THE SPIDER

Strategy – Constant work
Intrigue – Trap

The Spider is the invisible weaver of reality. With precision and patience, it builds a subtle web that, in order to nourish, must also imprison. In Native American traditions it is Iktomi, the spider spirit: trickster, master of intrigue, but also creator and guardian of the threads that hold the world together. It embodies the paradox of what is fragile and immensely powerful at the same time.

Humanity might never have imagined that the spider’s web would become the supporting structure of society itself. We have built cubes, circles, vaults, domes, and pyramids, yet the fabric of our neural structure and our digital life has always been woven by it: Iktomi. An ancient symbol of our relationship with the ether and with everything that passes through it, it anticipated centuries in advance the very idea of the “network.”

The Spider represents the totality of our thoughts, the habits we repeat, the bonds we weave, the webs we lay out. It can be a wise structure, capable of sustaining us, or a deception that slowly wraps around us. In its shadow hide the risks of our time: getting lost in the virtual, becoming trapped in artificial patterns, mistaking the network for the real world, being unable to escape.

So, my dear one, if your subconscious has chosen this card, perhaps it wants to tell you that:

If the card speaks about you – Light

You are building something with strategy, patience, and attention to detail. Your work, though slow and quiet, is creating a solid web that supports and protects you.

Questions for you
– What project or relationship are you carefully weaving?
– Which fragile part of you is also your strength?
– Where is your constancy creating a structure meant to last?

If the card speaks about you – Shadow

You may be a prisoner of your own web: mental patterns, control dynamics, lies used as defense, or habits that prevent you from moving. Or you may be living inside a web woven by someone else.

Questions for you
– Have you created or accepted a web that now limits you?
– What invisible threads are conditioning your decisions?
– At what point in your own web do you feel trapped?

If the card speaks about the world – Light

There is a network of support around you, invisible yet intelligent. A subtle fabric of connections, coincidences, and exchanges — neural, relational, and digital — that can favor your path.

Questions for you
– What resources can the network around you offer?
– What could be born by weaving your small web into a larger one?
– Where is a connection forming that works in your favor?

If the card speaks about the world – Shadow

Your environment may be crossed by hidden plots, maneuvers, manipulations, or power games that are not immediately visible. Someone may be pulling the strings with a purpose you do not yet see.

Questions for you
– Is there something that feels more like a strategic construction than a spontaneous event?
– Are you approaching an invisible trap?
– What deception might already be at work around you?