Creative Connections & Client Communications Vocational Insights for School Counselors The case can be made that vocational profiling is the single most important service astrology can offer a client. One’s vocation makes the individual’s world go ‘round; it establishes identity in so many, many ways. How many people do you know are in the so-called…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications The Rising Lens by Guest Astrologer Lauren Delsack Lauren Delsack is a Highest Honors graduate of Noel Tyl’s Master’s Degree Certification Course. She is a consulting astrologer and self-published author of How Emotional Conflicts Trigger Disease – An Astrological View. Her website offers free instructive videos, downloadable lectures and workshops in…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Managing Miracle Expectations All those great requests astrologers hear —When will I meet my true love?; When will my career take off?, When will my business be bought?—are ego-fulfillment thrusts that are not unreasonable, but they are so often presented for magical, unlikely fulfillment and are very difficult to handle.…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client CommunicationsFraming and Imagination “Framing” is establishing context. With good framing, we set up perspective and values for information. It makes what we say interesting. Recently, I was captive audience to a lady highly enthused about a movie she had seen the night before on television. She proceeded to tell me every detail…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Smokescreens The concept, the situational label, the accusation of DENIAL is harsh. It is very easy for us to call anything that disagrees with our perception about another person a statement of denial: “You’re in denial; You’re just not owning up to it!” There is reasonability in being antithetically assertive,…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Making a Difference It has been said that “making a difference” is the measure of life success; e.g., our presence with others, involvement with work that fulfills us, catalyzing change … all focusing upon making a difference in the world. This need not be historic in record or mega-proportioned in…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Words of Choice! When we listen carefully, we hear a lot. A recent client was inquiring about a grown grandchild, with quite a dramatically configured Saturn-Rx complex; I had to discuss this phenomenology within the boy’s father-relationship … but I was talking with the grandfather, not the young man himself.…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Common Sense to Center Stage Analysis of a client’s development over years past reveals a model, a routined, predictable model of activity that has been developed into the present and is now projected into the future. The clearly wrought Moon in Scorpio, for example –needing to control everything around him/her…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Pluto Antidotal–What can we do with Plutonic pressures?– (Please see the current “Analytical Techniques” essay about natal Pluto in the Houses: it will help with appreciation of this essay.) When Pluto was first discovered, entering our astrological Lexicon (1930), it was given an archetypal reference for power, for empowerment. With…
View detailsCreative Connections & Client Communications Incisive Communication Astrologers must learn to speak well, with effect, and make a communication impression upon their client. If we can’t talk, it’s as dysfunctional as not having anything to say! In the essay department “Counseling Insights”, in the Archives (immediately following the current essay), there are some 120 essays about…
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