Spider in Dreams: Meaning in Depth Psychology
The weaver at the center of the web. Spiders often carry the sense of a pattern being spun around or through your life, creative and unsettling at once. A web can be a design or a trap. Ask which one you're looking at, and who is doing the weaving.
THE CORE MEANING
The web-weaver: fate, the Great Mother in her devouring/creating aspect, the pattern underlying experience, creative and destructive feminine power.
VARIATIONS: CONTEXT CHANGES THE MEANING
- spider weaving: Fate being woven, patterns being created, the unconscious structuring experience
- threatening spider: The devouring mother, entrapment, being caught in someone else's web (or your own unconscious patterns)
- spider web: The interconnected pattern of the psyche, fate's architecture, beautiful and trapping
CONNECTS TO
All of that is the universal meaning. But what does spider mean to you? Your personal association matters more than any dictionary.