Original Advice
“DO: Schedule cool-off time before tough talks.”
Cool First, Strike Clean
Your first impulse is combustion. You taste blood the second a tone shifts, and your mouth loads the artillery. You call it honesty; they call it shrapnel. Schedule the cool-off before the spark. Put 24 hours between the trigger and the talk. Walk, shower, scrub a pan. Let the steam vent somewhere that isn't someone's face.
Cooling isn't avoidance. It's tactics. Cortisol drops, language returns, precision sharpens. You stop hunting shadows and start naming facts. Time turns a flood into a canal; the message arrives without debris. Put it on a clock: the text draft sleeps, the notes simmer, the meeting gets a slot. You keep the intimacy and lose the collateral damage.
Cosmic Context
Fixed water ruled by Mars and Pluto, you are a pressure system. The pause is your undertow: still on the surface, lethal in aim.
Action
──────Set a 24-hour hold on every charged conversation.
✨ You are allowed to take the night and say nothing. ✨