Tarot Card of The Day. Moon-Day Synchronicity...

And the High Priestess

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#Tarot #Moon #Mythology Now, isn't this just typical of the spooky synchronicity of Tarot. I shuffle the deck, eyes closed, asking for a keynote card for today. As I shuffle I think to myself, so today's a Monday. Won't it be funny if I pull The High Priestess? She is one of the two card correlating with Monday- the other being The Moon. I shuffle, stop, pull a card, open my eyes, and we have....The High Priestess from the Legacy of The Divine Tarot deck, illustrated by Ciro Marchetti.

The cards can become antennae…bridging the physical and the psychic, like an extension of our central nervous system.

So what's the message? The High Priestess too, bridges the physical and the psychical, the intellect and the intuition. She bridges the fertility of earth and the domains of all that is sacred, as represented by the Moon symbol, which are sometimes read as the bull horns of the deities Apis or Hathor - Taurean energy.

Her other symbol, the pomegranate is traditionally used in healing for inflammation, and the heart, prostate. The pomegranate figures in the Bible and in the Quran, and in Greek myth it was the eating of four seeds of the pomegranate that condemned Persephone to stay part of the year in the Underworld with Hades, when her mother Demeter grieves her absence and we have winter in the northern hemisphere.

The High Priestess is psychic, refined, a scholar, a mentor, a wise woman, a teacher. She may be you, regardless of whether you are female or male, though generally she is female. Or she may be someone you can turn to for good advice. The High Priestess watches, reads, waits, keeps his/her own counsel. What s/he does not do is rush in. That scroll contains vital info/intel. She/you may or may not have found this scroll, or opened it and studied it yet.

Fools rush in - or rush off elsewhere. Take a breath. Take your time.

The Moon rules The High Priestess and Venus rules The Empress, card of Planet Earth, Demeter, motherhood, agriculture, food, fertility, animals- creation. The pomegranate also appears as a decorative motif on the robes of the Empress in the Rider Waite deck.

More real world synchronicity. Today we have a waning crescent moon in the sun sign territory of the cosmic archer Sagittarius, while the Moon, ruler of the High Priestess and Venus, ruler of The Empress were together in the sky today at dawn.

Image: The Rider Waite

Sagittarius says that while we consider our situation, while we weigh our options, still, we are drawn by the sense that we are on a greater journey. Some quest or purpose is calling to us. We can feel the sap rising and we may be rousing ourselves to go scouting. But if we’re making Sagittarian plans to do with study, travel, work or study, the High Priestess proposes that first we do careful research, and maybe there is someone we want to talk to first.

It is in our nature to seek, and this searching and this sense of a purpose, even when we can’t pin a tail on the donkey and say exactly what it is that we may be seeking, that is vital to our happiness. Such is the human soul.

“Happiness we can only find in ourselves, it is a waste of time to seek for it from others, few have any to spare. Sorrow we have to bear alone as best we can, it is not fair to try to shift it on others, be they men or women. We have to fight our own battles and strike as hard as we can, born fighters as we are.”

-Axel Munthe, The Story of San Michele

He used to visit a gorilla in the zoo. The gorilla was bored and lonely, and Axel Munthe, a physician and psychiatrist, would go to visit this gorilla, and hold its finger through the bars.

Well, there are good reasons and all that, but that wouldn’t happen anymore.

“Born fighters as we are”- The High Priestess and The Empress are fighters too. Who fights more fiercely than the one who fights to protect those they love?

Thank you for reading.