“Duos habet et bene pendentes!” »: He has two and they hang well... According to legend, Jeanne the Englishwoman would have foiled this ordeal. She would have pretended to be a man and would have been elected pontiff between 855 and 858. Pregnant by her lover, she would have finally been deposed following an unexpected public birth. Tarot is essentially interested in the symbolic agreements of this story. Because to confer on a woman the title of pontiff is to recognize in her a great secular and spiritual power. And in fact, recluse in her convent, hidden under her dress, our Popess is the guardian of the secrets of duality. This “2”, which it embodies, is the accumulation and mirror of the “1” which splits, probably by cell division. The High Priestess therefore contemplates our sexual duality. And she makes herself even more of an ambassador since she is credited with being the mother of the egg she is incubating on the right. It is therefore that the book open on his knees is, simultaneously, that of the sacred scriptures (Tripitaka, Bhagavad-Gitâ, Torah, Bible, Koran) and his biography. To the Man who knows how to read it, it then reveals God... and the divinity of his own nature. - After "Saint Mary Magdalene reading", Piero di Cosimo (1462 - 1522)