Card No 2
Card High Priestess
Connolly Activity beneath surface
Norse card Meaning Insight
Norse Symbolism Divination, womanhood.
Key Unseen Wisdom

Norse Figure - Frigga
Rune - Ear
Interpretation - Sea, water
Hebrew name - Gimel
Letter meaning - camel
Astrology sign - Moon
Card meaning - insight, hidden knowledge.

From Barrett:

Interpretation:
Insight into problems produces a solution; hidden knowledge; change for the better; the favourable influence of a woman; intuition; secrets; psychics.

Reversed:
deception; confusion; uncertainty; lack of foresight; emotion; instability; a disruptive feminine influence.

The Rune:
EAR - sea or water and also the earth or the grave; cycles of change, times of transition, looking into or thinking of the future.

Background:
FRIGGA - the daughter of Fiorgyn and the sister of Jord, Frigga + the patroness of of marriage; the goddess of the sky; clothes were the colour of the clouds. Could see into the future, seldom revealed what she saw; the power of prophecy was usually ascribed to women - usually known as ‘volva’ - followed similar practices to Shaman of recent times; usually a self induced trance before foretelling future.

Description:
- Frigga shown standing within dark pool = the secrets of the unconsciousness; holds herself in a white gown - concealing inner wisdom. Colours of her white gown and cloak of deep of red [edged in black], represent the three phases of the moon, similarly the three ages of womanhood; beyond the throne, twin stones that mark entrance to her temple= the duality of opposites, reflect the horns of the Moon. From her ears, hang silver moons; the moon is low in the sky.

Pennick:
Ear: a rune of the Anglo-Saxon Furthok; Tree: yew; Herb: hemlock; Colour: brown; Polarity: female; Element: earth; Deity: Hella, unavoidable; Symbolic Meaning: earth grave, outcome.

It is interesting to me that this rune comes from the anglosaxon set; it is in the fourth Aseir- the one of Life and the last before the Northumbrian.

Gary