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By Sarah Taylor
While archetypes exist eternally, they manifest in reality as symbols. Paradoxically, the symbol is a bridge. Although anchored in daily experience, the symbol points to an archetypal eternity, enabling our limited understanding to touch a transcendent unknowable reality. — Dr Rachel Hillel, The Redemption of the Feminine Erotic Soul
Today’s reading feels like a meeting point between us mortals and the immortals — the archetypes that we embody that elevate us above our limited viewpoint and situate us on a plane that we can perhaps sense but not fully understand. In fact, this reading is going to be a challenging one to convey, simply because we are dealing with that point of impingement between the physical and the liminal, where words can only go so far, but where we are being asked to feel into ourselves and our deeper senses and intuition to reach for a place where we can hold the tension of our experience.
Let me see if I can explain more clearly.
On the outside of the reading, we have two major arcana cards: The High Priestess and The Hermit. Major arcana cards are associated with inner development and growth — our souls first, rather than our physical bodies, which then live out the soul’s experience in the everyday world. These major arcana archetypes point to areas that are asking for our attention, calling to us through these two figures and what they might represent for us.