She sits between the pillars Boaz and Jachin, black and white, at the threshold of the temple, the point of decision itself.The High PriestessA woman closes a lion's jaws with her bare hands and no visible effort, wearing white and a chain of flowers rather than armour.Strength

Card combination

The High Priestess and Strength

Two quiet trumps with very different quiets. Strength is composure with a hand on the animal; The High Priestess is composure with nothing showing at all. The tradition reads the pair as inner work of two kinds, one that manages a force and one that simply contains knowledge.

Together

Two quiet trumps with very different quiets. Strength is composure with a hand on the animal; The High Priestess is composure with nothing showing at all. The tradition reads the pair as inner work of two kinds, one that manages a force and one that simply contains knowledge.

In love

Associated with patience and reticence in the same person, and with a partner who cannot tell which they are being given.

In career

Read for holding a difficult situation without speaking about it. The pair rates this highly and is honest that it is tiring.

The advice

Say which it is. Restraint and secrecy look identical from outside and mean opposite things.

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