I F YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY checked out our astrologer in residence Sheilaa Hite’s March horoscopes, I suggest you have a look. She reminds us that March is a “magical time of year,” during which we witness the lion transforming into a lamb. “We are participants,” she explains, “in one of nature’s oldest and most creative cycle dances—the end of winter and the beginning of spring.” Such a time of transformation (and violent indecision, really—as winter struggles to make up his mind on when to leave town) resonates with me, especially this year.
As I mull over the last 10 months of my life in my head—graduation, moving to Paris, then leaving Paris, coming home, settling into the life I had five years ago—I’m overwhelmed by the magnitude of all the many external transformations I’ve been facing. Now, I’m waiting to hear back from graduate schools regarding my admission (it should be a week or so), and I’m a cranky mess. In these whirlwind times of change, I tend to pick at my relationships (especially with family), snapping at my loved-ones and letting tensions fester between us.
So it was synchronistic to scroll down the page and read Sheilaa’s horoscope for Cancer as a quotation from Rabbi Sofer: “No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.” (All the horoscopes this month are given in the form of a famous quotation.)
Perhaps I can learn a thing or two from the month of March and work on shedding my own lion persona. As I work tirelessly to change my physical surroundings in these uncertain times (“building my world,” as it were), I guess I’ve been forgetting about nurturing my own personal transformation. Although I can’t help but think some warm weather would certainly urge the process along.
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