El Hierofante

respuesta rapida

El significado principal de El Hierofante es guía espiritual. Del derecho, suele apuntar a Tradición, fe, educación, guía espiritual, pertenencia. Simboliza seguir convenc; invertida, puede sugerir Tradición desafiante, creencias poco convencionales, consejos hipócritas, rebeli.

Imágenes de tarjetas

El Hierofante, ataviado con tres vestimentas, se sienta entre dos pilares de piedra y lleva una triple corona. Su mano izquierda sostiene un bastón de triple cruz, su derecha está levantada en señal de bendición. Dos llaves cruzadas yacen a sus pies y dos acólitos se arrodillan ante él.

Significado del derecho

Tradición, fe, educación, guía espiritual, pertenencia. Simboliza seguir convenciones sociales establecidas o buscar la ayuda de la sabiduría tradicional.

Significado invertido

Tradición desafiante, creencias poco convencionales, consejos hipócritas, rebelión. Puede indicar romper con las convenciones o sentirse limitado por un dogma.

Amor, carrera, dinero y crecimiento

amor

Enamorado, El Hierofante señala a guía espiritual. Vuelve a leerlo teniendo en cuenta cómo se comporta realmente la relación y lo que ambos están eligiendo.

carrera

En cuestiones profesionales, El Hierofante apunta a guía espiritual. Empiece por determinar qué recursos controla y cuál será su próximo paso.

dinero

En cuestiones de dinero, El Hierofante apunta a guía espiritual. No trates una lectura simbólica como una conclusión de inversión; guíate por los hechos, el presupuesto y tu propia tolerancia al riesgo.

Crecimiento personal

Para el crecimiento personal, El Hierofante apunta a guía espiritual. Escribe la pregunta que plantea y luego conviértela en una acción que realmente puedas comprobar.

Si o No

Derecho

si

Invertido

tal vez

Esta es nuestra propia lectura rápida, basada en la dirección en la que se inclina el significado de la carta. Las tradiciones no están de acuerdo con respecto a las cartas individuales, y un "Quizás" debe sopesarse con la posición en la distribución y su situación real en lugar de tomarse como una respuesta de una sola palabra.

Texto original de Waite (1911)

Simbolismo interior (original)

He wears the triple crown and is seated between two pillars, but they are not those of the Temple which is guarded by the High Priestess. In his left hand he holds a scepter terminating in the triple cross, and with his right hand he gives the well-known ecclesiastical sign which is called that of esotericism, distinguishing between the manifest and concealed part of doctrine. It is noticeable in this connection that the High Priestess makes no sign. At his feet are the crossed keys, and two priestly ministers in albs kneel before him. He has been usually called the Pope, which is a particular application of the more general office that he symbolizes. He is the ruling power of external religion, as the High Priestess is the prevailing genius of the esoteric, withdrawn power. The proper meanings of this card have suffered woeful admixture from nearly all hands. Grand Orient says truly that the Hierophant is the power of the keys, exoteric orthodox doctrine, and the outer side of the life which leads to the doctrine; but he is certainly not the prince of occult doctrine, as another commentator has suggested.

He is rather the summa totius theologiæ, when it has passed into the utmost rigidity of expression; but he symbolizes also all things that are righteous and sacred on the manifest side. As such, he is the channel of grace belonging to the world of institution as distinct from that of Nature, and he is the leader of salvation for the human race at large. He is the order and the head of the recognized hierarchy, which is the reflection of another and greater hierarchic order; but it may so happen that the pontiff forgets the significance of this his symbolic state and acts as if he contained within his proper measures all that his sign signifies or his symbol seeks to show forth. He is not, as it has been thought, philosophy—except on the theological side; he is not inspiration; and he is not religion, although he is a mode of its expression.

Significado original del derecho

Marriage, alliance, captivity, servitude; by another account, mercy and goodness; inspiration; the man to whom the Querent has recourse.

Significado original invertido

Society, good understanding, concord, over-kindness, weakness.

Citado de A. E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (1911), ilustrado por Pamela Colman Smith. El texto es de dominio público.

Orígenes de mitos y símbolos

The picture is a pope; the name is the title of the presiding priest of the Greek Eleusinian Mysteries. It was Waite who changed it.

Documented imagery

Attested by surviving objects or texts

The picture is simply a pope

In early Italian decks this card is Il Papa, the Pope, paired with the Popess. Every element on the card is standard Catholic institutional equipment: the triple crown, the triple cross sceptre, the crossed keys at his feet — and the keys come from Matthew 16:19, the keys of the kingdom of heaven given to Peter. Waite writes it himself: he has usually been called the Pope.

Fuente The early Italian card name Il Papa; Matthew 16:19 (the keys of the kingdom); Waite 1911

The word Hierophant is Greek

Renaming the Pope as the Hierophant was the practice of Waite's generation. The word is Greek, ἱεροφάντης, literally "one who shows sacred things," and it was the formal title of the presiding priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries — whose central myth is that of Demeter and Persephone. So there is a genuine Greek thread on this card. It is just not in the image; it is in the name, and it was attached only at the end of the nineteenth century.

Fuente ἱεροφάντης is the title of the presiding priest at Eleusis; the renaming is in Waite 1911

Esoteric correspondence

A sourced traditional claim, but constructed inside an occult system

Taurus and the weight of the institution

The Golden Dawn assigns the Hierophant to Taurus (Hebrew letter Vau). The register of stability, of bearing weight, of moving slowly and not changing comes from there, and it sits well with a card defined as the ruling power of established religion.

Fuente Golden Dawn Book T zodiacal attributions

Modern reading

Popular only since the twentieth century; unrelated to where the card came from

Reading him as a spiritual teacher runs backwards

The contemporary habit is to read this card as the guru, the spiritual teacher, inner authority. Waite's text defines it as precisely the opposite: the Hierophant is "the ruling power of external religion," set against the esoteric, withdrawn power the High Priestess stands for, and he explicitly denies the claim that he is the prince of occult doctrine. Which is to say: this card governs institutions, public doctrine and procedure, not a private spiritual guide.

Fuente Modern popular reading; Waite 1911 denies the "prince of occult doctrine" reading in this same entry

Escrito por BESTAROT, no citado de fuentes históricas. Cada afirmación se etiqueta según su grado de evidencia; Las capas interpretativas modernas son útiles para la lectura, pero no representan el origen histórico de la carta.

Estudie el tema: Orígenes de mitos y símbolos (capítulo 6 de la Academia)