Excerpt: "...The crusade meets its first material test when Mars conjoins Saturn on 19 April in the ninth house, and the test is simple, unglamorous, and completely indifferent to the beauty of your vision: does the belief produce a life you can sustain, or does it produce a performance of meaning that requires escalating doses of conviction to maintain?.."

Excerpt: "...Mars entered Aries on 9 April, and the people around you are already beginning to bristle. You feel the bristling as hostility, as ingratitude, as the predictable failure of lesser attention spans to stay engaged with a conversation you were still finding interesting. What it actually is, what it has been building toward for months, is ..."

Excerpt: "....The hard, exterior shell that kept you alive is now keeping you small. This lunation, seeded in your house of public consequence within a degree of the wound that taught you to build the shell in the first place, is the moment you decide which function the shell serves for the next chapter..."