Excerpt: "....This is the part that frightens you, and it should, because a Virgo without reliable Mercury is a Virgo utterly groundless. The temptation is to compensate, to think harder, research more, gather additional data, run the analysis one more time with slightly different parameters, as though the problem were insufficient information rather than a compromised processor....."

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 ..."