Astrologers are often asked if a birthchart is wrong because a baby was induced, born by C section or just not on the due date.
The answer to that is no, no and no.
All souls coming into this world do so at exactly the right moment under exactly the right conditions for them. It doesn’t matter whether they are delivered by a surgeon or a stork, the chart for that moment is the one they have chosen.
The same applies if the child is born to a surrogate mother, conceived via IVF or from a donor.
If anything their chart will take account of these factors and is likely to contain references to them, particularly if they are tied to significant ongoing life themes.
If so these references are likely to be found in the 4th house.
Over the last year or so, I have researched a number of past life reviews for my client, Y. Her main reason for doing this was to discover what lay behind her difficult relationship with her mother.
I wrote about this in a previous article – When And Y Did This All Begin?
In an 18th century life, Y had been a man in Cordoba, Argentina, married to her current life mother, who he left for another woman.
In the 19th century, they met up again. This time Y was an indigenous American woman born to a tribe around the Flint, Michigan area.
Her mother in that life was the mother of a trader from New York who wanted to marry Y. The mother was against this relationship and poisoned Y, almost causing her death while inadvertently killing her own son.
As you would imagine there are some unresolved themes between them and they have come together this time as mother and daughter in order to work through these.
So Y would have a chart that reflects these themes.
Y has a close conjunction of Saturn and Uranus in the 4th house.
This conjunction is exactly trine a Moon/Ascendant conjunction, so it’s very clear that family themes are going to be the big ones in her life.
Her synastry with her mother is very strong as she has the Moon at 27 Pisces opposite Jupiter and focused onto an apex Venus/Ascendant conjunction in Sagittarius ( right on Y’s 4th house Saturn/Uranus).
Y’s father however, does not have such powerful synastry with her, apart from his Mercury at 28 Pisces which is presumably part of his relationship with her mother.
Also in the three past life reviews that I have done for Y, her father does not make any appearances.
A couple of months ago, I got a message from Y.
“I got earth shattering news today that my dad is not my dad, that I’m a baby from a very prolific sperm donor”.
This would have been a massive shock, not least to only be receiving this information for the first time at the age of 36. Obviously Y would have to undertake a major reassessment of her family situation.
This certainly fits the main transits that are occurring in her chart, as they involve her two 4th house planets, Saturn and Uranus.
She received this news with transit Saturn opposite her Sun. The Sun does symbolise the father in a child’s chart, so this transit is very fitting.
What is coming now is Uranus square to her Moon and Ascendant which would require a significant change around her own emotional identity.
Y also has transit Pluto square to her Venus, so it is a very big time of change in her life.
To Y’s credit she has been able to adjust to this new order to the extent that she sent me another message.
“As I told you about a month ago, I found out my dad isn’t my biological father, I was conceived via sperm donor, and my donor’s name is X.
Since then I’ve had the pleasure to get to know X a bit more, he was a very prolific donor. Despite such a large brood, on top of having a large, loving extended family that he’s quite involved with, he’s made time for me and done nice things like send me his grandmother’s memoirs and added me to the holiday newsletter he sends out at the end of the year, including sending me some old ones with interesting/important information.”
Y was also able to get X’s birthdata and wanted me to look at their synastry.
I was very keen to do this, not least because this is the first time I have seen a timed chart for an anonymous sperm donor.
I will include part of my synastry report for Y with X.
“X has the Sun in Aquarius in the 7th house with Venus also there closely opposite Pluto rising.
He sounds like a friendly, idealistic person who wants to help people in the area of marriage.
The Sun’s square to Uranus would indicate an unconventional soul and its square to Saturn might suggest some problems with his own father that could have contributed to his desire to help around the whole principle of fatherhood.
His Moon in Capricorn in the 6th house in exact trine with Saturn would give him a powerful drive to contribute something practical in these areas.
X has very powerful and favourable synastry with you, perhaps more so than you share with your Dad.
His Sun is opposite your Moon and Ascendant.
His Moon in Capricorn is trine Mars and Saturn forms a Grand Trine with your own Sun.
His Ascendant and Pluto are conjunct your Venus.
It also seems particularly poignant that all three of these synastry patterns have been dramatically picked up by the current transits.
My feeling is that these transits will indicate that this is a turning point for you in your family life.
They would also suggest that although it might seem unusual and perhaps questionable to keep this information from you until now, it is very much the right time for you to receive it.
What we know from looking at this is there is a right time for everything, even learning of a new biological father.
I also feel that this is the beginning of a positive new relationship with X.”
On receiving this report Y wrote –
“Ah, you are correct about X’s own father. His dad died of a heart attack when X was 15, and prior to that I think their relationship was not very positive. The family traveled a lot for his dad’s job —X spent many childhood years in India, his dad died in Venezuela, his dad worked for a tire company— so there were a lot of periods where he didn’t even see his dad, and when he did see him I think it was unpleasant.
I’m going to share this report with him!”
It’s interesting that as well as the Sun’s square with Saturn, X’s Sun is also square the 8th house ruler Uranus.
When he was 15, transit Uranus was conjunct his Ascendant.
In many ways, X is different from most anonymous donors in that he is keen to communicate and share personal information with the many children born from his sperm.
It would be interesting to see if he has powerful synastry with all of them.
On the other hand, it is not surprising that his synastry with Y is strong, because it fits so powerfully into the transits that are occurring in her chart at the moment.
Synastry is as interesting subject. Sometimes close inter chart aspects are describing important themes that will maintain a relationship for life. In other cases they will denote a connection that happens for a specific period related to their transits.
Knowing Y, I am half expecting her to request another past life review looking into this connection with X.
My experience is that connections with other beings in our soul group are related to secondary progressions.
Progressions are different to transits, they are an unfolding of something that we bring with us at birth, which is linked to agreements with these beings as to when they will make an appearance in our lives to help us with the experience that our charts and particularly transits indicate we must have.
It is an adaptation of the same method (which I discovered and call Secondary Regressions) that we can look into times when they have made similar appearances in our previous lives.
It is very interesting that Y’s progressed Moon is moving through her 4th house and over the next few months will make conjunctions with her Saturn and Uranus and trines with her Moon and Ascendant.
Even though he was involved before she was born, X was always meant to come into her life now and not earlier.
My own opinion is that it is better for children to know of their genetic inheritance as soon as they are old enough to understand it, whether they are adopted or from donor fathers. It’s understandable that families might wish to conceal such information but late discovery can be a shock. It also can give the impression that their inheritance is something negative that should be hidden.
But in terms of Y’s transits and progressions, both involving her 4th house Saturn/Uranus conjunction, her 37th year seems to have been agreed upon beforehand as the time when X will make an appearance.
It’s not just for Y as well.
Y found out about her donor father when her mother was experiencing transit Neptune conjunct her late Pisces Moon. Her Dad was also having it conjunct his Mercury.
Now they both have Saturn and the lunar eclipse heading for these placements and her Dad will be experiencing transit Uranus conjunct his Moon next year.
It’s clearly the right time for this family to go through a period of reassessment.
So it seems that whatever our ideas are about a child’s due date or how they come into this world or even when they should be told about their origins, the Universe has its own agenda.
Comings and goings have been agreed in advance.
Posted on February 28th 2025
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