The Priestess – Card 2

This card shows a figure (a woman) standing in an open position, presenting a series of planetary and esoteric symbols over her tunic. The symbols represent local planetary influences in this solar system. They are expressed according to a mystic divinity, each one of which has its own shape and form. Her hands are thrown open and her head is hooded in the continuous garment around her. The garment is made of pure blue coloured silk. She wears a belt of the wayfarer and carries the sign of the eagle at her throat.

To her left is a white pillar, that of illumination and wisdom and to her right is the black pillar of the occult and mystical worlds. She stands upon the steps of ascension upon which the signs of eternity and antiquity are shown. Behind and in the distance are the temples and quarters of her world, the libraries and archives of the celestial and divinatory worlds. To her those are the places of confinement and resolution of purpose of life. Her strength of being, calm and control are fixed upon her face and above her head the gateways to the truth stays open for this view but closed to any who try to approach her without the true intention of seeking the truth.

The sky is a daytime blue representing the fully awakened condition of life whilst held to many of the walls and supports are the dustings of the gold of higher knowledge and constraint. This card also represents the values and secrets of hidden knowledge and any kind of esoteric or even occult archives. The Priestess is a custodian of the virtue and serenity of many worlds including the mystical and ethereal. Her abilities are those that work in the hidden aspects of
process and include such activities as sacred dance and the sacred rites and rituals of the worlds of divinity and pedigree.

The Priestess dwells and abides in the time of the temple, speaking only when made demand off and then in the whispers that carry the passion and meaning of such truths. Her inner life is fixed upon the evolution of the light in others and she seeks always to the higher either than the lower. She serves only in such roles as will keep her content and containments alive within her. She relies upon tranquillity and the singularity of the woman’s way as well as she represents
the unmarried or childlike girl and virgin.

This card is also to do with the religious event of life and ways as she is represented in the churches and temples in the role of a nun or a monk, where they deny the event of life in place of the containment of whatever there is within the process of religious containment and spirit. The higher the spirit the higher the containment. She has a dedicated life to serve the purpose and purposes of that life without a turning around or looking back for self-interest or gain. She has no knowledge of deceit or self lies. To her the world is an unsanctified land and she will never walk upon it until it has been cured from the illicit lives of those who went before and were re-purged and sanctified with the cardinal rites of higher life.

In the ordinary life she walks amongst the worldly people with an all-seeing eye looking into the hearts and secrets that are kept in the eyes and minds of those who pass her by.

She is the one that all women tell their secrets to and take from her the advice that can relieve them of the guilt and more. She has a perception and the empathy of love and light for her fellow sisters and in her presence the world of women can stand again in the truth of what they are. She is represented to all men as the servant of the Empress, the higher issue of all women and is her confidante and aid.

The event of this card is that fate and destiny are not so fixed on their leaving as when they first approached the Priestess herself. The way before was limited by the unknown, unseen, unheard and un-sensed to which no light of day would be possible. She stands against evil and the corruption of life itself especially in women. Without the Priestess and what she embodies there would be no sanctuary or haven for the peace and goodness of life to preserve itself in standard and continuity of flow.

The Priestess is an elected position, appointed by her upbringing and her temperance of manner to be constant and upstanding in the face and knowledge required to become and maintain the way of the Priestess herself. She doesn’t deal in chance or guesswork and looks only upon what is but turns away at the entrance of deceit and lies. She is the woman’s friend and dwells close to the cycles and seasons of women, hiding as they do when their times are active, closing their gates and dis-engaging in the formality of expectancy, as in the life of culture demands. They are hidden for a cycle until they reappear behind a veil too thick for others to see through and far too distant for men to reach into.

Finally for now, the whole life of the Priestess is one made and kept by closed and contained culture of life. They are maintained by the work they do in these worlds, keeping the temples of the world and the temples with themselves alive in the virtue of grace and intelligence of life. They are attached to the elemental worlds in an occult way, using and  commanding over the most powerful of them, keeping for the elemental world (as they do for culture and history).