Reading for Children

A somewhat regular request I get from parents, is to read their child’s chart.

My stance about this has shifted over the last seven years, however this is my current policy:

I generally do not read children’s charts with a parent, unless there are extreme circumstances (i.e. severe disability or barrier to communication paired with having exhausted other possible professional help, AND I’ve already read with the parent and feel they are able to hold astrological information about themselves and others reasonably/responsibly).

Reading for the minor child would need to be solely for the child’s benefit, and not to relieve parent discomfort/strife/worry (which needs to be addressed with the parent’s chart, not the child’s). Looking at another human’s chart is deeply personal and private, and respecting the child’s right to personal privacy means that the benefits of reading the chart in attempt to improve the child’s quality of life would need to significantly outweigh the harm done by such a transgression. I have a more complex case-by-case basis of thought with this issue, because in my 13 years in pharmacy and my three years of reading charts, I’ve come across people in extremely uncommon and difficult circumstances. Past me would have been more black-and-white about it, but life isn’t that simple.

More on why I am operating this way:

Astrology can be the perfect scaffolding for all of our expectations and fears, a scaffolding propping them up, and reifying them further. Astrology can and does frequently cause suffering in this way for many people who learn the basics all the way to seasoned professionals. It’s hard to not have expectations, even reasonable ones. Even though we know that suffering many times is the distance between our expectations and reality. We hear one little thing from a book, an astrologer, and we never forget it. Astrological insight can have a large, indelible impact on people for better or worse, and I take that seriously.

Our minds are fantasy and fear-making machines, because our minds have evolved biologically to predict as much as possible in the name of survival. This adaptation is a huge strength for us as a species, pattern recognizing and prediction-making machines we have become. It also makes us susceptible to the suffering caused when astrological insight isn’t held lightly. Isn’t held with humility that we surely aren’t seeing all there is to see. I can barely manage to balance all of the above in session with a single client, talking about themselves, the only thing they truly have control over. To manage the above challenge with someone about an external deeply cherished other who isn’t in their control, is a tall order I currently can not meet.

With all of the above in mind, I currently recommend Amy if you’d like to get an astrological view on family dynamics, especially complex ones, or ones involving children.

With Love,

Bri