An empty crossroads on a heath at night, a leaning signpost and poppy heads in the verge.

The tarot · II

The High Priestess

Priestess of the Silver Star

The face of II, The High Priestess, engraved in gold on black, with its title, Priestess of the Silver Star.

The hidden knowledge behind the veil.

Upright

Not every answer is meant to be spoken yet. Trust intuition, dreams and the quiet knowing in your body. Something is being revealed slowly; wait, watch and listen inward.

Reversed

Ignoring your intuition, or keeping secrets that have started to poison you. Surface knowledge mistaken for depth.

Show the spirits

The spirit work

Chasmodai is the spirit of the Moon, governed by Malkah be-Tarshishim. Keep a dream log for a lunar month and read for yourself on the new moon. Isis lifts the veil only for those who come back to it every night.

A question to sit with

What do I already know that I have not let myself admit?

Where the card sits

Correspondences

Path13, Kether to Tiphareth
Hebrew letterGimel, the camel, value 3
AstrologyMoon, planet
Presiding powerIsis, lady of the unlifted veil
Governing angelsArchangel Gabriel; intelligence Malkah be-Tarshishim
SpiritChasmodai, spirit of the Moon; Olympic spirit Phul
Sealthe sigil of Chasmodai on the kamea of the Moon
RunePerthro, the lot-cup: fate, mystery and what is not yet revealed
The High Priestess in the guidebookAll seventy-eight cards

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Notes on sources

The meanings, the questions and the correspondences are the guidebook’s own. The paths, letters and astrology follow the Golden Dawn’s attributions; the angels are the Shem ha-Mephorash, as the deck gives them; the spirits, shown only when you ask for them, are the seventy-two of the Goetia. Where each comes from, and what is old and what is modern, is set out in the guidebook’s Notes on sources and seals.