The High Priestess
The One Who Remembers You
Something in you came here.
Something in you has always come here.
The High Priestess is the presence behind the veil.
She lives in your breath, in your blood, in the pause between questions.
She is the pause.
And she is asking:
“Will you stop reaching… and start remembering?”
Upright Meaning:
The High Priestess shows up when your inner knowing is already speaking—and the real question is whether you’ll listen. She is the unshakable awareness that doesn’t need receipts. The dream you can’t shake. The way your stomach flips when the truth walks into the room.
This card invites you to:
Trust your gut even when it’s inconvenient
Hold space for silence and stillness
Let wisdom surface instead of forcing answers
Recognize that some truths arrive only when you’re ready to hold them
Upright, the High Priestess says: “You already know. Trust it.”
Reversed Meaning (if you read reversals):
Reversed, she warns
you might be muting your inner voice—
drowning it out with fear, distraction, or the need for outside validation.
It can also mean:
Ignoring your intuition because it disrupts your plans
Outsourcing your truth to someone “wiser”
Using withdrawal or “spirituality” to avoid engagement instead of align
The reversal asks:
“Where have you silenced yourself,
and why?”
🔑 The Energy
This is a threshold.
An invitation to dissolve your addiction to noise, proof, and performance.
When her energy rises, you may feel:
inexplicably tired (you’re being slowed down on purpose)
dreamy, disoriented, forgetful (you’re being reoriented inward)
uninterested in bullshit small talk (your soul is rerouting resources)
Do not resist it.
Sink into it.
You are not losing momentum.
You are regaining access.
🖤 Embodied Invocation:
Read this slowly. Breathe between each line.
Let it slip past your mind.
“I become still.
I feel the tides turn beneath my skin.
I remember without words.
I trust what echoes louder in silence.
I trust myself enough… to wait.”
✍ Journal Activation:
Let these questions open doors as you fill in blanks.
What am I sensing that I haven’t named?
Where does my body say yes, even when logic says wait?
What sacred truth have I been guarding in silence?
✦ Spread:
Enter the Temple
What wants to be revealed to me
What veil must I pass through
What part of me already knows
How to protect the sacred within me
🐍 Portal Opens Here:
If your inner world is knocking and you’re ready to answer…
Book a Snakeshift Session. Come as you are. Leave as who you actually are…
