Excerpt: "...The adaptation you reach for under this pressure is so refined it has become invisible to you: you can make the crisis beautiful. You can frame the confrontation in language so exquisitely balanced, so thoughtfully considerate of every perspective, that the urgency drains out of it, and what remains is a perfectly composed still life of a problem that requires the hellish mess of actual resolution. Hence, the elegance has become the evasion..... "

Excerpt: "...The defence you will reach for, the one that has served you since adolescence, is the pre-emptive wound: hurt yourself before the world can, withdraw before you are abandoned, kill the hope before it can disappoint, then call the utter devastation you cause proof that you were right to be cautious. Under this New Moon..."

Excerpt: "...you have a constitutional inability to stand still when the terrain looks uncertain, and movement has always been your most reliable theology. But the New Moon seeds at the very bottom of your chart, in the zone where the ice meets the water, and the anaretic degree, means the surface finally gives..."