the 3 stars in Orion's belt point toward the Pleiades
When Sun rises and
warms the Earth in the morning, not every honey bee goes flying
out of the hive randomly visiting flowers.
These gals of the honey bee colony are highly organized and efficient. Certain of the bees are scouts, with super sensitive antennae for
locating the best, most succulent blooms. They
also are excellent navigators.
Back at the hive, the scout bee communicates to her sister
foragers where to find the
bonanza. She
doesn't use telepathy for this job, she performs a fancy dance! Not a
powow dance . . ... It's the wagtail
dance done in the form of a figure 8. (maybe honey
bees were figure skaters in a past lifetime?) The line created through the middle of
the two circles of the 8 points toward the juicy flowers in relation to the angle of the Sun.
As above, so beelow! Out in the night sky,
the constellation of Orion resembles a figure 8
with the belt of three stars just like the line between the two circles. Amazingly, this 'line'
points towards the Pleiades constellation ~ sometimes called the 'beehive constellation' due
to its swarm shape like a cluster of honey bees. Also, the Pleiades sounds like a paradise
of enlightenment & beauty where the best nectar
is likely found in great abundance!
the way she wags her tail provides further
information about the distance to the best flowers
"Traveling with Pomegranates: a mother~daughter
story"
In this wise and intimate dual memoir, Sue Monk Kidd, and
her daughter, Ann Monk Kidd, chronicle their travels
together, and offer their distinct perspectives as
a fifty-something and a twenty-something, each on a quest
to find herself, and rediscover each other.
Between 1998 and 2000, Sue and Ann travel together
to sacred sites throughout Greece and France.
Sue, newly aware of aging, caught in a creative vacuum,
longing to reconnect with her now grown daughter,
struggles to find the wherewithal to enlarge
a vision of swarming bees into a novel. Ann,
just graduated from college,
heartbroken and benumbed by the classic
question about what to do with the rest of her
life, grapples with a painful
depression. The
intimacy of travel and the wondrous nature of the places Sue and Ann visit bring forth each woman's internal struggle
and provide
fertile
terrain for reflection and inspiration. In voices candid and lyrical, this modern day Demeter and Persephone explore
the richly symbolic and
personal
meaning of an array of inspiring figures and sacred sites in Athens and Eluesis, Paris and Rocamador, and places in between. They also give
voice to a moving transformation of that most protean of human connections: the bond of mothers and daughters.
Sue candidly shares the artist's journey that
birthed "The Secret Life of Bees". She recounts numerous incidences of Mary showing up to challenge
the imprint of her childhood socialization.
She writes, "Growing up Baptist in a small town in Georgia, I was virtually unaware
of Mary except at
Christmas, when she turned up life-sized in the outdoor
nativity scene beside the church, wearing a sky-blue scarf and kneeling over the manger.
When the nativity
caught on fire one year, our ninister dashed in to save baby Jesus and left his mother behind, a story that was retold at
the dinner table
for years. That sums up how expendable the Baptist
Mary was. I, too, acquired the habit of slighting her. Of leaving her behind."
Perhaps the omniscient Bee Goddess has been holding a vision
of Sue becoming a talented advocate of the bees? Sue tells us, "I stare at a wall of shelves
lined with identical ceramic statues of Artemis, as if
she had been cheaply cloned at the goddess factory. I pick one up. Once Artemis flourished here.
Her temple, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,
is just up the road in Ephesus. Her symbol, I notice, is a bee. It is engraved all over her dress.
I slide my hand to the hollow of my neck and feel the sterling
silver bee charm on my necklace, resting beside the glass pomegranate. I bought the bee six or
seven months ago for no reason except that I felt drawn
to it. Maybe the pull I felt was simple nostalgia. When I was growing up, bees lived inside a wall of
our house,
making honey that sometimes leaked out onto the floor. The wall would hum. Sometimes the house would hum.
After I told Mary in the myrtle
tree that
I wanted to be a novelist, I went home and wrote a first chapter about a girl whose bedroom wall is full of bees that slip
through the cracks and fly
around at
night. I even took it to a writer's conference, where the teacher pronounced it 'interesting'---the despised,
dread word---suggesting its potential as
a novel
was 'small'. Small. At times, I still hear his voice in my head, saying the word."
A poignant and compelling book about feminine thresholds,
spiritual growth, and the relationship between mothers and daughters, "Traveling with Pomegranates", is both a revealing self-portrait by a beloved author and her daughter,
a strong new voice, and a momentuous story that will resonate
with women everywhere.
Interestingly, "Traveling with Pomegranates" was
released on Sept. 8th . . . . Here's the honey bees' number again!!!
