Midlife Is Not a Crisis by Bell, Virginia -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright CONTENTS FOREWORD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION TO THE CYCLES

A Brief History of the Cycles

AN OVERVIEW OF ASTROLOGY

The Language of Astrology The Planets The Outer or Invisible Planets Signs Houses The Ascendant The Nodes of the Moon Aspects

THE CYCLES THE SATURN RETURN

Saturn's Backstory Law and Order The Saturn Return The Saturn Square: Saturn at Age Thirty-six—Growing Pains My Saturn Return Get to Know Your Saturn Stories

THE MIDLIFE JOURNEY

Pluto The Uranus Opposition Neptune Enter Saturn: Phase Three Jupiter Makes an Appearance at Age Forty-Eight Putting It All Together The Outer Planets My Midlife Journey Stories

THE CHIRON RETURN

Change Your Story, Change Your Life Chiron and Health Chiron and Menopause The Wounding and the Healing Saturn Square between Ages 51 and 52 The Progressed Lunar Return at 54 Two Filmmakers, Two Films, Two Chiron Stories My Chiron Return Stories

THE SECOND SATURN RETURN

What Is the Great Purpose for This Phase of Our Life? What Does It Mean to Be an Elder? From Age-ing to Sage-ing Life Review The Inner Journey Meditation Death Enters the Conversation Role Models The Secret of the Second Saturn Return My Second Saturn Return Stories

THE CLOSING URANUS SQUARE

What Do You Plan to Do in Your Wild and Precious Elder Years? Wabi-Sabi The Bucket List You're 65 and You Can't Hide! The Reality of Aging: The Second Stage of Eldering Sixty and Me Happiness Peaks at Age 65! From Drinking Lattes to Serving Them Up The Politics of Aging Transitions My Own Uranus Square Uranus All the Single (Elder) Ladies Fabulous and Flawed!

THE SEVENTIES

The Third Stage of Eldering: Here Comes Karma The Decade of Consequences Me at Seventy My Saturn Opposition at Seventy-Two My Age Finally Fits Me! Fifty Years of Dieting and Exercise: What I've Learned (It's Not Complicated) My Own Spiritual Routine There Really Is a Fountain of Youth Stories Even My Dad Healed in His Seventies

THE URANUS RETURN AT EIGHTY-FOUR

The Saturn Square at Eighty The Uranus Return Are You Weird Enough? The Neptune Opposition Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter It's Never Too Late to Fall in Love Betty Halbreich You're Not Old Until You're Ninety Ending

APPENDIX

Georgia O'Keeffe Carl Gustav Jung