So I dunno about you, but I'm feeling the shock waves of Uranus (the planet of sudden change & innovation)...

... moving into Taurus (the fixed earth sign that represents wealth, value, and the land itself) ...

... rather heavily this week.

I have a Taurus ascendant so I suspect I'm feeling it especially strongly...

... but Uranus changing signs (only happens every 7 years) is a BIG DEAL that affects everyone.

Here's what it's like:

- jolts of creative inspiration

- feeling restless at night, legs twitching, trouble going to sleep (time to get into Magnesium, Passionflower, Chamomile and Valerian!)

- sudden urges to garden or to go make herbal medicine even if you've never been into these things previously

- the odd feeling that rooms in your house look somehow "different" even if you changed nothing about them

- sensational, stomach-turning fluctuations in your financial situation -- either big windfalls $$$ of cash, or everything drying up + big unexpected bills

- a strange attraction to certain specific plants that never caught your eye before

- rather shocking, bizarre dreams and an easier time getting lucid in dreams (this is amplified by the current Mercury retrograde in Pisces)

- decisions to take concrete action on ideas that seemed like sheer fantasies just a few months ago

For the past 7 years (other than when Uranus made a brief foray into Taurus last spring and then retrograded out again) we've had Uranus in Aries (the fiery sign of self-assertion)...

... if you think back on the past 7 years of Uranus in Aries, it's been a time of immense individuation (following your path no matter what) and "coming into your own," no?

... so I'm sensing that this next 7 year cycle of Uranus into Taurus will be a time where we have the rubber-meeting-the-road challenge of taking these shiny new selves that we forged during the Uranus in Aries era...

... and using them to do the tough work of growing (Taurus = heavy associations with agriculture) the new world we want to see around us, by upleveling our relationship to both Mama Earth and to money (Taurean cattle were literally one of the first forms of currency - portable, exchangeable wealth....

... so much so that the ancient Norse rune that represents wealth and luck, Fehu, also literally means "cattle").

So here are some trends I'm sniffing on the next 7-year horizon as Uranus settles its weirdness into Taurus:

- disruptions in conventional fiat currencies like the U.S. dollar leading to renewed interest (and rising value) for cryptocurrency

- increasing scary weather events (hurricanes, polar vortexes, tornados) related to ever-more-dramatic climate change

- some massive earth quakes / tsunamis (with Taurus representing the land, the Earth itself and Uranus being sudden movement)

- more & more people getting into re-skilling (gardening; canning; hunting; starting fires from scratch; making herbal medicines) to learn how to live without modern conveniences

- more & more people called to work in ceremonies with powerful Master Teacher Plants like Ayahuasca, Huachuma, and Psilocibin

- widespread legalization of Marijuana (for recreational, not just medical, use) and growing recognition of its entheogenic qualities

- people in "masculine" professions that involve a lot of rule-following and logic - even fancy ones like medicine and law - being replaced by "deep-learning" A.I. like IBM's Watson

- ever-greater awareness surrounding the need for clean water and land

- ever-greater interest in animism, and a dawning recognition that we can't keep treating the physical world like it's full of "mute, dumb" objects-to-be-used... but rather that we have to start relating to everything - plants, money, animals, soil, water, stars - as "people" - subjectivities that deserve gratitude and respect

So - can you feel it?

The Shocking Jolts of Uranus in Taurus