Oooh, interesting cards today!
The True Black X of Pentacles shows a beautiful white elephant rearing up triumphantly and reaching upward with trunk and tusks, his hind legs upon a square raised platform of stacked gold bricks. Behind him are ten golden coins arranged in a circle along with two well-established trees with straight and thick trunks. The keywords for this card are prosperity, stability, family, and longevity.
Like the other True Black Major Arcana cards, The Hierophant image gives us lots to think about. Our Hierophant is seated on a platform of large bricks, situated in a manner that provides the most support to the whole structure. His elaborate golden headdress is made of interlocking pieces; the front of that headdress comes down over his face with stylized eye and nose openings allowing him to see and breathe and at the same time, hide his personal identity. He holds a large open book in his right hand and his staff of office topped by a large bee's nest in his left. Behind The Hierophant is a hologram of Australia's Lake Mungo, the location of the world's oldest ritually cremated remains. The keywords for this card are belief, cooperation, community and tradition.
The white elephant is a symbol of power, prosperity and glory; and it takes a lot of wealth to obtain and keep such a rare animal in good health and well-being. Besides the golden coins and the very strong and stable and well-established trees, this white elephant is a very apt symbol for the energies and message of the X of Pentacles. The number 10 reduces to 1 (1 + 0 = 1), and this card tells of the completion of a cycle within the physical world correspondences and effects (10 + Pentacles). This card represents attainment, attainment gotten through patience and hard, diligent effort. And that attainment is a good thing. However, the danger here is within resting on one's laurels for too long, which could bring stagnation. The Hierophant offers a possible method for dispelling stagnation: focusing on the higher good of the group.
This version of The Hierophant is anonymous, for his personal identity is not a part of his Purpose. Instead, he is to be the Vau that holds tradition in place and that bridges Spirit and the group by sharing tradition and knowledge. He has an obligation to work for the highest good of all, and he reminds me that reaching the stage of life represented by the X of Pentacles does not mean I am done. Rather, in order to begin the next cycle and climb the next rung of the ladder that is my own Purpose, I need to share the wealth in the name of gratitude. I have a lot to be grateful for, and perhaps one good way of using this bounty (rather than allowing it to lay fallow in some storage shed) and activating it so that it becomes a tool of further manifestation by sharing it.
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