We live in a culture that prizes consistency and constancy. The pursuit of “habits” is a virtue; we view routines as stabilizing and a sign of adulthood. To be consistent is to be professional, dependable, stable, grounded.
How do you react when when what’s dependable gets disrupted?
This is the inquiry that starts the week as Mars in Leo comes into a square with Uranus in Taurus.
Mars in Leo Square Uranus in Taurus Symbolism
Whenever Mars and Uranus come together in a hard aspect — a conjunction, square, or opposition — it can be explosive and disruptive. This is especially the case when they are in fixed signs, as they are here.
Mars is the warrior planet, representing our ambition, drive, and willpower. Once it sets its sights on something, it wants no deterrence. In Leo, the fixed fire sign, it has bold ambition and the drive to stay the course and reach the goal. Mars moves fast and doesn’t want to be derailed. It values consistency and loyalty.
Uranus is the planet of revolution, disruption, and unexpected surprises. It is currently working its way slowly through the earth of Taurus, the most fixed sign in the zodiac. Uranus in Taurus is like an earthquake: if you can’t move the people, shake the ground underneath them.
A square is a 90-degree angle between the planets. It is an aspect of tension: two planets “squaring off” against each other.
In this case, both are in fixed signs — signs that anchor their respective seasons, that provide the grounding and the constancy for what came before and what’s coming next.
What happens when your sacred ground gets disrupted?
The Tension of Consistency and Change
This square exposes the tension between our desire for consistency and the inevitability of change.
We want consistency because it’s safe. We want habits because then we don’t have to think.
On the other hand, consistency can create complacency.
We might stick with the status quo because it’s the way we’ve always done it. Consistent routines give structure to our days. It creates safety for the nervous system.
We value people who are consistent, reliable, and dependable.
Consistency can also breed expectations: we can come to expect people who have always been there for us to always be there.
Our consistency in showing up can become a prison of expectations, a standard we force ourselves to live up to, even if it no longer serves us.
Consistency can cause us to see things in the same way we’ve always seen them. We can get in our heads that “this is the problem and this is the way to solve it.”
Disruption Can Bring Liberation
Uranus might bring uncomfortable situations, but ultimately its purpose is to liberate us.
In the same way that repetition can create revelation and insights, so can disruption.
Disruption has the power to liberate us from the tyranny of expectations created by our consistency.
It can help us see our blind spots, to look at something in a a new way thaty might reveal an aspect we hadn’t seen before.
It can eject us out of the goal tunnel, taking us out of the trance of repetition and waking us up to what we’ve been doing blindly.
Disruption can even show us where we’ve been working ineffectively.
For it to work it’s magic of liberation, for us to have the insights, we must allow and embrace the disruption.
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