Found your channel through the toptarottrumps tag and I really fell in love with the way you decided to combine these 2 hashtags. I really get so much out of these videos. One eye opening moment from this one was the way you linked High Priestess energy with coaching/therapy sessions. Never made that connection but it makes so much sense, since that is actually what they do. They don't give you the answer but they guide you to find the answer on your own. Love that. Also totally agree on the fact that sometimes we need to step back in order to see more clearly and find a solution. And thank you for being so honest and open by sharing so many personal things/happenings. I really appreciate that.
And since you were asking us to describe what it was like growing up with grandparents: for me I loved the time that I was with them as a child. It was like candyland in a way since they would just let me be a child, weren't as strickt and I hadn't as much rules to follow as well as they would make my favourite meals for dinner and stuff like that. Also it was freeing for me as within my home/parents there was a lot of drama and argumenting going on and when I was staying with my grandparents I hadn't to worry about that and could just enjoy life. And then they are the grandma wisdom phrases and advice that you as a kid wouldn't really care about or thought that she was right saying that and now that I'm older I can't tell you how often I think about some of them and think to myself "well grandma you were right with that cause now I experience it on my own".
It's lovely that your grandparents were a space for you to escape your worries and home/family drama. And funny that grandma knows best, but kid you didn't know it at the time! I'm glad you found this exploration helpful! It really helps me a lot, too. Appreciate your kind words, Joanna! 💞
I loved this video! I am an atheist and also initially struggled with the High Priestess card, which is funny because it happens to be my birth card and came up a ton in my readings when I was first learning tarot. Here's how I view intuition: we are all mammals and we have innate instincts that give us clues about our world to help us survive. I like to think of the High Priestess energy as tapping into our instinctive knowledge (a vibe-check so to speak) about a situation. Just like it is hard to explain what love feels like to someone even though we can explain it in the biochemical sense, for me intuition is a similar phenomenon.
That last sentence makes a lotta sense! And you know what's funny, I find that I start to understand "intuition" more when I stop trying to "force" understanding of it and, you know... let the understanding come to me on its own. Those "aha!" moments just can't be forced, they can only come out of the blue 😂
I was lucky enough to know and see often both my paternal and maternal grandparents. Child me remembers them being really good listeners and I felt seen. I can give an example of what I see as intuition. I do a lot of hiking, and camping alone. Intuition is the feeling I get of "don't go down that trail" or "it is time to turn around", "be still". Feelings that might not have a real world answer that is making itself known at that moment. I've never seen the High Priestess as divine in spite of their name. A favorite High Priestess I have is from Tarot Landscapes.
"Feelings that might not have a real world answer that is making itself known at that moment" is interesting! Thank you for sharing! I'm glad you had positive associations with your grandparents 💞 I also haven't felt any divinity about the High Priestess, although that's likely from me being atheist/agnostic. That one from the Tarot Landscapes is gorgeous. It reminds me of the Moon card in other decks.
Like another viewer here, I found your channel again (I'd run across it before) through the toptarottrumps tag. Wow, I am really enjoying these videos! I'm not a beginner tarot reader, but I'm not intermediate either, and so thinking through the trumps with these videos is not just interesting, but helpful! As for grandparents -- like anything in life, grandparents can run the gamut from great to terrible. Case in point: my maternal grandmother was a good grandmother, who babysat us sometimes, was kind and loving toward us, listened to us, baked cookies and pies, and helped us learn things. [Content Warning: religious, emotional, physical abuse] However, my maternal grandfather was a religiously abusive man who believed in patriarchal fundamentalist Christianity and used to terrorize his children with shouting, preaching and "physical discipline". No doubt he had been abused and terrorized the same way when he was young, but my mom and aunts and uncle were afraid of him until he was too old and disabled to live on his own anymore, and had to go to a nursing home. So yeah, grandparents can be a negative presence too.
Thank you for making the time to comment! 💞 I'm glad my efforts with this series have been helpful for you 😊 Such a good point that grandparents, and any other family members, can really affect us for better and for worse. I appreciate hearing about what it was like for you on both sides of the coin. I'm glad that there are people out there who can show so much love & care to their grandchildren. Perhaps Grandmas with cookies need more representation in these Empress cards, not just High Priestess cards 😆
As always, I love these videos! I feel similarly about not feeling like a woman/just a person. I've found the energy of the High Priestess for me is about listening and being open to magic/signs/intuition. I don't associate women with being passive (all of the women in my family could not be less passive) but I see it as a sitting back. In contrast to the Magician who is a bit about showiness and flash and outward action, the High Priestess has the same energy of action through the journey of discovering oneself. My favorite cards for this are the High Priestess from the Philly Tarot Deck and the Diviner from Numinous Tarot. In the Philly deck, the High Priestess is represented by Terry Gross from NPR's Fresh Air, who is known to be a incredible interviewer-- a listener! Now I think I've evolved to thinking of the High Priestess as the Diviner (look up the card!) -- genderless, visionless, palms open. I love that Little Avatar tarot deck. I am putting it on my wishlist. I think using that would help me cement some of the trickier minor cards.
"Sitting back" is the perfect way to put it!! Yes, opposite of showiness and flash 😀 There is beauty in sitting still and not being in action all the dang time. Love the Priestesses you shared! The Numinous Tarot one in particular is so mysterious, wow. And yes, Push Kitty did a super great job with Little Avatar; the cards tie in together SO WELL with moments and themes from the show!
