Major Arcana

The High Priestess

Tarot Card Meaning

The High Priestess tarot card from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck

Upright

  • intuition
  • mystery
  • inner knowledge
  • subconscious

Trust your intuition. The answers you seek lie within, not in the external world.

Reversed

  • secrets
  • withdrawal
  • silence
  • disconnection

You may be ignoring your inner voice or keeping too many secrets. Reconnect with your intuition.

Symbolism

She sits between the black pillar of Boaz and the white pillar of Jachin, a crescent moon at her feet, holding the scroll of Torah — guardian of the threshold between seen and unseen worlds.

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