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The High Priestess Tarot Cards Primer:

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Thoughts from the artist Coconutty Tabby:

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1)Two cats hugging:

My love of cats was tested years ago when I discovered a colony of stray cats living near some dumpsters near my home. Prior to this discovery, I volunteered with local cats rescues and re-homed several abandoned cats on my own, overseeing a TNR (Trap Neuter & Release) project. TNR is a valuable and crucial tool against cat overpopulation because it helps bring down the numbers of kittens being born and allows adult cats who cannot be socialized/adopted (due to never having prior contact with humans) to live out their lives in their environment with the support of a colony caregiver that provides them essentials like food/water and love. My mother and I, with a group of other volunteers oversaw this cat colony. There were happy moments when we finally trapped the elusive timid cats out of the bunch after many attempts and long hours. Seeing them come to the food and groom themselves afterwards without the stress of dumpster diving was so rewarding. Then there were the sad moments, two colony cats being run over and us having to pick their body off the road or the ones that while living in the outside cat shelters were still very cold during the winter months and trying to keep them going was quite miraculous and commendable at their level of determination to survive. Lastly, the ones that sadly just went missing, no sign, no closure only questions never answered. This drawing represents what I would envision two cats either colony buddies or siblings holding each other for support and bein g transformed into powerful spiritual beings as a way to protect themselves and the others in the colony during difficult times.

Please adopt pets and don't shop!
 

2) Mother Earth & The Highway Of Life : This design was created back in 2009 during a trans-formative period in my life were I was beginning to see the veil lifted and truth revealed about all the injustices and atrocities being committed daily in our world. On the lighter flip-side these painful realizations were also bringing me closer to building a more solid spiritual mindset and appreciation of life.Gratitude was something I was incorporating daily into my routine which as a result caused me to analyze life through an artistic lens. This birthed the idea behind this drawings as I was in the backseat of a car and after a very long drive to visit a town unknown to me. I was observing a very large intersection and got lost in the rhythmic movement of the cars and suddenly the traffic lights morphed into the image, like in the card, of mother earth holding these traffic lights guiding the world. I call this drawing, the highway of life. I was sober during this experience, it was not a drug hallucination. I believe our bodies can heal us, this was my brain's way of trying to lift me from depression and channel my energy into more curiosity towards the big questions in life of WHY we are hear and how I can get closer to my creator/God.

 

The High Priestess tarot card represents; intuition, inner wisdom, and the subconscious mind. She is a symbol of the feminine divine, encouraging you to trust your inner voice and delve into the depths of your intuition. The High Priestess is associated with mystery, stillness, and secrets, suggesting a need for introspection and reliance on your instincts.

Key Interpretations:

Intuition: The High Priestess is a powerful symbol of intuition and inner knowing, urging you to listen to your gut feelings rather than relying solely on logic.

Subconscious Mind: She represents the realm of the subconscious, where hidden knowledge and wisdom reside. Feminine Divine: The High Priestess is often associated with the feminine archetype, representing nurturing, receptivity, and the mysterious forces of nature. Secrets and Mysteries: he card can indicate the presence of hidden information, secrets, or things not fully revealed. Retreat and Reflection: The High Priestess suggests a time to withdraw from external pressures and focus on inner reflection and self-discovery.

Spiritual Knowledge: She can signify a deepening connection to spirituality, meditation, and a heightened awareness of the unseen. When the High Priestess appears in a reading:

Upright: It's a call to trust your intuition, explore your subconscious, and listen to your inner voice. Reversed: It can indicate a disconnect from your intuition, secrecy, or difficulty trusting your inner guidance.

