PERSONAL story time - Uranus Direct in My Eighth House. On Trauma, Tenderness, and Becoming My Own Safe Place.

I felt the last Uranus station in my body, in my heart, bones and nervous system. At 27° Taurus, Uranus is standing at the very end of my eighth house, right at the edge of my ninth. It is finishing a long initiation through intimacy, trust, shared resources, survival patterns, grief, power, and emotional truth.. and preparing to carry everything I have learned into a new chapter of meaning, teaching, embodied wisdom.

The eighth house is where we learn what it means to be held and what it means to hold ourselves and where we meet fear around loss, abandonment, not having enough.. around being too much. It is where the body stores old contracts about safety.

Over the past years, Uranus here has been breaking open my relationship with dependence, control, money, emotional merging, and with the ways I learned to survive by staying alert, strong, responsible, self-contained.

I have lived this through my body and nervous system, exhaustion, learning when my body needs rest instead of endurance. I am learning that intimacy includes being honest about capacity, and that safety is something I am allowed to build slowly and gently in my own rhythm, not from the expectations of others.

Now Uranus has stationed direct, and it trines my Capricorn Sun in my fourth house, at 27°. This is my roots and inner home, my lineage, emotional foundation.

This feels like something finally clicking into place. THANK GOD.

The part of me that learned early how to be strong and carry responsibility, often not mine, learned how to be the stable one. And now I am learning how to let that strength become supportive to me, my son and my life, instead of becoming a set of endless demands from the world.

My Sun in Capricorn has always known how to build, and now Uranus is teaching me how to build a life that includes softness, rest, pleasure, and real, authentic emotional safety.

I am not abandoning discipline, I am upgrading it.

And then there is the Uranus inconjunct to my Pluto in Libra in the first house. This is where it gets honest.

Pluto in my first house has shaped my identity through intensity, depth, perception, and survival instinct. I learned early how to read rooms, people, energy. I learned how to protect myself through awareness, and how to be strong through transformation after transformation.. relentless, never-ending metamorphosis.

Uranus now asking my Pluto to adjust means I am being invited to release identities that were forged in survival, roles that were necessary once, but now are costing too much for me, costing my soul. Masks and faces I learned to wear to stay safe, and ways of holding myself that no longer match who I am becoming.

This is delicate work, it is not dramatic.. it is patient, often lonely, cellular, deep, and to be honest, truly liberating. I am learning how to exist without bracing.

I am being gentle with myself, because the only way I knew was to stay alert at all times. That is what I learned coming into this world, and through years and decades of my life until now.

I am trusting that the years of deep inner work, emotional excavation, grief processing, nervous system healing, and relational recalibration have not been wasted. They have been preparing me.

Uranus in my eighth house has taught me that true freedom is not independence at all costs. It is interdependence with integrity, intimacy without self-erasure. It is financial and emotional sovereignty that does not isolate. For me, it means power that circulates instead of hardens.

Something fundamental in me has come back online. From a higher perspective, I can see the intelligence in how my life had to break open, why certain structures collapsed, why I had to lose almost everything, why the ground beneath my feet was pulled away. I understand the soul-level cyclicum of it, and still… that understanding does not dissolve the years of trauma, abuse, confusion, emotional erosion, and self-abandonment that lived inside those experiences.

It has been years since I chose to step out of that space and stopped trying to survive inside something that was quietly killing me. I no longer shame myself for how long it took, or carry guilt for staying as long as I did, because I know how I was born.

Many starseeds arrive to this planet with deeply empathic souls, carrying the instinct for unconditional love. We come with open hearts, a genuine desire to heal and understand, hold, redeem. In this world, that frequency often draws us into intense karmic or twin-flame-like relationships, where the lesson is not about saving anyone, it is about learning to separate what is ours from what is not. It is about dismantling the savior complex while reclaiming power without severing compassion. .. learning that love cannot be sustained through self-erosion.

For many of us, this quality is simply our nature. It is also part of how the new world is being built, through kindness, sensitivity, and deep emotional intelligence. And because we are crossing an incredibly potent collective threshold, many of us have had to learn discernment the hardest way possible, learning how to protect our energy and read the truth beneath charm, how to honor intuition over hope, over potential, over what we wish someone could become.

This Earth classroom is brutal, excruciating. It strips illusion down to the bones, and gives our power back in the same motion. Through these experiences, I learned the difference between sacrifice and devotion, empathy and self-betrayal, spiritual love vs emotional imprisonment. I met my shadow in the underworld, and through that meeting, I integrated it, made it part of my authority, and returned carrying the medicine.

And staying soft in the face of cruelty, envy, abuse has been the most courageous thing I have ever done. I feel more present inside myself, more grounded in my choices, less willing to betray myself.. less willing to explain my boundaries, more devoted to the life I am building slowly, honestly, with Spirit, my allies, with God.

This is what evolution looks like. It is not sudden reinvention.. It is a quiet, devoted return to self.. to OUR TRUE DIVINE SELF.

We all deserve this.

Love xx
Inese