Waite–Smith, Trump 2
The High Priestess
What you can see
A seated figure holds a partly covered scroll between pillars marked B and J. A crescent rests by her feet, and a patterned veil hangs behind her.
What Waite says
Waite makes the partly concealed scroll a distinction between expressed and implied knowledge. His account moves through the spiritual bride, reflected light and the Shekinah; these are his theological identifications, not labels printed on every detail.
Waite · Part II, §2 · printed pp. 76–79 ↗Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.