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25 Tips to Polish Your Readings

25 Tips to Polish Your Readings

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Author: Alison Price   –   Published: January 2025

25 Tips to Polish Your Readings

Lean In

As a boost for the New Year, I’m providing you with 25 ways that you can get better at astrology this year. You don’t have to do them all but you will be a far better astrologer if you do. For each of my 25 points. I’ve provided either a link through to a book about the subject or to a website that goes into the topic deeper.

Encouragement

I want to encourage you that as soon as you get past the four cornerstones of astrology, which are signs, planets, houses and aspects that as you start to develop a better understanding of how to read a chart. I would also encourage you to get some other literature surrounding astrology which you can lean on. I love astrology books.

When I was a beginner astrologer, I bought every book that was available at the time. All my spare cash went into astrology books and of course this was before the internet. But even today, my bookshelves sag under the weight of all the astrology books I have.

Within my astrology library I probably have 400 books. I’ve read every single word in every single book, and some of the books more often than others. I’ve segmented my astrology bookshelves into three – cold, warm and hot.

 

  • My cold astrology books, which are books that I’ve read once and thought ho hum.
  • My warm astrology bookshelf where there are books that I would look for every now and perhaps once a month or so.
  • My hot astrology bookshelf contains the books that I reach for at least once a week if not every day.

Cold Bookshelf

My cold bookshelf, in the back room, contains all the astrology books which I have purchased, read once and thought ho hum. This bookshelf also has the books that I feel do not interest me, even if they may be well written and of value to others. 

Books on my cold bookshelf are what I call thin volumes, repetitive concepts with no new ideas type of books. Additionally on the cold shelf are the astrology practices which I no longer do, which are rectification, Uranian and health related chart readings.

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Warm Bookshelf

On my warm bookshelf, which is in the other room, are the books which I reach for less frequently and perhaps once a month. These are ones on interesting topics like secondary progression solar arc directions, the planet specific books, (Pluto, Neptune Mercury etc.) the sign and houses specific books. 

Additionally, anything that I feel it was valuable when I bought it and which I constantly refer back to.

Hot Bookshelf

The type of books that are on my hot bookshelf are multiple ephemerides (noon and midnight), Tables of Houses, both Placidus and Koch. There are all my own astrology books which I’ve written, obviously. 

I have the copies of all the physical magazine editions and journals in which I had an astrology article printed. I also have copy of Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos and Sue Tompkins’s The Contemporary Astrologer’s Handbook.

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The point really is that you don’t know if an astrology book is going to appeal to you until you read it yourself because your chart is different to my chart and what I find interesting, you may not. However, if you have the time and the resources, I urge you to broaden your bookshelf. Build your astrology bookshelf from whatever it is today.

So say you’ve got 10 books on your astrology bookshelf, so by the end of the year, I’d like you to have 20 books on that bookshelf, at least. Another way of looking at this is to say to yourself that if you bought one astrology book a month, that would be 12 books for the year. 

Then you will have purchased, read and either loved or thought ho hum. But if you’ve loved them, they end up on your nightstand and you read them at bedtime. Because let me tell you, even after thirty years of doing astrology, I still have an astrology book on my bedside which I dip into at night. 

What I’m Reading

My current book that I’m reading is A History of Western Astrology, volume 2 by Nicholas Campion. And to be quite clear, this is not the first time I’ve read this book. I purchased it two years ago and I read it then. Now I’m rereading it because I’m trying to take notes from the book specifically about the chapters in it which interest me and that I wish to explore further.

My Wishes for You This Year

As a valued reader I wish for you:

  • That you will find one or two books that you find interesting, and you need to read again.
  • That these books would be ones that, after you’ve read them, you’re thinking about the topic constantly when you’re driving, when you’re on the bus, in the doctor’s waiting room and you think, “I need to go back and explore this part of astrology further.”
  • That you get inspired to dig deeper into this fascinating subject.
  • That by doing reading more, you improve your astrology interpretations for your clients.
  • That you make meaningful contributions in your client’s lives through your greater knowledge.

Here are my 25 Tips for You

Chart Precision

Software

You need to be able to cast charts correctly and this is done through professional programs like Solar Fire and apps like Astrogold. If you use something else, you need software that offers real-time chart calculation. In 2025, technology has made chart construction more accessible and precise than ever before.

 

Hypotheticals

Inform yourself about Uranian astrology and the energy points which uses hypothetical planets like Hades, Cupido and Apollon.

 

Multicultural

This year expand your understanding beyond Western astrology by studying other astrological traditions. Suggestions are Vedic, Chinese and Indigenous astrological systems to create more holistic readings.

 

Archetypes

Emphasize Psychological Archetypes

Move beyond surface-level planetary positions and explore psychological archetypes represented in each planetary combination, transit and aspect.

 

 

Intuition

Cultivate a balanced emotional state during your readings. Allow intuitive insights to flow without personal bias or preconceived notions interfering with your interpretations.

 

Self-Awareness

Train yourself to recognize spiritual and transformative potentials within chart configurations and not just predictive elements.

 

Technical Skill Enhancement

Master Advanced Aspects

Go beyond standard aspects of longitude like the conjunctions, squares and trines. Learn to read more nuanced aspects like the parallels and contra-parallels.

