Your Chosen Card – The High Priestess Reversed Rider Waite 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 cant 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 ones true feelings, ignoring ones intuition, not heeding ones inner voice.
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)
2. The High Priestess: Guardian Of Secret Wisdom
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 Rider Waite 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: Former president Bill Clinton was born on August 19, 1946. Thus, his birth cards are found by adding 8 + 19 + 1946 = 1973, and then reducing 1973: 1 + 9 + 7 + 3 = 20. Clintons personality card is 20, Judgment (XX), and his soul card is 20 reduced: 2 + 0 = 2, the High Priestess (II).
Elements of the Psychic World: Clay models of livers dating from around 2000 BC have been found. They are divided into sections and bear markings and inscriptions. The practice evolved from Babylonian ritual and was handed down to the Greeks and Romans, who employed an official called the haruspex to oversee the ritual. The idea behind the practice was that when an animal, and in some cases a human, was sacrificed to a deity, the god or goddess would absorb the essence of the animal and a link was created back to the priest or priestess. When the animal was opened up they were looking into a gods mind and could therefore interpret the future or answer a question based on the size, shape and appearance of the entrails. Haruspicy is still practised today in areas of Africa, Borneo and Southeast Asia and forms part of
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Elements of the Psychic World: Clay models of livers dating from around 2000 BC have been found. They are divided into sections and bear markings and inscriptions. The practice evolved from Babylonian ritual and was handed down to the Greeks and Romans, who employed an official called the haruspex to oversee the ritual. The idea behind the practice was that when an animal, and in some cases a human, was sacrificed to a deity, the god or goddess would absorb the essence of the animal and a link was created back to the priest or priestess. When the animal was opened up they were looking into a gods mind and could therefore interpret the future or answer a question based on the size, shape and appearance of the entrails. Haruspicy is still practised today in areas of Africa, Borneo and Southeast Asia and forms part of