Stephen Arroyo - Astrology, Karma & Transformation: The Inner Dimensions of the Birth Chart

Reviewers comments on Astrology, Karma & Transformation:

Arroyos new book reflects a real depth of comprehension and ability to integrate humanistic astrology with Jungian psychology and Eastern philosophy. The simplicity and clarity of his treatment of complex ideas is remarkable; it makes accessible even to the beginner a wealth of understandinggiving meaningful psychological grounding to astrological interpretation.

Library Journal

This is straight, clean astrology, in modern terms, very well and concisely written. One of the best modern works we have seen.

CAO Times

You have done a superb job on Astrology, Karma & Transformation. It is the kind of book that is going to raise the level of consciousness in the astrological field. I salute you for the depth of consciousness and the insight that is shown in your book.

Isabel Hickey
Author of Astrology: A Cosmic Science

I find it to be superior to any other astrology book I have ever read. It is a remarkable work of extremely meaningful material that is written in a very lucid and practical style, and that is why I tell my students that I consider it to be an absolute must.

Robert S. Kimball
Astrological Researcher & Teacher

It is not contrived or artificial when Arroyo talks of the horoscope as the map of the soul in its present karmic state. Nothing is forced. The understanding of astrological principles flows harmoniously. In fact, there is not a single sentence or thought in this book that is not honest, reasonable, and fair to the miracle of the human being. In addition to this quality of excellence, there is profound astrological knowledge. This is a superb book, a gift to astrology.

Lore Wallace
Astrology Now

To my wife, partner, & adviser Kathy,
In appreciation for her encouragement, her

practical & spiritual help, and her way of being.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Arroyo. Stephen.

Astrology. karma & transformation inner dimensions of the birth chart / Stephen Arroyo. -- New rev. & expanded ed., 2nd ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-916360-54-7 (pbk.) : $12.95

1. Astrology. 2. Natal astrology. 3. Self-realization-Miscellanea. 4. Outer planets--Miscellanea. 5. Karma. I. Title. II. Title: Astrology, karma, and transformation.

BF1719.A77 1992

133.5--dc20

92-35223

CIP

1978, 1992 by Stephen Arroyo

Mandala Illustrations 1978 by Pacia Ryneal

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever (including photocopying) without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED & EXPANDED

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER: 0-916360-54-7

Published simultaneously in the United States
and Canada by CRCS Publications

Cover Design & Mandalas by Pacia Ryneal

Book Design & Layout by Kathleen Mullins

It is with a sense of satisfaction and gratitude that this new edition will be published almost exactly fifteen years after the first edition. Although I must admit to having had considerable confidence in the quality of this work and in its potential popularity, I could never have predicted how widely appreciated it would be in many different countries and for so many years. This book has in fact come to be recognized as one of the classics of modern astrology in numerous languages around the world.

I must therefore express my appreciation to all the readers, teachers, practitioners, and truth-seekers who have written or spoken with me in enthusiastic terms and who continue to recommend this book to others. I expect they will find the new index in this revised edition to be a significant improvement in the book, one which makes the contents far more accessible and useful.

In addition to adding an index, numerous small revisions have been made in this second edition, as well as a few minor additions and footnotes. But all in all, amazingly little of the book seemed particularly dated and, although I would express many things somewhat differently if I were writing it now, I am quite surprised and pleased that it has stood the test of time so well.

Since Astrology, Karma & Transformation was written, I have published a number of other books on astrology, in which many of the subjects included in this work are developed more extensively or from a different perspective. Those titles are now referred to here and there in this new edition.

Acknowledgements

I want to give special thanks to Joanie Case and Barbara McEnerney for their editing and proofreading, and I am indebted to both of them for a multitude of excellent suggestions about both the form and the content of this book. In addition, I am grateful that Barbara McEnerney agreed to compile the index for the second edition, a task which required a degree of astrological knowledge most indexers do not possess.

I also want to thank Pacia Ryneal for doing both the cover art and the mandalas which I feel add a great deal to this book, Deirdre Engstrom for designing the graphics in chapters 6 and 10, and Diane Simon for proofreading and positive feedback.

A small portion of the material incorporated in this book was previously published in the form of articles in Dells HOROSCOPE magazine, Popular Librarys AQUARIAN ASTROLOGY, and Llewllyns ASTROLOGY NOW. We appreciate, therefore, the editors permission to bring it forth in this entirely revised and enlarged presentation.

Without stirring abroad one can know the whole world; Without looking out the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes, the less one knows.

Lao Tzu

Ever since I began to study astrology, an interest which began during a period of great personal changes and which followed a deep immersion in the writings of C.G. Jung, I have known that there is more to astrology than most astrological textbooks ever mention. In other words, I have always been intuitively aware of the fact that, behind the symbols and the archaic language of traditional astrology, there lies a vast realm of potential wisdom, deeper understanding of the very laws of life, and insights that can lead a devoted student to a more refined comprehension of the spiritual dimensions of experience. Hence, as I began to devour one astrological book after another, I immediately found myself searching for the deeper meanings of the symbols, the inner significance of this cosmic language which seemed to me to hold such great potential for spiritual growth and heightened awareness.

As I continued my studies, it became increasingly clear to me that astrology works with levels of consciousness and dimensions of experience that are far beyond the understanding of the earth-conditioned logical mind. It became apparent that only the higher intuitive mind (what one might call the eye of the soul) could truly understand astrology in all its deeper ramifications and significance; and, year by year, I found that one could indeed sharpen the intuition through meditation, constant practice, and openness to the point where one could immediately sense the essential reality which authors tried to explain verbally in so many books.