Found your channel through the toptarottrumps tag and I really fell in love with the way you decided to combine these 2 hashtags. I really get so much out of these videos.
One eye opening moment from this one was the way you linked High Priestess energy with coaching/therapy sessions. Never made that connection but it makes so much sense, since that is actually what they do. They don't give you the answer but they guide you to find the answer on your own. Love that.
Also totally agree on the fact that sometimes we need to step back in order to see more clearly and find a solution.
And thank you for being so honest and open by sharing so many personal things/happenings. I really appreciate that.
And since you were asking us to describe what it was like growing up with grandparents: for me I loved the time that I was with them as a child. It was like candyland in a way since they would just let me be a child, weren't as strickt and I hadn't as much rules to follow as well as they would make my favourite meals for dinner and stuff like that. Also it was freeing for me as within my home/parents there was a lot of drama and argumenting going on and when I was staying with my grandparents I hadn't to worry about that and could just enjoy life. And then they are the grandma wisdom phrases and advice that you as a kid wouldn't really care about or thought that she was right saying that and now that I'm older I can't tell you how often I think about some of them and think to myself "well grandma you were right with that cause now I experience it on my own".
It's lovely that your grandparents were a space for you to escape your worries and home/family drama. And funny that grandma knows best, but kid you didn't know it at the time!
I'm glad you found this exploration helpful! It really helps me a lot, too. Appreciate your kind words, Joanna! 💞
I loved this video! I am an atheist and also initially struggled with the High Priestess card, which is funny because it happens to be my birth card and came up a ton in my readings when I was first learning tarot. Here's how I view intuition: we are all mammals and we have innate instincts that give us clues about our world to help us survive. I like to think of the High Priestess energy as tapping into our instinctive knowledge (a vibe-check so to speak) about a situation. Just like it is hard to explain what love feels like to someone even though we can explain it in the biochemical sense, for me intuition is a similar phenomenon.
That last sentence makes a lotta sense! And you know what's funny, I find that I start to understand "intuition" more when I stop trying to "force" understanding of it and, you know... let the understanding come to me on its own. Those "aha!" moments just can't be forced, they can only come out of the blue 😂
I was lucky enough to know and see often both my paternal and maternal grandparents. Child me remembers them being really good listeners and I felt seen.
I can give an example of what I see as intuition. I do a lot of hiking, and camping alone. Intuition is the feeling I get of "don't go down that trail" or "it is time to turn around", "be still". Feelings that might not have a real world answer that is making itself known at that moment.
I've never seen the High Priestess as divine in spite of their name. A favorite High Priestess I have is from Tarot Landscapes.
"Feelings that might not have a real world answer that is making itself known at that moment" is interesting! Thank you for sharing! I'm glad you had positive associations with your grandparents 💞
I also haven't felt any divinity about the High Priestess, although that's likely from me being atheist/agnostic. That one from the Tarot Landscapes is gorgeous. It reminds me of the Moon card in other decks.
Like another viewer here, I found your channel again (I'd run across it before) through the toptarottrumps tag. Wow, I am really enjoying these videos! I'm not a beginner tarot reader, but I'm not intermediate either, and so thinking through the trumps with these videos is not just interesting, but helpful!
As for grandparents -- like anything in life, grandparents can run the gamut from great to terrible.
Case in point: my maternal grandmother was a good grandmother, who babysat us sometimes, was kind and loving toward us, listened to us, baked cookies and pies, and helped us learn things.
[Content Warning: religious, emotional, physical abuse] However, my maternal grandfather was a religiously abusive man who believed in patriarchal fundamentalist Christianity and used to terrorize his children with shouting, preaching and "physical discipline". No doubt he had been abused and terrorized the same way when he was young, but my mom and aunts and uncle were afraid of him until he was too old and disabled to live on his own anymore, and had to go to a nursing home. So yeah, grandparents can be a negative presence too.
Thank you for making the time to comment! 💞 I'm glad my efforts with this series have been helpful for you 😊
Such a good point that grandparents, and any other family members, can really affect us for better and for worse. I appreciate hearing about what it was like for you on both sides of the coin. I'm glad that there are people out there who can show so much love & care to their grandchildren. Perhaps Grandmas with cookies need more representation in these Empress cards, not just High Priestess cards 😆
As always, I love these videos!
I feel similarly about not feeling like a woman/just a person. I've found the energy of the High Priestess for me is about listening and being open to magic/signs/intuition. I don't associate women with being passive (all of the women in my family could not be less passive) but I see it as a sitting back. In contrast to the Magician who is a bit about showiness and flash and outward action, the High Priestess has the same energy of action through the journey of discovering oneself.
My favorite cards for this are the High Priestess from the Philly Tarot Deck and the Diviner from Numinous Tarot. In the Philly deck, the High Priestess is represented by Terry Gross from NPR's Fresh Air, who is known to be a incredible interviewer-- a listener! Now I think I've evolved to thinking of the High Priestess as the Diviner (look up the card!) -- genderless, visionless, palms open.
I love that Little Avatar tarot deck. I am putting it on my wishlist. I think using that would help me cement some of the trickier minor cards.
"Sitting back" is the perfect way to put it!! Yes, opposite of showiness and flash 😀 There is beauty in sitting still and not being in action all the dang time.
Love the Priestesses you shared! The Numinous Tarot one in particular is so mysterious, wow. And yes, Push Kitty did a super great job with Little Avatar; the cards tie in together SO WELL with moments and themes from the show!