I know the secret! (HP)

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 10 May 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

cricket	10 May 2003
I'll start off with a confession. The High Priestess has always bothered me. Period. It doesn't matter how she shows up, why she shows up, where she shows up, or anything else. It's all because of that I-know-something-you-don't-know look that always comes through. That look reminds me of one too many people that are rather unlikeable. Until now. Now I know what she knows that she's not telling. It's a secret. Nobody else knows, either. We'll all just have to wait and find out. Unless I tell you. Want to know what it is? *pauses for effect* We all know it already. *nods* Yep. That's it. We all know it. We know everything. We just don't know we know what we know, especially when we should know it. We just like to make things hard on ourselves. That's why we search hard for connections that don't have to be there. That's wy we get tangled up in all sorts of things that we don't need to get involved in. We already know that things are connected, and that things will work out without our help. We just deny that we already know. The HP doesn't. That's why she's always got that smug look on her face. She knows that she knows. She knows that the knowledge will come to her when it will be the most useful (for herself and for others). She's also smart enough to just accept the fact and get on with it. Smart lady.

LittleWing	10 May 2003
you are right!! the answers are within us. sometimes people will look to tarot in hope of a different answer (when they already know the real answer. i love the high priestess - knowledge is power.

Kiama	10 May 2003
It seems to me that the HPS is the opposite of Socrates, who was reputed to say... 'All I know, is that I know nothing', and therefore was hailed as the wisest man who lived. Very interesting... I myself have never 'gotten on' with the HPS, but I think I will take a look at her today. Kiama

littleneptune	10 May 2003
Cricket: it's no wonder we have problems with the High Priestess. We live in an "information age"-- endless streams of facts, opinions, heresay, gossip, myths, computers, cellphones, televisions, commercials, billboards. We are bombarded by information at all times. It's so hard to just get quiet and listen to the inner voice (plus it takes a lot of courage in one's own resources). It is so much easier to pick up a book, or ask for someone else's opinion! I have great respect for HP--think how hard it is to keep a secret!

jlbvt	10 May 2003
So true, Cricket. I totally agree. I think that we all have connections to the world, the universe, everything and everyone. That is what makes all the occult sciences work. When you practice using whatever psychic gifts you have, you help those connections to become stronger. When you meditate, you learn to filter out all the mundane junk and connect with your higher self and the "high Priestess". And when you use Tarot, you are assuming that the tarot represents, and is connected with, the universe. That's how it works. (my opinion.) Really, deep down, we do have the faculties to know everything. I agree that the High Priestess knows this, and is confident in her ability to use it. And now the secret is out!

allibee	10 May 2003
Quote: Originally posted by jlbvt Really, deep down, we do have the faculties to know everything. No, we already know everything ... we just forgot. William Wordsworth (English poet, 1770-1850) - Heaven lies around us in our infancy…….. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star Hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come..." A little ditty on reincarnation :O) Allison

Belladonna	10 May 2003
One reason I love the Buckland Romani deck and the Wheel of Change deck so much is because of the High Priestess card. She's portrayed as an old woman. She's lived a whole life already and she's got experience tucked under her belt. She knows everybody's in the same boat and that in the end she doesn't need to look further than her own heart for answers. I see her as the opposite of the Heirophant sometimes. She doesn't need the man made structure of faith and stability, convention and tradition. I'm not shunning these things, there is definately strenghth and wisdom to be found in the Heirophant. It's just that sometimes I think these things are actually the more fragile of the two. By that I mean that the wisdom of the High Priestess is NATURAL, we just need to relearn how to trust it, because if we don't have faith in ourselves we give away all our power. At the risk of sounding to political here, I would just like to add that the High Priestess reminds me of the village wise woman while the Heirophant reminds me of the church seizing power and all that entailed... I know, I know, I have some serious work to do with the Heirophant, but we'll leave that for another thread

skytwig	10 May 2003
The HP is our Crone; she listens to the Wind; she soars with ease, like the Eagle, above this planet that insists on definition.

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