Liquid Light of Sex: Kundalini, Astrology, and the Key Life Transitions [Paperback]

Barbara Hand Clow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2001

A nationally known astrologer explores the connection between spiritual emergencies at age 30, 40, and 50 and key astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron.

• Provides techniques for directing the kundalini energy released during planetary passages for optimal personal and psychic development.

• Includes charts for birth years starting in 1930 so that readers can determine the timing of their planetary passages.

• By Barbara Hand Clow, author of the bestselling Pleiadian Agenda (60,000 copies sold).

Kundalini--the energy of eros that lies at the base of the spine--can be overwhelming once activated. Times of activation coincide with the key astrological passages of Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron in one's birth chart and are often experienced as periods of spiritual emergency, confusion, and imbalance.

In Liquid Light of Sex, Barbara Hand Clow opens up new dimensions for understanding what occurs during these key life passages, which most of us experience three times in our lives. In the author's words, "we form at age 30, we transform at age 40, and we transmute at age 50." Focusing on the transformation at age 40--the time of imbalance and spiritual confusion often referred to as the "midlife crisis"--she explores how kundalini energy, the liquid light of sex, can be creatively channeled by unblocking the chakras. Offering effective methods for achieving physical, emotional, and spiritual growth during this important life passage, Liquid Light of Sex presents a roadmap for using celestial cycles to navigate positively and productively in times of great life change.

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"A must-read for anyone feeling mid-life dissatisfaction, mid-life depression . . . Clow's ideas can help avoid costly and unnecessary mistakes often caused by misinterpretation of a natural process of evolution. Clow heals by explaining deeper spiritual reasons for seemingly physical urges. She takes away feelings of isolation and bewilderment by comfortingly "patterning" crisis into a more understandable and tolerable package."
(Spirit of Change )

"Clow presents a new theory that connects astrology, kundalini, and human development from the personal to the cosmic level."
(Rhea A. White, Exceptional Human Experience Network )

"Liquid Light of Sex is a beacon in the darkness for anyone who is struggling through a mid-life crisis and is wise enough to recognize the spiritual dimensions of the experience. . . . Barbara Hand Clow brings astrology into the field of energy medicine where it belongs [and] restores eros to its rightful place as a vital and healthy part of the divinity we call self."
(Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe )

". . . 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."
(Whole Life Times )

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ASTROLOGY / SELF-HELP

“Liquid Light of Sex is a beacon in the darkness for anyone who is struggling through a mid-life crisis and is wise enough to recognize the spiritual dimensions of the experience. . . . Barbara Hand Clow brings astrology into the field of energy medicine where it belongs [and] restores eros to its rightful place as a vital and healthy part of the divinity we call self.”
--Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe

“. . . 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.”
--Whole Life Times

Liquid Light of Sex is a life-changing book that opens up new dimensions for understanding what occurs during key life passages. With a specific focus on “mid-life crisis,” Barbara Hand Clow explores how kundalini energy--the energy of eros that lies at the base of the spine, otherwise known as the “liquid light of sex”--can be unblocked and creatively channeled to permit successful movement through these potentially turbulent periods. She notes, “We form at age 30, we transform at age 40, and we transmute at age 50.”

This third edition of the book includes new information on how to plan your life over 30-year periods by using Saturn cycles through each of the 12 houses in your natal chart. The charts on the Saturn, Uranus, and Chiron cycles have been updated through 2032 for people born between 1930 and 1981. Liquid Light of Sex offers effective methods for achieving physical, emotional, and spiritual growth during these important life passages for optimal personal and psychic development.

BARBARA HAND CLOW is the author of eight books, including Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner and Outer Planets, the bestselling Pleiadian Agenda, and Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes. An internationally noted astrologer, researcher in alternative medicine, and lecturer, she appears at workshops throughout the world and lives in rural New England.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Bear & Company; 3rd edition (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879181746
• ISBN-13: 978-1879181748
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #119,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #37 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism > Chakras

More About the Author

Barbara Hand Clow is an internationally acclaimed ceremonial teacher, author, and Mayan Calendar researcher. Her numerous books include The Mayan Code, The Pleiadian Agenda, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, Catastrophobia, Liquid Light of Sex and The Mayan Code. She has taught at sacred sites throughout the world and maintains an astrological web site, www.HandClow2012.com

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual Astrology for Life Passages, November 21, 2003

