Excerpt: "...You know this. You have lived this. You have watched relationships become cold because you could not stop micro-managing every aspect of them. You've watched people either pull away or die slowly inside because your bright insight felt like the most imposing state of surveillance. You have watched trust erode because your need for certainty made others feel like suspects rather than partners. So what is this lunation actually doing?..."

Excerpt: "... When the Capricorn Sun crosses these degrees with Venus and Mars in tow, it presses on that old circuitry. You feel the reflex to self-audit, self-edit, self-censor. You feel the urge to clamp down and create order so you can finally relax. Except the clamp-down prevents relaxation, because the nervous system cannot settle in a house that feels like a courtroom. And here is the part where I hand you your arse (with love, of course):..."

and this is where the confrontation bites you on the arse. Capricorn in the fifth makes joy conditional. Pleasure has got to be earned, dammit! Creativity has to be conducted in neat, respectable little sessions, like taking postcurricular painting lessons together. Romance has to make hard-nosed, practical sense. Play feels suspicious, childish, indulgent, like you'll pay for it later