© 2017 by Joyce Mason
At least 20 years
ago, when I used AOL as my internet provider, I searched the member directory
to find other people who shared my exact date of birth. I wanted to do some
experiential, personal research on my chart. I only ended up having a depth
conversation with one of the handful of respondents, and our life parallels
were interesting indeed. Since I was born late in the day on September 22,
1947, I have a Cap Moon and my “twin” was born enough earlier in the day to be
a Sagi-Moon-ius. Seeing my chart acted out with the difference in lunar flavor
was interesting indeed. While I can’t remember her name to save my soul, it was
a bit unusual but not unheard of and started with a W. (No relation to former
President W.) With her Sag Moon, love of travel and things foreign were more
prominent in our otherwise near-identical charts. She was a diplomat who had
been stationed over the years in several different countries overseas. I saw a
lot of our shared Libran emphasis, too, in matters of justice and saving the
tails of Americans abroad when they got into trouble.
Perhaps the most startling thing about our compared notes was this. She had married her first husband twice—divorced and remarried him later, just as I had. I almost felt eerie. On top of that, she outdid me! She married, divorced and remarried both of her husbands. Who knew that our particular Venus in Libra experienced coupling and mind-changing so seamlessly; we applied it to matrimonial do-overs.
My next encounter with a birthday twin was totally
unexpected. I don’t have the most common day, much less day and year of birth.
I’ve been attending an amazing class on Mindful Self-Compassion. I can
remember joking beforehand that the class would have to be custom-made for a
Virgo, much less a Radical Virgo. With Mercury as our Sun ruler (mind and
mental emphasis) and self-deprecation one of our worst potholes on the road of
life, I felt I was Home Sweet Home even before I even got to the first class.
There I met W2. (It’s tax season so I can’t help
myself, but honestly, her first name begins with a W., too.) We were sitting
next to each other in the first class and got to talking about how we were both
turning 70 this year. I have long given up accosting people for their birth information
on the first “date,” and I consciously chose not to take it further. We had an
affinity, and that was warm and fuzzy enough. The biggest wow we discovered in
our first encounter: I was given up for adoption and she had to give a baby up
for adoption when she was quite young. We’d both had positive mother-and-child
reunions.
The next time I saw W2, it came up again. I asked her what
month she was turning 70, and she said September. When I asked her what day and
she said the 22nd, I almost fell off my chair. “OMG, we’re birth
twins!” You think I might have guessed by the fact that she had such a “similar
story,” to quote her, and that she loves my former therapist, an author of an
amazing book about the psychology and ramifications of adoption.
My friends may call me The
Queen of Synchronicity, but I hadn’t had this level of meaningful
coincidence in a long time. Conditions haven’t been right again until lately
for me to be so in the flow of the Cosmic
Tractor Beam. I’ve had way too much on my plate adjusting to being a
caregiver and other life changes. The class is giving me tools that are
bringing me back to my old self, which this “chance” encounter underscores. W2
is hunting down her birth certificate, but since she knows hers was an early
morning birth to my evening, she’s surely a Sagi-moon-ius, too, like W1.
What is the value of finding a birth twin? Affirmation for one. W2 was sharing how hard it is for her to give her honest opinion, fearing push back and an inability to defend herself. She could have taken that sentence right out of my thought cloud where it frequently resides.
There’s also the
possibility of seeing new ways of “doing” your chart. Everyone plays the
Astro-cards they’re dealt in slightly different ways, and I’m looking forward
to seeing what I can learn from W2 in that regard—and vice versa, I’m sure.
We have a lot of tools for finding people nowadays. If
you’re on social media, a simple post or tweet saying you’d like to do some
astrological research on people who share your birthday. State the date and see
who connects with you.
I would love to hear your experiences and what value you’ve
found in getting to know your cosmic twin.
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Elena Scheweitzer - Fotolia
