al-baldah asks us to face a difficult truth. by loving those who are duplicitous to us, by caring about the ones who happily use us… we, more than they, have betrayed ourselves profoundly. it’s not just that their two-faced stringing us along with bread crumbs of faked parroted affection is cruel, but that we have let these usurpers hoodwink us. we gave the clever fox the key to the henhouse. so with lunar mansion 21, we can liberate ourselves from their spell. we can end arrangements that are unfair to us.  we can quit. we can resign. this is an archetype of closure. how merciful this wisdom. it’s about dang time!