Creative Connections & Client Communications Circumstantial Confinement Every astrologer encounters horoscopes that hardly seem to breathe, hardly see to respond. There are reasons for this:many people are circumstantially confined societally, vocationally, religiously. Circumstances in life can dilute, divert, re-direct, or even erase astrological measurements. I remember doing horoscopes years ago in Germany for many clients…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsHarrummmpf! You’ve hit a nerve! In a face-to-face consultation, every busy astrologer learns to spot the client’s telltale shifts of position in his/her chair when an especially telling point is reached in conversation. We see and understand this tension-repositioning –the wiggling foot, the strong swallowing, the averted gaze- on TV, for…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Too Much of a Good Thing Long ago, when I was teaching myself astrology, I had a conversation with New York astrologer Zoltan Mason in his bookstore. I had read about 9,000 astrology books(!) in the preceding 6 months, and I was already assembling a private notebook of my earliest…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Creating Therapeutic Images Think of the aphorisms (concise statements of principle, from the Greek and French for “definition”) that creep into conversations all the time. They tell a truth concisely and memorably: ideas like “No one can make you feel inferior without your cooperation”; “Into every life some rain must…
View detailsPracticality, Reality Lead Measurements It happened again yesterday: from the chart for the consultation time through to the Arcs and Transits in her natal horoscope, everything for this 64-year old, asthmatic, slow afoot but sparkling of mind lady screamed a big new project, a new business Ö not the everyday occurrence in life at that age.…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsPatience and Disclosure When someone asks you an astute question, especially if it has a personal probe within it, you’re especially alert, even uncomfortable. -This is why our social ways and language teach us to say something like, “May I ask you a personal question?” We set up a warning of…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Therapeutic Images Everything we know in astrology eventually comes down to communication in the consultation. Without communication skill, our knowledge goes nowhere except into the static state of objective description. We must bring our knowledge into the client’s reality, illuminatingly, constructively, strategically, helpfully. If we pay attention to our speech -using proper…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Getting Close to the Client Relationship dynamics are at work in the astrological consultation: the client and astrologer must create a close bond quickly. This is accomplished through compliments (acceptance), disclosure, and the brevity of the relationship with the astrologer (compression of socialization dynamics). Let’s look at relationships in general first: The…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Subtext Use as Therapy Concurrently this month with this essay, under the department “Notebook”, there is the discussion about improving image through utilization of subtexts, using stimuli spoken to the mind to affect our behavior and presence. The same affect can be achieved for the clientthrough dramatization of a specific subtext.…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The Fear of Counseling It is natural for astrology students to be afraid of “counseling.” They sense a lack of preparedness and confidence within themselves. –Let’s talk about this a bit. First of all, the word “counseling” came into being as we know it within the attendant psychological relationship between…
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