Uranus is the planet of change and original thinking. Expressed in its positive form, Uranus endows a person with inspiration, serendipity, resourcefulness, originality and perhaps even genius or psychic power. When Uranus is prominent in your horoscope, you are unique!

If Uranus is afflicted (at odds with another planet in your horoscope), Uranus's influence results in abnormal and aberrant behavior, moodiness, an inability to follow through with plans or achieve personal goals, and sometimes even perversion.

Uranus is the 7th planet in distance from the Sun and was accidentally discovered in 1781 by British astronomer William Herschel. Because it is almost two billion miles from the Sun, Uranus takes 84 years to complete its orbit. Like Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus is a gas planet composed largely of hydrogen and helium. Its volume is 67 times greater than the earth and its mass is 14.5 times greater.

Uranus has a ring system (like Saturn and Jupiter) and at least 15 known satellites, the two largest of which (Oberon and Titania) were discovered by Herschel in 1787. Uranus has an unusually large tilt in its axis of rotation (98 degrees with respect to the planet of its orbit around the Sun).

In Greek mythology, Uranus was the husband of Gaea and the god of the heavens. Uranus fathered the Titans, the Cyclopses, and the Giants. Uranus was violently overthrown by the ruler of the Titans, Cronus (Uranus's son). From Uranus's blood which fell upon the earth sprang the three Furies who avenge crimes of perjury and patricide.