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Juliana: Astrologers and healers need to stay in alignment with the higher consciousness. Thus, they need to develop themselves through spiritual and psychic practices. For many, it may be important to be connected to an enlightened spiritual teacher or lineage. Some use a special mantra. Whatever the technique, we have to cultivate spiritual detachment in this work, to do our best to shine the light but not be attached to success or failure. Before and after giving a reading, I have to do my inner practice to cleanse my physical, emotional and spiritual bodies so that I can remain uplifted and in harmony.

Astrologer Ashutosh: Speaking of “harmony,” what are the various astrological and other remedies which you use to heal your clients? I mean remedies involving mantras, gems, aromas, etc.

Juliana: Well, here I will copy my repertoire of remedies that I typed for my students just this last week:

1. Modern upayes (remedies) that I often recommend are massage/body and energy work, psychotherapy, psychic (metaphysical) healing, homeopathy, flower remedies, acupuncture/Chinese medicine, pancha karma (Ayurveda) and other kinds of healing modalities like vitamin-supplements, digestive enzymes...and also, exercise regimes. Or, I might suggest games and puzzles, brain-training exercises or a language course to strengthen a weak Mercury. I might suggest that someone seek financial counseling for an afflicted financial indication. Also, life coaching is a modern upaye, which we already do in a limited capacity as astrologers.
2. Gems and Planetary Gem Elixirs.
3. Mantras, yagyas, yoga, pranayama and color therapy.
4. Meditation and hypnosis.
5. Vastu and Feng Shui. Most important is to promote a restful and peaceful atmosphere and avoid unnatural environments.
6. Yagyas and pujas.
7. Kirtan and other forms of devotion.
8. Yantras.
9. Seva and charity.
10. Yatra (spiritual pilgrimage)

11.     Incense and essential oils (aromatherapy).

12.     Kavach (astral amulet or numerical yatnra.

1. Darshan with a saint.
2. Satsang.
3. Sacred texts and myths.
4. Dietary changes for propitiation (herbs and food items).

Astrologer Ashutosh:  Wow!! So many arrows in one quiver.

Juliana: The secret I have learned is, in a reading, not to give too much information, and also, fine tune the remedies based on the client's interests and predilections.

Astrologer Ashutosh: Yes!

Juliana: It is a science and art to read the chart, but then to prescribe the remedies can be the most important and challenging part. I have to study the chart a while and meditate on it...and then I usually have some possible remedies in mind, but still need the interactive dialogue with the client to find out what he or she might resonate with. Sometimes, often, you will not know what remedy is needed until you give the reading and hear from the client.

Astrologer Ashutosh:  Sometimes much information and even some information given before its time can give reverse results.

Juliana: Yes, knowing what to say and how and when to say it...that's it! For me, it is about being really present with someone, developing rapport and tuning into the higher guidance. Sometimes, just the reading itself...shining the light on someone’s path, and affirming who they are at the deepest level of their being, will be enough. Being a clear mirror to someone else can be very healing.

Astrologer Ashutosh: Yes.

Juliana: When I give readings in person, which is rarer these days, I like to only give a brief snapshot (that is usually enough information for one session), and then put the client on my massage table and give them a healing treatment. It works well.

Astrologer Ashutosh: OK

Astrologer Ashutosh: These days Mars is in its prolonged transit in Cancer. What effects have you observed of this transit on your clients and on other people in general?

Juliana: Tamas!

Astrologer Ashutosh: Darkness.

Juliana: Yes, darkness. Inertia. Stuckness. Materiality. How to get our positive energy flowing becomes an issue. Mars is a tamas graha that motivates us to overcome the difficulties in the world. But when he is in debilitation in Cancer, we can at times feel overcome by tamas.

Astrologer Ashutosh:  Has the tamas increased ever since Mars became retrograde in Cancer?

Juliana: Well, some astrologers say that retrograde neecha Mars acts like it's exalted, but that has not been my experience. I feel it is heavier since retrograde.

Astrologer Ashutosh:  Here I too agree with you.

Juliana: What do you notice?