Uranus represents individual freedom, new ideas, and dramatic change (Bruce-Mitford 113).

According toGreek mythology, Uranus stands for the starry sky in the evening (Windows to the Universe "Uranus"). Uranus was god of the heavens whom suddenly came out of the Earth (known as the goddess Gaea or Gaia ). He was the son and mate of Gaea, as well as the father of Cronus (Saturn) and of the Cyclopes and Titans.

Uranus was the first ruler of the universe. He wedded Gaea, and together they bore the Hecatoncheires, who were giant and strong. They had a hundred hands and fifty heads a piece. Uranus hated these terrible offspring and as soon as each was born, he hid them away in a secret place of earth.

Uranus had more children by Gaea, called the Titans. But Gaea, who could not forget the casting of her previous offspring into Tartarus as prisoners, persuaded the Titans to attack their father Uranus. Cronus was to lead this attack with the aid of an adamantine sickle provided by Gaea. When the Titans, all except Oceanus, attacked him Cronus cut off his father's genitals with the sickle and threw them into the sea behind his back.

From the drops of Uranus' flowing blood that fell upon earth were born the Erinyes and the Giants and those Nymphs called Meliads. However, the genitals that Cronus threw away were first swept away over the sea a long time, but finally from the white foam, which spread around them, Aphrodite was born. (Brown "Greek Mythology Link")