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The High Priestess Tarot Card Meaning
The High Priestess is card II of the Major Arcana. Upright it speaks of intuition, mystery, inner voice; reversed, of secrets withheld, disconnection from intuition. Below — the original 1911 meaning by A. E. Waite, the card's Jungian archetype and its astrological correspondence.
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Upright meaning
“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”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: intuition, mystery, inner voice, subconscious, stillness.
Reversed meaning
“Passion, moral or physical ardour, conceit, surface knowledge”
A. E. WAITE — THE PICTORIAL KEY TO THE TAROT, 1911
Keywords: secrets withheld, disconnection from intuition, surface knowledge.
The archetype
The Anima as inner wisdom — the veiled threshold of the unconscious; intuition that cannot be forced into daylight.
Astrology
Correspondence: Moon.
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