We don't know what he asked of him, but I used him as an example because he has been exposed deeply on both sides of the modern/trad schism, and at the time of that comment he had long since left behind modern astrology as a proponent and was quite a happy acolyte of Project Hindsight.
Both traditional and modern branches take into consideration the actions of planets all the time. Secondary progressions and astrocartography are both modern conceptions which are based on prediction in the former case, and based on the actions of planets and practical manifestations in the second case. The cosmobiologists' whole school developed for the sake of refining predictions. There is an astrologer on this website called "Unique Astrology" is another event based astrologer that is purely modern. I'm speaking more in the sense of worldview, contemporary experiences, world context, historical moment etc. We cannot practice as if we were Valens because we do not live in Valens' world. Just the fact that we are having this conversation across country borders almost instantaneously shows the vast difference of the contexts of the astrologers of old vs. now in 2019.
A modern astrologer uses psychology and provides a setting for psychotherapy in some form or the other during a reading or a consultation. And psychotherapy works for some but not for everyone and even some therapists struggle to improve the lives of some clients even after years of therapy. If a modern astrologer says I don't use psychology at all then we are talking about two different things.
Could you clarify what you meant by this?
I mentioned those names not because they are who I see as my personal heros and authority figures, but to show you that these people
are authorities in the modern schools of astrology. If there was a modern biblical (I'm assuming a Christian theologian?) astrologer that contributed his brand of astrology to the contemporary corpus in a sufficiently influential way, I would have added him/her to the list.
This is more speculative, but are you aware of the theory that Freud got his psychoanalytic ideas from the Kabbalah and Jewish mystical teachings? If so be the case, what is seen as too totally different fields (psychology and astrology) may very well be more unified than we think.
Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition
Just to jolt your perception, I am neither a proponent of modern nor traditional astrology. In fact if you were active on this forum even a couple years back you would think that I was a traditional astrologer all the way.