BEE HEALER achieves certification
as Ho Shin Do practitioner!
photos courtesy of bee priestess, Grace Pundyk
JOYCE ROETTER studied with Ho Shin Do Sensei
Voyce Durling-Jones for 2.5 years at the Ho Shin Do Healing Arts Institute
in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hoshin is a Japanese meridian apitherapy technique that utilizes a light form of tapping
with bee venom
to stimulate the body's own immune system in
a painless manner. The therapy also includes the
use of all the bee products: royal jelly, propolis, pollen, and
raw honey. There are over 70 trace components
in bee venom, which may help unlock a compromised immune system. They include: hyaluronidase,
dopamine, melittin, adolapin, norepinephrine, and acetylcholine. Hoshin is surprisingly effective in the treatment of degenerative disorders with an
inflammatory or autoimmune nature, including: arthritis, gout, bursitis, sciatica, fibromyalgia, M.S., sports-induced
asthma, lyme, and more. Hoshin may
also be used for "wellness" support and keeping the immune system healthy & strong.
The Ho Shin Do Healing Arts Institute is located at 404
Brunn School Rd., Bldg. C, in Santa Fe. Phone # 505.984.1900. Please watch for upcoming website www.joyceroetter.com
The Akha are one of the indigenous tribes that reside in
the rainforests of Thailand's northern most province. They are a proud 'hill people'
whose shamanic traditions go back thousands of years, and
whose world view echos the continual cycles of nature. Although the tribe is 80%
destroyed by the monoculture of Christian missionaries,
multiple shades of goddess worship survive. In the depths of the Asian monsoon I
came across Busa---one of the tribe's beekeepers---the
female shamans known as 'Knee Pa'.
Busa stood under a large brimmed straw hat holding a marrow
when I met her. The heavy rain was abating and translucent light fell from the dark
aboding sky. Busa and I were soon sitting on
the veranda of my friend and interpreter, Athu, an Akha tribal activist. "The missionary has deemed her a witch,
a witch of the modern era", spoke Athu cheerfully.
Busa sat proudly as another Knee Pa wrapped in a blue shawl joined us. "Her family have deserted her",
continued Athu. Then, slowly gaining trust in the
tourist, her story came out in a burst of emotion.
"Before the missionary man came to the village things were
good. I tended my patch of rice with my (five) children and although we were poor, life was full
of riches. The Goddess found me in the fields, she
came to me in nature's silence. When the community asks a question, I perform rites to the Goddess and
enter the bee world. Bees go into the forest to seek
the souls of the dead and bring them back." Busa's field is on a steep clearing and she performed a rite
to the Bee Goddess, whispering to the bells of the deep
before breaking a small honeycomb that had formed on a stick. Busa explained that the hexagons
of the bee comb were the order from the chaos world, and
she peered at them. . . . ."
Busa and twelve other bee worshippers form a shaman support
group to build self-esteem against the tyranny of the missionary abuse I have personally
witnessed in S.E. Asia over the past decade. The
shamans are expressing their creative journeys into the spirit realm through their artistic embroidery.
Their work will culminate in exhibitions in London and
New York.
Jacob Lane is a film maker and tribal activist
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"THE SHIFT OF THE AGES"
is a documentary collaboration with the National
Mayan Council of Indigenous Elders,
and the Bee happens to be a nagual power
animal of the movie's director, Steve Copland.
Their Long Count calendar is 26,000 years
long, divided into 5 eras called 'Suns' that are approximately 5,126 years each.
2012 marks the completion of the '4th Sun'
and the birth of the new '5th Sun'.
The Maya call the honey bees 'emissaries
of the Sun'.
In spirit of the hive & imitation of the honey bees, the producers are inviting everyone
to bee actively involved
in getting this timely movie into the airwaves of the global mind.
Find out how you can participate in launching the movie in 2010.
Backyard Beekeepers release excellent book on 2012!
"2012 is not going to be the end of the world, but a transition" The balanced look at 2012 - Don't be taken in by both extreme
views that either 2012 is the end of the world or there is nothing in it - There IS a lot to it.
Dr. Synthia Andrews co-author
Interestingly, a few people who've been called
upon to enlighten us about the 2012 phenomena are also touched
by the honey bees! Synthia Andrews & her husband, Colin, a Crop Circle
researcher, keep several topbar hives
on thier property in Connecticut, where pollination of the orchard creates an abundance of fruits.
After Crop Circles began appearing
in Colin's
homeland of England, he co-authored the first book about these mysterious patterns--which made the
queen's summer reading list--and he's credited
with coining the phrase, "Crop Circle". Honey bees appear to have a mystical connection with creators
of certain bee-related Crop Circles.
Certain Bee Priestesses hypothesize that
these bee-related glyphs in the fields are made by Her Royal Majesty, the Bee Goddess!!!
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