Due to their work producing honey, bees have symbolized values such as laboriousness and wealth since ancient Egypt. Bees in dreams are often a sign of prosperity.
If dreaming they are making honey or collecting pollen, chances are you will have material success in the short term. Networking and teamwork will be beneficial and profitable to you. Laborious bees in dreams could also be a reference to your current working pace; perhaps you are not getting satisfactory outcome for the time and energy invested. On the other hand, to see bees in a flower announces a new love will come into your life.
Dreaming of bees is considered a positive omen of health, strength, wealth, and prosperity. Usually, one single bee promises engagements and children; many, favorable business; if they are working, good hopes, and if they are swarming, abundant profits. However, not all dreams related to bees are positive.
If you dream that they sting you, you could be subject to libel; whereas, if you dream of killing a bee, you will be unable to avoid ruin. A widespread popular superstition recommends you never chase away the bees but rather leave the windows open so they come inside. This way, you will be safe from enemies.
[1]In a dream, bees represent prosperity, or a dangerous adventure. Seeing a beehive and extracting honey from it in a dream means earning lawful money. Taking all the honey from the beehive and leaving nothing for the bees in a dream means being unjust.
If bees sit over one’s head in a dream, it means winning the presidency over people.
If bees sit in someone’s hands in a dream, they mean a good crop for a farmer, while for someone else, they means a fight. Bees in a dream also represent an army. Killing bees in a dream means obliterating one’s enemy. Bees in a dream also represent scholars, knowledge compilers, striving hard or collecting taxes. Bees in a dream also represent a bread winner who is a hard working person, stern and sometime dangerous, though he does bring some benefits to his companions.
A bee sting in a dream means harm driven by a group ofadversaries. Bees in a dream also mean taking a beating or falling sick. Bees in a dream also represent the army of believers, while locusts represent the army of disbelievers.
A bee in a dream also represents a seer.
(See Also: Beehive)
[2]To dream of bees is good and bed: good, if they sting not; but bod, if they sting the party dreaming, for then they signify enemies. And therefore to dream that bees fly about your ears, show» your being beset with many enemies; but il you beat them off without being stung by them, it is a sign of victory and of your overcoming them.
To dream of seeing bees, signifies profit to country people, and trouble to the rich; yet to dream that they make their honey in any part of a house or tenement, signifies to the occupier dignity, eloquence, and good success in business. But to dream you are stung by a bee signifies vexation and trouble.
To take bees signifies profit and gain.
To dream of bees is good to ploughmen, and to such as thereby get profit To others they signify trouble by reason of the noise they make; and wounds by reason of their sting, and sickness by reason of their honey and wax.
[3]Bees have a rich symbolic tradition out of proportion to their small size. Positively, they have been used to represent diligence, hard work, and organization. Less positively, they have been deployed as a symbol of conformity and mass action. Bees or honey in dreams sometimes carry connotations found in common metaphors, such as “busy as a bee,” “flitting from flower to flower,” a “drone,” and “you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.” Some people fear bees because of their sting.
As with all dream symbols, the tone and setting of the dream indicate which interpretation is appropriate.
[4]Consider the details of this dream, as well as your emotional reactions in it, as bees can have a variety of different connotations.
The positive symbolism is that of a person that is hard-working, has good organization skills, and is cooperative and creative.
The negative symbolism could be that of a follower, a busybody and of someone that stings.
If you are working on a project in which many people need to work together to accomplish a goal, this may be a topic for some of your dreams.
[5]If industrious bee flies into your dreams then there are busy times ahead. You may already be in the thick of it, but don’t try and do it all yourself. Whatever you want to achieve, you’ll need to work as a team to get there. The ancients thought of the bee as a representation of the Sun and associated it with light and warmth. Whether you see a swarm of bees, have one land on you, or hold one in your hands, you’re being given the gift of happiness and friendship.
[6]Bees signify pleasant and profitable engagements.
For an officer, it brings obedient subjects and healthful environments.
To a preacher, many new members and a praying congregation.
To business men, increase in trade.
To parents, much pleasure from dutiful children.
If one stings, loss or injury will bear upon you from a friendly source.
[7]These busy creatures are a forerunner of great good fortune in business matters, even if they stung you.
However, if they were dead, listless, or you killed them, you could suffer a loss by putting too much trust in “friends.
” If you heard the bees buzzing, expect good news.
[8]A dream about bees signifies good fortune, peace and contentment. Bees also represent industriousness (as in the saying ‘busy as a bee’).
To dream of being stung by a bee indicates a sudden setback, and that you will encounter major problems and be scolded.
[9]Seeing bees in your dream is much the same as the beehive with a small variation: Bees are a lucky dream and augers much good to the dreamer in all his endeavors, unless, the bees sting the dreamer in which case bad luck may dog your steps for a while.
[10]1. Industry and profit.
2. Obsession, sometimes distracting from important issues.
3. Bad luck, vulnerability (to be stung). Possible or potentially dangerous situation (a swarm). Happiness and a satisfying love life.
[11]Dreams of bees represent industriousness, -sacrifice, fertility, and pregnancy.
If you dream of a Queen Bee, then this represents power and matriarchy, and that perhaps you are afraid someone’s temper will sting you.
[12]Bees are ft lucky dream if one is not stung by them. They are an augury of pleasant occupations, and of new and profitable responsibilities.
[13]This is a good omen unless they sting you in your dream. They concern business matters, however, not love or friendship.
[14]1. Biting words, Psalm. 118:12
2. Wordplay “Busy as a bee”
3. Demonic attack; Deut. 1:44
[15]Bees buzzing around signify an increase in business, profits in small amounts.
See Also: insects.
[16]To dream they sting you, denotes loss of good character; and if you are in love, of your sweetheart. To dream you see them at work, is a very lucky dream it forebodes great success by your own industry. To dream you see them mtiking their honey under your own roof, is the best omen in the world. For the rich to dream of bees •is rather unlucky; but to the poor they denote comfort, affluence and success.
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being attacked by: you are too busy and over-committed to drudgery work.
bumblebees flying around: too distracted with unimportant matters.
flying in the evening: you wil receive a wel -publicized profit.
honey in your own tree or shed, making: enemies wil be overcome with sweetness.
own property, on: enjoy the source of your success in business.
top of your house, on: you wil be unlucky from a sticky situation.
house, coming into your: enemies wil damage your reputation.
killing: you wil be ruined for having destroyed the wrong perpetrator.
many: stay surrounded by your own kind.
honey, with: wil accumulate money and those who want yours.
morning, in the: diligence, organization and being there first lead to success.
noon, at: good earnings attained through shocking news.
queen: enemies want to hurt you.
stung by: beware of letting minor stinging thoughts control you.
not being: a minor difference of opinion, a confusion of activity.
swarms, in: mass power with individual weakness lead to a profitable undertaking.
being stung by a, of: beware of your enemies interfering in your close affections.
wax: smoothing over the pain of some internal want.
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