Uranus transits to the natal Sun are distinguished by at least five characteristics: (a) a time of abnormally fast personal evolution and rapid change (b) a state of near overexcited creativity, possession of original and inspired generativity (c) a striving toward authentic expression and self-actualization, often through making rapid and clean breaks with the past; the breakthrough of the self (d) a surge of revitalization and tremendous—almost overwhelming—stimulation and excitement (e) radical eclecticism, a need for experimentation, the new, the radical, and the progressive. Although there are other important characteristics of an important Uranus-Sun transit, the above list accounts for some of the more noticeable and egregious qualities.

During this period for Madonna, all five of the above facets of the Uranus-Sun transit were in evidence. In the two years beginning the decade that would witness her greatest fame, Madonna would shift her desires from a burgeoning dancer, to fronting a number of rock bands, to eventually singing her individual brand of dance music. Realizing that her true ambition was to become an entertainer and performer, Madonna altered her aspirations from the world of dance to music, recognizing that the limelight was more easily attained by singers than by dancers. At the time, Madonna was making a radical break from the past to try something new. It is often a desire and motivation to burn bridges and break free from previous limiting circumstances when Uranus transits the natal Sun.

Through the help of boyfriends at the time, Madonna learned music, from the rudiments of drum and guitar playing, to songwriting, to stage presence and singing. Amazingly, Madonna obtained the skills for being a musical pop star in a period of a few years, having never dabbled in music outside of high school theater productions. Although one cannot say that Madonna's ascent to fame was overnight, her breakthrough into the world of music did have a sensational immediacy to it. It is this heightened acceleration of learning and adjusting to rapidly shifting circumstance that is a trademark of a powerful Uranus transit.

During this period, Madonna learned the skills necessary to become a stage performer as quickly as she would later shift personas. The music that Madonna was involved with at the time was far more edgy, progressive, and raucous than the carefully crafted and professionally produced music that was her output as a superstar. Fronting a band called Emmy, Madonna belted out punk influenced by the Pretenders and the Police. With an identifiable rebelliousness, Madonna would pit herself on the cutting edge of New York. When an individual (or the world for that matter) embraces the archetype of Uranus fully, there is a need to explore the progressive frontier and be a part of a pioneering vanguard. In Madonna's case, she crested on the cultural avant garde of New York. Not only was she drawn into the world of New York's progressive music scene, but she also befriended visual artists such as Keith Haring and Martin Burgoyne at the time. Couching surfing, singing in New York's new wave clubs, and spraypainting New York with graffiti artists, Madonna was riding an experimental, creative high so typical of a potent Uranus transit.

Not only was Madonna caught up in the creative spirit of the times, but she herself was also a conduit of tremendous creativity at the time. The atmosphere of Madonna's work-live space, "The Music Building" was described by all onlookers as a hotbed of kinetic creative fire. Madonna's ex-boyfriend and producer, Steve Bray, recalls of the locale: "It was a good place, very artistic. You could just taste the creativity there. We loved it, just being in the atmosphere was intoxicating. Our band was hot and getting hotter all the time." (7) The electric atmosphere was Madonna's songwriting laboratory. As biographer Mark Bego states, " Madonna claims that once she got into a songwriting mode, the music started pouring out of her like crazy."(8) Madonna was receiving her first great taste of what it is like to be 'turned on' by Uranus's electric firestorm of creative blaze. Crazy and manic-like, Uranus's flood of ideas and creative juice is as exhilarating as it is irritable and chaotic.

Arguably most importantly, during the Uranus transit, Madonna emerged as the unique personality that would be primed to seize the pop world. Madonna was able to use her limited financial situation to her advantage. Shopping at a number of New York's thrift shops, Madonna concocted a look that would ultimately be immortalized by her first music videos and be imitated by millions of teenaged girls. Sexual and still somehow androgynous, urban and gritty but with a openness and affability, Madonna's look couldn't be reduced to its parts. It was simply an outer reflection of the creative individuality that was emerging inside of Madonna.