My Chartreuse Tarantula & the Birth of Compassion

Last week, I dreamed I was capturing a chartreuse-colored tarantula for use in a wall hanging I was creating ~ an art piece meant to draw in positive energy. Cool idea, right? Except… as I held the fuzzy creature in my hands, I realized I felt oddly detached. When she wriggled free and scurried between rooms and closets, I didn’t feel the tenderness I might have expected toward a living being in distress. Two figures ~ a man and a woman who felt like parental guardians ~ helped me corral her again. They informed me that she’d given birth to a “calf” ~ a small green baby tarantula. I instantly knew she’d gone into premature labor from the shock of being chased.

Upon waking, I could recall every vivid detail. Then, I found myself dreaming about the dream, analyzing it within another dream layer. And then, I woke again, this time into that delicious, trippy hypnagogic state between sleep and wakefulness. There, I realized: I was in a negative dream vibration. And ~ light bulb moment ~ I could change it.

That realization cracked something open. Suddenly I remembered all the teachings about how the way we think and dream ~ in every sense of the word ~ literally shapes reality. The so-called “laws of manifestation” aren’t woo-woo fluff; they’re the physics of consciousness. And yet, I saw how in adolescence I had trained myself to think negatively as a defense mechanism ~ believing that expecting the worst would somehow protect me from disappointment. That old superstition, born of the trauma in my stepfamily, whispered that joy was dangerous and positivity would jinx me.

So this tarantula dream wasn’t random, it was a portal. It showed me how my creative life force, the weaver within, had sometimes been stifled by fear of life’s sting. The creature’s premature birth mirrored what happens when we push creation from control instead of compassion ~ it comes out early, shaky, and gasping for air.

The timing was uncanny. The dream came the morning after someone close to me shared that their marriage had gone cold and their heart was wandering. I simply listened, no judgment, no fixing, just presence. That simple act of love and neutrality rippled inward. It was as if holding space for another’s pain opened a door for my own healing dream to come through. Empathy, I realized, isn’t just something we extend outward, it’s the field that births our own transformation.

From the Pleiadian and Mary lineages, this dream whispers of the feminine in captivity ~ the wild, creative, instinctual Mother energy we humans tend to capture, dissect, and commodify, even in our “spiritual” pursuits. The tarantula, long associated with the weaver and the priestess of the loom, is She Who Spins the Web of Creation. The chartreuse glow of my dream tarantula connects her to new growth, solar vitality, and the heart’s renewal after trauma. Her green baby reminds us that even in shock, Life insists on birthing Life. The maternal impulse cannot be subdued.

My Pleiadian guide, Electra, reminds us: every time we move without empathy toward any being, we step out of resonance with the harmonic field of Sophia. Yet the dream shows the way back: the two parental figures symbolizing our inner masculine and feminine restoring balance, retrieving the creature, and allowing new life to emerge.

The tarantula’s message? When you’re tempted to treat something sacred as a mere tool or aesthetic, pause. Listen. Let the living spirit within it speak. Only then can your creations ~ your “wall hangings” of energy and intention ~ truly radiate positive force. Because it’s compassion, not commodifying capture, that magnetizes blessing.

And maybe, just maybe, the true art of manifestation begins not with “thinking positively,” but with healing the wound that fears the positive itself.

Navigating the Cosmic Storm with Heart-Centered Awareness

In this season of cosmic intensity and earthly chaos, this dream reminds us that real world healing begins inside the quiet chambers of our own hearts. When we transmute judgment into compassion and fear into creative faith, we help reweave the entire planetary web.

That’s what our Inner Sanctum Temple journey this month is all about: anchoring Pleiadian light and Mary consciousness amid the turbulence. Together, we’re remembering how to dream positively again, to weave webs of grace sturdy enough to hold both our humanity and our divinity.

6 Comments

  1. mari

    Marguerite , dear one ~

    I’m afraid my comment may be a bit of ” woo-woo fluff ” ( which makes me laugh in delight ! 🙃 ) , but since it’s here . . . 🙄

    ” oddly detached ” is the version of love I learned from my mother , who in a day when postpartum depression wasn’t recognized , suffered it at a psychotic level . and so , my own first emotional experience as well . . .

    what I eventually came to know is that no matter what we experience in the birth process and the time after , that becomes our definition of ” love ” ( our first attachment ? even if it’s non-attachment ) that gets played out again and again , until . . .

    so my heart goes out to that baby tarantula , born out of shock ~ and the frightening tarantula-shapes , an art form that expresses so vividly being caught in the sticky web of unlove , that can indeed pass as love .

    I love the detail of the chartreuse ! for me , yellow-green is the sign of will-aligned-with-heart ~ the way out of that needed-until control ( a form of unlove , no ? ) you speak of so eloquently here . 🙏

    from my fluffy woo-woo heart , and hugely appreciatively , mari 💞

    • Marguerite Rigoglioso

      So true, mari, all of what you say! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

  2. Cynthia

    Bless you, Marguerite! If I dreamed of a tarantula, much less a big one, I would wake myself up. I prefer.teachers with six legs or less. ☺️

    I always felt a connection and compassion for the animal kingdom. I felt safe. Compassion for humans was born after an NDE – my portal into human connection to learn trust.

    • Marguerite Rigoglioso

      I can assure you I have six legs or less! How about you? 🙂 Thank you for your sharing, Cynthia.

  3. Ahraiyanna

    Brilliant Marguerite! I grew up in the “expect the worst” mentality, and am still fearful when I really desire something to visualize the best lest ai be disappointed. I usually say, Spirit, here, this is the outcome I’d like, I will accept what I get. It is still such a challenge!

    • Marguerite Rigoglioso

      We do our best learning to accept those challenges along the way, don’t we! Thank you, Ahraiyanna.