Management of Measurement Constructs. Special Information and Sources The Power of Suggestion The verb “suggest” is extremely powerful in our work. When we say “the horoscope suggests”, we keep our client free; we are not backing our client into a corner with rigidly conceived descriptions; we are keeping our client out of the “Yes-No” mindset, and…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Has the Future already Happened? Yesterday, planning a horoscope discussion, I projected the highest feasibility for a lady’s retirement; I saw it coming: second Saturn-return, very strong measurements involving the Midheaven, and Pluto=Ascendant. Approaching this with the client, I said, “The suggestion here in the horoscope is for retirement, for major change of…
View detailsManagement of Measurement ConstructsAdvanced Notes: MHEPRefining Symbolisms In the Midheaven Extension Process, we work to focus the individual’s needs and behaviors suggested in the horoscope into a House-denoted sphere of activity. A decidedly stated (and usually conspicuously reiterated) focus on a House through rulership routings suggests where the client will bloom best, where the client…
View detailsWhere does time Go? Einstein is quoted, “I don’t worry about the future. The future comes soon enough.” The sense of this is that “worrying” about the future hastens its arrival, so to speak; it brings to us anticipated effects from time ahead, usually drastic effects. –Is this harmful to developing reality? Does it complicate…
View detailsHearing 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 being . being in music. There’s a…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs [Repeated from Notebook, June 30, 2004. See the Archives immediately following the present essay below; in all three departments, see over ¼ million words of teaching!]Finding the Statue Within There is a famous quote attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti: “The statue is already inside the block of marble -all that is necessary…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs The Importance of Process When someone helps you professionally to clean house, you tell them how you would like them to do it. You point out this and that and you share certain techniques that will do the job well. It’s your process and you know best; you’ve been using that cleaning process…
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