Astrology as a Business
In fact, one of the things you soon learn in counseling is
to just drop it. After the reading is over, with its tempests
and sea changes, it is best to just forget it—as I try and
do. One good reason for doing this (dropping it) is
because it is way too much to try and keep in mind,
much less process. All kinds of experiences take place
during a reading, and your mind is often stretched far
beyond what you, personally, are used to. This occurs
as part of the accommodation process—that of listening
to the client. A client can easily take you on what
amounts to an acid trip, bending the limits of your mind
and pushing you into realms you would otherwise never
see or go near.
So, there is no figuring out later what went on during the
session, and, as mentioned, I have learned to just let it
pass—to think nothing of it. I don't want to belabor this
point, but I would like to prepare you for what you will
experience. Let me say it one more time:
The client, whom you don't know, may have material so
pent up that it has not seen the light of day for many
years, if ever. Neither you nor they know what may
erupt from some deep areas of the psyche. It can be so
powerful that you won't be able to (or want to)
remember just what did transpire. It is that powerful. I
don't know how to put it, but you may well be standing
at the very edge of the void with your client, gazing into
the eternity—or damnation. When that experience
closes, and you both come back down into what we
could call normal consciousness, the mind closes after it.
It is not even much of a memory. You can't remember or
reconstruct it, and, trying to, only further strains an
already exhausted state. My point here is that we learn
to just let some things pass. They make no ‘sense’ in
the ordinary meaning of that word.