When I started giving readings i was working in the leisure area of a rehab hospital. The patients all were in a state of being open to change for the better and did all those group sessions, and therapy etc.. All those circumstances made it come very natural to do the readings. I could start doing it for free until the value of it became obvious. It was a great time.
I feel seen, normalized and humanized!! Coming from 40 page reports and 7 days, and starting even when I didn't feel good enough! I love this episode so much!!
"It's more important to be helpful than to be right. " "⚕️ Do no harm⚕️ " "A safe third example ", love this!! The nuance & around inspiration around these ideas is excellent 🪄🫶🏽
Chris you are seriously so articulate it’s unreal. Such a strong command of the English language and skill at putting your thoughts to words. I have studied astrology for 15 years and I cant talk about it. I can only look and know. :(
This podcast resonated SO much! I also love that Isa took the host role sometimes and asked Chris questions too. It was nice to hear both perspectives.
I love how Chris said the onus is on the client to find the astrologer who best suits their preferences in terms of house system and zodiac. It really helps set the expectation to be closer to what the client seeks from a consultation and receives from the consultation.
As a 4th year commited amateur practitioner (2 years formal study with Nightlight Astrology and The School of The Astrology Podcast and lifelong dabbler), I charge a small fee and/or exchange (lunch, reflexology session, a cake) and that has taken some pressure off (Scorpio Stellium!), manages expectations, and finding out the best approach and presentation for in-person consultations or over Zoom.
I love trades!!! A good friend of mine designed all my branding materials for my astrology business so I gave her a birth chart / current transit reading in exchange. Very beneficial to both parties!
This episode was so inspiring! "It's actually through commitment that we home where we sit in our position, and that's needed right now" - love this! (As saturn squares my natal venus during my Venus return & Jupiter transit). I just enrolled in Chris's Hellenistic Astrology course and I'm so excited to dive deeper into my learning journey that I started informally 5 years ago. I've been doing consultations with friends & acquaintances intermittently for 2 or 3 years now and I'm struggling to transition into taking in clients I don't know and charge money for it on a regular basis. I have a lot of the foundation and pieces in place to start a consulting business but my main problem is how to find clients (other than running ads on social media). I've told my friend clients to tell their friends but it hasn't resulted in new clients. Thanks for your monolithic contributions to the astrology community Chris, you've inspired and taught more people than you know.
I am just a few minutes into the video. Thank you for clarifying how to determine a night/day chart. When you mentioned that her son was 7° below the descendant, this gave me more insight on how to determine a day chart from a night chart. Thank you!
🌬 Isa, I appreciate the way you have labeled each episode with your clients' Sun, Moon, and rising sign. 😊 I'm excited to dive in. *update* for those who pursue listening to 'Stars and Stars with Isa'. The zodiacal framework utilized for reference is known as 'alphabet astrology'. Forgive me if my wording is inaccurate, I'm not entirely familiar with this teaching. And a big thank you to the dearest clients of Isa. To share the reading of your birth chart through such a public and vulnerable platform is a graceful gift to all of us. 💜
I was resonating with everything she said and when you showed her chart I was like ah that's why haha mars in Aquarius Taurus rising, 8th and 7th house scorpio and sag. My skincare consultations are very specific and personalized. I encourage clients to share how I can make them more comfortable, as in cold or touch sensitivity, quiet or talking appt. I have Chiron in my Taurus ascendant and I have pretty significant sensory issues, so I always aim to make ALL five senses a pleasant experience when they see me
Thank you and Isa so much, learning more and more about my own chart as a beginner student and looking forward to my upcoming reading with Dr. Claire Moon in a few days. This podcast helped me to prepare and share similar themes to my consultations with my clients as a Functional Medicine Nutritionist.
This is amazing! thankyou guys so much! I love transparency and this is really just a gem. Tahnkyou so much again, really a relief to hear your take of the journey Chris and Isa
Thank you both so much! This was a really interesting and enjoyable discussion and I’ll definitely be checking out Isa’s podcast. It’s also got me thinking on how to get the most out of a reading as the client or querent… what questions to ask and how to make the most out of a reading afterwards.
