Uranus sextile Venus transit: meaning, duration and advice

The sextile puts Uranus sixty degrees from your natal Venus, in a sign that gets along with hers, fire with air or earth with water. The planet of the unexpected doesn’t come to shake up your way of loving; it makes suggestions. Your Venus, which rules your affinities, your pleasures, your sense of beauty and the way you spend money to treat yourself, receives fresh ideas the way you receive postcards from a traveling friend. What gets activated is the heart’s curiosity: the urge to taste things differently, to love with more lightness, to spend time with people from a circle other than your own, to let into your aesthetic what would have seemed too bold last year.

The mood is airy, stimulating, a little sparkling. You accept an invitation you would have declined and the evening surprises you; a conversation with someone very different from you runs well past the planned hour; you change your haircut, your perfume, the way you entertain at home, and people say you look younger. In a couple, habits get dusted off without drama: an improvised weekend, a subject never raised, a closeness that comes back by surprise. The questions that keep returning are cheerful and a little insistent: what have I never dared to like? With whom do I feel most alive right now? And what if, for once, I chose the pleasure I don’t know yet?

Uranus sextile Venus asks for active availability. The window is open, but it’s up to you to lean out of it: answer the outstretched hand of the person who intrigues you, put on your calendar the activity that has tempted you for years, offer the novelty to the other person instead of waiting for it from them. The risk is twofold. On one side, flitting from person to person, which collects passing affinities without ever deepening a single one; on the other, lukewarmness, which lets the period slip away because everything’s fine as it is. The gift, for whoever reaches out, is lasting: a wider circle, a refined taste, a closeness revived within the existing bond, and the precious certainty that you can renew your heart without breaking anything.

Uranus’s sextile to Venus stretches over one to two years within a one-degree orb, but it doesn’t blow steadily the whole time. Uranus reaches the exact angle, then its yearly retrograde, about five months, carries it away and brings it back: most often, that makes three rendezvous. Each one brings its gust of fresh air, an affinity, an idea for an outing, a craving for new beauty, and then calm returns and you think the window has closed, when it is only waiting for the next pass. Over a full eighty-four-year cycle, this sextile happens twice, once before the opposition and once after it; some people meet only one of them, at an age that depends on where Uranus sat in their chart.

Two signs before or two signs after the sign of your Venus: that’s where to look for Uranus. Your free birth chart, calculated on the site, gives you the exact degree of your Venus; the sky-of-the-day page shows you Uranus’s. If the two degrees match, give or take a degree or two, the window is open: it’s up to you to lean out of it.