 

Midpoints

Incorporate midpoint techniques to uncover hidden dynamics and subtle interactions between planetary energies that might not be immediately apparent.

Forecasting

Eclipses

Make sure you know how to combine transits and secondary progressions with the direct forecasting methods and eclipses. Understand Saros charts.

 

Solar Return Techniques

Develop your methods for interpreting solar return charts and dig into a 12-year forecast. Look for intricate life pattern developments over subsequent solar returns.

Broaden

Evolutionary

Why not shift from general predictive models to evolutionary perspectives which focus on soul growth, karmic lessons and personal transformation? This branch of astrology will stretch your thinking.

 

 

Generational

Look at the bigger picture and analyze how generational planetary placements (like outer planet transits) create collective consciousness shifts and individual life trajectories.

 

 

Global Trends

Learn to read your client’s individual charts against a broader societal and global astrological pattern. Aim to understand your client’s personal journeys within larger national and international perspectives.

 

 

Technological and Research Integration

Research Communities

Participate in online and offline research groups that push the boundaries of astrological understanding and methodological rigor. Your own astrological research can make a difference. Join the top astrological research community – the NCGR.

 

 

Organization

Maintain detailed records of your readings and track accuracy. Keep good astrology chart archives and have happy clients.

 

 

Deeper and Better

Psychology

Design readings that focus on your client’s potential and growth rather than deterministic predictions. Help your clients to understand their agency and co-creative potential and avoid being a part of the co-dependency problem.

 

 

Develop Cultural Sensitivity

Recognize and respect diverse cultural backgrounds when interpreting charts. Avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach through the lens of your own world view.

 

 

Business

Create a clear business plan for your thriving astrology practice. Make sure to align your astrology passion with profit.

 

Relationships

Synastry

Make sure you know about reading relationship dynamics through composite midpoint, Davison relationship charts and synastry techniques.

 

 

Heliocentric and Selenocentric Perspectives

Stretch your mind with heliocentric (solar based) and selenocentric (lunar based) chart interpretations. Gain additional insights beyond traditional geocentric (Earth based) models.

 

 

Understand Astronomical Nuances

Stay updated with this year’s astronomical discoveries and their potential astrological implications. Bridge scientific and metaphysical understanding to make you a more rounded astrologer.

 

Professional Development

Commit to Continuous Learning

Attend astrology workshops, webinars and conferences which challenge and expand your astrological knowledge base. To my mind, the Faculty’s Summer School is the pinnacle of astrological conferences. I have attended twice and the experience changed the trajectory of my life.

 

Self-Reflection

Regularly analyze your own chart to understand your personal biases and growth areas in your astrological practice. Make self-reflection a part of your day (6th house).

 

Develop Interdisciplinary Knowledge

Study psychology, planet mythology, numerology and other related fields to enrich your astrological interpretations.

Solar System

Asteroids

Educate yourself on the mythical goddesses buried in the asteroid archetypes. Learn about Jupiter’s female family and its importance in our gender blended world.

 

 

Luminaries

Try to create a harmonious approach that equally values both personal research and intuitive insights in your astrological practice. Thoroughly lean into your luminaries’ placements in your chart.

 

Overarch

Remember, astrology is a journey of continuous learning and personal evolution. These tips are guides to help you develop a more nuanced, compassionate and sophisticated approach to chart reading in 2025 and beyond.

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Alison Price: Professional Astrologer

Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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New Year Astro Biz Energy Reset

New Year Astro Biz Energy Reset

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Author: Alison Price   –   Published: December 2024

New Year Energy Reset

As we start the New Year, I want to talk about your content creation efforts within your astrology business and where you expend your precious time and energy. There are only 24 hours in a day and even less time to tend to your astrology business. If you are a full-time astrologer, you can certainly put in thirty-five hours a week into your business. However, if you’re a part time astrologer, perhaps you have a day job and you’re just doing astrology on the side, or as a hobby, you still need to invest at least seven hours a week to build, nurture and grow your astrology presence.

Energy

My personal energy has become more important over the years which means what I choose to focus my efforts on. This year, 2025, I want to tighten my energy attention on creating new things for my astrology business.

Mars

You can check out your energy potential by looking at your Mars complex. When you consider Mars, contemplate the sign, the house, the major aspects connecting to it, and its position in the chart itself. Not everybody has the same amount of energy available, but to consider your Mars complex is a great first step.

For example, my Mars complex is as follows:

  • Sign: Virgo
  • House: 3rd
  • Aspects: Conjoined Venus and sextile Moon
  • Position: None
  • Rules: EH, Q4, 10th house and 5th house.

I have a very quiet Mars in my chart and I really am particular about conserving my energy during the day.

Overload

The purpose of this newsletter is not to add to your load or overwhelm, but rather to give you an opportunity to reassess where you are expending your energy. Please do not feel pressure to be everywhere all the time. I certainly am not. However, on a day when you can carve out some time to work on your astrology business content creation, (horoscopes or blog posts) I suggest you start with the relationship platforms that you own first. There are two things you need to get in place and those are your website and your e-mail list. All the rest can be done later.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.

