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The The Hierophant card from the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot

On the card

A robed figure between two pillars raises a hand in blessing over two tonsured attendants, crossed keys at his feet.

Upright

  • Tradition
  • Teaching
  • Belonging

Traditionally the inherited path — the lineage, the training, the way a thing has long been done. It asks which of your practices you chose and which you were handed.

Reversed

  • Dogma
  • Going it alone
  • Empty ritual

Read reversed, it points either to a convention that no longer earns its keep, or to the cost of working with no tradition and no teacher behind you.

About this deck

The artwork is the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, drawn by Pamela Colman Smith to Arthur Edward Waite's direction and first published in 1909. It has passed into the public domain, which is why it can be shown here in full — but it is her work, and the reason this deck became the one nearly every other deck answers to.

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