What does it mean in tarot divination by High Priestess

"In the case under discussion will be pure, exalted and gracious influence. Hence: change, alternation, increase and decrease, fluctuation. There is a danger that the enthusiasm would lead too far can become a lunatic, if you do not keep a careful balance." (Aleister Crowley's "Book of Thoth") According to the Book of Thoth, the trump card is the last temptation adept at crossing the abyss. Crowley expresses the paradoxical idea that "for high-ordination is essential to the light, not as a perfect manifestation of the eternal spirit, but rather as a veil that hides the spirit, the truth is hidden behind a light curtain. "Carefully examine the card. The dominant colors - sky blue and white. From the physical world, it separates the veil of light, the hands pointing to the sky and comes from the head of moonlight. Below map depicts a camel, a symbol of the difficulties driving path.

The High Priestess is the heavenly maiden, Aphrodite Urania, Artemis. Its nature is purely spiritual - it has the effect that pulls people from the captivity of the material world and ascends to the spiritual world. Eternal femininity to which strives Faust, Beatrice conducting Dante through hell to heaven, all these purely spiritual feminine images correspond to the second of Arkan. To understand this map, we need to go back to the last lecture, in which it was a anime. According to the Jungian tradition, the Anima is the image of women in the inner psyche of men. In the Tarot has at least four trumps, which can be attributed to what represents the archetype of anime - the High Priestess, Empress, Lust, star as the sum of the shadow aspects of anime - moon Anima partly manifested in the fifth Arkan e, but this is a topic separate lecture

The High Priestess is the anima in a spiritual heavenly manifestations, it represents wisdom (Sophia, Shekinah) and a guide to its center. Beatrice in The Divine Comedy ", Maria in" Faust ", and many mythological female characters from Antigone Ariandy to comply with High Priestess. As you might guess, astrologically it corresponds to the moon, which is known to be full multidimensionality of female nature. It should be remembered that Crowley shared the full moon high priestess, and 18 Arkan "Moon", which is associated with witchcraft, black magic and the complete loss of self in the chaos of the unconscious.

Anima as a conductor, is found everywhere in the world literature, because even it makes no sense to point to specific works. Most arhitepicheskie - "Faust" and "Divine Comedy" has already been named. The whole mysticism associated with the merger with the divine lover, you can safely refer to the second Arkan have. Symbolism of the moon, most fully and vividly deployed in a wreath of sonnets Lunar, Maximilian Voloshin. Like any other What means the archetype, High Priestess, has its dangerous side, and an example thereof is the sad fate of Actaeon. The dog - an animal corresponding to High Priestess, and that the dogs tore Actaeon, turned into a deer angry goddess. The image of a dog, it is primarily the image of the guard, another allusion to overcome the threshold of the abyss. To interact with the high priestess, consciousness must be sufficiently prepared, otherwise it waits for dissolution, regression, and castration. With a purely spiritual nature, the High Priestess, can completely destroy the relationship between a person with all the earthly, sensual, which inevitably leads to neurosis and psychosis, and this is by no means be forgotten.