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The High Priestess (II) is the second Major Arcana card in cartomantic Tarot decks. It is based on the 2nd trump of Tarot card packs. In the first Tarot pack with inscriptions, the 18th-century woodcut Tarot de Marseilles, this figure is crowned with the Papal tiara and labelled La Papesse, the Popess, a possible reference to the legend of Pope ...
If you pull the High Priestess tarot card in a reading, here's what it means, including the upright and reversed interpretations as well as some keywords.
The society subsequently published Dictionnaire synonimique du livre de Thot, a book that "systematically tabulated all the possible meanings which each card could bear, when upright and reversed." [25] Following Etteilla, tarot cartomancy was moved forward by Marie-Anne Adelaid Lenormand (1768–1830) and others. [2]
He is an exoteric figure, in contrast to the esoteric symbolism of The High Priestess. [2] Reversed, the Hierophant can be interpreted as standing for unorthodoxy, originality, and gullibility. [7] According to A.E. Waite's 1910 book Pictorial Key to the Tarot, the Hierophant card carries several divinatory associations: 5.
If ever a tarot card represented a classic Cancerian mood then it’s The High Priestess. Passive, knowing, internally focused, psychic, wise, but set to "thermostat" mode (i.e. you’re not ...
The High Priestess card aligns perfectly with your Piscean nature, representing intuition, dreams, and the subconscious. It encourages us to trust our instincts and embrace the mysteries within.
Tarot historian Michael Dummett similarly critiqued occultist uses throughout his various works, remarking that "the history of the esoteric use of Tarot cards is an oscillation between the two poles of vulgar fortune telling and high magic; though the fence between them may have collapsed in places, the story cannot be understood if we fail to ...
Thoth Tarot is an esoteric tarot deck painted by Lady Frieda Harris according to instructions from Aleister Crowley. Crowley referred to this deck as The Book of Thoth , and also wrote a 1944 book of that title intended for use with the deck.