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Sometimes divine timing come with a calendar invite. It shows up through coincidence, a sudden shift in plans, or an unexpected pull in your gut. That’s kind of what happened to me the day I got my new spider 🕷️ tattoo weaving a red heart ❤️ on my arm.

Originally, I had no intention of getting a tattoo. I was invited to make an appearance and create content with an associate at a tattoo shop. The setup was proposed as a podcast environment, and I figured I’d get a piercing while I was there , something small, something seasonal. But Spirit had other plans.

The moment I stepped into the space, I could feel the vibe was different. No podcast mics. No structured interview flow. It was a tattoo party. And I had just driven an hour to be there.

Now, I could’ve been irritated. I could’ve left. But something in me said “feel it out.” So I did. I scoped the scene. Observed the artists. Watched the energy. And while doing so, I found myself pulled toward one piece of flash art 🖼️ a black spider 🕷️ threading 🧵 a heart ♥️.

The heart shape has always meant something to me. It’s my favorite symbol. It represents softness, sincerity, and survival all at once. Seeing it paired with a spider? It was like a message from my shadow self:

“You’ve loved hard. You’ve felt deep. And now you’re ready to weave something stronger.”

Ironically, I had talked to a friend days before about wanting a spider 🕷️ tattoo and he mentioned he was planning to get one, too. That synchronicity alone felt like a cosmic echo. A mirroring. A message.

So I sat down. I took a breath. And I got the tattoo.

On my right inner forearm, where my strength, intuition, and giving hand meet. It felt like a feel-good pain , the kind that says:

You’re being marked by purpose.

This week I thought 💭 about if I got a tattoo it would be a spider 🕷️ because I love the spider totem, and what it represents. I often see spiders 🕷️ , birds 🦢, butterflies 🦋, deer 🦌 , rabbits 🐇 just to name a few of the creatures that have been around in my life consistently.

Spider Totem Meaning:

The spider is a powerful spiritual totem. In many traditions from Indigenous to African, Caribbean, and Eastern philosophies ,the spider represents:

• Creation and Manifestation: Spiders are master weavers. Their web symbolizes the web of life, destiny, and fate. As a totem, the spider reminds us that we are the weavers of our reality. Every thought, action, and choice creates a strand in our life’s web.
• Divine Feminine Energy: The spider is often seen as a symbol of the sacred feminine, wisdom, and patience. She creates her web with intention and purpose.
• Shadow Work and Transformation: The spider also symbolizes the darker aspects of the psyche, shadow integration, mystery, and transformation.
• Protection and Intuition: Spiders are also protectors. They sense everything through vibration much like empaths or highly sensitive people. Your connection to being a highly sensitive person may resonate with this.

Tattoo Breakdown: Black Spider + Red Heart

• Black Spider:
  • Black is the color of the unknown, the unseen, and the subconscious. It could symbolize protection, inner strength, mystery, and power in silence. It may also represent grief, endings, or a transformation like coming out of a cocoon into something stronger.
• Webbing a Red Heart:
  • A red heart is raw, bold, emotional, and full of passion, love, desire, and sometimes pain or betrayal.
    • The spider webbing the heart could mean:
      • Guarding your heart: I am wrapping it in protection, letting love in more intentionally, and healing from wounds.
      • Weaving love with intention: I’m creating a new relationship with my emotions and heart space.
      • Healing or claiming your heart: This symbolizes reclaiming my heart from something toxic or traumatic.
      • Binding or releasing: it’s about binding my love with someone/something or releasing myself from past bonds.

This became a moment of clarity for my resetting of core values and flow.

This wasn’t just ink 🖋️ . It was an initiation.

The black spider represents my Scorpio ♏️ moon 🌖 .

The red heart ❤️ mirrors my Aries ♈️ fire 🔥.

The act of weaving? That’s the Gemini ♊️ rising in me, turning emotions into stories, stories into spells, spells into strategy.

And the timing ⏱️? Divine. Always divine.

For anyone who needs the reminder:

Follow your gut, not the original plan.

Trust the shift.

Honor the symbols that call to you.

Let your body tell the story your heart 💜 is still learning how to say.

Because sometimes, we don’t plan the healing

But our spirit always does.

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I didn’t just get a tattoo.

I answered a call.

In the shape of a heart, I honored my own.

At the right place, in the right time, with the right sign.

I followed flow, not force.

And found a mark of protection, power, and poetry , woven into the web of who I’m becoming.

Woven With Intention

My heart is sacred.

My love is intentional.

My protection is divine.

I weave from truth.

I move from wisdom.

I rest in power.

I do not fear the shadows

I transform them into art.

The pain I’ve known has shaped me, but it does not define me.

Every thread I spin is laced with clarity, courage, and care.

I am a vessel of love, wrapped in strength, watched by the spider.

No part of me is broken. I am built beautifully through every unraveling.

Black spider 🕷️ , red flame 🔥

Thread my love 😍 with no shame.

Guard my glow ✨ , but let me feel 🧘🏽‍♀️

What’s real, what hurts, what dares to heal ❤️‍🩹

I’m not afraid to weave 🕸️ alone.

I make my heart 💜 a sacred throne.

-BK