Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants - Juliet Diaz 2020

Spider Plant Chlorophytum comosum
A Compendium of Plants

ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES

abundance, energy clearing

Also known as airplane plant and spider ivy, this common houseplant has elongated foliage that is either solid green or variegated with white. Spider plant reproduces in the summer, producing tiny white flowers on long stems, and offsets that grow off to the side like little baby spiders—they’re very cute! Spider plants have so many leaves in a small area that they are fantastic for filtering the air in your home.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

This plant has no known medicinal properties.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES

Spider plants birth new babies by the dozens when you take good care of them—and so it makes sense that she’s terrific for fertility, abundance, and manifesting work. Transplanting her babies is a spiritual act in itself; make sure you set your intentions as you replant them, and they will grow abundance in your life. Spider plants are energetic filters, kind of like a dream catcher for negativity. Keeping one in each room of the house creates an energetic shield that can capture any negative energies that may have slipped past. Keeping her on the porch keeps your home protected and brings in peaceful energies, for spider plant brings a message of mindfulness.

PLANT WISDOM

Spider plant teaches you to pay attention to every detail with an open heart and heightened awareness. Are you a healer? Place her where you do your healing work on others, and she will help you tap into their energies. Keep her in your sacred space or wherever you practice meditation, yoga, healing, or even where you work on creative projects. Dreaming of spider plants is rare, but when it happens it symbolizes the web of life—in these dreams you are able to explore and see how your future may turn out to be.