Uranus in Sagittarius

Zadkiel in 1833 called this planet evil by nature, a verdict that sounds harsh beside this sign's old owner. Ptolemy gives Sagittarius to Jupiter, and Lilly in 1659 counts Jupiter the greater fortune, his term for a planet read as helpful. Sign and visitor stand at opposite ends of that old vocabulary, which sorted planets by reputation and said little about any actual person.

Zadkiel also reports that the planet takes 83 and a half years around the twelve signs, and he says whatever good it brings comes suddenly and out of the common course. Raphael in 1828 would still class a fiery sign as unfavorable for it. Later voices disagree: Heindel's 1918 chapter title calls Uranus the planet of altruism, although his 1919 list still files it with the malefics.

By calculation Uranus was here from 1981 to 1988 and earlier from 1897 or 1898 to 1904. That places millions of births under one entry in a table. A modern description of this group as restless and questioning is a matter of fashion in the popular books, and it says nothing reliable about anybody's outlook.