The anniversary syndrome

This topic was created in the Astrology forum by Reconstructing_a_Leo on Friday, February 24, 2012 and has 3 replies.

Have you ever heard of it? Here's a very interesting idea
"Lynn Bell demonstrates, in her excellent book, Planetary Threads, the ways in which particular attitudes and experiences, embedded in the family psyche, can unconsciously dominate behaviour over several generations, sometimes emerging only when each individual reaches the precise age at which his or her predecessors themselves re-enacted the ancient story. Family therapists call this "the anniversary syndrome". Astrologers, accustomed to the cyclical nature of transits and progressions, can map it with precision, but its meaning may be more elusive."
too bad my parents are dead, I would have asked them what happened when they were 35 ..
Any thoughts?
so this piece is taken from Liz Greene's most awesome article about the oracle and the family curse (astro.com, pls google)
she goes on with the best example possible in this matter - the Kennedy family
just a day or two after I posted the excerpt, it is announced how Robert Kennedy's youngest son who is now 44 just had a baby and got in trouble with the law because he kicked a cpl of nurses who were trying to stop him take his 2 days old baby home without the hospital's approval. I'm really curious as to when these weird events this family keeps experiencing will end. now that baby is carrying the whole inheritance, too..
there's a canadian astrologer who wrote an amazing book on the family inheritance
(The Astrology of Family dynamics, you might wanna check it out smile