3. Knowing these predictions helps to avert forthcoming disasters
and reduces anxiety

Theoretically, yes; but not always. More commonly, people tend to go
home and wait for the predictions to materialize. If the prediction
is positive, they hope the astrologer is accurate and wait for it to
happen anxiously. If the prediction is negative, most would wait for
it with fear and hope that it would not happen. Either way, they
would come to the astrologer again for "another set" of predictions.

People only get to avert disasters and empower their potentials with
astrology when the astrologer is equipped with counseling skills to
guide the individual into self-realization and renewed fulfillment.
Most astrologers are not equipped with this as many are still caught
up in the misconceptions of the people who use their services and
trying hard to fulfill those expectations.

It is therefore important for the astrologer to realize that there
are issues outside of his technical reading skills that are equally
important if not more so. And one of the most important is to know
why people come to make use of the astrologer's skill? The answer is
simple. People need solutions. They may not be able to voice it in
precise terms, but they need solutions. They concentrate on their
material issues, but what they need is insight to the essentials
behind their physical experiences. Whether they need to find out
when they're going to strike a lottery, when they're going to find
their soul mate, when they're going to travel overseas, when they'd
find happiness; what they want is guidance to lead them to the
better management or understanding of the essentials behind their
experiences. They are just too caught up with their living, the
words come out filtered only through the terms that they see and
understand. And this is what the good astrologer should know in
order for his practice to be of real value to others. It's about the
effectiveness of the astrological session towards providing better
self-knowledge and management skill over responses to life events.

To approach this, the astrologer should have a good practice with
well defined policies as to what he should or should not want to do
when people consult. He must know the parameters within which he
should want to contain himself, and what provisions he wants to set
up in order to go beyond his own policies to help others. These
guidelines to better practice must become a part of the good
astrologer's practice, and his counseling skills based on
astrology's own metaphysical psychology will together give the kind
of effectiveness every person will need to bring them closer to
their unique solutions at that moment in their lives.

In summary, people generally don't know what they want from
astrologers, and astrologers themselves in general, are trying too
hard to please the misconceptions of the general populace. The good
astrologer should have a good practice based on sound spiritual
principles and astrological psychology to provide what he should
provide, rather than to provide people what they think they need.