Consultations offer multiple understandings

“It is important to enlist patients’ conscious energies in the healing process. Understanding how it all fits together helps.”

Daria Casinelli, Lic. Ac.

Our Consultation offering was developed in response to repeated requests from patients for more information than can be communicated during a traditional acupuncture session. A 1.5 hour or 30 minute consultation allows us to discuss your condition from a TCM, astrological, yogic, and Buddhist perspective. These Eastern philosophies offer a way of understanding bodies and the world that is very different from science, psychology, sociology and other western traditions.

More Jung than Freud, more inductive than deductive and much older than modern frameworks, the categories used by most Eastern philosophies, such as: metal, earth, water, air, wood, fire, are rooted in thousands of years of observation of natural phenomena, not the scientific method. Astrology, as used by Milton Acupuncture, ascribes basic demographics and genetics to birth karma. We were each born into a time, place and body because of the karma generated in previous lives. This is our only harvest from those times. We are not culpable for anything that happened in a previous life; and we are completely responsible for all our actions in this life.

Genetics encompasses our physical inheritance and our mental and emotional proclivities. You can think of your astrological birth chart as a genetic map written in the language of poets. Before our session we will use a computer program to cast your birth chart. The consultation takes your physical health as a starting point. If necessary and desired, we will introduce you to the field and teach you how to use astrology so that you can continue to explore your birth chart. If we feel you need more in depth astrological counseling, we will refer you to one of two excellent astrologers.

Although these discussions are confidential, differ significantly from therapy sessions in that: 1. Our role is not to help you understand your life and health in mental/emotional terms or to decipher your personal history, but to interpret what you were given at birth and 2. most people come into such a discussion looking for answers, we do our best to provide them within the framework described above.