Astrology and NLP Working in Practice - 4 Case Studies

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Ast rology and NLP : Working in P ract ice

Case Study One

A senior execut ive in t he MOD aged 49.

The pr esented issue/problem:

The client is this case study required assistance in dealing with a

fort hcomin g second operat ion for k idney st ones.

I alrea dy had a n a waren ess of the client’s hist ory, as h e ha d been one of

my students on a Practitioner training course in modern applied

psychology two year s prior to th is work being un dert aken . I knew t ha t h e

ha d lived a very healt hy life and t ha t only now, in h is late fort ies, ha d he

needed hospital tr eatm ent for th e first t ime.

Typical of people with S corp io risin g, he is a somewha t p rivat e individua l

an d he ha d chosen t o only te l l immediate r e la t ives an d t hose closes t t o

him of his initial st ay in h ospita l. Having discovered th is some t ime lat er

from a t h i rd par ty , I cont ac ted h im and lea rn ed tha t n ot on ly ha d thewhole experience been t ra um at ically painful for him, t her e was a lso, along

with th e emotiona l cult ur e shock of experiencing hospita l for th e first time

in his life, the a dditiona l an xiety of now ha ving to ret ur n for fur th er work.

I calibra ted1 distr ess in his voice, an d casu ally arr an ged to visit h is home,

which is close to my own village. When I ar rived it tr an spired t her e were

only t wo days un t i l his re tu rn to hospita l once more. The ten sion was

almost palpable as he slowly began to settle, relax and relay his

experience.

The hospital ha d made an err or with t heir previous work a nd now he had

been recalled for some rectificat ion. I listened a s th is u sua lly very privat e

ma n spoke in in t imat e de ta i l of th e pa in , tea r s an d sorr ow of find ing

himself in the situation. He recounted he discovered one night, while

visiting t he ba th room to pass wa ter th at , ‘It was coming out of my back for

God’s sak e, you just can’t im agine wha t t ha t’s like. I just sat th ere a nd

wept feeling complet ely bewildered’.

Ha ving developed a degree of sens ory a cuit y2 th rough my NLP tr aining I

could in fact ima gine what it was like, an d I imm ediat ely took st ock of th e

situation as I saw it:



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The first t hing th at occur red t o me was t ha t t he mem ory of th e first visit

would be sta te dependent 3, and in t his case th e cl ient’s s t a t e would be

acute anxiety and pain. Since studies have shown that relaxation

cont ribut es to an impr oved immu nit y system 4, vita l for efficient h ealin g

an d well being, then applying a technique, or series of techn iques th atinduce hypnosis and foster deepening relaxation would be the best

str at egy to adopt.

I recalled at t ha t m omen t, his Astr ological Birth Char t.

Th e astrological birth chart of case st udy one

I rem embered th at case stu dy one was a round fifty years of age and h ad

Uran us in Cance r in the 9th House in h is cha rt . I a lso recalled th at his

nat al Ura nu s was Squar e to his Satu rn -Neptun e Conjunction in t he 12th

House.

The posit ion of Ur an us inform ed me th at while it could be s ta ted t ha t

circum sta nces in h is l ife would frequently ta ke him abroad a nd h e will

find h imself to be a ‘perpet ua l stu dent ’ all th e way th rough h is fort ies and

fifties h e will also experience times of vulnera bility du rin g th is period, and



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encoun ter situa tions wher e he ha s to be dependent upon oth ers caring for

him.

One inter preta tion t o be offered regar ding the conn ection t o Satur n a nd

Ur an us could be th at he will experience alt ered sta tes of consciousn ess

easily dur ing th is t ime of li fe while a lso ma inta ining a healt hy grip on

practical reality. So, it could be deduced that here is a person whoresponds to hypnosis well an d a lso places a valu e on ‘au th ority’.



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Conclusion so far :

At th is s t age I h ad a lr eady form ed a couple of conclusions as to which

thera peutic approach to take.

1. I want ed to access th e sta te dependent memory of th e first hospita l

experience and reframe5 it to something positive, beneficial and

emotionally warm and rewarding.

2. I decided to set up a new an chored response to th e idea of th e word

‘hospita l’, so th at each t ime m y client t hought about ‘hospita l’, or

foun d him self inside tha t kind of environm ent, h is mind an d body

would ent er a pa rt icular sta te of comfort an d accelerat ed healing.

Unders t anding h is respect for higher au th ori t ies and his will ingness to

l is ten to voices of au th ori t y , I decided to ini t ia l ly recall for him some

figures of au th orit y in t he world of NLP a nd H ypnosis th at would ser ve to

indirectly hypnotise him 6 an d provide me with th e opport un ity to inst all

some em bedded comm an ds.7

My NLP a nd Hypnosis Tra iner, Micha el Har rison (1926-), recoun ted an

experience to me t ha t I now pass on to every class of student s I h ave.



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The Story - The Bandler Hea ling Experience:

The story of this experience illust ra tes t he eidetic na tu re of hypnosis an d

memory. It also serves to demonstr at e how th e subject m at ter of wha t we

think about can strongly influence our immune and central nervous

systems a s well as our general ph ysiology and em otional st at e.

Dur ing th e Pra ctit ioner sta ge of NLP t ra ining my predecessor, Micha el

Ha rr ison, a nd I sh ow a video clip of one of the origina tors of NLP, Dr.

Richa rd Ba ndler, work ing with a client .

The client shown in t he video clip required h ypnotic assista nce with an

opera tion he was du e to have th e following day. Ban dler ha s him sit on a

cha ir in view of his class an d guides him int o a tr an ce 8. Once Bandler h as

established ideomotor finger signals,9 he then paces 10 the client bycasu ally talkin g about th e fun ctions of the u nconscious a nd h ow it work s

with blood flow, brea th ing ra te, hea rt beat , and t he speed of hea ling. He

acknowledges th at , ‘The rem ar ka ble th ing is your un conscious h as been

doing t his for you all a long.’

The operat ion in question was for th e cl ient to have his n asa l passages

un blocked. Ban dler a sked his client’s un conscious if it would t ake

responsibility for ensu ring he ma inta ins a pain-free t ra nce sta te dur ing

the operation and be utterly responsible for controlling blood flow,

reducing swelling and accelerating recovery.

In a follow up inter view th e client r eport ed th ere was virtu ally no

swelling. The doctors wer e am azed to find n o bru ising a week lat er wh en

th ey rem oved his dressings. He chose to un dert ak e th e oper at ion with

only local a naesth etic an d r eport ed th at felt calm and at peace th roughout

th e whole proceedings. He t ook a pain killer after his operat ion becau se he

ha d a slight heada che due to th e doctors working on th e int erna l areas of

his nose with a chisel.

Micha el Har rison recalls th at in 1994 he t oo ha d to under go a s imilar

opera tion. Even th ough h e was only requir ed to be in hospital overn ight,one of his ex-stu dent s of NLP went to visit him .

Both Ha rr ison an d his ex-s tu dent fe l t tha t on an open hospita l ward i t

would be inappr opria te t o perform hypnosis in a n obvious m an ner , so

Micha el’s ex-stu den t casua lly asked h im, ‘Do you r ecall in one of our

tr aining sessions you sh owed u s a video of Bandler work ing with a ma n

who was going to ha ve an opera tion, like your opera tion ?’

Michael Harr ison replied th at he did indeed rem ember i t . The form er

stu dent t hen pr oceeded to encour age him t o rem ember it, step by step, ingreat det ail, while asking questions su ch a s:



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‘And how would it feel to now be in t ha t place ?’

‘If your un conscious wer e to assist you in t his wa y tomorr ow, in comp lete

deta il, wha t would t he out come be for you ?’

Michael Ha rr ison a chieved th e sam e results a s th e client in t he video, not

by having the technique performed on him, but rather, by him being

inter viewed to simply recall th e technique a nd allowing his u nconscious to

use th e inform at ion inside his memory to then undert ake t he work.

This story has ma ny of th e component s of my case st udy’s pr esent

perceptu al position cont ained with in it:

a) Two figur es of au th orit y in t he field of NLP a nd H ypnother apy, inaddition to myself.

b) Hypnosis.

c) Two examples of people responding to the hypnotic healing

comm an ds of th ose in au th orit y.

d) The n ur tu rin g of th ose in a vulnera ble position

e) Hypn osis being achieved sur rept itiously (unconsciously) wit h in a

hospita l environm ent.

With m y client being un able to r ecall t he st ory of Micha el Ha rr ison’s u se

of his m emory of Ba ndler’s work on video, this a fforded me th e

opportu nit y to recoun t t he s t ory in det a i l in ord er t o ha ve my client’s

un conscious in ter na lly repr esent its imp lied possibilities. It wa s, however,

very import ant th at my client could remem ber even a very small pa r t of

th e video work . He inform ed me th at he could recall only a sma ll part of

th e psychobiological video session. In a s oft, yet a ut hora t ive tone, I told

my client t ha t, because h e could r ecall a fraction of th e video clip, this

meant th at th e entire video session was installed and esta blished secur ely

inside his memory bank s.

Being aware t ha t m y client ’s Aqua ria n Moon indicat ed he felt ver y

comfortable with spontaneous events, and that his Third House

Capr icorn ian aga in point ed to a ten dency to follow aut horit y an d ‘th at

which h as been proven to work’, I began to intr oduce a t ra nce state,

opening with a basic accessing form ula style equat ion 11: ‘As soon as your

inn er m ind kn ows … you a re n ow rea dy … to . .. drif t ins ide a deep …

healing t ra nce … experien ce … you will find your self … feeling a litt le

more comfortable … as your eyes close to … begin your deep inn er h ealin g

...’



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My client looked m e in t he eye an d ask ed if th is was one of those times

when h e really should r elax, an d th en closed his eyes before I h ad tim e t o

answer.

I h ad a lrea dy decided to allow th e ‘Rossi Pa tt ern ’ tr an ce indu ction

(meaning, to use the language patterns of trance that can have theiroriginat ion specifically att ribut ed to t he work of Ear nest Laur ence Rossi)

to allow my client t o dr ift inside a n ASC for a sh ort wh ile, which would

enable me t o furt her recall the work un dert aken on t he video clip for h im

in m ore deta il on th e level of his un conscious program ming.

After saying the wording Bandler used in the video clip I began to

enhan ce th e sta te of relaxation. The spacing repr esent ed by the t hr ee dots

in th is para graph is indicative of slight pau ses in speech t ha t a re used in

hypnosis to crea te m ild curios i ty as t o wha t will be said next , an d also

serves to enha nce th e impact of the m eanin g being delivered. In a slow,rh ythm ic an d delibera te pa ce an d t one I sa id , ‘And … becau se you a re

her e … inside your rela xing … experience … as you brea th e … an d dr ift

… deeper n ow int o comfort … hea ling … an d t hose deepening st at es of

hypnosis’.

I t hen began to mix up t wo words in r a pid succession so th at th eir

concepts would become a little confused. Akin to performing an audio

version of the Collapse Anchor technique12 linguistically, I carefully

calibra ted m y client a s t he word ‘hospital’ becam e conn ected in mea nin g

with the word ‘hospita ble’.

For exa mp le: ‘Ea ch an d every t ime you go in t hr ough en -tr an ce … you’re

going t o find your self … inside … a very h ospita ble place t o be ... th at ’s

right … how hospitable t o be inside, now, th ose feelings of rela xing more

an d more deeply … an d you can always r elax ... inside … more an d more

complet ely … each an d every tim e you move in th rough en-tr an ce … an d

find your self … inside h ospita ble healing d eep on th e un conscious level …

as you ar e relaxing … now, moving th rough en-tra nce … th at ’s right …’

After a bout 5 minu tes, I ended t he hypn otic session with an oth er Rossi

pat ter n th at t ime-binds th e person’s ret ur n t o norma l consciousn ess withth e inner -mind’s kn owledge tha t th e work initiat ed is complete in every

deta il: ‘And, a s soon as you inn er min d knows, your un conscious ha s

complet ed all of these inst ru ctions, in deta il, th en, an d only th en, will you

find yourself slowly emerging, from the deep trance state, feeling

refreshed, comfort able, alert and r elaxed kn owing, on a deep level inside

your un conscious kn ows exactly how to accelera te your hea ling as you

relax even m ore deeply.’

