The Hierophant

The Hierophant

My ways are tried and true

my walls not just confining.

l am quite safe in here,

without want or pining.

What could there be for me

outside the comfort of these walls?

Would freedom lift my spirit up?

Or weigh it as it falls?

I feel content,

why should I change?

For l like the norm,

and discard the strange.

The Hierophant is a card of tradition,

organized religion, group identification,

stability, and conformity.The Minotaur

stays confined within his labyrinth of

social construct, hoping to control his

beastly instincts.

His shadow may take this to an

extreme, upholding a group ideal even

when it conflicts with logic or justice.

Conversely, this restriction may prove

suffocative and force the beast within to

rule the selfonce more -sometimes for

better -often for worse.

Upright: tradition·organized religion

·traditional values·conformity

community*social contracts

·conventionality*group identification

·socially acceptable behavior

Reversed:non-conformity·rebellion

·restrictions·unconventional lifestyles

and/or relationshipsrigidness

·disillusionment·forced conformity

*suppressed individuality·restricted

expression