Your Digital Presence in 2025

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Your digital presence is where you are online as an astrologer. Note: Your personal online presence is something else. You need to separate your digital presence into two buckets.  

 

  • Relationship Platforms help you nurture your existing audience through direct, reliable communication channels which you control.
  • Discovery Platforms excel at helping you find and attract new audiences through their built-in discovery features.

 

With only so much vitality available to you every day, you need to give attention more to your relationship platform efforts than to your discovery platform efforts. Personally, I suggest 75% to relationship and 25% to discovery. So, if you have one hour a day to give to your astrology business, you will spend 45 minutes on relationship platform creation and 15 minutes on discovery platform creation. This percentage split further, see below.

Content Creation

Content creation includes activities like writing horoscopes, blogs, articles, creating videos, recording podcasts, newsletters (like this one) and anything else that you create yourself. Content creation is not client consultations. As an astrologer, your content creation is likely to be a priority if you are producing horoscopes, because typically each month you will write a new horoscope.

Relationship Platforms 75%

You Own Relationship Platforms

Relationship platforms are those that you own yourself. These are the platforms in which you have invested energy, money and time. People will have a closer relationship with you, and you with them, on your relationship platforms.

Website

You need an astrology website that you own. I run my website on WordPress and I’ve have been using Dreamhost as my website host since 2002. Your website is the mothership for everything you do in your astrology business. Every other piece of content that you ever create needs to link back to your website.

Email List

The second thing you need to do after you’ve created your website is to set up an e-mail list. You own your email list and the people’s contact details on your list. Your email list needs to be initiated sooner rather than later. If you still do not own an e-mail list, do yourself a favor and start one in January 2025. I personally use Kit.com as my email provider and you are welcome to check them out. Even if you don’t see yourself sending out emails right now, it is still important to capture the e-mail addresses of your astrology clients and people with whom you come into contact through your astrology practice.

Podcast

You don’t need a podcast, but if you do have one, you own it. You can check out my podcast here. You pay for monthly podcast hosting and your host pushes all your episodes out to Apple podcasts, Spotify and the rest of the gang almost magically. They also offer other bells and whistles to make life easier. I use Buzzsprout as my podcast host and I have done since April 2023. I’m extending you an invitation if you would like to be a guest on my podcast, please let me know.

Online Course

If you teach astrology, you can create an online course which you own. Personally, building an online course has been on my to-do list for a while now, but I never seem to get it done.

Discovery Platforms 25% (split 15% and 10%)

You Do NOT Own

Discovery platforms are the places on the internet where you might find yourself, but you do not own them. Discovery platforms are typically Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and others. The way to differentiate a discovery platform from a relationship platform is that if the owner of the discovery platform decides to close its business, there’s nothing you can do about it. All of your friends, followers, data, photos, videos and contacts on a discovery platform can disappear overnight.

There are two types of discovery platforms:

 

  • Search-engines
  • Post-and-go

Search Engine Discovery Platforms 15%

Searchable Content

People find you through search discovery platforms because they are searchable. Any content that you wrote last month, last year or five years ago can still be searched and discovered on a search engine discovery platform. I suggest you put 15% of your energy, time and effort into creating search engine discovery platform content.

Pinterest

Pinterest may not be a platform that you’re on or have thought about, but if you do anything which is visual or artistic or if you do “how to” types of work you will benefit by being on Pinterest. On Pinterest you pin a “pin” which is an image and some text, but it links back to your website. For example, if you did a pin about say, “Best fragrances for Pisces” you could link it straight back to your website to your Pisces perfume article where you sell your soaps, lotions, potions and beauty products. The consumer on Pinterest would probably search for something like, “Pisces perfume birthday gift ideas” and your pin will be served up to them. It makes sense to have a presence on Pinterest. Pins live forever and can be searched. You can check out my Pinterest here. Pinterest is mainly used by women.

YouTube

Another way to grow your astrology practice in 2025 is through creating videos on YouTube. YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google. This means that millions of people go to YouTube every day and search for what they’re looking for. 

For example, if someone searches for “How to Draw a Dispositor Tree” and you have a video which you created 5, 10 or 15 years ago, YouTube will find the video and serve it up to the seeker.

Videos live forever and can be searched. Creating videos has quite a steep learning curve.

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Social Media Discovery Platforms 10%

Post-and-Go Content

People will find you on post-and-go discovery platforms if they follow you already and if they happen to be on the platform when you post. Any content you upload to a post-and-go social platform will be buried down in the feed after a week. Social media post-and-go discovery platforms require relentless feeding to remain at the top of people’s feeds. Constant nurturing means posting something new at least every day.

Social Media Platforms

Social media includes platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X and LinkedIn. Growing a following on a social media platform can be an awareness arm of your astrology business. You need to encourage your followers on social media platforms to join your email list so you can continue to serve them in the future when the platform itself is long gone. Personally, I have a love hate relationship with IG and FB, I don’t do X or TikTok and I find that LinkedIn is a massive y-a-w-n. I do have a presence, but my efforts are expended elsewhere on creating content for my blog, newsletters and podcast.

