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mswyrr · 2 months ago

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Due to lack of information, there's a limit to how much I can or wish to analyze 1x05 at the moment. I'm mostly in a "wait and see" place with it. My only certainty is that, for the shit to hit the fan now, with 4 whole episodes left, means that things will improve from here -- where can we go but up? lol-- if all of that happened in ep 8, I'd be far more worried. Thankfully, we only have to wait a week to get the next episode! Given all that that, though, I wanted to turn to something I've been thinking about re: Jennifer.

The show specific Tarot cards have one for her, and it's the High Priestess. Here's the classic Smith-Waite design (left) and Jen's card (right):

Furthermore, when Lilia first meets her she says "High Priestess" (like how Lilia says "Three of Pentacles" when divining who the members of the coven should be and there's a show specific design for that as well or how she says "Three of Swords" about Agatha, whose show specific design is the Three of Swords).

The High Priestess is associated with many things including, significant for a woman who chose to be a midwife and healer, fertility/life. She's also about being in balance and trusting yourself, your own inner guidance and intuition. My theory is that currently--due to the trauma of what that man did to her--Jennifer is the High Priestess *reversed*:

Repression of intuition, blocked psychic powers… lack of self-belief, fertility issues [...] The High Priestess reversed in a tarot reading indicates your intuition is trying to guide you and your instincts are correct. However, in the reversed position this Major Arcana card shows that you are not hearing it. (source)

She herself says she doesn't know how he did it without magic:

"I never really identified as just a witch. I'm an 11th-generation root worker and midwife. [A midwife… How were you bound?] I was invited to the brand-new Obstetrics Association of Greater Boston. To share my expertise. It was a trap. I still don't know how he did it. Bound me without magick. So much for 'Do no harm.'" --AAA, 1x04

It might turn out that the block is psychological and the ways that the story keeps returning to moments where she comes through--during the first trial and then saving the kid's life--especially the way others' belief and support plays into that, are about her connecting with her inner power and self-belief. That might be the key to processing what happened and being "upright" again. I think that is the place where the story is going to take her.

#jennifer kale #agatha all along #agatha all along meta

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