From High Priestess to Empress
For many of us, 2018 was a challenging year of deep shifts and transformations, a year that brought heavy challenges and just as many radical breakthroughs. Numerologically speaking, 2018 was an 11 year (2+0+1+8=11). 11 is a Master Number, meaning it has an intense alchemical energy, carrying with it the magical, the mystical, the transcendent. Master number years (our last one as 2009!) bring with them important, and often difficult, life lessons, often completely rearranging our realities (sound like what's been happening to you the past 12 months?).
11 is the number of intuitive and the subconscious, of depths, of making hidden things known. It is a number of spiritual enlightenment, of truth, and of deep inner power that comes from truly knowing and owning the whole of who you are, and 2018 was a year that likely brought up a lot of these themes. We are all walking out of this year transformed in some way, with a stronger connection to ourselves and our power, and with new insights into what we are here to do.
In the tarot, 11 corresponds to the High Priestess. The high priestess governs the divine feminine, the watery, the numinous. She is heightened intuition and trust in the darkness. She is all about the deepest inner magic. The high priestess teaches us to follow our feelings and inner knowings rather than appearances or societal expectations. She helps us connect to our core emotions and believes, strengthening our ability to live honestly and authentically. Look back over your past year- can you identify where the high priestess was at work in your life? What lessons did you teach you? How can you bring those lessons forward with you into the new year?
2019 is going to be a very different type of year, a 12 year (2+0+1+9=12). 12 is the number of completion. It is the sign of pisces, of the elder, of wisdom. It is a year for broad, big-picture reflections, mountain peaks, and long-awaited achievements. 12 years offer us an opportunity to both completely release the old and embrace the beginning of a new cycle.
2019 is ruled by the Empress. The Empress awakens our consciousness to our highest potential. She lounges in a pomegranate dress, pearl necklace and crown of stars, armed with a sphere and a venus shield, surrounded by abundance earth and luxurious pillows.
She is the embodiment of easeful abundance and soft, sure power. She is the Divine Mother, the goddess, the creative force. She is Isis, Aphrodite, Persephone, Venus. She is the feminine rising. She teaches us that the strongest power lies in collaboration, intuition, communication, creativity, receptivity, compassion, and grace. She brings abundance, prosperity, and ease. She leads with creativity, sensuality. and passion.
During 2019, the Empress is here to help us take everything we learned in 2018 and create our new realities. She is bringing us into a state of greater lightness, joy, and creation. She will hold our hand as we step into our full, radiant power and wholeness. In her light, we will begin to see the profound jewels hidden in our hardest challenges and lessons of 2018.
Are you ready?