Astrology of Intimacy, Sexuality & Relationship: Insights to Wholeness Book

Table of Contents
Appreciation . . . xi
Horoscope Charts . . . xiii
1 Intimacy—Elusive Grace, Common Fear . . . 1
Early Conditioning and Values . . . 3
Our Individual Needs . . . 7
2 Intimacy—Needs in Relationships . . . 35
The Inner Planets . . . 40
Mars . . . 40
Going Further . . . 42
Venus . . . 43
Going Further . . . 44
Mercury . . . 45
Two Need Profiles Together: Synastry . . . 46
Interplanetary Relationships . . . 51
Needs We Do Not Understand: The Nodes . . . 53
Happy Relationships . . . 59
Technical Synastric Considerations . . . 66
3 Fear and Disillusionment—
Expressions of Animus and Anima . . . 67
Rescue . . . 74
An Astrological Look . . . 77
4 Intimacy Therapy—Getting Past the Fears . . . 83
What’s Love Got to Do with It All? . . . 93
Rewriting the Story . . . 95
Moon-Marriage Orientation . . . 97
5 Sexuality—Dealing with Self-Confirmation . . . 101
Intensity of the Sex Drive . . . 117
Orgasmic Difficulty/Dysfunction . . . 127
Impotence . . . 134
The Mind . . . 135
Abuse . . . 139
General Astrological Considerations . . . 146 Does Sex Die? . . . 148
6 Relationships—The Patterns that Show Difficulty . . . 151
General Astrological Considerations about
Relationship Difficulty . . . 177
Uranus . . . 177
Neptune . . . 178
Saturn . . . 178
Pluto . . . 179
Indirect Midpoints . . . 179
Time-Flow . . . 180
The Way of Relationship Counsel . . . 180
Explaining Intimacy . . . 181
Capsulating the Shortcomings . . . 183
Conflicts and Anger . . . 184
Sexuality . . . 189
A Renewed Agreement . . . 194
Bibliography . . . 199
Index . . . 201