{"id":114,"date":"2014-06-02T20:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inthecards\/?p=114"},"modified":"2014-06-02T20:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:25:37","slug":"is-this-you-dressed-in-blue-thoughts-on-the-high-priestess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inthecards\/2014\/06\/is-this-you-dressed-in-blue-thoughts-on-the-high-priestess.html","title":{"rendered":"Is This You, Dressed In Blue? Thoughts On The High Priestess"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""high<\/a>Sometimes I feel like I will burst apart from feeling. Burst apart like a star<\/strong>. Contrast this feeling with the High Priestess<\/strong>, one of our Tarot women. She’s not operatic. She’s interior<\/em>. She’s a long dark hallway leading to a secret room behind a bookshelf at the end of a street paved in iridescent stones. Mystery. Secrets. Guidance. Intuition. Quiet illumination. When you see the High Priestess, she may, in essence, be telling you to shut up<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42 Shut up and listen.<\/p>\n

In the version of the card I’m looking at, the High Priestess<\/strong> is sitting in what could be an ordinary chair. Nothing too ornate here, especially compared to other High Priestesses. There is a gate behind her and behind the gate are palm trees (is she the Miami Florida High Priestess?) a night sky, the moon. We see a large golden crescent moon at her mary-janed feet. Her dress is blue like the sea<\/strong> and there’s rippling water (a pond?) at the edge of that crescent moon. She’s lost in thought, not addressing us, not looking, a scroll of paper in her hand. What else is beyond that gate? When you see the High Priestess<\/strong>, you may need to open it.<\/p>\n

When you see the High Priestess, you may need to *leave* it open.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the Tarot, the Fool<\/strong> is zero. The Magician<\/strong> is one. The High Priestess<\/strong> is two. The cards have an order. What does the number two symbolize<\/em>? Depends on who you ask.<\/p>\n

My interpretation<\/em>: we are not alone. We have company for the journey. And that company is our intuition. It’s not just us and our tools and skills, as in the Magician<\/strong> card. It’s our wealth, inner voice, which is the voice of the Divine.<\/p>\n

\""high<\/a>Also, God created the sky on the second day of creation (according to the\u00a0Tanakh<\/strong><\/em>). By day two, we are already in<\/em> time. Time has been invented. There is day and night. But Day Two brings structure that can be seen<\/em>. Sky (or heaven, depending on the translation) from sea. Shamayim<\/em>.<\/p>\n

When you see the High Priestess<\/strong> in a reading, you see the invisible. You are in an ocean phase, a sea phase, a sea passage, a blue period, a magic moment, a moon chamber, a dream<\/strong>. You have a crystal ball and you know how to use it. It is frequently night and the humid sea air quenches your thirst.<\/p>\n

When I do Tarot readings for people<\/strong> and I see this card? I know it’s okay to sit still. I know that what’s hidden may or may not be revealed. I know that I\/we don’t<\/em> know it all. And I also know that we can search and seek and swim and find. Oh yes, we can find.<\/p>\n

Dear Readers, what do you see?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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