The planetary transit lasts until early 2024 (Picture: Getty)
From August 28, 2023, to January 27, 2024, Uranus goes into retrograde.
This is a steady and lengthy transit so you can take your time getting into it, living with it, and using it to make positive changes.
Uranus is all about radical change, invention, progress, innovation, technology and forward thinking. However, when in retrograde, its forces are slowed, dulled, smoothed off to make them easier to use. It means you can make changes at a slower pace, evolution vs revolution.
It’s a big nudge to take a break from fast-paced activities or stimulus too. Change from scrolling your phone to listening to music, binge watching shows to reading a book. Take life slower, more consciously, with care and attention. Slow living is a trend. Get into it and adjust your daily life around it.
This is also a good time to start mulling, on the back burner, your goals or thoughts about 2024.
So, let the tarot guide you towards your best advice and guidance for utilising this Uranus retrograde.
Aries
March 21 to April 20
Home is where your retrograde is (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Aries for this Uranus retrograde: The Empress
Meaning: Home and hearth is where it’s at. The fundamentals of life – family, love, children, home, nesting, creativity, nature. Make your home your priority and be happy there.
Introduce ‘slow living’ activities like lazing around, gardening, baking, writing poems, reading books by the fire. Make your space comfortable and welcoming. Use flowers and plants to bring nature indoors. Be abundant socially and invite others over for food or drinks or games or entertainment. Make home a happy place.
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Taurus
April 21 to May 21
Let The Sun shine in, Taurus (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Taurus for this Uranus retrograde: The Sun
Meaning: Go on holiday, travel, see the world, take trips locally or nationally, get outside, be in the warmth, take it easy, rest and explore and have an adventure.
The Sun is a call to action to stop planning and working and do more living! Enjoy yourself and explore the planet. The Sun is all about travel and the wonderful people, ideas, and activities you will encounter outside of your comfort zone. Love beckons too… possibly with a Leo.
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Gemini
May 22 to June 21
Get lost – in a good way (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Gemini for this Uranus retrograde: Three of Wands
Meaning: When you stop staring at your phone or laptop or focusing so hard on the daily grind and life your head, just to sniff the air and see what’s what, you will discover amazing opportunities that otherwise would’ve passed you right on by.
Look around more. Make time and room to stop and meander, wander, and daydream. The Three of Wands shows that fast, fantastic but fleeting opportunities are swirling this retrograde, and you need to be proactive and alert.
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Cancer
June 22 to July 23
Look after your foundations to grow (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Cancer for this Uranus retrograde: King of Coins
Meaning: Look at your health, wealth, work, and home – the fundamentals of life, the undercarriage, the things which support you and provide your security. The King of Coins wants you to make sure things are running as you need them to, without too much technology and maybe a little more manual labour and control.
Feel like you have a handle on these areas of your life; that there is streamlining and routine, but also the ability to dive in and make changes. Security is so important to your psyche. Slow down, look closer, make a few tweaks, live easier.
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Leo
July 24 to August 23
What will you create? (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Leo for this Uranus retrograde: Page of Cups
Meaning: Creativity is your key to ‘slow living’ this retrograde. Start something imaginative. Take a class. Read some guides or watch the vlogs. Buy the equipment. Start practicing. Get better. Feel in flow. Make it a hobby. Share it with others.
The Page of Cups is an invitation to get creative and feel relaxed and alive. Maybe it’s writing, singing, dancing, decorating, floristry, painting, knitting, baking, sculpting, dress-making, fashion design, hair or make up… whatever floats your boat, get stuck into it this retrograde.
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Virgo
August 24 to September 23
It feels good to do good (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Virgo for this Uranus retrograde: Justice
Meaning: Doing good feels good and you are, in a good way, the ultimate ‘do gooder’ of the zodiac. You love helping, guiding, supporting, saving, rescuing, and advising… and you make a positive difference because you often do know best and you have great practical skills.
Justice asks you to make a positive difference to someone or something in need this retrograde. Bring your talents to the table and help to right a wrong, rebalance the scales, repair something which was broken. You will gain enormous satisfaction and the respect of others – win/win!
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Libra
September 24 to October 23
Positivity will bring good things your way (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Libra for this Uranus retrograde: Six of Wands
Meaning: Celebrate and appreciate! Use this retrograde to spend less time doing and more time noticing the good stuff and pointing it out. Build on successes. Give gratitude and thanks. Reward and recognize others. Make time to party and revel and toast each other. In doing so, you are attracting more of the same into your realm.
The Six of Wands is like a ‘midas touch’ card and reveals everything you touch can turn to gold and this can spread, it’s infectious energy. So be super positive!
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Scorpio
October 24 to November 22
You can do it, Scorpio (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Scorpio for this Uranus retrograde: Seven of Wands
Meaning: Sometimes there are no shortcuts or easy ways of getting towards what you truly desire and deserve. Sometimes the tech can’t do it for you. You need to roll up your sleeves this retrograde, Scorpio, and get stuck into the task in hand, manually and with your own blood, sweat and tears (not literally, don’t worry!).
You will win and overcome and get what you want, but you need to work hard and be present, especially the next two months. The Seven of Wands is as call to rise to the occasion and show ‘em!
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Sagittarius
November 23 to December 21
All work and no play makes Sag a dull sign (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Sagittarius for this Uranus retrograde: Queen of Wands
Meaning: You are the Queen of Wands, Sag, so this is total permission to play, explore, travel, create, educate, and have adventures this retrograde. Slow down, stop working so hard, and have more fun! Why not? Life is for living, what is it all for if not to enjoy your lifetime. It’s short.
Get busy. See more. Kick back on the duties and kick off on the fun stuff! Be spontaneous, react to new invites positively, say yes often, do unexpected things, be spur of the moment. You are ready for life to get interesting and, this retrograde, it certainly has that potential if you play a little more and invite fresh energy into your life.
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Capricorn
December 22 to January 21
It’s time to take control (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Capricorn for this Uranus retrograde: Five of Wands
Meaning: Use this retrograde to slow down, pause, review and reflect on the things in your life that create tension, pressure, discomfort or stress. Take a ‘time out’ from reacting to them and, instead, analyse the triggers, root causes, and possible messages form these episodes.
Take back control. Make conscious choices about what you are going to change, start, stop, adjust to, accept, sacrifice, create in order to tackle these sore spots. They are happening for a reason, they are signals, use them that way and make changes.
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Aquarius
January 22 to February 19
You don’t have to bear the weight of the world (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Aquarius for this Uranus retrograde: Knight of Cups
Meaning: Live romantically! Put away the tech, self improvement grind, troubling news reels, activism guilt… and just live in a whimsical, old fashioned, carefree, romantic and even silly way this retrograde. Be like a child. Have fun. Play. Go on adventures.
The Knight of Cups is a free-spirited lover, a charmer, a player, a romancer. He turns up when you need to not be so serious and just chill. The world will still all be there waiting for your efforts, you just need a little break from all that doom and gloom. Gift your joy and romance.
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Pisces
February 20 to March 20
There’s no use waiting for a solution (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
Tarot card for Pisces for this Uranus retrograde: Knight of Swords
Meaning: The Knight of Swords invites you to get assertive and stick up for yourself and your desires. Don’t wait for others to make things happen or rescue you or change the game. Be the doer, vs the done to.
This retrograde, others will be more receptive to new ideas and dynamics and this is a window of opportunity for you to step up and rebalance some undated power dynamics in your life that hold you back, or down. Take a deep breath and state clearly what you want. Establish new habits. Stick to them. Set an example. Be strong. Live well and for yourself.
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The transit lasts until January next year.