The Wilderness ring
Eco Sterling Silver

Across religious traditions ‘The Wilderness’ has come to represent a place of testing and revelation. A dark, desolate landscape of nothingness and void in which the deep mutterings of the unconscious finally have the silence necessary to emerge at the surface.

This is often described as a ‘dark night of the soul’, one in which we find ourselves tired without rest, hungry without satiation and seemingly lost wandering in the vastness.

Most of us can identify points in our own lives as a metaphorical ‘wandering in the wilderness’. Middle age often presents us with this untangling of identity, in which the things that once brought pleasure fall away, and we are left scrambling in the dark, attempting to understand who we truly are.

Like the water lily, we are emerging from the dark depths of the water, pushing our way through seemingly endless nothingness, ready to emerge in full bloom and beauty.

This can be an arduous task and we are often called to the literal wilderness of our wild landscapes at this point. Immersing ourselves in nature to reconnect with what and who we are beyond the superficial understandings of modern culture. The wilderness provides the antidote, we put aside the distractions of technology and sit with ourselves in the vastness of the natural world, finding our humble place and remembering the freedom in being both everything and nothing.

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