Hi, my name is Chris Brennan, and you're listening to the Astrology Podcast.

Today is Monday, November 4th, 2019, starting at exactly 530 PM in Denver, Colorado,

and this is the 229th episode of the show.

Joining me today is Lisa Schime and we're going to be talking about the general topic of practicing astrology

before your Saturn return and specifically a debate that sometimes comes up about whether it's okay to do

consultations and see clients and have a monetary exchange for seeing clients and doing consultations before the age of 30.

So hey, thanks for joining me today, Lisa.

Of course.

And yeah, so we've got a lot to go over today. It's going to be kind of a general talk talk but it's something that a lot of people have been discussing recently.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, and it came up as a kind of springboard off of a Twitter discussion, but we're kind of going to have a larger

discussion and make it broader since this does come up.

Right, it does come up from time to time.

Yeah.

All right, so let's set the stage for this discussion. So what it's about is that periodically,

there's this discussion that comes up about how old a person should be in order to do astrological consultations for clients.

And starting to charge for consultations is often seen as a really big step in one's studies.

Because while most people will sort of informally

look at the charts or read the charts for friends

and family members starting relatively early in their studies, the idea of reading a chart for a stranger and accepting, you know, somebody you don't know, and accepting money for it is usually seen as a big turning point and a big step to take during the course of one's either studies of astrology or more broadly if you're actually going to transition into like practicing this subject professionally at some point that's seen as a huge milestone?

Definitely. And one of the reasons why this comes up even as a discussion point is because astrology

is an unregulated field by and large and so you kind of have to decide for yourself when you're ready.

And so people make different decisions at different times around that and yeah, so and

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