The High Priestess

Upright

You know something you haven't said out loud — possibly not even to yourself. She doesn't ask you to act. She asks you to stop overriding the quiet read you already have.

Reversed

Disconnection from your own knowing — usually from talking yourself out of it, or asking so many people that you can't hear yourself. Occasionally: secrets being kept from you.

How it's usually misread

She isn't 'be passive.' She's the difference between waiting because you're afraid and waiting because it isn't time.

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