Uranus sextile the Ascendant transit: meaning, duration and advice

A sextile places Uranus sixty degrees from your Ascendant, in a sign that gets along with yours: fire with air, earth with water. Depending on your birth time, it then travels near your 11th house, the house of friendships, networks and projects carried out with others, or near your 3rd house, the house of exchanges, learning, your neighborhood and your siblings. The way you appear and reach out to others isn’t shaken up: it receives suggestions. What gets activated is how permeable your image is to new ideas and to people who are different. An unexpected circle, a conversation, a tool discovered by chance make you want to adjust your style, your tone, the way you approach the world, with nothing forcing you to.

The mood is light, slightly electric, never heavy. You befriend someone unlike anyone you know, and that person’s outlook makes you bolder; a group, online or around a table, gives you a taste for speaking more frankly; a short course, a book, a different route from your usual one change the way you carry yourself and talk. Your Descendant, for its part, receives a trine: the person who shares your life or your work watches your experiments with amusement rather than worry. The questions that keep circling are discreet invitations: who in this new circle makes me feel more like myself? What small freedom am I granting myself this week? What would I like to learn in order to present myself differently?

What this transit asks comes down to one word, curiosity, provided it turns into action. Say yes to the slightly offbeat invitation, agree to be introduced, try out a look, a way of saying hello, a different way of speaking up. The risk isn’t a jolt; it is twofold and quiet: scattering yourself, ten novelties tried and none kept, or inertia, since nothing is pressing and the window can seem to stay open forever. The gift, for those who move, is far greater than the effort involved: a refreshed presence with no break from your life, allies who like the version of you that is emerging, and a wider circle without your having renounced anything you already held dear.

Within a one-degree orb, the sextile spreads over one to two years, following Uranus’s back-and-forth: it turns retrograde for nearly five months each year, passes back over your degree, then moves on again, with three contacts most often and sometimes just one. The first draws your attention to a face or an idea; the second, during the retrograde, lets you warm up to the novelty without adopting it yet; the last fixes what you keep. Two years seem long; they go by quickly when nothing forces your hand. Uranus forms two sextiles to the Ascendant per eighty-four-year cycle, one from the 3rd house in the years after its conjunction, the other from the 11th house in the years before it; depending on your chart, you will live through one or two of them, and only your birth chart sets the timing.

You are living it if Uranus currently sits two signs ahead of or two signs behind your Ascendant sign, at the same degree give or take a degree or two. The free birth chart on the site gives you that degree, as long as you enter a reliable birth time, since a few minutes’ difference is enough to move it; the sky-of-the-day page tells you where Uranus stands.