#spider spirits

I channeled this from my spider spirit Ester when I moved into a new home and had some... hexing concerns. I needed a way for me to KNOW if I need to refresh wards, etc. Well, luckily my house is old so there were PLENTY of cobwebs to use and what better to use as a trip wire than unbreakable spider silk!

Use: warding, protection

Channeled from: Lamiya, Ester

Components:

Cobwebs

Dead Spiders (optional, adds strength)

Saltwater

Bottle

Sigil Powder (optional)

Collect cobwebs and dead spiders from around the house. If they are super dusty, put them in a ziploc bag or tupperware with some water and soap. Shake and then pour the water out.

Put webs in bottle with salt water for 3 days in the sun, shaking every few hours. 

Take out big web chunks, water should have traces of web in them. Spider bits can be added now or put around the property. 

Pray over the water and ask the spiders to use their webs to alert you to any trespasses via agreed upon alert such as spiders coming from the ceiling. Ask the spider spirits to trap and eat the bad energy they find.

This is a good question. Firstly, its important to note a couple of things.

1. Spirit work is inherently unsafe, in the same way that making new friends, or going out on dates with people you don’t know. That is, without practice in vetting (and sometimes even with), there is no way to tell right away which are safe or not, other than time. Not everyone has your best interest in mind. It’s true for the real world and its definitely true for the spirit world.

2. Entities don’t often fit in neat little boxes, so be wary of how you classify them. Using the example of a spider spirit, here’s a couple of ways that could translate. A spirit may simply adopt a spider motif, or connect strongly with spiders without actually being a spider themselves. A spirit may be a spider spirit BUT not one that is found on Earth at all and so may follow rules and have unfamiliar behaviors. Etc.

As far as spirit communication goes, it begins with protections. I strongly suggest using personal warding vs area wards. There are a lot of ways to go about that, but feel free to pick whatever works for you. So before attempting communication, I’d start with reinstating your personal wards and then cleansing your area. Cast a circle if you are so inclined.

I find its most polite to include an offering of some sort. Personally I use water or tea, and a cookie of some sort. My spider spirit does not like human food, so for him I tend to prefer water and offerings of small bits of energy. The first time I contacted him I did not have an offering, and so he took something. Offering upfront helps mitigate this.

Then you are free to try out a number of communication methods, some methods work better with some spirits:

Pendulum- I like using necklaces. The material here does matter. I have once spirit who can communicate with my clear quartz but has a hard time with my rose quartz. Using a letter board can also help you find a name.

Tarot/Playing cards- I personally find these somewhat limited, but then I tend to use these for more overarching ideas and abstract patterns. I know people who communicate with these very successfully.

Automatic Writing- I would not allow any sort of possession to an entity you don’t have a long history with and trust. One way to get around this is to do it through clairaudience. You ask a question then immediately write down the first thing that comes to mind.

Lucid Dreaming- This can definitely help if the two of you are already utilizing dreams. This tends to run more on autopilot however.

This is an older poem. We wrote it a couple of years ago, standing barefoot in the woods in Maine. The background image was taken in the place we wrote it.

🌿 at the time, i scribbled it with a black pen on a navy blue paint chip i had in my pocket for a valspar (lowe's brand) paint colour called "time's current". i subsequently lost that shard of paper for over a year. when it resurfaced, i had to make sure to copy it down.

🐈‍⬛We were absolutely channeling some ancient spider spirits on this one. I don't know if giant spiders live in that forest or not, but I remember walking around on our toes and our legs felt so long and spindly.

🌿 yeah, and like most of our poems, we just sort of... found it there. they just come out like this. it's such a rush of emotion.

🌹 Eating people is an emotion?

When we last left off there was a little peacock spider that was ‘paid’ to give me nightmares of eldritch horrors. I captured them and corrupted them a little and let them go to leave me a nice trail to the ones who paid them. 

The next day that i had met said little spider i was with my mother at a mall to do a bit of shopping and watch a movie. The spider appeared while we eating and fluffed up his little feathers in a display of aggression. it was adorable until the eldritch horrors entered my mind again. “You hurt my friend!”

i blinked the horrors away and raised a curious eyebrow. “What do you mean?”

the horrors blinked in again. “You hurt my friend! You did something to me! it hurt him!”