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This book describes and helps validate the changes and experiences undergone at mid-life by many individuals. She gives advice for men and women on how to handle the need for inner change and growth while preserving their relationships intact in most instances. While sharing her caution and respect for the rising of kundalini energy, and her view that it should not be forced to arise at an improper time, I do not agree that one always needs to wait until age 36 or so to let this energy begin to awaken. Damming and smothering the flow of kundalini energy when it is trying to rise at any time can have unfortunate effects as well, I believe. Use of certain meditation techniques and physical disciplines like Kundalini Yoga can help to make this awakening safe and smoother when it does occur. Unfortunately, the subject of kundalini awakening has been neglected by western science and astrology, so this book is performing a valuable service by acknowledging the phenomenon and giving helpful advice on how to handle the experience. I believe that just reading that many other people have had similar experiences can help a person to feel better about themselves and not just think they are "going crazy." When I first experienced kundalini rising, I had no one to talk to about the phenomenon, and I only realized years later that other people had these experiences of the feeling of energy flowing in the body as well.
I found the sections in this book on the astrological houses and the polarities they represent to be particularly helpful and inspiring. I found the updated material on Saturn at the end of the book to be helpful as well in describing and plotting phases of one's career and life. In addition, Barbara brings in material on the cycles of Chiron, the heavenly body discovered in our solar system in 1977, and its return to its original position in our natal charts at age fifty. I found this material on Chiron, the wounded healer and ruler of many New Age techniques and modalities, to be so intriguing and moving, and to have so much resonance in my own life experience, that I have bought her book on Chiron and have started to read it as well. Her chapter on Global Shamanism near the end of the book helps tie the experiences of the individual in with the journey of society as a whole and helps to postulate some remedies for current problems of society. I do wish there had been more material on the planet Neptune and its transits at midlife as well. She also does not talk about the planets in the various signs, and transits of the outer planets to other planets in the natal chart, probably due to space restrictions and to the fact that this book was written for a general audience, not just for astologers and those interested in astrology. Therefore, the timing and character of certain events might be a little different for some people due to other factors in their individual charts not examined here. It would be helpful to the reader to get their chart done after reading this book to further personalize Barbara's findings. Also, books like Jeff Green's book on Pluto, or Bil Tierney's "Alive and Well" books on the outer planets could help expand the knowledge of the reader even further. Overall, this book is an excellent beginning to anyone wanting to examine the subject of mid-life crisis from a spiritual point of view.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a great help!, October 6, 2007

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three monthes after my 40th birthday i was reeling with incomprehension. i had turned into some kind of dr.jeckyll and mr. hyde. the morning after a totally unsatifying $150 session with a respected astrologer, my copy of this book arrived from amazon. for $12(!) this book explained to me what was going on, why, what i could do about it, and showed me a promising path of spiritual unfoldment where i had begun to expect imminent insanity and a sad slow demise.

i've been experiencing kundalini awakening and following my own astrological transits for ten years, but it took barbara hand clow to show me what was right in front of my face in terms of mid-life. now instead of confusion and fear, i have calmed down, recommitted to disciplined spiritual practice, and i feel on track again. this book is a wonder of clarity and help. her other books are great too.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful tool, April 16, 2009

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This review is from: Liquid Light of Sex: Kundalini, Astrology, and the Key Life Transitions (Paperback)

I own several other books by Barbara and while I admire them and aspire to understand them I've found them a bit heady for me...I'll open, flip through, glean some wonderful information until my brain hurts and then put them down for a while. ;)

This book is a whole other story...I devoured this when I was finally ready to read it. On the advice of a total stranger I met over a year ago I'd purchased the book and simply tossed it aside at the time, obviously not ready yet. I feel as though books just call out to you when there's something you need to know. That happened with this book recently when I was experiencing the most uncharacteristic dark energy that seeemed to be taking over. I've always been this beacon of laughter, light and joy and don't buy into the whole "midlife crisis" whining so that wasn't a generalization I would give any power to at all.

I'm glad I stuck to my guns on that one because this book explains the positive and empowering aspect of not only the energy I'm coming into now, but the major life transitions at 30ish and in the 50s as well. So it covers 3 key transitions. As someone who has practiced and taught Kundalini yoga for a while and studied astrology since childhood, this book speaks my language. And it does so in a way that made me feel excited and powerful, not mournful or lost, as I see so many others feeling when they approach this energy.

I'd honestly like to give this to everyone I know because it does cover such an inclusive range of life experiences. Even reading about what was happening when I was in that Saturn return stage at around age 30 made some things click. I find knowledge helpful even in hindsight, where it can still become wisdom in action.

Sometimes I wish this had a different title because I think it can put people off when they mistakenly assume it's just about something physical and sexual...this is so much more than that. This is a ray of sanity and pure light during times when things might seem like utter chaos.

I highly recommend this book to anyone in their 30s, 40s or 50s who is finding that they are experiencing some transitions that might be overwhelming, baffling, intimidating or downright daunting. This dispels some fear-based myths and brings you into a space of understanding, self love and pure power.