🍂🌸 The Equinox and the Balance Between Holding On and Letting Go

Twice a year, the world pauses. Light and dark stand in perfect balance. Day and night meet as equals. And for a brief moment, the earth reminds us what it means to hold two truths at once.

This is the equinox — a threshold, a hinge, a sacred in‑between.

For those who are grieving, the equinox can feel especially meaningful. Grief is its own kind of balance: the tension between remembering and moving forward, between holding on and letting go, between the love that remains and the life that continues.

If you find yourself standing in that tension, this season is for you.

🌗 The Equinox as a Mirror for Grief

The equinox is not about choosing light over darkness or darkness over light. It’s about acknowledging both.

Grief works the same way.

You may feel moments of warmth — a memory that brings a smile, a moment of connection, a flicker of hope. And you may feel moments of shadow — the ache, the longing, the heaviness that returns without warning.

Both are real. Both are valid. Both deserve space.

The equinox teaches us that balance is not about perfection. It’s about presence.

🍃 Holding On: The Love That Remains

There are parts of grief we hold because they are precious:

• The memories that shaped us

• The stories that still live inside us

• The rituals that keep us connected

• The love that didn’t end

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Holding on is not a refusal to heal. It is an act of devotion.

It is saying: “This mattered. This still matters.”

There is nothing wrong with carrying what is sacred.

🌬️ Letting Go: The Weight That Exhausts Us

Letting go is not forgetting. It is not erasing. It is not abandoning the person you love.

Letting go can be:

• Releasing guilt

• Releasing pressure to “be okay”

• Releasing timelines that don’t fit your heart

• Releasing the belief that grief must look a certain way

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Letting go is not about losing them. It’s about loosening what harms you.

It is saying: “I deserve to breathe.”

🌗 Living in the In‑Between

The equinox reminds us that we don’t have to choose. We can hold on and let go at the same time.

You can carry their memory and still move forward. You can honor the past and still open to the future. You can feel sorrow and joy in the same breath.

Grief is not a single emotion. It is a landscape — and the equinox is the moment you stand at its center, seeing both horizons.

🕯️ A Gentle Equinox Ritual for Grieving Hearts

If you want to honor this threshold, here is a simple, tender ritual:

1. Light two candles.

One for what you’re holding. One for what you’re releasing.

2. Place an object beside each candle.

A photo, a stone, a leaf, a piece of fabric — whatever feels right.

3. Speak (or write) one sentence for each.

For holding: “I carry this because it matters.”   For letting go: “I release this because I deserve peace.”

4. Sit in the space between the two lights.

Let yourself feel both truths. Let yourself be held by the balance.

5. Close with gratitude.

Not for the loss — but for the love.

🌱 You Are Allowed to Move at Your Own Pace

The equinox is a reminder that balance is not static. It shifts. It breathes. It changes with the seasons.

Your grief will, too.

Some days you will hold on tightly. Some days you will let go gently. Some days you will do both without even realizing it.

This is not a failure.

This is healing.

🕯️ You Don’t Have to Walk This Threshold Alone

At Orion’s Legacy Editing, I believe in honoring the in‑between spaces — the thresholds, the transitions, the moments when grief and growth coexist.

Your story deserves to be held with tenderness.

Your grief deserves to be witnessed.

Your balance will come in its own time.