Spider Woman Synchros

These synchros came from artist Lauren Raines, who has been traveling to LA from her home in Arizona for her guest artist appearances at the Renaissance Faire. That beautiful mask featured above is one of hers. It’s called “Changing Woman,” and is a reflection of where Lauren feels she is in her life now.

As she puts it, “Since my mother passed away not yet 3 months ago, I feel much is changing, within and without.  I no longer am a caretaker, and see that role slipping away from me gradually like a skin peeling off – what’s underneath feels rather brittle and hyper sensitive.” Some of her best synchronicities happen when she’s traveling and we’ve used several of them in our books and on this blog. These two spoke to her in a powerful ways.

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The Renfair is in Santa Fe Dam in Los Angeles, a beautiful park with an impressive view of the mountains that ring the city.  On the other side of the park  from the Faire is a nature walk, an area I always return to when the show is not on.  It has beautiful indigenous plants, and a sandy area with a stone circle.   I walked into the circle, made some offerings, and created a circle and cross with some stones in the center, representing the 5 directions – a kind of prayer, a way of centering myself.

When the show opened the next day, my booth opened onto a sandy path, and in the heat and the hum of voices passing by, it can get rather hypnotic, unless I’m working with a customer. Sitting in the back of the booth, I noticed there was a man with a carved staff of some kind in front of my booth.  Right in front of my booth, in the sand, he made a circle with a cross in it with his staff in the sand!  I watched him do it, then he walked off and disappeared in the crowd.

It was not only the symbol I had created the previous day, the symbol of the 4 directions, but this is also a Native American motif called “Spider Woman’s Cross”.

It occurs on prehistoric Mississippian amulets, in Pueblo pottery, and is woven into Navajo (Dine) rugs as a sacred motif representing Grandmother Spider Woman.  It is an ubiquitous symbol of balance, wholeness, unity. It’s also a symbol I’ve explored in my own humble way with my projects exploring the mythologies of Spider Woman – because I feel She is very important for our time.

So it gets better.  On Monday, after the Faire closed, I was leaving  L.A. via I-10.  Leaving L.A. is no small feat, as L.A. is huge, with many suburbs that go on for a good 50 miles.   I saw, near the exits for Fontana, a banner that caught my attention – I didn’t have time to see the building it was attached to, but I’m assuming it was over a park of some kind.  It read:
SPIDER WOMAN’S LEGACY

Navajo Rugs (………….)

I couldn’t read what else was on the banner, but SPIDER WOMAN’S LEGACY was in big letters, right there on the side of the freeway! Not only was it there, but rather amazing that I happened to be looking over to the other side of the freeway and saw it.

I see, according to Google, that there is an exhibit in San Bernardino country called “Spider Woman’s Legacy: Navajo Rugs and Textiles,”

In my experience, this is one of Spider Woman’s favorite ways to communicate…….with synchronicities!

My last synchro occurred once I crossed the Arizona border, traveling east on I-10.  I had been thinking as I drove about the article I posted last on this Blog, about the meaning of Psychic Vampires.  And about, also, my personal efforts to grow out of a “victim stance” in my own life.  How I’ve missed so many opportunities, devalued my work,  sustained a great deal of loss because that sensibility is so deeply rooted in my family of origin.  How I’ve been kind of my own “vampire” by having that sensibility, and how it has to end now and here.

Seriously………..I was meditating at the wheel on all of this and looked up to see an elaborately painted van in front of me.  It read:
KUNG FU VAMPIRE

www.kungfuvampire.com*

Well Damn!  What more affirmation do I need!  Just to make sure though, when I pulled up at a rest area an hour later, there was the van, right in front of me, again.