The Hierophant is the card of traditional values and institutions. The Hierophant can represent a counsellor or mentor who will provide you with wisdom and guidance or a spiritual or religious advisor such as a priest, vicar, preacher, imam, rabbi or a monk.
Alternatively, you may be dealing with someone who is very set in their ways.
The institutions The Hierophant Tarot card can represent include economic, religious, political, social, family, educational, social welfare and medical.
Its appearance can signify that now is a time to conform to convention or tradition. It’s not a time to rock the boat.
It can also be an indicator that you will take part in some sort of traditional ceremony or that you may start creating some new traditions or rituals of your own.
The background consists of cracked buildings and machinery tinted in hues of blue and purple, with some kind of smoke rising from the bottom left. At the center in hues of red is a figure, hovering in a cross-legged sitting position, a machine-like head with two bright red eyes, and tubes and wires snaking out of the front and back of the head, falling below and rising above the figure.
On his chest are two keys, crossed against each other, their teeth pointing upwards, and in the figure's right hand is a staff with three key-like teeth at its tip, going across the entire stem of the rod. The figure's clothes are tattered and old.
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