I wait ed for my client to open h is eyes.



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At t his point, immediately after th e work we had un derta ken, and without

a moment for r eflection, he still seemed a little un cert ain an d fear ful of

th e out come. I assur ed him I would repeat t he work ont o a cassette t ape

an d post it t o him imm ediately.

Observing th at he looked a litt le tired, I left h is compa ny with a s ma nyovert an d covert wor ds of comfort I could slip inside s ayin g our goodbyes

an d casua lly utt ering ph ra ses like, ‘It ’ll be easier t ha n you t hink ’.

Once home th at aftern oon, I immediat ely set t o work on h is casset te t ape

session. I h ad t o hur ry a s t ha t day’s post was t o be collected with in th e

hour. I insert ed a blank cassett e into the ma chine, pressed record a nd a d-

libbed a fifteen -min ut e hypn ot ic hea ling session, coverin g mu ch of the

groun d we had alrea dy explored ear lier th at day. My inten tion was t ha t

th is would serve to re -enforce th e effect of tha t a ftern oon’s work.

The timin g was such th at it would reach my client ’s doorst ep on t he day

before h e was du e to be admitt ed to hospita l.

He ha d agreed to listen t o th e tape at some point du ring tha t da y, and t o

call me t o let me k now what he experien ced. By 4.00pm th at after noon I

had not hear d from him a nd I r ightly guessed that because of having to

organ ise thin gs, saying last goodbyes, and his building an xiety, his m ind

ha d been t aken off the a ctu ality of going to hospita l an d he h ad a voided

th inking about it all.

My assumpt ion t hat he ha d dis tra cted him self from th e ta sk of playing

th e ta ped hypnotic session wa s born out when I called him at 6.00pm th at

evening. He pr omised t o listen t o th e ta pe immediat ely. After 30 minut es I

ha d n ot received a call an d, becau se t he cassett e session was only of a 15

minu te dur at ion I assu med his sta te ha d swung into a sense of, ‘Time’s

gettin g closer n ow’ an d he was bu sy gett ing rea dy and sort ing an y last

minut e details . I knew th e fear could be building as th e night dr ew on,

an d his lack of cont act cau sed me to conclude tha t m aybe th e ta pe had n ot

calmed his n erves or redu ced his a nxiety. I was pleased t o discover I wa s

wrong.

However, lat er t ha t evening, at 8.25pm, my client phoned me a nd sa id,

‘I’ve just come out of tr an ce’. The casset te ta pe session h ad rela xed him

deeply for two an d a ha lf hours. I ha d a st r ong feelin g it would be

successful.

Out of respect for h is privacy, I ma de no att empt to cont act him dur ing his

st ay in h ospital, and I waited unt il the second day after h is retur n h ome.

With a sense of an t icipa t ion I ca l led h im an d , as I h ad expected , was

greeted on t he t elephone by his pa rt ner . I ten ta tively ask ed, ‘How is he’,

an d I wa s am a zed t o discover h e ha d gone out t o social ise with somefriends. Th ree da ys lat er h e left a long ‘th an k you’ mess age on m y voice



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ma il service, att ribut ing th e differen ce in his t wo hospital experiences t o

th e hypn otic an d psychobiological work we h ad done. Becau se it h ad been

unnecessary to discuss with my client my working strategies, he was

un awa re of th e degree to which m y chosen met hods of work ing, and t he

techniques I h ad su bsequent ly employed, had been selected because of th e

insights gained from reading his astrological birth chart from anAst robiogra phy per spect ive.



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Conclusion an d comm ent ar y in th e client ’s own words:

I ha d been in t o hospital for a n operat ion wh ich h ad gone wrong,

an d I’d been in a grea t dea l of pain, an d a couple of mont hs later I

ha d t o do some r ecovery work . They had to ta ke someth ing out , or

put someth ing in or what ever, and I was really upset a t t he idea of ha ving to go back t here. I rem ember ta lking to you a bout th is and

you doing some N LP on m e an d I wa s r eally scar ed about going

back in and even now when I go back into hospita l I remem ber th e

smell of th e place an d it r eminds m e of my st ay. So wha t I noticed

was I went into hospita l in a r eally relaxed way, much more relaxed

about it then I had ever been before, because I have been

backwar ds an d forwa rds a few tim es. Much more kin d of confident ,

I noticed tha t t he other people in t he wait ing room were in a real

stat e about it an d was r eally relaxed.

I kn ew wha t t he pr ocedur e was going t o be like, I’d been t old about

it. My ma in recollection was sitt ing in th is wait ing room full of

people in a rea l sta te comin g and going, for some rea son I h ad t o

wait longer th an oth ers. Then, when I did go in it was

excru ciat ingly painful , an d I don’t t hink a nyth ing can get awa y

from th at , and again it went wrong, th ey got t hings wrong and t ha t

ma de it even more pa inful. So. I don’t kn ow. if you could descr ibe it

on a scale of 1 to 10 th e pain was ar oun d 10. My ma in th ing was

being very relaxed about it, calm about it. The Ban dler tape

described some s tu ff th at ha d been going ar oun d ta lking to t he

patients, about reduced bruising, rapid healing, lower level of

bleeding and th ings. And I t hink in genera l I was surpr ised at how

quickly I recovered from what h ad been prett y tr au ma tic , an d I

think it was probably more emotional recovery than physical

cha llenge, but t ha t’s ha rd to say becau se I ha ven’t got an y bench

ma rk t o mea sur e it against . My over whelming impr ession is th at of

sitting in th e waiting r oom an d being really calm am ongst people,

an d I just t hought, ‘Ahh th is is really calm’, and pu t it down to the

NLP work . A very differen t impr ession is t ha t of where I h ave no

rea son to be calm about it because I h ad suffered before.(Sic).



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Findings for Ca se Stu dy One:

The Astrobiographical interpretation gleaned from the Birth chart

regarding the deep s tru ctu res an d subsequent meta progra mm es of myclient’s on-going exper ience was invalu able in enablin g me to quickly

assess th e situa tion and t hen decide upon which cour se of action to ta ke.

Moreover, th e revealed vulner ability inferr ed from his ha ving Ur an us in

Can cer, for m e, was a key issue h ere becaus e my client ’s us ua l Scorp ionic

persona of calm quiet st ren gth could h ave been misleading to me if I was

to select a t hera peutic intervention a ppropria t e to the s i tua tion. That I

was a ble to assess t he situ at ion a nd m ak e my selection of meth odologies

so quickly was du e, not t o mere conjectu re, but r at her to the insights th at

an Astrobiographical approach to astrology affords.

The idea th at , among the r an ge of associations at tr ibuted t o th e Zodiacal

sign of Can cer can be foun d th e principles of nu rt ur ing and n ur sing, an d

also that one of the attributed associations of the 12 th House, in

astrological tradition, is sa id to r ela t e to hospitals has more tha n an

equivocal im plicat ion. The r esu lts of t he h ypnotic an d psychobiological

work , inspired by th e Astr obiograp hical an alysis of my client’s na ta l cha rt

ar e such th at I would ar gue th at th e use of astrology as a tool of modern

applied psychology now war ra nt s fur th er investigat ion a nd r esearch.



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Case Stu dy Two

A single mother of three children, concerned about the behavioural

difficulties of her teena ge dau ghter .


I ha ve chosen to call th is person Sa ma nt ha for t his publicat ion.

Samantha lives with her mother and younger brother and sister.

Sam an th a’s mum recently separ at ed and initia ted divorce proceedings

from Sama nth a’s step father (the F at her of her br oth er an d sister).

Sama nt ha ’s mother cont acted me a nd a sked me t o look t o see if an ything,

ast rologically, point ed t o her dau ght er’s increa singly difficult beha viour

an d a ny solut ions ast rology may offer.

With out looking at Tra nsits or Progressions I went st ra ight to the Nat al

Char t a nd looked at Sama nt ha th rough t he lens of Astr obiography.

Sam an th a ha s just tu rn ed fifteen, so it is relevant to explore th e Venus

life pha se (seven t o fifteen year s of age) as well as t he Ma rs life pha se,covering t he p resen t position a nd her life between t he a ges of fifteen to

twenty-one.



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Methodology:

With th is case st udy I chose a different work ing meth od th an with case

stu dies One an d Thr ee of this pa per. The r easons for th is were two-fold:

First ly, th ere was a quest ion of logistics. When Sam an th a’s m oth errequest ed astr ological assista nce it was in an at mosphere of imm ediate

concern for Sama nt ha ’s welfar e. The tr avelling dista nce between our

homes is quite substantial, and while a consultation could have been

arranged, I decided to ta ke t he m ore im media te a ppr oach of usin g e-mail

as a medium t o deliver a wr itten r eport .

Secondly, I wan ted t o comm un icat e directly with Sa ma nt ha in order t o

bring about cha nges in the pa tt erns of her deep s tr uctur es sufficiently

enough to have an observable impact on her t hinkin g and beha viour . In

my assessmen t of her N at al Cha rt , I concluded the easiest way to gain h erattention would be to present any findings and subsequent advice in

writing. I decided to prepare a report that would, through the use of

hypnotic langua ge, inspire her t owar ds cha nge and tr an sform at ion.

Sam an th a’s mother ’s comm ent s appear wit hin t he text of my report , an d

ar e indent ed. Sam an th a’s comm ents a lso appear within th e text and ar e

italicised, as well as being indente d.

The a str ological birt h cha rt of case st udy t wo



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Astr obiograph y report for Sam an th a:

Venus a nd Ma rs life phases – aged 7 to 21 year s

Venu s is placed in th e Sign of Gemin i, in t he 11th House,

with T aurus in th e 10 th , and on the 11 th ,

with Libra in the 3 rd , and on t he 4 th House IC.

Th e Aspects t o Venu s are:

Decile the S un ,

Septile N eptune, Bi Quint ile Plut o,

Bi U ndecile MC, Square N orth N ode

Sext ile Part of Fortu ne.

Between th e ages of seven to fifteen Sam an th a will be highly cur ious an d

enjoy learn ing (Gemini). Dur ing this t ime her centr al ner vous system will

be more sen sitive th an usu al, so she will often become a ffected by noises

and movements in t he immediate en vironment . I t wil l be import an t for

her to ha ve periods of quiet an d seclusion, oth erwise she will find h erself

becomin g fra ught an d agita ted if she ha s to spend pr olonged periods of

time in busy populated places.

Dur ing th is period of her life she h as t he potent ial to excel in academic

work so long as sh e can resist th e distr actions of friends a nd h er social

circle (11 th house). Sh e could ha ve an a pt itu de for lan gua ges, a love of

litera tu re or a str ong desire to tell everyone all she knows thr ough wr iting

or dist ribu tin g inform at ion wit hin her social circle by gossiping or t exting

- a good idea t o keep an eye on t he h ouseh old telephone bill as t he pa tt ernth at is set at th is time may well rema in in place for m an y year s to come

(Gemin i & 11th house).

My overall impress ion of th e report is t ha t i t is am azingly

accur at e an d very good. Dur ing th is tim e of her life she was

alwa ys int erest ed in school. She often get s irr ita ble an d tir ed

with people who are making noise around her. She

somet imes sna ps, ‘Shu t u p everyone’. She often ta kes her self

off to bed, and th is was definitely more evident dur ing thisper iod of tim e.



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She is good at languages, though not really interested in

th em. She was good at writin g at school: she t ended t o write

th ings th at were ra th er adult, and she is always texting her

friends on her mobile and creat ing a high bill for th e house

phone.

