THE HIEROPHANT

THE HIEROPHANT 

ASTROLOGICAL: venus
PLANET: taurus
Element: earth

5 - The Hierophant

Key Words: Structure, traditions, guidance, societal expectations.

Upright:

  • Conformity to or investigation of societal expectations, rules, pressures, values, and doctrines.

  • Structure and traditions.

  • A spiritual mentor.

  • Ask yourself why you do, say, think, and act the way you do, and how you have been influenced.

  • Represents a lesson learned that can be shared.

  • Inner sense of obedience.

  • Religion, marriage, long-term commitment.

  • Higher education.

  • Seeking and receiving information from others with more experience or knowledge than you.

  • Ancestry.

  • Resistant to change.

  • Blind obedience to authority.

Reversed:

  • Blocking the upright energy.

  • Unorthodoxy.

  • Turning a blind eye.

  • Forming original ideas.

  • Gullibility.

Symbolism:

  • Sits between two pillars: The Sacred place.

  • Triple Cross: The holy trinity.

  • Right-hand symbol: As above, so below.

  • Keys at his feet: Knowledge