Secrecy & Revelation

Subject41 entries

Tarot · Major Arcana

The High Priestess

Intuition, Mystery, Subconscious

The guardian of intuition, inner wisdom, and the subconscious secrets waiting beneath surface awareness.

What it meansShe sits between the pillars of Solomon's temple with the scroll of the law half hidden in her robe. The knowledge is present and deliberately unread: this is not ignorance but reticence, the teaching that some things are known before they can be said, and spoiled by saying.

Symbol · The Ancient World

Triquetra

The Celtic Trinity Knot

Three arcs, one unbroken line: distinct forces that hold only because each relies on the others.

What it meansThree arcs drawn without lifting the pen: the figure is one continuous line that looks like three things. Whatever triad it has been used for — and it has served several — the reading is always that the parts are distinguishable and not separable.

Symbol · Northern European Folk

Dara Knot

Roots of the Oak Tree

Strength that is all underground: what holds through a storm is the part no one ever sees.

What it meansThe whole figure is root, and that is the argument: an oak stands through a storm because of a structure nobody has ever looked at. Strength here is defined as the part that is not on display, and the emblem shows only what is normally underground.

Poems from the Dīvān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī 2

Poems from the Masnavi 2

Passages 5

Books and texts 3

Practices 4

Symbols 14

Tarot cards 7

People 1

Places 1

Objects 1

Movements 1