Every other planet in this solar system spins more or less upright as it circles the sun. Uranus doesn’t. It rolls onto its side and stays there. One pole facing the sun, the other facing away, for its entire 84-year orbit. It even turns in the opposite direction from everything else out there.
“Midlife crisis” was coined in 1965 by Canadian psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques, who described it as the moment we confront our own mortality — a pause to reflect on both where we’ve been and the finite road ahead. Carl Jung reframed this not as pathology but as a natural, necessary phase: a turn from external focus toward inward exploration, a gateway to spiritual growth rather than just a problem to manage.
