Little Things to Know   Julian Lee Calling Me Calling me is very simple and everyday: Phone my number at the website and leave a message. There is not much more to know. Many people make it complex and confuse themselves by forgetting what my phone number is and using other numbers. Here, I'll give it again: 805-640-9591. You can call that at any time of the day or night, and I regularly deal with messages there. I sometimes give out my cell phone number to those in a hurry, or if they've been trying to get me over a week. That number goes: 805-234...... Please don't use this number to try to reach me unless instructed in a message from me, then use it only till you get me for that instance. After that, go back to the usual number. I don't start work early. I answer my cell phone from about 11 am to 7 pm Pacific time. The hours I Answer My Cell Phone: Eastern Time 2 pm - 10 pm Central 1 pm - 9 pm Mountain Noon - 8 pm Pacific Time 11 - 7 pm This is not a perfect science. But those are the hours the hours I generally will respond to it. There is a 3rd "secret" line I often do readings from because of better analog sound quality. It begins 503. Don't write it down or keep it in memory. It will just confuse you. I do not answer that phone; it often doesn't even ring, and has no voice mail. In rare cases I may have you call that number for convenience. But don't write it down or keep it in memory. If you keep calling the 503 number you'll have a lot of frustration! Ignore the the 503 number please. Calling vs. Emailing Always phone, and phone the number at the website. I don't work through email. There is only one sort of email message I'm sure to respond to, and that's an email regarding your recording, such as not getting it. (I send them out by email.) The other email I welcome is an email telling me about your move and move results; reporting to me. I always read these, though I might not always respond. Otherwise, phone. Emailing me is the slow, slow, slow track and even slows down a phone call response. Most emails from clients will not get answered. If any do, it's luck. If you email me instead of call, it means you didn't really want to talk to me. Even if you phone, emailing me will too will just slow down my response and put you in a slower track. It complicates my way of responding to you. I will note "there's an email" in the phone log next to your name, and I will take longer to phone you back, because I will first go through a process of finding your email before I phone you, which will take time. So.... -- If you want me to call you back fast, just call and leave a message, and send no email about your issue. -- If you want me to take longer to call you back, send one email. -- If you want to get called back in maybe 2 months, send 2 emails. -- If you want a strong chance of never being called, send me 3 emails. Time Zones I speak in terms of your time zone, not mine. I deal with all kinds of time zones, so time-zone-translating is second nature to me. I don't expect my clients -- who don't often deal with different time zones, to do time zone translating.  Thus if I say "How about 8 PM?" -- I mean your time. Nowadays, just to avoid this confusion, I often explicitly say "8 PM YOUR TIME." I use those two words "your time" after after the number. Funny thing is, I often find they are still confused about it  and have to ask "who's time"? right after I say it, and later on ask again. So maybe if you read it here, that I speak in terms of your time zone, we won't have to have many conversations about it and you will not to be on pins and needles come reading day wondering "I wonder if he meant my time or his time?!" I speak in terms of YOUR TIME. It would be absurd to expect my clients to translate it for me, because they would tend to find it new and confusing and get it wrong, and I am used to dealing with all time zones from Hong Kong to Melbourne to Hawaii to Maine to Rome. I do this every day. I very rarely mess this up. You can be confident that I am talking in your time zone whenever I refer to an appointment time. I deal with every state. Occasionally I may ask 'what your clock says right now" just to assure myself that I have your time zone right. I Call YOU At the reading time, just wait by the phone. I normally say "I'll call you at such-and-such o'clock" in my chats with clients, but many  forget this and start phoning me, instead, at the appointment time, just because it's 30 seconds after or whatever. This just leads to us getting voice mails or busy signals. I ask you to just wait by the phone at the appointment time and keep the line clear. I sometimes phone "right on the dot" but usually not; usually sometime within 5 minutes of the appointment time. I have to be good and ready. If I am going to be over 5 minutes late, I will call you to let you know. Some clients start ringing me and ringing me at 1 or 2 minutes past the appointed time, and it just creates problems as I am trying to call them. I have done it this way for 20 years, ever since I first started this. I call you. Occasionally -- not very often but occasionally -- I have not "cracked the case" yet, and