Finding Your Inner High Priestess
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Tarot offers us even more than an opportunity for truth-finding, divination or fortune telling. Each tarot card presents us with a set of ideas and energies to which we can attune ourselves. I like to think that all seventy-eight cards reside within us. When we chose a card to ground into, we can more easily change our mindset, or energy, and our behavior in ways that align with that card.
The energy of the High Priestess can be beneficial to just about anyone. Although the High Priestess is a particularly feminine card, it carries an energy that is helpful to all of us, regardless of gender.
The High Priestess teaches the concept of active stillness. She is quiet, peaceful, and serene, but she is still in action. Her action is primarily internal. She keeps her balance, and her emotional regulation. She sits between mercy and severity and can engage with both of those energies. She is wise and intuitive, but feels no compunction to correct the follies of others unless they cross her specifically. Instead, she studies and experiences the wisdom that is available to her in this world, and in the unseen world. The only way to embrace her wisdom is to do as she is doing.
The High Priestess asks us to attend to our own matters, rather than worrying about what others are doing. The High Priestess asks us to find the energy that moves within us and channel it toward peace, serenity, and spiritual connection. The High Priestess directs us to spend time in communion with the divine, whatever that means to us.
The High Priestess reminds us that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The High Priestess reminds us to spend time in liminal space, meditation, ceremony, and study. The High Priestess reminds us to read sacred texts and take our time to understand and interpret them.
How can you find your inner High Priestess? Spend time with the card, and set an intention to embody that energy. Actively maintain your silence and your secrets. Actively devote yourself to your spiritual growth and edification. Spiritual work is much more than having faith, it demands an active internal practice. That is what the High Priestess teaches us. By finding our inner High Priestess, we commit to our active internal spiritual practice.
The StaarCon 5 Imagining of Pixie Arcana. Art and composition by Stacey Williams-Ng, backgrounds by Animix.
The StaarCorner
We have two more events in the Meeting Hall lounge this month, and one of them is tonight, Wednesday, October 23.
At 7 pm ET, please join Kimberly Scheurer for another Spirit Circle: Modern Day Séance. Everyone who participates will receive a message from spirit.
If you are interested in learning to connect with spirit in a tarot reading, please join me, Christiana Gaudet, on Monday, October 27, at 6:30 pm ET for a session on mediumship with tarot.
We will soon begin beta testing on our new online platform, StaarCast, and we are looking for beta testers! Meanwhile, the StaarCon 5 AfterGlow will continue on Accelevents until January 26.
Stacy Psaros and Jen Schultz volunteering at StaarCon 5.
Cards arranged on a table prior to a tarot reading.
Intuitive Tarot
One important aspect of the High Priestess is intuition. The High Priestess can tell you to develop your intuition, use it, and trust it.
Intuition is also an important part of tarot reading, or any divination. We always tell tarot students to use their intuition in reading, but we do not often tell them how to do it.
I do not think that intuition should be a replacement for tarot study. I think intuition works best in a tarot reading when we use it to determine which card meanings are most appropriate, which questions we need to dig further into, and when loved ones in spirit are present at the tarot session. Intuition can tell us which deck or spread to use, or how many times to shuffle.
In a tarot reading, we need to remember that intuition can feel a lot like fear or desire but is neither of those things. In fact, fear and desire can shut down our intuition.
A short meditation before conducting a reading can be very helpful in removing attachments like fear and desire, and in opening and accessing the third eye, or brow chakra.
The third eye is the seat of our eyesight, our imagination, and our psychic vision and intuition. It is important to be open to imagination as part of the intuitive process.
When we use our intuition in a tarot reading, the reading often flows easily. If the reading is not flowing, we can often find our intuition simply by saying the name of a card aloud, and allowing the information to flow from there.
October 26 @ 7 pm - TarotScopes for November 2025 Live for YouTube Members
The Week in Review
This Saturday, I am back at Mandel Public Library in West Palm Beach to teach a free all-levels tarot class on my birthday! Join us at 1 pm.
On Sunday, October 26, members of my YouTube channel are invited to join me on YouTube as I record the November TarotScopes and do some readings at the end. That will happen at 7 pm ET.
From Around the Web
Want to learn more about the High Priestess? Labyrinthos has a great article.
The University of Minnesota has exercises to help develop your intuition.
Would you like to enhance your connection with your tarot cards? Here are ten steps to do that with journaling and meditation.
An outdoor yoga class.
Communities
While yoga emerges from a very different culture than tarot, the western yoga community and the tarot community cross over a lot. There are real reasons for this. Both practices require introspection and provide healing.
When we think about the High Priestess, we think about silence and stillness. Nothing helps us learn to be silent and still more quickly than the yogic practices that encourage silence, like vipassana.
If you go on a vipassana retreat, you will exist within a community in silence. While this may not be practical or appealing for everyone, it is an interesting thing to consider.
What might happen if we developed a personal practice of silence? Do we have friends with whom we can be comfortable in silence? What happens if we spend time away from digital and IRL communication for a few hours, or even a day?
The more we can be in silence and stillness, the better we know ourselves.
If a retreat seems logistically impossible, you can also find a vipassana meditation class that will allow you to experience silence within community with a lower commitment. You can also find a yoga studio that practices mauna, which is yoga in silence.
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Tarot Topics Newsletter
Volume 8 Issue 43
October 22, 2025
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