Aulden asked Mitzi, the moon archetype, "What would you like from me?" She responded, "Put me in charge of the balloons." Her answer seemed so meaningless, Aulden didn't give it another thought until ten months later when he was reviewing his journal. Then he returned to talk with Mitzi.

He'd learned in those months that the archetypal figures never said anything meaningless, although they often spoke in esoteric metaphor.

"When you said, 'Put me in charge of the balloons,' what did you mean by 'balloons'? What are they?"

Mitzi replied to Aulden in the tone of a question, "Moods?"

Aulden responded, "Are you asking me or telling me? What are the balloons?" Thoughts about balloons ran through his mind: "air-filled, inflated, deflated… why her in charge?" He noted that the moon also inflates and deflates as it moves through its phases.

Mitzi answered, "What are the balloons? Your moods and how they relate to desire, purpose, intention; ebbs and flows. Put me in charge of that."

"How will you manage those things?" Aulden asked her.

She told him, "Look to me. When it's time, look to me."

Aulden agreed, "Yes. Mitzi, you're in charge of the balloons."

He shouldn't have been surprised, but he was, in the proceeding days as he found himself feeling happier. Even the occasional moments of anger or frustration felt different. He was more aware of what he was feeling, and his changing moods didn't overwhelm him.

Aulden then began sleeping with his curtains open so that he might occasionally wake and glance up at the moon as it passed by his window.