Creative Connections & Client Communications The Fear of Abandonment So often, the pattern is revealed in consultation -just as it came forth again in one of my four clients this morning-that one is adopted when the unwed mother dies, that the grandmother who adopted her then herself dies some six years later, and then the…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications How Far Do Planets Go? Yesterday, one of my clients was a woman running and now owning her family business, an art-design company. Her Midheaven of 00 Pisces was clearly corroborated through aspects with Neptune and the reality focus of her professional life. The consultation went as smoothly as I…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications More Creative Connections Updated December 30, as promised Revealing Statements When a client tells you that, in childhood, the family moved every year or so! (probably because the father was in the military), what does this suggest to you about developmental considerations, difficulties? Where do you look in the horoscope for…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsThe 12th House Here are just a few insights drawn verbatim, but shortened, from The Creative Astrologer, pages 189-190, about the 12thHouse, the House that is so difficult for us in astrology: The 12th House has the sense of getting prepared, perhaps of making corrections, especially when observing the buildup of a major…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The 12th House Here are just a few insights drawn verbatim, but shortened, from The Creative Astrologer, pages 190-191, continuing from last month’s presentation, about the 12thHouse, the House that is so difficult for us in astrology: Creative Connections: The 12th House (part 2) With Neptune arcing down to the Ascendant from within…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsEstablishing Objectives to Guide the Consultation So few astrologers actually think through what they want to accomplish -what astrology should accomplish- during a consultation. Naturally, this affects the consultation itself: it can wander, it can lack authority, “handles” on which the client can get a grip. The consultation is up for…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Establishing Objectives to Guide the Consultation So few astrologers actually think through what they want to accomplish -what astrology should accomplish- during a consultation. Naturally, this affects the consultation itself: it can wander, it can lack authority, “handles” on which the client can get a grip. The consultation is up…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Circumstantial Confinement Every astrologer encounters horoscopes that hardly seem to breathe, hardly see to respond. There are reasons for this:many people are circumstantially confined societally, vocationally, religiously. Circumstances in life can dilute, divert, re-direct, or even erase astrological measurements. I remember doing horoscopes years ago in Germany for many clients…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsHarrummmpf! You’ve hit a nerve! In a face-to-face consultation, every busy astrologer learns to spot the client’s telltale shifts of position in his/her chair when an especially telling point is reached in conversation. We see and understand this tension-repositioning –the wiggling foot, the strong swallowing, the averted gaze- on TV, for…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Too Much of a Good Thing Long ago, when I was teaching myself astrology, I had a conversation with New York astrologer Zoltan Mason in his bookstore. I had read about 9,000 astrology books(!) in the preceding 6 months, and I was already assembling a private notebook of my earliest…
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