List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction by Richard Gerber, M.D.
One I’m in Midlife Crisis Now!
Two The Fundamentals of Astrology
Three The Saturn Principle in the Cycles of Life
Four The Uranus Principle in the Cycles of Life
Five Uranus and Personal Empowerment: The Lower Chakras
Six Uranus and Enlightenment: The Upper Chakras
Seven The Chiron Principle in the Cycles of Life
Eight More Complex Key Life Passages
Nine More about Our Friend Saturn: “For Everything There Is
a Season”
Ten Toward a Global Shamanic Paradigm
Appendix One
Key Life Passages Tables
Appendix Two
Key Chiron Passages Tables
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Barbara Hand Clow is an internationally acclaimed ceremonial teacher, Mayan Calendar researcher and the author of The Mayan Code, The Pleiadian Agenda, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions and Awakening the Planetary Mind. A regular presenter at international conferences, she has taught at sacred sites throughout the world. She lives on an island near Vancouver, British Columbia.
"Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini is filled with fascinating
ideas; it offers a treasure chest of tools for breaking up the
energy blockages that keep us from our true nature as beings of
light. All too often books on spiritual transformation perpetuate
the myth that the biological and erotic energies of the body are
somehow separate from the soul. Clow heals this rift and not only
helps bring astrology into the field of energy medicine where it
belongs but also restores eros to its rightful place as a vital and
healthy part of the divinity we call self."
*Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe*
"Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini shows that when we
systematically work with our life energy and the predictable cycles
of time to negotiate midlife, it becomes what nature intended: not
a crisis, but a power surge. Such an insight is more than an
intellectual exercise; it’s essential for healthy development--the
only way we can live up to our full potential. In this
groundbreaking book, Barbara Hand Clow offers readers the insights,
the timing, and the tools for making the passage safely,
powerfully, gracefully."
*Steven McFadden, astrologer and author of Profiles in Wisdom*
"Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini is an extremely important
book for all who wish to turn their potentially turbulent midlife
transitions into opportunities for conscious maturation and
productivity. Barbara Hand Clow’s keen insight not only clarifies
key passages in our personal lives, clearly defining the
relationship between astrology and real-life events, she also
provides vital insights into the newly developing paradigm for a
healthy global future."
*Nicki Scully, author of Planetary Healing and Power Animal
Meditations*
"Barbara Hand Clow has identified the hidden key to evolution: the
rise of suprasexual energy experienced as the passion to express
our full potential self through joining in love with others to
create. She gives us practical guidelines to go through our
personal midlife crisis to become co-creative humans, a global
species at the next stage of our evolution."
*Barbara Marx Hubbard, author of The Evolutionary Journey*
"This exciting new book contains the vision of a new human state
whose ‘primary goal will be the complete evolution of
consciousness.’ The erotic and cosmic qualities of shamanic,
astro-mythic, and Goddess cultures is brought into the now of
Western left-brain (technological societies) to heal, magnify, and
balance us if we, as men and women, can unify our goals."
*Rowena Pattee Kryder, Ph.D., author of the Gaia Matrix Oracle and
founder of the Creative Harmonics*
"Barbara Hand Clow helpfully provides Cliffs Notes for the midlife
crisis and much, much more. This is must reading for anyone feeling
midlife dissatisfaction. Her ideas can help avoid costly and
unnecessary mistakes often caused by misinterpretation of a natural
process of evolution. She heals by explaining deeper reasons."
*Spirit of Change*
"Barbara Hand Clow’s years of experience as an astrological
counselor and her understanding of subtle cosmic energies have led
her to draw some striking conclusions regarding the midlife
phenomenon. The message in Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini is
that we can move through these critical points with grace rather
than confusion."
*Connecting Link*
". . . completely unravels the effects of mid-life crisis . . .
puts astronomy in a new light, poses interesting questions about
our relationship to the rest of the universe, and provides
interesting postulations about the transformations that occur in
humans."
*Whole Life Times*
"Barbara Hand Clow presents a way to make midlife crisis both
meaningful and more manageable. Her descriptions of kundalini
rising are lovely and compelling. She offers a strong argument for
this spiritual emergence as a universal experience, not an
achievement of the very few."
*Peggy Payne, author of the kundalini novel Cobalt Blue*
"Finally! A book that makes spiritual sense out of life’s passages
and does so not only on a personal level but a cosmic level as
well."
*Rosemary Ellen Guiley, author of Harper’s Encyclopedia of Mystical
and Paranormal Experience*
"A lot of interesting astrological information is presented in a
direct and accessible manner. The information is clearly written
and moves from the very personal through the collective."
*Tantra magazine*
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