78-Day Meditation Challenge: Day 70

Letting Go to Let Begin

Card of the Day: Ten of Swords (Reversed)

It’s probably not a coincidence that several Tarot cards ask us to reflect on endings. Endings are hard. We long for happy endings—and when they don’t arrive, we feel unsettled, disappointed, even ashamed.

More often, endings come with loss. Loss of an experience we weren’t ready to leave. Loss of someone or something we held dear. Loss of a future we imagined. And in response, we sometimes grip tighter. If we hold on long enough—love hard enough, try harder—maybe it won’t have to end.

But the tighter we grip, the more we suffocate what we hope to preserve. And in the process, we suffocate our spirit.

The Ten of Swords is a graphic card. A figure lies still, pierced by ten swords. It’s not subtle. This isn’t a gentle letting go—it’s an end we’ve fought against so long that it had to speak in absolute terms.

In reversal, the card poses a question: How many swords do you need before you accept what has already ended?

This isn't a judgment. There’s no shame in holding on. We hold on because we care. But healing begins when we’re ready to say: This chapter is over. And in doing so, we begin again.

It is the in-between—the space after the end, before the beginning—that hurts the most. That limbo of refusal, where we resist what is already gone.

When we release what cannot continue, we make space for what is yet to come. And while the next chapter may not yet be written, turning the page is the first act of faith.

What new chapter is asking to be written? What are you ready—finally—to lay down?

How can I apply this today?

• Take inventory of what I’m holding onto that may no longer serve me.

• Notice where I feel stuck in “in-between” space—after something ended, before something begins.

• Practice acceptance: not as surrender, but as an opening to what comes next.

• Acknowledge that letting go doesn’t mean failure—it makes room for healing.

• Begin again, even if I can only turn one page at a time.

I welcome all parts of myself—known and unknown, shining and shadowed.

I honor my past for what it has taught me.

I trust my intuition to lead me.

I release what no longer serves me.

I walk forward with steadiness, guided by the light within me.

Be well, be present, be at peace.