Sulis
The sky is black with a waning crescent moon.
In the foreground is a white tigeress and between her front paws is a crystal ball coloured in shades of blue and purple.. The colours look as if they are swirling and mixing together. The tiger looks relaxed, her eyes are half closed.
I've added some thoughts from my tarot journal.
High Priestess
Some things that the term 'High Priestess' and this and the usual image of a robed and crowned woman sitting in front of a veil between 2 pillars and holding a book or scroll make me think of:
Dark feminine,
Inner mystery,
She's an oracle, someone that is apart from everyone else, someone who dares to look beyond the veil, the keeper of secrets and inner wisdom. She's brave; most people don't want to look beyond the conscious level or delve into the darkness but she does. She's aloof and powerful and a little scary. Someone that others come to only if they can't find answers elsewhere. There's a sort of remote sexiness to a woman who has dedicated her life to knowing and discovering inner mysteries (I'm thinking of the Priestesses of Avalon or Delphi here). She's alone and doesn't mind that.
She's inward looking, still, reflective.
Her element is Water so she's deep, reflective, powerful and also dangerous.
The number II
2s are about duality. They're about balance, light and dark. They are a choice or a meeting or even a separation. 2 is the pause after the initial burst of energy in the 1; they're the time when you look within to decide what to do with that energy - the doing comes with the 3.
Yin / Yang... Male / Female.... Light / dark
This image - the white tigress
When I first saw this card I had a good think about what a white tiger makes me think and this is what I came up with:
A white tiger (any tiger for that matter), is rare, powerful, mysterious, dangerous. It's hard to find and nocturnal... All of these things gel very well with my feelings about The High Priestess.
Tigers hunt often at night and they don't hunt in packs; they're lone hunters. They are also excellent swimmers which is quite unique in the cat family so that links them to the element of Water.
They hunt slowly and silently and are very reluctant to share their kill, going to great lengths to drag what they have to somewhere where only they know - keepers of secrets
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After a bit of research I discovered that in China tigers are symbols of darkness and the New Moon as well as being symbols of brightness and the Full Moon so that ties in well with the duality of the High Priestess who usually sits between one black and one white pillar, symbolising duality, balance and that pause of the number 2.
So this tigress sits calmly at night with the waning moon above her, almost in a trance with her crystal ball between her paws. Dare you approach this dangerous beast to find what lies beyond and if you do what will happen? Will she impart her wisdom or eat you?
I love this High Priestess.
In the foreground is a white tigeress and between her front paws is a crystal ball coloured in shades of blue and purple.. The colours look as if they are swirling and mixing together. The tiger looks relaxed, her eyes are half closed.
I've added some thoughts from my tarot journal.
High Priestess
Some things that the term 'High Priestess' and this and the usual image of a robed and crowned woman sitting in front of a veil between 2 pillars and holding a book or scroll make me think of:
Dark feminine,
Inner mystery,
She's an oracle, someone that is apart from everyone else, someone who dares to look beyond the veil, the keeper of secrets and inner wisdom. She's brave; most people don't want to look beyond the conscious level or delve into the darkness but she does. She's aloof and powerful and a little scary. Someone that others come to only if they can't find answers elsewhere. There's a sort of remote sexiness to a woman who has dedicated her life to knowing and discovering inner mysteries (I'm thinking of the Priestesses of Avalon or Delphi here). She's alone and doesn't mind that.
She's inward looking, still, reflective.
Her element is Water so she's deep, reflective, powerful and also dangerous.
The number II
2s are about duality. They're about balance, light and dark. They are a choice or a meeting or even a separation. 2 is the pause after the initial burst of energy in the 1; they're the time when you look within to decide what to do with that energy - the doing comes with the 3.
Yin / Yang... Male / Female.... Light / dark
This image - the white tigress
When I first saw this card I had a good think about what a white tiger makes me think and this is what I came up with:
A white tiger (any tiger for that matter), is rare, powerful, mysterious, dangerous. It's hard to find and nocturnal... All of these things gel very well with my feelings about The High Priestess.
Tigers hunt often at night and they don't hunt in packs; they're lone hunters. They are also excellent swimmers which is quite unique in the cat family so that links them to the element of Water.
They hunt slowly and silently and are very reluctant to share their kill, going to great lengths to drag what they have to somewhere where only they know - keepers of secrets
.After a bit of research I discovered that in China tigers are symbols of darkness and the New Moon as well as being symbols of brightness and the Full Moon so that ties in well with the duality of the High Priestess who usually sits between one black and one white pillar, symbolising duality, balance and that pause of the number 2.
So this tigress sits calmly at night with the waning moon above her, almost in a trance with her crystal ball between her paws. Dare you approach this dangerous beast to find what lies beyond and if you do what will happen? Will she impart her wisdom or eat you?
I love this High Priestess.
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