Soul-Centered Astrology: A Key to Your Expanding Self [Paperback]

Alan Oken (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1996

Soul-Centered Astrology is a groundbreaking sourcebook. Influenced by Theosophical philosophy, Alice Bailey, and the Ancient Wisdom Teachings, Alan Oken describes the evolutionary process of spiritual self-development with the twelve astrological signs and their soulcentered planetary rulers and the esoteric significance of the planets in the signs. The book features an elevation of the spiritual importance of the ascendant, the incarnational relevance of cardinal, fixed, and mutable crosses, and the correlation between astrology and the Seven Rays. Revealing the soul's path to inner enlightenment and outer fulfillment, it offers a complete course for the serious student of the stars that encompasses and goes beyond birth signs and natal charts. Geared to the student traversing a spiritual path, Alan Oken teaches the secrets of Esoteric Astrology that have been a focus of study for mystics and initiates throughout the ages.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Alan Oken has written several bestsellers, including Alan Oken's Complete Astrology, Soul-Centered Astrology, and Rulers of the Horoscope. An internationally known lecturer and teacher, he speaks and writes in six languages and has taught in over 30 countries. He has an active astrological consulting practice and a significant web presence. He is the founder and director of the Wisdom School. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Crossing Press (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0895948117
• ISBN-13: 978-0895948113
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,955,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must for those on the Path..., November 5, 2000

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Bete Noire (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul-Centered Astrology: A Key to Your Expanding Self (Paperback)

This is a masterpiece introductory course in esoteric astrology,inspired by Alan Oken's studies and intellectual excursions into the works of Alice Bailey and the Theosophical Society and propelled by his tremendous inspiration and excellent writing abilities.Esoteric astrology is the emerging paradigm,operating with expanded symbols of consciousness and its purpose is to be a reliable road-map for one's spiritual evolution.While in classical Western astrology the sun sign,moon sign,and rising sign are the three most important parameters in defining the personality of a subject-in that order,esoteric astrology reverses the order,with the rising sign as the revealer of the soul's purpose,the sun sign as the sign of probabilities,and the moon sign as the karmic accumulations in need to be discarded.Using concepts such as the fixed or the cardinal cross,and a reworking of the meanings of the planets in the houses,more in accord with our need to evolve towards the dictates of our own souls,this is a very generous,empowering,and soul-affirming book,so that when the soul is fully realized,it can depart and then be replaced by the Spirit...

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must" for students of astrology and metaphysics., January 4, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul-Centered Astrology: A Key to Your Expanding Self (Paperback)

In Soul-Centered Astrology, students of metaphysics will learn ten postulates of the Ancient Wisdom Teachings; the nature and influence of the Seven Rays; the path of incarnation and the Three Crosses; the esoteric significance of the planets in the signs; and be treated to an in-depth analysis of the chakras as well as a guide to soul-centered natal chart delineation. Soul-Centered Astrology is a welcome, definitive, and highly recommended contribution to personal and professional astrology reference book collections.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Let those who can understand, April 16, 2011

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Ashtar Command "Seeker" (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Soul Centered Astrology: A Key to Your Expanding Self (Paperback)

Years ago, I tried to read "Esoteric astrology" by Alice Bailey. I didn't get it. I bought Alan Oken's book hoping to understand the esoteric system of Bailey better. I still don't.

Oken, a follower of Bailey and her Lucifer Trust, is just as incomprehensible as his guru. A Theosophist-watcher I'm causally acquainted with, tells me that's because Bailey's message *is* incomprehensible. Nobody really understands what on earth the old woman was talking about anyway. However, it looks sophisticated in print.

The only thing I made out was that my horoscope might be interesting from an esoteric perspective, since I have the esoteric ruler of my ascendant sign at the actual ascendant. (Get it?)

But what on earth does it all mean? Who knows. Perhaps I'm Phylos the Thibetan, returned from the dead to give you all a good trashing. Or perhaps Richard Dawkins is right, and we are all descended from Blavatsky's baboon? Or perhaps it's a conspiracy to get the nations to accept an Anti-Christ One World Government?

Or perhaps I'm just being bored, at 00.18 local time in Sweden, after watching the incredibly bad first episode of "The Last Templar"? Any relation to Lucius, by the way?

Let those who can understand, LOL.