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to our week ahead snapshot with world-class astrologer, historian, and author of the Cosmic calendar, Christopher Renstrom.

This show is designed to give you a quick overview of the Week ahead, enabling you the gift of choice in how you navigate

and weave these energies into your daily life.

Enjoy. Yurnis is the planet of revolution and change.

Discovered in 1781 at the midpoint between the American War for Independence and the French Revolution, Uranus essentially upset the traditional order of the ancient planets in astrology.

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

Astrology Hub and I wanted to talk to you today about the upcoming Sun Uranus conjunction in the zodiac sign of Taurus on April 30th.

Now Uranus has always been a wild and crazy planet. Did you know that it's the only planet to orbit the sun

actually rotating on its side? In other words, its north and south poles are basically aligned with the equators of the other planets.

So basically it's orbiting, rotating on its side.

When you add to the visual the fact that it has rings like Saturn, you can almost think of Uranus as an enormous wheel, a wheel in the sky that keeps on turning.

One of the images that I like to use with Uranus

is the idea of the wheel of fortune,

that what's up is down,

and that's what's down is coming right back up. So basically Uranus has this kind of

top-turvy energy in the astrological chart. It introduces an element of unpredictability and not knowing which end is up literally and figuratively

But the other idea of a wheel that I want to include with this idea or this description of Uranus is the idea of revolution.

Now we think of Uranus again, as I just said, the planet of revolution and change and

revolution is the idea of overthrowing whoever is in charge and and

replacing them with another regime or or with another government or maybe even the underclasses.

But at the time that the word revolution was introduced into the English language,

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