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Astrology Consulting… “If You Can’t Deal With My Mercury, You Sure As Hell Can’t Deal With My Mars”
Astrology in real life
The other day I was talking to Claire-France Perez and she told me she has had to tell clients who are unhappy with her forecast. “I can tell you what the planets say and it costs this much. Now if you want me to tell you what you want to hear, I can do that too but I am going to charge you a lot more!”
I snorted and I was thinking about this today. I once had a guy hire me, he was an astrologer and he told me specifically that he wanted to know what I thought of certain things. Astrology things this is. I told him that would be fine and he told me he looked forward to talking to me.
Couple days later the call came and the whole conversation went like this:
“What do you think of x and y and z?” he asked.
“Oh, well I think this,” I answered, offering my precise opinion and the astrology and/or the experience that led me to the conclusion.
“You don’t really think that,” he’d respond making it clear he disagreed with me.
“Well yeah. That’s exactly what I think for the reasons I just explained.”
“No you don’t think that. That’s not your real opinion,” he said.
“Well it is my opinion.”
“No, you’re only saying that because I am blah, blah, blah. If I were blah blah, you’d say something else.”
“No, that’s what I think no matter who is asking - I think it for the reasons I outlined.”
::sigh:: “Okay, next question….”
To which he accused me of giving him a fake opinion and this went on for 30 minutes. It was surreal. The guy just did not believe me and I mean he chided me for every opinion I had. All I could think was boy am I glad I don’t have to sleep with this guy. Gah.
Mercury in the 9th is most likely telling you the truth. Mars is attached so if you can’t deal with my Mercury, you sure as hell can’t deal with my Mars!
Any other astrologers have stories?
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That’s funny, I’m currently LfingMAsOff! Me, I’m so meek at my readings!
Well get this: He called me back a second time. I couldn’t believe it.
“You aren’t going to touch me there are you?” he’d say.
“Well yeah, I was. I was going to touch you there.”
“You can’t be serious! That’s not where you should touch me. Surely you should know I would prefer you touch me here…”
“Um… motherfucker? We’re gettin’ a divorce.”
ROFLMAO!
This is the kind of denial I’m most familiar with, though I think it relates to how people misperceive you too. Saying that “you don’t mean that” or reasoning circles around it takes the sting out of the truth. It is a means of defense. Like, receiving criticism hurts so much that its like you release an airbag to cushion it, lick your wounds for a while, but by the time it’s been defanged, it’s no longer relevant. Any people with lots of planets in Cancer that can relate? Me, I tend to ignore some hurtful criticism and find an angle of thinking about it that somehow makes it okay or invalidates it.
I think he was just calling my hologram and was legitimately surprised I did not think what he thought I thought. Been through it a million times on dates. People see me and think I am someone I am not and man, they just have no idea what to do 30 min into the date.
That is one of my issues upon starting to do readings (I have just started, rather timidly). I have enough self-confidence issues of my own and I really try to do my best but what if the other person “does not hear” what you’re trying to convey? How do you “brush off” (in lack of better words) the negative impression that the person who came to the reading leaves on you?
anesa-the impression belongs to them, as what they want to hear does. who you are belongs to you.
when i was in social services, sometimes a client’s issues could kinda get under your skin. you had to remind yourself- i did not put them here, and i cannot save them from here. i can only provide support and insight while they work out their own lives.
i also find taking a shower, and mentally “cutting the energy cords” from contacts i’ve had in the day to be helpful in disengaging from other people’s energy… (my pisces in the 7th requires skill disengaging from others to avoid melding)…good luck!
goddess - truly interesting. I’ve grown up from a place where even when it rained I’d think it could be my fault (it’s a joke of course, but almost the truth - Sun/Saturn sq Moon sq Nep opp Mars) so that can be a real issue. But I now understand the need to dissociate what’s mine and what’s not. Easier said than done but I’m working on it. Fascinating that a shower works on you - 7H Pisces. Thanks!
i have sat. sq my moon too, and wonder sometimes if that doesn’t make a predisposition to take responsibility for other’s emotions. i know that’s an issue i’ve worked on over the years.
ah, yes, but a man in a kilt is often a very manly man. I’m going to link a utilikilt but seperately in case it gets caught in the spam filter…
http://www.utilikilts.com/
I offer the following advice in a humble way and with great respect.
