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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 ...
The Major Arcana are the named cards in a cartomantic tarot pack. There are usually 22 such cards in a standard 78-card pack, typically numbered from 0 to 21 (or 1 to 21, with the Fool being left unnumbered). Although the cards correspond to the trump cards of a pack used for playing tarot card game, [1] the term 'Major Arcana' is rarely used ...
II. The High Priestess 8. Etteilla /Female questioner II. The Gate of the Sanctuary (of the occult Sanctuary) 2. The Priestess II. The High Priestess II. The High Priestess II. The Priestess III. The Empress III. The Queen 6. Night /Day III. Isis-Urania 3. The Empress III. The Empress III. The Empress III. The Empress IV. The Emperor IV. The ...
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 Magician (I), also known as The Magus or The Juggler, is the first trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional tarot decks. It is used in game playing and divination. Within the card game context, the equivalent is the Pagat which is the lowest trump card, also known as the atouts or honours. In the occult context, the trump cards are ...
The essential features of the design for The Emperor card have changed very little through the centuries. The Emperor sometimes got caught up in the censorship placed on the Popess (The High Priestess) and the Pope (The Hierophant), as when the Bolognese card makers replaced the Popess (High Priestess), Pope (Hierophant), Empress, and Emperor with four Moors or Turks.
The High Priestess Keywords. Intuition, mystery, inner knowing, gut instincts, subconscious, secrets, divine feminine, higher power, inner voice, trust, psychic ...
According to Waite's 1910 book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, The Empress is the inferior (as opposed to nature's superior) Garden of Eden, the "Earthly Paradise".Waite defines her as a Refugium Peccatorum — a fruitful mother of thousands: "she is above all things universal fecundity and the outer sense of the Word, the repository of all things nurturing and sustaining, and of feeding others."