Beginning the Journey: A Sacred Start to Natural Beekeeping

Feeling called to keep bees? Begin your sacred beekeeping journey with these 10 grounded, beginner-friendly steps rooted in ecological care, animism, and natural hive wisdom.

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The Spirit of the Beloved

Dreaming

Early Spring To Do List for Beekeepers

Natural Beekeeping

Let Yourself Be Honey-Tongued

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Welcome to Ariella's Blog

My work is varied and brings many threads of interest together.  Here you will find musings, essays, and thoughts on dreamwork, bees, nature, the feminine, and occasionally travel.

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Ariella Daly in a lavender field in France, wearing a blue dress with a red belt

Love as a Living Presence I remember the first time I encountered the Spirit Beloved beyond human form. I was 16 and heading to school on an early, misty morning. Alone on the street in the dawn light, I encountered a majestic stag. We stood there, facing one another, a few yards apart, and in […]

The Spirit of the Beloved

Dreaming

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Dawn light on the hives. Mid January is when I start gearing up for bee season in Northern California. The magnolias are in bloom and we are only a few weeks away from the plum tree blossoms. It’s a good time for making lists.

Early Spring To Do List for Beekeepers

Natural Beekeeping

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I’ve dedicated my life to women’s rights and empowerment. I’m devoted to finding and remembering when women held roles of sacred office and the earth was revered as Mother. I research ancient cultures in my spare time, scribbling notes in the margins of every book, searching for what might be hidden in plain sight. So […]

What bees have taught me about Feminism

Feminist Beekeeping

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There is poetry in all things if you look for it. Language, and how we speak about a thing, carries incredible power. Language shapes our world view. It shapes our understanding and our relating.

Let Yourself Be Honey-Tongued

honey bees

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It’s Valentine’s Day. Oh, excuse me, the nymphs of the woods and springs want me to amend that: it’s another Spring Fertility Festival! Yay! What, you say? Spring Fertility? Yes. The bees, myself, and the historical record all agree that that long before the Christianization of this day, the festivities of love and fertility were celebrated on the streets of Rome as the 3 day festival of Lupercalia.

Saint Valentine of the Bees

Lore

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This is me, about to shimmy through a hole in a rock, on a cold winter day in Cornwall. It was 2019, and I was with a group of friends visiting some of the ancient megaliths and sacred sites of Cornwall, England. I’d spent the greater part of the last decade grieving a lost pregnancy, […]

The Ancestral Mothers

Sacred Feminine

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Have you ever have a dream about someone you know, and feel sure it is some sort of premonition? There is an ethics in dream seership, which we often overlook. When we see something that may occur in the future, it can be tempting to run to the person and tell them.

Ethics of Dream Sharing

Dreaming

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I’ve just gotten off a call with a friend, and we were talking about the difference between sexual energy and eros.  I was struck by how much I feel the bee and the flower represent the essence of eros.  It is something that is both intangible, and all around us.  Yes, it can include sexual […]

The Bee Kisses the Flower

Nature Magic

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In February, I had the tremendously rich experience of teaching Apis Sophia Exstasis in my home state, after 3 years of teaching the same body of work in France.  Under a constant deluge of wet weather, a group of us gathered in the Mendocino oak savannah to experience what I now regard as six days of ceremony.  It was utter magic.

 

The Ceremony of our Lives

Sacred Feminine

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Check out my podast interviews.

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Some of my personal faves include interviews on Belonging with Amber Magnolia Hill, Unbranded with Suzy Dean, and The Revelation Podcast with Monica Rogers.

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