On June 12, 2026, Uranus exactly squares the nodal axis.
While this aspect could easily be overlooked in an already hectic June (with Venus conjunct Jupiter and both Chiron and Jupiter changing signs), it could actually be the big elephant in the room.
When a planet is square the nodal axis, meaning it is simultaneously square the north node and the south node, astrologers call it “skipped step”.
The skipped step
The skipped step is generally understood as unresolved past developmental material that must be addressed before a person can fully move forward.
“Unresolved” here should not be confused with feeling stuck. Rather, it points to a dynamic in which the conflict of nodal opposition is resolved through an exit (the planet that squares it).
Just like in a T-square, we can look at the planet that squares the Nodes as the External catalyst that resolves opposition tension..
The oppositions and the boxes, although both classified as “hard aspects”, have very different functions.
A opposition it’s a “number 2“Aspect – divide the circle into 2: or, or. It is internal, a constant pendulum between options. The tension is never resolved because this tension is exactly what makes the opposition a opposition: “either, or” – “this or that.”
He squareInstead, it is a “number 4“Aspect: Divide the circle by 4, and 4 is the number of matter. That’s why squares make things happen. They bring matters to the material world.
So, in a T-squared, or skip-step type dynamic, the planet that squares the axis of opposition acts as the catalyst that makes things happen (like in reality, in the 3D world). It is like a fuse that is suddenly fired and the tension of the opposition is finally addressed.
And this reformulation of the square invites a slightly different way of thinking about the skipped step itself.
Perhaps we have taken the metaphor of the omitted step too seriously, but not literally enough.
And perhaps the easiest way to understand a skipped step is through a actual step omitted.
When you skip a step and bump into something, the script breaks.
The skipped step is not something you missed. But literally, like what happens when something happens outside – the square – that solves the problem of the opposition.
The skipped step and Snow White
And this brings us to the Snow White Fairy Tale.
Snow White grows up under the shadow of a jealous stepmother, the Queen. Unable to reconcile with the passing of her own beauty, the The queen poisons Snow White with an applesending her into a death-like sleep.
We could go on and on about the rich symbolism of this fairy tale, from the mother-daughter dynamic and the little-discussed jealousy that can coexist with love, and yet poison the next generation with regret of one’s own unrealized potential.
If we look at it through the lens of the Lunar Nodes, the poisoned apple becomes the generational inheritance (this could include past life content if we choose to look at the Nodes this way) into which someone is born.
We all have a North Node and a South Node – this is an aspect, the an oppositionthat regardless of the rest of the birth chart, everyone is born with it.
We are all born into some type of history, heritage or raw material (South Node) that exists in polarity with our North Node, a symbol of future directions and possibilities.
The past and the future are continually renegotiated, but unless a planet comes to activate this axis, nothing happens.
Uranus Square The Lunar Nodes – El Paso Saltado
When Uranus squares the Nodes, something willpower happen.
It can be an accident, an unforeseen circumstance, a coincidence, or an unexpected event that somehow changes the trajectory of the story.
In Snow White, One of the prince’s servants skips a step while carrying Snow White’s coffin.
–> The shock causes the piece of poisoned apple lodged in Snow White’s throat be expelled. The poison leaves her body, she comes back to life and the the spell is broken.
This was not something that Snow White, the prince, or anyone else in the story “did.” It wasn’t some kind of reward for hard work.
It was an accident. One skipped step. A script interruption. The servant literally skipped a step. And the Nodal axis problem was solved.
The skipped step is not the problem. It is the solution.
Uranus square the Nodes is the catalyst that interrupts the looping narrative and, in doing so, sets it free.
With Uranus square the Nodal axis, nothing “causes” awakening in a linear sense. Instead, there is a sudden alteration of the existing situation. An unexpected event. A break in the pattern.
If we look back on our lives, many of the moments that changed us the most were not planned or “worked for.” They happened by chance, or by what later seemed like a mysterious pull of fate.
And while this transit may not require us to “do more,” it does require recognition.
What first appears as an interruption may, in fact, be what resolves a tension that otherwise could not be resolved.
Sometimes the solution to the “or” is not to take another step. Sometimes the solution is to skip a step.
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