Excerpt: "Integrity, not control, is the price Pluto demands. Genuine warmth—not manipulative charm—must be the counterbalance you seek from everyone to anchor your every genuine interaction. If your brilliance is rooted merely in silent backroom power-plays, Pluto will ruthlessly expose every hidden strategy, turning relationships into open warfare and revolt......."

Excerpt: "You're really looking at your own inadequacies there, because in some sense you could not be master of your domain. And yet, in these difficult, confounding times, if you cannot extend magnanimity to the parts of yourself that still crave real, groundrumbling applause—something to nourish that unfed inner child—you may end up stomping down, policing that hunger in everyone else—and then left wondering why the room is ready to revolt...."

Excerpt: "...this New Moon asks whether intellectual swagger alone can sustain your sense of self—or whether it's time to admit vulnerability, ignorance, or even forgiveness, especially toward your own past naiveties. Could embracing what you don't yet understand turn your rigid philosophy into something fluid, alive, and truly formidable? You can easily project confidence, but the real test now is simpler, deeper, and tougher: Listen to the echoes reverberating from the back of the auditorium. Does what you're preaching actually ring true?."