These are global energies of uranus in Cancer or in 4th 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.
Emotional instability and fickleness in a social setting
The planet Uranus, which finds itself in exaltation in Scorpio, is clearly not very comfortable in Cancer under the Moon’s Rulership; this is a sector that generally represents that which reassures us emotionally or relates to our roots, our foundations, or our personal unconscious, and by extension our family, our house, our home, or our early childhood, and this planet brings much instability, insecurity, and fickleness to the table.
This may push people to be highly “unconventional”, eccentric, and non-conformist in these ways, either by choice or simply because of their circumstances and their destiny.
As a result, we may find people here who have large families or who live in a community, whose families have been reconstituted multiple times (which multiplies the number of potential parental figures for them), who come from families of artists, astrologers, or hypnotists (or any other Uranian domain), who have taken vows of chastity or celibacy (who live a monastic life), who lost one of their parents at an early age (for any of various reasons, but in any case resulting in a kind of liberation), etc.
There is often a notion of family here which readily extends not only to blood relatives, but also further in a more global, transpersonal way to a sort of surrogate family. These people like to surround themselves with others who share the same ideals and allow them to “choose” a symbolic family on the basis of shared intentions (a bit like the “hippie” phenomenon in the 1960s, for example, which then grew into “May 68” in France, as well as the concept of the European Union, as all of this was highly connected to the generation of people with Uranus in Cancer !), as this family may be much less susceptible to disloyalty and instability than their real family (or it may at least be perceived to be this way).
Uranus in the 4th House / Cancer can also be very helpful for breaking with parental patterns and radically distancing yourself from the life plan that others want to map out for you, and so these people may refuse to take over a family business, for example, instead taking a path that those in their entourage do not know about, or they may call for and bring about a great revolution and modernization that completely changes the very soul of their parental society.
Generally, coming into contact with their roots may be difficult for them, and may even lead to a feeling of being uprooted, which may be a real or symbolic feeling, since they have trouble connecting with their ancestors, and this may in fact lead to one of the main challenges of their incarnation : determining what to transmit in turn to their descendants and how to do so (they must either break with ancestral patterns or find a way to continue them in a different way).
With this position, people may have one parent who is also particularly Uranian (this parent may be very Aquarius, be influenced by this planet in other ways, have a highly developed 11th House, etc.) and who has a powerful impact on their childhood through their originality, eccentricity, free, iconoclastic life philosophy, visionary thinking, ingenuity, etc. This parent may also actually allow them to discover their true personality, which may be far-removed from the various ways in which they were culturally and socially conditioned, making them better able to adapt to “novelty”.
From a more practical, material point of view, this planetary positioning may lead people to prefer a more modern, contemporary, technological style of interior decorating, having a “quirky” living space, or being able to change things up frequently and regularly transform their surrounding environment so as to feel truly comfortable at home and harmonize their home with the fluctuations of their mental state.
On the other hand, this position does not necessarily help people to feel like they really own their home; they feel a little more like a permanent renter, but do not necessarily understand on the real financial constraints behind it all. They may prefer to have a bohemian or nomadic aspect to their lifestyle and stay far away from practical realities, such as bills and taxes.
Unfortunately, instability is likely to persist for a long time in these areas for these people, and in some cases, depending on the other influences in their birth chart, they may suffer as a result, feeling lost, always out of place, and never “at home”.
They may be “free spirits” in a way, and be forced to be independent very early in life (including in the legal sense of the word : reaching adulthood early), perhaps too early, which may impact how safe they feel and force them to avoid certain risks and realities, perhaps unconsciously, that may actually be able to give them real freedom.
The Moon represents our sensitive, emotional side, and the uranian energies may bring forth some level of psychological instability and give us an intensely cyclothymic side : see the Moon in Aquarius, where we find some analogous traits.
People with this position may also lack the ability to set healthy limits and boundaries, since in their somewhat utopian view they see themselves as citizens of the world and members of humanity, but lose sight of the real function and purpose of a community, which by definition relates to a specific identity, culture, and history and is not some absolute, disconnected idea based only on laws and illusions.
One good thing to do with this position is to carry out some self-reflection on your family life and your history so as to better understand this shared, ancestral past, as this may allow you to ground yourself in a healthy way in the present and the future.
Uranus retrograde in the 4th House and Cancer
Uranus’s Retrograde motion in this sign is likely to intensify withdrawal and introversion, which this positioning may already create in people naturally, and which may have psychological repercussions.
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 4th House
Angelina Jolie, Cameron Diaz, David Bowie, Brigitte Bardot, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Catherine Middleton, Elizabeth Taylor, Friedrich Nietzsche, Margaret Thatcher, Jean Paul II, Pablo Escobar, Ernest Hemingway, Kanye West…
Celebrities with Uranus in Cancer
Mahatma Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Christopher Columbus, Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Rasputin, Marie Curie, James Cameron, Marcel Proust, Mark Hamill, Hulk Hogan, Lakshmi Mittal, Michael Moore…