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Long before bees became symbols of summer gardens and honey, they carried a much stranger place in folklore. Across different cultures, bees became associated with the soul, prophecy, divine messages, death, fertility, royalty, and the mysterious boundary between worlds.

One of the most haunting traditions was known as “telling the bees.” In parts of Britain and Europe, when someone in the household died, the family’s bees were informed. A relative might approach the hive, speak softly of the death, and sometimes drape the hive with black cloth or mourning ribbon. In some traditions, the bees were also told about marriages, births, and other important family events.

Ignoring them was considered dangerous. Folklore warned that bees who were not properly informed might stop producing honey, leave the hive, or even die.

The custom reveals something beautiful about how bees were once understood. They were not merely livestock. They belonged to the household and participated in its joys and grief.

Ancient mythology gave them sacred associations too. Bees appear around divine figures and prophetic traditions, while honey carried connections with nourishment, offerings, immortality, and the gods. The priestesses associated with certain Greek cults were sometimes called Melissae, “bees,” strengthening the connection between the hive and sacred feminine knowledge.

Perhaps people saw something supernatural in the hive itself. Thousands of tiny lives worked together around a queen, producing golden honey from flowers before disappearing into darkness again.

To our ancestors, that transformation could easily feel like magic.

The bee moved between worlds: wild flower and human home, sunlight and dark hive, sweetness and sting, life and death.

That is why bees were never considered insignificant.

When they arrived, people listened.

When someone died, they were told.

Somewhere inside the old folklore remains a beautiful thought:

If you have important news, tell the bees.

They may carry it somewhere you cannot.

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“Humans are like the fascia of earth - each needing the tension released within them to open up to allow the earth herself to expand. As we hold tight to our convictions and boundaries that are not our own we constrict the collective whole from expanding. When we release and surrender to no longer holding tight to constriction and being bound up do we really begin to heal.”
--Melissa Nodzu

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When the wounds
Are ancient wounds
And you’ve picked them open
Once again

And you find yourself anticipating
New battle scars

Take a moment to pause

Look at the beauty and vitality
Of the flowers you have grown

Out of this soil you have turned
Out of all you have endured, is

Everlasting
Exponential
Medicine

The conflict before you
Is a choice
Not a fate

It isn’t necessary
For your healing

That power lives within you

Just look at what you’ve grown already
You have a garden full of cures

You’ve been healing
All this time.

~ Iris Eve

Art by Tarn Ellis