Excerpt: "Once a year the Moon returns to your sign and plants something life-assuring in the sacred soil of the self. This lunation is totally yours. The rest of the zodiac merely borrows Taurus energy for a fortnight; you actually embody it. The question it carries is the same one it carries every year, only this year the question has weight behind it that the last few cycles lacked: who are you becoming in the emerging New Earth, and does the version of yourself currently on display still match the one living deep within?..."

Excerpt: "Cancer rising understands belonging the way other signs understand oxygen; you feel it before you think it, and when it's absent, the absence registers before the mind has formed a theory. The question the Taurus New Moon carries is the one you've been circling for months: who, among the people you've been tending, is actually tending you back?..."

Excerpt: "The Taurus New Moon wants you to take stock. Plainly. Unglamorously. What do you actually have? What does it cost to keep? What have you been pouring money and energy into that returns nothing except the temporary proof that you haven't stopped? ..."