On 10 September Uranus turns retrograde. It does not stop pushing you to change, but the push changes direction: instead of moving outward into the world, for a few months it turns back to work on you.

What is happening

Uranus rules technique, skilled hands and sudden turns, the kind that split a life in two with no way back. It is usually the planet that decides fast but with a plan: you feel the opening coming, take it on the spot, and cut whatever does not serve the goal. When it turns retrograde, that sudden clarity does not go away, it just stops pointing outward.

In myth Uranus is the Sky, castrated by his son Cronus at Gaia's urging: a force that creates and maims at once, parting Sky from Earth forever. That image fits these months: the clean break you are used to making, this time, is about something inside you more than something outside. A turn you thought you had already taken comes back around, asking to be reviewed before it counts as final.

How to use it

Use these months to go back over a change you made too fast. If lately you cut something off cleanly, without much thought, this is when you find out whether that cut was the right one or just the quickest one available.

Where it pays to hold back is the grand gesture. Uranus's pull to break and start over stays strong, but turned inward it can become impulsiveness aimed at yourself: a decision made to react, not to choose. Let the insight settle before you turn it into something you cannot undo.

Where you feel it most

If Uranus sits near a sensitive point of your birth chart, or if you were born with Uranus strong, in a close aspect to your Sun, Moon or Ascendant, you feel this station directly: called more than usual to revisit a turn you thought was settled. For everyone else, what matters is the house of your birth chart Uranus falls in: that is where the need to change turns inward instead of outward these months.

Want to know which house it falls in and what that means for you specifically? Calculate your birth chart: all it takes is your date, time and place of birth.