From a scientific standpoint, the Equinox occurs when the tilt of the Earth's axis points neither away from, nor towards the sun. Due to this phenomenon, the day on which the Equinox occurs will be roughly the same length as the following night. Only occurring twice a year, it is the brief moment when our planet is closest to an equal separation of dark and light, daytime and nighttime. From a philosophical or spiritual standpoint, one could take this as a balance of Yin and Yang, good and evil, truth and delusion. The Equinox signals a momentary balance. More importantly, it signals a change. It only takes a single day for the balance to be shifted to either side, darkness or light. Day or night. Every half a year, opposites switch sides and cycle back and forth.

The concept of the push and pull can be found everywhere, from one's own mind to the world. Times are always changing. There's a struggle at every turn. The pressure builds and builds, much like days getting shorter as the nights get longer, or vise-versa. The world is constantly in a power struggle that never seems to end. The mystical "time of peace" seems to only occur for a moment, much like the Equinox.

This piece explores this concept of the procession of the Equinox, the switching from darkness to light and back, a constant push and pull, until the Equinox occurs and a stillness is felt, outlined only by airy chords and a constant vibraphone drone. But things pick up quickly as the piece descends into darkness, or, conversely, ascends into the light.