The Astrology Of Awakening Volume 2 [Paperback]

Highly accessible and readable, The Astrology of Awakening 2, is an ambitious and progressive book; designed for astrology students and practitioners interested in a thoroughly spiritual approach to the cosmic art. It provides a step by step breakdown of how we can understand an astrology chart as a journey of maturation and spiritual awakening. The Awakening approach weaves threads from developmental psychology, modern understandings of consciousness, ancient spiritual wisdom, the implications of quantum science, all held within today's knowledge of astronomy. The reader is invited to a whole other perspective or dimension (the transpersonal, soul), both in how to examine charts, and also how to connect with clients. At the soul level, life is a sacred reflection of our psyche. The astrological counselor can learn how to support a client in meeting self through all experiences and encounters, to see how the astrology chart itself is animated in our lives. The overarching theme is that we begin in a spiritual childhood and mature throughout the soul journey. Collectively, we are in a time of paradigm shift towards the inclusion of the metaphysical so we might create a more conscious existence. Astrology can serve as a beacon to light the way forward, and the Awakening approach is ideally suited to meet this goal. Chapter 1 reviews the basis of this approach, and provides a condensed account of some main points from Volume 1 of this series. In particular, it lays out the model of evolutionary levels of consciousness, with which the reader should become familiar. Chapter 2 addresses fundamental building blocks of astrology: planets, signs, houses, aspects, elements and modalities. All of these will be introduced and discussed from a spiritual perspective. The Moon, the Nodes of the Moon, and the Sun form the crux of this approach. They are addressed in Chapters 3 through 6. Analogous to the seed (Moon), the gardening (Nodes of the Moon), and the flower (Sun), theyl³+