UPRIGHT: Spiritual wisdom, religious beliefs, conformity, tradition, institutions
REVERSED: Personal beliefs, freedom, challenging the status quo
The Hierophant is the masculine accomplice to The High Priestess. He is generally called the Pope or the Teacher in other Tarot decks and is constrained by Taurus.
The Hierophant is a severe figure sitting between two pillars of a heavenly asylum – nonetheless, this safe-haven shifts from the one in which the High Priestess sits. He wears three robes – red, blue, and white – and a three-layered crown, both tending to the three universes over which he makes due (the mindful, sub-conscious, and super-perceptive). In his left hand, he holds the Papal Cross, a triple staff that infers his severe status. He lifts his right hand in a severe gift, with two fingers pointing towards Heaven and two towards Earth.
Before him stoop two followers. The Hierophant’s task is to pass down his supernatural understanding and begin the two into the gathering so they can take up their assigned positions. This imagery tends to a typical social affair character and a momentary encounter to enter a more significant level. The crossed keys at The Hierophant’s feet address the amicability between the mindful and subconscious characters and the kickoff of mysteries, which nobody however can educate.
The Hierophant card addresses a laid-out set of otherworldly qualities and convictions and is frequently associated with religion and other conventional tenets. Before you can find your conviction frameworks and settle on your own decisions (as related to the following card, The Lovers), The Hierophant urges you to gain the central standards from a confided in source.
Work with an instructor, tutor, or manual to show you profound qualities and convictions in an organized manner. He might be a power or a sort and liberal tutor who supports your profound mindfulness and assists you with getting to the Divine by grasping the customs and center standards. You may likewise attempt a time of formal concentration as you dive into a subject that has been broadly investigated and archived.
Assuming that you have proactively dominated a specific field of study, you might be assuming the job of educator and guide to other people. Here, you honor and recognize your obligation to share your insight in an organized manner, one that regards the deep-rooted customs.
The Hierophant’s appearance recommends you are following the show and remaining inside the limits of an ‘attempted and tried’ model. You are not yet ready to put it all out there or present any new and creative suggestions. All things being equal, you comply with the critical standards and decide what you realize will prompt a success.
The Hierophant might call you to respect family customs or holy ceremonies that sit dismissed. You are being approached to focus on profound practice in its most healthy structure – no customization, no transformation, no bowing to the principles. Assuming that you have been deficient with regards to custom and custom, make a customary practice like a day-to-day petition or expressing elegance before a dinner. Consider investigating your profound or strict legacy.
The Hierophant Tarot card frequently addresses bunch enrollment or being essential for an establishment. You might partake in a profound feeling of solace being encircled by individuals who have deeply grounded conviction frameworks and express qualities. Observing them might be just about as huge as investigating another congregation or strict gathering, or as straightforward as joining an exercise center or online Tarot people group. This card is tied in with relating to other people and a perspective that will incite further learning.
In its best structure, The Hierophant Reversed advises you that you are your own educator. All the insight you look for comes from the inside – not from some outer source or power. You are being directed to follow your own way and embrace your own profound conviction frameworks as opposed to aimlessly following others’. It might feel agitating from the get-go as you make your own specific manner, however over the long run, you will figure out how to trust yourself and tap into your inward information. Others might scrutinize your inspiration to conflict with custom, yet you know profound inside that this present time is the opportunity.
With The Hierophant Reversed, you never again need an outer endorsement to succeed. You are all set it single-handedly and do it as you would prefer, regardless of whether that implies conflicting with the show. Allow yourself to believe your internal direction framework as you make your own way ahead.
The Hierophant Reversed is likewise about rocking the boat. You see elective approaches to review the world and are prepared to test the very thoughts and ideas you were instructed were ‘reality’. You never again acknowledge the inflexible designs, customs, and creed encompassing you; all things considered, you search out chances to rebel and recover your own power. Assuming that you feel confined or obliged and have lost your feeling of opportunity and adaptability, this is the ideal opportunity to make your own guidelines.
The Hierophant Reversed urges you to analyze ‘the manner in which we get things done around here and find out if it lines up with your qualities. You might have been running on autopilot up until this point and following the group, yet presently you see that changes should be made. Taken further, The Hierophant Reversed resembles an insubordinate youngster who starts to address social and participate in the enemy of institutional exercises. There might be a spat with specialists or a struggle with a parent or definitive figure.
