Creative Connections & Client Communications Time, Tension, and Change The astrologer must have a holistic awareness ever in mind. He or she must have the poise to know and acknowledge with the client that, if little has happened in life, little can be expected to occur. a visit to an astrologer does not change a life pattern except…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Love Received and Given Everybody wants to be loved by everybody. Receiving love is reward for being who we are; it is support to grow; it encourages the future and keeps each one of us alive. [When someone doesn’t understand this, doesn’t believe it, they have a problem.] –We know…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsThe Accumulation of Stress Back in the 1970s, researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine published a stress index, analyzing the relative impact of certain events upon human reaction, in terms of units of stress. –I’ve held on to that index, and have found it very informative, for the…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsFilling in the Gaps How few lines does Picasso need to draw to show us a reclining body? How do those few lines differentiate a fallen classical hero from a waiting classical courtesan? How can different colored shapes work together within the gestaltof a minimalist, geometric, hard-edged suggestion of a wizened…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsGetting to the Skeletons in the Closet! Saturn related to Pluto is perhaps astrology’s most demanding, draining, debilitating symbolic construct. I’ve long carried an image with me that I think captures Saturn-Pluto analytically: skeletons in one’s closet. I have seen many, many hundreds of times, perhaps thousands, that Saturn conjunct, square, opposed,…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsHelping the Client Establish Significances Quite a successful client of mine, in the international banking business, was working with me on strategy issues at one of the highest points of his career development. The gentleman had everything going for him in his senior years. In the conversation, he startled me by…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsThe Help of Time There’s an adaptability about human beings that is designed by Nature to help us cope, to help us heal. Intrinsic mechanisms are built into our mood systems to help us accommodate difficulty. These coping mechanisms see to work against any of our contrived efforts to enhance our…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Sub-texts to guide your Consultation In our preparation of any horoscope for consultation, we certainly should have three or four “chunks” of surmise, routings that hold together, are well organized, and these chunks themselves should work together holistically throughout the consultation. Draw Marilyn Monroe’s horoscope: June 01, 1926 at 9:30…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsWhy Astrology is “our” Efficient Therapy! Therapist Donald L. Peters, a retired school counselor with 35 years experience, developed a list of considerations to guide discussion about life activities and their link with personal fulfillment. He labels his approach a fun-formula [See Favorite Counseling and Therapy Techniques, Howard G. Rosenthal, Editor]. It’s…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Being Alert to Creative Connections Remember the old joke?: Two psychoanalysts are walking past each other: one says, “Good morning!” The other says, “Wonder what he meant by that?” The focus here is the significance, the meaning, of something that was said; how deep does it go; how significant is…
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