This week we drew the “Priestess” tarot. This card symbolizes deep wisdom — not wisdom of social behavior or of the marketplace but that which is the union of “nature, philosophy, science and religion”. Since the card is essentially metaphysical it points to inner wise council — not generalization. As well, the energy here is “feminine” and lorded by cycles lunar and cosmic — there is intimation of a change in cycles and a desire to thrive within new ones.
        Our first hexagram, which we partner with our tarot to describe (or further detail) the current situation, is #19 “Approach”. The “approach” here is that of spring. We get through winter difficulties because of our anticipation of spring’s mildness “success is certain.” However “spring does not last forever”. “There will be misfortune”; however if “we meet evil before it becomes reality—before it has even begun to stir—we can master it”.
        Our second hexagram, the one that suggests how best to meet the challenges (or the changes ) is #4 “Youthful Folly”. All times are young and old (there is novelty and there is the known). Always, the student seeks the teacher.  One must listen to the current time and what it can teach. What is the lack? The unknown? The student must seek the teacher for an answer, not the other way ’round. There will be much blundering but the teacher waits. “... a perseverance that never slackens until the points are mastered one by one, real success is sure to follow. Thus the hexagram counsels the teacher as well as the pupil.”
        Our extraction: we are preceded by horrible tragedies, glorious victories and times neither too much here or there; what stays constant is opportunity. The priestess offers true council; the opportunity to look within. Our hexagrams first speak of preparing for misfortune, then seeking council to overcome it. We feel there is a perseverance being pointed to here — something like tirelessly seeking with the intent to drink from a hidden, and deep, personal moonlit river.