Here are some ideas of exactly who-is-where on social platforms from Amy Porterfield’s brilliant biz book Two Weeks’ Notice:

 

  • TikTok is mainly used by Gen Alpha and Gen Z.
  • IG is mainly used by millennials and Gen X.
  • FB is now used chiefly by boomers.
  • LinkedIn is mostly used by businessmen and women.
  • X is mainly used by men.

Dead Social Media Platforms

Although everyone might be on Instagram at the moment, it wasn’t always the case. Social media platforms do not live forever. Do you remember Friends Reunited, My Space or Clubhouse? These dead social media platforms are all long gone and forgotten. They had their moment in the Sun and at the height of their popularity, they were the biggest, brightest and shiniest platforms to be had. No doubt you and I spent many hours immersed in these platforms which are no more.

Final Thoughts

Invest in Yourself

In a perfect world, we’d all be everywhere online at once, but this is not the case.

Starting Out

If you are just starting out, I suggest you begin slowly. Step one = website. Step 2 = e-mail and then choose one discovery platform to start with.

Started Already

If you find that you are already everywhere online and you are feeling stretched thin, this is the time to reconsider your content creation efforts. It’s time to think about what you can practically and at a level which you can maintain for the long haul and so that you don’t spend your life running on the hamster wheel.

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Self-care for Astrologers

Self-care for Astrologers

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Author: Alison Price   –   Published: December 2024

Self-Care for Astrologers

Personal Well-being

Why self-care is Crucial

This week I want to talk about some self-care topics that relate directly to astrologers. As a practicing astrologer, you are like a conduit, navigating the emotional lives of your clients while at the same time processing their planetary energies. Your work in astrology requires you to make a deep empathetic attunement. You’re not just interpreting charts, but you are also holding space for their personal transformations, soul revelations and possible existential inquiries. 

Unlike many other professions, astrology needs you to be simultaneously a counselor, spiritual guide, psychological interpreter and energetic translator. You end up absorbing the hopes, fears, vulnerabilities and transformative potentials of your clients. This intense emotional and spiritual vibe can quickly drain your own energy reserves, possibly leading to compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion and potential burnout if not carefully managed. Self-care isn’t just a wellness trend for astrologers, it’s an essential professional practice that protects your intuitive gifts and maintains your spiritual clarity. Self-care for astrologers makes sure that you can continue to offer meaningful, kindhearted guidance without becoming energetically overwhelmed or losing the connection to your own inner alignment.

Emotional Resilience Techniques

Boundary Setting

When you work with clients, it is important to recognize the delicate line between compassionate support and emotional absorption and this requires profound self-awareness and discernment.

Compassionate Support

As an astrologer, compassionate support means creating and holding a space where your clients can feel heard and validated and at the same time keeping an energetic boundary that prevents you from unconsciously taking on their emotional baggage.

Emotional Absorption

Emotional absorption occurs when you begin to internalize your client’s pain, hate, fears, or challenges as if they were your own. You can easily begin to experience their struggles with such intensity that you lose your objective perspective and you may become emotionally entangled. This differs from true compassion, which allows you to witness suffering with an open heart while maintaining a clear, centered energetic state.

Signs of Emotional Absorption

Signs of emotional absorption in yourself include:

  • Feeling physically depleted or having a headache after a session.
  • Facing persistent mood shifts days later the session which mirror your client’s emotional state.
  • Carrying your customer’s unresolved emotions long after the consultation ends.
  • Finding yourself ruminating on their personal challenges.

 

Signs of Compassionate Support

On the other hand, compassionate support involves:

  • Being fully present and actively listening.
  • Offering insightful guidance.
  • Holding space for transformation.
  • Consciously releasing the energetic connection at the end.
  • Trusting that your client has the inner resources to navigate their own journey.

 

Energy Sovereignty

The key here is to cultivate a practice of energetic sovereignty. This is where you can be deeply empathetic without becoming emotionally enmeshed. You recognize that true healing comes from empowering your clients to access their own inner wisdom rather than you absorbing their emotional baggage. They must develop their own coping mechanism and you can’t take their pain away to add to your own load.

Emotional Processing Strategies

I have a few ideas about what you can do to protect yourself from taking on the energy of your clients. Note: Honestly it works for all toxic people and not just astrology clients, I’m thinking mother-in-law here and perhaps you know they type of person I mean.

Reset Rituals: at Home

If you meet your clients face-to-face at your home, you will need to cleanse the space after they have gone. You can create a post-consultation emotional reset ritual which could involve some simple steps like:

  • Opening the window and letting in fresh air.
  • Light a candle to cleanse the area.
  • Use sage, palo santo, or other clearing herbs if you’re comfortable with them.
  • Ring a small bell or chime to reset the room’s energy.
  • You may wish to shake your hands and arms to shift any vibes from the consultation with your client off through your fingertips.
  • Practice a brief grounding meditation.
  • Take a few deep, intentional breaths to center yourself.
  • Wash your hands with the intention of cleansing any energetic attachments.

Reset Rituals: Online

With online Zoom clients it’s a bit different and after each session:

  • Always reboot your computer because this action clears the cache and closes all the open screens.
  • Get up from your desk. I usually walk through to the other room and probably make myself a fresh cup of tea.

