunar node and near Saturn, with Uranus Oriental, near the

Midheaven, rising twenty-five degrees earlier. It is at the apex of a

"wannabee" T-Square, forming a square to Jupiter on the Ascendant,

which is opposite a Piscean Moon in the seventh house. Anjelica

Houston’s natal chart shows Uranus Oriental in the seventh house, and

it is the apex of a real T-Square with a powerful Jupiter-Neptune

opposition across the meridian. The birth-chart of Jean Houston has

Uranus Oriental rising less than two degrees before the Sun. The pair are

in the ninth house, forming a Grand Tine with Neptune close to the

Ascendant and Mars in the fifth house. Where’sJane Fonda? Her birth-

chart features Venus Oriental.

The natal horoscope of another singer turned actress, the iconic and

ever-changing Madonna, has Uranus Oriental, rising eleven degrees

before the Sun. Both the Sun and Uranus are in Leo, situated in the

twelfth house with Pluto and Mercury in Virgo. Notably, Moon is just

below the Ascendant in Virgo. Madonna, Deborah Harry and Michelle

Phillips have more in common than just Uranus as Guiding Planet and their

dual singer-actress careers — all three have Venus rising immediately

before Oriental Uranus. Another example of Uranus Oriental is provided by

the birth-chart of Winona Ryder. The daughter of psychedelic scholars

and historians, Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer, Winona is an "acid

baby" who spent much of her early life living on a commune and visiting

her father’s friends and associates.