Since 2020, Phil and JF have been creating an on-again, off-again series on the major trumps, or "arcana," of the tarot. In this episode, they continue the series with a discussion of the second arcanum: the High Priestess, also known as la Papesse, the female pope. One of the most enigmatic and powerful cards in the deck, the High Priestess symbolizes duality, contemplation, and manifestation.
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Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot
Plancia Magna, Roman priestess
Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth
Leigh McCloskey, The Tarot Revisioned
Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory
Moina Mathers, French occultist
Sallie Nichols, Tarot and the Archetypal Journey
Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom
Yoav Ben-Dov, The Marseille Tarot Revealed
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