Episode 198 – Breaking the Frame: On the High Priestess in the Tarot

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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REFERENCES

Our Known Friend, Meditations on the Tarot (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781585421619)

Plancia Magna (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plancia_Magna), Roman priestess

Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780877282686)

Leigh McCloskey, The Tarot Revisioned (leighmccloskey.com/TarotRev.html)

Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780486434155)

Moina Mathers (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moina_Mathers), French occultist

Sallie Nichols, Tarot and the Archetypal Journey (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781578636594)

Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom (bookshop.org/a/18799/9781578636655)

Yoav Ben-Dov, The Marseille Tarot Revealed (bookshop.org/a/18799/9780738752280)

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