May Day is here and seeds are sown. The fire’s lit and bones are thrown. The Fairies fed and plans are made. Promises kept and offerings laid. The goats have called and the Snake’s left the Cave. The Particle is now becoming the Wave. The Trees have greened with the Shadow within. Now we dance…
Opening Your Heart – Listening to Bees
Beekeepers who are tuned in, realize that there is a paradigm shift occurring, a needed one, if we want to continue to work with our bees, apis mellifora. In order to listen to your bees, a soft mindfulness and open heartedness is necessary. The great thing is, if you listen to the sound of bees,…
Gratitude, Gardens and Lemniscates
It is so easy to get caught up in the distractions of the “demanding” world and forget that those demands can be stripped away, layer by layer, until you get to what really matters. It is also easy to forget that the world in which we place our feet down each day, is full of…
Water for the Bees
Creating a water offering for bees is a fun way to get involved in helping bees and it is only limited by your your imagination! I like to imagine myself as a bee and think what would I like to land on, how would I want it to look, and what types of extra medicines…
Healing the Earth with Bees
Join Michael Joshin Thiele at UMass Amherst on April 2, 10:00am – 12:30pm in Fernald Hall for an amazing workshop on biodynamic apiculture. From Gaia Bees website: Gaia Bees advocates for a fundamental shift in Apiculture and develops new practices toward a bee-centric approach. We examine how the bio-integrity of Honeybee nests can inform and heal…
Tracks of Life
The Woods knew. I was on my way to make an offering at the Fairy Tree that was Kissed by the Winds, but she was no longer there. Not in the way of the rest of the trees whose breath was slowed with the cold; but her dead body was hacked into pieces by a…
A Spiral of Love
A prayer is released out into the world for Love. As it spirals its way through the melting snows and into the warming soils, it carries the experience and memory of ancestors whose hands once crushed herbs with intent to heal. It carries with it peace on the scent of lavender and the purple…
Holy Desire
On this Valentine’s Day, ask yourself, what is your Holy Desire? On a day that can be confusing to some, due to placing love outside of themselves, turn that love within and find out what is the spark that makes YOU feel alive. What is it that wakes you from your slumber and motivates you,…
White Coffin of Love
Do not mourn for me. I have served my Hive well. I have warmed my queen and dreamed the dream. Now I pause between breaths to listen to the stillness. Do not mourn me. I have fulfilled my Lemniscate and done so with love.
Recipe for BeeLoveds
I came upon a question today that asked how I bring spiritual practices into beekeeping. While it is a great question that I can answer on many different levels, especially as spiritual beekeeping tends to lovingly caress everything I do in my life, the woman asking seemed to be looking for specific practices. To honor…
Bee Priestess
I think it is important to define what a bee priestess is because people call me a bee priestess and I have been struggling with that term. I have to really think about this because when I think of a bee priestess I think of the dancing, frame-drum playing, journey-leading, transformation creating Melissa that used…
Whirling Melissae
Come Dance with me, the Lemniscate! We’ll twirl, we’ll whirl, let the Hands of Fate mold the path, and guide us through, our Heart will tell us what to do. The Spider weaves, the Lions guard; follow the Snake, it is not hard. Breathe in, breathe out. A whisper, a shout. A time for all,…
