Witness: Age 80 and the 2nd House Revisited

In the previous post I looked at the theory of Age 80 and the 2nd House Revisited from astrological and psychological perspectives. In this post I look at my own chart and see how my experience of this period of life corresponds with this theory.

Ages 76-77 were a particularly stressful time of my life, not only because of the peak years of the covid pandemic. Psychological/emotional problems emerged, linked to events from many years ago. I relate these to historic traumatic events and self deceptions, which became part of my Shadow. Health problems at the time were also probably related to these stresses.

Looking at my chart, there are a number of astrological changes in process at this time, which would all indicate potential stress and change:

• the aptly-termed Stress Zone in the 2 years before the 2nd house cusp (age 76-77)
• the midpoint between planets Pluto and Jupiter, indicating a change of my main influencing planet (age 77)
• the transition of the AP from sign Leo to Virgo, suggesting a new orientation and quality of life (also 77)
• my Moon Node AP (not shown) is also currently positioned directly on Uranus, which also suggests some sort of process of renewal.

As AP passed over the 2nd house cusp, at age 78, I got covid. Stressful emotional eruptions continued to be triggered until I was able to face up to and understand the events that had happened so many years ago. I needed to understand and forgive myself, and those involved. Now, coming up to the balance point after age 80, I feel like some weight has been lifted – a Saturnian reconciliation with earlier life events.

Over the same period, health problems forced me to look more closely at my life style, food and exercise to be able to better resist or adapt to them. The physical body inevitably becomes more challenged at this stage of life

These were major opportunities given to me at the time of this revisiting of the 2nd house. The chart shows my AP is currently aspecting Pluto, Saturn and Mercury/Mars, and thus the Trampoline aspect pattern, so pretty well all planetary energies are readily available to me at this time.

It feels like a time of clearing out and a time of renewal. Maybe this is the opportunity that we are given coming up to age 80, as we pass through the 2nd house for the 2nd time around. In a way, I see this as a continuation of the process begun many years ago in the opposite 8th house of mid-life crisis – finally cleaning out issues that were not adequately addressed at that time.

My 2nd house is not over yet – there are still ages 81,82 up to the Low Point (LP), when also comes the direct encounter with Jupiter and stepping into that gap before Neptune, then coming up towards the 3rd house cusp. Interesting times!

Post by Barry Hopewell. I would be interested in comments or contributions, particularly from others passing through the 2nd house for the second time!

If you have significant experience of different periods of life related to your chart, do send them in for a potential future post on this blog.

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