I nodded in complete understanding of the situation. Little spider probably needed a translator to speak to the beings the hired him without seeming like he was double crossing them. So he went to his friend to tell them that he did the job, but my corruption attached to his friend and was slowly killing him. i made it dormant on the spider so he could be the bearer of my corruption, but it seems i hit an unintended target. 

I quickly located the corrupted person and stilled the corruption in him. I couldn’t remove it from him, but i would go around later to pick it up and get what i wanted. “I’ve stopped your friend’s pain. He’ll live. I’ll go remove my poison from him later. For now he needs rest. You can go back to him and check on him if you want.”

The little spider fluffed up again and the illusions popped up. “I do not trust you. I stay until we go to him.”

i heard the feathers on the spider close like a fan and felt them jump onto my shoulder. I looked at the angry little spider and shrugged. “Alright. I won’t be able to leave for a while, but you are free to keep me company.”

The little spider retorted by spinning webbing on my shoulder and keeping it connected. I vaguely wanted to test the strength of the webbing, but i decided not to bother with it. I’d leave the spider and let them have their way until i had time to help their friend.

A few hours went by before i was free of obligations long enough to take a step out of my physical being and travel with spider to their friend. The spider had tried rushing me and as a show of trust and willingness to co-operate i took the corruption out of them first. When we finally arrived, i saw their friend was very human looking. short hair, a sleeveless hoodie and he was thin. Not emaciated thin, but he didn’t have much muscle on him. He gave the appearance that he was someone who didn’t have territory, but lived in someone else’s territory. he had pale grey skin with blackened veins. He wasn’t in pain, but i knew my corruption was still eagerly awaiting for instruction inside him. 

“So you’re the one who got caught in my little trap.” i said and he jumped and turned to see us. His face looked a bit nervous to me, but when he saw his friend he calmed down some. “You did this?”

I nodded. “Yes. You weren’t my intended target, but the idea was to get the person behind these annoying ass assaults and force them to come meet me to remove my corruption.”

The spirit smiled hopefully at me. “So you’ll remove this from me?”

I nodded. “Of course I will. As soon as you tell me what i want to know.”

The spider fluffed up threateningly, but i didn’t pay attention to them. I looked only at the spirit in front of me. “I...I can’t tell you. You don’t understand. They’ll just hurt us. they won’t even kill us. They’ll just keep us around to hurt for years.”

I chuckled and the spirit looked at me sadly. “Are you kidding me? I’ve been attacked for months. What the hell gives you the impression i’m going to let my attacker live long enough to do Anything else to anyone else?”

The spider backed off a little confused, but the spirit in front of me was scared and hopeful at the same time. “You...you think you can actually kill them?”

I smiled a bit wickedly. “Yes. I very much so believe that.” I placed a hand on the spirit’s shoulder. “So tell me who and where.”

The spirit nodded. “It’s the leader of this area. You...kinda stole some of his territory. You also kinda...scare the other groups around here. I’ve seen beings go in and get thrown out in pieces or worse sometimes they try to leave and die screaming.”

I blink and let my face drop. Oh my gurd. “I don’t attack unless i’m provoked. Lately I’ve been provoked a Lot. What you’ve seen enter my home has mostly been parasitic creatures hired or coerced to attack me. the territory bit, that was my territory for years. I’ve always had it warded. only recently did my wards go down for a few months, and suddenly someone thinks they can just claim it? Oh no no no. They are dead wrong about that.”

The spirit’s face looked at me unconvinced. “Alright. Whatever. i don’t care about that. My job isn’t to convince you. Where can i find the leader of this area?”

The spirit swallowed nervously. “Right now?”

I nodded tersely. “Yes. Right now. I don’t like waiting to deal with shit.”

The spirit took a deep breath. “he’s with the other leaders of the area. They have a truce, but meet regularly to keep things in order.”

“Sweet. Take me there.” i said with a smile.

The spirit blanched, but dropped his head in defeat. I patted his shoulder. “Thanks. Oh yeah let me just take care of this while we’re here.”

the spirit was confused for a moment, before i pulled the corruption out of his body and he returned to his pale white complexion. “W-why?”

I raised an eyebrow. “Why what?”

