To dream of a spider, denotes that you will be careful and energetic in your labors, and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions.
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.
Can symbolize feeling trapped in a stale or unsatisfying relationship.
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.
Some believe that the spider is symbolic of an unkind and sneaky individual.
Are you the spider building a web, or are you being dragged into one? A spider’s web might represent entanglement and the general complexities of life. Depending on the details of the dream, it could also symbolize a smothering individual.
Ironically, very old dream interpretations say that the spider is an omen of good luck!
Alternatively, Carl Jung felt that the spider’s web was a symbol of wholeness due to its formation (circular shape), construction and complexity.
He called circular symbols “mandalas” and said that they hold valuable meaning for the dreamer.
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.
Spiders in dreams symbolize feeling trapped in a stale or unsatisfying relationship.
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”.