Uranus Retrograde 2025-2026

Uranus Retrograde 2025-2026

Uranus Retrograde: September 6, 2025 – February 4, 2026
Uranus, the planet associated with sudden insights, release and collective shifts of consciousness, moves retrograde at 1° Gemini from September 6, 2025. The retrograde lasts until February 4, 2026, and during that period, Uranus moves from Gemini to Taurus – more precisely, on November 7, 2025, it re-enters Taurus, ending its retrograde movement in that sign.

In the Jungian sense, retrograde means the withdrawal of archetypal energy into the inner world – we do not lose contact with the Uranus principle, but we no longer experience it through external events, but through internal processes. It is a time of introspective revolution: change does not come from without, but from within, in the way we perceive ourselves, our values ​​and thought patterns.

Two Different Faces of Uranus Retrograde
1. Uranus Retrograde in Gemini (September 6 – November 7, 2025)
Gemini as a mutable air sign opens up introspective work in the field of communication, thinking, information and perception. In this period, collectively and personally unconsciously raises questions:

In which way we think and strengthen our views, which ideas we accept without critical consideration, where beliefs hold us back instead of opening up space for freedom.

Psychologically speaking, it is a period of reexamination of mental patterns. Figures of mediators, teachers or tricksters may appear in dreams and inner images – symbols that indicate inner conflicts related to thought and language.

2. Uranus retrograde in Taurus (November 7, 2025 – February 4, 2026)
The return to Taurus shifts the focus from the mental to the material. Taurus is a fixed earth sign, focused on security, values ​​and bodily experience. Uranus here asks for an introspective analysis of the question:

What gives us a sense of stability, what habits we maintain out of fear and not out of real need, in what way we tie our own identity to possessions and a material base.

Archetypal images of earth, body and security are activated in the unconscious during this period – all that gives the feeling of “foundation”. Jung would say that here Uranus acts as a challenge to our attachment to the old, but not through external fractures, but through the internal need to recognize when it is time for change.

Modalities and inner tasks
Mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces): the first part of the retrograde concerns these signs in particular. The psychological task is introspective work on the flexibility of thought and the ability to accept new perspectives. It can bring a sense of inner insecurity, but also release from rigid thought patterns.

Fixed signs (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius): the second part of the retrograde directly touches fixed energy. Here the challenge is about internal structures and values ​​that provide a sense of stability. In Jungian terms, it is about confronting the shadow of rigidity – where we stubbornly cling to an old pattern and where we need to make room for inner transformation.

Cardinal signs (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn): although Uranus retrograde in this cycle does not transit directly through the cardinal signs, they may feel internal pressure through the aspects. Their psychological task in this period is to align the initiative with internal changes – not to act impulsively from the outside, but to recognize what is changing inside before the action starts.

Uranus retrograde from September 6, 2025 to February 4, 2026 carries two psychological tasks: first, an introspective consideration of thought patterns and communication (in Gemini), and then a deeper examination of security, values, and material foundations (in Taurus). Mutable signs are invited to recognize where they can think differently, fixed signs where they can let go of rigidity, and cardinal signs to learn patience until internal changes crystallize.

In a Jungian sense, this cycle is not a moment of external release, but an internal process that lays the groundwork for future changes when Uranus goes direct again.