These are global energies of uranus in Aries or in 1st House that must be nuanced according to your birth chart, see the article Uranus in birth chart; see also the article on the general interpretation of Uranus.
The planet uranus is one of the attributes of the Animus in the chart, as such it can indicate a Projection of it, in particular more especially the intellectual projections on “social entities” (political party, club, syndicate, nation, church, etc), all that concerns more directly the affirmation of the spirituality and the social vision of the native…
It informs about our need for freedom, independence, to go towards the new, to break the Saturnian framework, and to tend towards our deepest ideals. It materializes our intuition, it electrifies us, it questions everything that is too conventional.
The planet fundamentally represents an evolutionary breaking point, of revelation, of creation.
As Uranus stays for about 7 years per sign, its position in houses is more meaningful for the personality. The energy of the sign gives above all an elemental background coloring common to a generation, which will apply more personally to the area of life signified by the house. Therefore, focus first and foremost on the house affected, as the sign gives a background tone.
An intense affirmation of one’s personality
Uranus is in the element of Fire here, under Mars’s rulership, which are energies that suit its inherently dynamic nature well, as well as its explosiveness, impulsiveness, and individualism, so these traits are all greatly accentuated.
These people’s personality tends very much to be influenced by Aquarius, so they are very idealistic, highly original or even eccentric, humanistic, and spiritual, and have a highly developed intuition (with antennae that pick up on society’s trends and vibrations) and also a strong thirst for freedom and independence.
This angular position is powerful : in terms of these people’s self-affirmation, although they feel somehow different or quirky, instead of fearing or being worried about this side of themselves, they own it ! They build their sense of self using these differences, and cultivate them so that they bear fruit (tense aspects may delay or hinder this, though probably will not completely prevent it from happening).
Generally, people with this planet in this position are forthright. They are not secretive about their opinions, even if it means upsetting people : this is not an issue for them ! Even if it means being alone against the world.
With that in mind, we could say that all of Aries’s values tend to be intensified, namely impatience, the desire for novelty and change, haste and impulsiveness, combativeness, egocentrism, dominant tendencies, nervousness, passion, excessiveness, and difficulty with teamwork, as well as a lack of perseverance at times. The important exception, however, is that this planet brings a more social, cerebral, and spiritual side to this sign.
This highly “cerebral” part of people may become dominant, such that these people may feel as though they are more of “a mind” than a body, and they may also instinctively sense the “collective” nature of humankind and dream of accomplishing great things in society. This is the easiest way for transcendence to occur (because Uranus is in fact a transpersonal planet, and this position is a port of entry into mysticism and interest in paranormal events, astrology, and esotericism).
If you have this position, there exists a very prominent conflict inside of you between your individualistic side, which pushes you to rely only on yourself, and the need to create a “network of friends”, and a sort of web around yourself. But most likely, you see humanity more as a sum of many separate, intense, and valued individuals than as a global mass which people have to melt into and which requires them to sacrifice their personal values.
This does not prevent you from showing yourself to be altruistic and authentic in your relationships with others or from having an aptitude for socialization; it’s just that you may also have more trouble forming an intensely close bond with another person. You prefer to have a “lover / friend” who does not try to put you in a cage, but rather empowers you by giving you your freedom (you believe that giving the other person freedom and valuing this freedom is the most beautiful demonstration of love).
Having Uranus in the 1st House / Aries may make you bad-tempered, aggressive, and hypersensitive, and your tone may change and your blood may boil readily (especially when people try to constrain or limit you). Generally though, you calm down just as quickly, and you are not a resentful person (unless there are elements of Scorpio, Pluto, and Earth at play, for example).
This position makes you highly iconoclastic, anti-conventional, and anti-conservative, and also a true reformer ! It’s true that sometimes this leads you to promote “change for the sake of change”, or “the revolution first”, without first creating structure or stabilizing things, and without really having a new model to put in place, for that matter; you just know that you want to bring down the old system. As a politician, this can make you good at getting elected and help you feel as though you are in your element when dealing with the complexities of your party and championing its cause, even in a rather fanatical way, though you may have trouble making your ideas concrete (having Earth be dominant in your birth chart would be helpful here).
You pit yourself “against things” : against religion, traditions, the state, and in fact any other boxes that people may try to put you into ! You have an oppositional side, a gainsayer in you, and more than anything you like to do the opposite of other people, “shock” them, provoke them, and even be insolent. And this gives you just as many strengths as weaknesses, as it’s neither good nor bad, but you would do well to understand this pattern so as to break free from it and thus really gain more freedom and objectivity.
In the best-case scenario, people with this position may be visionaries, pioneers who are always one step ahead, geniuses with a little playful, impish glint in their eyes, both reformers and originators, and leaders of other people’s opinions, always knowing how to use groundbreaking things before anyone else (this planet may symbolize “new technology”, electricity, computers and electronics, aeronautics, etc).
Unfortunately, this planetary positioning is highly unstable, and these people’s lives may be very much in keeping with this : disjointed, turbulent, and precarious. This may be intentional to some degree, but also may just be something that they have to deal with depending on which aspects the planet forms, which sometimes may even lead to madness.
Having this position makes for a very sensitive, central point in these people’s birth chart, and any harmonious or tense aspects can have a direct impact on one’s vitality or personality (leading to accidents, u-turns, involuntary expansion, lucky surprises, etc).
More than for other people, uranus’s various Transits are really very important for these people, as they directly affect how exactly these people bring their individuality to fruition. And uranus’s transit is quite slow : this planet takes about 84 years to make its way all the way around the zodiac, and this rhythm goes hand in hand with these people’s development. The lessons that it teaches us are slow, and act as a kind of internal combustion engine. We should keep a look out here when turning 21 (increasing square) and 42 (opposition) : see my article on the Generic cycles.
The more angular uranus is for these people (the closer it is to the Ascendant), the more prominent the planet’s traits are in their personality.
Interpersonal Projections onto other people for whom Aquarius and/or uranus are dominant are of particular interest for these people, since this allows them to see and experience these energies differently, and more “directly”.
It’s important to note that having this position is likely to have a greater impact on men than women, because of Mars’s rulership here and its importance in relation to the Animus.
Uranus retrograde in the 1st House and Aries
Uranus’s retrograde motion here may tend to make these people a tad more introverted and inhibited, or a bit more eccentric, but not really significantly so.
Uranus’s retrograde motion in one’s birth chart is much less important than for other planets, since it’s a slow, transpersonal planet, and it’s retrograde for more than a third of the year (about 5 months).
Nevertheless, it’s useful to monitor the evolution of this retrograde motion through Progressions. Changes that occur here may not necessarily give rise to specific, noteworthy events, but they may indicate a non-negligible psychological change in how this planet’s energies are used.
Celebrities with Uranus in 1st House
Che Guevara, Isaac Newton, Charles de Gaulle, Bill Gates, Kurt Cobain, James Dean, Serge Gainsbourg, Mel Gibson, Johnny Depp, Leonardo Dicaprio, James Franco, Jean Sébastien Bach, Johnny Cash, Dostoïevski, Hugo Chávez, Ronald Reagan, George Lucas, Thierry Ardisson, Clara Morgane, Rocco Siffredi…
Celebrities with Uranus in Aries
Friedrich Nietzsche, Che Guevara, Martin Luther King, Elvis Presley, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Paul Belmondo, Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor, Stanley Kubrick, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, James Dean, Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, James Brown, Jacques Chirac, Warren Buffett, Yoko Ono, Charles Manson…