02-The High Priestess – Reversed Golden Deck

When reversed, the High Priestess warns that important information may be hidden or otherwise obscured from view. Perhaps you feel somehow blocked in accessing your intuition, or you may be choosing to ignore important gut feelings. You can’t quite find your way to the watering hole. Some aspect of the future as yet unrevealed may cause a delay or a change in plans.

Keywords Reversed: Superficial knowledge, escape into fantasy, inconstancy, daydreaming, inaccurate hunches, the spilling of secrets, suppressing one’s true feelings, ignoring one’s intuition, not heeding one’s inner voice.

Key II: The 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)

Mathers: Science, wisdom, knowledge, education; (R) Conceit, ignorance, unskillfulness, superficial knowledge.

When The High Priestess is reversed 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 reversed 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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Here are some snippets from a few of my favorite books

Complete Book of Tarot: The tarot offers a tool for gaining perspective on complicated situations. As you lay out the cards, their images resonate with your question and shed light on the nuances of your circumstances. As you reflect on these images, you can gain clarity into the pros and cons of a decision you need to make. In this sense, reading the tarot is similar to the process of brainstorming, which can generate new ideas and help to solve problems.

Tarot Books

Complete Book of Tarot: The Moon is the queen of the night who reflects the light of the Sun. She is assigned to the High Priestess or Female Pope, trump II. The Moon is a ‘planet’ of moods, emotions, mothering, the unconscious, inner life, cycles, water (the tides), and travel.

Reversed Cards: Here in the protection aspect, the High Priestess is protecting you from pieces of yourself, pieces of your soul that you are just not ready to deal with and own. But what gives her the right to do so? Good question. In healing work there is a method known to many shamans as soul retrieval. This is where you retrieve pieces of your shattered self from other pockets of time and space and bring them back to the present moment to heal your current self. Sometimes we are not ready to own those pieces or deal with the pain and trauma that created them to be fragmented in the first place. The High Priestess is not so much protecting you from the piece, just its story—the knowledge of the pain and soul lesson behind the trauma. When you see her in this aspect, she is lovingly saying, ‘You are not ready.’ Here in the protection aspect, the High Priestess holds that line between empowered healing and self-harm. She is your first line of defense against yourself. For that, we honor her when she shows herself in the protection aspect.

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Reversed Cards: Here in the protection aspect, the High Priestess is protecting you from pieces of yourself, pieces of your soul that you are just not ready to deal with and own. But what gives her the right to do so? Good question. In healing work there is a method known to many shamans as soul retrieval. This is where you retrieve pieces of your shattered self from other pockets of time and space and bring them back to the present moment to heal your current self. Sometimes we are not ready to own those pieces or deal with the pain and trauma that created them to be fragmented in the first place. The High Priestess is not so much protecting you from the piece, just its story—the knowledge of the pain and soul lesson behind the trauma. When you see her in this aspect, she is lovingly saying, ‘You are not ready.’ Here in the protection aspect, the High Priestess holds that line between empowered healing and self-harm. She is your first line of defense against yourself. For that, we honor her when she shows herself in the protection aspect.