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Astrology:
Excerpt from Donna's e-book:
An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness: 2005 Edition
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Those Feisty Mars-Uranus Aspects:
It Gets Mellower at Midlife!
©2006 by Donna Cunningham.
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by Donna Cunningham, MSW |
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Note: The following is an excerpt from Donna’s new book, The Outer Planets and Inner Live, Volume 2: Outer Planet Aspects to Venus and Mars, available at:
http://www.moonmavenpublications.com/
Blending keywords for Mars and for Uranus, we come up with evocative combinations that give a sense of the aspects’ range of possibilities:
Visionary pioneer, inventive adventurer, rash innovator
Daring eccentric, brilliant leader, unconventional competitor
Bold outlaw, angry iconoclast, explosive athlete
Exciting challenger, brainy warrior, aggressive nonconformist
As you can see, these are not likely to be everyday people, but extraordinary, and are bound to be noticed, whether for their deeds or misdeeds. Many Uranians carry a sort of electric charge that makes them high-strung and excitable, and the Mars variety of Uranian can have an excess of physical and sexual tension that begs to be channeled into constructive outlets. When the tension has no outlet or when hide-bound Mars–Uranus individuals encounter resistance to their drives or desires, they may express anger explosively. Whether they’re prone to do so verbally or physically depends on the total astrological picture: Mars in an air sign, for instance, is more inclined to verbal outbursts of a caustic nature, while Mars in a fire sign might need a more physical or sexual outlet.
For Uranian types like bikers, outlaws, or radicals, the "enemy" is often seen as the authorities or society as a whole. Mars adds a distinct flavor of feistiness, or even downright combativeness. The reckless provocateurs among them can challenge authority or the norm aggressively. There’s much in today’s world that needs challenging, and yet their way of going about it often raises hackles, for they can be provocative and arrogant, trying to bring about change through conquest rather than accord.
The Loooooong Conjunction of 2003:
Parents, grandparents, and educators will be wondering about the children born under the Mars-Uranus conjunction in Pisces during 2003. It was within an 8° orb from mid-June to mid October—an unusually long time—because of the retrograde and direct motions of both planets. (The prior conjunctions in Pisces in 1922, 1924, and 1926 lasted no more than two weeks each.) Those who came on board from August through October, 2003, also have Jupiter in early Virgo, opposing—and inflating—this combination. A final indication of how remarkable this celestial event must be is that Mars was closer to the earth at that time than it had been in thousands of years.
According to long-range census statistics, the birth rate consistently forms a large spike from May to October each year, so there were a vast number of babies born with this aspect.[1] A rough estimate would be that 1.5 million children were born in the U.S. alone with this combination. Imagine the kindergarten classrooms of 2008, crammed full of Mars–Uranus baby bikers bouncing off the walls. We haven’t seen hyperactive yet! Elementary school staff may want to begin rethinking their career path—or investing in shin guards. I can’t help but believe, given the ways our world is unfolding at this time, that there’s a good reason for this unusually lengthy conjunction falling at the yearly peak of the births and that our world is going to need these feisty warriors when they come of age. Those with Mars–Uranus conjunctions seem to have an urgent need to exercise their inalienable right to be who they are, with more of a chip on the shoulder about it than those with the square.
Midlife—Turning the Tide with Mars and Uranus
As with other outer planet aspects to Mars, the midlife cycle can be a window for people with Mars-Uranus aspects to bottom out on any ways the combination is being used destructively and to change to more constructive uses. That would be during the intervals when transiting Uranus is in the sign opposite its natal position. Many celebrities of the subgeneration with the 1960s conjunction of Pluto and Uranus in Virgo have used the midlife aspects of transiting Uranus’s opposition to natal Uranus positively, with great accomplishments. Both Johnny Depp and Robert Downey, Jr. have Mars conjunct Uranus and Pluto, and both went through extremely self-destructive phases, yet both seemed to come into their own a midlife.
