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 naked man and woman stand under an angel, unashamed: this is a Garden of Eden scene before the fall.The Lovers

Card combination

The High Priestess and The Lovers

Knowing drawn against choosing, which the tradition treats as a genuine sequence rather than an opposition. The Lovers requires a decision; The High Priestess holds the thing that would inform it. The pair is frequently read where somebody already knows the answer and is deciding as though they do not.

Together

Knowing drawn against choosing, which the tradition treats as a genuine sequence rather than an opposition. The Lovers requires a decision; The High Priestess holds the thing that would inform it. The pair is frequently read where somebody already knows the answer and is deciding as though they do not.

In love

Associated with a choice about a relationship where the deciding fact is already in the room and unacknowledged.

In career

Read for a decision made without consulting the person who knows, or without consulting your own knowledge of it.

The advice

Ask yourself what you already know. The pair is quite firm that you do, and that the deliberation is a way of postponing it.

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