The Bee Goddess

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From: JACKIE VOLEK

Subject: Bee Priestess
Date: Jan 29, 2010

I was excited to see your site.  I am part of a circle of women
beekeepers in Michigan who have identified ourselves as Melissa (bee
priestess)  We have varied experience as beekeepers however all of us
have a love and connection to the bees.  Our Bee Mistress is a beekeeper
of 30+ years and she and her husband own and operate Sleeping Bear
Farms…a large bee operation in northern Michigan. (See their web
site)….They also operate Lazy Bee Farms in Fla.  (they transport the
bees for the winter).  We celebrate the cycles of the year with a focus
on the bees, honey and mead (Our Mistress and her husband are opening a
Meadery in Mich also)….we incorporate the use of the tar and the
tamborine in our rituals….we have worked through the Giving Birth to
Ourselves with Layne Redmond a world known percussionist…It would be
great to network and communicate with you and other Bee Priestesses as
we honor, celebrate and co-create with our sisters of the  hive……
Jackie Rushton

From: colleen szabo
Sent: Jan 15, 2010

Ode to the Honeybee

Holy ancestress, creatrix of this epoch

Of flower and seed

Are your matriarchal families in danger of disappearing because

We do not believe,

Like the fairies in Peter Pan?

I clap my sad hands always and forever

In my heart and in my mind.

Great builder of the temple at Delphi

Whose tiny mystery-filled body forms the

Precious molding substance for your

Six-sided tessellated bowls

From what far away long ago star did you learn

The blessed wisdom of your constructions

Studied by the ancients?

Numinous one

Icon of ancient Lower Egypt

Emmisary of the Mayan Sun-star

Is that which is fading in my land

Lost in me as well?

The voice of the Goddess, the Mellisae

The vibrating, shapeshifting sound of Creation

That conviviality, that nurturing Queendom

The vibrating lemniscate dance, the

Tail-wagging message, that

Wing-beating drum

That supports all life on the planet.

Bring these sacred threads back, I pray

We’ve broken Odin’s mead-circle and

Raised a curse

Forgotten that Zeus was raised on honey and

You alone concoct the nectar of the gods

The flower graced food that alone exacts no living sacrifice but

Your own.

I wish for you a golden house in every forest and field

A knowing temple

In every beholden human heart.