Client Notes

In both cases (in person and online), I will take the hardcopy files that I have for my client with their charts, graphic ephemeris, forecast notes and whatever I wrote and place them in a manila folder and put them away. I never leave past client’s charts out on my desk, because these pages also carry the client’s own energy.

Visualization

You can use some visualization techniques to cleanse absorbed emotional energy from your body. One idea is to imagine standing in a shower or, even better, a waterfall where the water washes away emotional residue off you down the drain or down the river. Another idea is to picture a shielding white light within in your own aura which surrounds you for psychic protection.

Emotional Temperature Check

A good way to manage emotional overload from your clients is to develop a personal emotional check-in practice. This can also be called a daily emotional temperature check with yourself where you can try to identify and acknowledge your current emotional state without judgment.

 

 

Monthly Self-astrological Review

As astrologers, when we talk about “monthly” things the Moon immediately comes to mind. The transiting Moon, in its orbit, will conjoin and oppose every item in your chart each month.

Growth: Jupiter

You can use some reflection techniques to understanding personal growth through your chart by leaning into the planet Jupiter in your birth chart and:

  • See when the transiting Moon conjoined and opposed it during the month.
  • Note any hard transits to Jupiter from the other planets.

Transformation: Pluto

You can also employ some techniques for transformational astrological insights into your own personal development.

  • Consider your natal Pluto and the transits from the Moon during the month.
  • Focus on the lunar conjunction and the opposition first.
  • Finally, note any hard transits (oppositions and squares) from the other planets.

 

You can consider any other planets as well. This is just a guide.

Journaling for Self-care

Morning Pages: Daily Journaling

I am a huge fan of self-reflection through journaling. I enjoy morning pages which is the writing of a consciousness stream of all the thoughts buzzing in your mind that you clear out of your head first thing. You can see more on my ideas about how to do morning pages from my art blog Let’s consider how to lean into your chart for some astrologically informed journaling.

Reflection Journals: Monthly Journaling

The lunations are the New and Full Moons. Typically, there is one New and one Full Moon each month but not always. New and Full Moon suggest times for either starting something new (New Moon) and seeing what is working or not (Full Moon). Writing a reflection journal in line with the lunations is a good way to start journaling because you only have two entries to make each month. If you feel that constant journaling is too much, then start with lunations and see how you go.

Retrogrades: Quarterly Journaling

This can either be done in your main astrological journal, your journal for the year or in a small retrogrades workbook to track the main retrograde cycles and how they will impact you each year. I always add the retrogrades, along with other stuff, into my yearly astrological journal. So already I’m setting up the 2025 journal that I will use for the whole year.

Transits: Yearly Journaling

You can also monitor the transits, by planet or month, to see how they impact you. This ongoing transit information gets better the longer you do it as you become aware of which planets create more energy surges for you.

Your Choice

All of these journaling practices can be used for your own self-awareness. You do not have to do everything. Pick what will work for you.

Writing Techniques

Mercury Complex

Additionally, you could stretch yourself by leaning into your Mercury complex for some reflective writing techniques. Your Mercury complex is everything to do with Mercury within your chart, such as the sign, essential dignity, direction, house, chart position and aspects.

Archetypal Storytelling

If the myths of the planets interest you, then the archetypes can be another way of exploring each planet within your chart. Dig into the folklore of the planets as a starting point.

Creating Personal Ritual and Reset Routines

Daily Reset Practices

Here are some more ideas on resetting your life and astrology practice so you can better serve your clients without them swallowing you whole.

  • Morning intention setting aligned with current astrological energy.
  • Evening gratitude and release rituals.
  • Seasonal personal ceremony design.

Energetic Maintenance Routines

Stepping slightly out of the pure astrological realm, there are other New Age practices that can be brought in to support your astrology practice. Some of the examples I have for you are as follows:

  • Personal altar creation and maintenance.
  • Crystal and sound healing integration.
  • Nature journaling and connection rituals.

Perhaps not everything will appeal to you, but I do find that many astrologers are familiar with related New Age practices such as crystal healing, tuning into nature (forest bathing) and grounding. It’s up to you.

 

Birth Chart Self-care

Personalized Self-Care

When you have time, you can study your own birth chart to find some specific personalized, self-care needs, or practices that you may be able to bring into you life. Some ideas to start you off are:

  • Understand your chart’s self-care needs (Moon and 6th house).
  • Tailored wellness practices to your unique astrological makeup (1st house complex).
  • A seasonal self-care regime that aligns with the transits.

Overarching

Integrating holistic self-care into your astrological practice is a great way to support youself as a professional astrologer. A commitment to your own personal wellness as a professional astrologer can be helpful. Consider your own self-care practices as a way to support your own ongoing learning and growth.

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Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

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This page covers all the upcoming presentations and events with Alison Price, professional astrology coach and podcaster..

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Planetary Complexes

Insights Into Important Planets

with Alison Price

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Managing Client Expectations

Managing Client Expectations

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Author: Alison Price   –   Published: November 2024

Client Expectations

When starting or running your astrology business, one of the most crucial skills you can develop is managing your client expectations. Clients often come to us seeking definitive answers about their future or quick fixes to life’s problems. As astrologers, we walk a delicate line between illuminating potential paths and avoiding overpromising. In this week’s newsletter I want to share my thoughts on the challenge of client expectation management and offer you some practical tips that have worked for me in the past.

