The Hierophant and The Star

Mediated understanding drawn with unmediated experience, which the tradition treats as the older argument of the two. The Hierophant stands between; The Star has nobody in the way and no clothes on. The pair asks whether you need the intermediary here.

Associated with going directly to somebody rather than through the expected channels or people. The pair favours the direct route.

Read for approaching something without the usual intermediary. The pair notes this is either efficient or a serious breach and rarely in between.

Ask what the intermediary is for. Sometimes it is protection and sometimes it is a toll.