The Triple Spiral is said to be an ancient symbol from the Neolithic era, which means Earth, Sea and Sky, or Life, Death, and Rebirth, or Body, Mind, and Soul. The Yellow and Black Garden Spider is also known as the Writer Spider who can inscribe designs in the center of her massive web, that often appear in doorways. The triple spiral is also known to signify the triple Goddess. I have been drawing spirals since I can first recall as a child, a kind of soothing doodle, or perhaps ancestral memory. While it is well known as a symbol inside New Grange, this ancient symbol can be found in ancient designs across cultures.
Writer Spider
Blowing In the Wind 4-21-26
In a recent dream, I saw a massive web in front of the door to the retreat center where I had just finished teaching this past weekend.
The wind blew the web away from the door, as the bottom had come untethered and the web blew free in the wind. I became conscious in the dream. I noticed the doorway of the retreat center, where a rainbow unity flag had hung, but now held a triple spiral design in the center of the web that covered the doorway. The huge web blowing in the wind felt like an invitation from spirit to be guided on the next strand of my journey guided by the great weaver, Grandmother Spider, the old one who weaves the world into being, and leaves her invisible threads as paths to travel in dreams as a bridge between time and place, and between Earth, Sky and Sea. What is written in the center of her web becomes a spell of creation, or a mystery into the unknown.
Cosmic Web
The first night of the retreat, I had a powerful dream journey with lots of energy coming through with the stellium of seven planets in Aries and the New Moon. A cosmic web was shown in the stars, and a typical yellow and black garden spider sat in the middle of the web, waiting for me. The center of the web had a single thread, which out of that there was two other webs coming up from behind, and connected to this original web next to me. Three webs connected by a single strand. The energy these webs held were shimmering before me in rainbow colors.
Neolithic Dreaming with the Ancestors
The Dream web is interesting, and the energy intense. When I saw the web in my dream, strung before the door of the retreat, with the Triple Spiral woven into the center, it seemed connected to my journey guided by the drum, which opened the retreat where the spider first appeared in the center of a cosmic web that was strung across the galaxy by a single thread woven into two other giant star webs vibrating with energy. Three webs of galactic energy.
The last guided journey of the retreat was tracking sacred sites on the Earth by way of ley lines, as a mode of dream travel. I first visited New Grange, Ireland in my dream travels, and saw the triple spiral inside the Neolithic tomb, guided there by strands of energy ley lines. Perhaps this is a favorable wind blowing the dreaming web in the direction of my Irish ancestors at the sacred site of New Grange, Ireland and the Neolithic tomb where the mysterious triple spiral rests.
Some of my Irish ancestors are traced back to New Castle in the Boyne Valley, not far from New Grange. I had recently told a friend in Ireland that I would like to visit New Grange next time I visit. We are planning for me to come to Ireland in the coming year to offer a retreat on Collaborative Dreaming with the Otherworld.
Certainly we will delve into the mysteries of New Grange as a cosmic sanctuary of the Sun and the Seasons, and the energy ley lines that connect sacred sites together and the web of energies that exist in the land and the stars as maps to travel in dreaming to the in between and the Otherworldly places interwoven with the Earth, Sea, and Sky in Ireland. In my dream journey, I tracked many ley lines through Celtic lands, from New Grange, Ireland to Stonehenge, England to Chartres Cathedral, France and the Rose lines of Southern France. All ancestral territories in my blood lines.
The invisible threads cast by Grandmother Spider are a wide web of collaboration in dreaming with the lands of my ancestors.
By Valley Reed 2026 all rights reserved.
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