This book doesn’t describe the signs. It lets them speak.
Twelve raw voices, unedited. Each sign narrating from its own internal logic —how it feels time, how it interrupts itself, how it desires, how it escapes. These aren’t idealized portraits. They are real voices: contradictory, fragmented, sometimes brutal.
The writing follows the rhythm of each archetype. Aries in constant combustion. Taurus in geological time. Gemini splitting endlessly. No soft transitions to betray their nature. No explanations to tame them.
It includes the relationships between signs: what happens when two different structures meet. How they activate, block, misread each other. The patterns of attraction and repulsion. The impossibilities. The encounters that work against all logic.
When you read your sign —or any sign that lives within you— something resonates. Not because the book explains you, but because you recognize that voice. Maybe it gives you permission to be who you are. Maybe you understand why some people feel impossible. Maybe you forgive what you couldn’t before.
It’s not self-help. It’s raw recognition of the forces that move us.
Paula Lustemberg
The Zodiac of the Nouvelle Vague: The Signs as Seen Through Auteur French Cinema
Available June 11, 2025 — on my website and Amazon Kindle.