The spirit looked at me more confused. “Why did you take it out? Weren’t you going to force me to take you?”

I raised my own eyebrow. “No. I promised to take the corruption out when you answered my questions. I keep my word...as often as I can. I still expect you to take me. just showing me to the outside should be enough.”

He stared at me in confusion for a bit, before shaking his head. “You’re strange.”

I smiled at him and chuckled. “Yup. it’d be boring to be normal.” The spider removed their webbing from my shoulder and hopped over to their friend and sat comfortably on his shoulder. “Thanks Raak-thath.”

I was getting ready to go to sleep after playing a good helping of Bloodborne and fighting a good number of eldritch looking creatures. the game is amazing and fun, 10/10 would recommend.

Anyway, i am getting ready to get to sleep. I got my lights off, a little bit of music in my ears, my eyes are closed, my barriers are up. Set up for a good night’s sleep. Then my conscious is drawn to my astral body and in front of me is an all white being. The head is bulbous and elongated towards the back. It looks like a freaking tub that had a tube coming out of the back and a human body hanging off the front. The being’s face has no eyes, but i can tell in a glance this thing is hostile as fuck. I see tendrils of what looks like groups of hairs or threads and they start shooting at me. I use the 5 d’s of dodge-ball and make my way close to the being. I am about to stab it with my spear, when i feel my darkness warn me about an attack. I jump backwards just in time to see a giant maw clamp shut where i was a few moments ago.

It was massive and almost entirely made of the string/hair like material. the white being was inside its mouth and was only bait. Not anything vital. I somehow made a connection and called it nothing more than a vocal cord. the vocal cord speaks. “Do you see now? It’s useless to fight me. I am more powerful than you by far.”

I feel a sense of overwhelming dread and horror sinking into me. It’s truly one of those moments that make you want to give up. Then i busted out laughing. The eldritch looking horror gave me a confused look, as much as something with no eyes and a tub for a head can, and i opened my eyes. Sitting just in front of my face was a spider. It had a fan of red feathers each marked with the image of an eye in black. 

I smile widely at it and grab it in a bubble of darkness. “Oh My god, that was great! You almost had me for a moment! Like holy shit you’re an impressive little guy!”

The spider scratches pitifully against the bubble and then tries to force another eldritch illusion onto me. I watch as a new eldritch horror shows up and then quickly dismiss it. “Alright, you’ve had your fun. I’ve gotta get some sleep. So no more of that okay?”

The spider scratched at the bubble. I knew the bubble wasn’t going to break, but i wrapped 13 more around it and gave each one a trap. I set the bubble on my bed and closed my eyes for sleep. Soon after i did eldritch horrors began to invade my thoughts. I lifted the bubble with a thought and made it follow the course of my finger and gave the spider a rollercoaster ride of nausea. I told the spider as long as it kept the horrors up i would keep up my rollercoaster ride. it took the poor thing several minutes to give up for a bit. I felt the horrors touching upon my mind again and realized the spider wasn’t a simple spirit that wandered into my home, but a being that had been hired to try to scare me. Probably someone who has been mad that their other plans and parasites had been steadily avoided or killed as of late.

I add some corruption to my bubble and warn the spider that if they tries to break out then he’ll be corrupted inside and out. The little spider is dense and quickly breaks the bubble and exposes himself to the corruption. I hold it back and keep the spider alive and tell it that i’m not gonna kill them. I want to know their employers, but the spider, through the use of more eldritch horror illusions, tells me they’ve been paid for the night and they’re gonna do their job. I can’t help but think how damn adorable and diligent this little spider is being so i decided to just let them do what they’ve been paid to do. I’ll get through the night and i’d talk to them in the morning. I woke up in the morning and saw the Spider was still sitting in the bubble looking at me curiously. I shrugged my shoulders and open the bubbles. The spider was nervous at first, but i told them that i wasn’t going to hurt them. The illusions were great, but none really hurt me and that the spider was welcome back as long as they told me who was paying them and how they got in.

The spider showed me where they had gotten in from, but didn’t want to give me an image of their boss. Bad business. I acknowledged that bit and offered the spider a deal. I’d employ them if they told me where the person they were hired by was. They paid them for the night and they were no longer required to keep anything hidden from me. Especially if i paid for it.