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High Priestess. Songs for the Journey Home Tarot

The High Priestess uses all of her senses to discern the truth of a situation. Although she has highly developed powers of perception, she often remains silent as she has no interest in cajoling or attempting to convince another. She knows each person must seek their own truth through their own experiences.

LWB Asrology. Moon The four twos in the deck are the High Priestess tools: the Two of Swords (peace of mind); the Two of Cups (love); the Two of Wands (dominion and balance); and the Two of Disks (expansive yet stable change). Intuition and its various ways of expressing itself are also pictured by the four twos: inspired things (Two of Swords); picking up on other persons' feelings and moods or kinds of love expressed (Two of Cups); trusting the core of oneself (Two of Wands); and sensing information through the body (Two of Disks). Lust/Strength (the number 11, which adds up to 2) is an example of the High Priestess being expressed externally. When we are in our strength or full lustre, we come across as the High Priestess: strong, balanced, and lustrous. Lust/ Strength is the capacity to trust oneself fully. It is the High Priestess within that provokes our demonstration of strength and radiance in the outer world. The Aeon/Judgment symbol is another external representation of the High Priestess. The Aeon (the number 20 adds up to 2) represents our capacity in daily life to utilize good judgment by looking at things in holistic ways rather than in getting caught or fixated in details or parts of the whole. The High Priestess within us provokes us externally to look at the historical history of our experience (the Aeon) in our families and in our career. The Aeon is the High Priestess's reminder that we can transform the critic within us to the fair witness if we are willing to trust the deepest core of who we are. Angelese Arrian

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Fool. Weiser Tarot. (Waite. Smith)

The Fool is the harbinger of new beginnings. When this card appears, the forthcoming life path is one of unbound potential and beginnings that come with a deeper spiritual meaning. The white sun represents power and a strong, vibrant aura emanating from the Seeker, but the Seeker’s power has not yet created worldly substances of value. It is about power, but no product.

Compare Key 1, The Magician, a figure who can harness power constructively (or destructively, when in reverse). When The Fool appears in a reading, it is about a point in the Seeker’s life when the next step could either send the Seeker flying into the air over that cliff with impressive accomplishment or falling down hard from naïveté. The temperament of The Fool is one pure in spirit, openhearted, and like a child, innocent and naive. There is a Peter Pan mentality—boastful, careless, a bit arrogant, and possessing a willful refusal to take responsibility or be mature. Yet the Seeker is a beautiful, creative soul—perhaps someone with a foolish belief in the attainment of impossibly beautiful goals. There is a trace of swagger and flamboyance in The Fool. He is a swashbuckler. The fanciful style of the Fool’s clothing suggests one who is attached to superficiality, a Seeker with great pride in his or her attractiveness. The Fool card can also mean that a choice is being offered, one of great significance. The choice before the Seeker may seem minor, but it is a choice that could affect a lifetime, so tread with caution (otherwise the Seeker might fall off the edge of the cliff). Compare: There are cards in the Minor Arcana that also indicate presentations of choice before the Seeker, such as the Seven of Cups or Two of Swords. The Minor Arcana choice cards indicate matters of immediate concern, from day-to-day life. When The Fool is drawn and represents a choice being offered, that choice will have a profound impact on the entirety of Seeker’s life or the progression of his or her spirituality.

Compare Key 6: The Lovers, which can also suggest a choice being offered, though, in The Lovers card, the choice often has ethical undertones. With The Fool, the choice is not over ethics or morality; it is a choice between two forks in the path. One fork will lead to attainment (flying, transcending the cliff) and the other will lead to likely demise (falling off the cliff). The Fool or Trickster is a universal archetype found across many cultures, such as Robin Hood, a skilled archer with a heart of gold, but who is vain, naive, and indiscreet; or Puck, the spirited woodland creature of English folklore; Kitsune, the clever fox of Japanese and Chinese myth, a mistress in the art of deception, yet she loves deeply and demonstrates unwavering loyalty; or the Chinese legend of Sun Wukong, the tender-footed Monkey King with supernatural abilities who defies the laws of heaven and hell. When The Fool card appears in a reading, the Seeker is embodying the characteristics of Peter Pan, Robin Hood, Puck, Kitsune, or Sun Wukong. The Seeker displays a naive disregard for rules, but because of his or her extraordinary innate abilities, can get away with such defiance. Traditionally The Fool card is unnumbered. Some systems, such as the Rider-Waite-Smith, assign “0” to it. Other systems assign “22” to the card and place it behind Key 21: The World, or, without numbering it, simply order it at the end of the Major Arcana. The Marseille-based Trumps shown in Appendix I provide an example of an unnumbered Fool placed at the end. The element of Air governs The Fool, so the attributions associated with Air will represent the external forces at play in the Seeker’s situation. In The Fool, yang energy is dominant. The number eight may be relevant. Benebel Wen