Excerpt: " ...Your sign's whole constitution runs on instinctive reception, on the body absorbing what the environment transmits before the conscious mind has clocked a thing. But the frequency has changed. The signal coming through the hidden channel has grown sharper, more erratic, occasionally brilliant, and harder to dismiss as background noise..."

Excerpt: "...Has the home front been running on reserves? Has the family been receiving the procured, efficient version of you while the unfiltered one focuses solely on your career? Or has a domestic restlessness, a sense that the ground under you is wildly unstable, undermining the visible work, no matter how flawlessly you perform it. You have probably considered this before. Consideration is, after all, your cardio...."

Excerpt: "...lately the columns in your account book have been misbehaving. The figures are swimming a little. You have been squinting at them in a way that might trouble a person willing to be troubled, and you are not that person, are you, because trouble is a soft underbelly and the underbelly is a door, and you have spent a lifetime with a trowel and some mortar in your hand.And your eighth house is where the bricks are kept. Has it occurred to you that someone has been inside the entire time?..."