The second card of the Tarot is associated with the Moon. It’s symbolic of relationships, receptivity, nourishing, emotion, intuition and memory. It represents the gateway between the conscious and subconscious mind, and our ability to access deeper levels of information and understanding. There’s a sense of mystery, secrecy or knowledge that isn’t always on display- possibly needing an intermediary of some kind to penetrate. This could be a tool like meditation, a hypnotist or medium. It could also suggest guidance that isn’t rational- that comes more through inner knowing than logic. It could be direction from tuning into visceral sensations experienced when imagining one path or another. As a person, the High Priestess could describe someone sensitive, empathic, possibly introverted, interested in healing, counseling, or metaphysics. The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Bet, can mean home or family.
Mallow is a symbol of love and protection. It’s linked to the moon (cool + moist/breasts, stomach, female reproductive organs). It contains calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron, selenium, vitamins A and C. It’s soothing and healing to the skin, a remedy for coughs and colds, and helps reduce inflammation of the digestive, urinary and respiratory organs.
“Elsie Wheeler was born Elsie May Wheeler on September 3, 1887 at 9:39 pm in Norris City, Southern Illinois (died November 26th, 1938). Not a great deal is known about her life, but the legacy she left behind lives on through the gift that is the Sabian Symbols.” (www.sabiansymbols.com)
The Sabian Symbols were created by Marc Edmund Jones with the assistance of the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, in one day-long sitting in 1925. In 1953 Jones published The Sabian Symbols in Astrology, a book that renders a specific written symbol and interpretive character for each of the 360 degrees of the zodiac that are found on the astronomical ecliptic.