A little corner of High Priestess

The creators of what we call the Rider Waite deck never intended it to be public; it was their private thing.

Some of the Golden Dawn Society’s meanings haunt some of the cards in its deck.

High Priestess, for instance, as the 2 in Major Arcana, to them, represents the spiritual realm (plane), is active there and only receptive (not active) in the physical plane. This ‘not-active-in-the-real-world’ gives High Priestess all sorts of meanings about not responding, being private, being quiet, and occupying one place, and these meanings add up to being a Lady… especially back in those days.