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The High Priestess of the Major Arcana of the tarot is the second card of the deck, and this is the one that represents secrets, digging up secrets mysteries, unraveling those mysteries, and your intuition. When this card comes up, it shows that you need to pick apart some mysteries and use your intuition to solve some problems. You have to do this on your own.

Another thing that the High Priestess can indicate is that there is a time of being still and to retreat so you can reflect upon any situation. Reflect upon anything necessary and always trust your instincts to help you get through it.

The High Priestess Is All About Trusting Your Intuition

In other words, if you see this card, it means that something around you is not how it appears. You will find that something does not add up. That means that the High Priestess tells you to trust your intuition to get to the bottom of what is presented to you.

Here are some other interesting things about this card. The High Priestess is second only to the Empress in her ability to project femininity. Her association with virginity suggests many things about women that men do not know or cannot know, and that sounds sexist, and that is not how it is intended to come across. However, this is her story, and back in the day, things were that much different. Remember how this reflects a much earlier time.

Unsurprisingly, an image of the woman who represents this type reflects this power. Her veil represents both wisdom and mystery. Many people will tell you she is merely hiding "secrets still the nature of secrets also involves withholding information that could change your life for better or worse - knowledge can be dangerous!

Even when one wants to share something intelligent, it is easy to reveal more than intended by being too blunt accidentally. The High Priestess's silence is necessary for discretion means she doesn't have many conversations about social niceties, so you can say that she cuts out the middle man.

Who Is The High Priestess?

She is the daughter of high priests in a spiritual tradition called The Brotherhood, but her immense power makes her too valuable to be groomed for service in the temple. So at a young age, she was given to an order known as The Sisterhood. Here she learned how to tap into the Otherworlds where magic naturally arises from powerful emotions and transformative acts of will. This knowledge enabled her to enter these worlds and summoned them here when necessary.

Nowhere does any lore suggest that she has lost these abilities once leaving the Sisterhood - quite to the contrary, it would seem that because she can disappear at will anymore, she took on high political positions so that nothing else could stop her from doing what she believes is right.

You may be wondering if this means high priestesses are born or made, but like magicians in general, high priests are just people with high potential, not chosen representatives of Higher Power.

So high priestesses are simply women who have the skills they need to rise through the ranks of whatever order it is that is lucky enough to claim them. That said, high priestesses do tend to draw other high-powered individuals to them, so keep an eye out for who seeks you out. Probably someone familiar.

She's also very good at knowing when something needs her attention, even if it isn't pronounced what that might be yet. So if she gets a hunch out of you, be grateful for the good fortune that you have caught her attention - it is not every day high priestesses take an interest in people! But, on the other hand, she can't help but notice when someone has potential, and high potential often involves high risk. So if she thinks you should know something about high magic, pay attention.

The High Priestess Is All About Being Truthful To Yourself

She is also very straightforward with truths - whether or not one wants to hear them isn't really up to her. This is why many high priestesses tend to spend time alone they don't put up with patience for ignorance around themselves! Don't get involved with things where your life is at stake if you can avoid it.

How does the High Priestess relate to Risa's situation? Let's see, Risa feels broken, and anyone dealing with mental illnesses and trauma-related disorders will feel that way. She is very disconnected from her intuition, but at the same time, it does not mean it isn't working.

Remember how I talked about how so many of those who struggle with trauma-related disorders and mental illnesses have strong intuition. That is because they have had to rely on it to navigate their lives and make sense of their struggles, and many of them go into fields to help provide intuitive insights to others.

However, Risa is very disconnected from anything that the High Priestess represents. Risa is allowing others to keep walking on her, such as her parents, who do not have the best intentions for her. She lets the neighbor take advantage of her without showing any gratitude.

Risa keeps allowing others to keep hurting her because she fears speaking up. But at the same time, she has some awful feelings of rage, jealousy, and resentment. Anyone who has struggled with complex trauma will feel those feelings, but there comes a time when there is a catalyst, and you begin to say enough is enough and start speaking up, so you have your needs and wants to be met.

I deal with anger myself, and I am not suppressing it; I do the contrary. I am advocating and creating awareness about mental illnesses and the effects of trauma. That is a result of anger. Sometimes having a good session with the punching bag helps release it. There will be a lot of anger, but it is healthy if you use it constructively. If you remove it in situations that are not destructive or violent, it is incredibly beneficial never to suppress it.

Risa suppresses her anger, and it only comes out when she explodes and terrifies her child and husband. But immediately stops and hides the rest. Perhaps her anger that she refuses to express comes from her intuition screaming at her by telling her that she has it within her to make her life better. So she can go back to the Magician and tap into her resources.

Her intuition is telling her that if she stopped helping her ungrateful parents and neighbor, got her son into a therapeutic setting instead of taking care of him when she isn't able to do so effectively, and started finding out once and for all what she wanted in life, she would be at a better place.

However, there is a lot of fear within her because she has been bullied and abused so much she is afraid to listen to what the High Priestess is telling her. But what if she did so one step at a time, by starting to tell her neighbor that she could not help anymore.

Then eventually, she may work up the courage to say to her parents that she is no longer there to help. There is potential for the High Priestess to get through to her, but it will be up to Risa to allow that to happen. Too much fear consumes her, which is why it is not occurring.

What About The High Priestess In Reverse?

Unfortunately, Risa represents the High Priestess reversed. When the High Priestess card is reversed, it indicates that secrets and information are purposely being withheld, and there is no harmony on a personal level.

And it is not hard to see how Risa has no harmony within, and there is no harmony with her relationships. For example, she is not honest with her husband, as she did not even want him to know that she was prescribed medication for her depression, and that was part of the reason she tossed away her antidepressants.

It is not hard to see that all of her chakras are severely out of balance and blocked. She never speaks up. She never asserts her needs and wants. And until she is at a place where she can start doing that, the High Priestess will keep representing Risa in reverse.

How Can The High Priestess Help You?

How can you connect with the High Priestess in the upright position? First, you have to trust your intuition which means finding a way to keep your emotions separate from your intuition. That means to go with what you intuitively sense instead of how you feel.

That does not only imply separating it from hopeful feelings. It also means to find a way to separate it from feelings of worry or pessimism. And that is a struggle if you deal with depression.

For instance, you tend to think that the glass is half-empty often, but you applied for a job, and you deep down have a good feeling about it. However, you are scared to go there. You have struggled with a false sense of hope before. You may acknowledge that you feel there is a good chance of getting a job, but your default way of thinking would be that you are just hopeful about it and will be let down once again.

You cannot get excited about the possibility until you are contacted and told the company that you are hired! Therefore, your intuition gave you some good news, but your emotions got in the way and made you believe that you were only hopeful about it momentarily, only to be let down.

On the flip side, you don't want to be overly optimistic about something your intuition tells you otherwise. Let's say that you are the type that may be unrealistically optimistic at times and will ignore anything that your intuition tells you. For example, let's say you applied for that job, and you deep down know that it did not work out, but your emotions will not allow you to acknowledge what you intuitively feel.

Therefore, you will tell yourself that you know that you got that job. You will convince yourself of it because the alternative is not acceptable until you find out that the position you applied for at that company was taken by someone else. You will be upset, and at the same time, kick yourself for not going with what your intuition was telling you, which was that the job you applied for was not meant for you.

Intuition is an intuition when you have a sense of knowing something deep down and have an emotional detachment. And it is best to practice that so you can see the difference between your emotions and your intuition. So that is how you can apply the High Priestess in your life. The next card will be the Empress!

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