Creative Connections & Client Communications Creating Therapeutic Images Think of the aphorisms (concise statements of principle, from the Greek and French for “definition”) that creep into conversations all the time. They tell a truth concisely and memorably: ideas like “No one can make you feel inferior without your cooperation”; “Into every life some rain must…
View detailsPracticality, Reality Lead Measurements It happened again yesterday: from the chart for the consultation time through to the Arcs and Transits in her natal horoscope, everything for this 64-year old, asthmatic, slow afoot but sparkling of mind lady screamed a big new project, a new business Ö not the everyday occurrence in life at that age.…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsPatience and Disclosure When someone asks you an astute question, especially if it has a personal probe within it, you’re especially alert, even uncomfortable. -This is why our social ways and language teach us to say something like, “May I ask you a personal question?” We set up a warning of…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Therapeutic Images Everything we know in astrology eventually comes down to communication in the consultation. Without communication skill, our knowledge goes nowhere except into the static state of objective description. We must bring our knowledge into the client’s reality, illuminatingly, constructively, strategically, helpfully. If we pay attention to our speech -using proper…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Getting Close to the Client Relationship dynamics are at work in the astrological consultation: the client and astrologer must create a close bond quickly. This is accomplished through compliments (acceptance), disclosure, and the brevity of the relationship with the astrologer (compression of socialization dynamics). Let’s look at relationships in general first: The…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Subtext Use as Therapy Concurrently this month with this essay, under the department “Notebook”, there is the discussion about improving image through utilization of subtexts, using stimuli spoken to the mind to affect our behavior and presence. The same affect can be achieved for the clientthrough dramatization of a specific subtext.…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The Fear of Counseling It is natural for astrology students to be afraid of “counseling.” They sense a lack of preparedness and confidence within themselves. –Let’s talk about this a bit. First of all, the word “counseling” came into being as we know it within the attendant psychological relationship between…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Avoiding Extremes for Common Sense In the “Notebook” essay posted this month, I refer to “Joan” with her update call about job dissatisfaction. Under the powerful Solar Arc measurement MC=Saturn, she exhibited great unrest, wanted to leave her marvelous job, relocate a considerable distance, and start afresh. Her horoscope did…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsThe Last Five Minutes I remember vividly playing the first consultation tape for one of Master’s Degree Seminar meetings and being startled that applause, cheering, erupted during the last few sentences of the presentation! I quickly realized that this enthusiasm wasn’t simply appreciative applause for the consultation process, rather, it was…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications More Discussion: Therapeutic Metaphors I’d like to add onto the important theme -see earlier posting under “Notebook, Archives: August 2001”-of therapeutic metaphors. In Hamburg, Germany just recently, I saw 22 clients in four days and I realized again how often such metaphors were used in the consultation. And then again…
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