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Your Chosen Card – The High Priestess Upright Golden Deck

When upright, the High Priestess represents feminine intuition and empathic sensitivity. She gives you access to hidden knowledge (symbolized by the body of water on the card), and she encourages balanced judgment through intuitive awareness. Now is the time to quiet your mind and open yourself to the inner wisdom that lies within. Pay special attention to your dreams and intuitive hunches. In this way, you can gain access to something unrevealed or not yet known about your future plans. In the words of Einstein: ‘But there is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance, and this Einfühlung is developed by experience.’ 36

Keywords Upright: Secrets, the future not yet known, the revelation of hidden matters, spiritual wisdom, occult knowledge, intuitive awareness, lunar consciousness, ones inner voice, sacred space, listening to ones dreams, extraordinary knowing, lifting the veil, walking to the watering hole, seeing beneath the surface, the seed of an idea, mystery, fluctuation, psychic intuition, piercing the veil of the unconscious; a woman who interests the querent.

Key II: The High Priestess (Female Pope)
Myths/Archetypes: Persephone. Cassandra. Pope Joan. The Virgin Mary. Sor Juana. Matris Spirituale. The Oracle at Delphi. Gestation in the womb.
Astrology: the Moon (ruler of the Water sign Cancer, the Crab)
Numerology: 2 (High Priestess) ~ 1 + 1 (Justice or Strength) ~ 2 + 0 (Judgment)

Golden Dawn: Change, fluctuation, alteration (meanings derived from the shifting phases of the watery moon).

When The High Priestess is upright you can pretty much take it that life is going well but that’s when life takes us by surprise. If The High Priestess is unclear it may help to choose a card from the Major Arcana to provide more insight into what it is The High Priestess is trying to tell you. If you had a particular issue in mind, or want to seek clarification on something else, you can also choose again to get more guidance.

This chosen card is part of your upright card reading for The High Priestess using cards from the Golden Tarot Deck. You will find many more tarot pages that will be of great help if you need tarot card meanings. Use the search at the bottom of the page. We have some amazing tarot books for you to browse. Please see below.

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Complete Book of Tarot: Finally, I should mention that for many contemporary tarot readers, the High Priestess is a symbol of the wisdom of the tarot. Originally called the Female Pope (La Papessa), this priestess represents an unorthodox, nonpatriarchal approach to knowing. In the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, she sits in front of a body of water, signifying our emotions and the unconscious. Behind her stretches a veil that obscures the entryway to the inner world of hidden knowledge. Either side of the priestess stand light and dark pillars, suggesting that she can help us to reconcile apparently conflicting dualities. As an unorthodox wisdom figure, La Papessa offers us access to extraordinary ways of knowing, including the various occult and esoteric sciences. Her astrological symbol is the Moon, a feminine planet linked to cycles, sleep, dreams, intuition, goddesses, spellcasting, shapeshifting, and ceremonial magic.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: Golden Dawn: Faith, hope, help coming from unexpected sources; when ill-dignified, false hopes, dreaminess.

Complete Book of Tarot: Pages, portrayed as standing rather than sitting on thrones or in vehicles or riding horses, have no zodiacal attribution. They represent the element Earth (final Heh). Pages are novices, youthful and inexperienced students. According to the Golden Dawn, the Pages (Princesses) rule the four quarters of the heavens around the North Pole, above the respective Kerubic signs of the zodiac, and they form the Thrones of the Powers of the four Aces. 45 The earthy Pages exemplify the Jungian function of sensation.

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