Along Came a Spider

This spider was making a home near my back doorway. The wind blew out her web and I await her return. This is my second summer here at my home and both times a spider made her web in this spot near my entryway. Let me tell you a little bit about the spider and why I love her.

First of all being a writer I love her because the spider is the totem animal for writers, the alphabet is said to hang in her web. For many Indigenous nations she represents creation and she is an important figure in the Navajo and Hopi creation legends as spider woman. She is associated with first woman, the spirit woman who weaves all of creation. Spider woman has the dual ability to create and to destroy.

Then the concept of sound enters my mind when I think of being a writer and the power of words, both spoken and written. The universe is thought to have started by many people (both Indigenous people and scientists) by sound; a rattle or the big bang. When ever I look at a spider I am awed by her power. She also represents the mother energy, both nurturing and destructive.

It is know by psychics and healers that creation always begins in the mind. Thought, word, deed is the order of creation and this is law because we all originate from this moment of conception called the big bang. That is why it is so important to be conscious of what we put out into the universe because at some point in time this energy will be mirrored back to you.