Uranus

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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.

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  1. noun Greek Mythology The earliest supreme god, a personification of the sky, who was the son and consort of Gaea and the father of the Cyclopes and Titans.
  2. noun The seventh planet from the sun, revolving about it every 84.01 years at a mean distance of approximately 2.9 billion kilometers (1.8 billion miles), having a mean equatorial diameter of 51,118 kilometers (31,764 miles) and a mass 14.6 times that of Earth.

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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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  1. Late Latin Ūranus, from Greek ouranos, heaven, Uranus.

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  1. from Latin Urǎnus, from Greek οὐρανός, Uranus, a personification of οὐρανός, the vault of heaven, the sky, heaven, the heavens, = Sanskrit Varuna, a deity of highest rank in the Veda, later a god of the waters, from √ var, cover, encompass.
 

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