The Shock of a New Era

Dear wild-hearted wanderer,

I’m sitting in my childhood home as I write this. It's my first morning here. My mum is in the kitchen, humming as she prepares apples and plums for a home-baked cake. Nick is beside me, deep in his daily research on the stock market.

I had a very different letter planned for you. I wanted to talk about Your Living Body Map and the beautiful words I received from the first person to ever hold one in their hands. I wanted to gently remind you of the price change happening on 1 October, and then switch off and enjoy my visit to Estonia.

But something happened as we were travelling. Something big that shook me to my core. And I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

Because this moment in history feels pivotal.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk marks a threshold we cannot go back from — the fearless expression of one’s views, the openness to another perspective, the celebration of democracy and freedom of speech and the possible collapse of its given nature we've come to rely on and perhaps even take for granted.

Even typing these words feels surreal. My heart aches for his wife and their two small children, for the love that clearly wove that family together. And yet, I can see how this moment fits within the closing of one era and the beginning of another — the end of a time when safety was built on shared bargains, and the rise of an era where survival will depend on each of us standing firmly in our own truth whilst honouring differing viewpoints.

What Charlie’s killing shows us is stark: anyone who dares to think critically, to hold strong opinions, and to use their platform for open discourse is often othered to a point of violence. It's nothing new but this feels different. This has been building. In some sense, is it possible that public discourse itself died with him on that day?

Charlie’s very way of being made him polarising because it was so deeply his own.

At his core, he carried a fierce loyalty to tradition. He believed survival depended on preserving what had proven itself worthy and enduring.

He was the voice of continuity in a world where centuries of order is crumbling.

For some, that felt like stability and grounding. For others, it felt like rigidity, even dogmatic. Archetypes reveal different faces depending on where we stand. But either way, he lived it fully — and that is what made him so distinct.

Yet alongside that loyalty was an enormous drive — an ambition not just to rise himself, but to pull the tribe upward with him. His conservatism wasn’t just a political stance; it was woven into the very fabric of his energy.

Charlie’s role was that of a teacher whose real legacy would be carried forward by others. His gift was to speak about what he saw so clearly in the moment, and to spark awareness in those listening. His impact was never meant to end with him — it was always meant to live on in those he provoked into thinking differently.

And in a chilling way, the timing of his death reflects this archetype. The planet Uranus — known for its sudden shocks and disruptive awakenings — was crossing the very point in his chart connected to his teaching role. It was as though the heavens themselves tore him from that role, forcing those he had provoked in agreement or not to carry the work forward.

But here lies the deepest tragedy: his very uniqueness became the reason for his death.

This is the distortion we live in. Instead of celebrating difference, we’ve been so homogenised that we fear it. We’re taught to believe that if someone stands too firmly in their truth, they must be silenced. Killing someone because of who they are and what they represent is the clearest sign of how broken our relationship to difference has become.

And yet, our differences are not threats. They are what keep this world alive and push us to evolve.

Charlie embodied values of faith, duty, family, and country — the bedrock of a fading collective order. But he also pointed toward something new: urging young people to think for themselves, to resist the sheep mentality, to trust their own mind.

Perhaps the reason Charlie was so divisive was not only because of what he believed, but because of how strongly he stood by those convictions. He knew what he believed in and he wasn’t afraid to voice it. For some, that clarity was magnetic. For others, it was deeply confronting. But either way, it was his way of living true to himself.

Whilst he challenged some of the widely accepted homogenised narratives and progressive views, he also held onto the conviction of his own idealised ways. Whichever side you land on, I'm sure we can all agree on that it's the convictions themselves that divide us as much as inspire and unite us.

To me, his assassination feels like the archetypal ending of that old order. A tribal teacher cut down before his students, leaving them to transcend him and walk on alone.

Like Konstantin Kisin said in his response, I too felt we had crossed an invisible line into a new era. A heaviness fell on the Western world, the kind we haven't felt perhaps since 9/11.

Could this be the 21st century cultural shock moment that Martin Luther King’s was in the 20th? Could it be that Charlie’s path was always leading here, that his mission is now complete? Could it be that is it up to us now to decide what kind of a future we want to create?

A Body-Led Practice for This Pivotal Moment

If Charlie’s death truly marks the end of an era, then each of us is left with the question: how will we move on from here? What will we take from it?

The answers begin within each one of us. They begin with the vision we have for this world. May this practice invite you to pause and envision a new world into being.

1. Pause and breathe with your whole body. Place your hand on your heart space. Let yourself feel the rise of your inhale and the fall of your exhale. Notice your body as it is, right now. Invite in deep presence. Feel yourself rooted in this moment.

2. When mental chatter arises, observe it. What thoughts or stories are surfacing as you sit with this moment in history? Name them gently, without judgment. There are no wrong or right answers here. It's simply you with your deepest, most intimate thoughts.

3. As your body, mind and spirit fall into coherence, invite in soul-led inquiries: what is mine to carry forward from here? What contribution am I called to make in this new era? What is the vision I'm holding for this world?

Stay with whatever comes. It may be a word, an image, a subtle shift in feeling. Trust that it is enough. The aim here is not certainty, rather, it's being grounded in your own body within the uncertainty of the world, of the other. And still showing up and being the difference you want to see in the world. And choosing to show up in your own unique difference.

And it's not going to be perfect. That's not the point. The point is that we have a choice in how we show up. And we can always choose differently. But it begins within each one of us, individually. It begins with awareness. It begins with openness, compassion and kindness towards our own difference. That is how we are able to meet it in the other.

And that is how cultural repair begins: by rooting in our own uniqueness, so that when we meet the other, we do so with openness, curiosity, and kindness.

For me, that practice has taken shape through Your Living Body Map. It began as a way of mapping my own design so I could ground in my body, listen to my sacral, and learn to embody my truth instead of abandoning it. It’s how I find the capacity to sit with grief, with difference, with the enormity of moments like this.

Your way may look different. But whatever it is, may this moment be an invitation to return to your own body, your own truth, your own path. Because that is how we move on. That is what we take from here.

And if you’re ready to explore your differentiated self so that you can boldly take up the space you’re here to take, then Your Living Body Map is a companion for that journey — a way of grounding in your body’s wisdom, seeing yourself with new clarity, and remembering what only you can bring to this world.

If you’ve been feeling the pull, now is the time. The current price of £122 will remain until 1 October, after which it rises to £222.

May this threshold mark the beginning of a new way of being — one where difference is not feared and ostracized but welcomed and celebrated.

Sending you a deep and nourishing breath,

Silvia