5 The Hierophant

A priest or a teacher, a "maker of bridges" who represents a wounded part of ourselves and therefore he is open to the worlds pain and longing. Suffering in ordinary life make us question and open the way to a greater understanding of the higher l aws of life. He is seeking for answers of a philosophical kind and a link between spiritual and material values, an advisor, analyst, psychotherapist. Here we have responsibility, faith, idealism, knowledge and an individual vision of the spirit, which g uides us as we leave childhood behind and venture out into life's challenges.
Negative: Mistrust, knowledge out of books instead out of life, hypocritical, credulous.

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