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Tending the Sacred Hive 2021
Beginnings
Overview & Calendar
Required Reading and Book Review PDFS
January: Dreaming into Being
Homework: Hive Introductions
Practice: Dreaming with Bees
Practice: Dowsing for a Hive
The Norns Audio Download
Required Reading: The Webs of Wyrd
Dream Shares: Due Feb 8
The Sisterhood of the Spinners Walk
February: Stories in the Land
Homework: Three decisions
Weekly Practice: Land Visit
Practice: Fire Sipping (34:58)
Required Reading: Bee-Centric vs. Conventional Beekeeping
Brigid Walk
Brigid Audio Lecture
Hive Theme: Beeswax PDF
March: Birth of a Being
Weekly Practice - Land Visit
Artemis Walk
Orphic Hymn to Artemis
Artemis Audio Lecture
Practice: Ritually preparing hive and/or painting hive
Hive Painting resource guide
Required Reading: Propolis/Bee Medicine by Jaqueline Freeman
Propolis PDF
April: In Between
Weekly Practice: Land Visit/Hive Visit
Practice: Dreaming with Bees
The Fey Folk Walk
The Fey Folk Audio Lecture
Homework: Bee Tea Herb
Pollen resource guides
Journal Questions: Midwifing the In-between
Spring Build Out: Reading Comb (32:05)
Pollen (PDF)
Reading: Hive Management by Les Crowder
May: Bee Language
Intro to May Themes
Weekly Practice: Land Visit/Hive Visit
Reading: What the Bee Knows About Flowers
Aphrodite Speaks of Her Origins - by Sylvia Linsteadt
Knowledge Lecture: The Wise Maidens
Practice: Dreaming with The Wise Maidens
May Walk: The Lover
Telling the Bees - video lecture & practice (28:07)
June: Ecstatic Expansion
Intro to June Theme
Land Practice and mid-season Review
Reading: "Who Was She" by Merlin Stone
June Walk: The Mother
June Audio Lecture: The Marys
Reading: Disease, Pests, and Predators
Hive Pests Gallery
July: Where the Wild Bees Are
Personal Writing exercise: What is Wild?
The Hum: PDF
The Walk: Sovereignty
Darwinian Beekeeping - Tom Seely
Audio Lecture: Lilith
Summer Beekeeping
August: Nectar of the Gods
Dreaming with the Spirit of the Hive
Land Visit/Hive Visit - Practice
Sipping Practice - Pleasure and the Roses
Knowledge Lecture: Sisterhood of the Fey
The Walk: The Sisterhood of the Fey
Honey Tasting Wheel
Honey Harvesting
Honey ebook PDF
Honey Recipes
Darwinian Beekeeping Suggestions
Hathor audio lecture
September: Drawing in, Drawing Down
Dreaming Hive Diagnostics: DUE SEP 17
Land Visit/Hive Visit - Practice
Personal Writing Exercise: Drawing in, Drawing Down
Sting: PDF
Article: Getting Ready for Winter or the Wet Season - Les Crowder
Article: The Ritual Path of Initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries
The Walk: Persephone/Demeter
Audio Lecture: Demeter Perephone
October: Song of Slumber
Dreaming into the future
Land Presence
Practice: A Song for Slumber
Reading: Mead From the Beginning
Types of Mead
Baba Yaga: Ivan The Bear's Son - told by Martin Shaw
Audio Lecture: The Callieach/Elder
Winterizing a Hive
Robbing PDF
Beekeeping with The Feminine Principal
Compendium of Hive Practices
Reading List
Weekly Article/Podcast/Video
January Week 1: Spirit of the Hive by Gareth John
January Week 2: Spinning Straw into Gold
February Week 1: Small Hive Beekeeping (Video) - Tom Seeley
February Week 2: Beekeeping in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to Present
February Week 3: The Inner Landscape of Beauty with John O'Donohue (podcast)
February Week 4: Hive Art and Beauty
March Week 1: Guide to Swarming (pdf)
March Week 2: Jaqueline Freeman interview with Onyx Baird (video)
March Week 3: Apis Arboreal Salon - Rewilding (podcast)
March Week 4: What Tree Beekeeping Means to Trees and Bees
April Week 1: Nest Scent & Warmth
April Week 2: Sam Comfort Interview - treatment free beekeeping (podcast)
April Week 3: Podcast - Arboreal Apicultural Salon - Rewilding with Michael Thiele
April Week 4: Coming Back to Life - Joanna Macy
May Week 1: Flowers can hear buzzing bees (National Geographic)
May Week 2: The Honey Highway
May Week 3: The Bee and it's Keeper
May Week 4: Waking Our Animal Senses by David Abram
June Week 1: Isis of 10,000 Names - Max Dashu (video lecture)
June Week 2: Honey Bee Brains and Lavender
June Week 3: BBC - Are Lithuanian's Obsessed with Bees?
June 4: Deep Forest Bee Hunting
July Week 1: Trees in the Forest Bees in the Wild
July Week 2: Arboreal Apicultural Salon (podcast): Free-Living Bees
July 3: Powdered Sugar Treatments
July Week 4: Robbing Bees - preparing for Robbing season
August Week 1: Ventilation
August Week 2: History of Mead
August Week 3: Beekeeping in Ancient Greece
August Week 4: Small Gods by Martin Shaw
September Week 1: Collapsing Into The Future's Arms
September Week 2: Apiculture Beyond Bees
September Week 3: Catherine Sieck poem
September Week 4: Winter Feeding
October Week 1: How Irish myth and folklore can inspire women to fight for ecological change - Sharon Blackie
October Week 2: Mead: Customs and Traditions
October Week 3: Overwintering Bees - Corwin Bell
Natural Beekeeping
Introduction to Natural Beekeeping (28:28)
Principals of Natural Beekeeping videos (53:52)
Principals of Natural Beekeeping PDF
Ten Steps to starting a hive PDF
Prep Lists PDFs
Setting Up Your Hive (6:07)
Bee Tea
Feeding Bees (7:04)
How to Catch A Swarm: Video (70 minutes)
How to Approach a Hive (18:04)
Installing a Package of Bees to a TBH (8:53)
Hive Styles
Hive Styles Gallery Overview
Langsroth Hives (28:11)
Warré Hives (18:16)
Top Bar Hives (31:54)
Sourcing Bees
Understanding Swarms (19:51)
Where to Get Bees (23:05)
Practice: Ritually preparing hive and/or painting hive
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