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Bina
Shah is a former Cancerian with her moon in Aries
and Leo as her rising sign.
Recently I took a serious decision,
very light-heartedly. What I mean to say is that the decision
was a serious one but I did it on a whim, in a moment
of capriciousness, really. I don’t know if it’s
going to affect my life profoundly, or if something awful
is going to happen as a result of my decision, but I’ve
decided to take the first step, take a chance, and see
what happens.
No, I haven’t given up smoking, I’m not going
to become a Buddhist, and I haven’t decided to suddenly
go backpacking around the world. I’ve renounced
something which was a habit I’ve nurtured for years,
something which brought me hours of fun and amusement,
and something which I really didn’t expect to expunge
from my life quite so dramatically. For what it’s
worth, I’ve given up astrology.
Let me explain: for years I'd been
enamored of astrology. This habit was handed down to me
from my parents who were always very into it - they'd
buy those books that would predict your entire year, day
by day – Sidney Omarr’s “Your Predictions
for 1978” being an example of that genre. Apparently
my parents weren’t the only one inducted into this
craze: astrology is a very popular pastime all over Pakistan
– you’ll see horoscopes in every daily newspaper,
ads for palmists and astrologers who claim to be able
to tell your future, and books on astrology in every bookstore.
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