Astrology as a Business
respond to their life situation. They have lost their ability
to respond to events—they have lost their ‘response-
ability’. The first step in any reading, then, involves
dealing with this condition.
The majority of clients not only have lost all flexibility,
they are often seeking to escape from a particular set of
circumstances. They have replaced whatever flexibility
they may have had with a series of "musts," ultimatums,
or conditions that must be met if they are to go on: they
must get out of this marriage, they must find a better job,
they must find some sympathetic person, and so forth.
Most are seeking release or relief from what they feel to
be an unbearable situation. They have lost all of the
appetite or "gameness" that once led them to take on
their responsibilities in the first place. They have
ceased to respond to the demands of their own
particular set of circumstances. They have had enough,
are fed up, and are in the process of shutting down—
closing down their minds. Beneath whatever social
veneers they necessarily have, this is the state of mind
of the average client.