The Polarity Spider
The head, abdomen, and each leg is labeled with a number corresponding to a card that will be drawn for that placement. The left legs are all odd numbers, and the right legs are even. All odd numbers will be “light” and all even will be “shadow.”
This is a spread that is meant to highlight 2 sides (light & shadow) to 5 different situations. It’s meant to compare, side by side, how all people have within them and in their paths both light and dark regardless of situation, topic, or anything else. The Polarity Spider takes distinct aspects of a person’s life situation into consideration and asks the reader (and whoever the reading is about) to consider how both a light and a dark side to the topic coexist within a single person and their life; it demands the reader be able to rectify gaps between these polarities to understand how they make up and affect the reading’s subject.
Here are cards 1-10 in order. “You” is used to signify the reading’s subject irregardless of whether the reader, querent, and/or subject are the same or different persons.
The Spider’s Head: As Above.
What you should be aware is happening “above” you. These are things you should consider looking further at, toward, or simply registering as things that are happening and are/will be beneficial to you. They are “above your head,” so to speak and you would benefit from being more mindful of them.
Spirit guides may also be involved in this card. They may want you to see or pay more mind to something. This card may represent best possible solutions and (upcoming) situations as well.
The Spider’s Abdomen: So Below.
What you should be aware is happening “below” you. From (potential) pitfalls, to shadows lurking (whether literal or symbolic). This card shows what you need to be wary of falling into; what traps are lying below your feet and could prove dangerous or swallow you whole if you are not careful.
The Spider’s First Leg: SELF- Light
This card represents the light, the positive, whole, and brightest parts of the self. Of “you.” When everything is gone except you, at your core, this is the brightest you shine and the most “light” side of who you are. This is what attracts people to you (your “light”) and the positive that most people will remember from you even after they’ve/you’ve walked away.
The Spider’s Second Leg: SELF- Shadow
This card represents the shadow, the dark, incomplete, and most sharp or ragged edges of the self. This is likely what you are most afraid of being, and yet here it is reflected back as yourself. This is likely what scares other people about you too, whether they are conscious of it or not.
When you look in the mirror, what are you most scared to see, is this it? Either way, you might benefit from considering (for a few moments, not just a quick acknowledgement second) how this aspect became the shadow of the self.
The Spider’s Third Leg: EMOTIONS- Light
This card represents current emotions that are “light.” They may be widely displayed or kept internal. These are your brightest and most profound positive, light emotions. They are not anchored to a certain, specific life situation but rather are an accumulation of everything going on. How you’ve been feeling at your brightest moments and the feelings that drive you.
The Spider’s Fourth Leg: EMOTIONS- Shadow
This card represents the shadow side of your current and recent emotions. Be careful because this card can get quite dark, quite fast. This is the epitome of your darkness in feeling format, this is the depth of who you are when the lights are out and you’re alone left with only emotions. When the support of all else is stripped away, this is the darkness your feelings live in.
The Spider’s Fifth Leg: ASPIRATIONS- Light
There are 2 ways to read this card. First as something that you should aspire to(ward) and second as the light aspect of something that you are already aspiring toward. Please decide which it will be (for this card and the next–they will be the same) before pulling the cards.
This card represents what you are currently aspiring towards and the ways that it will be (or already is) something positive, joyous, worthy of your time and energy. It is the beauty and the good within your choices, hopes, and their fulfillment.
The Spider’s Sixth Leg: ASPIRATIONS- Shadow
Please see the above italics/first paragraph under “Aspirations- Light.”
This card represents the shadow side, or the dark side, of your current aspirations. It is about how your choices, hopes, and their fulfillment is negatively impacting you, others, or outside situations. This is the deepest darkness of why your aspirations are what they are, it is the bottom in the pit of how these choices can lead you into hell.
This card is not telling you that you’re choices are wrong, it is instead highlighting the darkness that can fester in the realm of wishes and striving toward something. It may also be showing a choice that is not for the best—if you’ve chosen to read this set of cards that way—and/or something you may want to stay away from. The most important with this card is that it is not always meant to be taken literally (although in some cases I’d imagine it is, like for example if your aspirations are in a dark career path), but is important to consider in whatever context you’ve chosen to read this set in. This card has the most leeway on how it is interpreted of the entire spread.
The Spider’s Seventh Leg: VIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION- Light
This card represents an objective (not as seen by the reader or subject’s reading, etc.) view of your current situation through a light lens. What positive, uplifting, happy, good things are happening at the moment for you? What is the best of your current situation and how does it feel to live that aspect of your life?
The Spider’s Eighth Leg: VIEW OF CURRENT SITUATION- Shadow
This card represents the shadow side of your current situation. What is hiding in the darkness (trying to get out and be known)? What is the darkest part of your current journey through life? How is it impacting you? Is it lifting you up, holding you down? Your current situation through the lens of shadows.
This can be helpful with coming to terms with a situation, feelings about it, or letting something go among more uses. It can also be helpful as acceptance. This card is not meant to show you something unchangeable or permanent, but rather to show you a dark side of what is currently going on in your life so that you may address it adequately and in a proper way. Perhaps it only needs to be seen/heard, but perhaps there is more there.