Hello, Elsa.

I ponder in regards to the many astrological instruments or approaches which can be obtainable: transits, midpoints, photo voltaic arc, progressed charts, natal + progressed, and so forth. What are your ideas on which instruments or approaches are greatest for what explicit points? If somebody asks in your steerage do you simply routinely take a look at natal & transits, do you contemplate different influences & how do you resolve?

Kansas, USA

Nice query!

I begin with a natal chart for any and all queries. For one factor, I have to know who’s asking!  I’ve been at this a very long time so I can learn a chart in about fifteen seconds.  That is my course of after I get a session with a selected concern. It’s quick however orderly and works like a move chart…

1.Who is that this?

2. Does what this particular person is asking, correlate with what I see within the chart, plus the transits?

This takes a few minute.  Roughly 80% of charts / issues are delineated proper then and there  Consider, I’m attempting to deal with a sure challenge, not prepared each nuance. If I’ve the issue in hand – Skip to #5.

3. If I’m in any respect confused or uncertain; if the lights don’t come on, BRIGHTLY, I do know I’m going to have puzzle it out.  This might imply I would like extra data; have to ask the purchasers some clarifying questions. I may have auxiliary charts. I’ll have a weak case for some cause; this might see me test a photo voltaic return or progressed for affirmation, or in any other case.

4. I hold trying till I determine the factor out, except it’s unimaginable, with out additional data. Examples of which can be issues like “a relationship” of 1 month is totally different then considered one of ten years.  Are there youngsters concerned?

5. Subsequent, I decide what I have to say to the particular person?  To assist them, that is. That’s at all times my purpose.  I often get this actually quick as properly.  It’s the reply they want, or the concept or the plan, and so forth.

6. Will I be capable of say it?

Time and an individual’s resistance is an element. Additionally the complexity of what I have to convey, which depending on the person.  That’s not a comment about intelligence.  Sagittarians don’t like being drug via the mud or stuffed in a darkish properly.  Mercury varieties hardly ever get pleasure from confusion and anxiousness, and so forth.  I’m planning my method right here.

I can pull up a chart, look at it, click on print, attain over and seize the chart from the printer, stroll to my bed room, the place it’s quiet with no distractions. By the point I  stroll the fifty ft or no matter it’s, I’ve it sorted and I’m able to go.   Because of this I’ve no-wait consultations.  I’m on it earlier than you may ring my cellphone. I don’t know why I can do that apart from huge apply, and I’ve developed my talent.

Now I’m not saying there may be not different data in different charts. There may be different data!  However my purchasers typically desire a scorching shot. They’re unhappy, scared or feeling uncontrolled and so they need it put proper. They need HELP. Assuming I can discern the reply, what I’m describing works greatest as a result of it’s not diluted.  Er… it’s higher to be instructed the proper factor, a number of instances, then it’s to drown somebody in trivia that distracts from the issue you’re having.

That stated, if somebody mentions considered one of these different chart, I get in on that, each time.  The consumer is the boss, see?  Generally folks take a look at considered one of these charts and it scares them. Somebody instructed them they have been going to die! Stuff like that must be handled.

I personally don’t use Photo voltaic Arcs (however don’t care in case you do).  I like Secondary Progressions and Return charts.

I’ll use composite charts for relationships, if it’s relevant, however this isn’t a typical consulting factor.  Individuals are typically taking a look at synastry.

I do contemplate midpoints, however solely after they’re activated by transits.

I do have purchasers who name wanting to have a look at auxiliary charts, reminiscent of this Scorpio, the impartial runner. I’m glad to do that nevertheless it’s not tremendous frequent.

Mainly, I’m a properly rounded astrologer, working in service. The consumer tells me what they need and I exploit my astro information to present them what they need; precisely what they need.

I’m the waitress of astrology, you could possibly say.  You order, I ship. Each events go away happy! I prefer it loads.