The spider’s web is web of protection around art-making, around play, and around intentional community. It is an offering of spaciousness from social media. This work allows me to take time with my daily practice, with myself, and with my communities that feels easeful in my body. I hope that these offerings will bring you more ease and consideration in your own body. Feel free to share this with your friends 💝
I am always on my own ass about not doing enough. I tell myself I’m not writing enough or offering enough. I’ve been trained to think that a path of ease means I’m not working hard enough.
In service of more ease, this is my current intention:
🤎 I offer up the path of overworked in service of a path of more ease 🤎
I’ve learned as many lessons as I can possibly manage these last few years. I’ve done my fair share of healing and dismantling and mending. This year has allowed me to find so much clarity in repair. These moments of contraction have allowed me to bring messy conversation into the spaces outside of me.
I’ve found clarity in containers of identification for myself. I’ve found clarity in identification with queerness. I’ve found community in facilitation with tarot. I’ve found so much joy in the container that is writing. I’ve found real peace in identifying as neurodivergent. I’ve found anti-perfectionism and deep slowness with quilting. These containers feel expansive for my practice in every single way.
A lot of the tension that rippled through my day-to-day was due to a lack of having these containers. A lot of this tension birthed from the narrow landscape I had of varied creative pursuits. This tension was often self-inflicted because my path looked so incredibly different from everyone around me.
These containers have saved my life in more ways than one. They’ve allowed me to find community that supports every nook-and-cranny of my identity. These containers allow me to communicate my needs in ways that are direct and kind. I hold these containers close because they allow me to hold myself with more love. I am able to hold myself with more care.
I am wholeheartedly leaning into the framework that someone has charted much of this territory long before me. I’ve been deep diving into music, film, audiobooks, and discourse outside of what I grew up to know as my truth. Just because my containers are individual to my experience doesn’t mean that I can’t find solace in words passed down through the lineage of elders.
This lineage makes itself available to me as resource sharing. This lineage offers alternatives outside of hierarchy. This lineage is beekeeping. This lineage is queer joy. This lineage is quilting as community-building and resistance. This lineage has the ability for more than one truth to swirl around together in harmony.
I offer that you don’t have to take the hardest route to get from point A to point B. You don’t have to do that really hard thing on your own. You can ask for help. You can lean on people. You can be sensitive and silly. You can take your damn time. Don’t let the world pressure you into thinking your craft is anything but magic.
I’ve come to allow curiosity to carry me into the threshold of unknowing. If my apprehension is coupled with wonder, then there is less room for fear to take hold and limit me from trying altogether.
🤎 I’ve got sweatshirts for sale on my site with the option for Afterpay. This allows for 4 installments so this may feel more supportive for you and for me. The sweater is woven with love and protection. I am wearing mine constantly. If you bought a sweater, share photos on IG if you feel so compelled I’d love to see :)
🤎 Alice is hosting more Community Markets. I love this space a lot. Please check out if you’re in Atlanta and looking for a queer space to sell some of your work!
🤎 Jessica Dore’s newsletter Offerings as well as their book Tarot for Change
🤎 Rachel Howe of Small Spells has Astro Calendars coming out for 2023
🤎 Temporary Tattoo is officially open and some of my favorite artists Danielle and Bella are booking
🤎 I’m currently taking an incredible marketing class with Bear built around anti-capitalism, queerness, and sustainability. They have slots still available with payment plants if curious
🤎 I have tarot booking on Thursdays every week if you’d like to get a reading with me. Sliding scale available; I’d love to have you
🤎 Sarah shared an amazing writing about their experience with autism in Mum’s the Word
🤎 Does anyone know how to embed music here? I am listening to Plains, Steve Lacy, and Alex G to name a few.
🤎 Scorpio season is arguably my favorite season 😈
I hope you’re able to take the path of least resistance in the coming weeks.
Xoxo,
You can find me through my contact, with sliding scale tarot appts, and my IG @meredithannewhite. I just released a web of community sweatshirt if looking for embodied protection.
I too am trying to pull back from the story I tell myself that I am not doing enough quickly enough. Making room for more ease and magic and curiosity. Love the film photographs here. Film photography is the alchemy of all of those things. ✨