29/09/2025
A scene I created today to honour my Mother. It's her birthday today but it's the first birthday she is no longer with us. 💛 Featuring little gifts she gave me - like the book Saffron Road, which she randomly picked for my birthday one year and turned out to be a brilliant read, and the little pyramid trinkets from the Egyptian exhibition she bought me (she was always bringing home trinkets 🤦♀😄)
I bought the huge Protea flower this morning which if I had given her she would've said something like, "Woah Jodes, that's a beauty! You shouldn't buy me flowers, they're too expensive." 😃🥹
Only at the end when I was photographing the flower I realised there was a little spider who is living in there! 🕷 I love that a spider in a flower could symbolise;
✨Hidden protection or the idea that beauty is guarded by watchful, unseen forces.
✨The web of life ~ The spider is a weaver and in a flower, it hints that even within fragile beauty, there is an unseen network of relationships.
✨Feminine power ~ Flowers are often linked with feminine energy and fertility; spiders too are tied to the feminine (weaving, creativity, sometimes the archetype of the Mother).
For those interested in a good read recommendation:
📕The Saffron Road: A Journey with Buddha’s Daughters by Christine Toomey
The Saffron Road invites you on a journey alongside Buddhist nuns from every corner of the world — women who have chosen courage, stillness, and devotion over the paths expected of them. With warmth and curiosity, Christine Toomey shares their stories of resilience and awakening, showing how their search for meaning can illuminate our own.
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