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icymist

(15,888 posts) Sat Nov 9, 2013, 02:50 PM Nov 2013

Card of the Day: The High Priestess

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Hello everybody, I thought that we could all do a Tarot card of the day here. I will travel the internet and find a picture of a card, probably the Rider-Wait deck, post it here and then we could all talk about what it means to each other. Here is today's' card:

Here is the High Priestess, a card that my friends and I joking call the High Beastess! She sits with a crown upon her head with the symbols of the moon. She has a solar cross on her chest and a crescent moon at her feet. She hold a partially unrolled scroll that has the word Tora (means Divine Law) written on it. This is also partially veiled. She sits between a black pole named Boaz and a white pole named Jakin. Behind her are pomegranates and palm trees. Hers is the number 2 in the Upper Arcana.

To me, this card represents a balance of the conscious and unconscious. It is having the mysteries reveled, but some remains hidden.

I'm looking forward to see what some of you have to say.

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Card of the Day: The High Priestess (Original Post) icymist Nov 2013 OP

I used to draw this card a lot in my 20s magical thyme Nov 2013 #1

I got curious, found the following hermetic Nov 2013 #2

Thanks for pointing out the symbols Sanity Claws Nov 2013 #3

Hi Sanity Claws... icymist Nov 2013 #4

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)

1. I used to draw this card a lot in my 20s

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Sun Nov 10, 2013, 01:26 PM

Nov 2013

freaked some people out. Now I have to go do some quick googling.

The pomegranate symbolizes fertility and abundance in most traditions; wisdom, knowledge and learning in a few.

Apparently Persephony bound herself to Hades by eating some pomegranate seeds after he abducted her.

Medicinally it has been, and continues to be, used for gastrointestinal disorders.

hermetic

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2. I got curious, found the following

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Mon Nov 11, 2013, 07:59 AM

Nov 2013

Boaz and Jachin were two pillars which stood in the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem. Nets of checkerwork covered the bowl of each chapiter, decorated with rows of two hundred pomegranates.

So, this is justice, partially concealed? Got a bit of that going on around my town right now.

Do more, do more!!

Nice to see you again, Miss Mist.

Sanity Claws

(22,027 posts)

3. Thanks for pointing out the symbols

Reply to icymist (Original post)

Mon Nov 11, 2013, 08:18 AM

Nov 2013

I've looked at the card many times but didn't catch all of them.

Just one remark/question:
The headdress is that of Hathor, an Egyptian goddess. Like the Torah depiction, it seems to be a reference to ancient traditions relating to the divine. I had always taken the cross as another reference to a divine ancient tradition but you said it was the solar cross, not the Christian cross. Can you explain what the solar cross is?

icymist

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4. Hi Sanity Claws...

Reply to Sanity Claws (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 13, 2013, 03:55 PM

Nov 2013

The Solar cross is depicted as a cross having an equal armed length, usually within a circle. It is interesting, but not confusing that this ancient symbol is mixed with the Christian cross. A close look at the Celtic cross will find our solar cross within it which is symbolic of the pagan god Taranis. The Native American Medicine Circle is also in this shape, each section representing a direction, a season, and a color.
To me, this suggests the turning of the year. The position of the solar cross on the high priestess says to me a symbol of the Light within the Heart of the Seeker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross
http://symboldictionary.net/?p=861

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