Spider Dream Meaning

A spider may represent a fear, or something or someone who makes you feel vulnerable. Perhaps you feel trapped or entangled by emotions or fears from which you cannot escape. Alternatively, are you a spider trying to trap someone else in your web or is someone trying to trap you? Freud believed that dream spiders represent the devouring mother who consumes her children through possessiveness or the ability to arouse guilt. Try to get to know, not only your mother, but more importantly, what your mother means to you. One way of doing this is to converse with the spider: hold it in your mind and ask it searching questions. Or perhaps you are feeling trapped by another relationship in your life?

Dreams of a spider in your bed may suggest that intimacy with a loved one is triggering a lack of self-confidence and fears about being vulnerable and exploited. The spider can also depict any emotions you don’t want to‘handle’, such as those surrounding a spouse leaving. It can suggest that you want to ensnare someone or something, or that you are feeling trapped yourself. It may even represent the most basic survival instincts in us—can I eat, or will I be eaten by this person or situation? Superstitions dating back to the Middle Ages claim that it is a good sign to dream of spiders. To see a black widow in your dream suggests fear or uncertainty regarding a relationship. You may feel confined, trapped or suffocated in this relationship. You may even feel hostility toward your partner. Because the female black widow has the reputation of devouring its mate, it thus also symbolizes feminine power and domination over men.

To see one building its web, foretells that you will be happy and secure in your own home.

To kill one, signifies quarrels with your wife or sweetheart.

If one bites you, you will be the victim of unfaithfulness and will suffer from enemies in your business.

If you dream that you see many spiders hanging in their webs around you, foretells most favorable conditions, fortune, good health and friends.

To dream of a large spider confronting you, signifies that your elevation to fortune will be swift, unless you are in dangerous contact.

To dream that you see a very large spider and a small one coming towards you, denotes that you will be prosperous, and that you will feel for a time that you are immensely successful; but if the large one bites you, enemies will steal away your good fortune.

If the little one bites you, you will be harassed with little spites and jealousies.

To imagine that you are running from a large spider, denotes you will lose fortune in slighting opportunities.

If you kill the spider you will eventually come into fair estate.

If it afterwards returns to life and pursues you, you will be oppressed by sickness and wavering fortunes.

For a young woman to dream she sees gold spiders crawling around her, foretells that her fortune and prospect for happiness will improve, and new friends will surround her.

being bitten by a: marital unfaithfulness and being confined with it.

businessman dreaming of a: your fortune wil be devoured by a seductive partner.

unmarried woman: do not accept being married to a clinging mate.

crawling on your skin: an envious hatred needs to be unraveled.

another’s: your immature spite and hatred wil do you in.

eating a: are a very voluptuous person entrapped in your own web.

killing a: a time for great pleasure.

of a: a provocation wil lead to entanglement in a sticky situation.

seeing a, at night: plenty of money from il icit means.

morning, in the: wil be entrapped in a lawsuit with trumped-up charges.

several: domestic quarrels in a web you have intricately spun.

spinning a web: thrift and conscientious actions wil sustain the power to amass a fortune.

being caught in a: realization of own desires can be squelched with one wrong move.

children finding a: they wil be prominent in life.

tarantula, being bitten by: your safety is in great danger.

The spider and his web may be calling for an integration of the dream’s personality leading to greater self-awareness and resulting in feelings of completeness. Therefore, the spider and his web may be considered profound and spiritual dream symbols that call for greater self-understanding and encourage us to derive meaning and satisfaction from the intricate framework and interplay of life.

It is time to intervene because you are at your full potential. The oneiric spiders can also represent the subject’s fears. Perhaps you feel trapped into a web of deception or agitated emotions. Sigmund Freud believed that spiders were overprotective mothers holding their children (innocent victims) under a sense of possession (web).

The dreamer may be going through a rough time in life, and need to find a creative solution to resolve the situation.

Dreaming of a spider can be reassuring: You have it in you to find the solution.

If the spider seems threatening, or the web too intricate, the message is that you are complicating things unnecessarily and need to simplify your life.

If you are an artist of any kind, Spider heralds a rush of creative activity that could point you in a new career direction.

A sign of strength and resiliency. Whatever hard times the dreamer is going through now, she has what it takes to get through them. Astrological parallels: Venus, Pluto Tarot parallels: The Magician, Strength

2- In psychological terms the spicier connects with the Mandala (see Mandala).

It is the ability to create a perfect pattern which both nurtures and protects us at the same time.

3- Spiritually the spider represents the Great Mother in her role as the Weaver. She weaves destiny from the bodv of her self, and is there fore the Creator. In coming lo terms with this aspect, we become weavers of our own destiny.

A spider bite may indicate that an infusion of the feminine principle may be in order for your current dealings to succeed.

The irritation, illness, or death that is possible from a spider bite indicates the level of sacrifice that will be required of you on an emotional level at this time.

Ancient Grecian and Egyptian, and Native American: Fate and our ties to all times and all peoples. In Greece, Arachne spun the thread of peoples lives. Egyptians had Neith, who wove the world, and the Pueblo Indians have Spider Woman, who created the world from two strands of thread (see Web).

Feeling trapped in someone’s well-executed snare.

Creating connections that help you to finish a goal. Note that the line of networking here may not be direct, even as the spider’s web may take unexpected turns.

Power, or perceived power.

The element of surprise.

The idea of “catching” opportunities, experiences, or other things you want (as in a spider’s web).

Creativity.

Femininity.

Maneuverability in various situation (because spiders have eight legs).

Dreaming of this creature can represent too much or not enough of one of those qualities, or someone or something you associate with the quality or creature.

Consider also the creature’s actions, context, and your feelings about it.

See Insect, Web, Bitten

2. Evil

3. Sin;

4. Deception;

5. False doctrine;

6. Temptation;

7. Tenacious;

8. An issue that raises fear;

• Black widow spider

- speaks of Death or danger;

• Red (or red-backed) spider

- means sin;

• Yellow spider

- means a curse;

• Flying spider

- speaks of a spirit of fear);

• Long-legged spider

- means long-standing issues;

• Bitten by a spider

- means venomous words; Isa. 59:5-6; Prov. 30:38 Mark 5:25; 1 Kings 21:9-10, 13;2 Tim. 1:7; Eph. 6:12; Prov. 21:9.

A spider in a dream also represents a weaver, an ascetic or a monk. Ifone sees a spider in his dream, it may mean that he will meet a pious and a religious man. Weaving a web in a dream means becoming weak.

A spider in a dream also could represent a pleasing wife.

If one sees a spider hanging down from the ceiling in a dream, it indicates a severe winter in that area.

(Also see Tarantula)

See Goddess Athena and Web.

The web is the fabnc of the tapestry of your life that you create with your thoughts.

The appearance of a spider may point to a need to take on a creative project or to cultivate through some an form.

To dream about killing a spider suggests that you are going through a period of difficulties and general bad luck.

To dream that you are bitten by a spider, represents a conflict with your mother or some dominant female figure in your life. Also see “Spider Webs”, below.

The spider can be something that the dreamer lacks and wants very much, or it can bea person who annoys the dreamer.

See Insects.

The spider has the ability to create a perfect pattern, which both nurtures and protects at the same time.

If the spider is on a web, then the good fortune will come from a number of different sources.

See also Cobweb.

According to Freud, the fertile mother or fear of mother incest.

To destroy a spider’s web is a sign that someone will make cruel accusations against your honor.

2. Dangerous enemy.

3. Dangerous to oneself.

4. Fear of being rendered helpless.