Her cur iosity a nd need t o be ‘one of the crowd’ dur ing t his tim e ma y affect

her ability to rema in focussed on work she is set, an d even on lar ger, more

persona l goals sh e want s to achieve (Taurus 10 th house). This might well

ma nifest a s a t endency to fixat e on pr ojects, ideas an d am bitions a nd h ave

a st eely determina tion t o see things th rough to the end u nt il she becomes

distr acted. For a par ent t rying to keep up with th ese cha nges, it could be a

little frustrating. On a more positive note she is establishing here apat ter n of flexibility alongside a ten acity tha t could other wise be out right

stu bborn ness, so I would consider th is to be very useful later in life as sh e

will have th e ability t o complet e ta sks with out becomin g ent ren ched in

ideas, emotions an d concepts t ha t no longer ser ve her productively.

Sam an th a definitely want s t o be one of th e crowd.

Anoth er cont ribu tion t o the crea tion of flexibility could well be m ovement

in a more liter al sense. Dur ing these year s Sam an th a might find cha nges

within th e home, with in t he family, or just m oving house to be disrupt ive

enough tha t it impa cts h er sense of sta bility and security. Dur ing these

years, if these are house moves or changes within the immediate

environment she is well placed to learn how to adapt to changes in

circum sta nce and m ana ge stressful t imes. Alterna tively, having th e Sun

in Can cer , she could int erpr et t hese cha nges as being too disru ptive and

th e impact on her inn er sens e of safety an d sta bility could be bruising,

casting a slight shadow over her sense of identity and self-confidence

(Venus Decile the Sun ). There are a number of NLP techniques that

refram e th ese experiences for h er t o find th e benefits an d str engths sh ecan now draw upon as a resu lt of th ese changing times.

We moved house four tim es dur ing th is period of her life an d even

Sam an th a h as sa id she foun d it very disru ptive. I believe it was

very disru ptive and ha s somewha t br uised her sense of secur ity.

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dur ing th is period, se t t ing a t one for t he r es t of her l i fe . She wil l find

her self dra wn t o ar t, mu sic, dance or poetry as a doorwa y though which to

escape any disappointments and problems life holds, as well as using

crea tivity a s a form of self-expression.

Sama nt ha was very interes ted in the ar ts . Whereas she used to

play with pa int s at school before sh e was seven, along with a ll the

oth er children, du rin g this t ime period she began t o explore a rt on

her own m otivat ion. She would produce car ds for h er friends wit h

beaut iful pictur es rath er th an simply write a note. Samant ha had

some work present ed as well.

Music has a lways been importa nt t o Saman tha , and i t h as to be

said that during this time she learned piano and did a lot of

dancing.

This par t of th e report is also to the m ar k. She began smoking at

th irt een an d I’m su re she was drinkin g th en a s well. Oddly,

chocolate was someth ing th at becam e a big issue t hen :- I even

rem ar ked to her t ha t she was becoming addicted.

Life will seem difficult for Samantha during this time (Square North

Node) an d th ere will be times when Sa ma nt ha does not like her life and

th e pat hwa y she finds h ers elf on. Ther e is a possibility she might find

oth er m ean s of escapism (Septile Neptun e) t hr ough a lcohol or t oba cco or

oth er su bsta nces tha t pr oduce alter ed sta tes of consciousn ess (th is could

be cannabis or heavy doses of chocolate or coffee or other potentially

addictive substances). The Bi Quintile to Pluto indicates she will

experience life between s even an d fifteen a s if she can not a ccess th e keys

to her own personal power. It will seem to Sama nt ha th at th e world, or

cert ain people in it (God, teacher s, par ent s, bullies, fash ion designers,

policemen an d an yone wh o asser ts a ut hority) have some kind of sway or

influen ce over her life and her circum sta nces. Dur ing this time, Sama nt hawill lear n h ow to access her ability to influence event s via influencing th e

decisions of others – m ost usu ally by lear nin g how to be cha rm ing an d

at tr active an d ‘sweet’.

Yes, ever yone says, ‘She’s so sweet’, and th en , when sh e gets

indoors she can completely cha nge, like J ekyll and H yde.



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In t e rm s of s chool work Sam an t ha h a s th e poten t i a l do ve r y w e l l ( Bi

Undecile MC and V enus in Gem ini ) so long as sh e can resist th e pull to

prop up any emotional vulnerability through allowing herself to be

disru pted by friends or finding un productive methods of escapin g from t he

hu rt s of l i fe . If Sama nt ha cha nn els her focus of a t tent ion into creat ive

expression in this life pha se she could well achieve a grea t dea l.

I ha ve to say th is is all so am azingly accur at e. Sama nt ha, when sh e

read it said, ‘How can h e k now all those thin gs about m e ?

‘How could he know me so well ?’



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Life for Sa ma nt ha between 15 an d 21 years:

Mars is placed in the S ign of Aries,

in the 9 th House,

with A ries in the 9 th and on t he 10th ,

Th e Aspects to Mars are:

Trine the Sun ,

Trine t he M oon, Squ are Mercury, Sex tile

Ju piter, Squ are Sat urn, Squ are Uranus,

Square N eptune, Trine Asc,

Squ are Chiron.

Between th e ages of fifteen t o twent y-one, life for Sam an th a will ta ke on a

different , and somewha t more cha llenging tone.

Her sense of ident ity an d endu rin g inn er-confidence will, dur ing this t ime

begin to ascend and make itself known, though the sense of feeling

vulner able an d of being someh ow ‘sma ller t ha n oth ers’ will cont inu e to be

present (Su n in Cancer ).

For Samantha life during this period will be different, to an almost

sta rt ling degree. She will experience situat ions t ha t dema nd she a sserts

herself an d ta ke action ( Mars in Aries ), rath er th an hesitat e inside a shell

of vuln era bility (Su n in Cancer ).

Sama nt ha has certainly been more assert ive since she was ar ound

four teen a nd a ha lf. Where before sh e would be a bit h esitant an d

shy, th ere seems t o be no holding her back now.

Before t his summ er (when Sa man th a t ur ned fifteen) if I sa id she

couldn ’t go out she would sulk an d ma ybe th row a ta nt ru m, but

now, she just goes out without lettin g me k now where sh e is. She’s just off on her own.

I’d say she has become more independen t - an d inconsider at e and

bloody selfish quit e fran kly. She seem s t o have n o conscience, as if

she h as n o awaren ess of oth er’s feelings a t all.

Ph ysiologically, Sam an th a will have an abun dan ce of energy and a desire

to express h erself immediately. Her perception an d r elationship with t imewill cha nge in such a way th at as well as needing to act out every impulse



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‘right her e an d now’, it will seem t o Sam an th a a s if tim e ha s slowed down

extern ally, while her subjective per ception of time’s m oment um h as

actua lly accelera ted int ern ally ( Mars in Aries ).

Int ern ally, Sam an th a will experience th e world ar oun d her as if someone

ha s slowed everyth ing down: queues seem longer, ket tles t ake m ore t imeto boil, a m ont h t akes a decade to pass. Simulta neously, Sama nt ha will

process inform at ion more ra pidly, so, to Sam an th a, when sh e has finished

ta king her t ime t o lis ten t o someone i t will seem u nreasonable that th e

oth er person appears to want to keep on t ak ing for a ges an d ages and

ages.

Ha h a, this is so right. She swear s at t he kett le an d keeps asking,

‘When’s din ner rea dy’ every t wo minu tes, even th ough she’s just

been told the answer. The other day we were in a queue in a shopan d it was just a normal queue. Sam ant ha wa s pacing up and down

an d mu tt ering, I thought sh e was going to walk out . It was only a

norma l shop, she’s become pret ty u nr easonable.

Sam an th a will want to get to the point an d move on quickly during th is

life ph ase ( Mars in Aries in th e 9 th house). To some people it will seem as

if Samantha has become tetchy, or even downright rude. Behaving in

ways that others interpret as her being impatient, irritated or even

a ggressive could well initiat e conflict with oth ers du ring t hese years.

I t would be wise for Sam an th a t o cha nn e l these vola t i le energ ies an d

impetu ous u rges int o productive compet itive out let like sport s or a r egular

fitness routine. Directed through the muscles in a disciplines way

Sam an th a will develop a healt hy and vibran t r elationsh ip with life an d it

will seem as if she ha s a glow about h er ( Mars in A ries in t he 9 th house,

Trine the S un , Trine th e Moon and T rine the Ascendant ). The altern at ive

is to allow th e exubera nce to find m or e idle han ds (Squ are Mercury ) an d

the resulting tension could ma nifest a s str ess or out burst s of temper an d

har sh a ngry words.

In ter ms of sport s, well this side of Mar s in Aries is dorm an t. She

began horse riding recent ly, but t ha t’s about it as far a s being

active is concern ed.

While her r e la t ionship with her fam ily an d par ent s could be on a very

good footin g dur ing t hese year s (Trine the S un and Trine the Moon ), with

th e people she meet s, and a ny places she tr avels to, encour aging her t o be

more open m inded an d to ta ke on board t he view of life in a lar ger pictu re

or ph ilosophical fra mework ( Mars in t he 9 th house Sextile Jupiter ), ther ewill be cha llenges of a difficult possibly very un pleasan t na tu re.



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We will now explore ea ch of th ese in tu rn , looking first at th eir genera l

significan ce an d th en focussing on th e positive benefits a nd lear nings t ha t

can be obta ined from t hese experiences:

Mars in A r ies in t he 9 th House Square Sa tu rn in Sagi t tar ius in t he 5th

House:

T h e S qu a r e t o S a t u r n i n t h e 5th House indicat es a nu mber of possible

problems Sa ma nt ha will ha ve to face and r esolve.

One of these is her relationship with her fat her, father figur es, auth ority

an d even h er per ception of men in genera l. Dur ing th ese year s (fifteen t o

twenty-one) Sama nt ha ’s inn er-Self may a llow t hese issu es t o be resolvedby ma king decisions (often un consciously) tha t allow t hese very issu es t o

become a focus of at t ent ion.

Sama nt ha may, for example, ha ve to spend t ime with her fath er in order

to work th ough a ny relat ionsh ip difficulties or to heal a ny old hu rt s an d

emotional woun ds. Then a gain, it m ay be th rough other m en her m oth er

becomes involved with, people who take on a father figure role, that

become t he lens th rough which an y un resolved issues can find equilibrium

an d a sense of inn er peace.

Talking and appreciating the perspectives of other people (or just

respecting th em - even if th ey ar e tota lly boring) is a k ey to imp r oved

relat ions h ere. In displaying a r espect for t he opinions an d rights of oth ers

th en t hey ha ve the space and psychological per mission to respect your s.

We tend t o receive what we give out , so it’s your call Sam an th a (assu min g

you’re readin g t his, of course).

Alter na tively, it m ight well be thr ough th e rea lm of society’s auth ority

figur es th at Sam an th a lays an y old fat her ly ghosts t o rest . This of cour se

implies tha t Sa ma nt ha might experience a series of ups a nd downs withauthority figures from school-teachers, head masters, social workers,

tr affic war dens, ma gistr at es, judges or, th e police.

Obviously, the watchword here is to proceed with caution and maybe

adopt th e viewpoint t ha t r ules ar e made for some reason. We may not

always under sta nd t hose rea sons, so, in a r easonable way we can a sk th e

appropriate people (those with the correct knowledge, or wisdom) and

discover wha t t hose rea sons are. In ta king our selves along t he pat h of

legal discovery, it is possible to find oneself becoming knowledgeable, and

even pr oficient , in ma t ter s of law a nd a car eer could possibly blossom fromth is. People involved in crimina l defence or h um an right s all need t o work



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within th e law, in order for th e law t o become t ru ly just . It is possible for

Sama nth a to tak e part in t his import ant unfolding social process.

When Saman th a read this par t of th e report she said, ‘Th at’s tru e’,

an d sh yly hid h erself by cur ling up in a ba ll. It’s n ot often th at softCancerian par t of her n at ur e reveals itself th ese days and yet it did

her e. I th ink you touched on a welcome n erve here.

Sa turn’s placemen t in t he 5th house does ca r ry a n im pl ica t ion h ere of

meetin g a challenge of life th rough t he a ren a of teena ge pregnan cy.

