There's some great writing out right now about Uranus in Aries. Here are some personal favorite highlights with synopses and quotes! Enjoy and awaken. :)

This is Part TWO, if you want to read Part ONE, it's right over HERE.
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Lara Owen, The Uranus Pluto Square 2011-2016

I always love astrological writing that takes into account the ongoing cycles the outer planets have with each other. In this one, Lara touches on that cycle (and its history from the 30's forward) as a backdrop for the remaining article, in which she writes smartly about the implications of our current Uranus/Pluto square and the effect it will have/is having on our collective human identity, or sense of nationhood, our connection with intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, our spirituality, and our psyche. For those interested, she also gives the specific dates of the 7 times when the Uranus/Pluto square will be exact over the next several years. Good reading.

"The difficulties we collectively encounter during this phase have the potential to induce many to rise to a new level of psychological maturity, trumping the seductions and apparent safety of faith-based belief systems (whether these arise out of religious, political or economic stories), and able to see these fables as part of the richness of the human imagination but not immutable facts in and of themselves."--Lara Owen
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Lauren Coleman, Revolutionary Timeline: The Uranus/Pluto Cycle

This is absolutely, hands-down the best online writing I've found to date that gives a historical perspective/overview of the Uranus/Pluto cycle. From 1758 forward, Lauren covers every square, opposition and conjunction that these two outer planets have made to each other along with a very solid summary of the revolutionary world events that were taking place at those times. I love outer-planet cycles! If you do too (or if you just want a better understanding of the energies these two planets specifically bring to each other) then this is a must read.

"When Uranus, the planet of freedom and independence, meets authoritarian, transformational Pluto in hard aspect the key words are: revolution, social activism, rebellion vs. authoritarianism,  reformation, freedom against oppression, and transformation. [...] The catalyst for change usually comes through a series of events that allow people to see that things are not as they thought they previously were."--Lauren Coleman
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Mary Plumb, Uranus the Awakener

This is beautiful and uplifting writing, but what I like most about it is how she utilizes the blog format so well! YouTube video, link to a related image, etc. This post has a little bit of everything. If you're scratching your head wondering "What IS this Uranus ingress into Aries all about, anyway?" then this blog entry will give you 13 ways of looking at this Uranus blackbird.

"As Uranus changes signs — after a brief stay in Aries last year from late May through early August — we are collectively responding to a deep memory of our ability to steal fire from the gods, for the benefit of mankind. A personal revolution is at hand for each one of us as Prometheus steals fire from the gods now through the sign Aries, the sign of individuation and singularity. It will feel scary; we are at the limit of convention and security in some significant way inside ourselves. We will cross some barrier that heretofore has enthralled us." --Mary Plumb

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April Elliott Kent, Uranus in Aries: Shock to the System

This is largely about April's personal experience of this Uranus transit into Aries, but also about her personal experience of the collective events surrounding that transit.Anyway, I actually very much like reading other people's accounts of their individual astrological experiences, and reading April's piece reminds me to see how Uranus's sign-change figures into my progressed chart. Hey, you should do that too! :)

"Who would have guessed that I – so insular, the stereotypical American isolationist  – was connected by some mysterious, invisible apparatus to …. Libya? That somewhere inside of me, emotional tentacles are apparently attached to Japan, a country I’ve never had the least interest in even visiting? That I cared so passionately about labor unions?"--April Elliott Kent

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Matthew Currie, Conquer the Universe with Astrology: The Shocking Uranus Ram


If you've ever listened to Mathew's BlogTalk radio show, then you know he's really half-astrologer, half-comedian. In this episode he laments what he calls "the conspiracy," which is that, in his opinion 80-90% of the people who get astrological consultations are women while practicing astrologers are a 50/50 split between male/female. Ironically, in both this and my previous post of links to Uranus-related astrological content, all of those links up until now were to female astrologers. Did I do that on purpose? I honestly didn't! Maybe astrologers are mostly female, too? Or maybe I just like their writing better. :) PS, He also talks about Uranus in Aries, with Sun-sign horoscopes for each sign.