 Hello, beautiful souls. Welcome back to Art of Awakening and this is a really special video. It's been such a long time coming, but the honey bee deck that I've been talking about every once in a while for the past like I think four or five years finally is launching on Kickstarter. It's called the Bee Sisterhood Oracle and it's all about honey bee medicine. This is such a special project in so many ways and it's so aligned with the energy of right now. If you haven't heard the backstory, I'm going to put a link in the description below where you can read all about that, but to sum it up in just a few words, this deck is a labor of love that was created by a group of amazing women, many of them beekeepers and not just any beekeepers but spiritually led beekeepers. Those who are really working with bee spirit and working with the bees themselves to understand nature and spirit at a deeper level in partnership with nature and all of creation. This here is a prototype of the deck and right now we've got the Kickstarter just launched yesterday and we're already at like 25% of our goal, which I feel is like an amazing testament to the power of this deck. There are 48 cards and they each have something to do with an aspect of bees and beekeeping and bee medicine. These are created by a couple of dozen artists who just volunteered their gifts and their time to create this incredible deck. There's all sorts of different art styles but they meld so beautifully and everything about this deck was created by volunteers and the concept behind the deck is that the sales from the proceeds are going to be used to help to support women in need. The whole process of creating this deck was really guided by the bees themselves and I could tell you so many stories about that but I think actually the deck really speaks for itself so I want to show you just the the trailer video for this this deck then I'm going to come back and explain why bees are so important right now as a spirit animal and then I'll do a quick reading probably a three card reading from the deck just to support all of us at this time. Welcome to the hive of the bee sisterhood oracle this enchanting new oracle deck is a collaboration of over two dozen women artists and creatrixes who volunteered their time and talent for this mission driven project. The bee sisterhood oracle deck beautifully blends rustic and refined artistic styles to create a one of a kind spiritual tool. Each card provides practical facts on the lives of the bees as well as intuitive guidance but the bee sisterhood oracle is more than just a deck of cards it was created with a mission and the profits will fund direct financial support to women facing hardship. The sisterhood believes in the power of supporting one another by purchasing this deck you help to cultivate an energizing community where women lift each other up. The cards cover concepts like honeybee society transformation abundance and more you can apply these themes to your own personal journeys. We invite you to support our work at different pledge levels with special rewards like digital downloads guided meditations personalized readings and access to online community events. Will you join the hive and help bring this inspiring vision to life? Support this project reserve your deck today. To reserve a deck then I have put the link to the Kickstarter in the description box but let's talk a little bit about bee spirit right and why bee spirit is coming forward so strongly at this time. This is an incredible time of transformation for the planet for humanity we all know this and there are a couple of spirit animals that are really coming forward very strongly right now one is Mr. Lion here okay and he really symbolizes agency right um individuality the individual self coming into alignment with spirit right and and the ability to really step into your eye right he's about personal responsibility and devotion and service in a way of like bringing your own gifts in your own voice right which is so super important right now but um the bee is the other one that's coming forward really strongly and and the bee is this perfect perfect balance to lion okay because there are so many lessons that bee has to teach us about what it means to work in harmony together as a collective okay so when when enough people have um stepped into their eye their individuality right um their own higher self and have really aligned with that then we're able to step into this beautiful collective space of creation okay now the negative side of bee of course is the hive mind right where we are we're all kind of mindless little drones or or worker bees right working for um you know something that's really wanting to control us or form us right and some of the things that have been happening with bees in the past few years um really relate to that right we all know about the decline of honey bees I feel like because there's they're just kind of reflecting what can happen right when we move into that hive mind when bees are farmed and and and used in ways that are not sustainable and not really respectful of the the the real life cycle the needs of the bees um you know that's what happens we go into decline and this is something that we have to as a collective right now or as individual humans be very very aware of is that there is a um a tendency or a force that's wanting to draw us into that mindless kind of hive mind um you know do as you're told a kind of mentality um but the positive side of the bee is what we're really working with here working with with with this deck and that is where we're working as a collective right and in a very intuitive way you've probably already felt some of this happening yourself where where there are um streams of consciousness on this planet right now that we're attuned to and that we are starting a lot of us we're starting to see movements showing up that are geared towards a more abundance and a more natural way of living and a more harmonious way of living okay so bee stands for that bee the bee spirit animal stands for harmony right amongst all the peoples of the world being able to work together um in in ways that create abundance and sweetness and flow and also it uh the the bee spirit animal really simplifies this mass movements to me and that's something that's really starting to come forward right now so this um I'm gonna end this video with a recurred reading and this is for those people who who feel this connection with abundance this connection with bringing um more sweetness and joy and harmony into the world and especially if you feel drawn towards creating collectives or if there's a movement inside of you whether it's a movement to create more beauty and joy or if you're feeling called as a