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Now I have published three books in English: Tarot 78 Keys, Tarot 780 Keys to the Celtic Cross, and Tarot and the Law of Attraction. Now I am into Tarot 78 Stories of Life.

All these books have been available in Swedish for years, and I am proud of them. My goal is to inspire when it comes to Tarot, to see more than just a fortune telling.

I will make a poll. This is a part of a text from "Tarot 78 Stories of Life". Do you like it or not?

Card number 5 in the Major Arcana can raise many questions, as it often carries three different names, even though some use only one, such as The Hierophant. For me, it matters which name appears in the deck I am working with, but most often I allow the aspect revealed by the reading itself to guide the interpretation.

There are three distinct aspects within this card: The Pope, representing religion with its rituals and ceremonies. The High Priest, representing the spiritual seeker, for example, within Wicca or similar paths.

And The Hierophant, representing the totality of it all, the clever one who holds control over spiritual thinking, regardless of which “religion” you allow yourself to be guided by.

In life, we are all influenced by religion, both directly and indirectly, whether we are deeply religious or declare ourselves atheists, because even that is a belief. To believe in nothing may sound dull to me, but it is still a belief: the belief that nothing has meaning, that there is no destiny or divine force involved.

We are raised within belief systems, just as we are within political systems. Everything is part of it, even if you claim not to believe, not to care, or not to engage; you still hold opinions shaped by your reference framework. Some grow up with strongly religious parents and later reject everything. Others grow up with atheistic parents and desperately search for something to believe in. Society creates a mold, a foundation, that causes us all to live according to a belief system in one form or another.

Perhaps the most pleasant position is to be a free-thinking soul; this, too, is an aspect of this card. All our values are based on religion and politics, whether we like it or not, because we live under laws. Every country, regardless of its political system, is influenced by its people's religion. Countries that officially reject religion, such as under communism, often see their people seek out churches anyway, because almost every human being searches for something to believe in. It is all of these values that this card represents: the inner spiritual truth we carry, the guidelines we follow, and the rules and laws that arise from them.

The Pope is the ancient name, the symbol chosen from the beginning of Tarot’s history, and even then, much was hidden beneath the surface. In earlier times, openly expressing new spiritual thought or Wicca could have been a death sentence. It was safer to encode all of that symbolism into a single card: The Pope. To give it attributes the Church could not oppose—baptism, confirmation, marriage, burial—life’s milestones, which at that time were an enormous part of life, phases everyone passed through.

Baptism is confirmation by the Church. Confirmation is choosing the Church yourself . Marriage is accepting responsibility and belonging to another (preferably of the same faith). Death is returning to God, to one’s true self.

But everything in between, the questions about life, the creative force, whether something greater than yourself exists—those are always present, even if you pretend otherwise. Many people need belief for security, or someone to blame when things do not go as planned, or someone to pray to in the hope of being worthy.

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