This is so un can ny. Saman th a was fifteen in J uly and isabout t o go on th e pill an y week now. She’s definitely

been h aving sex sin ce she was fifteen, over t he last two

mont hs, th ough sh e says it’s not often . We began ta lking

about this a couple of months ago, yet, with all the

tr ouble, we ha ven’t got ba ck t o talking about it . It was

the fact t hat you m entioned i t in the r eport tha t got us

ta lking again an d now she is definite ly ta king a m ore

responsible at titu de.

Relat ionsh ips will be import an t t o Sam an th a in th ese year s ( Mars S extile

Descendent ) and t her e is a h igh possibility she will tak e physical a ction on

any strong desires she m ay h ave ( Mars in Aries). So, expect roma nces to

be more t ha n m erely inn ocent , and you will find th at event s will mat ch

the expectation you may have of Samantha being a young lady who,

between fifteen a nd t wenty -one, likes to get on with life in h er own way …

NOW !

Oh yes, this is so right .

Advice her e will, hopefully be un necessar y. If it’s n eeded th en it might go

un heeded anyway, or might even be too late. Tha t advice which mu st be

followed is, of cour se, alwa ys play r esponsibly an d t ak e full r esponsibility

your self to always only have pr otected sex: ‘no pr otection mea ns noth ing

ha ppens between us’ - mak e it your golden rule !

Raising a child, for those with Saturn in the 5 th House, is usually a

difficult affair 13 an d t he r esponsibili ty of parent ing bears heavily upon

th em. The best advice here is to only s ta rt a family after very car eful

consideration and planning and, meanwhile, to do everything in yourpower t o avoid un-plann ed pr egnan cy.



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Mars in A r ies in t he 9 th House Square Uranu s in Sagit t ar ius in t he 5th House:

Having Mars Squar e Uranu s in th e 5th house means tha t Saman tha i s

pre-disposed to asser t h er own u nique independen ce th ough t he ar ena of

rebelling with r oma nt ic par tn ers. In oth er words, one wa y to cour t your

disfavour would be t o associat e with, or go out with youn g men th at you,

for some r eason, find u nsu itable for her or even un desirable.

I don’t like this par t. Sam an th a keeps ha nging out with t hese boyswho are ninet een. It’s not just t heir a ge though, I’m su re t hey ar e

bringing drugs into things and she just seems to want to be

rebellious in everyth ing.

Then a gain, Sama nt ha might follow exactly th e sam e process within h er

own social se t an d l ink up with gu ys tha t h er fr iends f ind diff icult t o

accept, as if to ann oun ce, ‘I am m e, and th is is my choice, an d I can d o

what I wan t wit h m y life’.

Altern at ively, she m ight sur prise h erself with her own choice of roman tic

par tn ers an d somehow end u p going out with someone who is the las t

person she m ight ha ve thought of. She could also find her self at tr acted to

people who ar e uniqu e in cha ra cter , as if th ey someh ow act as a n exam ple

of ind epend ence an d or igina lity. Some of th ese types of people may be so

original th at oth ers consider t hem t o be odd or st ra nge. Roma nce, with t he

Squa re t o Ura nu s, could a lso just be an experimen t, a s if to say, ‘I h aven’t

gone out with someone like t ha t yet … I mu st give them a t ry’.

Samantha may well find the invisible lines between friendship and

romance gets blurred, so that associations that begin as friendshipsbecome romances and vice-versa. Freedom within romance will be an

issue as well, an d t his could be t he source of a nu mber of emotional u psets

an d difficult ies.

Mar s Squa re Ur an us is , of cour se , a class ic placemen t for out an d out

rebell ion a nd Sam ant ha could f ind herself in hot wat er t hr ough h aving

overzealously overth rown t he old aut horit y of the pa st, su ddenly finding

th a t th e ru les tha t i t i s su gges ted people l ive by, do in fact se r ve an

essential purpose. Still, Samantha might find various causes and

ideologies cat ch h er a t t ention dur ing th is t ime a nd a growing poli t ical



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awar eness could develop int o the kind of hu ma nita rian ism t ha t facilita tes

cha nges in society an d pr omotes impr ovement for all.

J us t r emember t ha t no mat te r wha t t he cause or t he pass ions a r oused ,

deep breath ing and allowing your ha nds t o relax, along with honest t act

an d diploma cy are, as Howar d Sasporta s would say, universal an tidotes toa bad case of Mar s 14

Mars in A r ies in t he 9 th House Square Neptu ne in Capricorn in t h e 6 th

House:

Here, a soften ing of the ha rsh par ts of the psyche is int roduced th roughth e suffering of disappointm ents a nd t he sha tt ering of dream s. Or, th e

healing of th ese hu rt s is met th rough th e compa ssion, the spiritu al quest,

th e art s and t hr ough being of service to oth ers.

There will be times between the ages of fifteen to twenty-one when

Sama nt ha just seems to aimlessly drift with out seeming to have a lar ger

organised plan . While the Squar e to Sa tu rn is demandin g a p lan a nd

coherent strategy to order life with, the Square to Neptune pulls

Sam an th a’s focus into th e opposite hem isphere of nebulous day dr eaming

an d a desire t o just go with wh at ever pr esents it self an d comes a long …

after all, isn’t it all just mean t t o be ?

Life might be order ed by some k ind of grea t divine plan … an d, well ,

ma ybe not. Maybe it’s mea nt to be tha t I writ e th ese words n ow, and you

ar e reading th em la ter ins ide your now … an d as you r ead th ese words

now, as you ar e mean t t o, tha t pa rt of your min d, maybe conscious, or,

maybe your unconscious can go ahead and begin to explore the

possibilities of crea tin g a life plan , new pa th ways t ha t will develop a sense

of growing confidence an d of lookin g after your self in all s it ua tions, of

working to build a sustainable quality of life and good health and

prosperity. Maybe you a re m eant to be inspired t o acknowledge th e hur tsan d pa ins you’ve exper ienced, even t his far in life, and cons ider wh at you

might a lready be able to do to assist other s who have walked similar roads

t o you. Maybe i t’s mea nt th at you t hin k of th e feelings of oth ers , an d

especially th ose close t o you, a nd ta ke t hem int o accoun t before you speak

or t ake a ction. Then a gain, maybe there isn’t - ma ybe you a re m ean t t o

simply drift int o a crisis you can prevent … or, m aybe you just drift inside

a bot tle of booze - or wor se. Maybe you cou ld float in t o an oblivion th a t

mean s you loose everyt hing you wan t to hold on t o, and ma ybe not. Since

it r eally is your choice Sam an th a, begin to write down exactly what you

want from life, the kin d of lifestyle you r eally wan t a nd creat e a plan , withth e help of other s, ma ybe, to go for it .



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There is , i t h as t o be said, a potent ia l her e for you t o experience th ese

times between fifteen an d twent y-one, as t hose of being fra ugh t wit h a

series of health issues - or just one big health pr oblem. There is a very

high chan ce th at your hea lth wil l be seriously affected by your use of

alcohol or oth er dr ugs. Please ta ke t he grea test of car e with both of thesear eas as, typically of Neptu ne, you will be un awa re of an y dangers at th e

time. So, the eas ies t way t o ensu r e your safety is t o adopt a policy of

leaving th ese substa nces alone un til after you a re t wenty -two year s of age.

I’d t ak e a guess th at th e likelihood of you following th is adv ice is very

rem ote an d yet, it is still possible you can sur prise me - is it not ?

On a Sa tu rday n igh t sh e goes in to town a nd d r inks Vodka a nd

smokes, somet imes grass or wh at ever it is. I hear d once th at she’d

tr ied cocaine an d I went rea lly mad at her . She said she was t oosmar t t o ta ke th at road but sh e doesn’t seem t o realise the dan ger

yet. These lads give the girls free smoke and then get them

emotiona lly dependent on it . Before t hey kn ow it t hey’re h aving to

s tea l to get i t an d th en i t’s cocaine an d lord k nows wha t n ext . I t

scar es me.

Mars in A ries in t he 9 th House S quare Chiron in Cancer in t he 12 th House:

The fina l par t of your four ma jor life cha llenges dur ing th ese year s is one

th at could be seen to represent a su mm ery of all we have said so far :

Chiron square t o Mars in t his place in t he char t ind icat es you will have

th e opportu nit ies to hea l some very deep woun ds her e, an d you m ay also

ha ve experiences th at crea te deep emotiona l an d psychological wounds.

I would r ecomm end you focus on gener at ing an at mospher e of peace an d

calm ness a roun d your self, with in which you can find privat e space andbasically ‘chill’.

To do th is, you will need to r educe th e am oun t of conflicts you ha ve in life

by foster ing a greemen t an d co-operat ion with oth ers. Kindness, respect

an d considera tion ar e all qua lities tha t will cau se oth ers t o desire your

compa ny in peace – r at her th an conflict.

These years could be a great healing time for you if you adopt an

appropriate at titude a nd a llow your nat ur al sensitivity to car e for oth ers

an d look a fter t heir feelings. You will find t ha t as you do th is your own



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self-confiden ce will cont inu e t o rise a n d life, for you, will shin e (S u n i n

Cancer ).

Please feel free to cont act (m e) over any of these issu es.

Warmest regards ,

David



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The conclusions of the client :

I can say th at since readin g the r eport , and I don’t k now if th is is

co-incident with her having got beaten up recently as well,Samantha has become more reasonable and thoughtful. It was

rea lly observable how fright ened she wa s, and sh e told me sh e was

frightened, about th e part of the report th at details how her h ealth

in t he long ter m could be ser iously affected by any u se of drugs a t

th is young age. I t real ly ma de an impa ct on her a nd she ha s a lso

begun to discrimina te between fr iends a nd t he un friendly in h er

social wor ld. Quite liter ally, she ha s ma de a n ote of who she feels

‘righ t’ with an d wh o she doesn’t.

In m y view, her rea ding th e report h as ena bled her to recogniseth at she ha s a choice in life and t ha t sh e has t he power t o cont rol

an d guide her own dir ection. It is qu ite a ma zing, as I ’ve said. Since

she ha s read i t , she is more d iscr imina t ing and ha s begun to do

homework in su bjects she wa s u nt il recent ly completely ignoring.

The r eport itself has become in inva lua ble tool for our r elat ionsh ip.

Until recently, relations between us had become increasingly

strained and difficult. When you pointed out in our initial

conversa t ion t ha t I could e ith er represen t for her th e Squa re to

Sat ur n a nd be ‘an orr ible’ figur e of aut hority, or, I could r epresent a

hear tfelt friend thr ough being a r epresenta tion of her Mar s Trine

th e Moon. I felt full of hope, and yet st ill a bit lost as to how to bring

this t ra nsition from r epresent ing cold and stern Satu rn to becoming

her friendly Moon.

I believe the report has facilitated this transition. You, David

Rowan the astrologer, have become the voice of authority, the

Saturn. This means I can now be her friendly mum girlfriend,

looking with her at her per sona l star s, and workin g out how best t o

ma ke th e most of it.

The r eport ha s become a foru m for discussion an d a platform for us

to build a new an d str onger r elationsh ip.

I do have to say that Samantha was very touched that the

astrologer even both ered t o both er a bout her . She r eally took t o

hear t t hat someone car ed enough t o do th at mu ch work for h er, and

th at her mum cared t hat much because she a sked for it to be done.

One final word h as t o be tha t it r eally str uck me how fright ened sh e

was a bout th e effects dr ugs could/would ha ve on h er h ealt h. She



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seemed quite distur bed by this an d I believe the m essage sank r ight

inside her. I would say sh e took t he war ning. Than k you.

Fin dings for Ca se Stu dy Two:

I wan ted t he r eport to be a basic Pa ce an d Lead exercise th at would bring

Saman tha to a na tur al underst anding of the larger pictur e of which t hese

present times play a significan t an d yet const ant ly cha nging part . There

were certa in cha ra cteristics and probabilities tha t I int uited she ma y now

be allowing to ma nifest or blossom t o fru ition, a nd I gat her ed, rightly as it

t r an spired, tha t she was pleased t o be able to re-access the l ight er an d

more car ing sides of her n at ur e.

