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The Bee Goddess merits infinite respect. She's a special diety with whom I'm excited and honoured to be playing with. I share this story as an offering to the Bee Goddess, as a way to revive the Sacred Feminine paradigm to Mother Earth.

In Taos, the August afternoon is sweltering. I pull off into the yard/driveway of my friends' Envision Art Gallery. Seeking shade. I'm from the Canadian prairies where summers are milder. (Until these times of climate change.) A big old Cottonwood, whose upper limbs died off in the drought & have been chopped off, calls me to its cool shade. I create my own parking spot. (My rebellious nature arises when it comes to parking the pony according to the rules & I've even gone to jail for outstanding parking tickets.) To my great surprize, I notice bees swooping in and out of the tree trunk..... My immediate question, "Are these honey bees who've swarmed? Or, are they natural wild bees?" I get out of the car & walk around the trunk of the giant old cottonwood. From 10 years as a bee keeper in Saskatchewan, I know how to approach a bee hive. Never from the front which is the fly way....
I'm softly moving closer, about a meter away from the hole in the trunk. Suddenly, a bee zooms in on me and stings me right at the 3rd eye chakra. Ouch!!!
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the wild bee tree at Envision Gallery
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I 'get' the Bee Goddess's message >> to always see with sacred meditative vision. A good message in these days while I'm editing the rough~cut of "Awakening to the Bee Goddess". A few days later, I return to the wild bee tree to answer the original question... Are these wild bees or honey bees who've swarmed and gone wild? This time I wear a bee bonnet for protection. HONEY BEES !!!
No bees even notice me today. Or more precisely, the Bee Goddess doesn't need to wake me up again.




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mystical sun over Taos
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the Envision glyph
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Envision Gallery is situated in an especially magical yard that endearingly provides a tree home to wild honey bees. I reflect on a visit earlier in the summer. I'd been traveling and on the afternoon I returned to Taos, the Sun in the sky was spectacular. Big smoke from a fire burning in Tres Piedras was mystifying the world!

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Egyptian Sun God RA




As I'm meditating on this scenario, I recall the bee lore from Egypt >>> "Honey bees are the tears of the Sun God, RA."

I envision the Sun God, RA laughing himself to tears as the Bee Goddess emerges onto the Earth scene. First, she calls the honey bees away and into hiding from the slave~like conditions of commercial bee keeping. A crisis, indeed.
THEN, THE BEE GODDESS APPEARS !!!
With a contingent of Bee Priestesses tanging on their drums with joyous wild abandon.