The good news here is that things are less quarrelsome than they have been. This area still requires your attention, but the intensity of the strife and turmoil is considerably reduced.
With Uranus in the 4th house you never know where want to stay with family members or with a parent or parent figure. You can find myself in total harmony with each other one minute and at each other’s throat the next. Mood changes, both personal and in family members, are swift, extreme and bewildering.
Family has been defined as a ‘womb and a tomb’* – it is both at the same time. It is a womb in that it’s a protective mechanism, a survival mechanism of nature. A foetus will not survive without the womb. However, when it is high time to emerge from the womb, the foetus must come out. This is coming out involves considerable pain. Childbirth is painful and disruptive. Nonetheless, if the foetus doesn’t emerge, the previous womb becomes a tomb. Many of you are facing this ‘womb-tomb’ dilemma these days with the family. If you don’t emerge, it is dead (a psychological kind of death), but emerging is painful and disruptive.
Uranus is your financial planet. His position in the 4th house shows considerable spending on the home and family. The needs of the family are useful financial motivators. However, it also shows someone who earns money from home – perhaps through a home office or home-based business. It is demonstrated that family and family connections are important financially.
Uranus in the 4th house shows a continual upgrading of the home. In a sense, we could compare it to upgrade computer and software. It is finished with regularity. As soon as you finish one upgrade, another more alluring one appear. Every time you think that the home is perfect, a new idea comes, and you need to be more seamless. This is why i often multiple moves under this aspect. No sooner do you have your dream home than another more alluring dream home is seen.
This transit also shows that you’re making the home more ‘high tech’ – you’re installing all kinds of modern gadgetry in the home.
The marriage of the parents or parent figures has been tried for some years now and this continues in the year ahead. Divorce and separations here wouldn’t be a surprise. One of them is under a passion for personal freedom these days and this will stress a marriage. He or she seems very rebellious and difficult to handle. The other parent figure begins to prosper from September 10 onwards. He or she has likewise been making major repairs in the home.
Siblings and sibling figures have a static, durable kind of year. Likewise, children and children figure. Grandchildren (if you have them) shouldn’t move this year.
Construction and renovations to the home could happen any time this year, but if you have free will in the matter, September 10–27 would be a considerable time. If you’re redecorating or otherwise beautifying the home, March 20 to April 30 seems a good time (this too could happen at any time, but if you get a bit of free will, this period is best).