This pa rt icular configur at ion in h er as t rological bir t h cha rt carries the

poten tia ls for experiencing some of th e har sher an d more ar duous sides of life. Since everyt hin g within ast rology, at least from a n Astr obiogra phical

perception, has more than one path to follow then I knew it may be

possible to inspire Sama nt ha to decide to cha nge cour se in cert ain ar eas

an d begin t o build a life of grea t wort h a nd secur ity for her self.

Fr om a youn g teenager a bout to fully emba rk on h er ener getic, and a lmost

totally internally referenced, journey of life through an Aries lens I

received the following accolade: ‘I’m im pressed by it’.

Postscript:

Sama nt ha h as reta ined steady employment in a h air salon for m ore th an

18 month s at th e time of writin g. She is comm encing dr iving lessons a ndhas been awar ded the oppor t un i ty for a photo shoot for a wel l known



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model agency; a goal she h as worked st eadfastly towards for m ore t ha n a

year . She is in a st eady relationship, lives happily with h er mu m a nd ha s

released all th e ha rm ful beha viour s an d people from her life.

Case St udy Three

A woma n a ged 29, st udying for h er fina l ACCA

qua lificat ions in accoun tan cy, based in London


The client in this case study requested assistance in taking her final

exams in a ccoun tan cy at ACCA level.

These par ticular exam s repr esent ed the culm ina tion of 5 year s of self-

s tu dy and a t th e beginn ing of my work wi th her , the r e were on ly s ix

weeks to go un til she was to under ta ke th ese exams a nd qua lify. At t he

time of her first appointm ent , she ha d only two weeks in which t o absorb

th e inform at ion r equir ed for a r evision cour se ru n by a local college, the

purpose of which was to serve as a re vi ew of work sh e ha d already

s tud ied . I t t ran sp ired th a t no t on ly were th ere e igh t tex tbooks as ye t

unr ead, there was also an entire module she ha d not studied at a ll.

Thr ough out t he developm ent of her a ccoun ta ncy skills an d work ing to

ascend to th e highest pr ofessiona l level, she had a lways stu died alone,

work ing th rough t extbooks on her own initia tive with out an y guidan ce.

While th is determ inat ion deserved to be applauded, I was ast oun ded at

how little tim e ther e was left for m e to assist h er with : both in learn ing an

entire module and in ensur ing she has gained a th orough a wareness of the

ent ire spectr um of modern accoun tin g.

Given the considerable personal and professional pressure she was

experiencing it was t o be expected th at her physical, as well as emotiona l

healt h m ight also be affected. Taken from her test imonial, she expressedher experience in t he following way:

I was so scar ed at failing th is sittin g, becau se so ma ny par ts of my

life were r elian t on me gett ing thr ough. I really felt th at I ha d no

hope at all in passing, ther e was no way I could stu dy, ret ain a nd

recall this am oun t of technical inform at ion in such a short space of

time. I was a lso gett ing migraines every t ime I sat down t o stu dy,

probably becau se of the pressu re I was pu tt ing myself un der.



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After my client ha d re layed th is to me at th e onset of her consu lta t ion

th ere were a n um ber of pat hwa ys open for explora tion. For exam ple, I

could:

1. Tak e a m ore t ra ditional psychological r out e an d explore t he client ’shist ory with a view to bringing to the su rface her ‘inter na l saboteu r’

for resolut ion an d t ra nsform at ion. Th e opinion, t ha t th e client’s

current situation is created by the decisions influenced by an

unconscious ‘internal saboteur’ is, in one sense, a logical conclusion

to form, taking into account the very short time-scale she had

plann ed for h erself while being in full knowledge of her st u dy

schedule a nd knowing th e t err itory of her chosen cour se very well.

2. Adopt a m ore hea lth -orien ta ted ap proach and seek t o resolve the

physiological symptoms that were currently being expressed asmigraines, insomnia, stress and high blood pressure. A

psychobiological methodology would probably produce the best

results here in th e fastest t ime fra me.

3. Work from t he N LP viewpoint th at , ‘every behaviour ha s, on some

level of conscious nes s, a positive int ent ion’.15 Takin g this direction

would mean pacing th e client’s pr esentin g problem a nd then

leading her t o a spa ce where a ny deeper issues, drives an d motives

can be explored and resolved, while always maintaining the

integrit y an d a ccessibility of th e positive int ent ion.

The NLP a ppr oach would ena ble the client t o feel th at her decisions, even

if th ey have lead t o the present discomfort , are being respected a nd t ha t

the integrity of her overall sense of value and worth remain un-

cha llenged. This position would foster ra pport, an d also play a ma jor r ole

in t he opening sta ges of creat ing an a tm osphere a nd environmen t wh ere

cha nge is welcomed an d accepted.

A fundam ent al par t of th e remit expressed by the client is the creat ion of

a skill in r apid learn ing, inform at ion r etent ion a nd t ha t of being relaxed,healt hy a nd ‘ta king it all in m y str ide’. Accelera ted learn ing techniques

share certain basic principles for success: relaxation at the point of

receiving inform at ion a nd being in a re laxed s ta t e when r ecall ing tha t

inform at ion. A clear s ense of th e pur pose or rea son for wan tin g to obta in

the in form at ion is import an t in order for th e psyche t o s to re th e new

learning in reference to its appropriate context. With this in mind I

decided to work with th e client ’s existing st ra tegy an d a llow an y of her

own shortfalls to reveal themselves in her conscious awareness as we

progressed forwa rd t hr ough t he th era peut ic process.



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Init ia l ly, I asked a bout her s tu dying technique. I foun d she h ad a tr ied

and tes ted rou t ine of la te a t n igh t s tu dy , be tween 10pm an d 2am, an d

took a shor t b reak every 25 min ut es or so to re fresh her min d . I was

pleased th e client ha d instin ctively crea ted a st udy met hod along th ese

lines for t wo r easons. Fir st ly, ha ving crea ted a work period of twen ty

minu tes a lready mea nt th ere would be no res is t an ce to an y addit ionalactivities proposed at t went y-min ut e inter vals. Secondly, it r evealed the

client ha d an instinctive att unement to her nat ura l body rh ythms an d had

the common sense to respond to these rhythms, rather than override

th em. This is very useful inform at ion for a consu ltan t u s ing hypnosis ,

because it demonstrates the client will respond more favourably to

unconsciously driven ins t ructions a nd s tr a tegies ra t her t han a t t empt t o

override th em with th e tra nsit ory decisions an d desires generat ed by th e

conscious min d.

On a less op t imis t ic note I a lso found th a t th e cl ien t s tu d ied wi th t hetelevision a t a ll times, eith er with t he volume set a t a m inimum or with

the sound turned down completely. This would serve not just as a

distra ction, which is a large enough issu e in its own r ight, it would also

increase t he a mount of general st imulat ion of her cent ra l nervous system.

This is entir ely coun ter -productive to ma ster ing the a rt of relaxat ion a nd

accelera ted learn ing. The subsequen t effects of such stim ulat ion might

well be a redu ced at ten tion span a nd a n u nder lying low, yet const an t level

of anxiet y.



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The init ial conclusions I formed pr ior t o us ing ast rology:

At th is ear ly stage of th e consu lta tion, prior to comm encing work, or using

her as t rological bir t h char t a s a m ap of th e dynam ics of her psyche, I

formed some immediate conclusions:

To me, th e client appear ed to be a very bright , determ ined an d cour ageous

lady. She is highly compet itive, independent an d impat ient a nd ha s litt le

knowledge of the psychology of stress management or of accelerated

learn ing techniques. It seem ed to me on going by first impr ession, th atshe had at ta ined her current achievements th rough sheer har d work an d

forceful willpower. To continue studying whilst experiencing a migraine,

or even a m ild heada che, to man y people would be a t ort ur ous experience.

Ther e was no doubt ing th e cour age of t his det erm ined client , which, from

a consu lta nt ’s persp ective is excellent news, becau se th is is th e kind of

person wh o will open t he door s to new pa th ways of experien ce in or der t o

rea ch t heir goals. It is my personal experience, tha t such people have little

or no fear of experimen ta tion.



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The insight s gained from using th e client ’s ast rological birt h char t as ama p of th e psyche:

At th is moment of th e consult at ion, I t ook a br ief look at clien t ’s

ast rological birt h char t a nd observed the following factors th at seemed

most relevant :

The client ’s Mercur y Squar e Mar s bore out m y pre-supposit ion t h a t a

problemat ical issue tha t a ffects t he way the client ma na ges her t hinkin g,lear ning and comm unicat ions is the int erna l measurement and plann ing

of time. As I right ly concluded, th is issue ten ded to ma nifest as her being

a fast learner who was impatient to get on with things: she could

somet imes speak a brupt ly and skip over words in conversat ion a nd a lso

when reading. There is also a secondary frustration within this

configuration that manifests as a resultant social coolness and

detachment emanating from her th at serves to separ at e her from th ose

slower t hin king an d ta lking people th e client h as spoken over or become

overtly impatient with.

The Moon being pla ced in t he sign of Gemin i at th e tim e of the client ’s

birth signified an emotiona l need to lear n a nd a bsorb kn owledge, an d also

a ten dency to absorb k nowledge un consciously. Over stim ula tion of th e

central nervous system would cause the client to feel emotionally

vulner able an d vice versa: vulnera bility would be a caus e of stress a nd

an xiety. Becau se th e client experienced, as symbolised th rough her

ast rological Moon, h er r elationsh ip with her mother as being sometimes

open an d expressive, an d th en at oth er t imes closed’ and withdrawn, the

astrological map revealed a pattern of vacillation and resultant

rest lessness tha t might h inder t he developmen t of relaxat ion skills.

The Sun in Scorpio with th e Ascenda nt also in Scorpio and P lut o in t he

10 th House indicate th e potential for an extr aordinary inner strength and

willpower, and a very powerful tenacity and potential for intense

stubbornness.

Mercury conjunct Jupiter indicated a desire for knowledge and

un derst an ding tha t could leave th e client sensing ther e is always more to

learn , an d th en , based on t ha t per spect ive , she might eas i ly form th e

conclusion t ha t sh e doesn’t know enough. Dra wn t o a desir e to lear n a nd

understand the workings and meaning of life, this particular chartplacement was also acting as an educational amplifier: increasing the



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capa city to learn along with t he awa reness of how far away t he client is

from h aving read an d hea rd en ough t o cat ch glimmer s of the ‘Tru th ’. Her

ta les of extensive tra vel bore t his out, alth ough since her st udies, she had

solely read only accountancy text-books, and this in itself was

underpinning her intern al fru str at ion with her cur rent situ ation.

Much of th e pressur e th e th at client was experiencing was mirr ored in t he

cha rt by the Virgo MC an d ha ving Plut o in Virgo in t he 10 th House. The

err oneous concept th at th e world a nd h er society would expect her t o be

‘perfect’ an d work wit h gr eat efficiency an d a ccur acy at all t imes wa s also

contributing to her current health problems. Her migraines and high

blood pressure would stop if the client relaxed and giver herself

permiss ion t o le t go of the extra ordina ry pr essure t o perform at such a

high level each an d every day.

Fin ally, in su ch a brief overview as t he spa ce in th is paper a fford s, theSun Opposing Satu rn in the 6th House indicat ed th at th e client identifies

with t he t ype of success th at brings social s ta tu s an d she is sometimes

motivat ed by th e opinions an d values of th e society in wh ich sh e finds

her self. Har d work would be an eth ic she would be likely to adh ere t o, and

th ere is a high potent ial for h er pr ima ry motivat ions being th ose of guilt

and obligat ion. This placement ma y also ma nifest beha viour ally, like an

emotiona l pendulum , swinging from light -hea rt edness t o pessimism in a

cycle th at could be only minut es, or days or even m ont hs long in dur at ion

The way the client expressed herself with her choice of words, body

postures and tone of voice confirmed out these conclusions. Now, primed

with some deeper insight into the u nderlying patter ns of what bought her

to the consultation, the next step was to begin a process of steadily

seeking to resolve and transform each of these issues into new and

productive behaviours that would work towards bringing success and

rewar d for th e client .



