Bee Dream Interpretation: Insights from 13 Unique Sources

To dream of bees making honey offers the encouraging prospect of potential happiness and success in waking life. The sweetness of honey has long been identified with visions of happiness and well-being; in classical myth, honey was the food of the gods, and milk and honey flows in the Promised Land of the Old Testament. However, to kill or injure a bee in your dream indicates the loss of something important to you. To dream of a queen bee refers to your need to feel, or be, superior in some way; it might also mean that at some level you are aware of the need for hard work and industry. Spiritually, the bee symbolizes immortality, rebirth and order.

Stinging you: An unpleasant experience that literally left a “stinger” behind, often of an emotional nature.

At the hive: Community and socialization; knowing your place and function within a specific group; harmonious teamwork.

Flying from flower to flower: Gathering life’s nectar, enjoying sweetness wherever it may be found. Alternatively, a fickle nature.

Buzzing: A message; the ancients felt that bees carried missives direct from the gods themselves.

The priestesses of Delphi were called “Melissae,” which means bees, and they were often given honey cakes as an offering in payment for their visionary talents.

Hornet s nest: Trouble just waiting to happen. Don’t aggravate this situation or you will get stung.

In China, dreaming of a bee swarm is a lucky omen.

A ghostly visitor. Both Pliny and Aristotle believed that good souls could reincarnate as a bee.

The spirit of the Muse. In Greece, eloquent people were believed to have been touched on the lips by the Birds of the Muses (bees), including Sophocles, Plato, and Virgil.

Flying down a chimney—omen of death of figurative or literal nature.

In medieval Bestiaries, an emblem of honor.

In the Koran, the symbol of faithfulness, intelligence, and wisdom.

Folkloric: A portent of forthcoming profits, especially in your trade.

Queen bees represent the ancient Mother Goddess, and as such can symbolize your own mother, your maternal instincts, or your feminine nature.

To dream that they make their honey in the house signifies dignity, eloquence and success to the occupants.

To be stung by a bee denotes vexation and trouble.

To take bees augurs profit.

A dream of bees is auspicious to plowmen and to thosei profiting from this industry, to others this dream signifies trouble by reason of the noise bees make, wounds by reason of their sting, and sickness by reason of their honey and wax. Jupiter is said to have been nourished by bees, and in his infancy Pindar was supposedly fed on honey instead of milk. They were sacred to Artemis and they appear on her statues and on her coins; Mahomet admits bees to Paradise. In modern Christian art they symbolize industry.

Vision: Seeing a bee: a challenge to practice good habits and work hard. Watching a bee collecting honey: a deeper, more positive bond in your love relationship. Watching many bees flying about: you will be productive, work hard, and can look forward to a good harvest. Getting stung by a bee: great changes are in store (marriage, change in job, or residence, etc.).

See Bumblebee.

Depth Psychology: The bee symbolizes hard work, endurance, love of order, but also social engagement and the ability to adapt to others. Are you yourself a “busy bee”?

Honey.

The medicine that bees offer as a totem connects to this precise, organized structure that they create combined with the effort they expend in creating something so profoundly sweet. When the bee appears in your dream, you are being asked to deepen your willingness to work in a structured manner in order to create enormous levels of abundance and prosperity.

To be stung by a bee is a warning of the possibility of hurt. Being attacked by a swarm indicates we are creating a situation which may become uncontrollable.

2- To dream of a queen bee registers our need to feel, or be, superior in some way. We may possibly feel the need to be served in our chosen purpose by others. We are also aware of the need for hard work and industry.

3- The bee symbolises immortality; rebirth and order.

A bee also points to honey, as sweet nutritious food (and the slang expression for a girl or boy friend). Do you need to do something nice for yourself? Being threatened by a bee means tension in your life (you are asked to conform to society); also, it often refers to problems with teamwork.

Astrology: The sign of Virgo.

The honey they create is a sweet nectar, which suggests that they bring sweetness to life. As the insignia for the royal lineage of the Merovingians, the magician kings, bees are associated with true royalty.

A bee may arrive in a dream simply to say, “Let it be,” or “Just be. and stop doing.”

If you dream of being stung by a bee, a group of people is making you uncomfortable in real life.

If the bees fly away, you will be rid of your worries.

To be stung by a bee means you will be severely reprimanded.