Astrology as a Business
intensity, by offering them no resistance, I do not
enforce whatever defensiveness they may feel or expect.
For example, I am not opposing their decision to leave
their husbands and children and run off with the local
musician. I am not shocked that they cheat on their
wives or admit to having hit their children. I am taking it
all in and just accepting what they are presenting me
with—and that's all. When they push, I give. In general,
my passiveness, or listening to, has the effect of
drawing them out further—often in a bitter criticism,
complaints, and so on. My lack of opposition or
resistance tends to induce them to spill out even more
than they ever intended, and this spilling out and over is
very important. It also marks the end of the first stage of
a reading.