ASTROLOGY and the Rising of KUNDALINI
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... 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.
W HOLE L IFE T IMES
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; its essential for healthy developmentthe 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.
S TEVEN M C F ADDEN, ASTROLOGER AND AUTHOR OF P ROFILES IN W ISDOM
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 Clows 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.
N ICKI S CULLY, AUTHOR OF P LANETARY H EALING AND P OWER A NIMAL M EDITATIONS
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.
B ARBARA M ARX H UBBARD, AUTHOR OF T HE E VOLUTIONARY J OURNEY
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.
P EGGY P AYNE, AUTHOR OF THE KUNDALINI NOVEL C OBALT B LUE
Finally! A book that makes spiritual sense out of lifes passages and does so not only on a personal level but a cosmic level as well.
R OSEMARY E LLEN G UILEY, AUTHOR OF H ARPERS E NCYCLOPEDIA OF M YSTICAL AND P ARANORMAL E XPERIENCE
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.
R OWENA P ATTEE K RYDER , P H .D., AUTHOR OF THE G AIA M ATRIX O RACLE AND FOUNDER OF THE C REATIVE H ARMONICS I NSTITUTE
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.
T ANTRA MAGAZINE
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.
S PIRIT OF C HANGE
Barbara Hand Clows 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.
C ONNECTING L INK
Acknowledgments
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK all my clients who have shared their deepest secrets with me and who have given me permission to share their stories about their own progress, so that this knowledge about the key life passages could be presented to as many readers as possible.
I would like to thank the members of my own family and close friends, who have been my greatest teachers about the mysteries of human physical and spiritual maturation.
I am deeply grateful for Dr. Richard Gerbers introduction, which helps support this theoretical linking of energetics medicine and astrological cycles. I would like to thank Dr. Percy Seymour of England for his groundbreaking research on solar magnetism and astrology, and for his scientific presentation of the causal principle of astrology.
I would like to thank fellow astrologer Gail Vivino, for her assistance on the tables at the end of the book; designer and illustrator Marilyn Hager Biethan, for her work on this book; editor Barbara Doern Drew, for her careful copyediting and intelligent suggestions for the final text; and editor Meghan MacLean for her superb content suggestions and editing for this new edition.
Thanks especially to Jerry Simon Chasen, who helped me write this book in a form that is accessible to many people. And I would like to deeply thank editor Gerry Clow, who lent great clarity to this text and who supported me with honesty and power throughout the ten years of doing research. I honor Diana LaDue Hand and Darlene Yusuf of Wiseawakening.com for their devotion and excellence in promoting my work.
Lastly, I would like to acknowledge Inner Traditions Bear & Company for promotion and sales and all the details behind bringing this book to the people.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Person raising kundalini
The twelve houses of the zodiac
1st through 3rd houses of the zodiac
4th through 6th houses of the zodiac
7th through 9th houses and lower polarities
10th through 12th houses and lower polarities
Saturn moving through the houses of the zodiac
Three oppositions of Uranus
Earth chakra
Root chakra
Solar plexus chakra
Heart chakra
Throat chakra
Third eye chakra
Crown chakra
Position of Chiron in the solar system
Blank natal chart
Saturn transits by quadrants of your birth chart
Saturn transits by house of your birth chart
Spiral symbols of Newgrange
The upper dimensions of the crown chakra
Preface to the Fourth Edition
WHEN IT WAS FIRST published in 1991 under the title Liquid Light of Sex, Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini offered a new hypothesis: predictable planetary cycles or transits can be used to determine the onset, progress, and completion of human growth cycles, the most critical one being midlife crisis. Now, after more than twenty years of feedback in workshops and countless letters from readers, the time has arrived to assess the accuracy of this idea. This idea has really worked for people who know little about astrology, the tool we use to predict our personal growth cycles. In particular, Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini examines the nature and timing of kundalini rising healthy fire that rises in our chakras, or energy centers in our bodiesa key body dynamic that is activated as we mature physically and emotionally. The most intense kundalini activation occurs during midlife crisis in our early forties, and this process is virtually synonymous with spiritual emergency extreme anxiety that often occurs when people process difficult emotional issues.