♅ Free Uranus Sign Calculator
Umbriel's free Uranus sign calculator finds your natal Uranus (the planet astrologers read for change, freedom and the unexpected: where you break from the script), with its sign, exact degree and house, from your birth date, time and place.
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No account, no email. Uranus is worked out from the planet's own orbit, to within a few arcseconds.
MODERNA modern technique: twentieth-century astrology.
- What you'll needBirth date (time and place for the house)
- What you getYour Uranus sign and exact degree, the house it falls in, whether it was retrograde, and every aspect it makes
- CostFree, no account required
What a Uranus sign is
Uranus was found by William Herschel at Bath on 13 March 1781, the first planet that nobody had known since antiquity. Your Uranus sign is where it stood at your birth. Astrologers read it for change, freedom and the sudden turn: where you do not want to be told, and where you are likely to break from the script.
Deeper.a one-breath read
Uranus takes about 84 years to go round the Sun, so it spends roughly seven years in each sign, and everyone born in the same seven years shares a Uranus sign. That is why it is read as a generational placement. It settled into Aquarius in 1996, Pisces in 2004, Aries in 2011, Taurus in 2019 and Gemini in 2026. Like every outer planet it turns retrograde each year, and near a border it can step over the line and back for a few months before it settles, so a birth in the year before each of those needs the exact day.
The house and the degree are what make a Uranus personal, and the house needs a birth time and place.
How Umbriel computes it
Deeper.a one-breath read
Umbriel computes Uranus from the VSOP87 series for its orbit, for the moment of your birth, and converts it to a longitude seen from Earth. Umbriel's own check against NASA's JPL ephemeris, 1910 to 2044, finds it within a few arcseconds, and it puts Uranus's entry into Taurus on 15 May 2018, within a quarter of an hour of the time printed in a published ingress table. Near a sign edge Umbriel says so and names both signs. The house needs your birth time and place; without a time, Umbriel gives the sign and leaves the house out.
What's in your result
Deeper.a one-breath read
- Sign and degreeWhere Uranus stood at your birth, with a plain warning if it sits within a degree of the next sign.
- The house it falls inThe part of life where the change tends to show up. This is the part that needs your birth time.
- Retrograde or directWhether Uranus was moving backwards at your birth.
- Neptune and Pluto beside itThe other two generational planets, one tap away in the same chart.
- Your whole chartThe Sun, Moon and Rising sign on the same page.
Don’t know your birth time?
Deeper.a cup-of-tea read
Know it roughly? Give the time and say where it came from (a certificate, a parent’s memory, or something rough like “early morning”), and your chart tells you what could change within that window.
Don’t know it at all? Umbriel does not fill the gap with a guess. Tick “I don’t know the time at all” and it checks your whole birthday, hour by hour, then tells you two things: which placements are the same whatever time you were born, as exact as they would be if you knew the minute, and which are down to two signs, both named, so you know what a parent’s memory would settle.
The Ascendant, the Midheaven and the houses are left out rather than approximated. A birth time is the one thing they cannot be computed without, and an approximate Rising sign that looks exact is worse than no Rising sign at all.
Common questions
What does my Uranus sign mean?
Modern astrology reads Uranus for change, independence and the unexpected. A Uranus in Aries is often read as a break-away that starts things, a Uranus in Taurus as change that arrives through money, the body and what feels solid. Best held as a question to think with, not a verdict.
How long does Uranus stay in a sign?
About seven years, because it takes about 84 years to go round the Sun. A retrograde loop near a border can take it back over the line for a few months, so a birth in that window needs the exact date.
Which signs has Uranus been in?
It settled into Aquarius in 1996, Pisces in 2004, Aries in 2011, Taurus in 2019 and Gemini in 2026. In the year before some of those it stepped over the border and back for a few months while retrograde.
Can I find my Uranus sign without a birth time?
Yes. Uranus moves a small fraction of a degree a day, so the date settles the sign unless it sat right on an edge. What you cannot get without a time is the house, and Umbriel leaves it out rather than guessing.
How accurate is Uranus here?
Within a few arcseconds in Umbriel's own check against NASA's JPL ephemeris (1910 to 2044). Near a sign edge, Umbriel names both signs.
Is this Uranus sign calculator free?
Yes: sign, degree, house and retrograde status, with no account and no email, calculated in your own browser.
What if I don’t know my birth time?
Umbriel checks your whole birthday hour by hour and separates what is certain from what is not. Placements that are the same whatever time you were born are shown as exact. Placements that changed sign during the day are shown as two named signs, so you know what a parent's memory would settle. The Ascendant, Midheaven and houses are left out rather than approximated. They cannot be computed without a time, and an approximate Rising sign that looks exact is worse than none.
Do I need an account or an email address?
No. There is no sign-up, no email capture and no free trial. Enter your details and the result is drawn in your own browser.
Go deeper
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Next doorNeptune Sign CalculatorUmbriel's free Neptune sign calculator finds your natal Neptune (the planet astrologers read for imagination, longing and what dissolves: where the edges blur), with its sign, exact degree and house, from your birth date, time and place.Prints in the head of this page, all public domain except where stated: Tableau Uranographique et Cosmographique, 1852 (undated), Wikimedia Commons; Urania's Mirror, Sidney Hall, 1825, Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons; Johannes Hevelius, Machina coelestis, Danzig, 1673, Houghton Library. Ground: Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661, Wikimedia Commons.
Further down the page: Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale in quo Fixarum loca secundum Eclipticae ductum ad anum 1730, Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, Wikimedia Commons. The next-door print comes from that page's own head. The pointing hand: a pointing hand, after a medieval manuscript margin (line art by Jerimee).
Umbriel offers every system here as a set of prompts to think with, never as a statement of fact about who you are. Take what's useful, leave the rest.