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Professional Practice : ISSUES


Some of the issues
around the
Professional Practice
of Astrology

As a professional astrologer, or member of the public, you are invited to send further issues for inclusion here. Email network@optionsunlimited.co.za

Basic pre-requisites
and standards

  • Qualifications and credentials
  • Basic skills and knowledge other than
    knowledge of astrology e.g. counselling

Business Practices

 

  • Advertising and promotion - standards
  • Pre-disclosure to clients e.g. price,
    duration, preparation, etc
  • Records - Financial and client
  • Tax

Code of Conduct

  • Accountability: to the public, to the profession
  • Confidentiality and discretion
  • Sharing of information and knowledge
  • Boundaries with e.g. other professions and
    modalities; with clients
  • Dealing with complaints / Disciplinary code
  • Responsibility to other professions
  • Responsibility to the public vs
    responsibility to the profession
  • Referrals practice
  • Mutual professional support/supervision

Education

  • Continuing education
  • Teaching and examination standards
  • Training the next generation of professionals
  • Qualifications for teachers
  • Supervision
  • Training for Specialisations (e.g. medical astrology)

Ethics and principles

  • Integrity standards and issues
  • Research standards
  • Respect for clients' right to self-determination
  • Appreciation of diversity and non-discrimination 
  • Respect for, and acknowledgement of, copyright
    intellectual property, sources and software
  • Loyalty to professional colleagues - issues
    e.g. criticism; shared clients and students etc

Fees

  • Bartering
  • Disclosure of fees
  • Standardising of fees
  • When should a student charge?
  • Free consultations
  • Student fees

Professional image

  • Business premises
  • Props - e.g. candles, incence, crystal balls
  • Personal appearance

Responsibilities

  • Public perception of professional astrology
  • Questionable interpretations : e.g. baby charts,
    3rd party interpretations
  • Relationship to, and interaction with the media
  • Responsible prediction e.g. mundane predictions;
    prediction of death
  • Diagnosis and prescription
  • Tape recordings and printed reports

Personal

  • Self-care - physical, emotional and spiritual health
  • Mutual support from colleagues
  • Trust fund for professional astrologers
 

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