Archetypal Knitting Activist: Charlotte

Charlotte A. Cavitica, a not so usual gray barn spider was an original. She was the first knitting activist, or so the legend goes. She had incredible creative powers, as she embodied Spider Magic, a great source of power. Charlotte was clever and crafty. Archetypally the arachnid is the incarnation of Grandmother Spider, the mistress weaver who is the source of the universe and the sacred and life giving process of emergence itself. Grandmother Spider kept and taught the mysteries of the past and how they were affecting the future. The spider embodies the infinity symbol and the mysticism of the figure 8, a sacred number of Isis. Weaving is the work of the three fates: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, who weave, measure and cut the threads of life. In India, the spider is associated with Maya, the weaver of illusion.

Wilbur the pig understood the code in Charlotte's web, and his fate was changed by the messages she spun in her web concerning his amazing, yet unseen qualitites. "Some Pig" , "Terrific" and "Radiant" read her weblogs. Spiders speak in a very specific, brilliant and layered code. Spiders are the guardians of the ancient languages and alphabets. The primordial alphabet was formed by the geometric patterns and angles found within a spider web. The spider is considered the teacher of language and the magic of writing. Because of Charlotte's ancient power, her weblog was embued with beauty, strength and truth. Charlotte's magic was that everyone believed what she said was so. She spoke from her truth. Because Wilbur believed that he was terrific, everyone treated him as the terrific pig he was. What Charlotte wove into her weblog was the truth that not all could see. People came from faraway lands to see what Charlotte saw. So Charlotte built her weblog. . and they did come.