Bell - Midlife Is Not a Crisis: Use Astrology to Thrive in the Second Half of Life

Midlife Is Not a Crisisit is a chrysalisand the proverbial butterfly that emerges from its pages is depth-full, magical, and rare. This delight-full book shows you how and why to age and live juicily and inspires you to fully live your radiant life at every stage. This marvelous book is a poetic and educational journey about juicy aging, and how to prepare, prosper, and thrive in the second half of life, and it also beautifully applies to all the stages of living and growing.

SARK co-author and artist of Succulent Wild Love and creator of PlanetSARK.com

In Midlife Is Not a Crisis, astrologer Virginia Bell has written a consequential, compelling book that roadmaps life as an unfolding journey and reveals the purpose and heart of each life phase as an opportunity for creative change. Based on the cycles of the planets, this is a practical yet lyrical guide to the stages of life through the language of astrology and the power of its timing and the wisdom of new paradigms beautifully carved from myth, archetype, and real life.

Midlife Is Not a Crisis will inspire you to find renewal of purpose and amazing, unique opportunities for self-discovery at every age and the rich, ripe fruit of wisdom that lovingly connects you with the elder within awaiting at each cycle, honoring each as the doorway to a higher soul consciousness. Virginia Bell has written a classic, a book that will empower you to thrive in all the stages of your life.

Ronnie Grishman, editor-in-chief, Dell Horoscope Magazine

What a clear, practical, and totally fascinating guide for how to thrive in all the phases of your life! With her brilliant mastery of astrology, Virginia Bell gives you the map to navigate your entire life and to become your fully authentic self. Keep this book on your bedside table!

Jean Haner, author of Your Hidden Symmetry: How Your Birth Date Reveals the Plan for Your Life and The Wisdom of Your Face: Change Your Life with Chinese Face Reading

Appealing to master astrologers and avid horoscope readers, Virginia Bell looks brilliantly at the heavens and sees in the stars a spiritual road map revealing where we come from, where we are now, what lies ahead if we pay attention to the signs, and what's likely to happen if we don't. Midlife is not a crisis and neither is any turning point in life once we, too, open this book and take an enlightening look at the heavens above in order to understand soulfully what's happening below.

Karol Jackowski, author of bestseller Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die

The world is awash in information right now, but starving for wisdom. Virginia Bell's book on the astrology of maturity is utterly timely. It is a thorough, well-written guide to the loving cultivation of the wise elder within each of us.

Jessica Murray, author of Soul-Sick Nation: An Astrologer's View of America and At the Crossroads: An Astrologer Looks at These Turbulent Times, and creator of MotherSky.com

With her ageless wisdom, Virginia Bell has written a book for the ages. Using astrology's key cycles, she shows us that life has a plot and that its unfolding will give you new-found opportunities for growth. No matter what stage of life you are in, however, her book, Midlife Is Not a Crisis, is for the young-at-heart, for it will inspire you to embrace the changes and challenges you face with courage and a sense of adventure.

Shirley Soffer, author of The Astrology Sourcebook: Your Guide to Understanding the Symbolic Language of the Stars

Sigmund Freud may have introduced us to the mid-life crisis, but he left us high and dry when he led us to believe that it's all downhill from there. In a culture that has been deliberately youth-anized by the media, it's time to open our eyes to what astrologers have always known: that time, repetition, and experience are the only teachers here. From our perspective, the so-called mid-life crisis is, in fact, the entrance to higher levels of wisdom and experience. With that said, I am here to applaud Virginia Bell. With Midlife Is Not a Crisis, she has tapped into the Secret of the Ages: little did we know that life really does begin at forty. It may come as even more of a surprise that no one has enough experience or wisdom to become consciously aware of their life's purpose, until they turn fifty. If we live to be sixty, a whole other realm of consciousness opens up. From that point on, the heart and the soul and the mind enter realms that are inaccessible to those who have not lived long enough to go there. YES! There is life after the mid-life crisis. It is where the sidewalk ends and real life begins. This is a worthwhile book that will be a boon to astrologers, psychologists, and laymen alike. Now that the world is over-populated with Baby-Boomers, Ms. Bell will find a receptive audience for a book that could be just what the doctor ordered for anyone who suffers from the belief that You can't trust anyone over thirty and life is over and done with on the day we turn forty.

Cal Garrison, author of The Astrology of 2012 and Beyond and The Old Girls' Book of Spells: The Real Meaning of Menopause, Sex, Car Keys, and Other Important Stuff About Magic

A generation or two ago, people expected to work at their jobs until age 59 or 65, if they were lucky, receive a gold watch, and possibly look forward to a few more years subsisting on Social Security or whatever they managed to save. But things have changed. Many of us live well into our 80s and even 90s and are enjoying marvelous second and third acts AND new careers. Virginia Bell's Midlife Is Not a Crisis: Using Astrology to Thrive in the Second Half of Life has arrived right on time to serve and inspire Boomers, Gen-Xers, and anyone planning to make the most of the awakening that occurs at 4045 and give it their all after age 50.

The book begins with a fabulous primer for astrology newbies (deliciously well-written and an enjoyable review of the basics for veterans) and then forays into the much needed and under-discussed planetary transits and patterns that all 60-, 70- and 80-somethings experience. Virginia leaves no stone unturned as she provides a precise and uplifting road map with which to navigate and enrich one's golden years.

Shelley L. Ackerman, astrologer, author, actor, entertainer at www.karmicrelief.com

It's easy to be depressed about getting old, rather than optimistic. That's why I love Virginia Bell's book Midlife Is Not a Crisis: Using Astrology to Thrive in the Second Half of Life because it lets readers knowwhether they are 29 or 84that it's never too late for happiness. Virginia shows us what to expect during common life cycles and how to navigate their challenges for desired self-transformation.

Judika Illes, author of Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells, The Big Book of Practical Spells, and the Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, and Sages

This edition first published in 2017 by Weiser Books, an imprint of

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Copyright 2017 by Virginia Bell

Foreword Copyright 2017 Steven Forrest

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