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#5. Organizing your Measurements for Consultation
--Preparing your Mind
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by Noel Tyl
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Unfortunately in the world of astrology, change moves slowly. Teachers for the most part perpetuate the past by passing on what they were taught but doing so most of the time without innovation, without assimilation of new technical and interpretive discoveries. An old astrology is applied to an ever-modernizing human condition; the basic “traditional” astrology tends to remain descriptive and minimally productive.
Three observations can make this situation all too clear.
Jargon
Take the jargon out of consultations and just look at the time and space you have to discuss something significant and important for one’s life! --I suggest that jargon is used by astrologers during their consultations to make the astrological process appear technical and therefore special, to suggest their own skill with the esoteric, and –mainly— to fill the time and space of the consultation because they don’t necessarily have anything else significant to say. Static description and one-sided performance by the astrologer all too easily take the place of dynamic interpretation and discussion with the client; inflexible measurements all too easily displace creative intelligence and the resourceful meeting of the minds between astrologer and client.
The fact is that jargon is inscrutable to the layman; it means nothing; it achieves nothing. –If a doctor tells you that you have sphenoidal air sinus and maxillary sinus discharges irritating your pharynx and epiglottis, you very likely have little idea of what that means. If the doctor says, “You’ve got a nasal drip,” you’re informed and you have an idea of what to do about it and when.
Creative Connections
Life is a dynamic process of cause and effect, of behavioral modeling by the parents and the constant learning of ways to fulfill needs. --To avoid static this-means-that and that-means-this descriptions in our consultations, please see the Meta Arts essay in this series for January 2006: how to use a sub-text during horoscope preparation to interrelate measurement structures within the client’s system of needs and experiences. Thinking through the “whys” of measurements in this way reveals how one set of behaviors spawns or is linked to another set of behaviors to fulfill needs; how developmental tension among behaviors brings in defenses and over compensatory considerations. The “stuff” of individuality emerges richly, with causes and effects grounded in reality experience. These developmental observations from the past then support projections into the future.
Leaving Fatalisms Behind
Planets don’t make things happen; people do. --Astrology all-too-easily still retains the sense of pronouncement from on high: the astrology wizard declaring what will be, with there being no choice about it. This establishes an anxiety climate in consultations that is counter to celebrating insight, personal potentials, and fulfillment. I suggest most emphatically that planets do not do anything, people do. Modern astrology guides us to understand the processes.
In this modern time, with the Age of Psychology now over a century old and hugely enriched with more human study than was accomplished in all centuries before, we must recognize that we live to fulfill needs, that behaviors develop and are reinforced through parental guidance and education to help us realize our potentials, and that our astrology must capture that individualized portrait. Planets define needs pressing for fulfillment and, as well, the behavior patterns used to bring those needs into the environment for recognition, reward, or adjustment. –Fate has nothing to do with it.
The individual must be brought to life in our astrology by relating the horoscope to the reality being lived by our client.
Preparing your mind
By eliminating jargon in consultations, the modern artist analyst in astrology is free to use intelligence and language to make creative connections within an individual’s developmental history to fulfill needs. Blocks and detours can be spotted and discussed; common origins for under-achievement periods in life can be found; strategies of efficiency can be devised toward fulfillment in times to come. In short, the consultation follows the horoscope into the individual’s reality and creates progress.
The magic measurements in any consultation are in the astrologer’s mind, seasoned by reading and study in the psychological literature, appreciating the link between astrological measurement guidelines and the signification of individualized needs and the behaviors to fulfill them.
This link is completed in part by simply adding the word “need” to your sub-text organization with every measurement. For example, the Moon in Sagittarius: the need to have one’s opinions respected (what about educational credentialization for credibility?) with this simple word, you immediately begin to anticipate behavior.
The Moon in Aries: the need to be numero uno (What might be blocking that process toward fulfillment?). Mercury in Capricorn: the need to express keen perception, to hear the grass grow! (Is the person in a position to think and communicate that way?) Pluto square Venus: why is there the need to overstate emotions, to the point of wasting them? Saturn-rx quindecile the Midheaven: what are the needs never fulfilled in the paternal relationship? … The ruler of the 11th under high developmental tension: what would be needed to remove the deep sense of not being loveable?
The astrology we produce and serve to our clients reflects the quality of what we think, learn, and know. That astrology is in our minds, listening to a modern world.
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Noel Tyl (no-ell till) is one of the foremost astrologers in the world. His twenty-nine textbooks have led the teaching of astrologers for two generations.
Tyl has written the professional manual for the field, the 1,000-page text "Synthesis & Counseling in Astrology" that has securely placed astrology in pace with the most sophisticated disciplines of humanistic studies extant today.
Mr. Tyl is a graduate of Harvard University with his degree in Social Relations (Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology), lectures throughout the Western world, serves his clients from his office in Phoenix AZ, maintains perhaps the most sophisticated astrological teaching website on the web, noeltyl.com, and leads his highly esteemed Master's Degree Certification Correspondence Course throughout 16 countries.
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