I’ve often observed that at midlife, strongly Uranian people who have been using that planet’s energies self-destructively seem to bottom out on the destructive patterns and find more constructive ways to use their Uranian abilities and desires. Sometimes it takes a meltdown of the type Downey lived out, but many others reach an accord with Uranus’ demands through reflection and conscious choice. A very fine astrologer, Doris Hebel was one of the first to lecture about the midlife cycle, and what she said about the Uranus-Uranus opposition captured it all: “It’s like a wave that has gone as far out from shore as it can, and now it has to turn back.”
Since Mars is the planet most physically related to maleness, it’s intriguing to consider whether the Uranus opposition at midlife is at all related to the idea of a male menopause with a reduction in male hormones. For many years, medical experts (mostly male) rejected the idea, although wives—and ex-wives—insisted that their husbands went through it in their 40s, citing the prevalence of sports car purchases, affairs, and new trophy wives as evidence. Lately, it seems the experts are more receptive to the idea and they’ve begun to investigate it.
The changes men go through at midlife are unsettling, but they do settle down eventually. For Mars-Uranus types, if there is in fact a shift in male hormones, perhaps this is part of what helps them to chill out on the more volatile expressions of that aspect and begin to cultivate the constructive expressions.
When exploring a planetary pair in depth, I always wind up feeling that we’ve barely scratched the surface. There’s always so much more to discover and to convey. This is certainly true of the exceptional individuals with Mars–Uranus aspects. I hope that this chapter inspires you to do your own research and thinking, so you’ll be ready when Mars–Uranus denizens invade your astrology practice — or when friends and relatives who are parents or grandparents of the 2003 crop of babies ask you what sort of brave new world these kids have entered.
Would you like Donna Cunningham to comment on the outer planet aspects in your chart or the aspects to your Venus and Mars? Send your question and birth information to her advice column in Dell Horoscope Magazine at jpettey@dellmagazines.net.
[1] National Center for Health Statistics, Monthly Vital Statistics Report,” V.38:12, 4/4/90, "Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths for 1989." This report tracks a consistent birth rate pattern throughout the 20th century. I did find a later article in the Census Bureau publications, confirming that the trend had continued, but I don’t have the reference for that. The estimated number of births is based on statistics on the internet at www.bartleby.com,
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Donna Cunningham,
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Donna Cunningham is an internationally respected astrologer and the author of 13 books on metaphysical topics.
Donna Cunningham has a dual background in astrology and psychotherapy, with a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and over 30 years experience as a professional astrologer. She considers doing the astrology charts of children to be a sacred trust. It is a way of knowing who these Indigo children are on their own terms rather than as their families, teachers, and society expect them to be.
In these sessions, she focuses on typical childhood concerns such as family and peer relationships, the best educational approaches, and the child's special gifts and abilities. She can be reached for consultations at (503)291-7891, by email, or at her web page. Ask about her special rate for children's charts.
Donna is also co-editor of Vibration and a frequent contributor. She has written fourteen books on astrology and other metaphysical topics, including her Flower Remedies Handbook. Astrologers who want to know the special considerations involved in doing children's charts can read the chapter on this topic in Donna's text, The Consulting Astrologer's Guidebook.
Listed in several Who’s Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC.
email:
moonmaven @spiritone.com
Phone:
(503)291-7891.
Donna teaches astrology classes online at:
Academy of
Astro-Psychology:
www.astropsychology.
org/index.asp?pgid=1
For the past 20 years, she has worked with the flower remedies, and she is co-editor of Vibration Magazine, a free online educational quarterly at:
essences.com/
vibration/
Donna has 17 books available, including 7 ebooks with more to come! See them at:
www.moonmaven
publications.com
This series is reprinted with gracious permission from Donna Cunningham.
©2002 Vibration Magazine/The World Wide Essence Society
PO Box 285
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If you are interested in ordering a copy of Donna's ebook:
"Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us,"
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