Seven Years of Uranus in Taurus and Everything It Shook Loose in Me

Uranus moved through Taurus from May 15, 2018 until April 25, 2026. Now that the transit has closed, I want to look back at it from the calmer vantage point that comes once the dust has settled. Clarity arrives in hindsight. When we are inside an experience, we are mostly trying to survive it and keep our footing. It is only later, when we trace the whole arc, that the pattern reveals what we’ve become through that period.

That is the value of reflecting on a transit like this one. It lets us gather seven years of seemingly separate events and see how they were connected all along. So this is my reflection, offered in the hope that it invites you to take stock of your own seven years too.

What this transit was really after

Uranus is the planet of disruption, awakening, and liberation. 

It dislodges the things we've outgrown but keep holding onto because letting go feels too frightening, the routines and beliefs and versions of ourselves we cling to long after they've stopped fitting. Taurus, on the other hand, is the most grounded, security-seeking sign of the zodiac, governing the five senses, money, values, food, and the slow accumulation of what makes us feel safe.

When the planet of sudden change spends seven years moving through the sign of stability, the result is a long, slow earthquake. Uranus in Taurus invites us to question the very things we built our sense of safety on. 

• What do you actually value, underneath what you were taught to value? 

• Is your relationship with your senses and your physical comfort truly yours or inherited?

• Is your relationship with money built on truth or on fear? 

These are not questions that resolve in a weekend, which is exactly why this transit took years.

For me, the questions landed even closer to home, because I am a Taurus Rising. That means Uranus was moving through my first house, the house of the physical body, identity, and sense of self. For seven years, the planet of upheaval sat directly on the part of my chart that governs who I understand myself to be. What follows are the seven things I moved through during these seven years.

1. My body became the first place I rebelled

It started with food. In 2018, right as the transit began, I got tired of eating “clean.” For years I'd carried this rule around like a badge: I don't eat fast food or fried food, if I can help it. It was a self-imposed rule that I wanted to release and see what would happen. I was ready to take on this experiment.

So I ate whatever I wanted. I inevitably gained weight, and then the pandemic arrived and gave me every reason to sink further into the comfort of food. For a while it felt freeing to eat without rules, a permission I'd never given myself before. And then, just as Uranus settled into the very last degrees of Taurus and dipped briefly into Gemini in 2025, I swung hard in the opposite direction. 

I cut out carbs and sugar completely, fruit included, and lived on protein and vegetables for two months. The first three weeks were unbelievably difficult, and by the end I felt more energized than I had in years. Uranus loves these reversals. The point was never the diet itself, but that my body had become the laboratory where I tested what safety, control, and freedom actually meant to me.

2. My identity shifted from the front of the camera to behind the desk

At the end of 2019, I was burnt out from working out of alignment in my own business, so I stepped back and went to work at my husband's start-up, helping with operations and developing training materials. For years I had shown up on camera as though I were an extrovert, and it burnt me out fast, because I am an introvert. I wasn't operating in a way that leveraged my strengths or the quality of my energy. Suddenly I was behind the scenes, at a desk, in a role no one was watching, and my sense of self had to reorganize around a completely different center of gravity. There was grief in that, and there was also the strange relief of not having to perform.

3. Learning to be a wife and an employee at the same time

What I didn't anticipate was the relational layer that came with working for my husband. He was my boss now, and he was also my husband at home, and those two relationships did not always know how to share the same person. That struck a chord with my ego. There is a chart reason this theme ran so deep for me: my Scorpio Sun sits in opposition to Uranus, in my seventh house of partnership, so the very transit shaking up my identity was landing directly across the axis of my closest relationship. On top of navigating the pandemic's impact on the business itself, we were negotiating an entirely new dynamic as a couple. Who gets to give direction, and in which room? Where does the marriage end and the working relationship begin? It took us about a year and a half to find our footing and to define healthy boundaries inside each of our roles. While it got messy at times, we eventually figured it out. Some of the most important work in a marriage happens in these unglamorous, uncomfortable middle stretches.

4. The identity that was taken from me

In 2022 came the part of this transit that flipped me inside out and upside down. Even though I had stepped away from my own business, my Instagram account became the target of imitators who replicated my account, took on my likeness, and used it to solicit and scam my followers. This went on for two months, and I felt completely helpless. I reported it to Instagram, no meaningful action was taken, and in the end the only resolution was shutting down my own account to stop the illegitimate activity.

It shattered me in ways I did not expect at all. However, in retrospect, Uranus rules my 10th house of public reputation, and given that my social media account relates to my public image, this event is actually a classic interpretation of this transit. I had taken so much pride in building my reputation over the years, and watching it dismantled in an instant broke something in me. It felt like an identity dying and being betrayed at the same moment. 

But the part that hurt most was knowing that real people had been scammed in my name, and there was nothing I could do to make it right. That helplessness sat in my body for a long time. It took me three years to heal, and it was only recently that I returned to social media, once I had realigned my nervous system with the greater purpose of my work and a clearer sense of how I get to show up online, using my energy in a way that is aligned with who I am. 

