II · The High Priestess
The Window Watcher
- Intuition
- Stillness
- Knowing
Upright
The High Priestess sits between two pillars with a veil behind her, the card of knowing something without having been told. Our version keeps the silence and drops the temple. A shape at the window has read the whole street by noon, and a cat breaks off mid-wash to stare at a door nothing has come through yet. Your pet knows the mood of the house before anyone living in it does, and declines to explain.
Reversed
Reversed, the knowing turns further in. What was pointed at the window stays behind the eyes instead: a long blink, a paw paused halfway, a stillness that is not boredom. Your pet is reading themselves today rather than the room, and the findings stay with them. Sit nearby and ask nothing, and the quiet becomes something the two of you hold together.
Reversed is not bad news here. It is the same energy turned inward instead of outward.
In the dog deck
Quiet, watching everything. Today your dog reads the room before anyone else, sensing shifts in mood you haven't noticed yet.
Try today Sit by the window together for ten minutes and watch what they see.
In the cat deck
The Grooming Sage
While grooming, everything becomes clear. Today in that stillness, your cat's intuition is sharpest.
Try today Watch quietly while they groom—no interrupting, just witnessing.
Other cards
- 0 The First Adventure
- I The Treat Conjurer
- III The Cushion Queen
- IV The Sofa Sovereign
- V Sit, Stay, Repeat
- VI You and Me
- VII The Leash Sprint
- VIII Brave and Steady
- IX Under the Covers
- X The Doorbell
- XI Treats Divided Fair
- XII Belly Up
- XIII The Bath
- XIV Sip by Sip
- XV The Forbidden Shoe
- XVI The Flowerpot Crash
- XVII The Dawn Walk
- XVIII Night Watch
- XIX Sunbeam Bliss
- XX When You Call Their Name
- XXI All Here Together
This is tarot for fun. We rewrote the Major Arcana for dog life; it predicts and advises nothing. Nothing here relates to health or behaviour decisions.
Card art is the Rider–Waite deck (1909, public domain).