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An Astrological Guide to Self-Awareness: 2005 Edition
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Avoiding Astrologese—
How DO You Say It in English?
©2006 by Donna Cunningham.
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The following is an excerpt from Donna Cunningham’s new e-book, Counseling Principles for Astrologers: Becoming an Effective Change Agent, issued October, 2006 by Moon Maven Publications (http://www.MoonMavenPublications.com). It is reprinted here with their permission.
Many astrology students and new professionals don't know how to translate this symbolic language they've come to speak so fluently. How do you change astrologese into real people's language? Yo practice, practice! If you're just starting, it's helpful to practice English translations on your beleaguered family and friends. Choose the irreverent ones who will interrupt strings of astrologese with comments like, "That's easy for you to say," or, "whatever that may mean."
Some students have said that they need to give the astrological factors out loud first, in order to begin to understand what is going on. It's a little like learning a foreign language and needing to translate word for word inwardly before venturing a phrase or a sentence. It's fine while you get more fluent in plain English. However, follow it with, "and what that means is . . . "
In those early days, take care of that stage in the chart preparation. Don't do it in front of the client, do it before the client arrives. Working on the translation is part of your preparation for the session. Jot down the striking features of the chart, followed by simple notes about what they might mean. For instance, suppose the client was concerned about a lack of relationships, and the birth chart had Venus square Saturn. You might write down, "Venus square Saturn: obstacles to committed relationships? Ask client."
If you are puzzled about the method of changing a phrase like Venus square Saturn into English, that may be because there's no direct, word-for-word English equivalent. The interpretation of an aspect doesn't come from translating it into English, only from translating it into behaviors, emotions, and history. As you begin to understand the kinds of feelings and actions this combination produces, you can discover and convey its significance. In other words, translate it into living experience that has meaning for the client.
The English translation by the traditional, event-oriented astrologer may focus only on the external effects. For instance, Venus square Saturn sometimes plays out as an experience of repeatedly being loved and left. The client may eagerly agree with that explanation--"Yes, yes, they always DO leave me! So, Saturn's causing that, is it?"
We don't want to translate only in terms of external events, leaving clients with the conviction that Saturn is responsible for their trouble. This approach ignores the inner states that create the pattern--the client's history and the kinds of true meaning in a way that will help the client understand and change the pattern, look for internal causes and articulate them.
It is useful to ask yourself questions about the client's history, behavior, and choices as you prepare the chart and delineate the salient aspects. Of course, you never know the answers for sure until you ask the client, but you can at least begin to speculate. The questions vary with the aspect, but for Venus square Saturn, here are some that may be productive:
What repeated painful experiences in love might a Venus square
Saturn person have?
What kinds of relationship choices does the person make that end up this
way?
What personal history could have shaped these choices?
What kinds of behaviors does he or she engage in that may
result in being loved and left?
What feelings could shape these behaviors?
While each aspect in the chart plays itself out in multipleways, one possible scenario for Venus square Saturn is that when a relationship gets close to commitment, one or both parties may become ambivalent or frightened and ultimately break it off. This may come about because the person chooses potential partners who are afraid of commitment and who throw up walls against intimacy.Such choices often historically stem from the relationship with the parent of the opposite sex, who might have been alternately there and not there. For example, one moment the daughter might have been Daddy's little girl, but the next moment Daddy might have been withdrawn and silent—or drunk, since Venus-Saturn aspects are often seen in the charts of daughters of alcoholics. One or both parents may have also set up difficult conditions for the child to meet in order to earn love. In adult life, the person who is drawn to potential partners who behave similarly to that parent when it comes to love and who are alternately there and not there.
Why does getting close to commitment bring on a crisis of ambivalence in the relationship? For one thing, underneath it all, the person is just as fearful of commitment as the potential partner, or such ambivalent people wouldn’t be chosen to begin with. Secondly, when a formal commitment looms, the Venus-Saturn type may suddenly change the rules in the relationship to a more formalized, traditional, and even rigid set of expectations and behaviors. As this was not what the partner signed on for, he or she may feel trapped and leave.
