Transit Uranus Square Natal Uranus: Freedom Crises at 21 and 63

Transit Uranus square natal Uranus is the period when Uranus makes a ninety-degree angle to its birth position, and it comes twice in a lifetime: around age 21 (the waxing square) and around age 63 (the waning square). Both times bring an intense need to break out of the mould others have cut.

What happens when transit Uranus squares Uranus?

The aspect lasts about a year and generally completes three times through retrogrades. On the approach restlessness and a feeling of "I have to live differently" build; at the exact squares a break or change of direction may happen; and as it separates the new path becomes clear. Because of Uranus's uneven speed, the ages may shift by a few years by generation.

Twenty-one: leaving home; sixty-three: leaving work

In the early twenties this square comes with scenes like switching majors, starting to live independently of the family, or questioning a first serious relationship or belief. In the early sixties the threshold of retirement, redefining a relationship after the children have left, moving to a new city or returning to a long-postponed passion may come up. At both ages, the people around may find these changes abrupt.

Turning a break into a conscious choice

The gift of this square is the courage to defend one's individuality. What helps is to clarify what really needs to change instead of burning bridges on impulse, and to make the transition in stages. The house ruled by natal Uranus, where Aquarius sits, is stirred by this shake-up too. For the peak of the cycle, see transit Uranus opposite natal Uranus.