The symbolism of bees, beehives and honey
Honey is symbolically Spirit Input inspiration, wisdom, divine love, and healing
As such a bee is a symbol of a person brimming with spiritual energy
The beehive , home of the bees, is an important symbol in Freemasonry
The symbol is associated with the ‘master mason’ degree
It is described as a ‘symbol of industry and co-operation’
Bees even once had their own star constellation
But sadly it was renamed and then removed,
thus the chance to use the sky to explain a key set of symbols, honey, beehives, and bees was lost
Male drones do not work
and the hive of female worker bees and their Queen are the honey producers
And so the Bee is a feminine symbol.
And Queen bees are symbolically powerful female divinities goddesses
The Goddess Brighid, for example, was a Queen Bee
Honey bees naturally build their combs in a characteristic U-shape
This, along with the shape of the hives, links them with the Cosmic Egg and the Matrix
The Matrix is said to provide the foundation for all Reality,
the underlying structure upon which our entire universe is built
Smoke is symbolically Spirit output
thoughts, worries, the busy intellect, the chattering mind
Too much , however, and it symbolically blocks out the Sun
And prevents those trying to help us from doing so
Actual smoke has this effect on bees,
it makes them dopey and unresponsive
It means that those who wish to ‘steal’ their honey can do so without being stung.
And in this way bee goddesses can be lulled to give up their secrets
by endless unintelligible, but cunning intellectual rattle