This week all the talk in the world of astrology is about the great meeting between the red planet Mars and the eccentric gas giant Uranus, which seems to coincide with quick changes and reversals, sudden upsets, unforeseen events or even new insights stirred all of sudden, breaking in like revelation. This happens on Monday, July 15th.
The planet Uranus is not easily seen with the naked eye, but you can know where it is by locating Mars in the morning sky, looking east-northeast about an hour and a half before sunrise. The planets are in the region of Taurus, approaching the star cluster of the Pleiades, the seven sisters of ancient lore that are like the gates to the eternal.
Uranus was named for the classical Greek god of the sky, the father of the Titans. Urania was the muse of astronomy, and the only one who could foresee the future which is perhaps why Pluto wrote “the upward gaze was rightly called by the name Urania and the astronomers say that from this looking people acquire a pure mind.”
Combining this kind of energy with the potency of Mars breaks things open and stirs a certain longing that brings to mind the introduction to William Blake’s Songs of Experience:
Hear the voice of the Bard!
Who Present, Past, & Future sees
Whose ears have heard,
The Holy Word,
That walk'd among the ancient trees.
Calling the lapséd Soul
And weeping in the evening dew:
That might controll,
The starry pole;
And fallen fallen light renew!
O Earth O Earth return!
Arise from out the dewy grass;
Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the slumberous mass.
Turn away no more:
Why wilt thou turn away
The starry floor
The watry shore
Is giv'n thee till the break of day.
