The Papess Tarot Card Meaning and Art Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
Designation
About the Deck
Ancient Tarot of Lombardy Deck
An elegant neoclassical tarot deck of the Lombardy pattern.
Provenance
Ferdinando Gumppemberg. Milan, Italy, 1810.
According to Many Schools of Thought
A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings
The High Priestess, the Pope Joan, or Female Pontiff; early expositors have sought to term this card the Mother, or Pope's Wife, which is opposed to the symbolism. It is sometimes held to represent the Divine Law and the Gnosis, in which case the Priestess corresponds to the idea of the Shekinah. She is the Secret Tradition and the higher sense of the instituted Mysteries.
S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings
Upright
Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education
Reversed
Conceit, Ignorance, Unskilfulness, Superficial Knowledge.
Papus's Divinatory Meanings
Female Inquirer.
