These Goddesses definitely want me to take my time to get to know them. As I've played with the deck this week the same cards keep coming up - this being one of them.This brought to mind spiral like thinking - the practice of returning over and over to an object of study or a concept and each time making a slightly different interpretation. Sometimes broadening out, sometimes narrowing down, sometimes, sometimes adding another skein or thread. My understanding of the cards has developed in this way through the daily draws.
I've been pondering today how recursive and linear thought might be shown to be mutually reinforcing rather than oppositional. I can't make those connections yet. Probanly because i"m being to linear....Maybe Spider Woman will help me better understand how knowledge works as a web.
She has such a wise and gentle face. She is more than Spider Woman. She is the Crone. She is Grandmother. She is the Wise Woman. She is Goddess. She is....
ReplyDeleteI love her face. Beautiful spiralling interpretation....you have to get this deck you'll work so well with it :)
DeleteReminds me of Spiral Dynamics. You take what you've learned up the spiral, but the vessel gets bigger and able to hold more (wider perspective) as you go up. You need to the bottom rungs to get you to the present point.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen that model before. Thanks for sharing :)
DeleteI am with Ellen. This is The Crone. You can see that she has had a full and interesting life with those spidery wrinkles on her face. Some of those creases are from laughter and some from shouts of injustice. All are part of who she is. Who we all are.
ReplyDeleteLovely interpretations of those wrinkles. They are a part of us and so is the crone.
Deleteyou know I'd have to look her up...Spider Woman is a metaphor for she who creates from a central source.
ReplyDeleteShe is thought highly of in a number of cultures. Interesting.
We are alike :D that's the route I went down looking at how she is revered by different cultures...
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