Learning the Tarot Cards: II - The High Priestess

The Major Arcana Deck: The High Priestess

Number II

Duality, balancing opposite force (positive-negative)

Reasoning, Knowledge, Wisdom

Arcana

Major deck (signals cycle in life and represents a key time)

Element

Water

Planet

Moon (personality of the subconscious)

Card Meaning

Wisdom, Knowledge

Secret, Mystery

Key Symbols

Pillars/Columns

  Black (negative life force-pictured on the left side)

  White (positive life force-pictured on the right side)

Veil (something hidden from view)

Holy/Solar Cross (spirit of the higher plane/union-positive and negative)

Crescent Moon (cyclic phases, divine light, mediation, reflection, imagination,

instinctive, contact with higher source)

Scroll (secret knowledge)

Cloak (withdrawal from the world to an advanced state of mind)

Colours

Purple (dignity, wisdom, idealism, spirituality, compassion)

White (purity, truth, sincerity, virtue of all kinds, highest spirituality)

Yellow (element-air, mental-intellect, imagination-creativity, skill, balance)

Blue (balanced spiritual understanding, light blue - inspiration, deep blue -  

expansion)

Affirmation:  I trust my intuition to guide me

“I know – I have the knowledge within me ”

The High Priestess often appears in a reading when we need to trust our instinct

and believe in our-self…the answer lies within me