The High Priestess
Major Arcana
Meanings
- unconscious
- intuition
- mystery
- spirituality
- higher power
- inner voice
Meanings Reversed
- repressed intuition
- hidden motives
- superficiality
- confusion
- cognitive dissonance
Other Meanings
- listening to your feelings and intuitions
- exploring unconventional spirituality
- keeping secrets
- being receptive
- reflecting instead of acting
- observing others
- preserving purity
Other Meanings Reversed
- being aloof
- obsessing on secrets and conspiracies
- rejecting guidance from spirit or intuition
- revealing all
- ignoring gut feelings
- refusing to become involved, even when involvement is appropriate
Meanings
- intuition
- reflection
- purity
- initiation
Fortunes
- A mysterious woman arrives
- A sexual secret may surface
- Someone knows more than he or she will reveal
Questions
- What might a rebel against tradition do?
- What isn't being said or revealed?
- What could be achieved by observing and reflecting?
- Element
- The Moon
- Arche Type
- The Virgin/The Maiden
- Numerology
- 2 (division, debate, duality)
- Hebrew Alphabet
- Gimel/Camel/3
- Spiritual
- The feminine aspect of divinity, particularity when expressed through virginity, as with the Virgin Mary or Isis.