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- Uranus is the planet of change and original thinking. Expressed in
- its positive form, Uranus endows a person with inspiration, serendipity,
- resourcefulness, originality and perhaps even genius or psychic power.
- When Uranus is prominent in your horoscope, you are unique!
- If Uranus is afflicted (at odds with another planet in your horoscope),
- Uranus's influence results in abnormal and aberrant behavior, moodiness,
- an inability to follow through with plans or achieve personal goals, and
- sometimes even perversion.
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- Uranus is the 7th planet in distance from the Sun and was accidentally
- discovered in 1781 by British astronomer William Herschel. Because it is
- almost two billion miles from the Sun, Uranus takes 84 years to complete
- its orbit. Like Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus is a gas planet composed
- largely of Hydrogen and Helium. Its volume is 67 times greater than the
- earth and its mass is 14.5 times greater.
- Uranus has a ring system (like Saturn and Jupiter) and at least 15
- known satellites, the two largest of which (Oberon and Titania) were
- discovered by Herschel in 1787. Uranus has an unusually large tilt in its
- axis of rotation (98 degrees with respect to the planet of its orbit
- around the Sun).
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- In Greek mythology, Uranus was the husband of Gaea and the god of
- the heavens. Uranus fathered the Titans, the Cyclopses, and the Giants.
- Uranus was violently overthrown by the ruler of the Titans, Cronus
- (Uranus's son). From Uranus's blood which fell upon the earth sprang the
- three Furies who avenge crimes of perjury and patricide.
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