Clairvoyant & Visionary
 
 

QUOTE
 Religion. A daughter
of Hope and Fear, explaining
to Ignorance the nature
of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce MOTTO
Do unto others as you
would have done unto you.
Bible
OTHER
ARCHETYPES
Pope, Jesus, George Balanchine
of the New York City
Ballet Company, Gandhi,
Nelson Mandela.

STONES
 Aquamarine
Lazurite

REVERSED MEANING
 If the Hierophant card is reversed you may be in conflict with your personal values. You may be in resistance to what you know to be true. You might be going against you personal moral values and are finding yourself in conflict with your essential nature. You may be going against your true self to try to prove to God that you are not worthy of his love or you may be trying to rebel against what you have been taught as a way of claiming your own sense of individuality. If this card is reversed you may be making things hard in your life by not seeing and following the signals of the guides and angels that are happening all around you. You may be acting from your ego, wanting to do everything your own way rather than following the rules of the society and culture. You may be feeling that you have to do everything alone. You may be believing that no one is there for you. There is always spiritual help and support along every journey. But sometimes you have to ask for that help. There may be help that you are not willing to receive. You might be having a judgment about what help would look like to you. When this card is reversed, your appiture for receiving is very narrow. You ego is not letting you see the help that is available right in front of you just because it doesn't match your internal picture. This card can mean that you are in a spiritual conflict internally as well as externally. Take a good look to see if you want God to prove that he/she is there by fixing something in your life the way you want it. Reversed, the Hierophant is reminding you that you may not always get what you want, but you will always get what you really need if you are willing to let it in.

QUESTIONS TO ASK
 Am I in conflict with my spiritual or moral values?
Am I going against my own belief systems?
Am I in rebellion with society or my family?
Do you believe that you are unworthy of God’s love?
Are you afraid of being rejected by others because of some label you have given yourself?
Are you afraid to listen to the angels because they are going to tell you something you don’t want to hear?
Are you using your spiritual values as weapons against others?

THE PATH
Spiritual teachings are here to help you step onto the path of self-awareness and to become one with your true nature. Spiritual teachings give you a map into the unknown. Spiritual teachings are the map to a greater awareness to yourself as well as to your purpose in this life. But remember the teachings are actually inside you. They are not just words on paper. This is not wisdom that only others have. You too have great wisdom and spiritual teachings from your life experience. That has value. Learn to value your own experiences and share the insights with others. No one person or spiritual practice has all the information you are seeking. No religion has all the information you are seeking. Both of these are just guides along the path to self-awareness.

YES-NO POSITION
 Yes, the guides and angels are requesting that you take a risk and try. Trust them that they know something that you cannot see at the moment. There is a divine plan at work. Let go and let the angels show you something.


V - Hierophant

ANGELS
 Angel of Spiritual Teachings, Angel of Social Systems, Angel of the Spiritual Father, Gabriel-the angel of Divine Rule and Order

CHRISTIAN ARCHETYPE
 The Pope, Jesus, Gabriel

MOVIE ARCHETYPES
 Forest Gump: The Hierophant is the religious values and systems with which Forest Gump was raised. Those values kept his life in a forward moving direction because he is consistent with those teachings within himself.

Wizard of Oz: The Wizard of Oz is the Hierophant when he challenges Dorothy and her friends to prove they are worthy of the great gifts they are requesting and wanting them to get the broomstick from the Wicked Witch of the West. Toto is the spiritual father archetype because he always follows his spirit even if it might get him into trouble. Toto always does what is right.

LEVELS
Physical Level: On this level the Hierophant is about living life from the center of your personal values. It is about aligning your physical world around your personal moral codes. Creating balance between what you have been taught as a child (your spiritual or religious beliefs) and your present circumstances. It is time to put practical application to your ideas and values. This is a gentle way of saying, “Put your money where your mouth is?” It is one thing to have the idea, but quite another to be able to practically apply those beliefs and integrate them into your life. An example of the Hierophant on the physical level would be choosing to become vegetarian. Now, some people become vegetarian because they want to help animals and the thought of killing something is repulsive to them. But some say that they are a vegetarian in order to be cool and hip in the group of their peers. The true vegetarian is being honest and congruent with their choice on a physical level and they live their life in a state of awareness and understanding. The other is out of cinque with their mind and their body. The mind wants to believe the illusion of being a vegetarian but the body is not yet ready to give up meat. Notice where you might be identified with a group. Yet, you are not completely aligned with their values. Ask the question if you are in the group just to fit in, or if you really believe whole heartedly on the beliefs of this group?

