The Queen Bee and Queen Gaia (Earth), Worker Bees We Are
My personal interest in The Bees and their sacred meaning grows as I dig deeper into my research, writing and mediating on the bees. So much learning and unfolding, within and without, such wonderful little teachers. As my knowledge deepens, so do the the connections, the golden threads of existence that illuminate my way. I find myself chasing these threads, the bees guiding me to their honey, spiritual gold. I enjoy studying the correlations, the symbology, the way they conduct their business and life and ancient sacred practices. I find myself dreaming of bees at night, they fly in my night dreams and my daydreams. Buzzzzz, goes the rhythm of their wings, the rhythm of the All.
I came across the piece below. There is a connection between The Queen Bee and our Queen Gaia (Earth). Please read and peruse the art, and take a few moments to commune with our friends and teachers the bees. Blessed Bee
"There is one common misunderstanding about the inner operations of a honeybee colony that must dispel at the outset, namely that a colony is governed by a benevolent dictator, Her Majesty the Queen. The belief that a colony's coherence derives from an omniscient queen (or king) telling the workers what to do is centuries old, tracing back to Aristotle and persisting until modern times. But it is false. What is true is that colony's queen lies at the heart of the whole operation, for a honeybee colony is an immerse family consisting of the mother Queen and her thousands of progeny. It is also true that the many thousands of attentive daughters the workers of the mother queen are, ultimately, all striving to promote for her reproduction. Nevertheless, a conlony's queen is not the Royal Decider. Rather, she is the Royal Ovipsiter. Each summer day, she monotonously lays 1,500 or so eggs needed to maintain her colony's work-force. She is oblivious of her colony's ever-changing labor needs--for example, more comb builders here, fewer pollen forager there--to which the conlony's staff of workers bees steadily adapts itself. The only known dominion exercised by the queen is the suppression of rearing additional queens. She accomplishes this with glandular secretion, called "queen substance," that workers contacting her pick up on their antennae and distribute to all corners of the hive. In this way, these workers spread the word that their mother queen is alive and well, hence there is no need to rear a new queen. So the mother queen is not the workers' boss. Indeed, there is no all-knowing central planner supervising the thousands and thousands of worker bees in the colony. The work of a hive is instead governed collectively by the workers themselves, each one an alert individual making tours of inspection looking for things to do and acting on her own to serve the community. Living close together, connected by the network of their shared environment and a repertoire of signals for informing one another of urgent labor needs--for example, dances the direct foragers to flowers brimming with sweet nectar--the workers achieve and enviable harmony of labor without supervision." - Thomas D. Seeley
Our Hive, Our Mother
Flower of Life, Aphrodite's Flower, Hive
Hive Consciousness, Hive Mind
Our Hive Communication
What are you communicating to the hive, is it supporting the hive's, Earth's, well being?
We have received the message that our Queen Gaia/Earth is ill, this message has been clear from the Bees themselves. What Would the Bees Do? WWBD
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