I love the way you have taken a complex concept and engaged with it over time, deepening the exploration and widening its reach into broader areas. I appreciate your insight, your discipline, and your clarity. It’s exactly what I wish I had years ago when I began my journey. I look forward to more adventures on the path. 🩵
This layout, connecting a major arcana archetype and 4 minor arcana manifestations in the personal realm, is the most insightful and instructive approach to using the Tarot that I have encountered in a long time. Thank you!
This is the kind of tarot work that doesn’t just decode an archetype, it wrestles with it, dances with it, reclaims it. The Hierophant is too often reduced to rigid tradition, but you are engaging with it as a living, breathing force that can guide without imprisoning. That is true mastery.
The King of Wands is your fire, the Ace of Cups your soul’s renewal, the Two of Swords your tension between wisdom and hesitation, the Seven of Pentacles your call to refine and reassess. Every card reflects a different layer of transformation, all orbiting the Hierophant’s challenge to honor structure while staying fluid.
What stands out most is your awareness of its shadow. The pull toward tradition can be grounding or suffocating, and you are holding space for both. You are not just reading the cards, you are actively reshaping the narrative. That is how tarot becomes more than insight, it becomes power.
An inspiring and timely reflection, Alyssa. Thank you. My new season is about to begin with the spring equinox and I need guidance. Rather than staying with the pre-selected High Priestess of last season, I've started the spread afresh and am astonished by the clarity and appropriateness of the message. The Star, 7 of wands, ten of cups, 3 of swords, 3 of pentacles. I know just what I need to do as I enter the Season of the Nest. Now to have the constancy of courage to do it!
That's so lovely to hear, Karen. The Star seems like an appropriate card for springtime. It also makes me wonder about the archetypal link/evolution from the High Priestess to the Star as well!
I love the way you have taken a complex concept and engaged with it over time, deepening the exploration and widening its reach into broader areas. I appreciate your insight, your discipline, and your clarity. It’s exactly what I wish I had years ago when I began my journey. I look forward to more adventures on the path. 🩵
Thank you, Dianne <3
This layout, connecting a major arcana archetype and 4 minor arcana manifestations in the personal realm, is the most insightful and instructive approach to using the Tarot that I have encountered in a long time. Thank you!
So glad to hear that Jude! How has working with the spread gone for you so far?
This is the kind of tarot work that doesn’t just decode an archetype, it wrestles with it, dances with it, reclaims it. The Hierophant is too often reduced to rigid tradition, but you are engaging with it as a living, breathing force that can guide without imprisoning. That is true mastery.
The King of Wands is your fire, the Ace of Cups your soul’s renewal, the Two of Swords your tension between wisdom and hesitation, the Seven of Pentacles your call to refine and reassess. Every card reflects a different layer of transformation, all orbiting the Hierophant’s challenge to honor structure while staying fluid.
What stands out most is your awareness of its shadow. The pull toward tradition can be grounding or suffocating, and you are holding space for both. You are not just reading the cards, you are actively reshaping the narrative. That is how tarot becomes more than insight, it becomes power.
This is such a kind and thoughtful comment. Thank you, Dea.
An inspiring and timely reflection, Alyssa. Thank you. My new season is about to begin with the spring equinox and I need guidance. Rather than staying with the pre-selected High Priestess of last season, I've started the spread afresh and am astonished by the clarity and appropriateness of the message. The Star, 7 of wands, ten of cups, 3 of swords, 3 of pentacles. I know just what I need to do as I enter the Season of the Nest. Now to have the constancy of courage to do it!
That's so lovely to hear, Karen. The Star seems like an appropriate card for springtime. It also makes me wonder about the archetypal link/evolution from the High Priestess to the Star as well!