What you guys do is like holding up a mirror for people. They ask you to do this, but they don’t always like what they see in the mirror, and will project their reaction stuff, or try to, onto you.
I have been blessed with some good teachings about water which I’d like to share with you, as a way of saying thank you for things I’ve learned on this blog. Goddess’s advice about taking a shower is right on.
If you can believe that water is a living being, with its own spirit and feelings, then you can talk to the water while you shower, ask for its help in cleansing the raw stuff that people try to project onto you (goddess, you’re exactly right - it’s their stuff not yours).
Everything brings forth life in water, everything. Water sustains life, supports life, and that is what you must think about while you’re talking to that water, asking for a cleansing and a healing (new life), telling it what you need. And you will receive it.
In my people’s teachings, water is the realm of women - we belong to it, and it belongs to us. Men can use it to pray with too, it’s not that, it’s just that the realm of water is female and belongs to us women so we’re all strong in that power. Our teachings also tell us that it is one of our original medicines, and therefore when you ask for its help you must always thank that medicine too, to close the circle that is opened when you call on it to help you. And if you’re in a situtation where a shower/bath is not feasible right then, you can always say a prayer, pour a little water into your cupped hands, ask for a cleansing/clearing/healing and just wipe yourself down and you will feel light again. You can also clear negative energy in a room by putting a little water in a bowl, tell the water what you want through prayer, then go around the room the way the sun travels, flicking little bits of water on the walls and anything else you want to cleanse.
Just a little something I thought I’d pass along in hopes that it would help those of you who willingly do the hard job of holding up a mirror to help others, especially for those of us who don’t want to see. Probably you’re doing these things with the water already, but just thought I’d put it out there in case it could do some good.
Personally I’m very grateful for people like you who do the hard work of trying to help others. So many people are searching for answers and I’m thankful there are those like yourselves who can point folks in the right direction, if only they are willing to look in the mirror.
Have a great day everyone!
peppermint that was really nice and thoughtful, thanks.
satori, that was really nice and thoughtful, too, lol. that first contest entry on the homepage is HILARIOUS!!!
Before I came here, I was thinking about something a friend said to me the other day. At the time I was amused, but I realized just about ten minutes ago that if I had said the same thing to her there would have been unimaginably bad fallout.
WTF is that about?
*sigh* SaDiablo I can sooooo relate to that. Boundaries, eh? I had a friend who used to think it was hilarious to call me ‘dirty whore’ all the time. Um, yeah. Funny, eh? (No, we aren’t friends anymore).
*bugeyes* Oh, wow, kashmiri! At least mine wasn’t that bad. . .
I don’t blame you for dropping that friend. At least mine has some, um, actually a lot of redeeming qualities.
i’m sorry, satori. but i just can’t go with ya on the kilt thing. even utilikilts. i know the screensavers dude wore one and all, but i just can’t take a man in a skirt seriously.
peppermint, i enjoyed reading your post and there were some lovely suggestions in it.
In love with the utilikilt, I must say. A man who is comfortable showing his knobby knees gets my sartorial respect, at least.
Thanks, sartori!
Er…SAtori. Guess I got all tangled up in sartorial…
I have thought about a phone consultation, Elsa - I do like the idea, but I am worried that I would spend the money and then forget half of it!
I once saw a guy come in the library where I work wearing a utilikilt. Some guys can’t carry off that look, but it was damn good on him.
Well I must be in the hinterlands, cause I never even HEARD of a utilikilt, much less seen one. Ummm, probably not to my taste, but to each his own.
@ Peppermint - “In my people’s teachings” ? mind my asking what people?
Sorry about my last post, just wanted to get that question asked.
I agree that some men can’t carry off the kilt look, utili- or not. My bestest guy friend likes to wear his around although his chubby, Scottish ass can’t really pull it off (makes no sense, eh?). We love him anyway.
And when we went to DragonCon in Atlanta, there was a Utilikilt stand. It was awesome watching guys try ‘em on. Whoo! Legs!