Spider and Webs

[JanCarolSeidr]

A Sioux warrior adorned with spider web tattoos or is invulnerable to arrows. A spider web is, indeed a form of spiritual barrier. It could be a sticky situation that is no longer an issue for you. It could be an old creation that no longer serves you.

It is an engineering feat, a thing of beauty and wonder.

And when I am stopped by a spider web, I always wonder, where is the spider?

[JanCarolSeidr]

Spider often invokes fear – like the famous Marianne Williamson quote: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.”

Spider invokes fear because we fear our own ability to create, our own power.

[JanCarolSeidr]

Spider showed me where she is (in my body):

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Chakra Spider by JanCarol

Below the waist, she is gathering information and transmuting it, creating it for above the waist. Above the waist she is looking with insight and healing love, and sending it below the waist.

This is still crude and I’m trying to refine and understand it better. It’s about dantien and heart, grounding and heart. Connection between the grounding, social, exterior side of myself, and the interior, spiritual side of myself.

[JanCarolSeidr]

But in looking at the spider – I was taken with the resemblance to the Tibetan Buddhist dorje – it represents the lightning bolt of enlightenment, a male principle (the spider is more feminine). But the dorje is inseparable from the bell, which is the female object.

Dorje:

and dorje and bell:

[JanCarolSeidr]

From Deb Hill, with permission:

Spider is the inventor and can symbolise balance. Its 8 legs represent the medicine wheel.

Spider lets you examine your imperfections from a different perspective – one focused on creating transformation from within.

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