ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

gullible, sensitive, and not really sure of themselves (which they usually are if they are
seeing a counselor) then they accept the astrologer's statements as fact!
I have had people come to me and say some astrologer told them they had no
feeling because there were no water signs in their chart! Yet they may have had Moon on
the Ascendant, Neptune there--you know, a water planet in high focus in the chart.
Enormously sensitive with the angular water planet, or loaded water houses. But because
they did not have water signs, some astrologer told them they had no feeling. So
they go around and say, "Gee, I thought I felt a lot. Oh, dear. Maybe I'm really a shallow,
uncaring person!" So we better not assume that we have all the answers. We better be
able to listen.
When you are a beginner, it is often much better to let the client talk first, and to
ask them questions. Now I do it the other way partly because of my own inherent
skepticism. I am still testing astrology all the way. I'm still testing what I can find out.
But then afterwards I do want feedback, whether what I said was accurate or whether
they see it as inaccurate, missing the mark.
So clients do come for help, and they want to be understood. And it is really
important that we try to understand them and not assert that they are this way or that way.
It is even worse, of course, to say this will happen to you or that will happen to you-which
is what many people think they want. That's the worst thing you can give them: To
try to specify the details of what's going to happen to them. This leaves them
totally vulnerable and feeling unable to do anything with their lives. You have to resist
giving out predictions, and say, "I'm sorry. I don't do that kind of astrology. You need a
psychic if you think you want predictions." I never say this specific thing will happen. I
say that there is a range of possibilities, and it depends on what you do with it. You can
pick out times of turning points, opportunities, challenges which may be helpful to know.
But the main thing you need to communicate is the principle that is involved so that they
can choose the positive alternatives of that principle.
I remember one example of a well known astrologer who told a woman with a
Venus/Uranus square that she was cheating on her husband. And we would not accept
her statement that this was simply not true! People have come to me and said, "You
know, this astrologer told me that I was going to get divorced when Uranus went into my
7th house." Astrologers just really do incredible trips on people. So this assumption that
we have final answers from this fragmented, little knowledge we have of astrology is just
very risky. Yet it is still done. An old statement applies: "A little knowledge is a
dangerous thing."
(2) THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRUST
Usually the person who comes in for help is the person who is shaky in his or her
trust. Such people lost their confidence in what they're doing or in their handling of their
own life. And often they look to someone else to give them some new faith, some new
trust, some new confidence. And unless they can trust the counselor to be really
for them and to be really helpful, this is going to undermine their trust.
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