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Uranus

84 years to circuit the zodiac · about 7 years per sign

Seven years to a sign — a marker of cohort, not of person.

Uranus spends seven years in each sign, so everyone born within a seven-year window shares its placement. Whatever it describes, it is not individual.

This is the general rule for the outer planets, and the reason this site weights them at a half in its elemental balance while luminaries count triple: a body shared by millions cannot distinguish one of them.

It is the first planet unknown to the ancients, and its assignment to Aquarius is a modern act. The traditional scheme gives Aquarius to Saturn and has no place for Uranus at all.

What it is

The first planet discovered with a telescope, by William Herschel in 1781.