Every good story has a rite of passage. A dark night of the soul. Uncharted waters. The descent into the Underworld. The fall. The path that disappears into the woods. Persephone knows all about it. So does Eve. Isis. Princess Leia. Atreyu. Durga. Frodo. Rapunzel. And Aphrodite, but she’ll never tell. ⠀

If you’ve stumbled into a good one, there’s often a guide. A trickster. An old woman. A star. A raven. A ragged dog. A swarm of bees.

Feminist BeekeepingAri DalyMarch 27, 2020myth, greekmythology, story, feministbeekeepingComment

How to Keep Bees

How to keep bees:⠀

* Flirt with the sea⠀

You are the Bridge

Where did it begin? This love affair? This obsession? This reverence? Was it in our prehistoric ancestors, with fire in their hands, climbing the highest of heights to gain your nectar? Was it in the way your honey and pollen aided in the development of our ancient brains?

honey bees, sacred, Sacred FeminineAri DalyJanuary 25, 2020beekeeping, beekeepinghistory, science, religion, feministbeekeepingComment

Dismantling the Inner Patriarch

I couldn’t bring myself to write a Friday post ON Friday because I was in the middle of my own maelstrom of self-doubt. On Friday I flew to LA for the most incredible opportunity to speak at the Natural Beekeeping Conference.

Nature, travel, Feminist BeekeepingAri DalyJanuary 17, 2020feministbeekeeping, patriarchy, intuitionComment

Respecting the Sovereignty of a Body

Happy Friday the 13th, a day long associated with women’s bodies and women’s cycles. Did you know that a woman has her moon cycle about 13 times a year?

feminine, Nature, sacred, Women's HealthAri DalyDecember 13, 2019feministbeekeeping, listentothebody, fridaythe13th, women Comment

Thank You For Loving

🧡 To all the women out there who do and do and do. Who are the mistresses of the hive, tending to the young, the honey chambers, the fields of plenty and the fields of lack, thank you.⠀
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feminineAri DalyNovember 29, 2019feministbeekeeping, womenlove, beewisdom, thankyouComment

Witches? Why, Thank You.

I don’t speak on Halloween. I don't write. I honour my ancestors. It’s an exercise in liminality. I’ve been doing this since I was 15. Last night, a group of female friends and I decided to dress up all in white, paint our faces white, and pass candy out to kids.

feminine, Sacred FeminineAri DalyNovember 1, 2019witches, feministbeekeeping, samhain, wisewoman, ancestors, liminal, allhallowseveComment

Untangling the Narrative

Yesterday I had another rude awakening in the long journey of untangling the poisoned threads of Patriarchy. Before I go any further, let’s establish once more that Patriarchy is a well-fed idea, whose systemic markers are expressing themselves within all of us. Dismantling the Patriarchy requires and inward gaze, as well as a recognition of its expression in society, infrastructure, classism, racism, and sexism.⠀

Forward ho! So, I have an Instagram bookclub (#honeyreads) where I recommend books on bees, ecology, and the feminine. This month I recommended Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner's lectures on bees. I was vaguely aware of his racism, but felt his view on bees worthy of sharing.

Feminist BeekeepingAri DalyAugust 9, 2019patriarchy, feminism, feministbeekeeping Comment

The Face of the Hive

You know how you learn to read your dog? Her expressions of love, worry, silliness and eagerness? Or how your cat does that one tail flick when he’s proud of himself?

What happens when you can’t see the face or hear the meow? Bees, as individuals, have faces, but what is the “face” of the colony? A colony, after all, is an organism. A whole that is the sum of many parts.⠀⠀

feminine, natural beekeepingAri DalyAugust 3, 2019feministbeekeeping, hive, beecolony, superorganismComment

Male Beekeepers as Allies

How Male Beekeepers Can Be Allies For The Female Beekeepers In Their Lives:

Ari DalyAugust 6, 2018feministbeekeeping, feminist, men, women, support, beekeeping, changing the narrativeComment