Creative Connections & Client Communications Changing Your Horoscope! Long ago, I heard student stories about a teacher in the Chicago area ‘way back when’ who had an intriguing exercise for his students: he instructed them to draw a horoscope (by hand in those days, of course) with any distribution of signs and planets the students wished.…
View detailsAll teachers in any humanistic discipline know the value of “telling a story.” Parables crystallize points of view. The story puts “out there” what is inside the client; what’s “out there” is easier to manage, and the vivid nature of the narrative is memorable in and of itself. Very often, we encounter client attitudes that…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Hearing the Answer within the Question There are questions and there are questions. –Factual questions are answered with facts; judgment questions, opinion questions are more complex … they are asked with varying levels of emotional content, and the answer must be framed to appreciate that. The client helps us in…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Time, Tension, and Change The astrologer must have a holistic awareness ever in mind. He or she must have the poise to know and acknowledge with the client that, if little has happened in life, little can be expected to occur. a visit to an astrologer does not change a life pattern except…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Love Received and Given Everybody wants to be loved by everybody. Receiving love is reward for being who we are; it is support to grow; it encourages the future and keeps each one of us alive. [When someone doesn’t understand this, doesn’t believe it, they have a problem.] –We know…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsThe Accumulation of Stress Back in the 1970s, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine published a stress index, analyzing the relative impact of certain events upon human reaction, in terms of units of stress. –I’ve held on to that index, and have found it very informative, for the…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsFilling in the Gaps How few lines does Picasso need to draw to show us a reclining body? How do those few lines differentiate a fallen classical hero from a waiting classical courtesan? How can different colored shapes work together within the gestaltof a minimalist, geometric, hard-edged suggestion of a wizened…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsGetting to the Skeletons in the Closet! Saturn related to Pluto is perhaps astrology’s most demanding, draining, debilitating symbolic construct. I’ve long carried an image with me that I think captures Saturn-Pluto analytically: skeletons in one’s closet. I have seen many, many hundreds of times, perhaps thousands, that Saturn conjunct, square, opposed,…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsHelping the Client Establish Significances Quite a successful client of mine, in the international banking business, was working with me on strategy issues at one of the highest points of his career development. The gentleman had everything going for him in his senior years. In the conversation, he startled me by…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsThe Help of Time There’s an adaptability about human beings that is designed by Nature to help us cope, to help us heal. Intrinsic mechanisms are built into our mood systems to help us accommodate difficulty. These coping mechanisms see to work against any of our contrived efforts to enhance our…
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