It’s been a rough couple of weeks since those eclipses—stormy negotiations, wild mental swings, emotional torrents, frustration, delays, backtracking, double-takes, recriminations, and retractions—all climaxing with the recent full moon...

It is a volatile time, when scapegoats often fear they'll be punished or blamed for setting boundaries, going no-contact, or upsetting the narcissist—trapped in constant anxiety, walking on eggshells.

The next month forces us into a period of raw retrospection, shredding that nonsensical, superficial logic to pieces and laying bare the clever little delusions we’ve talked ourselves into...