posted February 04, 2015 04:05 PM
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Originally posted by Spritualjourney:
Yes, I'm a woman 
Follow your intuition by all means. You will uncover secrets. your unconscious and conscious mind are aligning. Study and apply sacred femininity. Listen, observe, mditate, spend time in total silence.
Number: 2
Card Title: The High Priestess
Esoteric Title: The Princess of the Silver Star
Astrological Atttribution: Moon
Elemental Attribution: Water (cold, wet)
Dates & Timing: 28 Days
Hebrew Letter: Gimel Camel 3
Color: Blue
Intelligence: Uniting Intelligence
Esoteric Function: Peace & War
Qabalistic Path: Path 13: 1 Kether to 6 Tipareth
Translation of Path: The Crown of Beauty
Keywords: Intuitive, Deep, Secretive, keeper for hidden sacred knowledge. Related to the Moon. Keep your own council.Ill-Dignified: Shallow, Superficial, Manipulative, Moody, Unapproachable, selfish, secretive, seduction, Controlling, Conceit, Ruthless, Jealousy, Hostile, Ignorance, Shortsightedness, Acceptance of Superficial Knowledge, Improper judgment.
Interpretation: Go inside for hidden Power. All you need is within your self. Little tolerance for being limited. Decision is required. Much depth. Use intuition and get spiritual inspiration. Select time for confidences carefully. Past knowledge. Strong creative urge. Mirror like Replication, Guards the Temple of Final Knowledge. Be aware of intuition, receptivity, listen to hunches and dreams. Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed. When you get the High Priestess, you’re going to be learning some very odd things. Very odd.
Reversed Interpretation: Conceit, Ignorance, Unskillfulness, Superficial Knowledge. Passion, moral or physical ardor, conceit, surface knowledge. Acidity. Not going deep. Wild and destructive female energy. Withholding deep secrets. Nothing is Hidden. Need for deeper commitment. Hostility to others. Keep confidences to self. Others are not trustworthy. A selfish ruthless woman. Outward show A selfish and ruthless woman. Extremes of Sexuality, seductions & promiscuity or cold and insincere. Problems with intuition. Out of Touch with inner wisdom. Superficial and distant relationships
Rider-Waite Imagery
Universal WaiteA young dark haired woman sits between two pillars. Her dark hair means she has a mind full of secrets. The left pillar is the black pillar of severity. B is for Boaz – Strength. The right pillar is the white pillar of mercy. J is for Jachim – Establishes. These are the pillars of Solomon’s Temple. She sits as a mediating force between duality & polarity. Her white clothing represent her purity. The blue cloak her peacefulness and flows like water from this card to the next card of the Empress.. At her feet is a cresent moon which is the Astrological attribution for this card. The veil is made up of Palms (sufferning) and Pomegranates (abundance) and the design is in the form of tree of life. Water and a distance mountain range are visible behind the veil. The cross on her chest is the equal armed cross of equinimity. Her headress is the tripple moons. The High Priestess is intuitive, reflective and subtle. She would advise you to look within for answers and to keep your own council.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite (1911)
Part I: The Veil and its Symbols
2. The High Priestess, the Pope Joan, or Female Pontiff; early expositors have sought to term this card the Mother, or Pope’s Wife, which is opposed to the symbolism. It is sometimes held to represent the Divine Law and the Gnosis, in which case the Priestess corresponds to the idea of the Shekinah. She is the Secret Tradition and the higher sense of the instituted Mysteries.
Part II: The Doctrine Behind the Veil
She has the lunar crescent at her feet, a horned diadem on her head, with a globe in the middle place, and a large solar cross on her breast. The scroll in her hands is inscribed with the word Tora, signifying the Greater Law, the Secret Law and the second sense of the Word. It is partly covered by her mantle, to shew that some things are implied and some spoken. She is seated between the white and black pillars–J. and B.–of the mystic Temple, and the veil of the Temple is behind her: it is embroidered with palms and pomegranates. The vestments are flowing and gauzy, and the mantle suggests light–a shimmering radiance. She has been called occult Science on the threshold of the Sanctuary of Isis, but she is really the Secret Church, the House which is of God and man. She represents also the Second Marriage of the Prince who is no longer of this world; she is the spiritual Bride and Mother, the daughter of the stars and the Higher Garden of Eden. She is, in fine, the Queen of the borrowed light, but this is the light of all. She is the Moon nourished by the milk of the Supernal Mother.
In a manner, she is also the Supernal Mother herself–that is to say, she is the bright reflection. It is in this sense of reflection that her truest and highest name in bolism is Shekinah–the co-habiting glory. According to Kabalism, there is a Shekinah both above and below. In the superior world it is called Binah, the Supernal Understanding which reflects to the emanations that are beneath. In the lower world it is MaIkuth–that world being, for this purpose, understood as a blessed Kingdom that with which it is made blessed being the Indwelling Glory. Mystically speaking, the Shekinah is the Spiritual Bride of the just man, and when he reads the Law she gives the Divine meaning. There are some respects in which this card is the highest and holiest of the Greater Arcana.
The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus; tr. A. P Morton, [1896]
Chapter X. The Symbolical Tarot
2. 2nd Hebrew letter (Beth).
ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SECOND CARD OF THE TAROT.