Jupiter vs Saturn

Great expectations are shown by Jupiter in your chart and what you actually get is shown by Saturn. We all know that these two planets play a role and have their place, but in the realm of client expectations your customer wants Jupiter and you have to tell them they’re getting Saturn.

Expectation 1

People want fame, fortune, clever kids, beauty, hope, longevity and the perfect mate – Jupiter. The astrologer sees stress, oppositions, constraints and a natal promise that suggests otherwise – Saturn.

Expectation 2

People want a five-hour reading covering everything in their life and constant phone follow up calls for months – Jupiter. The astrologer provides a one-hour session within certain parameters with a focused topic approach and limited follow up – Saturn.

Expectation 3

People want good news – Jupiter. The astrologer carefully explains about the transiting Pluto square their natal Sun which they have in orb for the next 12 months – Saturn.

Reality

I’m not saying give bad news, what I am saying is you need to control your client’s expectations before the session so they are ready for what you have to say. Tell them you possibly can’t see pots of money, a vigorous lover, a new job, or (God help us) their death. Rather tell them that you can see potential energy, opportunities, trends, support and openings which suggest certain situations, people, emotions and attitudes that are indicated to unfold for them. Always avoid specifics.

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Services

What You Offer

Not every astrologer will offer the same services and by services, I mean types of consultations. The options for astrological services are varied here are some examples:

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  • Natal chart reading
  • Printed written natal report
  • Transit reading
  • Relocation reading
  • Trauma reading
  • Solar return reading
  • Love reading for two people
  • Children’s reading
  • Parent child reading
  • Rectification service
  • Career counselling
  • Party style group readings
  • Mid-life crisis reading
  • 20-minute on-the-spot reading
  • Health and wellbeing reading

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The list goes on. What you can offer will depend on what you know most about and feel comfortable doing. In my time as an astrologer over the years, I’ve offered all the above at different times, but that’s changed now. I’ll explain in a moment.

Multiple Choice

The problem with offering too many things is that it becomes confusing for your potential clients to choose. Studies have shown that we struggle to decide when offered too many choices through overchoice.

Astrologese

Astrologese refers to the specialized language and terminology that we use in astrology. It’s the inside words we use like transit, antiscia, solar return and retrograde. It’s the jargon of our craft. While you can happily talk astrology at your local astrology group or an online astrology forum, the general public can quickly be turned off or confused with too much astrologese especially at the beginning. Many astrological concepts sound complex or mystical to those people (your potential clients) who are unfamiliar with then.

Keep it Simple

Say you offer forecasting and have two different services one called “Transit Reading” and other “Solar Return Reading.” Mrs. Average does not know the difference between transits and solar returns and so she can’t choose. But that’s not the worst part, she doesn’t know that it means forecasting or predicting the future in the first place. The worst part is, she passes on you and moves to the next astrology website that is simpler and speaks to her.

Solution

Option 1: General

Only offer three choices. For example, if you do general astrology:

  • Birth Chart Reading
  • 12-month Forecast Reading
  • Love Life for Couples Reading

 

This list is quite clear and everyone can understand what they are signing up for.

Option 2: Specialized

Your specialized area if you have one. For example, if you do health care related astrology:

  • General Health and Vitality Reading for Peak Wellbeing.
  • Mental Health and Dependency Recovery Strategy Reading.
  • Optimal Exercise and Diet Reading for Your Health.

 

Here you are reinforcing your hard-won advanced astrology skills in a certain area – health. You are setting yourself apart from the generalist astrologers out there in the wild.

Option 3: Time

Here you offer options for a quick in-and-out reading. Your potential customer can choose a short to the point reading. For example, if you only do natal chart work.

  • Mini Reading for everyone (15 minutes).
  • Midi Reading for everyone (30-minutes).
  • Maxi reading for everyone (60-minutes).

 

This is a brilliant way to get them into your ecosystem before they have to invest more time and money than they feel comfortable doing.

Ask Questions

Why Ask Questions?

You wouldn’t go to a doctor with a headache and say, “Give me a general examination and see if you can find the problem.” Your doc wouldn’t have a chance and you’d think she was no good and worst, you’d tell everyone you met about how Dr. Doolittle was useless. It’s the same for astrologers and their clients. You need to ask questions of your client before you cast the chart.

General

If my potential client says, “Tell me about my chart!” I tend to refuse to do the reading and suggest they ask a Facebook group. Ny them answering your questions it makes them think about what they really want to know. You can be on thin ice if you cover everything that the chart shows you, all in the space of one hour.

Expectations

If you don’t know what they expect, you can’t deliver a worthwhile reading for them. The goal is to have happy customers who sing your praises afterwards. You don’t want clients who say you were not much good because they were worried about their dying mother or their floundering marriage and you didn’t speak about it to them.

What to Ask

What is your full name?

What is your birth time?

What is your birth date?

What is your birthplace?

Where did you get this birth time?

Where do you live now?

What is the focus of your consultation?

