The Hierophant
Uprighttradition · belief · education · guidance · custom
Reversedrejection of custom · independence · personal belief
Upright meaning
This is a time to seek wisdom within proven traditions and teachings. Advice from a mentor or an experienced person will be helpful. Connecting with your community provides strength.
Reversed meaning
A frame of beliefs built by others may be confining you. Follow your own beliefs, not convention.
Readings by topic
Love
Upright — This is a time to seek the words of someone experienced. When you examine this relationship through proven teachings, your unsettled heart will settle down.
Reversed — Instead of waiting for someone else to bow first, you must express your feelings exactly as they are. It is better to check your own heart rather than following custom if you want this relationship to last.
Work
Upright — This is a time to seek wisdom within proven traditions and teachings. If you listen to a mentor or advisor first, the order of tasks you need to handle will fall into place.
Reversed — It's time to step back from convention and rethink your own way. Checking what suits you, rather than what others have always done, keeps the work going longer.
Money
Upright — This is a time to decide on a way of spending that follows proven methods. If you listen to the advice of an experienced person first, your spending will settle down.
Reversed — You may be in a time of finding your own way outside of existing frameworks. It is better to check how you truly intend to use your money rather than following custom if you want your spending to stay steady.
Choices
Upright — This is a time to set criteria for your choice within proven teachings. If you listen to a mentor or an experienced person first, your path at the crossroads will settle down.
Reversed — It's time to go by your own standard rather than the path others took. Check your own standard first, not convention, and the right choice will appear.
In the past, present and future positions
When you draw three cards and read them as past, present and future, this card reads like this in each position.
Upright
Past — In the past, you lived following traditional teachings. You set your attitude toward life by believing in the rules and customs of the community. That time became a solid foundation for your life.
Present — Now, you seek advice from mentors or experienced people. You live trying to gain wisdom by staying connected to the community. You confirm your life's direction through the teachings around you.
Future — From here on, you will gain life wisdom within proven traditions. Your life's rhythm stabilizes as you receive help from the community. Your life becomes more solid as you receive guidance from experienced people.
Reversed
Past — In the past, you tried to use what you believed as the framework for the world. You stayed within set rules while asserting your own beliefs. That belief became a wall that confined you.
Present — Now, your own beliefs have become a new framework that weighs you down. You are contemplating an independent life while trying not to be trapped by custom. You must check if your beliefs are confining you.
Future — From here on, you will follow your own beliefs by rejecting custom. You will see that the beliefs you set for yourself do not become a framework that confines you. You must walk your own path by following your beliefs.
As your card of the day
Upright — Today is a good day to seek advice from someone trustworthy or to engage with books and teachings that hold long-standing wisdom.
Reversed — Try following your intuition rather than the rules today. There are paths available that do not follow a set way.
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