So you want to know the meaning of The High Priestess in Tarot? She is the perfect card for that very endeavor. The High Priestess has the knowledge you seek and more. The true question is a different one, though. Are you ready for the knowledge and secrets she maintains?
Suit: Major Arcana
Element(s): Water
Numerology: 11 & 20
Planetary Ruler(s): Moon
Zodiac(s): Cancer
Sitting between the Pillars to Solomon’s Temple is where we find The High Priestess. She knows well the knowledge that rests in the scroll she keeps. The secrets that lie just behind her is more of the wisdom The High Priestess safeguards. What you get to know and have illuminated is up to how much she’s willing to reveal. Be honest with her because her intuitive feel for you will determine how much The High Priestess gives away.
Upright Meaning
Intuition, divine wisdom, deep knowledge, subconscious, inner voice, mystery, science, secrets being revealed
Reversed Meaning
Conceit, surface knowledge, repressed emotions, withheld information, secrets remaining out of reach, egotism
Important Symbols
- Priestess
- Feminine keeper of secrets
- Empathetic but steadfast
- Pillars (Typically of Boaz and Jachin at Solomon’s temple)
- Knowledge kept
- Duality (Black and White) of truth
- Scroll (Tora)
- Information easily accessed
- Easier for some to understand than others
- Veil/Curtain
- Hidden if just glancing at the cracks
- Easily moved for those that step forth
- Crescent Moon
- Intuition
- Lighting even in dark moments
- Water
- Emotions
- Seeing as far as you’re willing to go (surface looks gain surface knowledge, but deeper looks gain more)
- Fruit Tree (Typically Pomegranate)
- Tree of life
- Seeds of knowledge but must be worked for