The boundary setting is so real, I feel Im currently struggling with friends and acquaintances sending me their birth chart and asking questions and im still establishing my service out here lol so I have to be like "would you mind scheduling an appt if you would like to know about your birth chart" its so real for sure
Love this , very valuable info in this vid…..wonderful easy natural flow of conversation between both of you ( not always seen with some of the guests even though they are always interesting to listen to 😉)
Me too - I refuse to do any more written reports. Days is prep and then all the typing up etc. I came at t his late in life after studying for years, so I will never get to the point where it is cost effective for me to do a consultation. Hard for me to keep things simpler and not say everything I see. My favortie way to read is off the cuff and not for money. Far more relaxing for me. But I always say - you have to give me something - if it is just lunch.
Wow 🤩 as a baby Astrologer just starting out with giving professional readings, this podcast is incredible 🎉 thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏽 I love how you both are so honest and relevant… and humbling to know we all started out similarly with the pages 😂 no surprises I’m just discovering these podcasts right as Jupiter in Gem is trining Pluto in Aqua.. second house ♊️ with Aqua MC ♒️
Definitely had my my skepticism but after studying advanced astrology I can't deny that it works, lm still blown away even now on the daily how accurate it is. I hope I can feel confident one day to do professional consultations, because I'm a cap🌞aqua🌙 scorp rising I feel like i need to know everything first but that's impossible and I know this, thank you soo much for this video it helps a lot.
i resonate deeply with vedic whole sign and placidus systems, even though the charts to totally different. My western charts is quite dark, plutonian and my vedic is significantly lighter and more lovely. I'm so glad I read into the vedic.
It's so funny with the Aquarius because most of the people my boyfriend sneered at has Aquarius placements and he never knew he was aqua moon ascendant and Uranus in the first 😂
Same concept for nursing. We learn all the book work. The real experience cones when you apply all that you learned to the patients. You gain all your experience when you start nursing job.
Thank you..I really appreciate this podcast as a scorpio stellium student of astrology myself. I feel compelled to research astrology, its my happy place. However the ruler of my scorpio sun, mercury, jupiter and neptune being mars is in the 12th house as is my aries moon ruler and so I hear you regarding the self sabotage about putting yourself out there as an astrologer!..gotta do it!!
People just want free readings. It hurts me a bit. They don’t treat it seriously despite it taking time to analyze etc. They sort of want it for free and at times in personal relationships I’m forced and pressured to read multiple charts
Very nice interview! I use the framework outlined in Tracy Marks' book about chart synthesis, she outlines how to prioritize what is found in a birth chart. I'd love to see you interview her, Chris!
I’m still navigating my shame around being interested in astrology. No one in my life even knows I like it and I’m afraid to let anyone know because it’s seen as something that only delusional people believe.
This is what I need! I have such a hard time with predicting astrology, but I think I’m realizing it’s a lot more detailed than I thought. What site does one use to pull up charts?
I’m about halfway through the video and I will first say I’ve watched so many of your videos and have learned so much, so thank you! I had a quick question- you had mentioned that it’s important to first establish the person’s background in astrology, if they have zero knowledge, beginner, intermediate, or advanced. That got me thinking about myself. I wonder what level I’m at? How would you differentiate the levels, in general terms?
I've a Cancerian friend with an Aquarius moon and sun conjunct Uranus in the first who refuses completely her Uranian nature and will only see herself through the positive Cancerian qualities. Her Aquarian nature is so obvious to me as her friend.
It's a skill, to interpret a chart, that's not the spiritual component. Charge for skills. Especially ones that can help transform someones life. How is it different than a skilled therapist charging 180+ per hours. Isnt Healing in and of itself Spritual, thanks to Chiron: ) Why should it matter how it happens.
I also feel imposters syndrome alot haha, like I question "am I really an astrologer" 😂 so totally feel like trying to find a voice, I've been studying this now for 10 years but im finally at a place where Im doing it full-time and its severely weird
Hi Chris, can you please tell me which software you are running? Does the SolarFire and AstroGold you mention here (thanks for the code btw) show all the features as of the charts you are showing here ?
Isa is an exceptional communicator, but this studennt novice couldn't see that super-strength in her chart. Ruler of the 3rd house ef comms in Cancer projects a moon in Scorpio? Sign of pysychology/incisive investigation? I'm learning, where do others see where her comms skills present themselves? The nature of her brand of delivery (myth, spirituality etc) ?