leader in in these days ahead okay so the first card is symbolizing um what's brought us to this point okay this is meeting flight right so if you are a movement maker if you are a creative visionary right um the the past couple of decades and especially the past few years have given us a lot right it's been a real time of pollination and um the meeting flight is interesting because it's it's it's very intense it's very passionate it also is painful and there's a sacrifice involved right this is the drone and when um when the drone mates with the queen then um he actually dies in the process right so so whatever you've gone through in the past few years whatever dark nights of the soul you've been through um it's not in vain right there's a real purpose behind it and those periods of darkness that we have right those are what fertilize our creative souls in order to rise up like a phoenix right and and create something beautiful out of the darkness right um so this the sacrifice that we all go through um but it's for the purpose of expansion and you know the ultimate evolution and creation um of of of beauty right so you know let's see all these beautiful flowers and flowering that's happening right here okay so these are the energies that are bringing us here the coming together of masculine and feminine as well um those energies when we balance those when we harmonize those within ourselves right you know coming back to that line energy that's part of you know finding our eye finding our sovereignty finding our individuality and it feels like there's a enough people right now a critical mass of people that have obtained this sense of hold is within themselves that we're ready to move forward and really create something amazing um okay so this next card is going to be the energies of right now and that is the now of whenever you are hearing this message this is okay the the card coming up is smoker all right interesting card to come up it's what the beekeeper uses to sedate the bees right so that the honey can be extracted or so that the beekeeper can work with the bees to assist the hive right um and so there's this element of kind of um sedation illusion or it could be a period of going within it could be um a time where you may feel like you are lost in a fog just know that that's okay before as a collective we realize exactly what we need to do right in order to bring forth a society that is free and abundant for everyone there may be a period of confusion or a period where it feels like we can't see through the veil or we feel sleepy or like it's hard to get the energy up okay so the encouragement here is to step back take the bigger picture and take the role of the beekeeper right so that you can see what's actually happening and um that it's also a period of time where it may be there may be a little bit of time right here that we can work and go in and do what we need to do right without fear right because things may start getting riled up in a little bit where it may become a little bit harder but this is the time right now that we can start to extract some of the sweetness right that is the product of um you know the months that have come before and um also a time that we can start to store up things for the future right looking at the honey in the jar okay and so the final card is going to represent outcome of um this whole process and okay the card is skip okay and this a skip is is an ancient um way of keeping bees the modern beehive is actually a box right and it's um it's very efficient right it's it's designed to maximize productivity but it doesn't necessarily align completely with the way that the bees would actually uh you know prefer to live right and so a skip represents kind of moving into a more natural way of life right and look at there's all these different types of skeptics there's a room for some creativity here um in what we create and a skeptic something that was you know created by beekeepers out of natural materials i'm seeing a real kind of all these beautiful muted colors it's not exciting it's not you know brilliant flashing neon lights right um there's no sharp corners so in some ways it represents a a return to a quieter way of life um maybe a way of life that's not so convenient right um there's there's so much in the modern lifestyle it's about convenience but when you add it all together there's so much anxiety around it as well okay so this is about returning to a way of life that's more attuned to the natural rhythms to the natural um ways of being on earth right but maybe not so connected with massive drive towards productivity right it's a little bit more quiet and um a lot more just peaceful right okay so i feel like that is part of what we're working at on right now there's so many beautiful souls that i've been in contact with in the past few months that oh we all have this collective vision and i'm noticing it i'm noticing it in the new age community in the christian community and it doesn't really matter what race you are what religion you are there's this collective vision of a more harmonious life a life that is slower that is um more attuned to family and joy and and connectedness right and i feel like that's the vision that we're all working towards um there's gonna be a lot of confusion around the way right um i think a lot of us feel like okay we're the smoke screen right now but just know that you know we're creating this vision and um and um b is one of these spirit guides that can help us get there so again if you feel drawn to this deck it's just an incredible deck um do check out that Kickstarter and one little secret there's several tiers of giving that you can choose and um the the middle one is the one with the the deck and the most basic but if you go up one or two steps levels from that um there's a really really special perk that's being offered um at the queen b level and above and that is some live events that are going to be held um and that you'll get the chance to interact personally from wherever in the world you are with the b sisters right these are women who are fully steeped in b spirituality and i've been hanging with these women long enough to know that this is going to be a spectacular experience you're not going to want to miss it so look at that queen b level and above and if you can you know if it's within your budget totally go for that you are not going to be disappointed okay so thank you all so much for for watching me for supporting this channel if you feel even a little bit as excited as i do about this deck please do like and share because i feel like the bees have so much to say to humanity to support us through the time it's it's just insane so um do check it out and remember you were born to be free