The High Priestess – tarot card meaning

Planet: Moon

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

The Keywords of High Priestess:

The common meaning of the High Priestess

Upright Position

The High Priestess symbolizes a good intuition, feeling of the future and the power of the inner voice. In certain situations this Arcanum quite definitely indicates extrasensory inclinations and the ability to see the signs. However, it doesn’t always mean that they are conscious.

The Priestess is also a deep understanding of the fact that not everything can be accepted by logic and notorious common sense. At the same time, this Arcanum can be a proof that there is some secret or closed information, or it is impossible to get the answers now.

Reversed Position

In a reversed position, the High Priestess can symbolize fatalism, unwillingness to make decisions or fantasies which don’t have anything common with the reality. As a person, this card signified to someone who is waiting for a miracle and relies on a mercy of fate. Maybe is this moment will be better to try using your own power and abilities.

The reversed Priestess indicates the danger of temptations. In this period of time need to be more careful and try to keep disciplined. In this case would be better to avoid anything mysterious or unclear, be aware of being cheated or misloaded.

The High Priestess: Love and Relationships

Upright Position

This card says that there is a very deep emotional connection and strong affection. There is a mutual trust between two people and, sometimes, their relationships can be hidden from others.

Also, the Priestess shows that your partner knows your very well and feels your mood. You probably have an invisible connection which leads you to strong and loyal relationships.

The man or woman you are asking about has some secrets. He or she can teach you or show you right direction; you may receive an emotional support and feel like you have a guardian angel.

The profession of this person should be related with the Moon or water. Same as it can be a kind of mystery or esoteric science. Professions: psychologist, astrologist, researcher, worker of the church, verger, baby sitter, any job related with helping to others, benefactor.

Reversed Position

The card means that there is a lack of intuition, which means that a person will be guided by logic. A man may have problems in relations with women, and a woman may have problems with her sexual life, difficult childbirth and diseases.

The person of High Priestess is an impatient, insensitive and ignorant. He has a wrong perception; he is not able to empathize with people. In moments when it is necessary to show his love and feelings for a loved one, he shows rigidity and severity.

It becomes easier for him to avoid this or that situation than to make a decision. Since a person is not insightful enough, he has a lot of problems that he could not even foresee.

The High Priestess: work, career, business

Upright position

The card says that promising things await a person that may be related to scientific activities and education. Just don’t force things. It is necessary to take any action only when everything will turn out favorably.

The High Priestess will help a person to understand the inner world, become more insightful and focused.

The high priestess is associated with science and artistic creativity. A person, when disposed to a situation, wants to acquire new knowledge, improve qualifications and professional literacy.

Reversed Position

The card means that the situation has many hidden motives and events that cannot be judged objectively.

Competitors may suddenly appear, people who want to get rid of you. Also, a person can become capricious, unsure, he will have doubts and worries, unreasonable fantasies.

He may become fatalistic. In a situation, he is not ready to make independent decisions, and as a rule, he hopes for the mercy of fate and believes in miracles.

Advice of The High Priestess

The Tarot card encourages a person to observe himself, as well as the people around him. It is very important to monitor the situation in order to make the right decision. And even if a person is doing the right thing, he may not be aware about the direction he moves.

While a person has not yet been able to understand his feelings, it is not advisable for him to take rash and quick actions. Do not rush things, all good things will happen. And even if it seems that everything is going well, still do not rush to actions, to be vigilant and reasonable.

The High Priestess: Combinations

The High Priestess with Major Arcana

The High Priestess with Fool

• disclosure of the secret
• intuition doesn’t work
• departure from a woman, from affairs
• a woman with a headache
• the problem of choice

The High Priestess with Magician

• blackmail
• hidden motives
• scientific approach
• the initiative
• man relies on his intuition
• meeting and talking with a woman
• secret knowledge
• secret trip with someone, somewhere

The High Priestess with Empress

• the woman found herself in a dual position
• there can be two female rivals
• friendship with an older, wiser friend
• gaining experience
• pregnancy
• femininity, motherhood, homeliness, comfort
• white magic, healing
• strong attachment to mother, home, or overprotection of children

