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ACVA Ethics and Standards Guidelines
Section C: Consulting Astrology
C.4. CLIENT WELFARE
a. Positive Growth and Development: Astrologers encourage the client's autonomy, interest, and welfare. Astrologers avoid fostering dependent relationships.
b. Promoting Independence: Astrologers are choice revealers rather than choice makers with respect to client decisions in relation ships, career, relocation, sex, finances, or any other matter.
C.5. PREDICTIVE WORK
a. Continuum of Meanings: The astrologer provides a reasonable range of meanings and assures the client that actual event outcomes may vary along a continuum of possibilities.
b. Claims of Omniscience: No astrologer will claim to be infallible in the prediction of particular events.
c. Dire Warnings: Astrologers do not make predictions that are likely to create fear in the client. Astrologers avoid making rigid claims about predicting health crises, financial setbacks, that the clients will never marry, never have children, or that someone may die at a specific time. Predictions of events such as divorce, accidents, illness, death, financial hardship, or other challenging outcomes are balanced with more positive, alternative and equally probable meanings. The astrologer notes that this may or may not entail negative outcomes, and that difficulties can be conducive to growth and development.
C.6. DUAL RELATIONSHIPS
Astrologers are aware of their influential positions with respect to clients, and they avoid exploiting the trust and dependency of clients. They make every effort to be sensitive to dual relationships with clients that could impair professional judgment or increase the risk of harm to clients. (Examples of dual relationships include, but are not limited to, familial, social, financial, business, or close personal relationships with clients).
C.7. REFERRAL
a. Referrals to Other Astrologers: When astrological issues arise that are beyond the scope of the astrologer’s training and practice, e.g., a medical, relocational, or horary question, the astrologer refers clients to other professionals who are trained in such matters.
b. Referrals to Non-astrological Professionals: If astrologers determine an inability to be of professional assistance to clients, they avoid entering or immediately terminate a counseling relationship. Astrologers are knowledgeable about referral resources and suggest appropriate alternatives, such as a licensed psychotherapist, psychiatrist, medical doctor, or 12-step program.
C.8. COMPUTER REPORTS
When computer generated astrological interpretations are used in counseling services, astrologers ensure that clients are provided information that adequately explains the limitations of computer interpretation. Accordingly, it is important for the consumer to know both the advantages and disadvantages of computerized reports.
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