The Goddess of Bees - Emily Bolivet Art

Goddess of Bees

Belisama (Brigit) : Celtic Goddess

Beyla : Nordic scandinavian Goddess

Austeja : Baltic Goddess

Mellona : Roman Goddess

   AKA: Mellonia

   Mellona is the goddess of bees, honey, and beekeeping, said to protect promote the supply of honey, as well as protecting the bees. She is a minor ancient Roman goddess, and there isn’t much information known about her. She is included in the indigitamenta, which is the list of deities that was maintained by Roman priests to make sure the correct deity would be called upon for public rituals.

   Her name derives from the latin “mel” or “mellis,” meaning honey.

Cancer - The OG Queen Bee

Cancer is the cosmic mixture of Milk and Honey, the only liquid that is poured from the wells of the Promise Land. Milk and honey is rich in spiritual, alchemical, and feminine properties and was used in many ancient medicines and rituals. Milk is the nectar of the moon that rules Cancer, and the cosmic cream that nourishes young life as breastmilk. Honey is the syrup that softens the female organs in preparation for childbirth and physical intimacy. For the ancients, it represented a very real product of transmutation. Pollen is the knowledge harvested from the flowers of experience and knowledge and cultivated into the gold of wisdom. Like honey, wisdom does not exist without conscious harvesting. The geometric harmony of the beehive’s shape illustrated the materialisation of divine law and unity. The axis of Cancer and Capricorn embodies the spiritual path, wisdom, creative hierarchy, human potential, civilisation, law, spirit and matter, and manifestation. This oppositional point is where the alchemist transmutes lead into gold. Jung described this as the psychological process of ‘individuation’ or reunifying the conscious and unconscious self.

The bee is an ancient symbol of the Sacred Goddess, Divine Feminine, and royalty through its matriarchal hierarchy and immortalisation of its Queen, flowers and pollination, and the fragrance of honey. The taste of honey was said to be the sugar syrup of the mystical, the food of the Gods, the delightful saccharine of everything gorgeous and sweet in the spiritual and material world, and Cancer personifies this holy nectar. The Prophetesses intoxicated with honey as a form of divine intimacy and enlightenment, as the essence symbolised divine mother’s milk and a passage of reunion. The gold of honey is the product of a tear in the sun from where the bee was created, and the bee is the alchemical symbol for the realisation of spiritual reality. Biblical texts include Milk and Honey in multiple references, such as ‘promising a land flowing in milk and honey so that your days may be prolonged’, and ‘My son, eat thou honey, because it is good… So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul…’ in Proverbs 23:14. The wisdom of this flowing honey reveals Matriarchal Consciousness, Feminine Warrior Energy, Unconditional Love, Death and Rebirth, Prosperity, Divine Blessings, and the Abundance of Service.

Neith is a Cancer Goddess, her name deriving from the Qabalistic ‘to be’. The ancients ascribed her the ‘Eldest, Mother of Gods’, and within her the House of the Bee is revealed, and so Cancer’s connection with the infinite, creative source resides inside. On the axis of Cancer and Capricorn stands the Two Great Gates. Neith declared that “I am all there is, and all there has ever been,’ recognised as the ‘Opener of the Ways’ and the first breath of consciousness that appeared on earth. Cancer is the ‘Gate’ that heavenly spirits pass through to enter the birth of existence, the the great cosmic mother who is all there is and all there has ever been. Every sign is sourced through this Cancer energy known as the waters of mass existence. Every soul incarnates through Cancer, every so every sign still retains the spiritual cells of Cancer inside and recognises these as the Mother Goddess. This origin is of course, impossible to physically retrace as Neith may have suggested, ‘no mortal man hath ever me unveiled.“ As so is the origin of bees, a mystery we are still yet to uncover. On the opposite side of the axis, we depart through the ‘Gate’ of Capricorn into God’s Kingdom. Cancer is the first sign of the zodiac wheel in esoteric astrology. We always begin and end in Cancer, and into the procession of Leo or Taurus and back toward Cancer depending on the cycle our soul is following. The energy of Cancer is the oldest and the wisest. The preserver of ancestral magic, the water our spirit longs to return to, the divine essence of the cosmos.  

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Ancient Bee Goddess-