For astrology to be relevant in an individual’s life, it has to have the same relevance as professional counseling psychology. This means that the client must integrate the information from the chart into their everyday behavior—something no reading astrologer anywhere ever requires their client to do.
And clients have to go into the circumstance expecting the same level of give and take they would get with a professional counseling psychologist, which means that they have to have more interaction than a “reading”.
If the client were to see a counseling psychologist, 95% of them now use CBC or CBT. This is cognitive-behavioral counseling or cognitive behavioral therapy(the difference between therapy and counseling is actually rather nebulous and minimal). The technique in astrology, would have the astrologer explaining something in the chart, asking the client to explain how they see it, asking the client to formulate a plan for avoiding being ambushed by it, having the client implement the plan, and then coming back to the astrologer for more input astrologically.
If this were to be done on-line, then the astrologer and the client would have to write back and forth to each other. The name for this activity is journaling, or in the context of a description of the activity in an online web setting: journal based.
Are there any astrologers “out there in TV Land” who do this? Maybe—possibly—probably. One would have to break out Google and search using such terms as CBT, journal based, astrology, counseling, cognitive-behavioral, etc.
And of course the potential client would have to make the initial decision that they really did want more than a reading, and wanted to actually integrate what they learned about their chart into the functions of their life itself.