Scorpios are sexy, loyal, intense detectives (squinty eyed eagles). Isa is a an Aries moon (Athletic, competitive, independent, larger heads and Straight eyebrows ♈. She is Taurus rising (fashionista, strong voice, broad shoulders, beautiful, teenage-like)
58:30 @Isa - I provide rectification services and am in the Bay Area. How do I connect 1:1 with you so you can consider/vet me. I am only midway through so perhaps you have shared this info at the end 🙏🏼 Take care Excellent episode Chris 👍
When I started giving readings i was working in the leisure area of a rehab hospital. The patients all were in a state of being open to change for the better and did all those group sessions, and therapy etc.. All those circumstances made it come very natural to do the readings. I could start doing it for free until the value of it became obvious. It was a great time.
Wow that’s amazing! That sounds like a wonderful experience
I feel seen, normalized and humanized!! Coming from 40 page reports and 7 days, and starting even when I didn't feel good enough! I love this episode so much!!
"It's more important to be helpful than to be right. "
"⚕️ Do no harm⚕️ "
"A safe third example ", love this!!
The nuance & around inspiration around these ideas is excellent 🪄🫶🏽
Chris you are seriously so articulate it’s unreal. Such a strong command of the English language and skill at putting your thoughts to words. I have studied astrology for 15 years and I cant talk about it. I can only look and know. :(
This podcast resonated SO much! I also love that Isa took the host role sometimes and asked Chris questions too. It was nice to hear both perspectives.
Absolutely, it felt really comfortable
100% feel seen on so many levels. Isa’s vulnerable honesty was really refreshing too.
I love how Chris said the onus is on the client to find the astrologer who best suits their preferences in terms of house system and zodiac. It really helps set the expectation to be closer to what the client seeks from a consultation and receives from the consultation.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS GUEST WHO IS SO ARTICULATE . IT IS SO AFFIRMING TO HEAR ISA SAY WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS FELT. BRAVA TO HER.
As a 4th year commited amateur practitioner (2 years formal study with Nightlight Astrology and The School of The Astrology Podcast and lifelong dabbler), I charge a small fee and/or exchange (lunch, reflexology session, a cake) and that has taken some pressure off (Scorpio Stellium!), manages expectations, and finding out the best approach and presentation for in-person consultations or over Zoom.
I love trades!!! A good friend of mine designed all my branding materials for my astrology business so I gave her a birth chart / current transit reading in exchange. Very beneficial to both parties!
This is perfect timing for me as I step into the realm of readings and all the feelings that come with these baby steps.
Let's go!! Good luck on your journey
This has been SO informative. Isa is a great speaker. I’ll watch this a few times!
I absolutely adore the level of professionalism this video brings, thank you Isa & Chris!
This episode was so inspiring! "It's actually through commitment that we home where we sit in our position, and that's needed right now" - love this! (As saturn squares my natal venus during my Venus return & Jupiter transit). I just enrolled in Chris's Hellenistic Astrology course and I'm so excited to dive deeper into my learning journey that I started informally 5 years ago. I've been doing consultations with friends & acquaintances intermittently for 2 or 3 years now and I'm struggling to transition into taking in clients I don't know and charge money for it on a regular basis. I have a lot of the foundation and pieces in place to start a consulting business but my main problem is how to find clients (other than running ads on social media). I've told my friend clients to tell their friends but it hasn't resulted in new clients. Thanks for your monolithic contributions to the astrology community Chris, you've inspired and taught more people than you know.
Awesome, I look forward to working with you!
I am just a few minutes into the video. Thank you for clarifying how to determine a night/day chart. When you mentioned that her son was 7° below the descendant, this gave me more insight on how to determine a day chart from a night chart. Thank you!
🌬 Isa, I appreciate the way you have labeled each episode with your clients' Sun, Moon, and rising sign. 😊 I'm excited to dive in.
*update* for those who pursue listening to 'Stars and Stars with Isa'. The zodiacal framework utilized for reference is known as 'alphabet astrology'. Forgive me if my wording is inaccurate, I'm not entirely familiar with this teaching.
And a big thank you to the dearest clients of Isa. To share the reading of your birth chart through such a public and vulnerable platform is a graceful gift to all of us. 💜
Wonderfully informative video as always. This is my go to channel for all things astrology
What a great topic! Can't wait to dive in!
