S7 / E7: Igniting your spark
Hello and welcome to the Wildheart Podcast, a series of conversations for those seeking the wild within. Join us as we rewild words, concepts and ideas…
In today’s episode we chat about igniting your spark, and what a rewilded version of the word ‘spark’ might look like.
Why ‘spark’ feels relevant right now
It connects to the fire element and solar energy of summer
Leo season begins in a few days, and Leo is a fire sign - ‘the star’
A spark (whatever this might mean for you - energy, motivation, joy…) feels needed in terms of how the season/world feels at the moment
What ‘spark’ actually means
To initiate, incite, trigger - a catalyst
Possibility and potential - the starting point, the seed
Vitality, aliveness, energy, passion
Burning, flashing - some kind of urgency?
How we talk about a ‘spark’ at the Academy
All of the above!
Very much connected to the fire element
Symbolic imagery of rewilding the self as tending to a fire - nurturing an ember that has perhaps almost burnt out, breathing it back into life, feeling it become a spark, feeding that spark with kindling (wild wisdom) and experiencing that spark burn more and more brightly until it becomes flame
How rewilding the word ‘spark’ can have an impact
It can help us to tap into feelings of passion, excitement, energy, aliveness - an antidote to burnout / a way of re-fuelling
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