posted March 10, 2003 07:04 AM              

Do you think this looks like a good choice? Here are my details:

planet sign degree house motion
Sun Aries 26°41'19 07 direct
Moon Sag 24°46'29 03 direct
Merc Pisces 29°49'24 06 direct
Venus Pisces 22°56'34 06 direct
Mars Aries 07°57'24 06 direct
Jupiter Cancer 29°46'47 10/11 direct
Jupiter is technically near the end of house 10 and is interpreted in house 11.
Saturn Virgo 07°30'22 12 retrograde
Uranus Scorp 19°55'00 01 retrograde
Nept Sag 20°19'43 03 retrograde
Pluto Libra 17°35'52 01 retrograde
True Node Virgo 16°43'43 12 retrograde

House positions (Placidus)
Ascendant Libra 16°02'34
2nd House Scorp 23°08'09
3rd House Sag 17°33'42
Imum Coeli Cap 08°22'12
5th House Aqua 00°34'25
6th House Pisces 00°04'54
Descendant Aries 16°02'34
8th House Taurus 23°08'09
9th House Gemini 17°33'42
Medium Coeli Cancer 08°22'12
11th House Leo 00°34'25
12th House Virgo 00°04'54

Major aspects
Sun Trine Moon 1°55
Sun Square Jupiter 3°05
Sun Trine Neptune 6°22
Moon Square Mercury 5°03
Moon Square Venus 1°50
Moon Conjunction Neptune 4°27
Moon Sextile Pluto 7°11
Mercury Trine Jupiter 0°03
Venus Trine Uranus 3°02
Venus Square Neptune 2°37
Mars Quincunx Saturn 0°27
Neptune Sextile Pluto 2°44
Neptune Sextile Ascendant 4°17
Pluto Conjunction Ascendant 1°33

I copied that from astro.com Anything jump out at anyone??

posted March 10, 2003 09:10 PM              

I'm not sure what Gestalt is?? I want to get into youth work. I think teenagers need all the support and just to be listened to. I would like to set up my own business and try and get sponsorship so I don't have to charge a fee or anything. I have always dreamed of opening my own youth centre or youth crisis centre.

posted March 10, 2003 11:42 PM              

I have never heard of this type of councelling before either Cat, but a councelling course is definately something that has interested me for a while too now.

Ruby, who and where did you obtain this info to be able to study from home. Is there a phone number as I am in Australia also and would be interested in calling to find out more details

posted March 11, 2003 10:01 AM            

Plus here are some other links you may find interesting........
http://www.g-g.org/gestalt_bookmarks/
http://www.gestalt.org/
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gik_gestalt/gestalt_critique.html
http://www.sonoma.edu/psychology/os2db/warmoth3.html
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/w/warmotha/awhumpsy.html

Sue

posted March 11, 2003 10:02 PM              

Poops, the cheapest and probable best course is with the Australian institute of professional councellors. The course cost is $2,309 and you can pay that upfront or pay $129 per month for 21 months. It is Austudy approved so the government will pay you to study it and it is self paced!! so you do it in your own time.

no I don't work in advertising for these people but I was really happy when I found out about the course because they don't have councelling at TAFE yet.

All I need is to get my act together to save the $129 p/month and I can do it.

Go to www.aipc.net.au Good luck with it poops and let me know how you go and what you decide !!!

posted March 12, 2003 02:26 AM              

I looked at your chart and one thing jumped out,
it was your Moon/Neptune conjunction in Sag in the 3rd house. This indicates a marked sensitivity to suffering and the desire to do something about it. Hence, the interest in counseling. Then, having Gemini on the 9th is another strong indicator, as the 9th house rules counseling. Gemini of the mind, so to speak.

Have you ever thought of counseling children?
There is that maternal, caregiver call of the Cancer midheaven.

Pisces on the 6th, indicates a love to penetrate the nebulous areas of the mind, with the Venus (love), Mercury (mind) and Mars (energy) placed there.

Anyway, just my input. And I don't know enough about Gestalt, but I believe the use of intuition is important. Your Venus and Mercury in Pisces would lend itself to that very nicely.

posted March 12, 2003 04:17 AM              

Gestalt looks very interesting and I am actually going to look more into it and see if I can find more to do with it in Australia.

posted March 12, 2003 12:39 PM              

I wish you good luck in your endeavors.

posted March 14, 2003 03:00 AM            

A very brief explanation is that Gestalt deals with what is here and now - what is happening in the present. Even though thing's from the past have undoubtly created the way we are now, Gestalt says that as it's happening "in the now" it can be dealt with "in the now". It's opens up your awareness by helping you to clear "the middle zone"
ie: Think of a figure eight lying on it's side. In the circle on the left write "inner" and in the circle on the right, write outer. Where the figure 8 crosses between the 2 circles put a lot of "scribble" - that is the middle zone (sometimes called the chatter box etc).
So when we try to bring something that is out of our awareness (inner) into our awareness (outer) it passes through our middle zone. Usually by the time it passes through that zone we end up with a "distorted" awareness because of our past "conditioning".

Obviously it goes much deeper than I've mentioned above. You'll probably have read about Field - Figure & Ground and The Cycle of Experience/Awareness etc
It's a fascinating subject and amazing how much we do that is "out of our awareness".

posted March 15, 2003 07:54 AM              

I will let you know how I go with it Sue Maybe you should be a teacher? you have a great way of explaining things

posted April 13, 2003 09:10 PM              

Just wanting to Thank-You Ruby, as I have enquired about this course and it seems right up my alley, so I'm probably joining up for it tomorrow!

The price is hefty, but, I may be eligible for Austudy, or one of those, so I'm checking all this out at the moment.

It's quite an exciting prospect to know that I will finally get some sort of a career happening, that involves doing what I love, and that's helping others to manage and better their lives, even if that's only through "understanding" them and being a good listener. This seems to have been a very reoccuring theme in my life anyway, it's just that it's taken me this many years to realise that's what comes natural to me.

If anyone would like to take a peek at my chart,I'd love to hear your input.
18th Dec 1968 ( 4:45 am ) Melb..Australia.

posted April 15, 2003 12:12 PM              

Sun: Aries
Mercury: Aries
Jupiter: Aries
Rising: Gemini
Venus: Taurus
Mars: Aquarius
Saturn: Cancer
Uranus: Scorpio
Neptune: Sagittarius
Pluto: Libra

posted April 22, 2003 01:34 PM              

anything happening yet with the counseling course??

news??

posted April 24, 2003 01:33 AM              

But maybe you can spend the time on another project -- or, perhaps this free time is an unanticipated "gift" to you.

Is there any way you can use the time to contact people in your community who are doing the work you think you'd like to do? Maybe you can have informational interviews with them, or volunteer. That way everybody wins.