Creative Connections & Client CommunicationsKey Catalytic Phrases During a consultation, we are not describing a status quo; how things are. We are working to understand development and spur it on. The consultation is a catalyst for growth. Let’s remind ourselves of some of the key phrases that we can use in the consultation, that ‘make things happen’…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The Difficulty with talking about Death Oh my! What a difficult topic death is. It is the deepest question a person can have about herself/himself; it is the question clients want to ask about and it’s the question astrologers don’t want to hear; it’s the most elusive and tension-packed point…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Repetitive Crisis and Probable Patterning Astrologers realize none too soon that the study of a person’s life development can reveal much more often than not knots of life crisis around repetitive astrological measurement patterns. For example, there will be an outer planet contact involved with the 7th House cusp, its ruler, or…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications A Psychotherapist’s Way with AstrologyBy guest astrologer Teri Freeman Teri Freeman is a psychotherapist in private practice in Arlington Massachusetts, working with individuals, couples and groups, for the past 25 years. Since childhood, her passion for understanding the human experience has included exploration in the mystical, esoteric, transpersonal and astrological…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Allowing Inspiration When a fine “piano player” sits down at the piano and begins to improvise, things can happen, sometimes beautiful things; where do they come from? When a writer faces the keyboard, something happens; where do the words, the ideas come from; how do they come forward? When an…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsLeading Developmental Questions Certainly one of the key instructional essays in this eight-year collection (!) –86 essays to date in this “Counseling Insights” department alone (and also in each of the others)– is the very first one posted at the inception of this website. Please look into the Archives following this…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Keeping Track of your Images In a consultation, we must always be aware of what the client can easily remember. We have to help that process. –It’s one thing to understand and corroborate in conversation, and quite another to remember something abbreviated that reminds, recalls, and reviews the riches of…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications (Excerpt from page 219, Noel Tyl’s Guide to Astrological Consultation)Practicality and Reality must lead Measurements There are two keys that lead projections best, that qualify the thrust of prediction most strongly: the reasonability, of what is projected and the involvement of the individual in making it happen. For a school-teacher client, for example, you see…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications An Excerpt from Noel Tyl’s Guide to Astrological Consultation, Greater Expectations From the outset, the time of making the appointment, the client will be accumulating impressions of the astrologer that should accumulatively reflect a strong professionalism. Personal presentation upon first meeting will augment this image. And within the first few sentences…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Elegance comes from Knowing So often in lectures and in print, I suggest that no one can be a consulting analytical astrologer if one is not able to speak well. Clarity of speech and speech with a flow to it that propels the development of meaning are essential. Otherwise, communication dies the…
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