In a world obsessed with logic, speed, and quantifiable results, living intuitively can feel like trying to speak a forgotten language. For those who rely on inner knowing, symbolism, and emotional depth to navigate life this can be truly disorienting. You may feel unseen, misunderstood, or even accused of being irrational.
Fortunately, there is an archetype that understands you perfectly: The High Priestess of the Tarot. She doesn’t live by surface appearances or external systems. She lives behind the veil, where symbols, patterns, and quiet truths guide her every move. If you’ve ever felt like your way of knowing doesn’t fit the world you live in, the High Priestess is your ally.
This post explores how her symbolism offers powerful guidance for anyone trying to live more intuitively in a linear, left-brain world.
The Veil: Honor the Unseen
Behind the High Priestess is a veil covered in pomegranates—a symbol of mystery, fertility, and hidden truth. The veil marks the threshold between the seen and the unseen, the conscious and the unconscious.
In daily life, this reminds us to respect what can’t be measured: feelings, dreams, body language, synchronicities. Not everything real can be proven. Living intuitively means acknowledging the unseen world as just as valid as the visible one. In fact, if you’re an intuitive, your inner world may frequently seem more important than your outer world.
The Moon: Trust Emotional Cycles
The crescent moon at the Priestess’s feet is a classic symbol of intuition, emotion, and cycles. In contrast to the linear, upward march of modern life, the moon reminds us that all things move in rhythms—inner and outer.
This is actually one of the oldest principles of occultism and is discussed extensively in The Kybalion. Everything on the Earth Plane – everything – moves in cycles. The tides go in and out. The Moon waxes and wanes. Spring gives way to winter. Even great nations spring up and then fade away.
To live intuitively is to trust your emotional tides. Some days are for action; others for withdrawal, reflection, or stillness. Honoring this inner rhythm—even when it defies external expectations—is a revolutionary act.
The Scroll: Keep Inner Wisdom Sacred
The scroll in the Priestess’s lap is partially hidden and marked “TORA,” suggesting sacred knowledge that isn’t meant for everyone—or even always fully for yourself. This teaches a key lesson of intuitive living: you don’t have to explain yourself.
In a linear world, people often want justification, proof, or evidence. But intuition doesn’t always offer that. Like the scroll, your inner knowing may be incomplete, symbolic, or private. Protect it. Don’t feel pressured to decode everything aloud.
Intuition is frequently about knowing that you know something without knowing how you know it. You don’t have to defend that to anyone who wants to pick it apart with linear logic. Sonia Choquette offers a wonderful tip for dealing with it when someone is attacking your intuition: just smile at them and say, “It works for me.”
The Pillars: Balance Inner and Outer Worlds
The High Priestess sits between two pillars marked B and J (Boaz and Jachin), drawn from the ancient Temple of Solomon. They symbolize polarity—light and dark, masculine and feminine, logic and intuition.
To live intuitively in a linear world, you must balance both forces. Intuition doesn’t reject logic; it expands it. Learn to speak the world’s language when needed, but stay rooted in your own. The magic is in integration.
The Solar Cross: Stay Centered
On the High Priestess’s chest is a solar cross—an ancient symbol of wholeness, representing the four directions, seasons, and elements. Unlike the Christian cross, this symbol is universal. It tells us to stay centered within the circle of life, grounded in your own compass.
Living intuitively means checking inward before reacting outward. It means making decisions from alignment, not anxiety. The solar cross reminds you: you carry your center within you.
It’s also worth noting that the cross is centered over her heart chakra, the energetic mid-point between the lower chakras and the upper. Intuition pulls in insights from the universe but grounds them in daily life.
Practical Ways to Live Intuitively
Create space for silence and solitude: That’s where intuitive messages come through. Remember to be patient with that, too. Intuition speaks in symbols, not type-written messages. When we sit down to meditate we probably won’t get a telegram from the Universe telling us what to do. But . . . a particular book that we need to read may fall off of a shelf or a friend may casually say the perfect word to trigger insights.
Journal or use symbols: Tarot, dreamwork, or creative writing can help you listen inward. The Major Arcana of the Tarot in particular is crammed with archetypal symbols. Every one of those speaks to Deep Mind and starts a dialog with intuition.
Let go of constant justification: Trust what you know, even if you can’t explain it. If other people don’t understand what you plainly see, then fuck them. You’re not the extrovert-whisperer and you don’t need to explain your inner vision to someone who’s blind.
Honor emotional and energetic cycles: Don’t force productivity; honor your timing. Despite the many New Age gadgets and programs that we may encounter now days, there is NO way to force intuition. In fact, quite the opposite: the more relaxed we are, the more likely we are to have a free flow of intuitive insights. The more we force it, the more it flits away.
Balance logic with knowing: Use your left brain to support your right-brain insights—not to silence them. Think of left-brain logic as a sort of an editor that connects the dots for you. The first thing that comes is the intuitive flash: “Hmmm . . . I think this is how it actually is, even though it looks differently.” Then we can use logic to figure out where the insight came from or to explain it to others, but we should never, ever, let logic tell us that our intuition is wrong, simply because we can’t justify it.
It’s Not Impractical – It’s Sacred
The High Priestess doesn’t offer quick answers. She teaches us to dwell in questions, to honor mystery, and to trust the quiet voice within. In a culture addicted to speed and clarity, living intuitively is a radical form of wisdom.
If you feel like you see through the veil or live just outside the edges of ordinary awareness, you’re not lost. You’re listening. And you’re not alone.
Let the High Priestess be your reminder: intuitive living isn’t impractical—it’s sacred.
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