So, I've thought and reflected about this some more today, and I think I know the right way to think about it. I can still getting something out of my experience without running to the somewhat dodgy extreme of saying, "OK, I'm working magic with Anansi now," which I think is a somewhat questionable thing for an off-white (my mom's from Chile but I was basically socialized white) and comfortably privileged person to say. But I _can_ say, "I'm working with a deity who seems strongly associated with spiders and who reminds me of Anansi, what little I know about them." There must be other spider gods too, right?
the lessons of spiders part 2 Afficher plus
I have to worry a lot more about being mindful of my surroundings, now, than I have ever been in the past. I'm working a job that could literally get me killed if I'm careless with my footing, and I've had a few slips and bangs already. I've come home aching from bruised knees and torqued wrists.
I've accused myself of being a big lumbering horse, in the past, back when Monoceros / Monophylos the Unicorn was my main fursona. Being ill-matched to, and ill at ease with, his human surroundings was practically baked into him. Then I went for the dragonsona, which was scarcely any more graceful.
Yeah, I could learn from spiders.