The Tower and the Hierophant

The Hierophant is the partner of the Tower, in the Athbash System, which folds the Hebrew Alphabet in half. Also interestingly, if you divided the halves (21-11 and 10-0), and line them up in parallel, so that 21 is matched with 10, and 20 is matched with 9, etc..., then the only one of these pairs that would be the same as in the Athbash would be the pairing of the Hierophant and the Tower. There is something truly connected between these two energies.

Perhaps it suggests why the Tower, being as brittle as it is, keeps getting rebuilt - keeps getting refurbished, renovated - it keeps evolving. The Hierophant is a guardian of the oral traditions, and of the learning which the Towers house. Periodically the ideas get so encrusted and superficially interpreted that the house collapses, and yet here is one to rescue the true meaning, and to repair our cultural assemblage before we throw out the baby with the bathwater, so to speak.

Perhaps the most despised card in the Tarot, the Hierophant is nevertheless an essential guardian - linking us to the past, to the wisdom of traditions that age slowly over time, and to the archives which we draw on for our learning. The Hierophant protects us from the tragic loss of the cultural wealth that we don't even know we have.

The Hierophant is a Librarian, and the Tower is a Library.