So far, we have seen that the fifth is the house of creativity and self-expression. In addition, it is the house that shows how we attempt to distinguish ourselves from others. And as I noted in Part 1, it is colored by the spiritual Piscean Moon’s needs, emotions and mentality. That Pisces Moon is also a reflection of the public’s emotional responses to its (fifth house) creativity. All this and not even a mention of the eccentric Uranus here yet.
The Discovery
Sir William Herschel, an amateur astronomer and professional musician of historical little note, first discovered what he thought was a new comet late in the evening of March 13, 1781. Within months of its sudden, unexpected and “out of the blue” discovery, John Townley tells us1, Uranus2 was recognized as the first trans-Saturnine planet. It is so eccentric that its poles, instead of being in a north/south orientation, are actually almost parallel to the plane of its orbit. In other words, from Earth, it seems to be lying on its side. Now that’s different!
It is perhaps no coincidence that the discovery of Uranus coincides with the adoption of the Articles of Confederation by the Continental Congress (3/1/1781, BTW, the date that I personally consider to be the correct date for the birth chart of the USA), and the year of Cornwallis’s defeat at Yorktown. It was the year that “the world turned upside down.”3 In every sense then the coming of Uranus marked the conception of the Age of Aquarius. This two hundred year gestation period has been marked by revolutions, the struggle for freedom and liberty around the globe, the development of electric power, an exponential period of industrial growth, the development of modern transportation systems, an explosion in the field of communications and the “first step for man” into outer space. All this since that planetary discovery.
Uranus in the 5th
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