Uranus turns retrograde: freedom must be earned

This one was fast. It seems like yesterday Uranus entered Gemini, turning things upside down in its own characteristic way.

In September 6, 2025Uranus seasons retrograde in 1° Gemini. It’s going to fall back into Taurus on November 8, 2025 and will remain there until April 26, 2026.

Uranus will spend almost half a year in Taurus – for complete Taurus lessons and tie up what still needs grounding before Uranus moves definitively into Gemini.

When Uranus (and all the outer planets) stations – direct or retrograde – your energy is amplified. The week before and after September 6 vibrates with that quick and fast Uranian charge.

A season is also an invitation to remember what Uranus is all about.

When a planet stops – in a sky where everything else follows its course – we can’t help but pay attention. It’s like being in a track and field competition: 8 runners move forward and 1 stops suddenly. Everyone looks.

So what is this about? Why did the Uranus corridor stop? What catches our attention that we would normally overlook?

We often label Uranus with words like Freedom, rebellion or innovation.. These qualities are useful, but they don’t say much about how Uranus operates. To really understand Uranus, let’s drop the buzzwords and go back to function – to see how Uranus really “works.”

Uranus: what happens after Saturn

Astronomically, Uranus follows Saturnbeing the first planet invisible to the naked eye.

Uranus (along with Neptune and Pluto) form the kingdom of the outer planets. Unlike the planets between the Sun and Saturn (which are all visible and, therefore, concrete, graspable and accessible to our consciousness), Uranus is invisible.

This means we can’t make sense of it in the same way we would make sense of Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn.

Uranus is a completely different animal and its main role can be better understood in the context of the planet that precedes it: Saturn. Uranus, as a planet after Saturn, represents What happens once we have fully individuated Saturn and are ready for the next step?.

We know Saturn as the architect of the material world: form, duty, responsibility, limits.

Uranus is what becomes possible once that framework is established.

is he clean rest after having done the workhe Clarity that allows us to go beyond the rings of Saturn. – rings that give us structure, but also draw a line: ‘you can’t cross this.’

Uranus – Freedom?

And it is in the missing dynamics of Saturn where we find why Uranus’s relationship with freedom is often misunderstood.

We generally associate freedom with revolutions, rebels without a cause, being “independent”, doing what we want instead of what is expected, breaking the rules, etc.

We tend to equate freedom with revolt – breaking rules, hot takes, dramatic exits.

However, true Uranian freedom is quieter: understand. From that lucid place you simply disengage and move on, without fuss or boasting.

The purest expression of freedom is a clean exit. Not the broadcast output: “I’m angry at this group, so I’m leaving!” (followed by the classic response: “You are not an airport; there is no need to announce departures”). The Uranian measure is to naturally overcome the situation.

Understand that people are in their own process, moving at their own pace. And when our frequency no longer matches a person or a place, let’s just look for what it does.

Freedom is the deep knowledge that true freedom is being true to yourself. – no longer get carried away by what Saturn wants us to dominate: social recognition, success, approval.

Uranian freedom is the clarity that says, “Yes, all these things are good, but who is the real me beyond these roles?”

Uranus often brings changes (unexpected changes, rapid changes) because When a situation is overcome, moving forward is the next natural step..

And when change is resisted, it tends to break out through the “unexpected” disturbances of Uranus, which are actually not unexpected at all if we honestly look at the signs that were already there.

Uranus is the understanding that no one forces us to be in a situation that does not honor our authentic self, and that we always have a choice – if not in specific circumstances, at least in how we respond and how we frame the experience.

Saturn: the skipped step

And there is a reason for this that goes back to the astronomy we mentioned. Uranus follows Saturn. When we feel “stuck” and frantically chase “freedom,” it is often because we have skipped a step – we have not fully digested Saturn.

Freedom – true freedom – must be earned.

And as contradictory as it may seem when we talk about Uranus, Freedom must be earned the way of Saturn – keeping promises, learning the rules, respecting hierarchies, doing unglamorous repetitions and eating humble pie.

How many times have we been dissatisfied with the rules and demands of the world? But these rules and demands are what hold society together; Without them, there would be chaos and we would also be affected.

How many times have we been sure we know more than a parent, a teacher, a manager or a leader? Guilty, guilty, guilty and guilty.

But there’s a reason these people play the role they do: it must involve some sort of climb up the Saturn ladder, accumulated experience, and doing at least a few things well.

And if they don’t do a good job, they will eventually face the consequences, but we don’t know that, and that is their way, not ours.

trying to avoid the saturn ladder (not showing up on time, doing the opposite of what the authority asks) in the name of ‘freedom’ It may give us a sugar rush – fleeting glimpses of what freedom resembles – but this could simply be our ego having an “I’m important” moment.

What happens when you skip Saturn?

Uranus retrograde: freedom must be earned

When Saturn is skipped, the ‘freedom’ of Uranus is not liberating, it is alienating.

We are drowning in options. We feel overwhelmed by the choice. We don’t know what to trust because our psyche is still in the Saturn stage, secretly longing for a father figure to set the boundaries.

We can see this collectively in democracy, a Uranian construct, in essence.

Without the foundation of Saturn, democracy can leave people lost and disoriented, returning to “tradition” – read Saturn – or embracing “belief systems” – read Jupiter – to restore a sense of order in the face of the alienating ‘freedom’ that an undeserved Uranus brings.

Freedom, if not earned through the sweat and tears of Saturn, is not true freedom. It means nothing and does more harm than good.

When the Saturn function of our psyche (diligence, dedication, sustained effort) is integrated, when we have gained competence or at least a solid foundation in the material world, we naturally outgrow the old container.

Pay attention to your internal climate this season of Uranus.

Are you excited? Restless? Anxious? Any itch you can’t put your finger on, but know you need to take action?

What would have to happen – and What qualities of Saturn would need to be shored up? (time, boundaries, skills, responsibility) – so that you naturally overcome what feels too tight?

In our individuation process, we follow the step by step path: Mars → Jupiter → Saturn → Uranus.

With Uranus retrograde – and its return to resourceful Taurus – the reminder is clear: freedom is not free; must be earned.