II · Major Arcana
The Priestess
Ceridwen
Knowledge that arrives by immersion rather than by study, and that changes whoever receives it.
Upright
Stop reaching for the answer and let it surface. What you need is already in you, below the level where language operates. Guard it while it forms — explaining it too early will kill it.
Reversed
Not used in Raynebow readings - reversals are off in the product. Shown here for reference.
Secrets kept past their usefulness, or intuition overridden by other people's certainty. Knowing something and refusing to act on it.
Keywords
intuition · the unconscious · gestation · hidden knowledge · initiation
The Welsh story
Ceridwen tended a cauldron for a year and a day to brew three drops of awen — poetic inspiration — for her son. The servant boy Gwion Bach took the drops by accident and fled through a shapeshifting chase, hare to greyhound, fish to otter, bird to hawk, grain to hen. She swallowed him and bore him again nine months later as Taliesin. She is the keeper of what cannot be taken, only undergone.
On the card
Knows, and is not telling.