You're awesome Chris
Can’t wait to checkout Isa’s podcast! Awesome, articulate young woman. Love her accountability to self and to her audience. Stay humble.
I was resonating with everything she said and when you showed her chart I was like ah that's why haha mars in Aquarius Taurus rising, 8th and 7th house scorpio and sag. My skincare consultations are very specific and personalized. I encourage clients to share how I can make them more comfortable, as in cold or touch sensitivity, quiet or talking appt. I have Chiron in my Taurus ascendant and I have pretty significant sensory issues, so I always aim to make ALL five senses a pleasant experience when they see me
Very good info here and well laid out. I appreciate this as I progress toward stepping out and doing readings
Thank you and Isa so much, learning more and more about my own chart as a beginner student and looking forward to my upcoming reading with Dr. Claire Moon in a few days. This podcast helped me to prepare and share similar themes to my consultations with my clients as a Functional Medicine Nutritionist.
I really enjoy Isa’s energy and insight. Thanks for having them on!
Thank you Chris & Isa. I have enjoyed this whole episode.
This is amazing! thankyou guys so much! I love transparency and this is really just a gem. Tahnkyou so much again, really a relief to hear your take of the journey Chris and Isa
Thank you both so much! This was a really interesting and enjoyable discussion and I’ll definitely be checking out Isa’s podcast. It’s also got me thinking on how to get the most out of a reading as the client or querent… what questions to ask and how to make the most out of a reading afterwards.
So helpful
Appreciate your sincerity so much!! Thank you both!! ❤
Thank you, Chris and Isa.
Thank you Chris and Isa ❤❤
The boundary setting is so real, I feel Im currently struggling with friends and acquaintances sending me their birth chart and asking questions and im still establishing my service out here lol so I have to be like "would you mind scheduling an appt if you would like to know about your birth chart" its so real for sure
Wow i really enjoyed this episode
Great episode!
Love this , very valuable info in this vid…..wonderful easy natural flow of conversation between both of you ( not always seen with some of the guests even though they are always interesting to listen to 😉)
Me too - I refuse to do any more written reports. Days is prep and then all the typing up etc. I came at t his late in life after studying for years, so I will never get to the point where it is cost effective for me to do a consultation. Hard for me to keep things simpler and not say everything I see. My favortie way to read is off the cuff and not for money. Far more relaxing for me. But I always say - you have to give me something - if it is just lunch.
Perfect timing for me!!! Thank you!!! 🙏🏻
Wow 🤩 as a baby Astrologer just starting out with giving professional readings, this podcast is incredible 🎉 thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏽 I love how you both are so honest and relevant… and humbling to know we all started out similarly with the pages 😂 no surprises I’m just discovering these podcasts right as Jupiter in Gem is trining Pluto in Aqua.. second house ♊️ with Aqua MC ♒️
Definitely had my my skepticism but after studying advanced astrology I can't deny that it works, lm still blown away even now on the daily how accurate it is. I hope I can feel confident one day to do professional consultations, because I'm a cap🌞aqua🌙 scorp rising I feel like i need to know everything first but that's impossible and I know this, thank you soo much for this video it helps a lot.
I'm aqua/cap/Scorpio rising and I feel the exact same! Struggling with perfectionism and self-criticism in my capability to answer clients questions
🙏🙏🙏 Such a great episode!!
Thank you for this episode! It was so helpful ❤
1:43:23 I really felt this, thank you for saying exactly how I feel about Chris and the Astrology Podcast ❤
this is so helpful! thank you!
i resonate deeply with vedic whole sign and placidus systems, even though the charts to totally different. My western charts is quite dark, plutonian and my vedic is significantly lighter and more lovely. I'm so glad I read into the vedic.
I also switched to Sidereal 🙂
It's so funny with the Aquarius because most of the people my boyfriend sneered at has Aquarius placements and he never knew he was aqua moon ascendant and Uranus in the first 😂
I have Aqua Moon, Rising as well
sag in the 8th is so astrologer coded!! love her chart
Same concept for nursing. We learn all the book work. The real experience cones when you apply all that you learned to the patients. You gain all your experience when you start nursing job.
She's great!!
This one's for me!
