Persephone

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Seethingly intense, vengeful, inscrutable and sexed  up to the max, Scorpios are hard-to-ignore. The sign of Sex, the Occult & Other People’s Money (to name but a few of the associations) is signified by the mental Scorpion (all those kinky stinging rituals as part of mating) AND the noble, metaphysical Phoenix…The ruler of the sign was once Mars (giving our Scorp the vibe of an emo Aries) but is now considered Pluto,  the Lord of the Underworld & part-time husband of Persephone.

Scorps are singular people. Whatever their archetype, they’ll manifest it flagrantly. I met a stunning Scorp Ski Champion  – female- when i was 19 and she was not much older. She was passionately promiscious – she had a BOOK in which she kept note of her conquests & their foibles; obsessed with investing in the stockmarket & adept at quadrupling small amounts of money via intensive studying of the business news etc…obsessively groomed, like a cat & even if she had been up until 3am the previous evening, would arise every morning to watch the sunrise and do her stretchings.

Seduced by, employed by, befriended by, loved by,  hated by a Scorpio – have you ever been Scorped?

trump_02_thepriestessThe High Priestess in the Thoth Deck

In a Tarot reading, the High Priestess popping up means there is a secret, a mystery behind the query and/or a karmic situation that you cannot understand yet. It can mean that something clandestine is about to emerge. Of course there are way more esoteric interps for the High Priestess. I am tres simple with my Tarot readings. But it’s always bliss to see  her. It may also be a sign to be comfortable not knowing the meaning or outcome of a scenario but trusting that there is a cosmic intent behind it.

If you see The Empress as the sensual aspect of the Feminine Divine, then the High Priestess is her more mystical aspect. A.k.a La Papesse, the Lady Pope…this links her to the fascinating myth (?) of Pope Joan. In the classic Waite pic of her, below, there are pomegranates which link her to Persephone & the headgear a la the Egyptian Isis.

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There is a statue of her in a Welsh village called Portmeirion

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And even though he’s apparently gone bust,  Christian Lacroix managed to send a homage to her down the runway the other day; Nice as, actually, he is a Taurus & this is the astro correspondence most oft linked with the High Priestess.

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