The High Priestess Tarot Year Card

A year of The High Priestess

The High Priestess holds a quieter year. Less happens on the surface and more underneath: dreams, hunches, the sense of something not yet said. It favours study, retreat and keeping some things to yourself until they are ready. It is often a year that makes sense only in hindsight.

What the year asks

It asks you to trust what you know before you can prove it, and to resist forcing answers. The shadow is withdrawal that turns into avoidance: keeping silent when something needs to be said.

Sitting with it

Keep a notebook for the things you notice but cannot yet explain. Give yourself regular time with no input: no feed, no talk.

Questions for the year

• What do I know that I have not admitted out loud?
• Where am I rushing a question that wants time?
• Which silence is rest, and which is avoidance?

Who has The High Priestess as a year card

Under Greer's method The High Priestess is nobody's year card between 2000 and 2099. It last fell in 1998.

The card itself

What you already know, before you let yourself know it.

If it is also your birth card

The High Priestess is also a birth card for some people. In the year it comes round as your year card, the theme you were born with is the one the year brings up.

Birth cards that include The High Priestess

• The High Priestess · 2
• Justice and The High Priestess · 11 · 2
• Judgement and The High Priestess · 20 · 2

Every year card

• The Magician · 1
• The High Priestess · 2
• The Empress · 3
• The Emperor · 4
• The Hierophant · 5
• The Lovers · 6
• The Chariot · 7
• Strength · 8
• The Hermit · 9
• Wheel of Fortune · 10
• Justice · 11
• The Hanged Man · 12
• Death · 13
• Temperance · 14
• The Devil · 15
• The Tower · 16
• The Star · 17
• The Moon · 18
• The Sun · 19
• Judgement · 20
• The World · 21
• The Fool · 22

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