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posted November 15, 2015 05:42 PM            

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I'm curious. Have you ever been asked to do a chart that left you afraid of the person? Or the chart tells you something that you feel bad telling the owner?

I've had the experience when I felt that astrologers were holding back and I don't know how I feel about that. I know it's important not to be fatalistic, but isn't information power? At least power to understand why things are the way they are?

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posted November 15, 2015 05:48 PM            

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In my opinion the astrologer has to tell the client everything good and bad. That is the point of getting an astrology reading.. to better understand yourself.

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posted November 15, 2015 05:53 PM            

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I don't have a lot of experience, but I'd be inclined to agree. How do you handle delivering "bad" information, AtheneGoddess?

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posted November 15, 2015 05:54 PM            

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I do a pre interview with everyone that comes to me. I say that I am very honest and direct. I am compassionate and have empathy but I will NOT mince words. If someone pays me, they deserve the truth. If not, it is really just BS. If they seem as if they do not want the truth, I will not accept the reading. I cannot deal with having to mince words and dance around truths. It is too stressful lol. It is not fun. I enjoy what I do. I want the other person to enjoy it, even if there are hard things to see. You have to see the truth in order to have any hope of change. You are not doing anyone any favors to mince words imo.

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posted November 15, 2015 05:54 PM            

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I think because most astrologers are taught to never do harm to a client by saying extremely disparaging comments. Some astrologers may not say too much because they may think the client won't understand it or take it wrong.

But the job of a good astrologer is to suggest ways to get around a challenging chart aspect, but have a knack with communicating the negative and positive. An astrologer should look at a chart and know the best way to give information to a client by looking at the person's moon and mercury, and act accordingly. No client should go away from a reading confused and feeling like something was hidden. That is not a good astrologer.

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posted November 15, 2015 06:00 PM            

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I deliver bad information with love and I don't judge the person. I also try to look at the root of the problem and tell the solution.

My style is that the birth chart isn't real. It's just lessons until we perfect ourselves and perfection only exists with immortality. And immortality is divine love. All imperfection exist because of a lack of love. We have to send love to our imperfections, not judge them.

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posted November 15, 2015 07:06 PM            

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Once I had a reading by an astrologer who came highly, HIGHLY recommended by a dear friend. That astrologer claimed she would tell me the truth and will not hide anything. Well, after I went through that particular period, and I was complaining to my friend that the astrologer had not been accurate and didn't see all the crap I went through, my friend relayed the info to the astrologer. The astrologer's response was that she saw all the bad things that were going to happen but she didn't want to tell me.

So I lost respect for this astrologer because there were only 2 possibilities:

-She didn't see the bad things and her reading was flawed and she didn't have the honesty to admit that she is not perfect and the know-it-all master she positions herself as.

-She saw the bad things, but lied to me when she claimed she would tell me everything she saw. Don't make promises you can't keep.

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posted November 15, 2015 07:11 PM            

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In my private readings of charts, I tell the truth and nothing but the truth, but I also make sure the person I read for understand that this is the truth as "I" see it. But that I could be wrong.

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posted November 15, 2015 07:20 PM            

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I am far more experienced in tarot than astrology. I'm just really diving deep into astrology lately and learning all I can before I want to start giving out readings. However, I've been giving tarot readings for quite some time. I always reveal the bad. I word it so it's easier to hear, and that the client can fully understand, but I never hide the bad. I had one client ask if they were alone in the universe, I drew three cards and the last and very telling card was the hermit reversed, which indicates isolation, unwelcomed withdrawal and loneliness. My advice was that he take some time to stop cutting yourself off from loved ones because by doing this you are making yourself alone. I told him that he needs to meditate and to rediscover his meaning for life and not to think himself into isolation. He needed to rebuild himself and find his way in life again.

I would guess I'd have the same approach with astrology, hopefully this helps

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posted November 15, 2015 07:34 PM            

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Many years ago, when I was trying my hand at phone readings. One night, I had someone asking me if their son who went missing a year or two before was still alive. After I shuffled, I picked up the Death Card, and I made the mistake of mentioning which card it picked, before wording my explanation of it. The caller gasped at hearing I picked the death card, and hung up. It bothered me so much that I stopped doing online/phone readings after that.

It's been years now, and i have matured, and I think I can handle it, so I plan to go back to doing this kind of work.

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posted November 15, 2015 07:37 PM            

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Thanks, AtheneG, Ami, Comatoes, Belage & Mergoat. I'm glad I'm of the same mind as you. Interpretation is the hardest thing to learn. So, I really appreciate honest insight when I can find it.

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