407 Arachne

[Ava]

In Greek mythology (and later Roman mythology), Arachne (/əˈrækniː/; from Greek: ἀράχνη "spider", cognate with Latin araneus)[1] was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider. There are many versions of the story's weaving contest, with each saying that one or the other won.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachne

Natally I have this @ 19 Aqua, conjunct my draconic Pluto, squaring my Scorpio NN. 

I do not have arachnophobia but my mother-in-law was bitten by a brown recluse spider in this house and ended up hospitalized. 

Last night I saw and tried to kill a large brown spider in the basement that looks like a brown recluse, but I failed. Then today I was doing laundry there and that spider ran out onto my thumb, so I shook it off and did kill it. Pretty sure I did not get bitten, but it's not reassuring when the wikipedia article informs you that usually the bite is not felt at first. 

Anywayyyyyy

While I'm still alive, wanna talk about spiders?

[FruityLlama]

I have it trine my sun-moon MP exactly in Virgo and sextiling NN. I'm generally not too keen on anything that has more than 6 eyes but spiders are the worst.

I'm a bit better as I get older but they are the only creature that gives me the chills. It's in the 3rd house. My sister and mum hates them too.

I hope you haven't been bitten Ava ! Are you alright?

[Ava]

Aug 19, 2019 21:09:13 GMT FruityLlama said:

I'm generally not too keen on anything that has more than 6 eyes but spiders are the worst. 

LOL 

All good for me today, thanks. I sort of like spiders and don't always kill them. I guess I respect them because the webs can be so beautiful. 

[lumina]

Ava

How are you? Hope you have not been bitten.

Luckily there are no poisenous or deadly spiders around here. At least not yet. The climate change seems to bring some changes here too though. At least I heard from some ticks or even mosquitos making a home here. I am sure different sets of spiders will follow.

Anyway not afraid of spiders, do not like them in my sleeping room though. But we have su h a lot around here as it is in the country. Really dislike the o es with the huge black body.

Sometimes I save them, and so. Etimes I must admit I kill them, usually if they refused being saved and I refuse being bitten at night. Lol


But they Are fascinating creatures.



Arachne is on 8 sag in my chart along with Atlantis on the same degree and therefore joining my asc node stellium

[Ava]

I'm fine, thanks...either I wasn't bitten or I'm asymptomatic or that was not a brown recluse. Though it was large, brown, and looked like one. And they were in this house before.

I like smaller spiders, but it's iffy, I mean it's like Plutonian affection, sort of on the fence between "this is cool" and "when will it die?"

Aug 21, 2019 10:10:01 GMT lumina said:

Arachne is on 8 sag in my chart along with Atlantis on the same degree and therefore joining my asc node stellium

I love that!

Related anthropology stuff...

In Lakota mythology, Iktomi is a spider-trickster spirit, and a culture hero for the Lakota people. Alternate names for Iktomi include Ikto, Ictinike, Inktomi, Unktome, and Unktomi. These names are due to the differences in tribal languages, as this spider deity was known throughout many of North America's tribes.

According to the Lakota, Iktomi is the son of Inyan, the Rock, a creator god similar in form to other male creator gods. Iktomi has a younger brother, Iya, who is a destructive and powerful spirit. One story of Iktomi goes that in the ancient days, Iktomi was Ksa, or wisdom, but he was stripped of this title and became Iktomi because of his troublemaking ways. The Oglala Indians of south Dakota presents Iktomi as the second manifestation, or degeneration, of Ksa, which hatched from the Cosmic Egg being laid by Wak-Inyan, the primordial thunderstorm. Ksa invented language and stories, names and games.

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Iktomi is a shapeshifter. He can use strings to control humans like puppets. He has also the power to make potions that change gods, gain control over people and trick gods and mortals. Mica or Coyote is his great accomplice in all of this, though there are times when he behaves seriously and comes to the aid of the Lakota people, there are instances where he gives the people ways to protect themselves from evil, live a better life with technology, or warn them of danger.

Lakota mythology is a living belief system, there is a prophecy that stated Iktomi would spread his web over the land. Today, this has been interpreted by some contemporary Native Americans to mean the telephone network, and then the internet and World Wide Web. Iktomi has been considered by the Lakota from time immemorial to be the patron of new technology, from his invention of language he gave to the people to today's modern inventions, such as the computer or robots.

Because the Lakota mythology is word of mouth, and traditionally there were no written records, most of the information about Iktomi in Lakota mythology has not been written down or recorded. He has lived on in the retelling of tales and the religious traditions which are passed on from generation to generation, into the modern day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iktomi

Couldn't find asteroids to match those gods.

Anyway I wasn't expecting things to get so deep with that article on the spider-trickster, but now all sorts of things are coming to mind. Maybe Iktomi really is controlling us all with his puppet strings.   That would be a fun thing to discover, way better than being controlled by something ridiculous like the Illuminati. 

[lumina]

Ava

lol you are so funny!

And interesting, yes.

and so good that you are okay.