Comments on: Top 10 Types of Astrologers To Avoid

By: zorbonna

zorbonna — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:31:26 +0000

Sorry – I actually missed the bit where you said it was satire and not to take it seriously – I read that after I had posted! I did watch ‘The Secret’ DVD you posted, and that was seriously funny.

By: Chris Brennan

Chris Brennan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:08:08 +0000

Whoa… Calm down there. I dissed my own approach to astrology as well genius. Are you some sort of robot that was sent from the future who doesn’t know how to take a joke?

While you are visiting our time period please take a few moments to read these articles on self-deprecation and satire on Wikipedia:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-deprecation
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

By: zorbonna

zorbonna — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:56:35 +0000

After dissing so many different types of astrologer, which astrologers are left that are okay astrologers? Your sort? After the amount of prejudice astrology receives in general, I didn’t think I would find an astrologer who prejudices other astrologers. Perhaps you should start an astrological religion that is ‘the only correct one” compared to all the rest.

By: Gary Lorentzen

Gary Lorentzen — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:33:54 +0000

I had to laugh! It’s like an outline of my astrological evolution over the last 40 years! I started out a spiritual astrologer (whatever that is!), became a humanistic astrologer, abandoned that for something more technical until being an uber-technigeek drove me crazy and I abandoned that for Vedic, which I abandoned because I couldn’t manage the vocabulary and couldn’t relate to myself having a Moon in Libra and Venus in Cancer instead of Moon in Scorpio, Venus in Leo. (I’m very emotionally attached to my Venus in Leo!) Now, I’m very ‘mundane’, a word I hate, because it also means boring, unexciting and superficial, when in its original astro meaning, it was ‘of the world’ or ‘worldly.’ That I like. But anyway, I appreciate the humor of it all…in many ways, I think we should avoid all astrologers and astrologists and learn all of the techniques, methods and approaches ourselves–who needs the priesthood anyway?

By: Chris Brennan

Chris Brennan — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:41:02 +0000

Thanks!

By: Debrah Short-Biere

Debrah Short-Biere — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:47:29 +0000

I may be a Debrah come lately, but I loved this article, seriously funny and oh, so true… By the way I have been enjoying your site and your ideas as a general rule since running across you via Young Astrologer’s forum; so do keep on truckin…

I love astrology and most of the folks who practice/adore it. That said, some folks I have run across over the years, really do have a screw or several loose, others simply are mean spirited when it comes to new, or any form of alternative idea to whatever logic or magical thinking system they learned on, disseminate, or now routinely employ in their work.

Hmmn, just because someone is older, or published, does not mean they know it all! OTH, being young and earnest perhaps with a astro degree from some internet course, does not always mean one with piece of paper on wall, is more qualified either, with one or two notable course exceptions; the way I see it, this is probably one field where one person simply can’t have ALL the answers, and one can’t always get along with everyone else, the field is simply too vast, the people in it way too varied and individually quirky or too spiritually charged for the real world experience; the only thing we astrologer’s seem to agree on, is that we disagree bout nearly everything! Heed Chris’ advice and do not allow yourself to get caught in an elevator or classroom, or worse a barstool, with any one of the above 10 types without an escape route or planned exit strategy after some polite nods to keep em happy till the men with butterfly nets arrive,or their own groupies take em away to bask in the reflected light of their lord and master/mistress guru!

The best one can hope for is to get really well versed/schooled in some part of the knowledge tree and then be able to plant a few astro seedlings along the way.

The one good thing is that now with the internet it is much easier to pursue astrology than it was when I was young. I was truly isolated, even finding books was really tough; forget about an actual teacher/mentor, it was the late 1970’s before I even found a few likeminded others to exchange ideas with! Then when computer’s came along, it was as if my small world completely changed and opened up, anything and everything became possible.

My generation suffered from not enough access to information, while today’s, may suffer from an access overload. These day’s any Tom, Dick or Swami can create a website and call themselves an astrologer and offer a course online… Either way, one has to be careful and filter what’s valid, and what’s not, and open one’s mind to allow for other possibilities. Hopefully like Nemo, one learns to swim in the deep, deep, vast waters and learns not to get eaten by sharks, whales, or not caught in nets, or placed in bowls along the way and one gets lucky and finds some good friends/mentors to stay the course and help share the experience…

Some astrologers with big rep seem to feel it must be their way or the highway; what’s more the student groupies sometimes are even worse when jumping to defend their master/mistress position on a matter.

I have been studying astrology for many many years, but I never want to stop learning or improving my understanding of it, hence I have no problem with folks who do things differently than I do, and if they can convince me there is something to whatever they are doing then I am willing to give it a go and check it out and I will incorporate it into my own work should I think it valid and I connect with it in a meaningful way. I grew up with basic Western tropical Placidus system but have routinely used/tested several different house systems over the years for different purposes. I also began to read about, pursue other ideas, and have also dabbled with Eshelman FA style sidereal style, and now am learning all about the whole sign way of doing things. It is all quite fascinating and I say keep your mind open and then do whatever works best for you but do try to specialize in one area or your head may explode,LOL. Just don’t belittle me, if my individualistic way, ain’t exactly your way, or da great guru author _____ you’re emulating now…

Keep up the good work, Chris and really enjoy your snarks, posts, blogs, insights!

By: jo

jo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:03:16 +0000

this is too awesome. i especially loved the ‘astrologists’ bit. hahah. whenever i see someone refer to an astrologer as an astrologist… /wrists …Not because i’m anal or a grammar nazi but.. well maybe it is.

By: Celeste

Celeste — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:57:32 +0000

Also the ones who hit on their clients using astro pick up lines

By: Ellie Fant

Ellie Fant — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:10:31 +0000

Hey, don’t you go messin’ with the Trad King himself Mister Frawley! Oh, unless he insists on using only the day formula for the Part of Fortune. Then have at him. Kidding!

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:30:25 +0000

Nice work, refreshing wit, the art needs it!
my vote goes to all on the list & i agree with ‘Charlie’s’ additions & then some, like;
- ‘astrologers’ who don’t get the 20th C’s over (albeit just), with it’s own place in history;
- those who can’t seem to practice technique without ‘having’ to use other crutches such as numerology, palmistry, ink blots, colour tests, personality indexes, channelling a ‘master’, or are ‘psychic’, ‘artistic’/autistic, whatever…;
- the ‘teaching’ astrologer who professes to turn anyone into an instant astrologer, just do this workshop (or the next – they did…);
- the ’star of my own lunchbox’ astrologer;
& many more… … but we won’t ramble on now.