The End of an Era

What Seven Years of Uranus in Taurus Actually Looked Like from the Inside

In 2018, I was listening to true crime podcasts and making Christmas ornaments. Truly a peak Taurus moment of comfort and creativity. But under all the glitter, something about my life felt flat. I began searching for new podcasts and stumbled across one called The Cosmic Calling (now gone), and she lit an absolute fire in me for all things astrology. From there I binged Psychic Teachers and Wine and Spirits with Monica Ten-Kate and by 2019, I'd signed up for her mediumship course. Little did I know my life would never be the same.

In those eight weeks, I discovered I could connect with loved ones who had passed. The floodgates of spirit communication opened just as Uranus transited across my 5° Mercury. Quite suddenly, I was breaking through old restrictions I didn't even know I'd accepted.

And then came the harder part.

In 2020, my marriage took a big tumble when Uranus moved across my husband's Mercury and went opposite both our natal Uranus placements. I share this because these are two distinct manifestations of the same energy; freedom from something established. In the end, we moved cities to change the energy that surrounded us and started a healing chapter. Each year after that, something came up for us to either liberate ourselves from or fight harder for. We left a family business where we'd both worked for over twenty years. We each did a 180° turn on the things we found joy in. I fought episodes of pneumonia, anemia, and depression. My husband dealt with back and wrist pain, and a cancer surgery. Nothing about the lives we'd built in our thirties seemed stable any longer.

I'm sure this feels quite terrifying to read, and you're thinking, sweet Copernicus, why are you sharing this with me, Emily?!

Here's the thing. All of these things needed to happen in one way or another.

Had we been neglecting boundaries and pushing past our limits in the name of progress? Yes. Did we encounter doctors who had no investment in the overall picture of our health? Yes. Did we take their word for it despite the lingering doubts? Also yes. Uranus freed us from so many things that were holding us back from living the big, bold lives we're meant to. It woke us up to our lives.

A Quick Word About How Astrology Actually Works

I need to pause here because I know what some of you might be thinking: So the planets DID do this to you.

No. And this is important.

There are so many people talking about astrology right now, and it's being spun into a kind of cosmic blame game. "Did you get fired when Saturn was square your Mars?" "Mercury is in retrograde and I can't say anything right." It's as though astrology has become a Pokémon game where people collect transits to prove they've leveled up.

But the stars and planets do not cause things to happen in your life. Only you have the power to do that.

I know that's a hard pill to swallow, especially when we astrologers are out here shouting about 2026 being one of the most challenging years. Naturally, you look around and say, "Yeah, this IS terribly challenging for me!" But what if the stars and planets are just revealing the patterns and potential outcomes that already exist?

Think of it like the housing market. We watch prices shift up and down across cities and neighborhoods, from month to month and even over decades. We ask realtors, "Will I get the best price for my house if I sell now, or should I wait?" The realtor's job is to look at current and past factors to determine future probability. Houses generally sell faster in summer because families are relocating and don't want to disrupt children mid-school year. That pattern has held for a few generations. When we factor in that summer is initiated by the zodiac sign of Cancer (which also rules Home) we could deduce that Cancer season is when you feel like moving. Does the constellation of Cancer cause you to move? No. It means that based on past patterns, we can locate underlying archetypal energies and patterns of human behavior. You can move any time you want to, but you might get the itch to want to move in the summer.

We have to stop waiting for permission to live our lives. Is there ever a "perfect" time to have a baby? A perfect time to get married, leave a job, or try to meet someone new? That is up to you, not the stars.

So What Was Uranus in Taurus, Really?

Uranus is the radical rebel of the planets. It doesn't spin like any of the others, oh no, it rolls on its side like a ball in the river. It loves sudden changes, strange behavior, and bursts of inspiration while also feeling detached, breaking through restrictions, and bringing revolutionary extremeness. Basically, an uncontrollable lightning bolt.

Since 2018, Uranus in Taurus has been a glitch in the matrix of money, food, comfort, climate, labor, and land. Because that's the thing with Uranus: it doesn't ask us to change, it shocks us into it. As the planet of surprise, Uranus zaps us with advancements, stuns us with uncertainty, upends normalcy, incites innovation, and leaves us in a dumbfounded daze. And when it's in a sign that despises change (like the "Do Not Disturb" earth sign of Taurus) the daze is both internal and external. Your values, your sense of safety, your five-year plan that was supposed to finally work this year? None of it is safe.

Historically, major Uranian shifts have coincided with game-changing, world-altering technology like electricity, photography, nuclear energy, space travel and the internet just to name a few.

So did Uranus in Taurus happen to me, or for me?

I grabbed mediumship, astrology, and intuitive work by the horns and never let go. If in 2019 I had been told that my life was going to be turned upside down, inside out, and that my pockets would be emptied, I likely would have panicked, overthought everything, and fought hard to stay "safe." Instead, I knew Uranus, this lightning bolt of sudden changes and inspiration was heading toward my Sun. I felt like this was a moment to harness something inside of myself that could only be reached during this one precious window.

And I was right.

What I Want You to Know

If you're about to experience Uranus in Gemini, whether that's its transit through your chart or you're approaching your mid-life Uranus opposition, I want you to hear this from someone who's on the other side of it.

You will not be the same person in seven years and it’s not a threat. That's the gift!

The version of you that's comfortable right now? She's done her job. She got you here. Uranus doesn't come to destroy what you've built but it will show you what you've outgrown. The things that fall apart were likely already cracking. It’s up to you to decide what to keep and what’s worth building on.

Here's what I wish someone had told me in 2018:

Don't white-knuckle your way through it. The tighter you grip, the harder the shock. Stay flexible and be willing to fight for something you truly don’t want to let go of. Make sure that you accept this change within your mind and body. Pay attention to what lights you up, especially the things that feel impractical, strange, or "not like you", because that's the magic working! Trust the impulse that doesn't make sense on paper but won't leave you alone. Uranus knows things your five-year plan can’t even see.

And this is quite possibly the most important of all…You are not a passive recipient of cosmic weather tossed onto you by the stars and planets like too much salad dressing. You are making choices every moment of every day and you get to decide what to do when the lightning strikes. You can hide under the covers, or you can step outside and let that electric bolt illuminate everything you couldn't see in the dark.

I didn’t always choose to step outside and was blindsided more than once. Uranus cost me comfort, certainty, and a life that looked good on paper. But the sweet gifts it gave me… a career I love, a marriage that's unshakeable, a new relationship with my body, and a sense of purpose that no 2019 five-year plan could have ever dreamt of.

The end of an era is just the beginning of the next. Uranus has been and will be with us, active in our astrology, our entire lives. It’s time to make peace with the radical rebel. 

Emily is an intuitive astrologer, psychic medium, and Akashic Records reader based in Colorado Springs, where she helps clients explore soul patterns, past-life connections, and spiritual growth through astrology, mediumship, and energetic insight. She finds the gold in what you were told was straw.

Readings, teachings, and creative offerings at emilyandherstars.com