Major Arcana · II

The High Priestess Year

Water

A High Priestess year turns the volume down so you can hear yourself. The knowing arrives before the reasons do: the read on a person in the first ten seconds, the decision you wake up having already made. This is a year to trust the signal you can't yet show your work for, and to protect an inner life from the pressure to explain it. Less building, more listening. Some of your sharpest intelligence this year never bothers to put itself into words, and it's right anyway.

What to do with a High Priestess yearMake room for real quiet this year, the kind where you can hear your own read on things. When a knowing arrives that you can't defend yet, try acting on it once and see, instead of talking yourself out of it.

Your twelve months

Each month steps one place forward through the cycle. The same twelve, in the same order, for any High Priestess year.

January
The EmpressFebruary
The EmperorMarch
The HierophantApril
The LoversMay
The ChariotJune
StrengthJuly
The HermitAugust
Wheel of FortuneSeptember
JusticeOctober
The Hanged OneNovember
DeathDecember
Temperance

Element weather

How the twelve months balance across the elements.

4Fire months3Water months3Earth months2Air months

The rest of the cycle

The nine Majors a High Priestess year doesn’t touch.

The FoolThe MagicianThe DevilThe TowerThe StarThe MoonThe SunJudgementThe World
The full year-ahead reading

The whole High Priestess year, woven

This page is the theme. The full reading walks all twelve months in the Almanac’s voice, reads the element weather, brings in how your Bearing meets the year, and closes with the skills and reflection questions a High Priestess year calls for.

See a sample reading →

Find your own year card →
More on this card: The High Priestess, the full meaning · The High Priestess as a Bearing · all seventy-eight cards