You know, I’ve been messing around with tarot cards for a good while now. It wasn’t always my thing, to be honest. For ages, I just thought it was some quirky fortune-telling stuff, something you’d do for a laugh.
But then, I started to dig a bit deeper, especially when I got curious about how the cards link up with zodiac signs. That’s how I stumbled onto the whole Taurus tarot card business, which, as I found out, is often The Hierophant.
Now, The Hierophant, that card had me scratching my head at first. All this talk about tradition, conformity, big institutions – it felt a bit much, a bit stiff. But then I read something that clicked. It said, The Hierophant is associated with the zodiac sign Taurus. Like the Hierophant, Taurus strongly believes and identifies with their beliefs and rarely sways away from them, as a fixed earth sign. And let me tell you, that hit home. That stubborn, “this is what I believe and that’s that” vibe? Yeah, that’s a tune I know well.
My First Real Encounter
So, I decided I really needed to sit with this card, understand what it was trying to tell me. I remember I was doing a spread, one of those common three-card spreads you hear about. I think I picked the “past, present, future” spread that day. I wasn’t looking for anything earth-shattering, just wanted to clear my head and see what popped up. And bam, there was The Hierophant, right in the ‘present’ spot.
Seeing it there, after learning about its connection to Taurus, it was like a switch flipped in my brain. That whole ‘fixed earth sign’ thing, being so rooted in your ways – it was like looking in a mirror. I’d been feeling so stuck, so unwilling to shift my views on a couple of things going on in my life. This card just laid it all out, plain and simple. It wasn’t judging me; it felt more like it was just showing me a pattern I was stuck in.
It got me thinking hard about where my beliefs actually came from. Was I holding onto traditions just for the sake of it? Maybe too tightly? The Hierophant, for me, started to be less about some external authority and more about the rules I’d made for myself, my own internal structure. It was about looking at my own foundations.
Sometimes, I’d switch things up and use the “body, mind, spirit” spread. It’s another common one where the first card pulled represents the body or past, the second represents the mind or present, and the third represents the spirit or future. When The Hierophant turned up in the ‘mind’ or ‘spirit’ position in that kind of reading, it really made me pause. It pushed me to question what established ideas I was clinging to, what I was teaching myself without even realizing it.
It’s kind of funny, really. Some people still just see tarot as a bit of fun, you know, like in almost all tarot games, they’re just playing around with the cards. And that’s cool, you can do that. But for me, going through experiences like this, especially with a card like The Hierophant representing Taurus, it’s become a serious tool for looking inside. It’s not about trying to guess what’s going to happen next week; it’s about getting a handle on what’s going on with me, right now.
So, yeah, my whole dive into the Taurus tarot card, The Hierophant, it wasn’t some instant magical moment. It was more like slowly peeling back layers, getting to know that grounded, sometimes way-too-stubborn, part of myself. And it all kicked off from just pulling a card and being open to what it might have to say. I’m still figuring things out, still reflecting. That’s the journey, I suppose.
