David Pond - Astrology and Relationships: Simple Ways to Improve Your Relationships with Anyone

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Astrology and Relationships: Simple Ways to Improve Your Relationships with Anyone 2001 and 2017 by David Pond.

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Secone Edition, Revised

First Printing, 2017

Cover Design by Howie Severson/Fortuitous Publishing

First e-book edition 2017

E-book ISBN: 9780738753287

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Pond, David.

Astrology & relationships : techniques for harmonious personal connections / David Pond. 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7387-0046-0

1. Astrology. 2. PlanetsMiscellanea. 3. Interpersonal relationsMiscellanea. I. Title: Astrology and relationships. II. Title.

BF1724 .P66 2001 133.53dc21

2001029620

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To Laurie, my teacher of the heart

Contents

: The Center, the Heart

: Emotional Fulfillment

: Mind and Communication

: Magnetism, Sexuality, and Intimacy

: Power, Passion, and Anger

: Growth Through Goals, Dreams, and Generosity

: Responsibilities, Pressures, and Challenges

: The Transpersonal, Collective, and Spiritual Realms of Consciousness

: The Urge for Freedom and the Expression of Individuality

: Imagination, Visualization, and Spirituality

: Death, Rebirth, and Transformation

Acknowledgments

While working on this revised edition of Astrology and Relationships , I am aware of how many transformations this book has gone through since I began writing it in the mid-1980s. In the beginning, there was friend and healer Brenda Leonas excitement about the seed ideas that flamed the inspiration for initiating this book. My sister, Lucy Pond, contributed ideas for the early stages of the books development. I am thankful for Kris Rodrigues for taking on the unenviable task of editing the first rough, rough draft. Friends and fellow astrologers Lynn Mitchell and Tina Summers read the early work and offered helpful assistance.

I would also like to acknowledge the many clients, friends, and workshop attendees who provided the material for the book itself. By sharing their joys and sorrows, their desires and disappointments, and being willing to work with this material, they have shaped and refined the work.

Although this project was nearly complete in 1991, I took a hiatus from it, and for this I would like to thank my four sons. I was at a point in the writing that required a great deal of focus to bring the work to the next level. My children were at a stage in their lives that also required a great deal of attention. It became clear to me that I could experience family while the kids were at home and I could write later, but I couldnt write now and experience my children latertheyd be gone! I had faith that putting the book on hold for a few years and dedicating quality time to being with my family was the right path. Ill never regret this choice, as it has been the greatest blessing in my life.

I would like to acknowledge Jeff Jawer for first believing in the book and steering me onto the path of publication. I would especially like to acknowledge Maria K. Simms from ACS who performed the main editing of the text. I stand in awe and appreciation of her talent for empowering my confidence as a writer while simultaneously rephrasing a paragraph to more clearly express my intention. Im also thankful for the friendship that grew between us through the process of my surrendering to her patient and personal guidance. I would like to thank my Gemini friends Sherrie Schouten and Ira Stollack for their timely help with the final proofreading.

My appreciation is deeply felt for Laurie, my wife and life partner. We celebrate forty-two years together at the time of the publication of this revision of the book. Weve been through it all, and have more than survived. All that is in this book has been tried, trued, and tested in our relationship. Her role in bringing this book into manifestation could not be overstated, from facing life issues with me and being willing to experiment, to believing in the book and supporting the many months of impossibly late nights, to suggesting to Jeff Jawer that he look at the manuscript, to reading and rereading new revisions and sharing her oh-so-clear insightsand doing it all right from her loving heart.

I am most grateful for Amy Glaser and Bill Krause from Llewellyn Publications for recognizing the value of the book and suggesting this revision.

I would like to express my appreciation for seekers on the path everywhere. Feeling connected to other beings who are doing what they can to improve the quality of life on our planet gives me an inner strength to draw upon. To the growing light that we are all awakening into, to the still quiet voice within, to the source of the guidance that comes to us during prayer and meditation, my eternal gratitude.

Introduction

We are at the dawn of an emerging global community. Individuality is certainly an important stage of development, but this is a planet with a population of more than seven billion people, and relating skills are essential for learning to get along on such a crowded planet. We are now entering a social period with the theme of an evolving global consciousness. We are each individual cells of consciousness within the larger body of Mother Earth, and it is how we interact, relate, and connect with one another that will be more important to our survival and well-being than how we defend our individual space. At this point in planetary evolution, the path to the divine is through relating with others. It is in this spirit that this book was written.