ASTROPHOEBE

I first became struck by the phenomenon of synchronicity after creating an astrological board game back in the 1980s while I was living in Germany. Intended as a teaching aid for astrology students who were keen to learn more about astrology and also more about themselves, it was published by Burk Verlag in 1986 with the title ‘Lebensrad’ (Wheel of Life).

It´s July 2022. I´m sitting up in bed reading when I hear a knock, knock on the pane and look up. Perched on the sill outside is a magpie and he’s staring me straight in the eye! He’s lying lengthwise along the sill with his large body pressed up against the glass so that I can see, on the other side of the pane, his beautiful feathers in close-up, and it feels as if my eyes are drowning in their colours – the deepest black, the purest white and that scintillating, dark elect

Astrology works through synchronicities, the biggest one being the fractal correspondence between the microcosm of human life and the macrocosm of the universe. “As below so above, and as above so below” runs the piece of ancient wisdom carved on the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. It’s the touchstone that explains how astrologers can use the visible sky above to reveal the invisible contents of the human psyche below. ´As above so below!’

Imagine it’s the night of the full moon. You’re standing on a south-facing beach jutting out into the sea, watching the sun sink slowly beneath the western horizon, illuminating sky and water with streaks of pink, red and gold. And, when its rim is touching the horizon, you turn your head and in the east you see the great white globe of the moon appearing from below the waves.