Tag: Spider Woman

Dream Weaving with Spider Woman

In 2009, as I returned from a vacation in Maui Hawaii, I fell asleep on the plane as I was landing in Phoenix Arizona, and I had a dream of an enchanting song playing, and a rainbow map.

Rainbow Map

I see a map of Arizona, there are rainbow colored arrows pointing from Flagstaff and Sedona southeast at an angle to a particular spot on the map and then the arrows go back up headed northeast. I can hear music playing in connection with the arrows on the map.

When I woke from the dream, I look out the airplane window to see a rainbow ached over the Phoenix airport where we have just landed.

Wake-up Call

Later upon return home, I dreamt of hearing a woman’s voice speaking to me. She tells me it is time for you to accept your own power, it is time for you to wake up! I can see a large tree that has appeared several times in my dreams previously.  I then see under the earth in the area on the Rainbow Map I was shown, there is a huge lizard that lives under the earth. It is moving and I can feel the energy of it, I can see the scales of its skin and the design of it with red and black in an intricate woven design. The energy that I am feeling and seeing in the dream suddenly is in my throat and then into my heart. I feel my rib cage expand open and it cracks loudly. I am now feeling the energy of the Lizard Woman and she is calling me to her. She says, you need to come to this land. I feel the deep coursing energy of this place in my own body in my throat and heart. I feel the energy of this lizard that has been woven together through story and song through the centuries of the people who inhabit this place. It is a place of deep healing and a place to embody power. EOD

The map below tracks indigenous ancient peoples and mirrors the rainbow map I was shown. As well as the giant beaded monster located underground that traces the Gila wilderness from the Gila Cliff Dwellings in New Mexico to Pueblo Grande or Phoenix Arizona. In my dream, three locations were shown to the Northeast in Arizona as I looked at the map from Phoenix, and three locations mapped in the Southwestern New Mexico. The alluring music continued as I looked at the dream map, and I felt I was being called to visit these places, but I knew not why.

Rainbow Mapping

In 2013, I lived on the Turquoise trail, in New Mexico and had this dream.

Chaco Pilgrimage

I was dreaming about the people of Chaco Canyon, seeing the immense pilgrimage that went on where people traveled to the city to take part in a harvest festival. They wore beautiful colorful clothing complete with parrot feathered headdresses. The pilgrimage came from Mexico as they walked the turquoise trail to Cerrillos and then onto Chaco Canyon where thousands of people were gathering for the festival.

I later discovered what I had dreamed into was in fact was true, my bit of dream archaeology was confirmed during a visit to the local historical museum in Cerrillos, New Mexico, which had an article about the history of the Turquoise trail.

“Teotihuacan as the probable source of the Puebloan’s mythology of Spider Woman as world creator by way of the ancient Mogollon culture that flowered much later at Casas Grandes. Contact between Teotihuacan-to-Mogollon-to-Chaco Canyon and Cerrillos mines in New Mexico likely originated in the turquoise trade.”

In researching the ancient wisdom of Spider Woman and Great Mother of Teotihuacan, I discovered her web intersects with the ancient Mogollon peoples in the Gila cliff dwellings, and the Anasazi of Chaco Canyon, in New Mexico and Canyon de Chelly in Arizona. The intersecting energies include the turquoise trail and pilgrimage between Teotihuacan, and Chaco Canyon, as well as the rainbow paths shown in my dream that marks the territory of Gila Cliff Dwellings, Hawikuh and Gran Quivira, in Southwestern New Mexico, and Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and Mesa Verde, and Canyon de Chelly Arizona. These energetic pathways marked by the Great Goddess of Teotihuacan expand to emerge in Peru at the most ancient civilization in Caral.

Caral Peru

In 2023, I had a dream that showed the overhead view of two ancient civilizations. I was told by an unseen guide that sometimes there are events that happen where a large group of people die in some kind of elemental cataclysmic event. When this happens, an entire group consciousness becomes an elemental group consciousness. I was shown this is what happened in Chaco Canyon and Caral, where no one seems to know why these civilizations just disappeared one day.

Chaco Canyon

“The image of the Spider Woman is another primary cosmological and ideological symbol associated with the Milky Way as a river of life shared with Teotihuacan by the Moche, Maya, and the modern descendants of the Chaco Puebloan”

Like strands of the web of Spider Woman or lines of a story, the energetic elemental pathways move forth as a force of sacred ritual and empowerment. My dreams are weaving me into ancient pathways of pilgrimage to reveal the mysteries of those who walked before us and whose stories are wanting to be found. Now, I have the map.

