Help: Uranus transits as a desperate way to rectify

[Arthur Fomalhaut]

Sorry to harp on rectification, I know there's already been a number of threads. I read this:

" Uranus transits are the most accurate of all timing devices in astrology, since they seem to manifest with great immediacy almost always when the aspect is exact. Therefore, as pointed out by both Charles Jayne and Isabel Hickey, these transits are particularly useful for attempts at rectifying charts"

How one goes about it?

Not long ago one night I woke up and delivered an excited speech to the attentive walls of my room on what I termed "sciences of synchronicity", encompassing astrology, tarot and Kabbalah, which is ridiculous since I had just taken up astrology and tarot and knew nothing at all about the latter. I wonder if that moment was exact Uranus over Sun. But I dont understand what bearing that could have on rectifying an already approximate time. Maybe over faster moving Moon is better? This is coming for me and would like to give it a try, since my uneventful and recordless life does not give me many dates.

Pardon me if I talk nonsense, just learning.

[sageofaquarius]

Arthur

The entry of Uranus into a house can be a good guide to rectification. I recently experienced Uranus enter my 4th and almost immediately there was unexpected upset to do with my home. After living in the same house for 54 years, I was informed that it was to be sold. Given the long duration of Uranus in each house, I am expecting this not to be the end of the story.

I found that by noting the position of Uranus when this event occurred and adjusting the start of the 4th house to suit, my birth time was one minute from what my mother had told me - 4.11am instead of 4.10 - an acceptable margin of error given the circumstances! It might be useful, therefore, to consider Uranus' entry into a house for rectification rather than rely solely on its conjunction to natal planet.

sage

[aquarius7000]

Amazing, out of all the planets, we can actually depend on that quirky, rebellious, sudden and spontaneous, and certain-of-uncertainty planet-Uranus, for something so exact as time of birth...just find this so interesting...and thanks for sharing the info Arthur, esp as me is Aquarius. I'd actually like to start a thread on the contradictions connected with this sign...and Uranus, its ruler...at least if you go as per modern astrology.
Sage, thanks for sharing your experience with us too; I now have Uranus entering my 8th house, wonder what it will bring there.

aquarius7000

[aquarius7000]

Aquarius7000,
please do open the thread on Aquarius

Hi there Arthur,

While going through some of my subscribed threads, I came across this one, and noticed that I'd completely forgotten to make you aware that I did manage to start a thread on the ongoing and evergreen "Aquarius Arcanum", in order to hear other people's views about this (basically on Saturn & Uranus as co-rulers of Aqua?!). Maybe it is still of some interest to you.

aquarius7000

[rogue_red]

Hi there sage, with uranus about to conjunct my ascendant what events can I expect and can I use that event to rectify my own birth chart? I havent done many rectifications but those i have, have been rectified using the ascendent and sub ascendent, matching the qualities to personal appearence etc. Im not sure how accurate this method is so Im eager to refine my technique. Thanks.

[Inside Out Orange]

Originally Posted by rogue_red

Hi there sage, with uranus about to conjunct my ascendant what events can I expect and can I use that event to rectify my own birth chart?

Uranus conjunct Ascendent is usually about asserting more independence in your close relationships. The example given by Robert Hand is the housewife who decides that she wants to get a part-time job to give her, her own income and be less dependent on her husband.

I have a friend whose chart I am looking at currently. Her time of birth is anywhere from 11pm - 11:30pm which gives a Pisces Ascendent of between 8 and 24 degrees! The Midheaven is anywhere from 20 - 27 degrees Sag. The good thing is that both these houses have big, heavy planets active in them this decade. Ascendent has Uranus, late Sag has Pluto, 7th house - Virgo currently has Saturn. So the possibilities for rectification are good. This year she has told her grown-up children it is time for them to leave home because she is going off travelling the world for the winter! That seems a prime manifestation of a Uranian transit.

In my own chart, I had Uranus trine my Descendent in Apr 2003 following a period when it had opposed my natal Sun/Moon/Venus. I ended the relationship I was having a month later. She'd been talking about ending it for about 3 weeks then suddenly certain events occurred and I told her to go. The timing of that was about 3/4s of a degree (45mins) later than where I believe my Ascendent to be. If that is to be believed then I'm born a little over 1 minute later than it is recorded which I suppose could easily be due to a wrong clock.

[waybread]

I've not used Uranus for chart rectification--mostly because I think one kind of signal can mask another, similar signal. But the concept of using Uranus to detect house cusps through timing sudden changes related to the affairs of that house does seem to have traction with astrologers.

One other thing I might suggest is working with several house-cusp systems. For example, people born in high northern latitudes tend to have very skewed Placidus house cusps, so some astrologers might prefer to use an equal house method with them. Koch and Placidus can vary by a few degrees. So someone using, say, Koch might be tempted to think that this Uranus diagnostic doesn't work well, whereas actually they respond better to a Placidus--or other--house system.

One astrologer whose insights I deeply respect suggested that different individuals do have better or worse matches with different house systems, and that tracking Uranus is a good way to find what fits each person.

In the meantime, learning to read a chart without houses is valuable, because sometimes the "native" just can't be tracked using Uranus transits. Here, having a handbook of planetary rulerships can be helpful. For example, if there is interest in someone's money but the 2nd house location is unknown, tracking Venus--which rules money--can be useful.

I studied astrology for several years before I learned my birth time when I found a birth certificate in my mother's papers after she died. [It wasn't on the official county recorder's office records, but it was on another record issued by the small suburb where my parents lived when I was born.] Before I found this certificate, a professional astrologer told me that I "looked like a Leo" and various rectification methods that I tried seemed to point to a Libra rising sign. Turns out that it's in late Virgo, but other signals in my chart were pointing to these other signs.