My Second Time Around Experience

Linda Tinsley reflects on her own experience the second time around¹ her chart, September 2025.                                       

I’d like to share my recent growth experience, as the Age Point went through my stellium of planets (Saturn/Mars/Moon) in the first house.  Usually, it is only in hindsight that we realize the effect, message or purpose of a such a transit. However, I was fully aware of these energies operating in my life because of knowing my birth chart.  This is one of many benefits of studying astrology.         

The first time around the chart, in early childhood, I was too young to consciously experience the Age Point passing over this trio of planets. Now the second time round I’ve become more aware of how they have operated in my life.

Having Virgo in my first house, they have been a focal point in my life, always on my shoulder, so to speak. Saturn restricted my self-confidence, making me very shy as a child. It held back Mars, but together they have also helped to build my self-esteem. Not surprising then it has been hard work. My poor Moon has been pulled in two directions because it’s the focal planet of the T-Square with Mercury/ Uranus. It has also been strongly influenced by Mars/Saturn.   

When Age Point recently returned to this cluster of planets in my mature years, I really felt these energies in my life.  I lost my hubby when AP touched Saturn. He, in many respects, was my sense of security, and now I was facing life on my own. However, having a loving family and supportive friends, along with my own maturity, I felt able to cope.

My house being too big to maintain, I wanted to sell it and buy a flat. This I did a year later when AP connected with Mars. I moved out in November and put an offer in for a flat, but only received the keys in March. I went to live with my sister, Rose, while the process of this was going on and stayed until July while I made the flat my own. Rose is a Taurus and together with her Cancer husband they made me feel very much at home, probably too much so!  

These nine months have been a stressful time, which in all fairness was my own doing. My other sister, Kath, lives nearby along with my cousin, who is like another sister. I could see things needed doing, and I became critical, bossy and hurtful, as Kath often remarked. Although I get along well with my other sister, who is also a Taurus, we often clash. She received the butt of my critical side, which I became more aware of. She brought out this side of me, in fact looking back, she always did. 

This made me think about my Saturn/Mars, as although critical, I did roll up my sleeves and help to put things in order. I was trying to be all things to all men, which brings in my Libra Moon. I was like a ping-pong ball between the three of them, along with travelling 15 miles between home and my new flat. This made me realize how these planets had operated in my life. Saturn is the fault-finder, which gets Mars into action in sorting things out, while the Moon wants to please and bring everything back into harmony. I used these planets in a stressful way, which puts pressure on myself. The point is, I have been aware of these energies throughout my life, but this situation made me look deeper into my chart. With the Age Point I was made to see very clearly how I was using these planets, and from this awareness how to use them more positively.   

They have been productive, however, in playing their part with my AP now on my Moon, which trines Jupiter/ Venus. Making the flat my own, I wanted everything to match and be in balance with my own unique style. This, with the help of my sisters, I’m happy to say I have achieved. 

I am now going through a nice, relaxing phase, with plenty of time to myself. This is something I treasure, as this is a new experience for me.  Life now, through self-awareness, is so good, now the second time around.        

1. See e.g. the book The Second Time Around. ↩︎