Management of Measurement Constructs ZZzzzp. There it is! Now what??? A dramatic astrological measurement guideline can be like a surgeon’s scalpel, opening the body to expose a problem. –ZZzzzp, “Well, there it is!” The problem focus is exposed, and now what do you do? So many astrologers cannot get past the measurement phase of our…
View detailsManagement of Measurement ConstructsMelody and Message Try humming or singing the first song-tune that comes to mind … just the beginning of it. Try it. The odds are high that you’ve instinctively picked a song that is really easy to remember, that just spills out of your mind. There is something about that song that…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Show Your Grammar Grade Listen to anyone in the English language speak three sentences, and ask yourself what you know about them! So telling is the word choice, the diction, and above all –please know this—the grammar. Our schools are dreadfully remiss in not teaching proper sentence structure and composition. The…
View detailsManagement of Measurement ConstructsThe Anxiety of Separation, Disapproval, and Threat We focus everything upon the light of the Sun; our contact with the Sun is our involvement with life. Separation from that light triggers anxiety: when the “light goes out” for one reason or another, we feel that we’ve lost the energy path of our life; we’re…
View detailsManagement of Measurement ConstructsGet Moving; Take Action I can remember so vividly, my mother telling me, “Idleness is the devil’s workshop.” –Of course, I didn’t have the faintest idea what that meant! So I would move around and do something. That seemed to assuage mother’s stern admonition. And notice how our language, in general parlance,…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs The Measure of Confidence Three points can be very helpful in guiding us to do our best work most efficiently. Measurements Repeat Themselves Students in my Master’s Certification Course learn in the First Lesson that, as in real life, the first impression of the horoscope prevails thoroughly and protractedly in our assessment of an…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs How’re you doing, in Astrology?”A Suggestion for the New Year 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…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Learn to count Projections in a Flash If we stop and think of all the things we ask our mind to do in astrology, we can streamline processes, speed things up, and feel great about it! Projecting Solar Arcs Let’s use Marilyn Monroe’s horoscope, June 01, 1926 at 9:30 AM PST in…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Articulating Element Imbalance The Noel Tyl essay here extends from the fine “Analytical Techniques” guest essay by England’s Richard Swatton –“Elements Emphasized and De-emphasized” published five years ago. For that essay, please see the Archives in the “Analytical Techniques” department, and click on April 30, 2001. In talking shop, astrologers often…
View detailsManagement of Measurement Constructs Our Frame of Mind How often do we forget we’re human? How does frustration in our life –a momentary struggle with a project … or a chronic state of being—change how we relate to others, how we do our astrological work? How does personal bias arise –criticality, displacement, projection– to assert…
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