This event was inspired by our tender conversations with Black Widow. We all fell deeply in love with her nurturing wisdom at the recent ‘Spider, Shark + Snake: Relating to the Animals We Fear’ gathering. Oh how she revealed all these layers to her that have been beyond our perception due to a myriad of reasons, but including the stories we tell about her and our relationship to her species. In the conversation, it was noted that my tendency to confuse ‘anecdote’ and ‘antidote’ when they surface in my speech is not coincidental. They have been trying to get my attention with this one, further emphasizing that the anecdote is indeed the antidote. So much is encoded in the stories we share and the way she share them.
I have decided to open up this particular gathering to the lineage and love of Grandmother Spider as a whole, and whoever comes to join us from their clan. After all, who better to seek the counsel of than Spider around themes of structure, language, lineage, story, impermanence and strength.
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