Astrology Tutorial: Retrograde Planets, A Summer Overview, part 3: Uranus

Today's astrology tutorial: retrograde Uranus, summer 20008.

Uranus is strolling "backward" through Pisces, currently at 22 degrees. He'll keep moving until coming to station at 18 degrees Pisces on Thanksgiving day: November 27, slightly after 4 pm GMT. What can we expect in the interim?

Personally, of course, the way that plays out depends on which house, or houses, Pisces occupies in your birth chart. Drum roll, please, while we look at what it implies more collectively.

For one thing, there's Uranus retrograde signifying a smoothing out of erratic, perhaps violent, behavior. Currently, there's growing public sentiment that it's time to ratchet-down the activities of the war (both Uranus and Pluto) machine (Uranus, again). Could we be in the midst of backstage plans being created -- even now, in the dog days of summer -- to honor our commitment to world leadership, to international relations, and to our troops, by bringing those troops home?

Then there are the archetypes of Uranus as Visionary, Uranus as Outsider, and the blue lightning bolt of Uranian clarity. Are we getting a cosmic photo of Barack Obama here?

Of course, I'm always aware of Uranus as The Unexpected, so though, in Pisces, Uranus retrograde can be easily interpreted as "unusually smooth sailing", I also know better than to make a prediction based on any single transit alone.

Especially when that transit coincides with my hopes and dreams (Pisces again). It would be just too easy to fall into wish fulfillment here instead of astrology, so it's time to bring this post to a close before I step over my ethical boundaries!

Look for retrograde Pluto as the topic for my next post. He goes to station, then direct, a little more than a month from now.