lilyroserainbow

As The Magician represents direction and flow, or movement, so The High Priestess represents the magical power of stillness and depth. The Magician's power is externalized into the physical world, whereas The High Priestess's power is internal, and mediates the florces of the Otherworld.

This is the Hall of Wisdom. No one can revel it, no one can hide it. Like a flower it must grow and bloom in your soul. If you would plant the seed of this flower in your soul, learn to discern the real from the false. Listen only to Voice that is soundless. Look only on that which is invisible, and remember that in you yourself is the Temple and the gate to it, and the mystery, and the initation. ~ P.D Ouspensky

"Asteria of happy name, whom Perses once led to his great house to be called his dear wife. And she conceived and bare Hekate whom Zeus the son of Kronos honoured above all. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea. She received honour also in starry heaven, and is honoured exceedingly by the deathless gods. For to this day, whenever any one of men on earth offers rich sacrifices and prays for favour according to custom, he calls upon Hekate. Great honour comes full easily to him whose prayers the goddess receives favourably, and she bestows wealth upon him; for the power surely is with her. For as many