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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 as were born of Gaia (Earth) and Ouranos (Heaven) [the Titanes] amongst all these she has her due portion. The son of Kronos did her no wrong nor took anything away of all that was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds, as the division was at the first from the beginning, privilege both in earth, and in heaven, and in sea. Also, because she is an only child, the goddess receives not less honour, but much more still, for Zeus honours her. Whom she will she greatly aids and advances: she sits by worshipful kings in judgement, and in the assembly whom she will is distinguished among the people. And when men arm themselves for the battle that destroys men, then the goddess is at hand to give victory and grant glory readily to whom she will. Good is she also when men contend at the games, for there too the goddess is with them and profits them: and he who by might and strength gets the victory wins the rich prize easily with joy, and brings glory to his parents.And she is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hekate and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker [Poseidon], easily the glorious goddess gives great catch, and easily she takes it away as soon as seen, if so she will. She is good in the byre with Hermes to increase the stock. The droves of kine and wide herds of goats and flocks of fleecy sheep, if she will, she increases from a few, or makes many to be less. So, then. albeit her mother's only child, she is honoured amongst all the deathless gods. And the son of Kronos made her a nurse of the young who after that day saw with their eyes the light of all-seeing Eos (Dawn). So from the beginning she is a nurse of the young (kourotrophos), and these are her honours." - Hesiod, Theogony 404

I TODAY BANISH THE ILLS THAT CAUSED MY OPERATIONS. I BANISH WEAKNESS. I BANISH SORROW.

OVER THE DARK MOUNTAIN TAKE AWAY THE EVIL SPIRIT! INTO THE MOTHER'S NIGHT DRIVE IT IN BANISHMENT! DRAW IT INTO THE INVISIBLE RIVER! DRIVE IT FURTHER INTO OBLIVION! DRIVE IT ACROSS THE THRESHOLD OF THE DARKEST NIGHT! ALL PATHS LEADING BACK INTO LIFE BE BARRED WITH TWICE SEVEN ARROWS BARBED WITH KNIVES!

RENEW WOMAN, RENEW LIKE THE SUN REVITALIZE AND SING THE NEW SONG YOUR LIFE HAS NOT ENDED IT HAS ONLY BEGUN! RENEW WOMAN, RENEW LIKE THE SUN

When I walk the meadows,
Searching for Rainbow's end,
The colours in the distance
Bring voices on the wind.
And there amid the flowers,
I listen without a sigh;
The spirits of the Ancients
Echo their hearts' reply.
Sacred murmurs on the breeze,
What would you say to me,
If I bevame the rainbow,
Or the standing tree?
Would you ask me to listen,
Or add my voice to yours?
Becoming a Guardian Spirit
Of these ancient woods.