creatures, instincts
Dreaming of spider
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of A spider at its web foretells diligent work rewarded, and patience that pays.
Drawn down, it warns of To be caught in a web warns of an entanglement, a debt or obligation that tightens the more you struggle.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of The spider is the Great Mother as weaver, the patient maker of patterns; she signals that something in your life is being woven into shape, slowly and with skill.
Drawn down, it warns of A menacing spider is the devouring side of that same mother, a situation or relationship that holds you in a web you have half-spun yourself.
Did you dream this?
Keep it before it fades
Write the dream down in your journal and the cards will name its symbols for you, or have the whole dream read in full.