Excerpt: "...This lunation doesn’t ask for cordiality and pleasantries. It pounds you for proof of what you'll do in the face of action. It’s not just a matter of “home” or “family”—not some tidy psycho-spiritual nesting issue. This is deeper. This is about what you’ve inherited, enforced, and embodied as structure..."

Excerpt: "...what you’re discovering—perhaps uncomfortably—is that your most refined ideals, your most radical proposals, are only as true as your next interaction. How do you correct someone? How are you corrected? What assumptions do you still carry about being the smartest person in the room, and what do you do when someone not only disagrees, but does it under heat?.."

Excerpt: "...In bad faith, codependent relationships can become a silk rope, obligatory bonds tightening around your neck. You can feel the difference: one relaxes your jaw; the other makes you perform gratuitously while something inside you wants to shrink away and withdraw. Are you keeping the peace, or just agreeing to be sequestered, quietly exploited, harvested?..."