Management of Measurement Constructs How’re you doing, in Astrology?” I received a telephone call this morning from a participant on the Forum. I don’t know the person; she was diligently inquiring about the quality of her work on successive submissions in vocational profiling exercises. It was a pleasure to tell her how much her work…
View detailsManagement of Measurement ConstructsWhat can be; not what is! Astrology is still trying to develop out from under the fatalism blanket put upon it for oh-so long. –“Tell me what is going to happen.” THAT’s all too often the expectation, the burden put upon Astrology. And then, attempts to work this out bog down very, very quickly into…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Hearing the Melody Recall the Irving Berlin song, “The Song is Ended, but the melody lingers on.” Or from The Song is You, Oscar Hammerstein’s words, “I hear music when I look at you.” Or Lorenz Hart’s words for Richard Rodgers’ music, “With a song in my heart.” What eloquent statements of…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Astrology’s Adaptations Our awareness of astrology emerges in clear –and threatening—fashion from the Middle Ages, even though it was given some shine by the polish of the Renaissance. Unavoidably, we learn the imposition of Fate; we alchemically search for knowledge with which to placate the gods to avoid their decrees. In…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Doubt giving way to Vision We must know that the two considerations doubt and vision are symbolized by Neptune. These considerations are not necessarily opposites; rather, they are states of mind orientated to different directions, past and future. Respectively, they retreat from the Now; they go past the Now. When we doubt, there is usually…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Guidelines for Consultation Structure Every symphony, sonata, novel, short story, joke must have form: there must be a beginning, a middle, and an end. The form, the structure of communication, gives it stature, adds to meaning, and helps it to endure in memory. The simplest example is the distress signal SOS: the letters mean nothing;…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs It’s just a matter of time We hear it often: “It’s just a matter of time!” –We hear its cousin equally as often, “Everything in its own time.” I was commiserating with a man before his eye operation, and he sighed with resignation: “My daddy taught me, if you’re supposed to…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Notebook Pluto as an Adverb “Babe Ruth hit a homerun.” “Babe Ruth, with a tremendous effort from his hugely muscled shoulders, hit the ball up and away, enormously far into the sky, dramatically out of the park!” The difference between these two statements is that the second one has adverbs in…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Century Retrospective One hundred years ago -1903- the average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven! Only 24 percent of the homes in the country had a bathtub and only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone! There were only 144 miles of paved roads in the United States,…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Things to Teach Yourself So many astrologers -hobbyists, serious students, emergent practitioners, young professionals-need to discover how all that they know works together. Astrology is not a never-ending memorization challenge of bromides, rules, and technicalities. Rather -as a song is so much more than a series of notes-astrology integrates cosmic measurements with life…
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