Spider

The spider is the weaver of connection. Many Indigenous North American traditions (Hopi, Cherokee, Lakota) give us Spider Grandmother or Spider Woman, creator-figure who weaves the worlds into being. Greek myth offers Arachne, the mortal weaver whose hubris turned her into a spider. Jungian analysis treats the spider ambivalently — as a creative feminine power when the dreamer is in right relation to their own creativity, and as a devouring feminine when they are not. Notice the web: is it beautifully intact, broken, in progress, or snaring you? The web is the map of what the dreamer is currently weaving into their life.