Taurus wants to ask....how and when do you state out loud your fee to a client. Verbatim. Thanks, you are brilliant.
Thank you..I really appreciate this podcast as a scorpio stellium student of astrology myself. I feel compelled to research astrology, its my happy place. However the ruler of my scorpio sun, mercury, jupiter and neptune being mars is in the 12th house as is my aries moon ruler and so I hear you regarding the self sabotage about putting yourself out there as an astrologer!..gotta do it!!
Thank you!
Your guest is adorable 🥰 cute , great energy ! Great show 😊
Don’t forget to give this video a like if you heard a piece of valuable information ❤ it’s well earned
This is super helpful. 🙏
Love the topic 🎉
I do live natal chart readings in some events like one that has happened in a sound healing festival here in the Philippines.
People just want free readings. It hurts me a bit. They don’t treat it seriously despite it taking time to analyze etc. They sort of want it for free and at times in personal relationships I’m forced and pressured to read multiple charts
Very nice interview! I use the framework outlined in Tracy Marks' book about chart synthesis, she outlines how to prioritize what is found in a birth chart. I'd love to see you interview her, Chris!
I love this reco, thanks for naming a good book to check out!
I’m still navigating my shame around being interested in astrology. No one in my life even knows I like it and I’m afraid to let anyone know because it’s seen as something that only delusional people believe.
This is what I need! I have such a hard time with predicting astrology, but I think I’m realizing it’s a lot more detailed than I thought. What site does one use to pull up charts?
These were insightful meanings of the zoidia. I'd love to know where I could learn more about this. Specific books, blogs etc?
I’m about halfway through the video and I will first say I’ve watched so many of your videos and have learned so much, so thank you!
I had a quick question- you had mentioned that it’s important to first establish the person’s background in astrology, if they have zero knowledge, beginner, intermediate, or advanced. That got me thinking about myself. I wonder what level I’m at? How would you differentiate the levels, in general terms?
I've a Cancerian friend with an Aquarius moon and sun conjunct Uranus in the first who refuses completely her Uranian nature and will only see herself through the positive Cancerian qualities. Her Aquarian nature is so obvious to me as her friend.
It's a skill, to interpret a chart, that's not the spiritual component. Charge for skills. Especially ones that can help transform someones life. How is it different than a skilled therapist charging 180+ per hours. Isnt Healing in and of itself Spritual, thanks to Chiron: ) Why should it matter how it happens.
Healing is largely a physical-emotional process. Spiritual pertains to Spirit, so no.
As to the not knowing many Scorpio Sun's and Aries Moon's: there's another one right here :)
I also feel imposters syndrome alot haha, like I question "am I really an astrologer" 😂 so totally feel like trying to find a voice, I've been studying this now for 10 years but im finally at a place where Im doing it full-time and its severely weird
Thank you 😊
Hi Chris, can you please tell me which software you are running? Does the SolarFire and AstroGold you mention here (thanks for the code btw) show all the features as of the charts you are showing here ?
Anytime I show charts on the podcast I'm using Solar Fire for Windows made by Alabe.com. You can get a discount on it with the promo code AP15
thank you
Saggitarians as “party hermits”, love.
Isa is an exceptional communicator, but this studennt novice couldn't see that super-strength in her chart. Ruler of the 3rd house ef comms in Cancer projects a moon in Scorpio? Sign of pysychology/incisive investigation? I'm learning, where do others see where her comms skills present themselves? The nature of her brand of delivery (myth, spirituality etc) ?
Scorpios are sexy, loyal, intense detectives (squinty eyed eagles). Isa is a an Aries moon (Athletic, competitive, independent, larger heads and Straight eyebrows ♈. She is Taurus rising (fashionista, strong voice, broad shoulders, beautiful, teenage-like)
What software gives this type of chart thank you
As a Sag rising I can relate to Party Hermit 😂
Oh the stories we could tell😅
ive paid nearly 700 for three readings over the last few years , all by zoom and got absoluteluy nothing in writing, just a copy of the zoom video.
58:30
@Isa - I provide rectification services and am in the Bay Area. How do I connect 1:1 with you so you can consider/vet me. I am only midway through so perhaps you have shared this info at the end 🙏🏼
Take care
Excellent episode Chris 👍
🙏🏼🩷