The High Priestess upright
The High Priestess sits between the pillars Boaz and Jachin, the gateway to what conscious mind can't fully see. Behind her, the veil of pomegranates hides the inner temple.
This card asks you to listen rather than analyse. The answer is already in you - you just have to stop talking long enough to hear it.
Dreams, half-sentences, the thing you almost said and then didn't: those are the data the Priestess works with.
The High Priestess reversed
Reversed, intuition is being ignored, suppressed, or drowned out by noise - yours or someone else's.
Information is being kept from you, or you're keeping it from yourself.
Keywords
- intuition
- mystery
- subconscious
- patience
- the unsaid
Where this reading comes from
Meaning paraphrased from A. E. Waite's The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1910), which is in the public domain - reworded rather than reproduced.
Common questions
- What does The High Priestess mean?
- Inner knowing, the unspoken, what the day-mind can't reach. The High Priestess sits between the pillars Boaz and Jachin, the gateway to what conscious mind can't fully see. Behind her, the veil of pomegranates hides the inner temple.
- What does The High Priestess mean reversed?
- Reversed, intuition is being ignored, suppressed, or drowned out by noise - yours or someone else's.
- Is The High Priestess a good card to draw?
- The High Priestess is one of the twenty-two Major Arcana, which mark structural turns rather than day-to-day detail. Tarot convention treats no card as simply good or bad - the reading depends on the question and the position it falls in.
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