Happy Spring (or Fall) Equinox. Who are you?
Today, March 20, marks the equinox - fall or spring - depending on which hemisphere (north or south) you’re in at the moment. I’m writing to you technically from north of the equator, but where culturally, the country connects to the Southern Hemisphere. (It’s quite confusing for my rational brain.) But, I spent all 38 of my previous years in the Northern Hemisphere, minus trips here and there south of the equator. All of my loved ones, minus my husband and Apollo, are still in the Northern Hemisphere, so my brain is feeling the sense of blooming into spring - the season of renewal, rebirth, blossoms; the season where the seeds of winter start culminating into something grand. Feeling that renewal internally.
Spring seems like the most appropriate season to ask - who are you? In this opportunity for revision or refinement or growth, who are you, now?
Now the first of many hard parts- how do we identify? And what identities do we put front and center? What parts of our identities are there in the sub-conscious or the presumed, but we don’t share for whatever intentional or unintentional reason? “Who are you?” can be loaded, complex, deep,and possibly, spiritual.
I’ll go first with the who am I (then tackle the “now” piece). I’m Andrea Cameron (she/her). A cis/het able-bodied white, female married, child-free, dog-Mom US citizen raised in the US South. An Aquarius sun, Libra moon, Aires rising. A lover of travel and someone with a sense of home that is both nowhere and everywhere (photo of my Jan 2025 tattoos embodying these two ideas, above). A bleeding heart who loves the world and wishes for everyone’s human rights to be respected and honored. A person who finds solace in partnership. Someone who loves walking to beat of her own drum - in physical movement, in life path, in career, in adventures and home life.
And “now”? Deep breath. Hand over heart. This Spring equinox is my last one of the 30’s, so I’m feeling both nostalgic/retrospective and anticipating/excited for the future. Now, there are things brewing in my personal and professional life that feel like the culmination of dreams, hard work, and planning + waiting on the stars to align that excite me. Now, I’m also feeling connected to this year, 39, in a way I didn’t anticipate. My husband and I have chosen to be child-free - it’s a knowing that is not just a now, I’ve known in my bones I did not want to be a parent to human children since I was a teenager. But the now, part of it is that my mother birthed me about a week after her own 39th birthday. I’ve been occasionally since that birthday thinking of the ways in which my life and her life are so different and doing so (as much as I can) from a non-judgemental lens).
Now, your turn. Who are you? Who are you, now?
Photos of two new tattoos (as of Jan 2025) - home on the left arm - everywhere and nowhere - and my sun, moon, and rising signs in astrology on my right forearm.
