Synchronicity strikes again…a Saturn in Aries lunar tale

I have the privilege of mentoring internationally, via Zoom, a small number of really smart astrology students, mostly studying with MISPA – the Mercury Internet School of Psychological Astrology (i). Last week, I experienced a particularly powerful session with a student who was trying to understand and make peace with some especially troubling facets of family history. For reasons of confidentiality I can say no more than that about the student.

However, the session evoked for me a powerful memory of facing and dealing with an upsetting set of circumstances in my own fairly recent life – it was 2018, just two years before my husband’s death in January 2020. Those circumstances made me painfully aware of how the very long arm of my family past had reached out and sharply challenged me in the present.

I’m very sparing in sharing any personal material with students and clients. After all, it’s their time, not mine! But occasionally – and I’m sure other practitioners have similar experiences – it seems both apt and helpful for the client or student to share something of one’s own grapple to come to terms with Life’s inevitable complexities and pains. In this case, the student concerned found my disclosure very helpful in offering possible ways to manage their current family issues more constructively.

Here is my story:

Jungfrau/Munch, Switzerland

A tale of Saturn, Capricorn, Nodes, and family history….

And what of synchronicity? Well, after the session was completed, signed off, my notes written up and the recording sent to the student, I settled down with my usual cuppa and biscuit (digestives, in case you are wondering. Couldn’t live without them!) – to wind down and reflect on the session. There had been such a strong travel, family, Cancer/Aries/Capricorn ‘feel’ that I wondered what the chart ( 4.30 pm BST – set for half way through the session) might say. And sure enough – my natal 10th house Mars at 1.5 degrees Cancer was being triggered by a transiting Moon/Jupiter/Saturn T square involving the early degrees of Capricorn, Cancer and Aries.

I’ve been an astrologer now for decades. But the synchronicities invariably revealed through its symbols between the microcosm of our tiny lives and the vast planetary macrocosm of which we are part, never ceases to make me feel humbled – and often amazed.

‘As above, so below’ – indeed...

Endnotes:

This post includes the link to a slightly edited version of my bi-monthly column for Dell Horoscope Magazine  ‘The astro-view from Scotland’  from the November/December 2018 Issue. Dell Horoscope magazine ceased publication with the March/April 2020 issue – after nearly 84 years…

i) MISPA – the Mercury Internet School of Psychological Astrology is the online successor to the Centre for Psychological Astrology founded in 1983 by Dr Liz Greene and the late, much missed Howard Sasportas, (author of that astrological classic, The Gods of Change), where I completed my CPA Diploma during 1995-8 after several years of flying down from Scotland as an informal student. So – it feels most fitting and as though I’m completing a circle, to be mentoring students for the worthy internet successor to the CPA so ably run by John Green and his team.

400 words copyright Anne Whitaker 2025 / + Dell Horoscope Magazine 2019