Uranian House-Moving Tips

I moved house with Mars conjunct Uranus…in my 4th house – aka the ‘home sector.’ Would I have advised you to do it? Maybe not but for me, the logic seemed clear.

Moving is change and Change is Uranian: this particular opportunity alighted via cosmic providence – out-there synchronicity and it’s liberating.

And as an Aquarius Rising with the Mars-Uranus loosely in trine to my Mars in Virgo, it felt energetically like I’d be turning up to a club with wow-factor boots and my name at the door.

It was a bit more complex than that and while I could blame Saturn (who doesn’t?) as it’s square Uranus, I’m sick of Saturn studies.

In case they are helpful or for future reference, here are my Uranian House Moving Tips: you will not see the like of these anywhere else, they work AND apply whether or not you are moving house in a time of intensified Uranus vibe.

NURTURE YOUR MOON

Moving house riles up your Moon: remember that your Moon represents your daily rhythm and doing things ‘your way.’ It’s also memory but not the variety that stores your pin numbers or the recollection that your friend is sensitive to MSG, the merest mention of politics, ley lines, whatever.

Moon memory taps straight into some primal index so let’s pull this together. Your lunar self is freaked by the combination of not knowing where familiar talismans are, change, strangers handling your things and the terse dialogue that can come with even the best-planned move.

Moving everything around is also a Qi stir-up that is usually sensed with your lunar (intuitive) receptors and you are leaving a place where you’ve most likely become acquainted with the genius loci and any resident ghosts. I had a Virgo ghost, a story I’ll tell elsewhere.

Anyway, all this can reawaken pre-verbal emotions and ultra-potent abandonment fears, security concerns and apprehensions around time or even  mortality. This barely ever happens but an ideal move would feature a distinct space reserved for ‘mooning.’

YOU’RE NASA – THE MOVERS ARE A HAZARDOUS ASTEROID

This doesn’t mean crash a space ship into them to see what happens; more that when it comes to details, go micro and confirm everything with militant precision. Without wishing to offend male readers, this goes 1000x if you’re female and the removalist taking your details is male. “She’ll be right” is not a confirmation.

Also, increasingly companies employ ‘global solutions strategists’ or ‘international logistics experts’ to handle bookings. AKA poorly paid call center staff in the lowest cost labor country the global solvers can source – they have shared spreadsheets, google maps and English as a second or third language.

So you might feel like a berk asking someone to triple confirm that they mean X street in Y city AND the state but you’d avoid my super-Uranian predicament of being on a street with boxes + furniture on the phone to removalists insisting they and their truck were there in front of me.

Cue a ridiculous conversation along the lines of: “are you the lady with the green top on carrying something out of her balcony…”  Me: No, I’m on the street. Movers: Are you sure you’re not her? Me: You are not here. Describe to me what you see right now. Movers: Trees, sky, buildings, the lady…

I began to think I was in a parallel dimension, especially when a Twitter news notification about something Dick Cheney had said popped up on my phone. “I thought he’d died,” I said exclaimed, confusing the movers even more. They were in another state, which would not have happened if I’d gone full adrenal harpie on confirmations thrice over, verbal and in writing etc.

SO YOU THINK YOU’RE A MINIMALIST

Everyone is a minimalist until they move house. Ideally, you would do a massive declutter and detritus purge pre-move or even attempt the 100 Things Challenge.

It is insane how things accumulate and when the atmosphere is Uranian, every skerrick of ‘stuff’ feels like ballast: they may not eat into your time under normal circumstances but if you’re trying to reassemble something or gazing at vaguely greasy suss keys for doors that don’t exist, it’s ennervating.

Yes, optimally everyone would be brilliant at packing. They’d have label zappers, a plethora of stylish packaging material and an abundance of time. If this were you, you’d be like the people depicted in moving house stock art, the sunlight streaming in on your euphoric smile as you waved keys around.

Perhaps you’d be in stylish normcore separates – not wondering if you were wearing the underpants you’d used to wipe off the mystery gunk around the tap base – and carrying a suspiciously light pot plant under one arm. If a partner or children are in the picture, the moving experience has clearly made them more affectionate.

In real life, packing is a pain and I think you have to go to extremes with it: Either throw everything into laundry bags or weird improvised container-like things and hope for the best or hire professional packers. I’ve only done this once and the hourly cost for two of them was more than some lawyers but they were brilliant.

It is, however, odd to see someone noting things like “one vial of artisan pepper with use-by-date not apparent” on an ipad. This sort of situation is also a reminder that a robust toolbox containing everything the home assembler may need is an excellent investment.

CONCEAL YOUR ‘ESOTERIC’ ITEMS

I know, I know…flaunt your fabulosity, be You etc. But being ‘out’ with your magical interests can be a risk factor. I can lucidly recall several moments when tradespeople or removalists – unknown quantities that would not normally be in one’s intimate sphere – pulled weird stunts after spying something esoteric chez moi.

The latest example was with a plumber who, shortly after he clocked my large-poster-sized picture of the Waite Tarot Magician, tore up the entire front garden looking for, apparently, a water meter.

It’s not an exaggaration; he ripped out 20 plants – large and small- and left a gigantic pile of dirt plus trashed plants. Some even looked like he’d torn the plants up and he did it all in the approx two minutes I’d spent inside trying to find water company data.

Of course it is minor in the scheme of things but the energy around it was so vile – particularly as he acted like his conduct was normal and kept eying off the Magician.

While I have not developed anything clear to a theory around this, there is wisdom to the idea of self-protection, especially as the Saturn-Uranus square can make some people more ideological or partisan.

VIBE OUT THE NEW PLACE

Try to reach out – psychically – to the new place before you move. It can be weirdly helpful and it often occurs organically without you realizing it. Eg: I only just now found out that my new house was a Buddhist Center in the Seventies and early Eighties, complete with a visiting Lama and all.

They presumably would have laid down some sort of energy, right? I don’t know that much about Buddhism besides the obvious – although I am fascinated by the Dakini – but a few months before I moved here, I found a laminated mandala in the street that nobody could decipher, although it was definitely Sanskrit and Buddhist.

And shortly after I decided to move here, I became newly interested in Bhutan and Tibet. Then even though I hadn’t played them for six years or more, I started playing the classic chants – Green Tara etc – shortly after I moved. It was as if the house itself – or the genius loci  needed it.

So if you believe that you’re meant to be where you end up or want to be, tune in before you move and see what you pick up. The real estate market is most places now is such a merde-fest that it is easy to stop perceiving the matrix of fate, geo-magic and history that underlies everything.

But it’s still there and it always will be.

Image: Amy Lincoln