don't have my answer for you, though I have worked on it. In such cases I will hold you over and give you a new day and appointment time some days away. I hit it another day. I Astrologically Time Your Reading To schedule your reading I use astrological timings -- i.e. transits going on in YOUR chart. Repeat: I do your reading at a time especially selected FOR YOU. I pick a particular astrological time. I do this even if the time is inconvenient to me, because I consider it very important. I don't just choose your appointment time from random "open dates" on my calendar, arbitrarily. This means I am seriously after a particular few dates, within a given month, to deliver your reading to you. Not just any old day. I DO TRY to accommodate my clients in terms of choosing a time convenient to them, whether "on a weekend," or "on my day off," or "in the evening" etc. I almost always succeed in accommodating those practical scheduling requests. However, I do insist that you let me choose the good astrological dates for your reading. Therefore, in cases where I have to reschedule you (because the answer is not found yet) -- I will also choose another good astrological time. So do not worry about that. I do this as consistently as the sun rises. It is second nature to me, and I consider it very important. Recordings I record the reading digitally on my end. You'll be able to hear both me and yourself. I make either a .wma file (Windows Media Audio, plays on all Windows computers), or an MP3 file that will play on a Mac. I will be asking you at some point which sort of computer you have. The audio file comes to you in 1-2 weeks after the reading. I do these in batches. Once I have a pile of them, I sit down and send out a batch of audios. Again, it should arrive in your email in 1-2 weeks after the reading. When I send these out, I send a companion email along with the heavy file, one with no attachment that is sure to get through. This informs you that I am attempting to send the other  email having the big audio file. Sometimes the file is too large and gets rejected by your email service. In these cases I first try to re-send it at a lesser sound quality so the file is smaller. If that doesn't work, I ask  your mailing address, making a CD of the reading, and mailing it to you. Some people freak out and start calling me the next day when they don't see the audio in their email the next day. But I do these in batches 1-2 weeks later, and my recording of your reading is a complimentary free service. I sell my opinion, not MP3s or WMA files. I have over 7000 readings behind me, a good reputation, always put time in on you, and my fee is very reasonable for selling that opinion. I do not sell CDs, paper, or digital files. 99 percent of the time, however, I successfully record your reading and get it to you. If we get disconnected Just stay off the line and let me call back if we get disconnected. Sometimes I am using a hand-held digital recorded spliced into my phone line. My recording rig appears to develop some static electricity or something, and now and then, the phone just gets disconnected. If it happens, it usually only happens once. Just let me call back and we will resume the reading. It can be frustrating if we both start phoning each other at that point. Stumpers I turn down or decline about 10 percent of cases. This means I don't get a locational solution I am sure of at this time. In these cases, I do a full refund. I have done this my entire career, and as far as I know, I am the only one who does. The reason is I know too much, and I operate in a stricter set of rules before recommending any location. My "list of negative factors" (to be avoided) is longer than what is known by most locational astrologers, for example. You could say I am more conservative and more careful. This has resulted in me sleeping well at night and having very few unhappy clients out of my 7,000+ clients. This 'stumped" situation is not permanent, but has to do with transits/progressions going on at this time, and in near future. If a client comes back to me in 2-3 years, things will have changed and I might be able to recommend a location then. Generally it takes me two weeks to do your refund. If you paid on PayPal, I will be refunding you there. If by check, I will be sending you out my own check. I am paid in advance, and any check sent to me does get deposited. (I have, a few times, had clients become alarmed at the fact that their check got deposited before the reading, i.e. they were confused about what "paid in advance" means.) I always do refunds as fast as I can. If anybody out there never got refunded, you should phone me at the number at the site and remind me. That would have been an oversight. What the Reading's Like In the Interview (prior to the reading), you do most of the talking. In the Reading, I do most of the talking. I will be saying a lot, and sometimes pretty fast, and it's coming to me as I look at the charts. I will be giving you a pretty coherent presentation and telling you the critical things I think you need to know, and the critical reasons I am recommending a location, and making