Creative Connections & Client Communications Sub-texts to guide your Consultation In our preparation of any horoscope for consultation, we certainly should have three or four “chunks” of surmise, routings that hold together, are well organized, and these chunks themselves should work together holistically throughout the consultation. Draw Marilyn Monroe’s horoscope: June 01, 1926 at 9:30…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsWhy Astrology is “our” Efficient Therapy! Therapist Donald L. Peters, a retired school counselor with 35 years experience, developed a list of considerations to guide discussion about life activities and their link with personal fulfillment. He labels his approach a fun-formula [See Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques, Howard G. Rosenthal, Editor]. It’s…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Being Alert to Creative Connections Remember the old joke?: Two psychoanalysts are walking past each other: one says, “Good morning!” The other says, “Wonder what he meant by that?” The focus here is the significance, the meaning, of something that was said; how deep does it go; how significant is…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The “3R’s”: Review, Reinforcement, and Raising Spirits The astrological consultation must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Its organization helps the message develop. When we come to the end, we must know that the client will take away predominantly the material focused into the last five minutes. It…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Creating a Mantra The word mantra keys the mind: how to think about something specific, usually in a helpful, remedial way. Complementary ideas like “I think, therefore I am,” “You are what you think”, and “the mind leads the way” come immediately … to mind. Many of our essays in the Counseling…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsWhat do you bring to the Consultation? Aside from knowledge of astrology, there are three major, personal dimensions that the astrologer brings to the consultation experience: Communication Skill, Life Awareness, and Authority. Communication Skill How the astrologer communicates is crucially important. It is what people hear, feel, and remember. It says so very very much…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Through the Glasser Brightly Prominent psychiatrist William Glasser, Director of the William Glasser Institute in Chatsworth CA, is the founder of what is well-known in the field as “Reality Therapy.” Issuing from the Therapy modality is his compelling “Choice Theory.” To a fault, Glasser’s work is practical and client-centered; there…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsManagement of Responsibility–Pecking at Saturn-retrograde– From the day my daughter was born in Manhattan NY, when I first saw her Saturn retrograde opposed her Leo Sun –with the benefit of understanding that, I knew her mother and I could foster an extraordinarily “responsible, accountable, self-composed, consciously well-measured” lady. –We weren’t depressed; we didn’t…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsDevelopment of Individual Style For the last few decades, there has been an apparent separation between what is called the practice of event-centered astrology and what is called the practice of humanistic astrology. [The latter area was inspired (and named) by Dane Rudhyar and led quickly into what is now called Psychological…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsWhat supports Resilience? Readers are referred to the “Consultation Insights” essay of June 30, 2004. It was very popular: “Faithing to support Resilience,” a commentary on some points presented by psychologist Gina O’Connell Higgins in her book, Resilient Adults –Overcoming a Cruel Past.What follows is an extension of that initial overview. Given…
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