ZIP DOBYNS (Astrology) - Film Score Rundowns

OK. Now, this point on defenses is important because this is a place where
astrology can be ahead of psychology by spotting potential defenses in the chart. What I
do every time I do a natal chart is list these three defenses and define them in the
beginning of the session. I talk about how people might repress, might project, and might
displace a part of their nature. So the clients at least get a concept that this could happen.
(6) EMOTIONAL RELEASE
This is something psychotherapy is big on, and astrology frequently neglects
completely. Many times all people need is catharsis. They need somebody they can cry
with or talk to, to get it out, to express how they feel. And the counselor listens and is
sympathetic and empathic. Those clients don't need anyone to tell them what to do. They
just need someone who will listen to them with some sympathy.
(7) INSIGHT.
This is the heart of any kind of psychological approach, including psychological
astrology. Our goal is to help clients to really understand and life, to have insight into the
dynamics of what's going on, so that they understand the causes behind their problems.
They can understand why things are happening the way they are.
And, of course, what we consider as "cause" totally depends on our philosophical
view of reality. If you are a materialistic astrologer, then you will think Saturn is doing it,
or Mars is doing it! You get a very different picture of a client's life situation. And of
course the same thing does happen in different schools of psychotherapy: You get
different assumptions about the nature of life, human beings, the mind.
I had one amusing experience where I was in internship for a year after my degree
in the child guidance clinic. My supervisor was a very nice child psychologist. I was
doing all these tests on little kids, play therapy, and writing up analyses of their character.
A few times in the course of the year he would say a bit plaintively, "Hmmmm, I
really feel you didn't deal with the dynamics of the case." Well, I thought I had dealt
with the dynamics of the case, describing what I saw as the kid's basic problem areas or
challenges. And it wasn't until after I finished that whole year that it finally dawned on
me: dynamics. That is, Freudian psychologists appropriate that word to mean sexual
causes. Everything has to be caused by sexual problems because, according to Freudians,
all reality goes back to sex. And it dawned on me--that's what was going on! That guy
was a Freudian and I never even knew it! He wanted me to deal with it in sexual terms,
and I didn't think it was a sexual issue. So I hadn't brought in sex, so therefore I
wasn't dealing with the 'dynamics"!
So we project our own nature and beliefs on the world, and see the world in our
image.
(8) RELEASE OF GUILT AND SHAME
Now this is something that sometimes materialistic astrologers are helpful in a
way that is not totally legitimate. That is, this is one area where believing that the planets
are doing it does take the guilt off people. And even though I do not really approve of
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