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<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\nDuring 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
One thing I can say confidently to them and to you is that 2010 will be one of the most memorable years of our lives. It’s full of a vast diversity of experiences, developments, changes, processes — an incredible adventure that leads to some great breakthroughs — in the words of Blake, surely some revelation is at hand.<\/p>\n
People have problems when they fight change kicking and screaming. Our lives go better when we dance with progress, with curiosity and the willingness to explore something new, someplace new, someone new. There is plenty new at hand; there will be many opportunities, and necessities, that guide us to try new options, and recreate our lives in ways we have always wanted to and ways that never occurred to us would be offered.<\/p>\n
Thursday is my day to write Friday’s edition of Planet Waves, which will be dedicated to the Aries Full Moon over the weekend. That lunation is about relationships: finding ourselves as individuals in relationships instead of being “half a couple” as we so often do. I will probably not do much in the way of blogging; I’m gathering my energy and momentum for this article. Tonight I’m priming my brain with a friend named Stevie Jay. Here is a snip from our conversation. He just wrote to me:<\/p>\n
Men love men and women love women, and that’s a reality of being human. And to take that simple reality and turn it into a “thing” via giving it a label adds all kinds of weight and significance and existential\/social\/interpersonal CONFLICT that are nothing more than mental constructs and have nothing to do with the reality of simply loving someone or simply being attracted to someone. Some of the best spiritual teachings deliver this very message: “Don’t label things; don’t draw lines. Render oneself vulnerable, like a child, and come into DIRECT contact with everything, with each other, with yourself, with whatever is before you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
“As soon as you’ve named it, you are no longer in DIRECT CONTACT with the thing, (whatever the thing is) — you’ve distorted it. Be nothing. Just be present with what IS.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
These are the basics of Zen Buddhism and these are also supposedly the central teachings of Jesus — to strip oneself of all dogma and stand naked before God. And folks just WON’T do it. This stuff sounds great on paper or in a Sunday church sermon, but it’s ultimately just another theory. Folks don’t really GET IT — that this shit is MADE UP. (They also didn’t want to hear it from Alfred Kinsey. Same message. Not interested.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
This “direct experience” approach is also taught by art teachers, (drawing, painting, etc.) Drawing 101: You look at a chair. In order to accurately draw the chair, you have to forget the word “chair.” You have to completely be present with the shapes and textures in your midst…and draw THAT. And the second you bring in the word “chair,” you’re no longer SEEING what is right there before you.<\/span><\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}