The High Priestess: tarot card meaning

The High Priestess is card II of the Major Arcana, associated with the element of Water. Drawn upright it speaks of intuition, mystery, inner wisdom; reversed, of blocked intuition, secrets, withdrawal.

Upright meaning

intuition, mystery, inner wisdom, stillness

The answer is already inside you -- go quiet enough to hear it, and trust the knowing that arrives before the reasons do.

Reversed meaning

blocked intuition, secrets, withdrawal, ignored knowing

The quiet inner voice is being drowned out or tuned away -- what you are avoiding is exactly what needs a look.

Vedic and astrological correspondence

In a three-card reading

In the past position The High Priestess describes the current that carried you to where you are; in the present position, what is most alive in the situation now; in the future position, the direction things tend toward if nothing changes. A reading weighs it against the other two cards rather than on its own.