Uranus retrograde represents the underlying inconsistencies and restrictions that impede one's progress. In the birth chart Uranus' retrograde motion provides a need for freedom and independent action. This results in a striving to free oneself from past preconditioned ideas and an ongoing search for the truth in all concepts and all aspects of life. This placement is therefore often productive of inventiveness and of unique ideas that are ahead of their time. Unfortunately, a retrograde Uranus can also manifest itself through an inclination to dominate others.