Excerpt: "Cancer rising understands belonging the way other signs understand oxygen; you feel it before you think it, and when it's absent, the absence registers before the mind has formed a theory. The question the Taurus New Moon carries is the one you've been circling for months: who, among the people you've been tending, is actually tending you back?..."

Excerpt: "The Taurus New Moon wants you to take stock. Plainly. Unglamorously. What do you actually have? What does it cost to keep? What have you been pouring money and energy into that returns nothing except the temporary proof that you haven't stopped? ..."

"You've done the reading. All of it. Pulled the threads, cross-referenced the sources, assembled something so meticulously organised it could survive cross-examination in three jurisdictions. And here you sit, at the end of all that beautiful work, with the same instinct you had before you opened the first book. The research was supposed to clarify. It clarified. And the understanding has become the obstacle..."