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The High Priestess

Major arcana · II

On the card

A seated figure between a black and a white pillar, a crescent at her feet, a partly hidden scroll in her lap and a veil of pomegranates behind her.

Upright

Stillness
Inner knowing
The unsaid

The veil is the point — something here is not meant to be read yet. Traditionally a card of waiting and of the knowledge you have not put into words.

Reversed

Noise
Overriding instinct
Secrecy

Read reversed, it points to what happens when the quiet is crowded out: instinct talked over, or a silence that has stopped being restful and started being a wall.

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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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