𝙴𝚍𝚐𝚊𝚛 𝙰𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚘𝚎, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚛 (𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝟷𝟾𝟹𝟷)

“October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows.”

Joy Fielding

“The air of October is sweet and cold as the wine of apples,”

Edgar Lee Masters, from Songs & Satires (1916); “Johnny Appleseed”

“If we look to myth, the bee is the ritual creature of a host of lordly ones. To anyone capable of suspending for a moment the cavortings of the rational mind, of accepting myth for what it is — not a story or a lie or a corruption of the facts, but the very essence of truth — it should need no great inward effort to access their significance.” His eyes bore into me, testing to see if I had yet understood. Then he spoke again, very slowly: “It is a matter, merely, of listening.”

The Shamanic Way of the Bee, Simon Buxton