 

“The second numbered major trump is called La Papesse, the Female Pope, and has been associated with a curious legend of the only woman who ever sat in the pontifical chair. Pope Joan is supposed to have accomplished this by masquerading in malt attire, and was stoned to death when her subterfuge was discovered. This card portrays a seated woman crowned with a tiara surmounted by a lunar crescent. In her lap is the Tora, or book of the Law (usually partly closed), and in her left hand are the keys to the secret doctrine, one gold and the other silver. Behind her rise two pillars (Jachin and Boaz) with a multicolored veil stretched between. Her throne stands upon a checker-hoard floor. A figure called Juno is occasionally substituted for La Papesse. like the female hierophant of the Mysteries of Cybele, this symbolic figure personifies the Shekinah, or Divine Wisdom. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the priestess is veiled, a reminder that the full countenance truth is not revealed to uninitiated man. A veil also covers one-half of her book, thus intimating that but one-half of the mystery of being can be comprehended.” Source: https://sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta31.htm

“The High Priestess, the Pope Joan, or Female Pontiff; early expositors have sought to term this card the Mother, or Pope's Wife, which is opposed to the symbolism. It is sometimes held to represent the Divine Law and the Gnosis, in which case the Priestess corresponds to the idea of the Shekinah. She is the Secret Tradition and the higher sense of the instituted Mysteri”

Source: https://archive.org/details/A.EWaiteThePictorialKeyToTheTarot/page/n9/mode/1up

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"The second numbered Tarot card (The High Priestess), therefore, reveals to us the symbols and attributes of the heavenly wisdom robed in the vestments of the true Akasha and bearing the several symbols of the ageless truth. La Papesse (which literally means “the female pope”) may be interpreted as the female father for she signifies the secret doctrine which is the wisdom of the Infinite gone forth as the Son, visible to mankind only through its outer or symbolic form.” quote by Manly Palmer Hall (33rd degree Freemason) from an article  taken from, “The All-Seeing Eye”, volume 5 No. 4, January 1931.

Sources: https://archive.org/details/the-all-seeing-eye-vol-1-5-manly-p.-hall-may-1923-sept-1931

See also his magnum opus: The Secret Teachings Of All Ages , also available free on internet archive.

How does The High Priestess tie in with Justin D’Amico psychic device developed by Dr.Persinger?:

The psychic device featured next to this table by Justin D'amico was developed by a U.S expat and former professor at Laurentian University in Canada  Dr. Micheal Persinger.

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The Akasha is attributed to this tarot card and is referenced by the influential occultist and 33rd degree Freemason Manly P.Hall. Akasha refers to a concept borrowed from Hindu/Buddhist cosmology, in a sense meaning the black void of space, as in, the black between the stars in the sky at night. In modern science this is called "dark matter" which is a mysterious substance and barely understood by western science. The Russian scientists such as Nikola Tesla call this black void space Ether or Æther. Nikola Tesla then expands on his theory with Ether/ Æther, that the universe is magnetic/electrical, with sound and vibration being key factors that convert this Ether/ Æther to all that exists in this world. The Akasha is central, a western thelogical term for it being mother darkness. This ties in with Dr. Persinger’s theories with this psychic device, as it is like a Tesla coil with invisible “electricity” in the form of a current that channels an electro-magnetic frequency of sound/vibration to the amygdla and other parts of the brain. It harvests the latent potential energy of the “Akasha” which is also our intuition, and makes intuition more powerful, intuition being one of the major meanings of this tarot card.

A famous psychic medium named Ingo Swann tried Dr.Persinger's device and it worked. Ingo Swann was a Scientologist, a follower of L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. This “religion” borrowed heavily from Freemasonry.

L Ron Hubbard was a student & mentee of the infamous Satanist Aleister Crowley, as was Jack Parsons the founder of NASA, and oddly Walt Disney, who was a 33rd degree Freemason himself. Crowley created his own tarot deck The Thoth Tarot, displayed at this event by Sun Cross Publications (the synchronicity of six degrees of separation)

Dr.Persinger was loosely connected to the C.I.A . The Central Intelligence Agency independently funded with millions of dollars, for research in the now infamous Mk-Ultra psychic experiments, around the same time period. They took it seriously and so should you!