The Question
We all face moments when letting go feels impossible — of people, of pain, of the life we imagined.
Why does release feel like death, even when we know holding on is what’s killing us?
The Understanding
Attachment is not love — it is fear disguised as devotion.
We cling because we believe loss means emptiness. We grasp at memories, people, and identities because we confuse their presence with our own wholeness.
But holding on is resistance to truth — and resistance is the birthplace of suffering.
To let go is not to abandon; it is to accept what already changed.
Everything you lose externally teaches you to find it internally.
The Monarch understands: letting go is not weakness — it is alignment with reality’s flow. The river doesn’t mourn what it passes; it trusts what it becomes.
The Lesson
You cannot carry the future with hands full of the past.
Release is not a single act, but a practice — a gentle surrender repeated until peace replaces attachment.
The Monarch learns to loosen the grip of expectation, to allow endings to serve as beginnings.
Letting go is not forgetting — it is remembering who you are without what you lost.
The Decree
To let go is not to lose — it is to return.
Only the empty hand can receive again.