The High Priestess with Emperor

• you can’t do whatever you want
• a man can have a secret woman or lover, love triangle
• a meeting with a man who will strengthen a woman priestess who is not self-confident
• successful marriage and even wealth
• mother’s authority.
• the choice between society and inner life
• control over emotions, stable psyche

The High Priestess with Hierophant

• spiritual practices
• education, higher education, initiation into secret knowledge
• civil marriage or temporary relationship
• support from a woman
• parents have a great influence on a person
• mother and father, religiosity and the religious family, family upbringing

The High Priestess with Lovers

• having a love triangle; secret meetings; subtle, sensual relationships
• inability to make a decision, doubts about choice and love, inconsistency in feelings
• the choice is made by intuition, trust feelings.
• creation, the search for beauty and spirituality
• passive attitude

The High Priestess with Chariot

• road with a woman, travel.
• actions through intuition.
• woman’s power; the secret influence of women on the path of life.
• thinking about a career, moving, changing your place of residence
• secretly changes jobs, favorable change of place

The High Priestess with Adjustment (Justice)

• dream of marriage or divorce
• fair judgement, though
• legal matters require thought
• woman lawyer or psychologist
• secretly manipulate

The High Priestess with Hermit

• secret possession
• wisdom in solitude, period of isolation
• hidden enemies
• doubts, distrust, intuitive way
• single woman
• spiritual service to people, spiritual purity
• shyness, doubts in the way, problems with self-esteem

The High Priestess with Wheel of Fortune

• passive response to change, unstable opinion
• doubts, change of mood
• the trip can be a mystery and a quick return
• the desire to change something in fate, fateful person
• moving with someone, successful trip
• working with past lives, karmic connection with mother

The High Priestess with Lust (Strength)

• take a break and gather strength
• secret desires, passions
• confrontation with a strong opponent
• victory over an opponent thanks to intuition
• an important meeting that will give strength and confidence in the future, even if you have to compete
• dramatization of feelings, secret rivalry and jealousy
• saving people, healing

The High Priestess with Hanged Man

• distorted information
• fraud, roguery, a victim of deceit
• betrayal by a woman
• voluntary refusal
• unwanted pregnancy or single mother
• self-sacrifice for the sake of children
• hormonal misbalance, weight problem
• mental disorders, split personality

The High Priestess with Death

• information to be reviewed
• karmic judgment
• change in the financial situation
• care of a loved one
• mother’s death
• difficult relationship with someone
• the opponent will be eliminated
• you can’t retreat
• black magic, love magic

The High Priestess with Art (Temperance)

• effortless adaptation to the situation
• time to prepare for change
• relationships with someone are temporary
• restrained friendship with a woman
• healing, the use of energy for medicinal purposes
• idealism, soul harmony, feeling the needs of others

The High Priestess with Devil

• black witch
• attachment to past memories
• lust, sexual dissatisfaction
• dependence on a woman
• change yourself, secret power
• don’t consider the feelings of others
• the secret, dark side of the soul

The High Priestess with Tower

• danger of miscarriage or premature birth
• destruction of the feminine
• a gynecological examination is required
• destruction of comfort
• revealing a painful secret, cruel attitude towards a woman

The High Priestess with Star

• foresight, occult knowledge
• retrospective, review of the past
• illumination, intuition
• the ability to be above the situation

The High Priestess with Moon

• sensuality, animal instinct
• women’s period
• the ability to absorb the thoughts and feelings of others
• parapsychology, sympathy
• wrong relationship with mother (fears)
• persecution mania, neuroses, health problems

The High Priestess with Sun

• everything hidden becomes clear
• a woman in a man’s profession
• witch
• proud man, romantic
• great desire to be loved because of the wrong relationship with the mother

The High Priestess with Aeon (Judgement)

• improvement of the situation
• revealing secrets
• healing
• parenthood, the elderly
• look for reasons
• work with past lives, with ancestral karma

The High Priestess with Universe (World)

• opening, birth of a child
• graduation
• completeness of information