2.THE HIGH PRIESTESSShe 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 aShekinah both above and below. In the superior world it is calledBinah, the Supernal Understanding which reflects to the emanations that are beneath. In the lower world it isMalkuth--that world being, for this purpose, understood as a blessed Kingdom that with which it is made blessed being the Indwelling Glory. Mystically speaking, theShekinah 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 HIGH PRIESTESS.--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.Reversed: Passion, moral or physical ardour, conceit, surface knowledge.
Taken from the book, "The Pictorial Key to the Tarot By Arthur Edward Waite".
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I recently was shown a woman crying in the reflection of water in my uhm "dream". I wonder if that is anything to do with the card.
Again I am pretending here that you are drawing for me. I don't have my own tarot cards unfortunatly. I don't live near a store that sells them. I have to travel to the capital to get to a store that does sell them and I have not the means to get there. And neither the time. Yet.
Pretending is fun too ;)
RE: The High Priestess - Mystery and Hidden Knowledge