Interview with Dorothy Oja
Breaking Down the Borders
Compatibility and Conflict – Synastry
Friday, November 19, 2010 – 8:00 p.m. EST
Linda Furiate- You are ISAR Certified and began working as a full time professional astrologer in 1981, how has your business evolved through the years? And what is Mindworks?
Dorothy Oja – Good Question! Mindworks is the name of my client practice. Since my start as a full-time professional (after 10 years of study and teaching astrological fundamentals), I began attending conferences and meeting the people whose books I had read! Then I became intrigued with the astrological organizations that presented themselves. I realized this was my community and wanted to be a part of it. Before that I had been working pretty much in isolated self-study and annoying my friends with my exuberance! In the mid-eighties, I began writing various articles on whatever interested me in the world of astrology and continued reading, studying and building my clientele. To date, I have written dozens of articles and two book-length computer reports on Compatibility and Conflict for Romantic and either Business or Friendship Relationships. Teaching and lecturing has become a source of great satisfaction and I’ve been blessed to have opportunities to lecture all over the world. A book is next and now to find the time to put all those thoughts and ideas together! Argh!
My community service work began with AFAN, where I moved from networker to Chair of AFAN’s Legal Information Committee. During my term as Chair of Legal, we won a case for astrology that went to the California Supreme Court. It was quite a victory. In 2001, I began working actively with ISAR and its Ethics Initiative, which had been of interest to me for many years as I sought professional standards for my own practice. Currently, I am Chair of ISAR’s Ethics Committee.
My clientele is international and I am grateful for all those who put their trust in me, and who have allowed me to do the work that I love and believe in. Life is not boring! LOL!
LF – What do you enjoy most about astrology and how would you define yourself as an astrologer?
DO – My greatest satisfaction comes from widening the perspective of a client, elucidating other ways to express energies in their chart or transiting cycles affecting them. I enjoy supporting clients to maximize their chart potential to the limits of their capacity, and strive diligently to show the client what is possible with the configurations they have. I am a humanistic astrologer and believe in the ability to change destiny, if one is willing to know themselves well enough and have the motive to do what is necessary. I also realize the presence of fate and weave an understanding of fateful happenings into my dialogue and interpretation with clients. My best skills are those of interpretation and synthesis, relationship analysis, and I also excel in researching dates for surgery, in particular, but also other dates to begin an important life event.
LF – Your talk for the BDTB conference is called “Compatibility and Conflict – Synastry” Give us a little insight as to what you will be lecturing about and give us an example of how this may play out in the chart.
DO – My lecture for BDTB is Compatibility and Conflict – Synastry, which describes some of the most powerful astrological connections between charts and how to work with one of the most requested areas of astrology – relationship compatibility. I utilize synastry techniques, as well as a combined chart, called the Davison Relationship chart. But first and foremost is the capacity for relationship in the natal chart – always!
LF – How may someone sign up for your bi-monthly newsletter?
DO – Simply contact me at DOja96@aol.com and I will gladly add you to the subscription list. I am reworking my web and FB presence, after which signing up for my newsletter and other offerings will be easier.
LF – What is the benefit of attending your lecture for the BDTB conference?
DO – We can all use more insight into how relationships work and how they can function even more effectively. Every lecture can deliver a nugget of added wisdom to your repertoire of knowledge and I believe mine will too! Hope to see you there!
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Linda Furiate
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