AP: Thunder, Lightning and the Biopsychic Script

Some things in life are fairly certain: we all start out as kids, grow taller, maybe wiser, turn gray and then take our final bows. This familiar developmental skeleton is fleshed out by a small, powerful class of astrological “passages” that happen to everyone at about the same ages. We are talking about Saturn returns, lunar returns, the Uranian opposition, and several others. Understanding them makes our comprehension of each one of life’s chapters much more precise. At the simple level, we would not give career advice to a four year old, nor dating tips to a centenarian. But knowledge of the “biopsychic script” takes us far deeper than such obvious statements, adding clarity and detail. As always in evolutionary astrology, these kinds of insights go far beyond mere description. There are also certain perceptions, certain changes of orientation, and certain understandings that must arise intentionally at each stage of life. If they do not, then people get lost. They continue behavin