num_pages: 308
description: In this book author Greg Bogart explains how astrology illuminates the stages of spiritual growth and awakening. Through case examples and biographical studies of famous mystics writers lovers and sages readers learn to utilize their own birth charts to find the most appropriate spiritual practice and to guide themselves on the path of transformation. This book features a lucid concise introduction to astrology. The author gives detailed delineations of the birth charts of C.G. Jung Stan Grof Ram Dass Ken Wilber Mircea Eliade musical geniuses John Lennon John Coltrane and Eric Clapton; business leaders and innovators such as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates; and an assortment of spiritual teachers including Ramana Maharshi Sri Aurobindo BKS Iyengar Muktananda Ammachi Rajneesh Meher Baba Hazrat Inayat Khan Pema Chodron Byron Katie and many others.If youre an astrologer who would like to more effectively guide yourself and your clients on a path of spiritual transformation this greatly expanded edition of Dr. Bogarts book is the only one youll need. The authors personal experiences as a long-time practitioner of meditation and yoga inform every page. I especially love the insights he offers on the growth potentials of Uranus Neptune and Pluto transits as seen through the lens of transpersonal astrology. This is a profound handbook for using astrology as an evolutionary tool in the 21st century.Kate Sholly Mountain Astrologer magazineThis is a spiritual self-help book. It teaches those who love astrology how to see their charts as a map for their spiritual path. Its also a good book for learning basic astrology. Greg conveys to the reader a wealth of valuable and precious information.Arlan Wise Organization of Professional Astrologers This valuable book explores the essential purpose of astrology: To serve as a beacon that can illuminate our individual road to enlightenment. I highly recommend this book to astrologers psychologists and other fellow travelers on the Path.Dennis Harness Ph.D. Director Institute of Vedic AstrologyBrilliantly summarizes a transpersonal approach to astrology.Stephanie Austin review in The Mountain AstrologerSuch terms as personal growth and transformation are often just nice fuzzy buzzwords behind which resides very little but more nice fuzzy words. But as Bogart uses them theres neither fuzz nor buzz as he tells the reader exactly what he means by them. . . . Exceptionally straightforward. Well-done fascinating and highly recommended reading.Ken Irving review in American Astrology Using dozens of examples Greg Bogart provides a cosmic framework for understanding the crises turning points and challenges on the spiritual path of clients and of well-known personages. With writing that burns brightly this cultural creative details these fascinating lives and by books end as if by magic leaves the reader warm in the glow of embers of understanding. This work is a transformative gift of the Spirit gently delivered via a therapist and astrologer devoted to Service.Brad Kochunas M.A. author of The Astrological Imagination: Where Psyche and Cosmos Meet.
language: English
title: Astrology and Spiritual Awakening
publisher: American Federation of Astrologers