How do you think I can help you?

What are you looking for in this reading?

Have you been to an astrologer before?

Did someone refer you to me?

How to Ask Questions

I think there are three ways to ask question of your clients.

Verbally

Verbally ask them if you see them face-to-face when they book a session with you. This is dangerous because they can change their mind and forget what they said. This also is a problem with getting the birth data because they can easily say April and you write down August. Or they say 6/7/1975 which can be seen as 6th of July 1975 or 7th of June 1975 depending on where they live. In the USA the month comes before the day and in the UK the day comes before the month. Tricky, tricky. It happens.

Email

You can email them a page with all your questions on it that they have to fill in before the session. The issue here is that they never actually complete the form and the booked consultation date looms large and you still don’t have a focus for the session.

Calendly

Ask the question at the time of booking. I use the Calendly booking system where I can pre ask the questions I want to before they can make the booking. They can’t book a session unless they’ve answered the questions. You can see my bookings page here. There are other online booking programs and I urge you to check them out.

Privacy

Friends and Family

You need to be quite clear on your privacy and by privacy, I mean that you’re going to keep their chart confidential, and your mouth shut. This often comes up if you do charts for clients and then they refer their sister in for reading. They’re worried that you’re going to tell their sister what went on in their own session with you.

Astrological Community

Many of your clients will actually come from the astrological community. They are often hobbyists or junior astrologers and may find you at the local astrology group. And they need to know that when you are doing their chart, you’re not going to start discussing it at the dinner table afterwards. You have to be incredibly clear in your privacy policy that you do not discuss their chart with anybody. Not with their husband or wife. Not with their mother. Not with your friends. Not with your mutual friends. Not with anybody.

Privacy Statement.

You need to have a privacy statement already written out on your website that you can link to if anybody wants to know. I never discuss charts I have worked on with anybody. None of their family, none of my friends, no one in the astrological community, I don’t even discuss it with people in my house. It is absolutely confidential what is spoken about in my astrological consultation room. Don’t do it. Don’t discuss other people’s charts with other people. It’s a total no no.

Afterwards

Follow-up

Early in my astrological career, I was doing consultations and I casually said to my clients, well if you got any questions, you can give me a ring. This worked fine for quite a long time because nobody really gave me a ring. But then one day I had a client who did call me. She called me on the telephone at home early on a Sunday morning and woke up my whole family. In the following week, she called me three times in the evenings just as we were sitting down to dinner. I took the call. What could I do?

The final straw was when she knocked at my front door one Saturday morning, just as my husband and four young kids and I we’re going to go out on a picnic. It was at this point that I told her I could no longer support her in this manner. I suggested she make another appointment for a consultation so we can discuss all her fears. Now this is a particularly extreme example, but it does happen.

Solution

The way to handle too much after contact is to be quite clear about how your clients can contact you after a consultation or even if they can at all. You need to tell them which methods you are happy to accept.

For example, I’m happy to respond to emails from clients that I’ve had within thirty days after the reading. I give this period because people need time to think about what was said and mull it over as maybe there were bits that weren’t quite clear. After the thirty days have passed, I really can’t remember the birth chart. So, I have to go back to my records, dig the chart out, look it up, read my notes and get back into the feel of what the chart was all about and this all then becomes work for me. 

I only return emails during business days. So, if I get an e-mail from you on a Friday evening (within the 30-day period), I’m not going to get to it till Monday morning. But this is quite clear, I’ve spelt it out ahead of time and in this way, I have managed my client expectations.

What I Offer

Overwhelm

In the past I have offered a myriad of astrological services. You name it and I’ve offered it. But what I’ve found is that people really only want two things from me, to get their chart read and to learn more astrology. I also taught formal classes for beginner, intermediate and advanced students for years and years. So last year I trimmed down my offerings to only two. Yes, I know I said 3 offerings earlier on for you, but I’ve tightened it up for my clients.

Consultations

For Everyone

I offer a one-hour comprehensive consultation which covers natal and forecast. This is for anyone in the general public and people who are new to astrology. In the consultation I don’t use astrologese. They get to choose the main focus of the reading and we go from there.

I prepare all the charts I’ll use like the natal chart, solar return chart, secondary progressed chart, solar arc directed chart, bi-wheels, eclipses and graphic ephemeris. I immerse myself in their chart beforehand and make sure I’m ready. I give my attention on their chosen focus and double check everything, birth time, birth date, transit times and stations. No waffle.

Check out my consultations.

Coaching

For Astrologers

I also offer one-hour astrological coaching sessions for aspiring astrologers. People who use this service are individuals just like you reading this email. They are astrology students and professionals who want some help tweaking their own readings, filling in knowledge gaps, focusing in on specific parts of interpretation like the dispositor tree or antiscia or how to read a graphic ephemeris, or managing their astrology business. My coaching service has superseded the formal classes I used to teach. I changed this because people just don’t have the time to sit through months of classes as they want to get going.

Additionally, people were coming to me and saying I just want the transit class and not the solar arc directions class, or I just want the lunar nodes class and not the Mayan long count calendar class. These classes being referred to were built into my main courses of 16 classes purchased in a bundle. It just made sense to offer spot learning for my clients which is now available in the coaching I offer where they can get to pick and choose what they want to focus on. Now it may be different for you.

