Bees are significant symbols of wisdom, fertility, and the sacred feminine. The geometric design of their honeycomb reflects the fabric of the universe, just like the dress or “veil” of the ancient Egyptian goddess, Neith. Images of Neith in a dress show a beehive pattern—the foundation of the sacred interconnected geometric symbol, Flower of Life. Also spelled Nit, Net, or Neit, she is the first and prime creator of the universe and great mother of the sun. Emerging from pre-dynastic times, Neith’s temple in the Nile Delta at Sais was called “The House of the Bee”, and it was said that she wove the world into being on her loom. All vibrating patterns of life and breath are fractally connected to the finely woven fabric of her womb. 

Later determined to be a goddess of war and hunting, Neith’s symbol consists of two crossed arrows over a shield. Arrows are ancient symbols of rays or bursts of light emerging from stars or suns. It is from these arrows of light that incredible sacred geometric patterns that give birth to our conscious awareness are formed throughout the heavens. Neith’s arrows have a profound significance because the crossing of any two lines creates a portal between two opposing fields of energy. French Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz introduced a concept that he called “the principle of the crossing”. According to Robert Lawlor’s foreward in Schwaller de Lubicz’s book, The Temple in Man, “This crossing was not a sterile, mental, numerical manipulation, but a symbol for the process by which things enter into corporeal existence. All birth into nature requires a crossing of opposites. It can be a crossing of vertical and horizontal lines which give birth to the square, the first measurable surface; or male and female giving birth to a new individual; or warp and weft creating a fabric; or light and darkness giving birth to tangible forms; or matter and spirit giving birth to life itself.”

Honeybees orient to the Earth’s magnetic field. They contain magnetite—ferromagnetic crystals—in the front of their abdomens that enable them to detect magnetic fields. It also helps them to regulate their internal clocks and to guide them as they build combs within the hive. It has been suggested that the queen bee harnesses the magnetic field to promote a harmonic and unified communal effort to create and maintain her domain and its inhabitants. Much like a queen bee, Neith is the “Queen of the Heavens”—she provides a safe haven for seeds of consciousness to be birthed into the rhythmic dance of life. 

The Eye of Horus (a symbol representing protection, health, and restoration) can visualize and experience the splendor of universal oneness that is often described by those who have worked with plant medicines and/or have had near-death or astral experiences. It is a moment of complete unity with the Source, and awakening from such an experience will ultimately transform the participant forever. Those that earn the sharp eye of the hawk also gain its incredible powers of vision, and the ability to feel. When this happens, they can navigate currents to create an environment of resonant and harmonic balance, much like the worker bees who can feel their queen’s breath of love and light waves. 

Relating to her function as a spinner and weaver of destiny, Neith was also associated with spiders. In this sense, she can be equated with the Babylonian, Ishtar, and the Greek goddess, Arachne, later known as Minerva by the Romans. The Hopi and Navajo portrayed the Spider Grandmother in this role as a creative force of nature. In the Hopi creation myth, Spider Grandmother KokyAngwuti imagines the world into existence through the conscious weaving of her webs.

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” — Chief Seattle, 1854

Proclus (412–485 AD), a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, wrote that the innermost sanctum of the temple of Neith—her cult center in Sais of which nothing now remains—carried the following inscription: “I am the things that are, that will be, and that have been. No one has ever laid open the garment by which I am concealed. The fruit which I brought forth was the sun.” Neith weaves the ultimate fractal and holographic pattern of all life as an incredible exhalation and inhalation of a breath of divine light. It can’t be any other way. Time is the illusion. How we experience it is always of our own choosing, and the cycles will play themselves out despite those choices. Learn how to navigate the currents of Neith’s hive, and you can achieve harmonic and resonant bliss in any given moment.