5. The gift hidden inside the stillness

Not everything this transit brought was loss. During the pandemic, I developed an entirely different relationship with my nervous system. I have spent most of my life revving at a million miles an hour, but when everything shut down, there was nowhere to go, and my body was forced to stop. I started watching television without doing two other things at the same time. As I learned to simply sit and watch, I noticed my nervous system slowing down. My breath slowed, my mind unclenched, and my body melted into the couch in a way it never had before.

In the silence the pandemic imposed, my nervous system finally got loud enough for me to hear it. What I came to understand is that healing begins with the body feeling safe first, not just the mind understanding that it is safe. For someone who had spent a lifetime revving, that reframed everything. The stillness I never would have chosen was the very thing that gave my body permission to rest, and it was a gift I deeply needed.

6. Money, fear, and the story I didn't know I was carrying

Taurus also rules money, resources, and what we value, and here the transit reached into a part of my life I'd been avoiding for a long time. Because of that same Scorpio Sun opposition in my seventh house, my relationship with my husband and my relationship with money surfaced together, intertwined.

In April 2019, something dawned on me that I'd never consciously seen. I had been carrying the belief that money was dangerous. My mother, a devoted action and dramatic movie enthusiast, was convinced that I might be kidnapped for ransom. As a child I thought this was overly dramatic and unlikely, but the fear had taken root in me when we were victims of a home burglary and then had been robbed at gunpoint. Somewhere in my body I had decided that if I became wealthy, I would be in danger, that someone would take advantage of me or steal from me. So without ever choosing to, I feared money, and I had been keeping myself small around it for decades. That realization sent me down a real healing path. I hired a money coach to reprogram these beliefs from the ground up, and in doing that work I discovered something else: my husband and I held completely different philosophies about money, how we earned it, spent it, invested it, and saved it. None of it lined up.

7. The healing that opened the door to motherhood

So we did the work of reconciling those differences, which felt necessary if we were going to build wealth together at this point in our marriage. Eventually we hired a financial advisor to bring clarity and alignment to our financial future. It may not sound like spiritual work, but it absolutely was. And once I felt secure about our future, I finally had the capacity to turn toward my mother wound.

I had a love-hate relationship with the idea of becoming a mother. Part of me knew I would be a wonderful mother, and another part of me was terrified that I could ruin a human being's life if I got it wrong. The Universe has a comic sense of timing. We were in the middle of trying for a second round of IVF when we were graced with an unexpected baby girl, ready to be adopted. There was no controlling that. It arrived exactly as it was meant to, beautiful and divine. After seventeen years of marriage, we became parents in a way neither of us had planned, and it was perfect precisely because it was out of our hands.

What I want you to take from this

Uranus did not make any of this happen. Planetary transits are not the cause of the events of our lives. They are mirrors, reflecting back the themes that are surfacing so that we can pay attention, tend to them, and move through them with a little more wisdom than we would have otherwise.

I've shared my own seven years in the most punctuated way I could, not so you'll see them as predictions, but so you'll be moved to go looking for your own. Where did your sense of safety crack open between 2018 and 2026? What did you build, lose, rebuild? What did your body, your money, your relationships, your sense of self ask of you that you couldn't hear until later? Time moves so quickly, and taking the time to reflect is a gift we can only give ourselves, because no one else can give it to us.

A gentle eye toward what comes next

Uranus has now moved into Gemini, where it will stay for the better part of the next several years before it eventually moves toward Cancer. We had a preview of this Uranus in Gemini energy in the second half of 2025, and the fuller passage is just beginning now.

I won't pretend to know exactly what it holds for any one of us, because that depends on our own natal and progressed charts and the many other planets at play. Where Taurus is the senses, money, and the slow and tangible, Gemini is the mind, language, curiosity, and the movement of ideas, so the themes shift from what we build and rely on toward how we think, learn, communicate, and exchange information. The last time Uranus passed through Gemini, from 1941 to 1949, the world saw a dramatic acceleration in communication and technology, and this time it arrives in the age of artificial intelligence. 

On a personal level, this energy invites mental flexibility, curiosity, and a willingness to break out of thought patterns we've outgrown. You might notice a pull toward learning something new, toward different conversations and different circles, toward the way you communicate and share your voice. For me, Uranus moves into my second house of finances, values, and material possessions, which feels like a fitting next room to walk into after everything the last transit taught me about money and worth. I'm holding it lightly, with curiosity rather than expectation.

If you feel called to understand how this next cycle is touching your own chart, where Uranus in Gemini is moving for you and what themes might be stirring, this is exactly the kind of work I love to do together in a personal astrology consultation. Sometimes it helps to have someone help you read the mirror.

For now, I'll leave you with the same invitation I've been giving myself. Pause. Look back at the last seven years with tenderness and a clear eye. Cherish the good, the bad, and the ugly of it. You might be surprised at what you’ve gone through!

Mimi 🔥