As weavers of our own lives, as multicolored threads giving meaning and connecting us to life, we see artifacts of the ordinary world, external or internal, people , events, emotions, and acts. These distinct and unrelated events and entities, when viewed from the outside world, take on for us their "normal" appearance and separateness. However, they jointly establish a marvelous and harmonious relationship similar to the threads in a tapestry, seen from the level of our awakened consciousness.
Worldly reality, events, memories, feelings and beings, or rather the thoughts and symbols that we offer to ourselves, when seen from a weaver 's viewpoint, shift in meaning. We are the weavers of our own lives, where every encounter can become a significant thread that our consciousness uses to communicate with each other. Therefore, when we decide to be the weaver at a certain point in our lives, these intertwined threads of our experiences and understanding merge into a beautiful and useful tapestry.
In spinning and weaving, fabric, thread, loom, spindle, and whatever else is used all represent symbols of our future and destiny. They are used to denote all the laws that predetermine and unite our numerous and ever-changing realities, consciously harmonizing them within us. They are often used, like the spider does in spinning a web, to build and render something of our own substance and nature.
Although presiding over the birth of a prince or princess, many fairy tales feature goddesses carrying spindles or weaving instruments. They represent time and the chain of cause and effect, or karmic rules, in other cases. When man, however, becomes the weaver of his own destiny, he instinctively unfolds the artistic artist's qualities and becomes the sacred fool whose intuition is guided by his soul's thread.
On the Thread's Symbolism
It symbolizes the agent that connects all states of being to each other and to the First Source, referring to the archetypal significance of the thread. In the Upanishads, where the thread (sutra) "links this world to the other world and to all beings," this symbolism finds its best expression. Both the soul (atman) and the air (prana) are the thread. In all things, the thread must be followed back to its origins since it is connected to a key central point, sometimes represented as the Sun. The active ingredients in Theseus return to the light of day, which is reminiscent of thread.
The ball of twine or rope of Ariadnes stands for the divine support required to defeat the minotaur. The minotaur is a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull that King Minos, imprisoned in the Labyrinth, created as a tribute to Crete by Athens. Seven young men and seven maidens were regularly fed to the minotaur, and the king's son, Theseus, offered himself as one of them.
Theseus was able to destroy the beast thanks to a ball of twine which Ariadne gave him to escape from the Labyrinth.
The minotaur symbolizes our unconscious, ignorant, perverted human nature's maze, an ugly and soiled embroidery dominated by our ego, symbolized by King Minos. Therefore, like the thread, Ariadne 's ball of twine stands for the guidance that comes from our soul and our greater intuition to conquer the beast of ignorance and selfishness. The spiritual battle against repression is symbolized by this myth. This battle, however, can not be won without the arms of light and our soul's presence, symbolized by Ariadne herself.
The thread often reflects the energy and magnetic stimulation and intuition coming from the soul in a spiritual way. Therefore, we become the channels of our soul's expression, and the threads that bind us to it are a mixture of our own thoughts and feelings that blend with those of the soul.
The sign of going through the Sun's portal and fleeing from the universe is threading a needle. It also has the same significance as the middle of the target being hit by the arrow. The thread can be regarded in this sense as the connection between the various cosmic levels (infernal, earthly and celestial) or spiritual psychology levels (subconscious, conscious, superconscious, or pure consciousness of Being or Soul).
Weaving is to women all over the Mediterranean Basin what ploughing is to share in the work of development. Weaving has an identical archetypal significance across myths and custom as ploughing, although the way they work remains distinct. However, both are deliberate actions involving all the requisite qualities for creating and manufacturing. Therefore, the soul's thread binds the weavers with complete consciousness and characteristics of their work, which becomes exquisite.
"As the spider weaves his thread from his own mouth, plays with it, and then withdraws it back into itself, so the unchanging external King, who is without form, without qualities, who is absolute wisdom and absolute bliss, creates the entire world out of himself, plays with it for a while, and withdraws it back into himself."
The one who really sees this reality, as the Soul or the Pure Being, knows his own existence.
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