Whatever absorbs you at lunchtime today, you can identify with the New Moon’s anxiety.

You might be with family at the holiday house sitting down to a banquet of leftovers, pushing yourself to a better time on a run through Royal Park or searching for a geocache at the location for this chart, but whatever you’re doing you’re absorbed, and for a short time you don’t have to think about the mess we’re in.

The Sun has only one piece of advice for the Moon: sell!

By way of introducing a change of perspective in 2016, consider this indication of Nero’s state of mind while he fiddles as Rome burns.

This is the mechanism of the avoidance we call absorption.