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I just found this rather good article about the Hierophant (V) and High Priestess (III) cards in the tarot deck. It has some nice interesting things to say about both that I’ve not seen anyplace else. Let me cobbled together a few quotes from it which I liked:

…The answer comes from the High Priestess, who invites you to use your subconscious/intuitional faculties to make stories about yourself and your world, so that you are neither controlled nor controlling, but rather participant.

We all live by concocting stories, myths, images of the world. We live in the images, not in the world itself. The High Priestess / Papess represents the simplest, earliest, most basic way of making those myths to live by: intuition. Experiencing the world and then letting come whatever myth will come, neither imposing an intellectual structure nor censoring the myth to suit your emotional needs at the time.

…She’s [the high priestess] not concerned with being a part of any system, she’s just concerned with being what she is…and “what she is” is an identity formed of sensations, myths, stories, and dreams. She’s the imagination creating itself…

…The High Priestess is a solitary figure; she is the mind alone with its stories. The Hierophant has to make those stories community property, he has to bring that sense of balance outside the individual mind and into the culture as a whole.

I also think the author’s implied comparison of the Empress/Emperor cards to the Democratic and Republican parties is rather interesting.

…Empress-mentality (let’s take care of everyone) or Emperor-mentality (punish all the law-breakers)…

More stuff from this author here, and at another tarot site called the Hermitage. Also, this article about the Tarot and the game Monopoly is pretty good too.

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