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world-class astrologer, historian, and author of the Cosmic calendar

Christopher Wrenstrom. This show is designed to give you a quick overview of the week ahead, enabling you the gift of choice and how you navigate and weave these energies into your daily life.

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Hello, my name is Christopher Wrenstrom and I'm your weekly horoscope columnist here on Astrology Hub.

And this week I wanted to talk to you about Uranus turning retrograde on August 24th.

Now Uranus in astrology is known as the planet of revolution and change. That's because whenever

Uranus enters a sign or is triggered by transiting aspect, it will upset the very foundations of your life.

Essentially what it does is it sort of enters into a room and kicks over the game board,

sending all the carefully placed pieces flying into the air, never to be recovered again.

So Uranus is basically known as the planet of revolution and change.

That's because Uranus was discovered in the year 1781, the exact midpoint between the American

War for Independence and the French Revolution.

So not only was Uranus the first of the modern planets,

sometimes referred to as the Moderns,

it would be followed later by Neptune and Pluto.

Not only was Uranus, the first of the modern planets.

The other two discovered very quickly afterwards were Neptune and Pluto,

but Uranus, the planet of revolution and change, overthrew the traditional classical

order of the planets. Originally in astrology, there were seven planets, sun, moon, mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and Uranus,

Uranus, when it entered into the astrological pantheon, overthrew that order, over through everything that had been known about astrology, and opened up the door to everything that could still be discovered.

So whenever Uranus is very powerful in a chart,

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