Monday, the Sun is conjunct Uranus in Taurus for the first time. Last year when the Sun conjoined Uranus, it was still in Aries, before making a brief visit to Taurus last spring and summer.

Power House Mechanic by Lewis Hine, WPA.

I’ve found that conjunctions of the Sun to outer planets give a clue to how the outer planet can manifest. With Uranus in a new sign, many people are curious. The conjunction is exact Monday at 7:07 pm EDT. Counting Monday’s, there will be a total of seven Sun-Uranus conjunctions in Taurus, with the last one being on May 17, 2025. Each one counts. Each will shake up the world in its own way.

One of the reasons that Uranus in Taurus is so interesting is the contrast. It’s like a hot fudge sundae. Uranus is known and revered for its eccentricity, inventiveness and association with revolution. Taurus is known for its respect for custom and tradition. Any Taurus person I know aspires to be dependable and consistent, and has a touch of the old-fashioned.

So when you combine the two, you get this futuristic impulse in Uranus mingling with the stability and continuity of Taurus. Yet there is a fierce creative potency contained within Taurus that I’ve hardly seen matched by any other sign, save for possibly Libra (in traditional astrology, both are ruled by Venus). The contrast is striking, and relevant. My take is that Uranus will activate the deepest creative quality of Taurus in many different ways.

If we go back to the last go-around of Uranus in Taurus, it happened during the New Deal of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt — a series of programs to get society back on its feet during the Great Depression. Roosevelt had to reinvent the role of government, which up to that point involved the military and carrying the mail.

Under the New Deal, the government took on the role of providing services of value to individual people, and initiating change in society. That included both structural change and also fomenting a rapid evolution of values.

But here is an interesting and somewhat tragic fact: the United States was finally able to lift itself out of the Great Depression based on getting into World War II and reinventing itself as a military economy. The precipitating event for that development was the attack on Pearl Harbor, which has a conjunction of Saturn and Uranus in late Taurus [view chart]. In the end, the Military-Industrial Complex (finally warned of by Dwight Eisenhower in 1961, as he was leaving office) was the real reinvention.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck takes place during the last cycle of Uranus in Taurus, which ends at the beginning of World War II.

Recently, I asked my Facebook readers to share their thoughts on Uranus in Taurus in a few words. I got some fantastic responses, split into three paragraphs for readability.

Shaking up the status quo. Bodily freedom (such as involving vaccines, or sexuality). Reawakening of Earth wisdom. A revolution of embodiment. Eccentricity to the Nth power. Stampede. Unconventional heaven. An awakening for a lot of folks.

Thunder in the distance. Staying upright while on a moving boat or train by shifting your weight as needed. Staying loose to stay steady. A manifestation of anxiety. The body becomes electric. The dormant quickens. Unexpected awakening that was longed for after all. Getting out of your own way. Impermanent Earth.

The illusion of fixed structures. The unpredictability of concrete. The sudden changing of fixed values. Cattle prod. A gemologist views a ruby through a microscope and sees a whole new world.

These are all perceptive. My personal favorite from the above ideas is, “The unexpected awakening that was longed for after all.”

Society is having a sleepy time crisis. It seems like many people are awake all night, and sleepwalking all day. It’s time to smell the coffee. This week’s horoscope is based on the Sun-Uranus conjunction.