Card of The Month - April 2021The high Priestess is reputed for being the keeper of secrets. She sit

Card of The Month - April 2021

The high Priestess is reputed for being the keeper of secrets. She sits in front of the portal that represents the unconscious mind, and she is the feminine archetype of loving acceptance and intuition. She asks us to consider our own complexity in such a way that is almost contradictory, in that things are easier to comprehend and embrace than we think. While we think people or situations have all these different layers to understand with the linear mind, The High Priestess demands the surrender of such analytical thought processes. When she shows up in a reading she comes with the suggestion that any answers we’re looking for have already been answered; whether by our intuition or the things that come out of it such as dreams or synchronicities.

It takes a certain kind of trust to be able to apply The High Priestess’ advice in any given situation. Her solutions are otherworldly and seemingly impractical. She is fluid like water, and her understanding of the linear things in life change form much as it does, taking the shape of whatever container it’s in. There is a specific forgiveness that comes from this archetype, because the inference is that there’s no such thing as permanence. When we open up to all of our senses of perception, outside of just the forum of tangible seeing, we understand what it means to receive divine truth.

We often think of all sorts of life events or situations we dread experiencing, and perhaps The High Priestess comes to us at times when we’re most steeped in fear of the unknown. Sometimes we fear portions of our own selves, and this is within her realm of magic as well. She is the integrating force: the conduit for expression of the shadow as light’s perfect counterpart, and she encourages us to see that we can be completely steeped in darkness and survive. There is usually no way out of an uncomfortable situation aside from going through and integrating the shadows of it. We can look to the High Priestess in a reading as a sign that it’s time to embrace all sides of something dark, scary or unpleasant.