Bee

Kristoffer Hughes leads the Anglesey Druid Order and writes Welsh Druidry's living tradition; Nadia Turner draws; and their 2024 Bee Tarot rides the oldest partnership in agriculture: bees beside humanity from the hunter-gatherers onward, as the review's deep-time framing has it. The deck reads the hive into the arcana, pollination, colony, queen and swarm as symbolic machinery, with the environmental undertone every bee project now carries: the partner species in peril. Hughes's authorship connects it to this catalog's Druid shelf, though the register here is ecological-devotional rather than ceremonial. Bee symbolism is genuinely ancient divinatory material, Delphi's priestesses were bees, Welsh law protected hives, so the theme has deeper roots than trend. It suits beekeepers and their admirers, Druids of the Hughes lineage, ecological readers, and anyone whose spirituality includes the food supply. Wasp-hearted cynics may buzz off to a sting-themed shelf that does not exist yet.