some predictions. The reading is not of the nature of a conversation, but rather more an information download. So it's good to be a good listener, but you will have the recording later, too. I give more information and more detail than most astrologers, and each reading is unique. Many people are not used to the kind of detail and content I give. It's best if, during the readings, you keep interruptions to a minimum. Interrupt only if you simply didn't hear or understand what I just said. You will have time later to ask questions. This is not a strict rule. But occasionally there is a client who interrupts so much that it throws off the reading and it's difficult to give a coherent presentation. Usually these are people who are used to astrologers whose readings are more like conversations or counseling sessions. Some astrologers let the time get filled up a great deal by the client talking, acting like therapists. My readings are not like conversations or counseling sessions. I'm there to give as much information as I can and I wear down in about 45 minutes. When I am done, I am done. For the briefing I promise 30 minutes of my dense information presentation, but generally go well over that. Remember, I will have already spent other time and interviewed you -- getting your goals and problems -- in another earlier session. Occasionally I will ask a client to respond, or describe conditions to me, or to confirm that something I said is true. I always enjoy hearing about conditions. But my main goal is to do the talking and give you maximum information. I have had clients tell me they wish they had not interrupted me so much (when later listening to the recording). This is especially true when they were simply repeating things, about themselves, that they had already told me in the pre-Interview. You will not want to hear lots of yourself telling me about yourself at reading time. The more you hear of me, the more you will like the recording. Again, there will be time to answer any important questions you want to put to me before we are done. In short, be a good listener during the reading, and let me do most of the talking. It's especially valuable to be receptive and avoid unnecessary interruptions when I start making POSITIVE PREDICTIONS about life in the new location. Some clients act almost as if they want to shut me off when I start making positive predictions, almost as if their capacity to listen is being strained. I try not to let this affect me. But it sometimes happens that a client gets a very abbreviated list of positive predictions simply because they interrupted me once to many times, at the wrong times. The most foolish thing to do in a reading is to keep interrupting me when I am starting to make the positive predictions about the new location. Checking Out The Location The least I ask of my clients is to be open-minded enough to at least visit the location once. In most cases, the first well-timed visit will give the client some positive ideas and attractions to the location, and they will begin already to have their own natural, sensible reasons to want to move there. This is because my recommendations are generally very good, and I also have you go at the right times. In some cases, the first trip will not be convincing, or it will be mixed. All trips are conditioned by the transits effective at the time of the trip. Some trip times are better than others, and I can't always find the strongest times in, say, the month you wanted to use. So, a second trip could turn out better still. I always feel that a client has not really give a recommendation a chance until they have gone there at least twice, using my timing. Generally, if I time the first trip, and your findings there are not mostly positive, it means 1) the timing I used was not as strong as it could have been, possibly because I was required to choose a particular time of year and not much was available for a good timing, or 2) Your birth time is wrong. If a client goes to a place I give, at a time I recommend, and has a negative experience -- it's almost a sure thing that your birth time is wrong. This rarely happens to my clients, but if it does, you should tell me right away and we should look at it and let me evaluate the time. In some cases, 2-3 minutes off can account for/explain the unexpected results. In such cases, I can sometimes adjust the location to a city to the west or east, and also make a slight correction to your birth time. (Give an opinion about a more correct birth time.) This correction can be very valuable for you in the long run. About Birth Times There is nothing really "Gospel" about the time on your birth certificate. It is probably very close, but not exact. I use the time you have as if it is correct, but you should understand why birth times are often not perfect in the first place. Some people get all excited if any doubt is raised about their birth time, saying "But it says right on the birth certificate." I have actually watched babies being born in delivery rooms, and there are at least four reasons 99 percent of birth times can be adjusted slightly: 1) Clocks are not perfect. This is even more true of the 1950s and 60's before "quartz movement" etc. But even today, you can walk out of a delivery room and the clock on the hall is a minute or two different. Unless the hospital clock is a digital radio clock, with a digital display -- tuned to the  the Federal Time Signal -- it will run fast and slow. Just like clocks always have done. (Remember in school, waiting for class to end? The minute hand starts slipping down as it descends, then slowing and struggling as it comes around to 7, 8, 9 o'clock?) Clocks are a bit better today, but they are not magic clocks. 