In addition, the possibility of commitment brings on a fear of loss or abandonment as well as evoking painful past losses. Thus, the person might suddenly be fearful, clinging, and even depressed. The chosen partner is often the emotionally unavailable type who does not respond well to demands like these and may well become more distant and closed.
These are some possible answers to the questions posed above. In the preparation, you can speculate on possible causes and effects of a problem, but you cannot know for sure without feedback from the client. You need context and history in order to find the individualized meaning of the aspect. If you see a hundred people with a Venus/Saturn square, they will have a hundred different but related Venus-Saturn stories. You aren’t going to be able to pinpoint clients' particular experiences from chart analysis, only from asking them directly. You can give the overview, but only they can supply the context. ("I see that you have Venus square Saturn. Many people with that aspect have had a tough time in love. They seem to choose people who restrict them in some way or who feel restricted by them. Has that happened in your life, and how?")
For simplicity's sake, we have focused on just one part of °the translation of Venus square Saturn. In a real chart analysis, you would need to take apart the complete aspect. What house and sign are Venus in, and how does that further clarify the behavior, feelings, and history behind the person's patterns in love? What house and sign are Saturn in, and how does that modify the picture? Venus in Aries square Saturn in Cancer behaves differently and for different reasons than Venus in Scorpio square Saturn in Aquarius. Venus in the 12th square Saturn in the 3rd has a different history and set of concerns than Venus in the 8th square Saturn in the 11th. The total picture is more complex when you include these features. You get more precise information by analyzing the signs and houses involved and, ultimately, by°© questioning the client.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donna Cunningham, an internationally respected astrologer with over 35 years' experience, is the author of 17 books on metaphysical topics, including six e-books. Listed in several Who’s Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC. She also has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Columbia University. This and six more of Donna’s ebooks are available at http://www.moonmavenpublications.com
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Donna Cunningham is an internationally respected astrologer and the author of 13 books on metaphysical topics.
Donna Cunningham has a dual background in astrology and psychotherapy, with a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University and over 30 years experience as a professional astrologer. She considers doing the astrology charts of children to be a sacred trust. It is a way of knowing who these Indigo children are on their own terms rather than as their families, teachers, and society expect them to be.
In these sessions, she focuses on typical childhood concerns such as family and peer relationships, the best educational approaches, and the child's special gifts and abilities. She can be reached for consultations at (503)291-7891, by email, or at her web page. Ask about her special rate for children's charts.
Donna is also co-editor of Vibration and a frequent contributor. She has written fourteen books on astrology and other metaphysical topics, including her Flower Remedies Handbook. Astrologers who want to know the special considerations involved in doing children's charts can read the chapter on this topic in Donna's text, The Consulting Astrologer's Guidebook.
Listed in several Who’s Who volumes, she has given seminars on astrology around the world and won the prestigious Regulus Award at the 1998 UAC.
email:
moonmaven @spiritone.com
Phone:
(503)291-7891.
Donna teaches astrology classes online at:
Academy of
Astro-Psychology:
www.astropsychology.
org/index.asp?pgid=1
For the past 20 years, she has worked with the flower remedies, and she is co-editor of Vibration Magazine, a free online educational quarterly at:
essences.com/
vibration/
Donna has 17 books available, including 7 ebooks with more to come! See them at:
www.moonmaven
publications.com
This series is reprinted with gracious permission from Donna Cunningham.
©2002 Vibration Magazine/The World Wide Essence Society
PO Box 285
Concord, MA 01742
978 369-8454
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publications.com
If you are interested in ordering a copy of Donna's ebook:
"Flower Remedies--How Plant's Energies Can Heal Us,"
It is $15, available at Moon Maven Publications:
www.moonmaven
publications.com
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