Your Chosen Card – The High Priestess Upright Rider Waite 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)
Rider Waite: Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the querent if male; the querent herself if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science; (R) passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge.
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 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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Portable Magic: composed of the repeated suit symbol. The scenes on the number tarot cards in a modern deck such as the Rider Waite Tarot express, in a dramatic visual way, the meanings of the tarot cards according to the personal interpretation of the deck designer. It is regrettable that many who use modern decks mistake these interpretive scenes for the primary meanings of the numbered suit tarot cards, rather than basing their understanding on the numbers themselves.
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: Traditionally a coven kept only one Book of Shadows, kept safe by the high priestess or priest. But today individual witches have their personal Books of Shadows in the form of diaries or notebooks, often now on hard drive and disk.
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Elements of the Psychic World: Traditionally a coven kept only one Book of Shadows, kept safe by the high priestess or priest. But today individual witches have their personal Books of Shadows in the form of diaries or notebooks, often now on hard drive and disk.