Yesterday’s clean, no-fudge follow‑up is the right tone to keep, but now it needs a sharper edge: you’re not just refusing the friendly workaround, you’re setting the terms for what comes next. The pivot is Mercury at 4.82° Aries conjunct Mars at 6.70° Aries (with Saturn at 7.68° Aries close by), turning your words into action and making any vague promise instantly testable — and with Jupiter at 17.33° Cancer still squaring your Aries Sun at 28.42°, over-generosity is the quickest way to lose leverage. Use one sentence that can’t be misread, then move straight to the practical step: date, amount, deliverable. Picture a call with the landlord’s agent where they float a ‘temporary’ rent arrangement; you counter with an email headed “Revised agreement”, attach the numbers, and ask them to confirm in writing before close of play.