The Hierophant
The Hierophant represents a divine teacher who preserves communal rules, rites, and traditions, emphasizing belonging and the comfort of established structures. She embodies compassion, social approval, and the importance of legacy and the path well-trodden. This card encourages finding one's place within a supportive community and honoring shared rituals and guidance. Reversed, it can indicate feeling adrift, vulnerability, blind faith, or a tendency to buck trends and break from tradition.
Keywords
Title
The Hierophant
Character
White Buffalo Woman
Origin
North Dakota, Lakota Deity
Description
The Hierophant is a divine figure and teacher who shares the rules, rites, and rituals to follow as a community. There is a place for everyone, and everyone in their place. She encourages the comfort and support of the group, the path well-trodden.
Upright
Conformity, compassion, social approval, tradition, legacy
Reverse
Bucking trends, vulnerability, feeling adrift, blind faith
Visual Description
A robed figure stands center, wearing a white garment with turquoise and red geometric trim and long black hair decorated with a single white feather. She holds a horizontal staff adorned with feathers at waist height, and a bleached animal skull with dark horns sits in the foreground among green foliage and stylized pale-blue water or mist. The background is a deep maroon draped curtain with a decorative white knotwork motif and the Roman numeral V at the top. A white border frames the scene and the caption 'The Hierophant' appears in script at the bottom.
Tarot of the Divine
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