Excerpt: "...Any girl who mistakes a wolf for her grandmother must either be extraordinarily dense or come from a spectacularly ugly family. You are neither dense nor ugly, and you have been telling yourself a story about your relationship, your career, your creative life, your very identity, that does not survive basic scrutiny, and keeping it alive through the ancient art of changing the subject beautifully won't hold up. The Full Moon illuminates the house of your everyday speech and shows you the gap between the story and the fact, and the gap has grown past the point where revising the story will close it..."

Excerpt: "...when the room fails to respond, the room must be the problem. And sometimes the room is the problem. But hey, Pluto in your first house has changed the terms of every exchange now. Stakes are heavy, and the obligatory change is the part you have been declining to examine, because examining it would mean entertaining the possibility that the strange, sumptuously forward-thinking frequency you broadcast with such quietly steadfast conviction has been, slowly, pushing away the very people you need...."

Excerpt: "... Your sign has one default answer to every threat: work harder. Longer hours. More proof of your worth. But ask yourself honestly, can anyone out-work an automated system? You would be trying to outcompete something that does not tire, does not doubt, does not sleep....."