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That started a few days after the resumption of my work on mandalas, at the end of september... I was feeling the necessity to go deeper in this technique I stopped a few years ago... I had just finished my first mandala, re-discovering the mysteries of geometry and symmetry, the precision of drawing that I was not used to practice...

That day, I was walking down the big stairs of the garden and noticed, on the right, in the midst of green plants, a big spider in the middle of its web... I threw on it a furtive eye, a bit surprised nonetheless, to see it there, motionless during the day, as usually I can only see uninhabited ones, the spiders probably hiding in any close and discreet spot... The fact remains that the following days, every time I was walking up or down this stair, my vision was attracted by the web... and the spider was inevitably there, well installed in the very centre of its delicate creation... I stopped to watch it a while and noticed that there were several other small ones in the area, all of them with spiders in the middle ! Really, there was something to understand... I was finding its motionless behaviour intriguing though of course I knew it was a natural process and even started to annoy me a little bit... how was it possible to stay so long without any movement ?... I moved my hand over it, I even breathed on it to see whether it would move... be frightened... but no... not even the movement of a leg haha... and I knew how attentive it was, vigilant, ready to throw itself on the insect that would be captured for her feeding...

Over the days, I was becoming admiring I must reckon… that looked so strange, so much related to the geometrical mandalas… the spider was showing me the patience, its attentiveness perfectly centered, it was clear… it was showing me the natural geometry of its web, that is nothing else than itself, as it has been made with its own substance.. the spider was the very mandala included in the larger mandala of its web… a movement of one thread of its creation might vibrate on the whole web… Likewise, we are mandala in the huge mandala of nature whose nature is Space... Void...

I could also observe the way it tiredlessly repaired, restructured or recreated its web, often damaged by the wind or a big insect or everything else, and that was conforting me… who was feeling a bit damaged by life too sometimes… Yes we always have the possibility to recreate ourselves… or rather to create ourselves for the first time… by the center… with perseverance…

It was confirmed a few days later that I got well the message by the discovery in the morning of an enchanted scene of webs all around my balcony, some small or big ones, some perfect ones or a bit damaged, some enriched with the mist of the night, were sparkling in the sunlight… all spiders were hidden after the creation of their embroidery festival !

I thought that the teaching has probably finished as I planned to leave for the south of France… I had never noticed some webs in the south, don’t know why… Yet, I saw a last one before on the way to the south, while I was opening the gate of a friend’s garden… between two bars of the gate, as if hanging in the space… was a wonder… a perfectly shaped web, beaded with dozens of dewdrops illuminated by the light, reflecting the surrounding colors in their spherical mirror… one could forget the thin web that supported them beneath...

I will probably see lots of other webs at the season of spiders, but never with the same vision… a vision blended in the universal mandala, at the circular nature of life… thanks the spider… :D

Hugs to you all :wave:

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