Spring Equinox 2024
Dear Friends of the wild places,
The spring is now making its way towards emergence and winter’s last hold is inviting us to name what dreams are ready to sprout. Or might we wonder whether some things might be lying dormant waiting to re-emerge. The time of hibernation is ending and the quiet stirring we are feeling both inwardly and outwardly is a sense of hope. And the surge of life force flowing through our veins is warming us towards renewal.
The winter’s darkness is finally yielding to the light of spring and the dead of winter now begins to give rise to the new life.
As the first crowning of the tentative new growth appears, we begin to sense the excitement of the possibilities that lie ahead. And we begin to follow the pull toward the sunlight of personal growth fed by the rays of visions and dreams. There is a lure in the spring to expand into the creative that is now longing to be expressed.
Spring spurs the verdant miracles upward in a subtle explosion as the earth gives way to the new birthing. Just as in nature we are wired to grow and bloom and just as in nature we reflect the beauty, the abundance and sacred of the one who created all things.
May you rise to the sacred and wholeness within your self that you might create miracles. This world is in need of miracles. This world is in need of your wholeness.
With heart,
Silvia
“Tell me, what will you do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
Silvia Talavera (she/her)
Inspired by the wild places without borders Silvia guides from a full life experience that is filled with the sacred, profane and the wild graced with humor and curiosity.
A wilderness guide since 1993 and a seasoned hospice nurse and a Reiki practitioner. Silvia continues to hold the similarities of the symbolic death and the physical death and how one mirrors the other and how both of these have informed her life.
She is a supporter of deep immersion into the natural landscape where exploration of the mythic, the archetype and the imaginal dimensions is the gateway to the hero/heroine’s journey.
Silvia is an elder, great grandmother, mentor and embraces her elderhood with great joy, deep humility and daily gratitude.
Her work in all its expressions is devoted to the reawakening of our true selves and remembering our natural instinct to love and healing for the benefit of all beings and remains committed to service of the greater good.
The loving sister of a Marine Vietnam Veteran, Silvia has brought her magic and spirit to Veteran Rites since 2020.
Email: silvia@lostborders.org
