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The High Priestess

“the answer is one you already know and keep refusing to hear.”

Upright meaning

The answer is one you already sense beneath words. Intuition, mystery, and what is not yet spoken aloud.

Keywords: intuition, mystery, the unseen

Reversed meaning

A cut cord to your own instincts, or secrets pushing to the surface.

Keywords: ignored instinct, secrets, silence

From the source

“THE HIGH PRIESTESS.—Secrets, mystery, the future as yet unrevealed; the woman who interests the Querent, if male; the Querent herself, if female; silence, tenacity; mystery, wisdom, science. Reversed: Passion, moral or physical ardour, conceit, surface knowledge. 3. THE EMPRESS.—Fruitfulness, action, initiative, length of…”
— Arthur Edward Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, 1911

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