About Living in Time – written 1985-86, published in 1987
From the blurb of the 1987 Gateway Books edition:
This book opens up still-new territory in working with inner time and changing times, using astrological symbology to understand and generate harmony within ourselves and with our world. It is great for beginners, dabblers and adepts in astrology, easy to follow and starting from basics. This is a back-to-the-roots approach, directly applicable to real life, written for any aware person, whether or not specifically interested in astrology.
• Lunar cycles, solstices, equinoxes, the seasons and the ancient fire festivals
• Natural religion, world transformation and the flow of time
• Power-points in time and quantum leaps
• Personal growth and changes
• Stresses the experiential, not the theoretical
Preface to this edition
The 1987 edition of this book went out of print within a few years. It was much appreciated by people who were not highly adept in astrology, but who were interested in seasons and periodicities, often because of a love of nature. Each year during the 1990s I received requests to republish it, but it didn't feel quite right – and I had moved on to other things. Then, in Year 2000 I found myself in a state of profound change (Pluto square Sun and Chiron return!), and started reviewing my past work. Sig Lonegren, the dowser and student-teacher on sacred space, contacted me one day wanting to know what he could do about making the book a recommended course-book for a year-long course he was running with his colleague Patrick MacManaway. Suddenly, I was revising the book for re-publication!
For this 2000 edition, I have not fundamentally altered the book. Most of the changes have simply been to improve readability. So many of the examples given in this book relate to the 1980s, and more recent examples have not been given. Little has been added or taken away. Two things have changed noticeably since 1987: many more people have become attuned to natural energies, and most astrologers have moved onto computers. Otherwise, the book stands well today, as written in 1985-86.
My thanks and appreciation go to Alick Bartholomew for publishing the first edition, and to Sig for kicking me into action to produce the second edition. Also to January Jane for bearing with me in 1985-86 when I first wrote it, and to Sheila Martin for doing the same in 2000! It is dedicated also to Heather and Barry Hoon, who have done so much to encourage my advancement in Internet publishing. And to you, dear reader, for giving this work significance by reading and making use of it!
Palden Jenkins, Glastonbury, May 2000.
About the author
Palden Jenkins is an author, editor, webmaster, publisher, teacher and social inventor. He was the founder of the Glastonbury Gatherings, OakDragon Camps and the Hundredth Monkey Project. He is a classic 60s veteran, brought up in 1960s Liverpool, and he has worked with radical politics, inner growth, psychic work, Tibetan Lamas, childbirth, prehistory, ETs and crop formations, and he now lives in Glastonbury, England, with his partner Sheila and his son Tulki – he has three lovely daughters too. He is a Virgo, with Gemini Moon and Sagittarius rising.
About the Illustrator
is a visionary artist, astrologer and colour therapist who lives right at the bottom of Glastonbury Tor. For many years she has been making designs engaging the image of Glastonbury Tor in many different aspects. She created the archetypal images of the zodiac signs and planets which are included in this book – click here to see Jan's zodiac images. She co-runs a shop in Glastonbury called Facets of Avalon and she also provides stylish overnight accommodation and therapy at her home next door to the Chalice Well. If you like the zodiac images done by Jan in this book, she has a collection of the same images on cards.
Downloading and reading this book
You are encouraged to print off a copy of this book, for easier reading. There are several download choices available:
• Work through the pages on this website by simply clicking NEXT, and then print them off as you go, through your browser;
• Download a PC zipfile containing the HTML pages and illustrations (1.3Mb), for viewing on your computer and printing out. When extracted, the files in this zipfile will need to be allowed to deposit themselves into a folder called /Avalon and some sub-folders under it.
Copyright statement
© Palden Jenkins, 1987 & 2000. This book is copyright. You may download it and print it out in single copies only, for study, review, discussion and reading in a spirit of fair play, with no financial transactions or other gain involved. Extracts and quotes from the book should be attributed. Posting parts of the book on other websites is permitted only if a link is made to this book (http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/time.html). You may not alter, re-sell or print this book in larger quantities without permission from the author. May this re-published book bring great benefit to all readers – it is shared with love, in the hope that it helps its readers awaken and find their way through life's jungle!
If this book interests you, check out The Historical Ephemeris too – about longer-term historical timecycles!
