A young traveller steps toward a cliff with eyes raised, not down.The FoolHe raises a hand in blessing while two initiates kneel below.The Hierophant

Card combination

The Fool and The Hierophant

The uninitiated and the institution that initiates. The Hierophant holds a body of knowledge with a way in and a way of being taught; The Fool does not yet know there is a door. The tradition reads the pair as the moment before an apprenticeship, and it is neutral about whether the apprenticeship is a good idea.

Together

The uninitiated and the institution that initiates. The Hierophant holds a body of knowledge with a way in and a way of being taught; The Fool does not yet know there is a door. The tradition reads the pair as the moment before an apprenticeship, and it is neutral about whether the apprenticeship is a good idea.

In love

Associated with somebody entering an established set of expectations, a family, a faith, a way things are done, without having been raised in it.

In career

Read for training, joining and being taught. The pair favours submitting to the form for long enough to learn it, which is the part The Fool finds hardest.

The advice

You can reject a tradition you have learned. Rejecting one you have not is only ignorance with an opinion attached.

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