The Beth hieroglyphically expresses the mouth of man as the organ of speech. Speech is the production of man’s inner self. Therefore Beth expresses that inner self, central as a dwelling, to which one can retire without fear of disturbance. From this ideas arise of a Sanctuary, an inviolate abode for man and for God. But the Beth also expresses every production that emanates from this mysterious retreat, every internal activity, and from it issue ideas of Instruction, of the higher Knowledge, of Law, of Erudition, of occult Science or Kabbalah.
Beth corresponds with the number 2, and astronomically with the moon. This number has given birth to all the passive significations emanated from the Binary, hence the ideas of reflection, of Woman; applied to the Moon relatively to the Sun, and to Woman relatively to Man.
THE SECOND CARD OF THE TAROT. The High Priestess.
God himself, or God the Father, reflects himself, and gives birth to God the Man, or God the Son, the negative relatively to his creator. As we have seen, man is the divine receiver, therefore this second card of the Tarot will express all the ideas of the first conceived negatively.
The first card represents a man standing; this, on the contrary, bears the figure of a seated woman. First idea of passivity) by the woman and by her position. The man, endowed with all the attributes of Power, was placed in the midst of nature.
The woman is adorned with all the attributes of Authority and persuasion, and she is placed under the porch of the temple of Isis, between two columns. Idea of a sacred dwelling, of a divine recipient. The two columns, like the arms of the Juggler, express the Positive and the Negative.
The woman is crowned with a tiara, surmounted by the lunar crescent, she is enveloped in a transparent veil falling over her face. On her breast she bears the solar cross, and upon her knees lies an open book, which she half covers with her mantle.
This is the picture of Isis, of Nature, whose veil must not be raised before the profane. The book indicates that the doctrines of Isis are bidden; but she divulges to the magi the secrets of the true Kabbalah, and of occult science. We must admire this profound symbol. The first card expressed Osiris in the three worlds; this second gives us the signification of Isis, the companion of Osiris–In God it is the reflex of Osiris, the reflex of God the Father, Isis, or God the Son. In Man it is the reflex of Adam of the absolute man: Eve, the woman, life (min). In the Universe it is the reflex of natura naturans: it is natura naturata.
2. The High Priestess.
Affinities
Hieroglyphic: The Mouth of Man
Kabbalah: Chocmah
Astronomy: The Moon
Day of the Week: Monday
Hebrew letter: Beth (Double)
Significations
Reflex of God the Father or Osiris, GOD the Son, ISIS, yod of he, he he
Reflex of Adam, EVE, the woman ,he of he, he he
Reflex of Natura naturans, NATURA NATURATA ,
vau of he, he he, 2nd he of he
Major Arcana Signification from the Divining Point of View
2. The High Priestess signifies FEMALE INQUIRER.
The Tarot by S.L. MacGregor Mathers [1888]
Symbolism of Each Key
2. The High Priestess, or Female Pope. A woman crowned with a high mitre or tiara (her head encircled by a veil), a stole (or a solar cross) upon her breast, and the Book of Science open in her hand. She represents Science, Wisdom, or Knowledge.
Meanings of the Cards
2. The High Priestess.–Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education; R. Conceit, Ignorance, Unskilfulness, Superficial Knowledge.
The Symbolism of the Tarot by P. D. Ouspensky [1913]
What is the Tarot? Card II.–”The High Priestess”.
Occultism. Esoterism. Mysticism. Theosophy. Initiation. Isis. Mystery.
CARD II. THE HIGH PRIESTESS.
When I lifted the first veil and entered the outer court of the Temple of Initiation, I saw in half darkness the figure of a woman sitting on a high throne between two pillars of the temple, one white, and one black. Mystery emanated from her and was about her. Sacred symbols shone on her green dress; on her head was a golden tiara surmounted by a two-horned moon; on her knees she held two crossed keys and an open book. Between the two pillars behind the woman hung another veil all embroidered with green leaves and fruit of pomegranate.
And a voice said:
“To enter the Temple one must lift the second veil and pass between the two pillars. And to pass thus, one must obtain possession of the keys, read the book and understand the symbols. Are you able to do this?”
“I would like to be able,” I said.
Then the woman turned her face to me and looked into my eyes without speaking. And through me passed a thrill, mysterious and penetrating like a golden wave; tones vibrated in my brain, a flame was in my heart, and I understood that she spoke to me, saying without words:
“This is the Hall of Wisdom. No one can reveal it, no one can hide it. Like a flower it must grow and bloom in thy soul. If thou wouldst plant the seed of this flower in thy soul–learn to discern the real from the false. Listen only to the Voice that is soundless… Look only on that which is invisible, and remember that in thee thyself, is the Temple and the gate to it, and the mystery, and the initiation.”
The Tarot Trumps by G. H. Soror, Q.L.
II. THE HIGH PRIESTESS
The High Priestess rules the long path uniting Kether to Tiphareth, crossing the reciprocal Paths of Venus and Leo. She is the great feminine force controlling the very source of life, gathering into herself all the energizing forces and holding them in solution until the time of release. Her colors, pale blue, deepening into sky blue, silvery white, and silver, relieved by touches of orange and flame, carry out these ideas.
From ReFalo
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posted February 04, 2015 05:22 AM
I will have to remake your guidance, Sid.
would love a little message from the universe.
posted February 04, 2015 10:26 PM