Emotional Level: What areas are not awakened within your soul and spirit? Is your emotional life reflecting your spiritual self? This is about finding the balance between spiritual awareness and true wisdom. This can mean that you are questioning religions and trying to find what is true for yourself by going on a spiritual search. Your emotions may be contradicting the values you were raised with. Check to see what the positive intention is in you rebelling against your upbringing. The positive intention might be that you want to feel truth for yourself rather than just repeating others words without feeling and understanding. You may be feeling lost spiritually. You may be seeking an emotional breakthrough at this time in your life. You may want to know God rather than simply have others tell you what God is. Now is the time to find your inner truth and then reflect that in the outer world. Remember God’s wisdom is within you. All you have to do is to find the emotional keys to the inner sanctum of your own wisdom.

Spiritual Level: On the spiritual level the Hierophant card is showing you are searching for a spiritual path or teacher. You may be seeking groups that help open up internal awareness without judgment or blame. You are on a spiritual journey to reclaim your personal values and beliefs. You are seeking something that resonates with you on the inside. You want to find a group that will help give voice to this thing inside and to give validation to your personal truths. Try to remember to not bring old judgments and control patterns from your old religious patterns or beliefs with you. Stay open to new possibilities and ideas. Be flexible to others beliefs. They just might have a concept that you could use and expand. The universe is bringing in new people and perspectives to expand your awareness of spirit. Realize that there is truth everywhere. There are so many perspectives of truth because there are so many types of people. Each person in their own way is trying to get to some form of God connection and awareness. Stay flexible and respectful to all beliefs and take what resonates with you and integrate it into your life. Yet, be willing to let go of things that do not resonate with your core. Sometimes you will find one piece of truth in a pile of garbage. Pick up that pearlof truth and leave the garbage. Just because someone or some spiritual practice has a truth doesn’t mean that everything is true.

INTERPRETATION
 The Hierophant is the spiritual father. This is the spiritual masculine in its highest intended form. It represents the positive aspects of religion, culture, and society.

The Hierophant is represented by Taurus because of its strong determination and desire to adhere to the spiritual foundations of culture and civilization. Taurus’s lesson is about dependability and practicability. Taurian energy can be resistant to change because of its earthiness. Religion also reflects resistance to change. This card reflects the need of human beings to have a strong spiritual foundation. A strong spiritual foundation can become the grounding for your soul. There is a natural evolution for the soul to find its spiritual place by looking at religions and social systems. These help you to create your personal spiritual identity.

If you pulled this card you may be having a conflict with your inner beliefs, your foundational beliefs or the religion you were raised with. Your personal values are being called into question at this time.

This card represents the patriarchal religions, your spiritual foundations and the culture you were born into. The Hierophant is the highest form of spiritual values in the male dominated world. This card can also represent moral codes and values, or social beliefs that your were raised in. It is how your family saw the rules of the society and how they taught you. The Hierophant represents religious values, foundations, cultural conditioning, and programming. But it can represent what you see as your foundational beliefs and how you live your life by those rules.

Think of this card, as when you were a child and one of the first understandings of culture might have been going to church on Sunday or family gatherings that reflected a group of people all coming together with a particular style or way of being with each other. As you grow up, you must eventually understand the social system into which you were born. You must learn, as a child, to work within a society. The natural tendency is to want to find others that have your same values. This allows you to feel safe and secure. You have an identity and you belong somewhere. You are not alone and the commonality helps you to grow and to take risks because you are in a group that accepts you because you are one of them.

Traditionally, this card tends to represent the Pope, who was the highest authority, religiously as well as governmentally in the olden days. The Pope held the ultimate authority in all arenas at that time. In this day and age, for Americans, it is the United States Government to whom you must be accountable if you stray too far outside the socially considered norm.

Even today, you will tend to identify with a religion, a culture or a race. You do not always realize how much your cultural identity has a profound effect upon your ideas about yourself as well as others. In modern society you are more aligned with groups rather than religions. But they are essentially the same thing. If you are in a minority group, that group and its beliefs and ideas affect many subtle aspects of your life. Even if you are not in the minority, the beliefs that you have identified with tend to influence your actions every day.

This card asks you to become aware of what your spiritual beliefs and values are at this time. It might be time to learn to sort out what is really true for you. How you were raised, gave you the foundation upon which to build your own spiritual world. If something is no longer true for you then you might need to make a few changes to your values.

Religions are a map to the spiritual world. However, the map is not the territory. You must create your own spiritual foundations based on what is true for you as well as what is important for you. The only way to learn is by experiencing life. As you live life you might be amazed to understand finally why there are certain directives for spiritual teachings.

Values must be experienced to fully appreciate. In the beginning, as children, you must abide by the rules because you are young and you must trust the adults around you to guide and help you integrate into the society. Yet, as you get older you tend to challenge those rules because you must find out what is true for yourself. Eventually, it comes full circle and you see the value in those rules you originally rebelled against.

When this card shows up, it is important to notice what you are rebelling against. Create experiences that help you find what is true inside yourself. Eventually you will come full circle and truly understand your own spiritual teachings. This creates calmness and balance in your life.

When you live by your own healthy boundaries and personal values, your life becomes more balanced and there will be less internal conflict. When you are not at war with yourself you will have a lot more energy to use in areas that mean something to you.