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Published September 3, 2025 08:08AM
Welcome to Uranus retrograde 2025. As the outer planet finds itself in backward movement, it’s a chance to turn inward and tune into who you are with heightened awareness, sharper intuition, and greater connection to your higher consciousness. Its an experience that prompts individuals and the collective to consider the ways we have been changing, evolving, and pushing past existing boundaries in ways that bring us closer to our truth.
When Is Uranus Retrograde 2025?
Uranus retrograde begins September 5 or 6, 2025, depending on where you are in the world, and continues through February 4, 2026. Uranus retrograde 2025 begins in Gemini before crossing into Taurus on November 7, 2025, where it will remain for the duration of its backward spin, closing a chapter it has been transiting through since 2018.
Uranus is one of five planets currently experiencing backward movement.
What Uranus Retrograde 2025 Means for You
Any planetary retrograde shares with us an insight worthy of remembering, which is that growth isn’t exclusive to forward movement. These times are filled with vast opportunities for evolution, based on the archetype of the planet experiencing backward movement, within each of us as individuals as well as the collective that we share.
The purpose of Uranus is liberation, evolution, and truth. It opens us to a new way, a different way, of thinking and being. It represents a fundamental truth of our world, which is that nothing stands still. Existence is a constant state of evolution.
Uranus is also seen as the higher mind. It is vaster consciousness and the akashic field of possibility and potential where all timelines converge and the future whispers to us.
Gemini is also the mind. It is the landscape of our mental world. The perspectives we experience life through. The thoughts we speak. The way our mind translates into curiosities that that guide our learning.
Uranus retrograde in the sign of Gemini brings its awakening essence to the mind. Here we turn inward and review the narratives, stories, perspectives, and mental structures through which we see and know ourselves, others, and all of life around us. Uranus in retrograde in this sign is an inner revolution that invites us to break free from the constraints we have placed upon ourselves and our everyday lives from the inside out.
This duration of time is intensely spiritual in nature. It brings an awareness of ourself as one with the vaster consciousness of possibility. When we create space for contemplation, we find a higher perspective as we begin peering both backward and forward simultaneously. We are able to observe the limitations of the mind as applied to each situation in our past and present from a higher perspective. From this vantage, we can rewrite our story.
As Uranus reenters Taurus, we are invited to explore a paradox that the planet has been instilling in us since 2018, which is that the more we are ground ourselves in our bodies and the tangible, the more we have access to the intangible.
Uranus in Taurus has also been breaking open our inward relationship with security in all its forms, including finances, liberation, individuality, belonging, and freedom. It has also been bringing in a new way to relate to the wisdom of our bodies and expand our comfort zones, increasing our capacity for more of us to be grounded into life.
After its retrograde ends on February 4, 2026, Uranus will spend its final moments in Taurus where it will not return for another 76 years. It will then shift into Gemini again on April 24, 2026, where it will remain until 2033.
Your Horoscope for Uranus Retrograde 2025
As Uranus retrogrades through Taurus, it simultaneously retrogrades through the section of your birth chart ruled by that constellation. By looking to your rising sign, you can see where this is while bringing insights, resulting in your own personal Uranus retrograde horoscope. Here you can learn more about what the retrograde will continue to show you throughout this retrograde.
Aries Rising
Uranus retrograde brings liberation. It wants to release you from any old stories surrounding your worth so that you can clear old patterns of lack of worth, heal your relationship with self-value, and find your sense of deservingness. It reveals to you the vastness of your mind and its limitless ability to sense potential, see from all angles, and shape your existence.
Taurus Rising
Uranus has been opening, shifting, and transforming your entire being for years. When in retrograde, Uranus brings about an inner awakening. Consider this time a realignment of your worth and identity, your values and selfhood. Here you can begin anchoring into who you are in this moment so you can catch up with and get to know yourself again.
Gemini Rising
In what ways have you been changing? Uranus retrograde is a space to integrate the vast directions and experiences that you have been exploring. Here you can listen to any insights and anchor them into your being.
Cancer Rising
It’s a retrograde to attend to the inspiration found within, as if you yourself are the very doorway into creativity, intuition, higher awareness, and sacredness. It’s a retrograde that desires to clear the space, noise, and outer input so that you can remember yourself as an entire universe.
Leo Rising
What ideas have you been playing with these last few months? What has felt inspiring and exciting? What futures have you been envisioning? This exploration has been on purpose to offer space for you to review and refine these ideas and directions before moving forward with them.
Virgo Rising
Change has been calling you. You have noticed it in how you lead, create, work, and contribute. You have felt it in your vaster beliefs and where you seem to belong within this world. This retrograde invites contemplation of these changes and an understanding of where you want to take your life and what meaning sits underneath it.
Libra Rising
Uranus retrograde acts as a whispered conversation with you and existence. Let yourself question your beliefs, your perspectives of this world, and your place within it. Let yourself travel into your being so you can meet with layers that were previously hidden. In this questioning and in these meetings, wisdom awaits.
Scorpio Rising
Uranus retrograde calls for the sort of introspection that values feeling over analyzing. It wants to remind you of the vast universe within your being, if only you let yourself travel through your depths. It arrives to help you clarify what you desire and rectify any past hurts or beliefs that stand in your way.
Sagittarius Rising
This retrograde brings an internal awakening of self and enhanced awareness of how this self shapes and is shaped by those around you. Who are you? Who are you when you are with another? Your awareness also extends to your everyday rhythms and asks you to find realignment with how you take care of yourself.
Capricorn Rising
Uranus retrograde promotes a sense of spaciousness and inward connection in your days. Wherever possible, engage in a slower pace, whether through regular journaling, yoga, or another practice that brings you anchoring and a clear mirror to witness who exists within you. It also asks you to review how you want to express yourself moving forward.
Aquarius Rising
This retrograde is an inner exploration of the meaning of authenticity. Who do you feel like? How do you move through the world? What does it mean to express yourself? Allow yourself space from other sensory inputs so you can come home to your truth and bring emotional healing to your innermost self.
Pisces Rising
This retrograde is a communion with your innermost waters. It invites a review of your emotional body and all that has become part of you, whether it was yours or not. Allow space for realignment and refinement of your patterns, narratives, and perspectives, in both your mind and body.