October 1940
the world’s card for the month
The collective card for October 1940 is The High Priestess. It’s the same for everyone alive this month, set by the date alone, and it sits in the initiation third of the wheel.
The High Priestess is the part of you that knows things without being able to explain how. She is the knowing that arrives before the reasons do, the one you can't show your work for. Where the Magician acts, she waits and listens.
How October 1940 becomes The High Priestess
The collective year card for 1940 is Temperance (14). Add the month number (October is month 10): 14 + 10 = 24, which wraps around the twenty-two to 2. Card 2 is The High Priestess.