Re: Oh - the High Priestess!
Hello Karen,
I absolutely love the High Priestess in your deck! Before I purchased your deck a couple of weeks ago (oh, I have fallen in love with it) I had been looking at the card images on the ToP website and the High Priestess is the one that grabbed me the most. I agree that the HP shouldn't be too approachable - anyone with such depth, wisdom, and intuition has to be careful and responsible without how she uses her energy and allows people in her inner circle. What struck me the most about the card is that she is pointing very decidedly at a specific line of text in the book on her lap, while looking astutely at, not the reader, but definitely something or someone specific. The image reminds me of divination, and more specifically, of bibliomancy - although, she appears to be using it more by second nature to give specific (possibly strict) counsel with a silent, intense look. I feel I can't elaborate on it enough, even in my own mind. I also like the light purplish tent to her skin, which seems to say that she is an embodiment of the Divine.
I am a bit new to this forum and am also using this thread as an excuse to say thank you very much for your creativity and labor in such a seemingly flawless, beautiful work of art - The Tarot of Prague.