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The a str ological birt h cha rt of case st udy Thr ee.



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The work ing meth odology:

The a bove conclusions came im mediat ely to mind a nd I a sked th e client aquest ion not often a sked of her : ‘Do you like the idea of being an

accoun ta nt an d, also, th e idea of ‘doing a ccount s’ every weekda y for th e

next decade or so ?’16 Her head recoiled slight ly back as a frown began to

domina te h er expression. Calibra ting17 her r eaction was very easy as she

rem ar ked th at ‘accoun ts’ was not a favour ite past ime. It t ra nspir ed she

only undertook this career path as an economic safety-net, as an

assu ra nce should th ere ever be a t ime wh en sh e needed a ‘pr ofession’ t o

tu rn to for financial support .

While the a bove may well be a good st ra tegy for ensur ing futur e secur ity,enjoying t he pa rt icular subject in question is a key feat ur e in accelera ted

learnin g. In m y experience, the resent ment th at can bu ild up inside the

pr ocess of forcing oneself to r ead a su bject one dislikes, in pr actice, slows

down the speed of learning considerably.

I chose, for t he first par t of th e work with h er t o an chor an up-beat a nd

positive stat e int o the word accoun ts , an d int o the a ct of ‘doing account s’.

As for wh ich positive experience th e client was t o use a s a r esourceful

memory, it wasn’t r eally importa nt for t his par ticular exercise, what

memory, or experience the client chose: from eating chocolate, to watching

a favour ite film, ridin g a bicycle, an yth ing would su ffice, jus t so long a s

th e memory ha d an overwhelming th eme of fun a nd ‘good t imes’. The

pur pose of this pa rt of the work wa s n ot necessar ily for th e client to ma ke

accoun ts become fun , but ra th er, to neut ra lise her emotiona l response to

the idea of accounts.18 This worked very well with the additional

applicat ion of a ‘Swish P at ter n’19 techn ique. After only one ap plicat ion of

th is highly visual technique, th e client could na tu ra lly see her self inside

th e examina tion experience, being relaxed with slow, st ead y an d deep

breathing.

When a sked t o describe her new pers pective her words were optimistic,with ph ra ses like, ‘Yes, th at looks good … I can see m yself r elaxing’, an d

yet , I observed her tone of voice was hesi t an t a nd h er sh oulder s were

slight ly hu nched forwa rds. This showed th at fur th er work wa s needed in

ord er for th e client t o feel a sen se of pr e-determ ined su ccess. To bring t his

impr oved st at e to th e sur face, I adopted t he ‘Visual Squash ’ technique

becau se, while it ut ilises a visua l style, it r elies on t he client ’s experience

of how th ey feel th roughout th e pr ocess . This technique a lso acts a s a

demonstr at ion of the independent power of th e un conscious a s it cau ses

th e ar ms an d h an ds t o ‘move all by th emselves’, an d a ddition th is

techniqu e serves a s a n a id t o ‘pr oving’ hypnosis ha s occur red. F rom aperspective of possibly needing to offer a placebo experience in hypnotic



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term s to th e client, th e Visual Squash 20 techniqu e provides th is more tha n

adequately.

I wa tched very closely as my client felt the weigh t of ‘the old self’ an d ‘the

new self’ in ea ch h an d. Then, sh e wat ched, as an observer of her self, her

own un cons cious decide wha t it need ed t o do to get t h e ‘old position’ t ona tu rally flow int o being ‘th e new position’. As her un conscious did t his for

her, she found her hands slowly moving towards one another, while

ha ving t he experience of ‘not being th e person t ha t is moving th em.’

I checked t o ensu r e she could n ow feel her self being successful and t ha t

she was now satisfied she h ad experienced hypnosis.

Now th at she h ad lear ned, even just at th e un conscious level, to cha nge

her physiological st at e in order to cha nge her emotiona l experience, I next

decided to help her further develop the skill of relaxing deeply andquickly21. The cl ient ha d already t old me, a nu mber of t imes dur ing the

consulta tion, time was very import an t a nd t he pr essure was very high. I

knew the relaxation would enable her to re-connect with feelings of

emotiona l stability and r educe her blood pressu re, an d th erefore, bring

almost insta nt relief to her heada ches 22.

She r esponded well to th e slow conversa tional r elaxat ion t echn ique I used

and I was s t ru ck furt her with a n idea. I rem embered Milton E rickson’s

ability to use t he client ’s lan guage as a m otivat iona l tool23, so I inform ed

th e client t hat she risked failing her final exams in th e most embar ra ssing

way ima gina ble if she cont inued to stu dy with th e television switched on.

I recoun ted stories of people on television quiz sh ows who failed to an swer

th e simplest quest ion becau se th ey were ten se and a nxious. Becau se of

th ese very public displays of mem ory failur e th e conclusion we can easily

form is th at relaxa tion is an import an t k ey to efficient m emory r ecall24. I

told her t ha t sh e would r eceive a casset te t ape, ma de especially for h er, in

th e post exactly th ree days from th e consu lta tion. Mean while she was

instr ucted to only stu dy to the m usic of Mozart , playing const an tly in t he

background.

In Th e M ozart E ffect , Don Campbel recounts:

Mozart ’s m usic “ma y war m up th e bra in,” suggested Gordon Sh aw,

a t heoretical physicist a nd one of the r esearches at th e Centr e for

th e Neur obiology of Lear nin g an d Memory in I rvine. After a set of

result s were ann oun ced in th e ear ly 1990’s he is r eport ed to ha ve

said, “We suspect t ha t complex mu sic facilita tes cert ain complex

neuronal pat tern s involved in high brain activi t ies l ike math and

chess. By contrast, simple and repetitive music could have the

opposite effect”. Other resea rcher s on t he pr ogra mm e l ikened th e

Mozar t E ffect t o a Rosett a S tone for t he ‘code’ or in ter na l langu ageof higher br ain fun ction.



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That night, after our first consu ltat ion, I wrote an d creat ed th e Advanced

Learn ing Systems: a n au dio coaching pr ogramm e th at involved two vocal

tr acks over t he t op of gentle r elaxing music.

The first vocal t ra ck, ta lked softly, and led t he way t hr ough a gentle slow

rela xat ion over t he 45 min ut es of th e ta pe. The second echoed vocal t ra ck indu ced mem ory r egression t o babyh ood: th ose tim es when we lear n t o

walk and speak and un ders ta nd language and gra dua lly become more

awar e of th e world ar oun d us an d our ability to man age it.

The programme ended with multiple post-hypnotic suggestions. These

positive an d opt imist ic su ggestions were stacked with in one anoth er to

induce greater increased memory speed, the anchored response of her

physiology being in a relaxed state when studying and recalling with

suggestions for all knowledge to be thoroughly integrated and available

when appropriate 25.

The client was instructed to write a short piece, no more than three

sent ences, th at defined specifically, wha t she wan ted to lear n. This was

th en r ead by th e client each time, just before playing th e ta pe. The client

was th en ask ed to keep a sm all jour na l of th e cha nges she experienced.

The n ew rout ine of playing t he Advanced Lear nin g Systems for fort y-five

minut es before a ny stu dy period an d th en listening to Mozart const an tly

was initiat ed immediat ely, an d cont inued for t he rem ainin g five weeks

unt il her exams.

The r esults of work ing with t his system ha ve been r eliably good, and in

th is par ticular case st udy ha ve shown th emselves to be highly effective in

being a ble to assist a stu dent to achieve a defined leaning outcome. It is

now, at t his point in th e paper, th at I would like to intr oduce th e results

we ha d achieved in t he client ’s own words:



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The resu lts an d conclusions of th e client :

The result s were rem ar kable, as th e client r ecalls:

The week of th e exam s ar rived and I sat in t he exam ha ll, openedmy ques t ion pa per , read t he ques t ions a nd p icked up m y pen to

begin wr iting, still feeling calm a nd r elaxed. I rem ember wr iting

clearly an d met hodically, I was a nswer ing questions th at I could

never dreamed of answering. I have no idea how I managed to

recall th e inform ation or eve n where th e an swers were coming

from.

As for m y result s, alth ough I 've been told I'm highly int elligent , I

ha ve been lazy in th e past an d would s tu dy enough t o get a pass

ma rk an d on some occasions ha ve to re sit one out of four paper s.When I finally got m y exam ma rks I was a stounded, I passed all th e

papers first time, plus got ma rks in t he 80's/90's. The most peculiar

th ing i s tha t i t i s in t he very pape r I ha d not g iven any t ime to

study tha t I at ta ined the highest ma rk, 94%.

To add a l i t t le more, my la tes t car eer r ole , in a very pr es t igious

compan y, is in t he sam e fie ld th at I ha d not s tu died, and yet was

my best m ar k. The effects of th e accelerat ed learn ing ta pe ar e still

with m e as I read mu ch m ore quickly tha n I ever could before a nd I

ha ve a deep and ur gent inner -need to read a book whenever I h ear

Eine Kleine Nacht mu sik.



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Concluding thought s on t his case study:

While the client exh ibited a very str ong Scorp ionic an d Mar tia n st yle of

comm un icat ion, it was h er Moon in Gemini t ha t provided the ast rologicalkey as to which pat h of Modern Applied Psychology to take. The

Advanced Learning System I produced from working with this case

utilised as many techniques as I could weave together to produce a

Timeline26 reframing27 exercise that is initiated by an adapted Basic

Accessin g Form ula 28 an d deepening tr an ce and r e laxation. This deeply

relaxed stat e was t hen an chored into the a ct of reading, as well as being

anchored into th e knowledge tha t th e process of undert akin g exam s is

now happen ing. In other words, a ll of these r esour ces would be ava ilable

at th e un conscious level dur ing an y lear nin g or r ecall experien ce: th is was

a very successful exercise in pacing and leading29 the unconsciousdyna mics of th e a st rological s ignifican ce Moon in Gem ini.

Postscript:

The client of case study three is now in a senior position of a majorinternational company.



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Case Stu dy Four

An Asian woman in h er ear ly thirt ies, based in London, with a car eer in

web-design.


Consu ltation One

The client of Case St udy Thr ee init ially appr oached me t o assist her with

a presenting problem that was quite different to the issue we finally

resolved. Ther e was, however, a powerful un conscious defence-

mecha nism at work , and th is clearly form ed conn ection between th e two

issues.

Init ially, th e problem was t wo-fold:

One par t was a bout her car eer, or ra th er, l ife direction, an d t he second

was a jumbled experience of emotionally and psychologically recoilingfrom being sexually harassed at work while simultaneously feeling

pass iona tely a t t ra cted t o a different person at t he sam e compa ny, who

was, nonetheless, unobtainable. He was also a very different type of

person from her hu sband, or so she gat her ed from a distan ce becau se she

had little actual cont act with th is man.

Dur ing our first consu lta tion, I sat quietly and listen ed as my client spoke

of her car eer dir ection for ma ybe thr ee minu tes before r evert ing, once

more, to the issue of the m an at work of whom her delight ful dr eams were

now becomin g conscious ly disr upt ive30.

She was brimming with questions that seemed to be born from an

unquenchable epistemic hunger. No matter how many rational

explana tions or refra mes I offered h er, nor h ow ma ny t imes we foun d

resolutions to the myriad of problems she presented, to my client it

seemed t ha t an almost ‘bu r nin g hu nger ’ const an tly drew her to being

awa re only of some k ind of love she wa sn’t experiencing, an d t o th en s eek

fulfilmen t of it , which, ‘isn ’t m ine to exper ience’.

