Uranus Opposition: Midlife Transits

After the disorientation of the Neptune square in midlife, where disillusionment and longing for something more often kicks in, the Uranus opposition can often be the catalyst for change. Barbara Hand Clow describes this midlife transit as Kundalini Rising. This transit is what most people refer to when they talk about the mid-life crisis, when someone suddenly does something uncharacteristic like leaving their wife for a much younger woman or when someone suddenly buys a fancy sports car. These were the stories I grew up with anyway. I always heard about these stories from the male perspective and never the female. 

During my own Uranus Opposition, I moved across the country. As I would later find out, a sudden move is a typical Uranus opposition thing to do. To be fair, I had been wanting to get out of NYC for some time but it was only during this transit that I felt the guts to just do it. A series of events happened right before this that made this decision seem like the only option for survival at the time. In late 2017, I found out my father was dying from stage 4 lung cancer. By March, he was gone. I made the decision to move before he died, but we didn’t actually move until late July, 2018. Guess when my Uranus Opposition exactly hit? July 22, 2018. I did not start digging into astrology until late 2019 so I had no idea until I started the journey of tracking my cycles.

It is during this time, we are reminded of our mortality. As females, our biological clock is kicking in overdrive as the window of opportunity to reproduce is quickly closing. We are biologically driven to respond to this moment in ways that can be alarming to those around us. It is a time to shake things up to make sure we are living according to our individual purpose rather than in conformity to societal expectations. 

“Kundalini is the Earth’s natural life energy, which flows through each of us more intensely at the moment of Uranus' opposition. However, our evolution into self-reflection has resulted in profound blocks in our energy conduits: the chakras, spine, and meridians. Living beings are meant to be connectors through which energy is transmitted, due to the electromagnetic flow of waves traveling at the speed of light from the Sun. We are destined to be co-creators, existing in the magnetic gravitational field of Earth as Uranus greens the life-forms with electrical sparking. 

The way to facilitate our evolution now is to gently allow kundalini to rise naturally at midlife, realizing that the electrical force of Uranus maximizes our connectivity at Uranus Opposition. The crisis at this time signals our need to fuse Earth and sky right in our own bodies. A fully resolved Uranus Opposition balances sexual polarization, as males integrate their inner female and women their inner male. True connection is the result of the union of positive and negative electrical energies, and the feminine principle receives, or is negative, while the male principle projects, or is positive. This is why the issue at midlife for men is to open the heart and find the anima; for women, it is to open the throat chakra to activate the animus. We need to heal the looming wounded Uranus by integrating male and female within. We all need Uranus as lover and not as father” - Barbara Hand Clow, Astrology and the Rising Kundalini

This time need not be destructive, but the purpose is to get us unstuck, especially if our life is making us miserable. During this time, we finally have the energy to break free from limiting beliefs and unhealthy patterns. It is helpful if you can bring awareness to this time so you can channel these energies in a productive way. Even though I had no idea what was happening to me at the time, I was deeply miserable at the time and I needed to make crucial changes to my life. After my move, I went on an extended spiritual journey and gave up a drinking habit that had gotten out of control. I revisited my spiritual roots and healed this part of me that had been damaged in childhood. Even though it was a chaotic and very challenging time in my life, it was also a period of tremendous mental and spiritual growth.