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Subject: Spiders

Angela

05:14 27/01/2000 

Hi!

Jane, I can't wait to see your new Gallery images! That is an amazing synchronicity!

Spiders have been my most recurring vision/hallucination. Usually just before sleep, I bolt up, eyes wide, and reach out to the wall where spiders and/or webs are splayed all over. They seem to occur every six months or so and sometimes a couple times in the same week.

My most intense spider imaging/imagining! was just before and while I was at the most intensive writer's course of my life. It is when I met a writer with a deep fear of spiders -- but that fear was not mentioned until months later.

I go through extreme periods of insecurity with my writing (and with everything, I suppose). But the spider has come to represent security and encouragement to me now. As I was getting to know this writer over the late summer and fall, spiders were everywhere -- reinforcing this, very intimidating, communication and also, the very intimidating task of writing a novel. One morning there was a tiny spider actually sitting on my computer. But, of course, late summer and fall is spider season... So, I would doubt myself straight out of the synchronicity of it all.

Just in the past couple weeks, I fell into another insecurity trap about my writing and my correspondence with this writer. I'd made a mental decision that I'd stop worrying about it. And just then, a spider (not in season) skittered down my right (write!) arm! That very moment! I was not surprised, but certainly delighted, to see an email from the writer the very next morning. ...And it had been three weeks of silence.

Like I said under Dianne's 'lady bugs', Lynn had found a fabulous write-up on spiders and their link to writing and the creative. Although also having a tie to fear (insecurity), they are a powerful sign for me.

Anyone else with animal insect affinities?

Angela.

Lynn

11:35 28/01/2000 

Hmmm. The most recent odd encounter I had with a spider was Tuesday. The spider was dead. It was that kind of day too.

Lynn

Dee

00:04 29/01/2000 

My encounter with spiders began earlier this evening. Driving to dinner from home to Toowong a large huntsman spider appeared on the windscreen right in front of me (passenger side). It then took refuge on the roof of the car. I didn't give the spider a second thought, until we returned to the car after dining, I shut the front passenger door and looked out the window and there was the spider still with us and looking at me. We drove home with the spider clinging to the window. I thought it was quite amazing that the spider hadn't been blown off the car. Even more amazing though was logging onto this site and reading about Angela's experience with spiders and visiting Jane's gallery where spiders are featured all this within a couple of hours. Dee

Angela

05:50 29/01/2000 

Hi Dee!

Great story! Stay with us. There are messages everywhere... and I find I am so much more enlightened everyday from the occurances people express on this site.

Angela.

Angela

05:51 29/01/2000 

Oh Lynnnnn.... I understand.

Angela

09:29 29/01/2000 

Hi Jane.

I just read your dewy spider web image write-up in the gallery. It was wonderful and so filled with meaning for me. I never thought to pay attention to the symmetry of the webs, the bodies or legs being bigger, etc.

I love the idea that it is full of opposition, fear and strength and intuition. It makes a lot of sense to me. I will look much closer the next time I have one of those spiders-on-my-wall visions.

Angela

Jane Anderson

22:37 29/01/2000 

Thanks Angela!

Hello Dee:

Lovely synchronicity Dee! I just thought I'd fill people in on 'Toowong'. Toowong is an area of Brisbane very close to where I live. I'm generally in Toowong three or four times a week. I'm also presenting two evenings in Toowong soon (see NEWS page). So many complicated webs are being woven here ..

Jane Anderson

Shalie21

03:30 30/01/2000 

I sometimes have dreams of spiders. Usually they are Huge terranchula like spiders that seem to be following me around.

babel

23:51 31/01/2000 

Angela, This is so weird - Remember a dream I had way back about the spiders one pink and the other black on my forearms and a butterfly coming out of my mouth? That morning I woke to see a spider (I just read tis in my journal) on the ceiling.

Anyways I had another spider dream and woke up to see a spider on the ceiling in Boston. I was in Vermont at the writing programs had a thought about the spider thing, if it is a good web or bad that I am tangled up in and woke up to see one over my head. Two minutes later - it was gone. This morning I was thinking what the web could mean, why I like one of my webs on a certain level and then comes Jane's letter and I went over to check the posting to see the spider.

I might also add that the entire wall of my living room are photos of painted doors (mostly blue and yellow by Greek photographer Meis and another greek)

just something to add... babel

WHAT IS
SYNCHRONICITY?

Jane Teresa's Explanation

Jane Teresa Anderson

WHAT IS SYNCHRONICITY?

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Synchronicity occurs when you experience a coincidence, or several coincidences, that seem so bizarre that you feel they must be meaningful in some way.

Some people believe that synchronicities are signs to follow, to lead you to where you are 'meant' to be. My understanding, however, is that not all synchronicities are to be followed, because ...

Synchronicities are SYMBOLS of where you're at, not signs to follow.

Synchronicities speak the same symbolic language as dreams.

When you experience a synchronicity, you are witnessing a change within yourself, an insight, a birth of something that has been unconscious bubbling up into consciousness.

At such times of change we see, all around us, symbols that reflect our shift in perception and self-understanding. This is synchronicity.

To understand this fully, and to see why it is not always appropriate to follow synchronicity, you can read my book, THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME. This way you can also discover how to read the synchronicities in your life and how to act on them in positive, life-enhancing ways.

Reality may never feel the same again!

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P.S.

In Jungian terms all synchronicities begin with a dream.

The dream comes first, then the symbol from the dream appears in waking life in ways that seem incredibly meaningful - though, classically, it is hard to understand, consciously, what that meaning is.

This is because the dream is painted by your unconscious mind in advance of your conscious mind 'catching up'. When the insight (unconscious shift) is big, synchronicities follow.

What happens is that your incredibly powerful unconscious mind (far more powerful than your conscious mind) manifests its insight physically into your waking life. (You have changed - the world, as you experience it, changes in accordance.)

It usually takes up to a couple of weeks before your conscious mind understands the symbolic dream manifesting in your waking life as synchronicity.

Being human, as we all are, we often forget the original dream but still experience the synchronicities.

There are many excellent reference sources on Jungian synchronicity.

My approach is largely Jungian, but slightly shifted.

Again, if you are seriously in-depth interested, I suggest you read my book "THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME" to understand where I am coming from.

Quite simply, synchronicity is a waking dream and interpreting it as such is immensely enriching.

Jane Teresa Anderson