My client spoke of being ill an d t ak ing a long leave from work as a resu lt

of ha ving experienced the ha ra ssment . She seemed not quit e relucta nt totalk about the harassment but her conversation kept flying off at



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ta ngents. The ubiquitous r etur n t hr oughout her conversation t o th e man

at work t o whom she was a t t r a cted seem ed, t o m e, to be not of an

obsessional nature, but rather, symptomatic of a more instinctively

powerful urge. The urge to avoid drawing into consciousness painful

un resolved issues t ha t, in some way, cont ribut ed to the overa ll sense sh e

ha d of being un fulfilled. The br ightn ess in her tone of voice would fade a sshe ended her sentences31 and she maintained visually orientated

beha viour in h er eye accessing cues 32, enabling h er t o avoid accessing her

emotions, even wh en a sked dir ect m eta -model33 ques tions su ch a s, ‘And

how, specifically, do you feel about t hat ?’

Moreover, h er m an ner of expression indicat ed she felt u ndeserving of the

very thing she sought. I int erpr eted t his style of behaviour as t ha t of being

similar t o a guilt pa tt ern th at occur s comm only in people with issues of

low self-est eem, a kin to ha ving a fear of povert y coup led with a s ense of

guilt of owner ship 34.

Fin ding m y client ’s model of the world t o be un doubtedly impoverish ed, I

decided to tur n t o her ast rological chart to gain an un dersta nding of some

of th e deep stru ctu res a nd valu es of her model35. I knew tha t with t h is

kind of insight it would be far easier t o select t hera peutic int erventions

that would bring the fulfilment she required sooner than currently

possible.

Upon looking at her astrological chart I found myself drawing the

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The a st rological birt h char t of case st udy four

The initial t hing t ha t st ru ck m e about th e ast rological ma p of my client ’s

psyche36 was the high degree of Scorpionic/Plutonic perception she is

inclined to exper ience.

Alth ough h er Su n is placed in t he sign of Capr icorn , her Ascenda nt is in

Scorpio: P lut o is pla ced in t he 10 th House, th e Moon is in t he 8th House

along with th e s ign of Cancer, an d J upit er is placed in Scorpio. Plut o,

while ma king Trine aspects t o the Sun and Mercur y and being Sextile to

Neptune, is also Square the Moon, Opposing Jupiter and Bi Quintile

Sa turn .

I have found through my experience in astrological consultations that

people with st rongly Scorp ionic/Plu t onic na tu res can live life th rough t he

extrem e ends of th e spectr um of th e hum an experience37. From a chieving

grea t nes s t o living in th e shadow of th e wors t of hu ma n n at ur e , th ese

people lear n t o develop r esilience and s tr ength in grea t m easu re. ‘Kill or

be killed’ is a pa ra digm th at th ese types of people ar e cha llenged with at

some point in t heir lives.

Astr ologically, one of t he polysem ous ass ociat ions at t ribu t ed t o Scor pio,

and the planet associated with it, Pluto, is that of the psychological



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function of repr ession 38. In t he f ie ld of NLP, Practi t ioners a re t aught to

deal with r epressed mat erial by pacing the client’s present ing rea lity an d

th en using tra nsform at iona l gra mm ar t o bring about a resolut ion of th e

un derlying issues39.

However, when issu es ar e repr essed, the ind ividua l concerned is often notconsciously awa re of th e existen ce of the u nr esolved m at erial, or th at th eir

inter pret at ion of the world ar oun d t hem ma y be colour ed or prejudiced by

emotions t ha t a re boun d up with t he issues seeking expression 40.

In Th e Psychobiology of Min d Body H ealing, Rossi sta tes:

Milton H . Er ickson (1902-1980) th en dem onst ra ted how am nesias

cau sed by psychological sh ocks a nd t ra um at ic event s ar e psycho-

neuro-physiological dissociations that can be resolved by “innerresyn th esis” in hypn othera py (Erickson, 1984/1980). One of

Er ickson’s ear ly studen ts , David Cheek, M.D., systema t ized a n

ideomotor signa lling appr oach for in vestigat ing emotional tr au ma ,

stress, and psychosomatic symptoms. Over a 25-year period,

Cheek’s clinical case stu dies led h im t o form ulat e th e th eory t ha t

stress invariably causes an altered state, identifiable from

spontaneous hypnosis which encodes state-bound problems of

system s. He r ecent ly expr essed h is view as follows (Cheek, 1981, p.

88):

Hypnosis occurs spontaneously at times of stress (Cheek, 1960),

suggesting that this phenomenon is a state-dependant condition

mobilising information previously conditioned by earlier similar

st ress (Cheek, 1926b).

At such times, the individual tends to revert in memory and

physiological beha viour to an ear lier moment of grea t str ess. The

formal induction of hypnosis may suddenly release disturbing

memories of experiences associated with spontaneous hypnoidal

states.41

In a ddition, my client’s avoidan ce, being perfectly un ders ta nda ble when

seen in t he light of the qua nt ity of Scorpionic an d P lutonic placements in

her astr ological cha rt , reminded m e of a pa tt ern I ha d encoun ter ed with

others who have a s imi la r empha s is in t he i r na ta l cha r t s . There i s an

indicat ion her e for my client to potentia lly have ha d experiences of sexual,

physical or em otiona l abuse.

I would like, at this moment, to draw attention to there being anempirical 42 history behind t he t hink ing th at form ed th is conclusion, for it



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As we were n ear th e end of the first consu ltat ion, I delivered my str at egy

covert ly un der t he gu ise of looking at wha t work we ma y be able to cover

dur ing th e fort hcoming s econd consu ltat ion.

I looked her in t he eye and said, while gesturin g and cas t ing a f leet ing

glan ce at t he cha rt 48, ‘We ma y not h ave fully explored wha t you can do toencour age this ma n t o pay at ten tion t o you, and n either h ave we finished

explor ing a ll of your car eer opt ions . We ha ve th ough, an d I’m s ur e you’ll

agr ee, touched on t he su rface of some very powerful feelings you h ave just

below th e sur face ther e … do you n ot ?’

Her eyes looked up a t me from t he chart with t ha t kind of look of sur prise

tha t is p leas ed t o find someone who can ‘see’ an d ‘kn ow’ somet hin g of our

inner na tu re with out our needing to say lots of words.

As I expect ed, my pacing led her slight ly int o an ASC49 and a r esu l tan ttea r began to well in t he corn er of one of her eyes as I cont inu ed t o pace

her experience, only leading n ow int o the objective r at iona lisation of using

th e cha rt . I said, in a soft a ut hora tive tone of confident kn owing, a flow of

sent ences along th e following lines:

‘All of your cur ren t issues a re in fact conn ected to a single issue th at is

deeper t ha n we h ave tim e to explore h ere. I’d st rongly recomm end t ha t for

your next consultation you consider having an Astrobiographical life

rea ding. This will enable us to explore your life fully, in a grea t deal of

depth an d you will be able t o place all you ar e experiencing now in a wider

cont ext. The bigger pictu re will be a wh ole lot ea sier t o ma na ge tha n t he

disconn ected par ts you ar e experiencing now, believe me, I know becau se I

can see it. You ar e on th e way t o now feeling m ore a nd more confident a s

time goes and you grow thr ough your th irties. There ar e th ough, cert ain

issues th at rea lly do need to be resolved an d h ealed before you can ta ke

full advan ta ge of a futu re full of more fun th an you can im agine now. If

you t ak e th is rout e we’ll be able to resolve thin gs more easily th an you

th ink , which is h ow come I was r ecomm ended t o you I guess’.

She found herself agreeing with t he las t s ta tement of referra l , an d was

quite unawa re of just how often sh e had nodded her head in agreemen tduring my flow of words. This was due to my having peppered my

recomm endat ions with sta cks 50 of embedded comm an ds which I an alogue

marked with head-nods and subtle changes in tonality and tempo, to

encour age her to slip a litt le into an ASC and dr ift in side th e ‘yes’ mood.

Fr om t he a bove exam ple, so typical of the h ypnotic lan guage I em ploy,

there are embedded commands, presuppositions and hypnotic suggestions

such a s:



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k a single issue t ha t is deeper

k we have time

k your next consu ltat ion

k consider ha ving a n Astr obiograph ical life reading

k explore your life fully

k a great dealk now in a wider cont ext

k bigger pictur e

k a whole lot easier

k I can see it

k now feeling more a nd more confident

k tim e goes an d you grow

k need t o be resolved and healed

k you can ta ke full advant age

k futu re full of more fun

k you can im agine n owk resolve things more easily th an you t hink

k recomm ended to you



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Consultat ion Tw o

For the second consultation with my client I decided a complete

Ast robiogra phical life-readin g would be of the great est ben efit for h er.

For a wh ole day I took her th rough t he jour ney of her l i fe us ing herast rological cha rt as th e only sour ce for my conclusions. Sh e was pleased

enough with t he result t o volunt eer a test imonial to appea r in a pu blicity

leaflet that I use to promote my astrological works, as well as being

delighted t o assist in being a case st udy for t his pap er.

Her test imonial for my busin ess publicity is worded:

I just wan ted to let you kn ow tha t t he recent Astr obiograph y I ha d

with you was a bsolutely mind blowing.

There were t hings in t here t ha t a bsolutely no-one knew or could

know.

I would t horoughly recomm end t ha t a nyone who wishes a to have a

100% accuracy life-reading should definitely have an

Astr obiogra phy, I will recomm end it to fam ily an d friends wh o wish

to kn ow about life, love an d t he cha llenges we a ll face in everyday

life. It has helped me to un dersta nd a great deal an d cha nge th e

way in which I per ceive life - which ma kes da ily living m uch bet ter .

This is a once in a l i fe t ime r eading and a grea t opport un ity with

such grea t value.

My client was very pleased with t he r esult of th e Astr obiogra phy rea ding.

The a bove test imonial, however, pays no reference to an y of the work we

un dert ook r egar ding her deeper life issues.

I began th e reading in m y usua l fash ion by comm encing with h er genera l

cha ra cter istics, indicat ed by her a str ological Su n. It was when I came t o

the next stage of describing her birth experience and its subsequentpsychological effects that she realised just how deep the waters of

astr ology may ru n.

Her Scorpio Ascendant and her eighth house Moon placement both

indicat ed th at my client m ay encoun ter th e kinds of Scorpionic cha llenges

ment ioned a bove. In order t o avoid an abrea ction, I u sed eu ph em ist ic

language, because, this would give her t he opport un ity t o discuss an y

tr au ma tic event s if she wished to , an d she would be able to ma inta in a

sense of poise an d simp ly move along in t he conversa tion a s well if she

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At t his sta ge of th e readin g my client chose to rem ain em otionally neut ra l

an d non-responsive when I offered th e int erpr eta tion tha t, ‘During the

first th ree year s of life you could h ave encoun ter ed th e exter na l world a s a

place th at seems to push you ar oun d in some way. This could h ave been

emotionally, physically, psychologically or even sexually’. I carefully

calibrat ed her rea ctions, paying att ention to her skin t ones an d breat hingpatt ern a nd was pleased to note that my car efully worded sta tement ha d

not indu ced an xious feelings or p rovided an y repr essed emotions wit h a n

opportunity for conscious and immediate expression.

It was to be much later in the reading, when the theme was to be

intr oduced to my client once more tha t t ha t t he repr essed emot ions I h ad

intu ited made t heir way to the sur face, and she t hen began her jour ney of

deep inner healing.

My client ha s J upit er placed in Scorpio in h er a str ological birt h char t, an dfrom a viewpoint of Astrobiography, this indicates that at some point

between the ages of twenty-one to thirty, an opportunity for her to

experience Scorpionic challenges may present itself once more. The

probability of this occurring is, as always with this Astrobiographical

model of as tr ology, very high.

I offered my car efu lly worded euph emistic sta tem ent in th e same m an ner

as in our previous discussion a bout her ear ly childhood condit ioning. My

client sudden ly had eyes full of tear s a nd recoun ted th e following incident,

told her e in h er own words:

In J un e 1997 I wa s d r ug raped by a boy fr i end a t th e t ime in a

secluded car par k a nd left th ere t o recover. Somehow I ma de my

way home. I was una ble to remember anyth ing a t f irs t and t hen

from t ime to time flashbacks cam e an d went and bad dr eams slowly

were suppressed …

I pa ced h er emotiona l expression a nd created a n en vironment where she

felt sa fe enough t o simp ly sit an d cry for however long sh e wished t o.

