Bee and Honey Magic: Practice, Mythology, Dream Book

This post is dedicated to bees (mostly honey bees), try to contribute to their salvation!

Interesting facts that can increase your love for bees:

Bees can count to four, understand complex signs, extract useful information from observations and communicate with each other using a secret code (the famous “waggle dance”)
Bees can recognize human faces
Honey contains all the substances necessary to maintain life
Eating honey can make you smarter
Bees can sting only once
Bees flap their wings up to 200 times per second
Bees are the only insects that produce food suitable for humans
Bees do not sleep
All worker bees are female
When collecting pollen, each bee chooses only one plant species, which increases the success of pollination

Ways to attract bees:

Plant flowers that they like
Build beehives
Place bee baths around your garden
Do not use pesticides or herbicides of any kind

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Plants that attract bees:

monarda
lavender
crocus
snowdrop
wildflowers/any native species
catnip
borage
fennel grass
heliotrope
sunflower
oregano
yarrow
echinacea
rudbeckia
asters
goldenrod
foxglove
marigolds
pansies
sweet peas
nasstrutia

Bee folklore:

If you kill a bee, you will have bad luck
Bees are believed to have knowledge of the coming future and all the secrets
If a bee lands on your hand, it means that money is on its way
If a bee flies into a house, it means that good luck (or a stranger) is on the way, and if you kill a bee, the stranger will bring bad news
Bees buzzing around a child’s head foretell a happy and successful life for the child

Bee mythology:

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs used the bee as a symbol of royalty. They believed that honey bees were born from the tears of the sun god Ra. For the Egyptians, bees represented resurrection and protection from evil spirits.
Druids believed that bees represented the sun, goddess, celebration, and community.
The Greeks thought that a baby whose lips a bee touched would become a great poet or a great orator. In ancient Greece, bees were also believed to symbolize hard work, messengers of the dead, and obedience. Honey was often used as an offering to the gods. The Greeks also believed that bees were the surviving souls of priestesses who served the goddess Aphrodite. They were considered a symbol of sacredness and could be associated with the great mother or the divine feminine.
In Celtic mythology, honey bees possessed great wisdom and were considered messengers between the worlds. Honey was sacred and used in rituals.
In some cultures, bees were associated with purity, health, and wealth. Bees were also believed to be a symbol of the human soul.

Some deities associated with bees and honey:

Aphrodite
Ra
Vishnu
Pan
Cybele
Mellon
Melissa (priestess)
Neith
Apollo
Artemis
Freya
Thor
Demeter

Uses of honey in rituals:

Can be used in binding spells to symbolically connect things
Used for offerings to faeries and deities
Can sweeten a person or situation
Can be used in spells that correspond to purification, health, love, happiness, spirituality, wisdom, luck, fertility. use specific types of honey that correspond to your spell
Bathe in warm water and honey to attract love
A dish filled with honey can attract light energy, angels and helpful spirits

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Meanings of bees in dreams:

If you dreamed that you were stung by a bee, perhaps something is bothering you or you have constant irritation in your life.
Bees in your dreams can prompt you to pay attention to your social connections. They can indicate a desire for more harmonious, beneficial and functional relationships.
A visit from a bee in a dream can also notify you that a friend or family member is seeking companionship with you. You will know who this person is by the thoughts that pop into your head during the day. Call him yourself or, most likely, he will contact you soon.
A swarm of bees can indicate that a group of people whose cooperation you rely on is becoming chaotic and out of control. You may need to balance your interactions with various business and social groups in order to regain sanity.
Hives are a reminder of abundance and prosperity. Thus, an empty hive represents missed opportunities and financial misfortune, while a full one does the opposite.
A hive can also represent a home. The fullness or emptiness of a hive can indicate unconscious feelings about family life, marriage, children, or the home itself. Honey can represent property or possessions.
A hive on fire or burnt bees are often interpreted depending on the emotional and physical state. Burnt bees can mean that you are overcoming fear and want to take control of your life and the anger raging inside. Burnt hives can mean that you have lost something valuable, such as money, relationships, or some valuable information that you forgot or ignored.
If a bee or a swarm of bees is chasing you – it can mean that you are being haunted by some unresolved matter or memory.