I remember the day that Uranus went into Taurus. It was May 15th, 2018, and I was driving home after a doctor’s appointment. They had drawn some blood to confirm a dreamy suspicion. I noticed a phone message when I stopped at a light. Her voice said, “Well, it’s true, you’re pregnant.”
Euphoria set in. Expanse. Lit up dreams.
Uranus is associated with the future. Taurus is the most fertile sign of the zodiac. My future was full of growth, just as the future should be.
And then the next moment on a busy road, the sky drew unfathomably dark along with an immediate plummet in temperature. It was so strange. All of the brake lights lit up as far as I could see, reflecting caution like a collective gasp. From a complete stop, traffic began to move again. Faster. Each car determined to not be in the wrong place at the wrong time. A tornado was in the neighborhood, which was a very strange occurrence for Rockland County, NY.
I have had dreams of tornadoes all my life. I think the storm scene in The Wizard of Oz made some major groove marks in my three-year-old mind. During what turned out to be a brief stretch of a little darkness and hail, I wondered if this was going to be the strange poetry of my life, receiving joyous news right before being swept away to the sky, towards the stars that people wish upon. I remember feeling a wild rebellion of “No, you don’t!” as a laser beam kind of focus went into my driving.
“Mother nature, you step aside. I have a dream here!”
Bob Dylan once said, “I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”
Nature lacking enough truly natural things, like dreams, falls short of real nature. Such falling short demands a spirited rebellion!
As the spirited planet of Jupiter comes closer to rebellious Uranus in the natural and fertile sign of Taurus, it is a good time to insist on hyper-naturalizing nature. Make some real dreams healthy. Water them; get them in the sun! Help cultivate their growth. This planetary meetup will be exact on Monday, April 20th.
Bob Dylan has this exact signature of Uranus conjunct Jupiter in Taurus. He also famously said, “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”
Nature not only surrounds you; it is also the confidence of nature that is within you.
You don’t need the weatherman. You just need to rebel against the kind of nature that is devoid of dreams and wonder.
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