I see a couple people have done readings, Sarah and Diane.
Good for you.
What about others?
What’s happening?
Hardly no one is doing the readings?
One of the students communicated privately to me that they felt unprepared to do these readings, even though I gave a template, etc. the student communicated that they wish there had been more assignments giving them practice doing “simpler readings”, like talking about “planets in signs”, or something easier.
Here’s the thing. I’ve been encouraging students to have those kinds of conversations since the middle of level I. There is or was no need to have an assignment where you make recordings talking about planets in signs or simpler things. But if anyone wants to do that, feel free to do it also! Impress us all with your skills, really!
The homework assignment/reading templates simply take that and extended a little further. For those who have been having those kinds of conversations, doing mini readings anyway, this is just taking it a little further. But I think the real issue is not that at all. The real issue is getting outside of your comfort zone and letting other people here you say these things.
Maybe you have been having conversations about planets in signs, doing little readings for friends and family, etc. but it had all been with in your “comfort zone”, and this exercise is outside of your comfort zone. So now you’re hearing the way you sound for the first time, and you feel nervous letting others hear the way you sound. That’s all it is. There’s no reason to make it more complicated than that.
There also was no reason to have a smaller, more conservative exercise where you make recordings of “planets in signs”, or whatever.
But again, if people want to do that, then go ahead and do it. Everyone is free to make recordings of themselves doing simpler readings than what I have made templates for, if you want to do it. It’s fine with me.
