When I’m not traveling, I’m scheduled for astrology sessions most Tuesdays and Wednesdays. It’s not easy to do this work in the midst of writing what I do, the way I do, but it’s always worth the time and effort. I get a good fee for my work ($325 a session, which goes into the kitty at Planet Waves), and it would not be worth it for the money. This may sound odd, to be worth that much for 75 minutes of work, but the reason I can do it is because I learn so much. That’s what makes it worth every minute.
During my sessions these two days, the charts unfolded like another dimension opening up. In my working method, I do a LOT of listening: I’ll keep the client talking for the first hour if I have to, and work with the chart, listening on several different levels, barely mentioning the astrology, and then suddenly the chart, the client, the moment and my awareness align. This happens dependably; I have to be patient and have the experience. And each client, each chart, is like the experience of another world; another reality, spoken in that client’s unique language.
I’m getting ready to stop doing sessions, in preparation for Cosmic Confidential, the 2010 annual edition of Planet Waves. As I go through this last dozen or so clients, I’m listening to their experiences, seeing how they align with their natal, transits and progressions, and filling pages with notes that are providing the foundation for the annual edition. As almost always happens in an astrology practice, the clients who arrive give me exactly the information that I need, to give them the information that they need, and to develop it into the public writing that I do. My clients have quite literally taught me astrology. I gave up on astrology books years ago. I learn from the process of listening, interpreting and writing; I teach by the process of listening, interpreting and writing.
The patterns and synchronicities can be very interesting. Today I worked with two clients who had suppressed their psychic abilities, and for whom those abilities (and much else) were beginning to re-emerge. Most of my clients this week were born very close to eclipses. Both clients today had Uranus in the ascendant. All had interesting Aries Point activity. All were on fire with the determination to grow and become — my favorite kind of client.