Neptune in Pisces - Who should advise you in a crisis Psychologist or Psychic?

This blog is about practitioner ethics and how psychology and psychic phenomena are connected by the same symbol Neptune. Although most people may recognise this three-pronged fork or trident as a symbol of the Roman god of Neptune, many might be surprised to see it as a recognised symbol for the social science psychology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology.

I want to discuss how psychics and astrologers should use ethics in helping and support people in need as I believe this is going to be a contentious issue when Neptune settles within its own sign of Pisces. This blog has been inspired by people I know who have spent hundreds of pounds consulting psychics and astrologers on a regular basis bordering on addiction with feelings of frustration that their problems are still active and present in their lives.

My initial thoughts are will Neptune in Pisces improve this situation or make it worse. Psychology is based on scientific evidence/experiments and pragmatic tools for the client to break free from negative behaviour patterns, depression and other mental illnesses, while psychic phenomena has no scientific boundaries and anyone can set up as a psychic taking on clients without any formal training or ethical process.

Neptune in Pisces could mean novel developments in the field of neuroscience/cognitive science, greater understanding of the unconscious, dreams, collective consciousness and new alternative therapies. At worse, people could become dependent on psychologists, psychics, astrology, counsellors for answers to their problems with an unobtainable wish list or requesting a magic wand (Neptune) as a solution. With psychic phenomena more popular than ever combined with easier access to psychics through telephone and online services, psychics, astrologers and alike are perhaps more likely to be the first port of call for people who are in a crisis. However, from an ethical perspective will they assess people first to see if a client would be better of seeing a psychologist/alternative therapy or will just give them a reading?

Don’t get me wrong both psychic and psychologist can be beneficial and damaging it really depends on the problem. As an astrologer, master practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming and life coach the first thing I learned as a coach was ethics and my limitations in helping people. A coach can help people reach their goals, an astrologer can identify and assess patterns of behaviour that release potential or repeat negative cycles/experiences. A psychic can gain a vision/insight of what may happen in the future. However, when people are sucked into turmoil of a personal crisis there may be underlying issues where a psychic, astrologer or coach needs to direct their clients to alternative practitioners such as a psychologist who can provide a framework and set of tools e.g. cognitive behavioural therapy which allows the individual to break through problems rather than becoming a victim of the planets or dependent and addicted to psychic readings - getting more frustrated because they don’t get the answers they want.

Therefore, as a coach and an astrologer I always assess people to see whether I am best suited to helping clients or refer them to another profession be it psychologist or even a psychic. I hope that when Neptune travels through Pisces there is a blurring of the edges between psychologists and psychics working together in tandem...but in particular psychics and astrologers recognise the need to refer people to another discipline who may have better tools so clients help themselves rather than become a victim to their fate worse still addition (Neptune) and reliance on their favourite psychic or astrologer.