creatures, instincts
Dreaming of bee
Read two ways. Let them disagree, the truth often sits between.
Artemidorus · Oneirocritica
Drawn up, it speaks of For farmers and all who live by steady labor, bees are excellent, honey found foretells profit gathered from patient work.
Drawn down, it warns of For others the swarm predicts crowds and trouble, and stings signify injuries from the many, or from those set above the dreamer.
Jungian · the collective unconscious
Drawn up, it speaks of Bees are the industrious community of the psyche, many small selves working one comb, sweetness made slowly from a thousand ordinary flights. A working hive means your daily labor and your inner life have found the same flower.
Drawn down, it warns of A swarm, or the drone of bees you cannot see, is busyness become a hive-mind, the collective's buzzing drowning your one voice. Ask which of the thousand tasks is actually yours.
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