“Spider Woman weaves lightning, clouds, rainbows, and sunrays into her fabric.” – Judith A. Franke, Director, Dickson Mounds Museum.

Spider Woman Rainbow tracking me in New Mexico 2023

The Weaver

Since the Spring Equinox of 2021, I’ve been dreaming with the Weaver. She paid me a visit in my dreams on that night, and I’ve been tracking her wisdom in myth, stories and dreams.

The Weaver – 3-21-21

I woke this morning from a mysterious dream of an older woman who was tall and slender and learned as a weaver. She was there to teach me her skill at weaving, and told me it was time for me to learn what she had to teach me, I can no longer put it off. I knew it was true, but I did not feel a desire to learn from her, whose energy seemed harsh to me, and I felt weaving is not a skill I am prone to naturally. I could see by learning this skill, it would set my path to a crossroads where I would have to make a choice about the direction of my life, but without this skill, I would not make it to this crossroads. The deeper teachings being transmitted through the practice of weaving include connection, discernment and inclusion. The ability to see the threads of fate and destiny and make choices. I knew internally I need the teachings of the weaver, but I do not want these lessons to be harsh. The weaver teacher has a need to share her wisdom, and if the student does not choose to weave, then she cannot share her life’s work and her gifts go to waste. She carries both a sadness and resentment about this, that weighs on her slight frame. She is a Crone and guide, able to teach me about the strands of my life, that can be woven into a beautiful path and sacred container.

Waking – Aware of the struggles of being at the beginning of something, and learning something new that will affect my life journey, leading me to a crossroads.

Action – Invite the weaver into my dreams open to learning and practicing her gifts.

Spider Woman of Teotihuacan, Mexico

There are many stories and myths about the Weaver, she is the ancient wise woman who weaves the world. The Mayan Goddess Ix Chel brought weaving to women, was a midwife and psychopomp who oversaw all phases of life and death, fate and destiny as measured by the moon and the stars. The Spider Woman of Teotihuacan, Mexico predates the Aztec culture, and is also called the Great Mother Goddess. Similar stories of Grandmother Spider as Weaver can be found in by indigenous people of the Anasazi (Pueblo), Hopi, and Dine’ (Navajo) Southwestern Native Indian stories. Canyon de Chille, AZ in the four corners area holds a site sacred to Na’ashje’ii Asdzaa (Grandmother Spider). Spider Woman Rock is a red rock spire rising over 800 feet from the canyon floor like a giant needle. Spider Woman was said to have woven a web from this place that covers the vast area of the Navaho lands.

Spider Woman Rock in Canyon de Chille, AZ

Baba Yaga of Slavic origin, Athena and Arachne of the Greek Myths and Ariadne of the Labyrinth in Crete are all weavers. There is the well known western fairytale of Sleeping Beauty, who pricks her finger on a needle from a spinning wheel to fulfill her fate. There are the 3 Fates also called the Norns in Scandinavia, and the Moirai in Greek myth known as Clothos (spinner), Lachesis (allotter) and Atropos (unturnable). The Primordial Greek Serpent Goddess Ananke is said to have created herself, before weaving the world. The Egyptian Goddess Nuit is another Cosmic Weaver and one of the oldest weavers of the Universe. So many stories of weaver, so many webs to unfurl.

Web Walker 4-15-21

I am conscious in this dream, suddenly transported to a dark desert canyon, where a woman stands dressed in a sheer white cotton blouse and skirt. She has black hair with a few white streaks. She has a round sweet Native face. The narrow canyon she enters is in striated grey tones. She walks in her bare feet on a sandy path deeper into the narrows of the shadowy canyon. She steps into a circle of moonlight shining on the path. She makes eye contact with me, and looks down at her feet, showing me the layers, upon layers, of webs loosely wrapped around her ankles. The webs carry stories, and she walks with ease and keeps a slow and careful steady pace. They do not constrict her movement, but her stride is small, and she must walk with intention in every step she makes, to be sure and safely carry the many folds of webbing draped around her ankles. Deeper she goes into this ancient sacred place. She carries the dreams and stories of her people to awaken them in the deep womb of the Great Mother.

“Web Walker Canyon” by Valley Reed
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Valley Reed © 2021