V – The Hierophant

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Hierophant + Magician (V + I)

• Unconditional belief in oneself and one’s abilities.
• Possession of knowledge.
• Stay calm; the time will come.

Hierophant + High Priestess (V + II)

• Obedience.
• Receive support from a woman.
• Analyze your past to step into the future.

Hierophant + Empress (V + III)

• Birth of a child within a marital union.
• Protection.
• A good trip.
• A creative idea that will be successfully implemented.
• Spiritual and religious principles.

Hierophant + Emperor (V + IV)

• Strict adherence to the rules.

Hierophant + Lovers (V + VI)

• Worry without an apparent reason.
• Everything is going well, but soon you will have to make a responsible choice.
• Double your caution.
• Church marriage, traditional wedding, wedding ceremony.
• Family, fidelity, support.
• Agreement based on moral obligations (on one’s word of honor).
• Partnership based on trust.
• Corporate norms.
• Choice of authority, traditions, educational niche, teacher.
• Personal beliefs.
• May be working on two fronts.
• Support from a pleasant, influential person.
• Awaiting a choice.
• Excesses can be harmful.

Hierophant + Chariot (V + VII)

• Information related to a job change.
• Trip. The right path.
• Propaganda.
• Academic career.
• Authoritative decision, classic method.
• To consider oneself an authority or to refer to authorities.
• Principled, sticking to principles.
• Self-belief, self-discipline.
• Studying to become a manager.
• Harmony.
• Travel abroad.
• Victory.
• Attempt to find the truth.
• Health requires a change in lifestyle.

Hierophant + Strength (V + VIII)

• Adherence to moral laws.
• Everything by the rules.
• Strong man. Patron.
• Powerful support from an older person.
• Discipline through strength.
• Struggle of authorities or with authority, pressure from authorities.
• Inner core, character, conflict between morality and instinct, fanaticism.
• Security, health.

Hierophant + Hermit (V + IX)

• Search for one’s own value system.
• Wise person, elder, experienced person, family elder.
• Wise advice, extensive experience.
• Pay attention to spiritual life.
• Teaching about the path, spiritual self-search, conflict between personal experience and existing authorities.
• The chosen course of action will lead to success.
• Your matter will be fulfilled, but with a delay.
• Delay in the implementation of a righteous cause.
• Unfavorable consequences due to your high demands on life—religiosity, internal morality.
• Undergo a medical examination.

Hierophant + Wheel of Fortune (V + X)

• Teaching and reflection will help you change your usual life.
• Views that change everything around.
• Profitable change of place.
• Changes in work, in relationships.
• Good money may come.
• Timely help with problems.
• Inheritance, wealth.
• Wealthy, authoritative person, fatalism.
• Karma in the male lineage.
• Learning from others’ mistakes.
• Studying to be a financier.
• Need to work through dogma, principles, beliefs.

Hierophant + Justice (V + XI)

• Moral code.
• Studying to be a lawyer.
• Belief in the law (the law is the same for everyone).
• High position in jurisprudence.
• Social authority, official, bureaucratic apparatus.
• Right to property.
• Drafting a prenuptial agreement.
• Maintain your balance.
• Punishment, condemnation, hypocrisy, moralizing.
• Conflict between personal and public principles.
• You need to learn from the trials that have befallen you.

Hierophant + Hanged Man (V + XII)

• Outdated views and entrenched dogmas.
• Hermit lifestyle.
• Teachings on meditation, learning meditation.
• Person withdraws into themselves. Afraid to make a mistake.
• Distrust.
• Betrayal—real or perceived.
• Lives in anticipation of disaster.
• Sacrifice for ideals, beliefs.
• Suppression by authority.
• Victim in a collective (scapegoat).
• Subordinate, dependent state.
• Overturn of faith, principles.
• Father’s, teacher’s illness.

Hierophant + Death (V + XIII)

• Thorough review of views.
• Purification.
• Loss of authority (falling from grace).
• Loss of position, family.
• Loss of faith and principles.
• Difficult changes. But you will not be left in trouble.
• Possibly the death of the father.

Hierophant + Temperance (V + XIV)

• Reconciliation with oneself.
• Adjustment to each other in marriage.
• Quick fulfillment.
• Successful development.
• Everything has started to move.
• Nothing threatens.
• Additional surge of energy.
• Upcoming acquaintance with a man.
• Peacemaker, moralist, helper.
• Harmonious principles, time-tested.
• Inner wisdom—the true teacher.
• Gentle upbringing.
• Combination of several teachings, principles, opinions.
• Success through conversation or letter.

Hierophant + Devil (V + XV)

• Judas’ kiss.
• False teacher.
• Test. Temptation. Hindrances.
• Satanism, idolatry.
• Possibly a curse.
• Criminal authority.
• Cunning employer.
• Married person has a lover.
• Infidelity in an official marriage.
• Negative image of the parent, family.
• Despotism, dependence on family, collective.
• Taboos, prohibitions, dogmatism.

Hierophant + Tower (V + XVI)

• Destruction of faith, traditions, norms of behavior.
• Change in worldview.
• Shattered perception of the situation.
• Breakup of relationships. Divorce.
• Job loss.
• Renovation.
• Time is required.

Hierophant + Star (V + XVII)

• Important mission.
• Spiritual responsibility.
• Good mentor.
• Discovery of abilities.
• Creative intuition. Inspiration.
• Great opportunities for self-realization.
• New contacts with people.
• Hope for patronage, mentorship.
• Teachings about the future (futurism).
• Genetics; belief in a bright future.
• Study astrology, astronomy, divination.
• Friendly family, collective, club.
• Corporate norms.

Hierophant + Moon (V + XVIII)

• Sectarianism.
• Changeable philosophy.
• Disappointment in one’s principles.
• Undecided in one’s faith.
• Erroneous beliefs, views, delusion.
• Heretic, pagan morality.
• Betrayal and infidelity.
• Creative imagination.
• May be passed down the maternal line.
• Look at your problem more broadly.
• Study psychology, psychologist and their help.
• Fear of father, authority.
• Beware of excesses.

Hierophant + Sun (V + XIX)

• Happy marriage.
• Ideal family.
• Raising children.
• Collective that requires full commitment.
• Great wealth.
• Exceptional chance.
• Complete control over the situation.
• Classic authority figure.

Hierophant + Judgment (V + XX)

• Faith that gives strength.
• Views that reconcile us with the past.
• Deep religiosity passed down by inheritance.
• Ancestral karma.
• Inherited beliefs, continuing the father’s or family’s work, continuity.
• Return to previous convictions, memories.
• New step that you need to overcome.

Hierophant + World (V + XXI)

• Creating a family.
• Reconciliation with foreign views.
• Expanding horizons.
• Success, internal development.
• Cosmopolitanism, religious tolerance, acceptance of other views.
• Finding your place in life, realization.
• Religious trip, pilgrimage.
• Traditional country with strong roots.