During the first part of April, we’ll get a pop quiz. Pluto (destruction/ rebirth), the main driver behind the extraordinary past 14 months, will get squares from Venus, the Sun and Mercury. Between 4/11 and 17, one by one, they’ll slam into Pluto, now slowing down for its station on 4/27.
Expect the dramas that we’ve been going through to be triggered — ideally, in a subtle way. The cosmos just wants to see whether we’ve gotten the point: that we have to get rid of the old and unworkable aspects of society and ourselves before we can move on.
We’ve had a lot of these cosmic debriefings since the Capricorn stellium last year. The sky is nothing if not patient with us.
Back to our roots
The animal within us is in its glory in springtime, with the Sun’s annual passage (4/19-5/20) through Taurus. This time of year gives us a chance to reconnect with a primal power that’s underused in these overly cerebral times. Taurus gets us back to our roots.
But this earthiest of earth signs is burdened by a simplistic stereotype. If you think of it merely as slow and stodgy, you’ll be ill prepared for this month’s transits.
Cattle prod
Granted, Taurus is not known for excitement or daring. As a composite of the most tenacious mode (fixity) of the most tenacious element (Earth), it gets our feet on the ground but can also get us stuck in the mud. There is certainly truth to the cliché about Taurus being change-averse.
Right now, however, there’s an electric cattle prod at the old bull’s back.
Uranus in Taurus
During the seven-year run of Uranus in Taurus, the world at large is experiencing the atypical side of all things Taurean.
For example, economics. Before the transit ends, in 2025, we can expect Uranus (digitalization) in the sign of money to shake up the economic world (cyber currencies, wild market activity [discussed in this webinar]).
On a personal level, since 2018 this transit has been stirring things up in the material security department. (Naturally, this is being chalked up to Covid and its related financial devastations. But in astrology, the law of causality — as in “The pandemic caused all this economic crisis” — is not the main way we infer meaning. Global destabilization was fated to play out, right now, one way or another. Covid et al are agents of the transits.)
Your own reception of these societal distresses has a larger meaning, too: a meaning specific to your individual karma. Check the house of your chart where Uranus is transiting. If you feel the ground quaking in this arena, ask yourself if life wasn’t feeling stuck. At best, monotonous; at worst, lifeless.
Uranus’ purpose is to revitalize us.
Once in 84 years
Whether we appreciate it or not is up to us. Especially if we’re getting a Uranus conjunction to a natal planet in Taurus, we may not take kindly to the cosmic cattle prod.
So it’s best to understand, ahead of time, the transit’s intention. Uranus doesn’t throw its lightning bolts around haphazardly. It aims them at precisely those parts of our lives that have grown stale. It’d be a shame to waste a once-in-a-lifetime transit
(Uranus takes 84 years to cycle the zodiac) by digging our hooves in.
Ongoing struggle
At the same time, there are parts of ourselves that will have good reason to resist. Saturn (stability, boundaries) in Aquarius is still squaring Uranus up there in the sky.
This is the headliner transit of 2021 (exact February 17th, June 14, and December 24). It’s an ongoing struggle between the need to secure things and the need to allow change to sweep in.
April’s transits set off this year-long theme. Around April 22nd, Venus and Mercury start to conjoin each other around the key Uranus-Saturn degrees. Be on the lookout for a clash between stasis and disruption. The former will show up in the part of your life indicated by the house Saturn is passing through; the latter, where Uranus is.
Most acutely in the crosshairs: 
planets in the early-to-middle degrees of Taurus and Aquarius, then in Leo and Scorpio.
Last word
Maintaining healthy structures (Saturn) is part of life. But so are surprises (Uranus). The key here is to not make either of them wrong.
That said, whenever there’s a contest between Saturn and an outer planet, it’s wise to defer to the latter. Anticipate that Uranus, the god of unpredictability, will get the last word.
It’s when the Sun catches up with Uranus’s degree, on April 30th, that this lesson will probably hit home.