Peer Review

Most people who come to me for coaching can already read a chart and they are frequently starting to read charts for others. These good folks want me to go over their interpretations and analysis and offer some advice on what they missed or what is important. To get peer review, they send me the already calculated charts, natal and forecast notes and we go from there. It’s like having someone looking over your shoulder to help you along. I give my ideas and insights on what to focus on and answer their specific questions regarding their client’s charts to help them provide the best astrology consultation they can.

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Thrive

Gossip

Managing your client expectations can help your astrology business thrive as you provide a better service and your clients think you are great. We like to complain, it’s a human condition (thank you Mercury). Studies have shown that a happy customer will promote you and your services to five people, but a dissatisfied customer will bad mouth you nine people. We all make mistakes, I certainly have in the past, but with some forethought you can minimize unfavorable client reviews and impressions. These are just a few ideas I have about managing client expectations which I believe you will find helpful.

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Newsletter Renaming

Newsletter Renaming

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Author: Alison Price   –   Published: November 2024

Newsletter Renaming

Introduction

For years I’ve had people on my Starzology e-mail list whom I emailed now and again. It was only back in April this year that I committed to writing an email once a week on Sundays. I decided to do this because further back in January I had finally changed my newsletter service provider from MailChimp to ConvertKit (now itself rebranded as Kit). Kit just makes things easier.

Since April I have published my newsletter, The Starzologer, every Sunday for over six months. As time went on, the astrologers reading it started reaching out to me asking for more. It occurred to me to provide a premium newsletter with more focused content for those who are really interested and who wanted to support my work. This gave birth to the Starzlife newsletter which launched back in the Summer.

So now, in Autumn, I find myself having two newsletters with two different names and different signup areas to manage. This has become almost double the work for me and confusion for you, my dear reader, because. it’s not clear what the difference is between the free The Starzologer and the paid Starzlife newsletter.

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  • Practical chart-reading techniques
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By becoming a premium member, you’re investing in your astrological education while supporting the creation of quality content.

Original Setup

I thought that both of these newsletters were running independently of each other because in my mind they were two separate entities. But what I have realized is that I still have one monster e-mail list with you good people on it. Additionally, there is there is a subsection within that group who are part of the premium newsletter.

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This week my e-mail service provider Kit has clarified to me that these are not two separate lists, rather they are one giant list with a smaller subsection of paid subscribers within it. So that all being said, it now is clear that I need to combine the two in my mind and your mind because that’s how they actual exist. The public face of this newsletter will be one large reader base with a smaller paid subset of readers within it

It’s like moving into a house and you don’t realize that there’s an attic where other folks are living, but the people are all living in the same house even though you thought they were living next door. Yeah.

Rename: Starzlife

Now this is going to cause a slight re branding (more of a renaming) because I have to pick one name for both of the newsletters, and I’ve decided to go with Starzlife over The Starzologer it’s just an easier word. Starzlife is one word and two syllables whereas The Starzologer is two words with five syllables. Starzlife is just simpler and so that is the name change that is going to be happening shortly.

For those of you who’ve been here from the beginning, I know I was calling it, The Starzologer, from April to November, but we are now shifting gears. My newsletter, my one and only newsletter, will from now on be called Starzlife. It will still come out every Sunday and it is still free for everyone who signs up.

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Then for those of you who wish to receive the premium content, which comes out on Thursdays, you can subscribe to the paid segment within my main Starzlife list.

Clarity?

During November, and yes, I know Mercury will be retrograde, I’m going to go back and revisit writing (Mercury) that I have produced and rejigger the whole thing. So, from now onwards, my one and only newsletter will be published as Starzlife as we sunset the name The Starzologer and move forward with one newsletter from me called Starzlife.

Transparency

I’ve just written the whole saga down here for those of you who are trying to understand what’s going on because it is complicated. When it dawned on me that I wasn’t doing it right, it still took me five days to think it through because it is knotty. Although I’m trying to make it simple as I explain it to you, but technically, behind the scenes it is an intricate maneuver for me to sort these two entities out and get the whole process streamlined.

I also plan to go back into the library and rename the previous editions to reflect the new branding. This is what I want to do. I don’t need extra things on my to-do list each week as already the administration of this whole business, website, podcast and newsletters is a constant wrangle. Any of you who run your own astro businesses will know what I’m talking about. I don’t want confusion in your mind either.

There may be some teething problems as we go through November (thank you Mercury retrograde) as I sort this out, but I am confident that by the time we get to the New Year, the whole glorious thing will be in place. People who join my list from 2025 onwards will not even know about the previous name of this newsletter, it was just a blip for 2024, let’s put it that way.

If you’ve got any questions about this jiggery-pokery, please do e-mail me at starzology@gmail.com and I’ll be happy to explain anything further.

Alison.

 

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Alison helps you uncover your individual creativity and lead a fulfilling life using your own astrology. She shares her wisdom from the heart with a touch of humor. She offers Consultations for everyone and Coaching for Aspiring Astrologers.

If you’d like to get in touch with Alison, you can reach out to her via email at starzology@gmail.com.

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