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Full moon energy is known for ending stalemates, and this one in particular has the signature of abrupt ending of stalemates, thanks to Uranus which is the planet that is associated with a sudden release or break (for freedom); so the release of the statement last night that owner Mike Ashley is selling the club (story here) fits this full moon picture.— British Blogs
It's just so hard to be pleasant with all the worms crawlin 'on the underside but on other fronts it occurred to me another manifestation of the Saturn opposing Uranus was the what I am starting to see out there - surprising (Uranus) coldness, sternness, rejection— ElsaElsa.com
I scraped the skies and cut the black illimitable far out beyond the orbit of Uranus, and I reached the climax of my triumphant flight with a hyperbole that eclipsed Goldsmith's metaphor, unthroned the foe, and left him stunned upon the field.— Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales
Uranus was the same as Coelus, the god of the sky.— Keats: Poems Published in 1820
But the old system of naming the planets after the deities of classical and pagan mythology prevailed; and to the names of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, was now added the name Uranus, that is, in the language of the Greeks, Heaven Piazzi, scanning the zodiac from his observatory in Palermo, in the early hours of that first night of the century, noticed a hitherto unobserved star, which under higher power proved to be a planet.— Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World

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