2) Unless there is a person in the delivery room trying to get a correct birth time, rarely do nurses etc. look up at the clock at the real moment of birth. (First in-breath.) Generally a nurse writes down the clock time soon after the first breath in, when she happens to look up. However, this will usually be after the crisis and hubbub of the birth has settled down, and it is the nature of the nurse character (their Virgo-like character) to not make things up. They have their routines and habits. "I write down the clock time after the doctor does such and such.) I know for a fact that in the births I witnessed, I looked up at the clock before anybody else did, and was the only one who witnessed the correct clock time. And yet, I couldn't trust the clock. (For reasons given.) 3) Even with a person there explicitly trying to get the right birth time, they may not watch  the right event. They may time the physical exit. But the true birth time and "beginning of the chart" is the first in-breath. 4) Even that witness deliberately trying to get the right birth time with his own watch may not have a perfectly timed watch. It may lack seconds. He/she may not have checked its exactitude prior to the event. 5) The "seconds" fudge factor. Birth times are rounded to minutes. A "5:14" pm time might have been 5:14:01 or it could have been 5:14:59, which is more like 5:15. So, let's say you even have a friend timing the birth with a digital watch,  not the mechanical hospital clock, and it's set as best she could. She even understandings the breath thing. She writes down "10:49" because her clock said that. But in reality the time was 10:49 and 55 seconds -- almost 10:50. Then there is a few seconds lapse before she realizes the baby is breathing. Effectively she  records a birth time at least one minute off. So you can understand how hospital times can be off. I only bring all this up for those rare cases where I might recommend 1 or a few minutes birth time correction based on anomalous reports from you, about your current location or a visited location. I don't want clients to think there is something inherently flawless about the time written on their certificate. I rarely recommend birth time alterations. Usually the locations I recommend can tolerate a few minutes time inaccuracy. In most cases my locations have some room for birth time error, with the location still  good 5 minutes off either direction. However, in some locations I give, exactitude really matters. Trip Timings You can take a trip to the same place 5 different times; you'll never have exactly the same experience. The difference in experience comes from the difference in the astrological transits during your trip. So, you can pick a place, say Santa Barbara. If you go under bad transits to Santa Barbara, you can have an unpleasant time. Go under good transits, and you can have a wonderful time. When people travel, their astrological transits at that time (those days, that week. etc.) dominate the results. The place may be one that will build you up and be positive long term, yet you could have a terrible time there on a trip. Conversely, the place might be one that will tear you down and ruin you over the next three years, yet you could have a wonderful trip there because, say, Venus was sextiling your Moon, Jupiter Trining your this, or that -- during the trip. So, a trip does not necessarily "tell the tale" about a location's long-term potential for you. It is partly an expression of the location's long term trends, and partly an expression of the transits at that time. Any location (I mean anywhere) -- when visited under bad enough transits -- will produce negative experiences, and more importantly, negative "findings." Again: Any location in the world can produce the "trip from hell" if you go there at a bad time. There is no location that is so positive that you won't have a bad trip, or a very mixed one, if visiting it under bad transits. This is very important to understand. Sometimes I get a client who says, "Why should it matter when I go, Julian? You said this was the fortunate place for me!  