2. The High Priestess

The subconscious; what you know in your heart, deep down. The 'still, small voice'.

The High Priestess represents what is known by the subconscious mind; instinct and intuition. She is wise, but her wisdom is not freely dispensed; she is the oracle who gives her pronouncements in a strange language, only half understood. If you take the trouble to listen carefully, and learn the language, you can be taught wisdom. She is the mysterious, divine woman-chaste, but potentially fertile. She represents serene, intuitive knowledge; she is lsis veiled.

Reversed, she is Diana, who had Actaeon torn to shreds for daring to look upon her naked body, the virgin who is afraid of the emotional commitment of sex. She is Mata Hari, who destroyed her lovers. The wisdom from the subconscious is poorly understood and wrongly interpreted; she misleads you into believing that she is in possession of the truth: if you believe her, you're only kidding yourself.