Consultation Services: Small Business Consultation and Herbal Product Formulation

Consultation Fees range from 50.00 - 250.00 per hour depending on your particular needs. General consultation services include support and sharing of 20 years experience navigating the natural foods market, industry trends, distributor, retail and wholesale guidelines. Start up information critical to operating a business, etc. Custom services include but are not limited to product research and developement.

Background ~ Herbology: My formal studies in herbology, horticulture and pharmacology began in 1971 while I was still in High School, inspired in large part by the botanically rich Swarthmore College campus, home of the Scott Arboretum in South Eastern Pa. In my twenties I pursued the study of herbology more as a hobby and as means to treat myself without total dependence on allopathic medicine. I gravitated to working with herbs for many aspects of my family's healthcare. For my own prenatal care I chose to use herbal supplements such as yellow dock root for increasing my hemoglobin levels without taking iron supplements which were problematic at the time. At every turn I found the use of herbs far outranked their synthetically engineered cousins, whether to ease my labor and insure the successful home births of my children, or speeding the recovery from an earache, we found little use for expensive prescription drugs aside from the necessary antibiotic for an invasive staph infection or painful inner ear infections. I have also used herbs and knowledge of natural medicine to treat our animals - horses, rabbits, cats, dogs, orphaned baby chipmunks, birds, etc. Due to my intuitive understanding of the synergy of chemical components and the inspiration needed to carry me through scientific research to qualify my intuition I have formulated many remedies at the behest of my customers, practitioners and laypeople alike. In 1985 I began researching the formulas for Lakon Herbals product line which were distributed coast to coast by 1991. These years of study and business experience qualify me as a Master Herbalist by many standards although I have not taken a formal certification program, primarily because most of the schools now certifying were establishing themselves at the same time I founded my business.

Without a degree in medicine I am limited to educational and business consultations. I cannot diagnose or prescribe, I can only share my knowledge and experience of related conditions, history and folk use of specific herbs. There are many outstanding naturopathic physicians, a few are listed on my links page.

Small Business Consultations: 75.00 - 250.00 per hour. Herbal Formulation Consultations: 250.00 per hour.
jayne ollin, 7/07.

Humanistic Astrology, Transformational Dream Work&, Computer Chart Services

The resistance of the conscious mind to the unconscious and the depreciation of the latter were historical necessities in the development of the human psyche, for otherwise the conscious mind would never have been able to differentiate itself at all. But modern man's consciousness has strayed rather too far from the fact of the unconscious . . . Consequently the approach of the unconscious induces a panic fear in civilized people, not least on account of the menacing analogy with insanity. (Jung, 1953, p 12, para. 60)

My passion and research in the general field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy began to surface around the same time as my work with plant medicine. After many years of research and empirical experience I moved into the branch of psychotherapy distinguished by C. G. Jung as Analytical Psychology. Through implementation of various tools, such as the birth chart, active imagination or amplification, clients develope a working relationship with unconscious aspects of themselves, moving through destructive patterns with clarity and understanding, toward healthier, more fulfilling relationships. Dream Interpretation Sessions are 75.00 per hour. Sliding scale available with proof of need.

I am also available for astrological consultation. Sessions are dialogue oriented, the astrological chart providing a frame of reference to be used to unravel issues and problems that present throughout ones life. I discovered the branch of astrology called Humanistic Astrology in 1977 through the work of Michael Meyer Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer (1974), which holds that knowledge of ones chart can provide a fuller understanding of the natural stages and cycles of developement, of ones complexes or patterns and archetypal potentials.

 

EXPERIENCE, BACKGROUND, EDUCATION:

I began formal practice as a humanistic astrologer in 1985 after fifteen years of research and study which included work with hundreds of individual charts and many family charts spanning three generations. My research ranged from working with the individual birth chart to transits and progressions, composits (relationship charts), and astrocartography. Shortly after I took up private practice my insights into the chart began to expand to a deeper appreciation and understanding of the archetypal potential as well as complexes, and the stages of growth and awareness outlined by C. G. Jung in his extensive documentation on the individuation process. I had already begun to explore the field of depth psychology, with astrology as a tool, in 1985 when my insight into the charts further evolved into an understanding of the astrological chart as a door to the unconscious and as a way to facilitate dialogue, understanding and relationship with our untapped potentials, i.e., the archetypes, the analyst within as I have come to know it. This research reflected an awakening to an approach to life that might best be understood as Classical Jungian, in that my understanding of psychological problems often considered behavioral or biological by clinical standards, were to my understanding a consequence of an unresolved psychic split between conscious and unconscious agencies.

In 1989, my practice as an astrologer shifted dramatically in that I found that my clients were having a very difficult time acknowledging and therefore unhooking themselves from unconscious complexes. I myself found that my own unconscious complexes were continually getting the better of me. I began self analysis in 1991 with an analyst that seemed to be somewhat of a hybrid of the newly formed Jungian Archetypal School, and Freudian psyhoanalysis, which worked for me for a while, until individuation dreams and synchronious events began to present at a consistant rate taking me into realms that went beyond the scope of that work. At that point I decided to follow my vocation in Jungian psychology, and returned to school for extensive study in 1999. After 7 years I graduated with an associates degree in Humanities and Human Services and a BLA from Vermont College with a concentrated 45 credit hour study in psychoanalysis and depth psychology, which included a unit on trauma and recovery in the Gulf of Mexico after Katrina, and extensive research of Jungs Individuation process.
To set up an appointment or for further information please email jmollin@comcast.net

 

"Suffer me to observe that whoever studies the eclipses of former Ages and compares them with the great events in the history of the times and years in which they happened shall find that the fall of the Assyrian, Persian, Grecian and Roman monarchies each of the was remarkably preceded by great and total eclipses of the heavenly bodies. Observations of this kind, joined with the ancient and long-tried rules of our art....make me tremble for the Empire now in being." ~ B.Franklin, Poor Richards Almanac 1736 Through observation of the patterns and cycles in the astrological chart, astrological readings can help one understand the ebb and flow of life’s cycles; of personal, relationship and family dynamics. Astrological readings also gain deeper understanding into personal motivations, recognize and unravel self-destructive patterns, initiate growth and understanding of the self and gain insight into the archetypal footprint of the soul. ~ ollin

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