At t he t ime of th e readin g, which t ook place in t he su mm er of 2001, myclient was thirt y-one year s of age. This means th at her J upiter life phase

would ha ve begun in 1991 and passed over t o the Sat ur n ph ase of her life

in 1999/2000, at th e moment of her Satu rn retu rn .51

As my client r eleased a gr eat deal of bott led up feelings an d an xieties, I

made cups of tea and encouraged her to talk more about the whole

experience. By this, I m ean not t he fine deta ils of the r ape its elf, for, t o

me, tha t is a very bruised, tender an d private place tha t only those closest

to her ma y visit, if ever at all. It is t he en tir e period of recovery a nd post

healing tha t for m e is of th e grea test int erest.



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k How well does she believe she is dea ling with th e experience ?

k How has it effected h er pr ivate life ?

k What effect ha s t his h ad on h er self-image an d self-esteem ?

k How does she feel now in t he compan y of men ?

The last quest ion was pa rt icular ly relevan t in t his circum sta nce since my

client was placing her t rust in me as her astr ologer a nd t hera pist.

In h er t estimony for t his paper m y client reports:

In J uly 1998 I got mar ried and was h appy and alth ough we argued

about t iny th ings, we were sexua lly ha ppy.

Between J une a nd December 1999 I was sexually har assed at work.

Everything heightened after a Chr istmas pa rt y where my boss tr ied

to force me to kiss him. Suddenly all the memories that were

suppr essed cam e bolting back from t he pa st.

I st ayed a t h ome t he following year : took five mont hs off work a nd

intera cted very litt le with people - an d durin g tha t t ime I was very

dis tan t from my hu sband a nd r efused to ma ke an y kind of effort

with h im, nor myself. I ha d a lready put on weight an d dressed to

cover myself. This pha se left a nd slowly I lost weight an d st ar ted

dressing th e way I used to - feminine cloth es tha t were flat tering.

However, I s till was dista nt from my hu sband a nd r efused to have

sex with h im un less I rea lly ha d to.

I July 2002, my husband told me he wanted a divorce, I was

shocked and t hen s imu ltan eously not su rpr ised, I knew it would

have ha ppened as I was a lways so distant from him.

At th is point , I was lucky to know Dave Rowan th rough my best

friend and my husband decided to support me through this

consu lta tion process - as a last chan ce.(Sic).

My client is now beginn ing her Sat ur n ph ase of life: Sat ur n being placed

in Tau ru s in my client’s sixth h ouse indicated t ha t h er life focus was t o

become one of growing self-esteem an d creat ing an endu rin g sense of self-

wort h. Building up her ma terial security would be very importan t to her

th rough her th irt ies, along with m aint ainin g a high level of skill in herchosen field of work.



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This sense of growing and developing implies that, as with most

Astr obiograp hical life ph ases, t he level of developmen t at th e beginn ing of

th is time would be lesser in comp ar ison with th e level of developmen t sh e

will exper ience by th e end of this period in 2012.

I t ook h er present position of having a poten tially deeply woun ded self-

esteem a nd poor self-ima ge int o accoun t wh en deciding which t her apeu tic

path t o take.

As we moved on in our explora tion of her life pat h sh e inform ed me t ha t

one manifesta t ion of her having Satu rn in th e s ixth house tha t she was

enjoying was a self-defence class called ‘comba t t r ain ing’. Whilst n ot

ha ving th e spirit ua l discipline or lear ning str uctur e of a more tr aditional

ma rt ia l ar t , her Satu rda y morning combat tra ining was providing her

with an import ant physical outlet for her daily fru str at ions.

As we cam e to th e end of our second consu lta tion I su ggest ed we end wit h

some ‘inn er h ealin g’ works .

In t he first par t of our work I wan ted t o ignite an in ner flam e of growing

str engt h a nd h ope. My client felt psychologically and em otiona lly tr app ed

by th e const ra int s of ha ving to deal with a h usba nd who didn’t u nder sta nd

her difficult ies, an d a fam ily th at she h ad comm un icat ion difficult ies with .

These we would deal with in our next consu lta tion. For now my client

needed, a nd I believe th e word ‘needed ’ is appr opr iat e her e, to receive

assista nce and t o enjoy relaxing in th is time for h erself.

We began the first of these two short and effective transformational

techn iques by re-visiting the self-rela xation technique I h ad t au ght m y

client in her first consu ltat ion. U sing a thea tr e stage as a meta phorical

environm ent I a sked m y client ’s u nconscious t o present ont o the st age, in

its own fashion, a represent at ion of th e par t of her that is hurt, and scared

an d bru ised by th e shocking event of the r ape.

The hur t pa rt present ed itself, and I began a pr ocess of encour aging tha t

par t of her to want to grow in size and st ren gth a nd t o become willing tomeet t he challenges of life an d tu rn ar oun d th e impa ct t he ‘na sty ma n’ ha s

ha d on h er. Discovering she could st ill win, th at she can chan ge things

within her self which m ean s he didn ’t destr oy th e core of her being, was

very illum inat ing and inspirin g for h er.

By th e time we ha d finished this techn ique the par t of her t ha t u sed to be

fright ened of her past , and fear ful of oth ers r ejectin g her ha d become big

an d st rong an d was now in cha rge of the pr ocess of expelling t he fear a nd

pain she h ad st ored up th rough h er perform ance in combat tr aining.



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As I privat e ly predicted, she report ed after t he next Sat ur day tha t t he

bur st of ener gy which h ad pour ed out of her ha d un ner ved her fellows in

th e room.

We finished this six-hour consultation with some time-line work 52 to

inst all a sen se of bright hope ahea d in her futu re. Becau se, unconsciously,she n ow knew t ha t a ll would be well, her an xiety levels would begin t o

reduce, giving her an immediat e sense of improvement in h er qua lity of

life.



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Consu ltation Three:

I decided th at for consu lta tion t hr ee I would pr ovide for m y client a blend

of tr an sform at iona l work a nd t ra ining in some pr inciple skills of NLP t o

enable her to mana ge th e people ar oun d her in a more appropria t e and

easier way. She took to this readily and began to establish a newatm osphere and environment with in her h ome str aight away. I helped her

devise a ‘script’ th at she could u se to inform her sister s of wha t h ad t ak en

place in a ma nn er t ha t would induce a r esponse of compa ssion a nd care,

rat her t han rejection a nd blame.

A te lephone consulta t ion took pla ce between m yself and her hu sban d,

dur ing which I out lined for him th e process of the h ealing jour ney his wife

was now underta king. He report ed that he found t hat underst anding the

sta ges of the pr ocess, and ha ving an appr oximat ion of how long t his would

na tu ra lly ta ke, ena bled him t o step out of a sense of blame an d begin toass ist h is wife in this difficult experience.

Consu ltation Four :

It wa s a very differen t client th at cam e to see me for h er four th , and last

consu ltat ion. She n ow ha d th e air of a per son with pur pose and direction.In h er own words, she describes her experience in th e following way:



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The conclusions of the client :

After m y first two sessions with Dave I spoke about th e incident t o

my husba nd in great er deta il. I opened up an d told both my sisters

wha t wa s going on, without t he difficult scenes I ha d an ticipated as

I was ab le to remain ca lm an d used the ‘scr ip t ’ th a t Da ve ha dhelped me with .

After m y next session with Dave, I cam e home and t hr ew out old

ph otos, old m emoirs of m y ex-boyfrien d. I clear ed out m y war dr obe

an d got r id of items t ha t r eminded me of th e five mont hs t ha t I was

at home off work.

Since th at tim e, I ha ve ma de huge effort s with m yself. I bought a

new war drobe, with flatt ering styles and now dress th e way I used

to.

I ha ve a health y sex life with m y husban d an d comm un icat ion is n o

longer a n issue. We ar e very affectiona te t owards each oth er a ll the

time - it is lovely lau ghing wit h him again - especially after wha t I

put him t hr ough. We now tend to argue about normal t hings - like

put ting out ru bbish or ha nging up washing - I even enjoy arguing

about tr ivial things.

My sis te rs asked ques t ions a t th e t ime , and now unders tand me

bett er, I am happier a t home, work, an d, more importa nt ly, happier

with myself.

I would ha ve not h ave been wr iting th is with in six month s if I ha d

not gone t o Dave. He listen ed an d un derst ood, and being alone with

a m an in a room wa s not scary like I originally anticipat ed.

So mu ch h as changed, I have tra nsform ed the h ouse an d ma de such

effort s in a ll area s of my life an d now feel tha t I am fina lly over t he

ma n who ra ped me - called XXX. I pity XXX he is a sa d m an who

just wa nt ed to ru in m y life - which h e very nea rly did.

Dave has t au ght m e so mu ch in su ch a sh ort period of t im e, an d

finally I can move on with th ings and st ar t living again.



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Findings for Ca se Stu dy Four :

Ha ving th e abil ity , though t he use of as t rology, to gain a n imm ediat e

insight of th e un derlying issues behind m y client’s presen ted pr oblems

proved to be, in t his inst an ce, invalua ble.

While it m ight be said t ha t m y client would ha ve resolved th ese issues for

herself in t ime, or , th at in a th erapeut ic cont ext perform ed with out th e

use of ast rology, th e resolution she sought would h ave been a chieved, it is,

I would like to suggest, demonstrably verifiable in this case that the

rema rka ble speed with which m y client was a ble to ma ke progress was

due t o the added assist an ce of ha ving an astrological ma p of her psyche

and the accompanying timetable of her unfoldment and development

present ed th rough t he per spective of the Astrobiograph y model.

Moreover, it can be sa id th at th e Astr obiogra phy m odel of ast rology ha s

an au th ent ic, practical an d useful par t t o play in th e tool-box of th ose who

work in th e field of modern psychology.

Postscript:

In th e spr ing of 2003, two years a f te r th e consu l ta t ions of case s t udynu mber four , this loving couple present ed th eir first ba by to the world.



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37 Howard Sasporta s, The Twelve H ouses, The Aquar ian P ress, p.309.

38 Howard Sa sportas, The Twelve Houses, The Aquarian Pr ess, p.311.

39 J ohn Gr i nde r an d Richa r d Band l e r , Trance – form at ions , Rea l People Pr ess 1981,

pp.91.

40 Liz Greene, Barriers and Boundaries – T h e H oroscope and th e Defences of thePersonality , Cent re for Psychological Astr ology Pr ess 2002, p.75.



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41 Ernest Lawrence Rossi, The Psychobiology of Mind-Body Healing, Norton & Compa ny,

Inc, 1993, p.49

42

Emp ir ical is defined here a s mean ing, ‘Guided by practical experience an d n ot th eory,especially in medicine. ’, sourced in the internet 23 rd September 2003, at

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/e/e0117100.html

43 Ellen Bass an d Laura Davis , The courage to Heal, Ha rper & Row, 1988, p.43

44 A term I privately use to describe the ar t of using astr ology as a tool of modern applied

psychology in pa rt ner ship wit h oth er ps ychological disciplines.



47 Howard Sasportas , The Tw elve Houses , Aqua rian Pr ess, 1985, p.330.

48 Michael Ha r r i son , The Master Practi t ioner S uit e Volum e One, Tao Te Publ i sh ing ,

2001, p.139.

49 Robin Wa ter field , Hidden Depth s – The S tory of Hypn osis , Macmillan 2002, p.329.

50 Michael Harr ison, The Master Practi t ioner S uit e Volum e One, Tao Te Publ i sh ing ,

2001, p.139.

51 Karen Hamaker -Zondag, Psychological Astrology, Aquarian Pr ess1980, pp.201.

52 Micha el Har r ison, The M aster Pract i t ioner S ui te Volume Three, Tao Te Pu bl ishing,2001, p.40.



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