Excerpt: "...You have been so occupied with the social choreography of saying things pleasantly that the thing itself, the raw, unpolished, competitive, Aries-fired creative act, has gone unattended. Stop confusing being interesting, well-liked, and socially impressive with the harder task of saying something original. Your habit of tailoring your ideas to the room’s comfort has drained them of force, risk, and consequence...."

Excerpt: "...yet the more twelfth-house fact is this: everybody else can see the softer creature in you moving underneath it. They see the tenderness in the pauses, the beauty-sickness, the longing to be met without first having to win, dominate, or unsettle the room. The only one still treating that hidden self as classified material is you..."

Excerpt: "...You have been diplomating your own worth, weighing it against other people’s, splitting the difference between what you deserve and what feels fair to ask for...."