Uranus moves into Aries May 27: get ready, there's a train a'comin'

"When you've worn out your iron-soled shoes seeking your destination, it arrives with no effort at all when the time is ripe."   Chinese proverb

"Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God".   Kurt Vonnegut

I've written a few times here about how the end of May and June mark a major astrological crossroads. On May 27, Uranus, the planet of surprises, awakening and liberation, moves from 29 degrees Pisces (where it has perched since April 20) onto 0 Aries, the first degree of the zodiac.  

A new beginning is on the verge of happening.  While Uranus will retrograde in July and then move back into Pisces later this year, its passage at the end of this month is a karmic tipping point indeed. 

I've watched numerous friends and clients who have steadily trudged towards different goals for years finally move to the cusp of something important.   I've marvelled how many of us with completely different focuses all have births happening right now. 

One friend is opening her much-anticipated yoga studio in Oakland.  A man and woman I know are adopting their girl from China.  Two women are marrying each other.  Another is launching her herb company in Marin.  Two others in New York are making a healing center. 

As for me, the doors are opening to put these columns together into a book.  And, believe me, being born with otherworldly Neptune on my ascendant (not exactly making me the world's most organized or driven Capricorn), this could only be occuring with some serious Divine help.

(Why just last week I had a charming interlude where I lost the car keys between two cushions in the living room for six hours.  Don't get me started.)

So after years of preparation, with many arid stretches of doubt and indecision, the cosmically-appointed moment for some folks is coming.   But if that's not happening for you, don't worry at all.   

Depending on your chart, the birth may be meant to arrive later this year or early 2011.  Uranus will retrograde on July 4 and return into Pisces.  On December 5 if will go direct and begin its final passage out of that sign once and for all.  On March 12, 2011 it will move into Aries for good. 

So your soul may be gestating something until next spring instead.  Or you might experience a preliminary birth now leading up to a larger one later.

And don't be surprised if over the next weeks and months, a dream that seemed stalled or hopeless becomes reanimated overnight.  That's the nature of Uranus.  Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Remember, if you call in Divine Order,  the right doors open at the right time.  You are always in alignment with the highest that is meant to occur.

Before I began to really imbibe this approach, I would tend to panic when problems occurred.  My Saturn-ruled self would fret, "How on earth am I going to solve this!  What am I going to do?" 

Fear dogged me at every corner. I had trouble sleeping.  

But over time my default reaction has usually become, "Wow, I wonder what solution the universe will reveal to me.  Give me, please, the proper actions.  Make the way clear."

So the messes don't necessarily stop.  That's just life for all of us here at Karma Central.  But as you begin to know that the right solutions are consistently presented, a posture of trusting curiosity rather than terror takes over. 

What a relief.

You learn to let God take the lead on the dance floor. 

And you stop stepping so much on Her beautiful toes.