The High Priestess: Potentiator of the Mind

[Jade]

This is the card of the Magician's nearest and dearest friend, and hopefully lover and cohort, the High Priestess. She is the Potentiator of the Mind.



She seems quite far away because we have veiled her from ourselves. We want her to put up a chase. She keeps herself between two pillars, balanced. She smiles patiently waiting, sitting atop and outside the box of 3D manifestation. Her offerings are infinite, waiting for the Magician to ask her to reveal them. And she will, in her own way.

The High Priestess is a personification of an idea that we are not unfamiliar with: The deep resources of the mind, symbolized by many things: One, the infinite depths and reaches of the oceans. Another symbol that is bound up within her is that of the moon, the silent mover of the tides of the deep ocean and waters within.

The light and dark pillar surround her, showing that she must be reached through the strictures of polarity. The pillars are identical, and both have the symbol of manifested spirit upon them (crux ansata), indicating that the Creator has no bias of which polarity one chooses to manifest their spirit.

Ra: I am Ra. Although this is correct it is not as perceptive as the notice that the Priestess, as this figure has been called, sits within a structure in which polarity, symbolized as you correctly noted by the light and dark pillars, is an integral and necessary part. The unfed mind has no polarity just as intelligent infinity has none. The nature of the sub-sub-sub-Logos which offers the third-density experience is one of polarity, not by choice but by careful design.

However, the Logos does have a bias, shown on the High Priestess by the cloth that bears fruit protecting her right side.

She also bears the crux ansata on her chest (solar plexus). Let me gather what Ra has said about the enigma of the crux:

92.30 Questioner: Would this crux ansata then be indicating a sign of life or spirit enlivening matter?

Ra: I am Ra. This is quite correct. Moreover, it illuminates a concept which is a portion of the archetype which has to do with the continuation of the consciousness which is being potentiated in incarnation, beyond incarnation.

We may indicate that the crux ansata is a part of the concept complexes of the archetypical mind, the circle indicating the magic of the spirit, the cross indicating that nature of manifestation which may only be valued by the losing. Thus the crux ansata is intended to be seen as an image of the eternal in and through manifestation and beyond manifestation through the sacrifice and transformation of that which is manifest.

I interpret this to mean that, the sacrifices of previous incarnations towards our relationship with the Magician/High Priestess are manifest within this card - i.e. if the spirit has already 'enlivened' the matter in 'previous' incarnations, this is activated by the High Priestess. Ra says not all incarnate 3D entities are using their spirit complex. The High Priestess is how you access it - i.e. she is the one who can help you release the bird from the cage.

The rest of the mind cycle, and even indeed somewhat of the rest of the cycles, are about developing the relationship between the Matrix and the Potentiator of the Mind, as they are what we use to call forth our 3D manifest experience. How adept, careful, and pure we are with these resources allow less distortions along the way, for example, when one is "groping in the moonlight". The veiled priestess offers the moonlight, and you can interpret "groping" as another gross sexual analogy to your relationship with her - do you know her, understand her? Or are her cues confusing, seemingly misleading? The next cards reveal the process one must go through to really get to know her so well, that even in the dark, merely by touch, you are able to excite her in the ways that you desire...