As Neptune enters Aries: Saturn, Neptune and Synchronicity…

Synchronicity is such an interesting, only partially explicable phenomenon.

A term coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, it refers to a meaningful coincidence which happens when an inner psychological state of mind corresponds to an event in the world to which it is not causally related, but nevertheless is experienced as meaningful.

I’ve had recent experiences of exactly that recently. 

Some time ago, I sent my colleague Ana Isabel a copy of my open-minded ‘take’ on paranormal experience, “Wisps from the Dazzling Darkness” which has been available as an ebook on my site for some time now. Last year, Ana and I discussed this account on her popular In the Light: Growing Your Soul podcast. I began the book during the 2004-5 part of a long Neptunian descent and slow return, triggered symbolically by transiting Neptune’s long opposition to all six of my 11th/12th house Leo planets. 

Then, the writing of that account of 37 anomalous experiences I’d had over a period of thirty years from 1970-99 had two main functions: the first, to give me a creative project to help keep my head above some very dark waters. At that point, I was so burnt-out after a long family crisis that I barely had the energy to get off the couch. It was my late husband Ian’s suggestion that I ‘write about all those weird experiences you’ve been telling me about for years’ as a means of keeping contact with my creative self, since I could do next to nothing in the world of the everyday. 

The second was to try and make peace with an intermittent, unpredictable and unwelcome part of my being. As a rational pragmatist ( I liked to think!) , it offended me that my memory banks held a number of anomalous experiences which lurked in my psyche, refusing to be forgotten. Probably out of pique, I now realise, because of my refusal to acknowledge their validity and give them an honoured place in my life’s story.

So it was that in the Spring of 2024, not without some nervous hesitation, but prompted by the forming Saturn/Neptune conjunction, both Jupiter and Uranus approaching my MC/North Node conjunction, AND Pluto beginning his long opposition to my planetary logjam in the 11/12th houses, I edited and incorporated ‘ Wisps…’  into the first part of A Neptunian Night Sea Journey. 

This book is an account of an archetypal experience of descent and return: from 2001/2 with Neptune in Aquarius opposite my twelfth house Mercury when I burned out and had to give up work and retreat, until 2011/12 when Neptune left Aquarius, moved away from opposing my Leo Sun, and I at last returned to teaching and consulting.  

I find it so striking that Jupiter was in Gemini in 2001/2 for the Descent period, then in Gemini again in 2012 for the Return – and returned to that sign in early summer 2024 as I settled into writing the first part of A Neptunian Night Sea Journey. (You’d never guess I have Jupiter in the third house, square all six Leo 11/12th house planets…)

That summer of 2024 – how’s this for synchronicity – a small bolthole on the Ayrshire sea coast became unexpectedly available for my (and my fellow writer friends’) use as a writing retreat. As Liz Greene once pithily observed during one of her 1990s seminars at the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London: ‘You have to give the god what the god wants. And if it’s Mars, don’t offer a bunch of flowers!” That god Neptune was surely looming on my personal horizon…

Then, in late February 2025, just as I was preparing (with some nervous hesitation) to get on with the further drafting of A Neptunian Night Sea Journey, stalled at 36,000 words for a variety of reasons since late autumn 2024, I had some supportive feedback – unexpectedly as usual, thanks again Uranus conjunct MC/NNode! – from none other than Ana Isabel. Out of the blue, Ana sent me a lovely review of “Wisps…” together with the link again to our enjoyable 2024 discussion of the book. 

I was really struck by the synchronous timing of Ana’s review’s arrival: just at a point where I needed some encouragement and a bit of a push. Balancing Saturn’s challenge to create form and structure, with Neptune’s inclination to lie on the sofa with a good book or go for a walk by the sea, when both of those giants are squaring my 10th house Mars, is a little tricky, to put it mildly!

Gods Saturn and Neptune: Formidable!

( A.I generated)

Here are both the review and the link:

Feb 27, 2025 

‘…I love this book. It gently takes us on a journey, as Anne shares her personal experiences of the inexplicable; a simple sharing of events leaving the reader to decide what to think. Woven amongst the memories are quotes, definitions and potential “rational” explanations making this an account of one individual’s search to understand the mysteries of life, experienced by so many….’

You can watch me discussing the book with Ana Isabel on

In The Light- Growing Your Soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUFm4…

To read more reviews, find out more about  ‘Wisps from the Dazzling Darkness’, and buy a copy which is still available in its ebook version, click HERE 

I’m not sure how long A Neptunian Night Sea Journey will take to complete – partly because it’s Neptune who is the god dominating this process and I have to be respectful eg by lying on the sofa with a good book or going for a walk by the sea when prompted to do so!. Also, because having recorded various extraordinary inner journeys and other material whilst on that long retreat, I do not know what I will find on opening the archives – or will wish to edit and present. 

However, if you’d like to be on the mailing list for updates and the occasional extract as I go through this process, and the first to know when it’s complete and ready for publication, please send me an email to info@anne-whitaker.com. I will then include you on the list which will not be used for any purpose other than to keep you informed about A Neptunian Night Sea Journey’s progress. 

I should perhaps conclude by saying that this book will be dedicated to all Twelfth House folk who – like me – have been challenged to make peace with undoubtedly valid dimensions of our being which do not fit with the reductionist paradigm of our current Era. My hope is that my account will help you to make your own peace – as I eventually have done myself.

Wish me luck on my share of this journey, Readers and Friends! And every good wish for yours, whoever and wherever you are…

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Endnote:

Yesterday was a momentous day for our world community as Neptune entered Aries for the first time since 1861 which heralded the start of the American civil war. We’re already seeing fires, floods and earthquakes: physical planetary heralds of the new world order beginning to emerge. Saturn and Neptune’s conjunction at 0 Aries in February 2026, after their long Pisces/Aries dance during 2025, will initiate a major energetic shift for our world community, and for all of us ‘plugged in’ to the end of Pisces and the beginning of Aries – that Mars-ruled sign heralding Life’s energetic new sap rising…

1200 words©Anne Whitaker 2025