THE HIGH PRIESTESS & THE HIEROPHANT

the relationship between the third house, the ninth house...and money.

this is a revised excerpt from the transcript of a live April teaching in my Temple Between Worlds membership.

The High Priestess and the Hierophant are so deeply related. I had a fucking breakthrough with this when Temple Between Worlds was first emerging last year into my sphere, and I was thinking about it specifically astrologically. The third house is the house of the goddess. The third house is ritual. The third house is the High Priestess. It’s where the moon rejoices, and the moon is associated with the High Priestess, actually, not the moon card, traditionally.

The third house is a place of ritual; it’s a place of devotion, it’s a place of the everyday. Who you communicate with every day, the coffee shop, neighborhood, neighbors, the ecosystem of your life, and this is where we experience the priority of intuition, of communication. All those High Priestess powers that make a thriving ecosystem, that make a thriving everyday life.

The ninth house, which is opposite, is the Hierophant. The ninth house is the place of religion, of philosophy, psychology, institutions, spiritual schools of thought, journeys. Not just long distance travel literally, but long distance travel in divination, long distance travel in a pilgrimage that you would make for spiritual reasons to a place. This is very Hierophant. The Hierophant is about the larger structure and larger perspective that is created in response to what comes first.

The High Priestess comes before the Hierophant. The third house comes before the ninth house.

We’ve been conditioned to think it’s the opposite, that we need the religion or the spiritual school of thought or the ideology or the philosophy or the approach first, we need the framework first, and then we get to have our High Priestess. Then we get to have our access to our intuition, access to our inner wisdom, access to the divine, access to ritual. But, thinking about it in Tarot, in astrology, or historically, that is not how it works. Religion, philosophy, psychology, spiritual schools of thought, are all — including astrology, which is a ninth house thing — they’re all in response to the third house.

So the third house/High Priestess thing that astrologers were doing in ancient times, was, like I’ve said many times, sitting their ass on the ground and looking at the stars. They were going into their immediate ecosystem and being observant and being receptive to signs, to symbols, to downloads, all of that. And then, out of that was born the system, the ninth house version of astrology.

Let’s use money as an example of the relationship between the third and ninth house, the High Priestess and the Hierophant. Money is something that we use in the third house. We use it to buy books, to buy coffee, to interact with people, to drive our car, to have an ecosystem, have a place to live. This is where we are at with money right now. And money is very lunar, in the way that the Moon rejoices in the third house. Money ebbs and flows, money waxes and wanes. Money comes and goes.

Why is it that the only possibility for you when you trust yourself is that you will be broke? That’s a punishment that you’re ascribing to yourself because you believe money to be something other than what you’re conditioned to believe it is. You’re telling yourself, “okay, I have this wild relationship to money, this irresponsible, childish relationship to money that I’m ashamed of, so as punishment, whenever I do something that I know is right for me and in alignment with my philosophical and spiritual worldview, I have to then be deprived of resource.” And maybe that doesn’t need to be true. And maybe sometimes you don’t have any money, but maybe it doesn’t have to mean anything about whether you’re irresponsible or whether any of whatever might be happening in your heart and your head is true.