Monday (08/09/14) – The High Priestess - In times of existential crisis, doubts, obscuration and sudden fears, we must turn back to our inner selves and seek clarity, as well as the apprehension of these states, through a direct contact with the Essence that we are. Only then will we be able to handle and resolve such setbacks. Thus, we get The High Priestess. - Once we have an idea, we also have decisions to make. The High Priestess holds scrolls of arcane information in her arms. In addition, the moon crown on her head indicates her willingness to illuminate what we otherwise might not see about a job possibility, an investment, love, career, family, etc. But we need some alone time, some quiet time to meditate and reflect. This is what this card is all about. Seated between two pillars as between two choices, the High Priestess is not about making a decision so much as holding decision-making at bay, while we take time to listen to our inner voice. She wants us to gain knowingness before we act: intuitive knowledge, supernatural knowledge, secret knowledge, self-knowingness, and the like. The High Priestess, however, goes beyond even that for those who seek more. Behind her throne is the curtain that leads to the deepest, most esoteric knowledge. She is allowed to move from one realm to another (from the subtler to the denser). If there is a card that symbolizes the tarot reader, it is the High Priestess – a woman (or man) with psychic powers, intuition and secret knowledge. She is not only the complement to the Magician, but to two other major arcana. She is the counterpoint to the Hierophant, maintaining secret traditions and rites passed from seer to successor rather than advocating community traditions. And she is the natural moonlight to the Hermits manmade lantern, equally solitary and of the night, but acting as a restful librarian rather than a restless seeker. If we feel the High Priestess stands for us, then this is a time of solitary investigation for us, or perhaps just a time to trust our intuition. Things kept secret will be revealed either passed on to us by another or else coming to us psychically, by way of visions or powerful insights. Standing for someone other than us, the High Priestess is usually associated to a spiritual woman or medium, a teacher of old knowledge, librarian or just a reclusive relative who knows many family secrets. She may come across as cold, unpredictable and scary, but her instincts and insights will be uncanny. The High Priestess not only offers illumination, revealing secret paths and hidden dangers, but also a still, quiet place between the pillars of dark and light, existence and negation, wax and wane, where one can pause, see, feel and reflect on what they really want to do with their ideas (desires) - J. M.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:49:44 +0000
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