WORK IN PROGRESS
THE Personal Effectiveness E-zine
March 2006 Equinox - Balance
Most of the time, when I am writing Work in Progress and make any reference to weather, or to seasons, I am acutely aware that I have many readers in the southern hemisphere for whom what I write may not be currently appropriate. I might write of snow in my own community, for people who are about to head out to bask on a sunny beach. I might write of oncoming spring as others prepare for autumn, or of drought when there are floods.
However, March 20 - which is either today or tomorrow, depending on when you receive this - is not one of those days of north/south difference. March 20 is the day of the spring equinox, and I am writing with the assumption that you will read it on that date. The spring equinox is considered by many to be the time of new life, a new cycle of the zodia. As I was reminded by a speaker this morning, the moment of the equinox is also a moment when all is in balance. In the northern hemisphere, the hours of daylight and the hours of darkness are in balance. In the southern hemisphere, so, too, are the dark and the light in balance. Both hang poised between a season of extremes (winter or summer) and a season of transition (spring and fall). Just as our lives often seem to see-saw between action and inaction, between preparation and procedure, between climb and plateau, so do the world's seasons, and for a brief, passing moment on this day, all of that is in balance.
I can visualize that pause, like the pause at the top of a roller coaster when for one brief moment one seems to hang, weightless, neither climbing up nor heading down, a moment when all action and all directions seem possible. On the roller coaster we know that an external track will guide us and will decide our progress. In our own lives, when we come to such a moment is it well to savor it. Let's not be in too much hurry to hurtle away from that pause-moment, for at that moment, perhaps indeed all things are possible. Perhaps this is the perfect moment for a change of direction. We are not, at this moment, being driven forward from behind, nor pulled from ahead. There is neither momentum nor inertia. We are weightless - if we choose we may pause, mentally, to savor our weightlessness, to consider all possibilities, to consider that a slight movement to the right or the lefty may well, right now, start our momentum in a new and different direction.
Have the past days, weeks, months been a time of inertia for you? This is not unusual, for it often seems that some vestigial instinct for hibernation takes over during winter time. Equally, in the summer the world seems to point to a season for holidays, a time to "kick back" and enjoy the warmth and welcome of the world. Today signals that the time for transition has arrived. Perhaps this is the time for the start of the new... the new project, the new attitude, the new determination to keep on keeping on at what is already in existence. It may bring nothing new on the outside, but that is not to say that the inside cannot do a U-turn, or a quarter turn... perhaps even a slight nudge of a couple of degrees off from our previous path.
If at the moment that you read this you are at that weightless pause-moment, what is the change that you want to make, right now, while you are weightless so that there is no inertia to overcome and no momentum to force you onward on a path chosen in the past?
What is stopping you from choosing something new, whether external or internal? At this pause-moment, because it is the moment that it is, with neither momentum nor inertia, nothing is stopping you, so choose.
And then act!
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