I'm going this week!" However, if he visits briefly under a brief set of bad transits, he will produce a bad trip there. This will be a waste of his money and time, and possibly poison his mind against a place that is going to be very good for him over the long term. A place will "produce phenomena" for you based on the transits effective at the time of travel, and this constantly changes. It takes longer to see the long term themes of a location. My clients naturally want their trips to be confirmatory, auspicious, and to give good indicators that the place will be fortunate. They also want to be attracted to the place and get natural reasons to move there. That is why it is important that for your first, and even additional, trips there you should use timings given by me. This brings out the maximum positive results from the trip and gives you the most "reasons to move." My trip timings for clients are a big reason I am successful in my work and have so many clients who finally relocate to the place I recommend. It is a part of my service that I give AS MANY TRIP TIMINGS AS YOU NEED until you  get moved to the location. I also provide a move timing when you have finally decided that you desire, for your own reasons, to move there. What I'm Paid For I am paid for my opinion, and, my opinion is what you are paying for. I am not paid for paper, CDs, cassette tapes, or mp3 files. I am also not even paid to be God, or to be infallibly correct, or to remove all future problems from your life. I am not paid to use the "system" that a client thinks is cool. You should leave the system to me, or at least understand aspects of my system and be interested in my results in that system, before hiring me. If a client thinks he you already know "the system," or has his "own system" he should do his own astrology and not hire me. If he thinks some other astrologer's "system" is theoretically "better" he should hire that astrologer, and not me. (My system is better than what the majority of locational astrologers use, in my opinion. You are encouraged and invited to ask about it when you are initially talking to me. Many do, and I am always happy to fully answer about it, because I am a natural astrological teacher. I am not covert or coy about explaining the important aspects of the system I have evolved to get improvements and happy results for my clients.) What I'm paid for is my opinion, and my opinion is what I'm paid for. Now, I couldn't be in this business if my opinion was not often right, with my clients often pleased with their moves and move results. So I'm also paid because I have a good reputation. However, the thing you actually pay for is my opinion. So, if I give you my opinion, I have given you fully what you paid for. That's if I whisper it behind a tree, or hand it to you written on a piece of bark, or give it to you with a great deal of supportive explanations and rationales (which is what I do, as a courtesy and confidence-booster  for you). As evidence of this, were I to give my opinion out to everybody who called, magically, the first time they call me, guess what? I would not hear from them again, and few would send me money, once they had their question answered. That's because the thing they dearly want is my OPINION. I am paid for my opinion, and that's what I sell. I am a consultant and advisor, and I give the advice. I actually give a lot more that just the "name of the place" in my readings. That's because I want my client to have enough confidence to at least try out the location with a trip. But my opinion of  location is the important thing I give. It's what I work to find, interview you about, and use all my experience to decide. Thus, if you don't LIKE my opinion of location, you still got what you paid me for and were dying to know: My opinion. You got what you paid for. If a client thinks he's becoming his own astrologer and "doesn't like my system," he still got what he paid for -- my opinion. If you move to the location, and you are disappointed with your results, both of us are disappointed. But I still duly provided you what you paid for, giving it my usual time and effort. Sometimes lawyers fail to give you your hoped-for results, even after paying them thousands of dollars. Same with doctors and stock brokers and advisors. Still, they worked for you. I say this because doing this 20 years, and having 7,000-plus clients, one naturally ends up with a few critics, wiseacres, and never-satisfied clients. I have very few of these, but its inevitable. Move In the End For YOUR OWN Good Reasons The overwhelming majority of my clients are pleased and delighted with their moves, in the first month, the first year, and longer. But I can be wrong. I want all my clients to move, in the end, for good reasons of their own after investigating a location. Never 100 percent "because Julian said so." Everyone should find their own natural reasons, attractions, and good signs before making a move decision. It should feel right to you. My job is to point my finger to a good spot, a spot that will pull you in and give you good signs and results, and soon. The nature of things is that everything is "mixed." There is no location without flaws. However, my purpose is to give you a location where you see important things improving, and soon. I don't give out any location unless I am 90 percent certain that it will be better, in future, than where you are now. And not just "a little" better, but significantly. So you can be confident that if I am recommending a location, I consider it worth looking in to with a strong prospect for improvement.