The large painting we inherited along with the house is part of a collection commissioned by in-laws from a (then) local artist originally from East Asia. It is the one least coveted and agreeably relinquished by granddaughters. The artist left a typed page description addressed to mother-in-law with a description of the myth and concluding it “portrays the moment when Athena tears up the cloth and angrily begins to transform Arachne into a spider,” and signed and dated it in pen, September 27, 1992.
Natal aspects (three orbs, each < 0° 10′):
Jupiter (in 5th) sesquiquadrate Ascendant
Jupiter sesquiquadrate Pallas (in 10th)
Ascendant square Pallas
Jupiter rules Ascendant
135° + 135° + 90°
Friday, October 16, 2020, local, 14:31 CDT:
Moon 23° 53′ conjunct Sun 23° 53′ Libra
New Moon conjunct Spica 24° 07′ Rx Libra
Arachne ingress 0° 13′ Libra
Capricorn 24° 55′ rising
Transits, September 27, 1992:
Pallas 24° 54′ conjunct North Node 25° 09′ Sagittarius
Arachne 13° 06′ conjunct Uranus 14° 03′ Capricorn
Image: Sidney Hall’s Virgo with Spica in grains held by left hand. (Wikimedia)